Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/May 2021

WikiWednesday Salon

When and Where
Date	Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Time	7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location	Zoom!

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City!

Wikimedia New York City invites you to attend its monthly WikiWednesday Salon on Wednesday, May 19, from 7:00 pm - 8:30 PM. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct.

Details

• Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2021
• Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm ET, with time for breakout rooms from 8 - 8:30
• Location: Online! See "How to connect" below.

• This month's facilitator is Rhododendrites.

How to connect via Zoom

How to connect: To join just follow this url: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81712375886

If you have not used Zoom before, you will be prompted to download its launcher program. It works on PC, Mac, and Linux. If necessary, you can also connect through Zoom's iOS or Android app, which you can find on the zoom.us website. As a last resort, you can also dial in by phone, calling (646) 876-9923 and enter the meeting ID (817 1237 5886). Please keep in mind that if you dial in by phone you will be able to listen, but will miss all visuals.

Agenda

Welcome

• Zoom etiquette
• Introductions

Recent events

(Feel free to add any recent Wikimedia-related events you'd like to share)

• April 22: NYC Waste Management-themed Earth Day Edit-a-Thon
• May 1: LES Art + Activism Edit-a-Thon IIII with MoRUS, Interference Archive, and Tompkins Square Branch of the NYPL
• Other recent events?

Upcoming events

(Feel free to add any upcoming Wikimedia-related events you'd like to share)

• May 22: Black Lunch Table online edit-a-thon with the Museum of Modern Art. The event is part of MoMA's new exhibition, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. The event begins at 11:00 AM. Register here.
• May 23: Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 Picnic ("Hacknic") in Prospect Park
• Other upcoming events?

Share + Discuss

(please add any recent Wikimedia projects/events/activities you'd like to share with the group or open for discussion. These should be 3 minutes max. Please propose a breakout room for longer discussions.)

• Wiki New York collaboration of the month
• Add discussion items here

Are there any questions about Wikimedia projects you'd like to ask?

(anything at all! We'll do our best to answer if we can)

• ProveIt and errors in citations --CmdrDan (talk) 22:16, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Extended information and context

ProveIt and errors in citations. Here's an example I just encountered. Attempting to update the Infobox field: |num_seasons for American Masters I have a good, not great, source and I think I've selected the appropriate template: web, but as you can see below, I get a whole mess of errors. Second attempt: this time I'll use the template: press release. However, that template has far fewer fields and doesn't have the magic Automatic reference field. Argh. Argh. Stepping back this is a larger question: Does anyone have knowledge of the various Templates available in ProveIt? Speaking of templates ... here's the "documentation" page for ProveIt: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-ProveIt I put documentation in quotes because I find this documentation incomplete, but maybe that's just me. ProveIt Enabled Stats Perhaps you're new to ProveIt, given the following stats of users who have enabled ProveIt, that seems likely: ProveIt Enabled Stats--sourced from this Special Page as a google sheet--easier to analyze: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e_jzQw6rhFFvfQc9Lq8KU22pOuwm9NdSREPBYollNYo/edit?usp=sharing ProveIt, the 15th most enabled gadget: 19,168 ProveIt-classic, the 58th most enabled gadget: 3,463 Core ProvIt Questions Would anyone else like to see more documentation of ProveIt, viz., User Tutorial? Can someone speak to the various templates installed in ProvIt?

• (Asking for a friend) Thanks: Giving, Receiving, Public, and more...
  • Please do a quick walk thru about Thanks
    • How one provides Thanks.
    • Where can one see the Thanks they have received?
    • Publicly give Thanks; is there a way to thank that is not public? --CmdrDan (talk) 22:16, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Breakout room proposals

(The last 30 minutes is dedicated to small group discussions. Breakout room topics may arise during the course of other discussions, but feel free to propose one in advance, too!)

• Add breakout room proposals here

Sign up

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Likely attendees

• — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 14:01, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

• HugoHelp (talk) 02:55, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

• Count me in! --CmdrDan (talk) 04:57, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

• Ronald Sexton (talk) 21:55, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

• DutchTreat (talk) 15:17, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

• Pharos (talk) 16:32, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

• Wil540 art (talk) 17:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

• DGG ( talk ) 03:56, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

• HChasse90 (talk) 16:14, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

• --Tchula65 (talk) 12:48, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
• Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 23:18, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

• Arthur.frick (talk) 20:36, 20 May 2021 (UTC)