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Wikipedia:Meetup
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.
[edit] Cities hosting meetups around the world
[edit] Future meetups
[edit] Scheduled future meetups
Wikipedia Meetups+/-
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| Upcoming |
| London 12 |
August 10, 2008 |
| Tampa |
August 13, 2008 |
| Munich Wikigrill |
August 16, 2008 |
| Lyon |
Dec 6-8, 2008 |
| Recent |
| Manila 4 |
July 19, 2008 |
| London 11 |
July 13, 2008 |
| Brisbane 2 |
July 12, 2008 |
| Cebu 1 |
June 23-24, 2008 |
| Seattle 5 |
June 19, 2008 |
| London 10 |
June 8, 2008 |
| New York City 7 |
June 1, 2008 |
| Wikipedia Takes Nashville |
May 24, 2008 |
| DC 4 |
May 17, 2008 |
| London 9 |
May 11, 2008 |
| Past meetups |
| Vancouver |
May 5, 2008 |
| Montréal |
May 3, 2008 |
If you don't want to bother formatting, just add the your item below.
[edit] Future meetups without a date set yet
This list was last updated: May 27, 2008
[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 Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC.
- Attract attendees
- Solicit invitations of geographically local Wikipedia users.
- Create a Wikipedia: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 other mediums outside of Wikipedia to advertise to non-Wikipedia users
- Don't be afraid to spam people: Make a big list like Wikipedia: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 usebox 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 places 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.
[edit] Pictures
A gallery from many different cities can be found at:
[edit] See also
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