Wikipedia:Meetup

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Regular (or more spontaneous) face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians take place in cities around the world. This page is used as a starting point for Wikipedians organising meetups, and subpages are used for finalising the details once a meetup has been agreed. For meetings in other languages/places please use the interlanguage links from this page.

Contents 1 Cities hosting meetups around the world 2 Future meetups 2.1 Scheduled future meetups 2.2 Future meetups without a date set yet 3 Procedure and advice 4 Past meetups 5 Pictures 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Cities hosting meetups around the world

Wikipedia Meetups

Africa: Alexandria | Cairo | Cape Town Americas: Ann Arbor/Detroit | Austin | Biloxi | Boston | Calgary | Chicago | Connecticut | Dallas/Fort Worth | DC | Gainesville, FL | Los Angeles | Miami | Minneapolis | Montréal | Nashville | New York City | Newark, DE | Ottawa | Ohio | Philadelphia | Phoenix | Pittsburgh | Providence | Raleigh | San Francisco | Seattle | St. Petersburg, FL (2006) | Toronto | Utah Asia: Bangalore | Cebu | Chennai | Delhi | Dhaka | Hong Kong | Hyderabad (India) | Hyderabad (Pakistan) | India | Jakarta | Karachi | Kerala | Manila | Mumbai | Naga | Pune | Shanghai | Singapore | Tainan | Taipei | Tehran | Tokyo Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina | Cambridge | Croatia | Czech Republic | Denmark | Edinburgh | Germany | Hungary | Ireland | Italy | London | Lyon | Macedonia | Norway | Serbia | Sweden | UK Oceania: Adelaide | Auckland | Brisbane | Canberra | Melbourne | Newcastle | Perth | Sydney | Wellington

[edit] Future meetups

[edit] Scheduled future meetups

First meetup in Vancouver, Canada (May 5, 2008) Fifth meetup in Philadelphia, USA (November 11, 2007) First meetup in Dhaka, Bangladesh (July 14, 2007) 19th Bangalore Meetup - 24 Sep'10 1st WikiMeetup, Mumbai - 20 Sep 2010

Wikipedia Meetups

October 2010 +/-
Mumbai 3	October 31, 2010 (2010-10-31)
Minnesota	October 31, 2010 (2010-10-31)
DC 12	October 23, 2010 (2010-10-23)
Cambridge 9	October 23, 2010 (2010-10-23)
London 38	October 17, 2010 (2010-10-17)
Pittsburgh 2	October 17, 2010 (2010-10-17)
New York City 21	October 16, 2010 (2010-10-16)
Boston	October 11, 2010 (2010-10-11)
Bangalore 20	October 10, 2010 (2010-10-10)
Mumbai 2	October 10, 2010 (2010-10-10)
Hyderabad 1	October 10, 2010 (2010-10-10)
Los Angeles 4	October 2, 2010 (2010-10-02)
November 2010 +/-
Bangalore 21	November 14, 2010 (2010-11-14)
Chennai 2	November 14, 2010 (2010-11-14)
London 39	November 14, 2010 (2010-11-14)
Manila 11	November 27, 2010 (2010-11-27)
Full Meetup Calendar

If you don't want to bother formatting, just add your item below.

[edit] Future meetups without a date set yet

This list was last updated: September 12, 2010

1. Boise, ID - TBD depending on interest.
2. DUBAI 1 - TBD
3. Edmonton - TBD (may or may not happen, depending on levels of interest)
4. Helsinki - TBD
5. KARACHI 2 - TBD
6. Latin-America 1 - TBD
7. Lawrence, KS, USA - TBD depending on interest.
8. Nashville - TBD

[edit] Procedure and advice

• Create the page
  • Use or create a sub page of Wikipedia:Meetup to organize the meeting.
  • Make it easy to sign up, with simple subsections like Likely attendees, Possible attendees and Regrets for signup lists, as at Meetup/NYC or Meetup/Karachi 1.

• Attract attendees
  • Solicit invitations of geographically local Wikipedia users.
  • Create a geonotice request.
  • Create a list of Wikipedians interested in future and regular meetups for a given location where they can sign up (alternatively, userboxes with corresponding categories can be used).
    • Use an info box like {{Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne/Invite}} for mass invitations.
  • Use other media outside of Wikipedia to advertise to non-Wikipedia users
    • Post a notice at the relevant page of wikipedia.meetup.com
    • Post a couple of notices on Craigslist (free).
    • Word of mouth is always an option.
  • Don't be afraid to spam people: Make a big list like Meetup/NYC/Invite list from all people who have ever expressed interest in attending a meetup, as well as all people in categories like Category:Wikipedians in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia userbox and other regional categories.
    • Don't manually post notices to all the editors who are listed in a geographical category. Simply post a request at WP:BOTREQ, asking for a bot owner to have a bot deliver the (specified) message to everyone in the category.
  • Place notices at talk pages like Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philadelphia and even Talk:Philadelphia.

• Organize event
  • Organize location
  • Organize eating arrangements
  • Settle on a definite time and place, and don't change it. If someone is just bold, people will know about the date a few weeks in advance (instead of a couple of days), which will make planning easier for individuals. Getting input from everyone is good, but you don't need a formal vote on everything, which can delay the process.
  • Consider whether you want any sort of agenda for the meetup (like a discussion on a specific topic, or forming a local chapter).

[edit] Past meetups

There have been many meetups in various locations across the globe.

• Meetup/Past meetups

[edit] Pictures

A gallery from many different cities can be found at:

• Meetup/Gallery

[edit] See also

• Geonotice
• Highly Active Users
• Meta Meetup
• Wikiday
• Wikimania
• Wikinews Meetup
• Wikipedia Takes The City
• WikiSym
• Wikiversity Meetup

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Wikimedia meetups

• Flickr photos tagged wikipedia & meetup - photos likely of Wikipedia Meetups