Wikipedia talk:Meetup

Meetup for Western Massachusetts

Would anyone would be interested in a meetup in the Western Massachusetts area? If enough people sign below I'll try and pull one together. ⇌ Jake Wartenberg 03:05, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Sure. —Emufarmers^(T/C) 03:22, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

• No. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:57, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

hmmm, I'm from Boston but go to school (for a couple more months) in Rochester,NY... I may be able to get there :) James (T|C) 03:05, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Recent page move activity

Today User:BjörnBergman moved Wikipedia:Meetup and Wikipedia talk:Meetup to Wikipedia:Meetups and Wikipedia talk:Meetups respectively. While I appreciate user's boldness, I agree with the move back by User:Pharos, an editor well-known by the meetup pagewatcher community and the New York chapter meetup community in particular. I'd add my own rationale: "meetup" refers to the subject in the abstract, and as such should be singular, referring to the concept, but facilitating the individual meetups. BusterD (talk) 23:30, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Testing new geo location service

Were thinking of retooling the existing watch list geo functionality that our various meetups use in favor of having it centralized within central notice. In order to work well for the meetup community were going to have to purchase one of the better commercial db's and we'ld love some testing and community feedback before we go with it.

Could we get a couple of testers to try out this max mind link and report back how accurate the results were. Please post results on meta —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tfinc (talk • contribs) 10:36, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Age

How old do I have to be to be allowed to do a Wikipedia meetup? -- PK2 (talk) 01:49, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

There's no age requirement to attend, but I'd say if you're under 13 you probably wouldn't want to hang out with a bunch of boring old people anyway :) Or if you want to organize your own Wikipedia meet up you're free to do that too, but let people know if it's going to be young-person's event, and either way, if you are a minor be sure to tell your parents about it. -- œ^™ 23:08, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

You actually might want to come with a parent to a meetup; that's totally cool- we've had a number of past Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC participants escorted by their "chauffeurs".--Pharos (talk) 22:55, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Some meetups, whilst not having a minumum age as such, are held in premises that have their own restrictions which the meetup organisers need to abide by. For example, the London meetups are held in a public house; such buildings are subject to the alcohol licensing laws of the United Kingdom - laws which non-British people often find strange. These laws do not just restrict the ages of customers buying alcoholic drinks, but also restrict the ages of other persons entering the room in which such sales are made. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:01, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

The Great American Wiknic

The Great American Wiknic will be held in cities across the US in June 2011. Add an event for your town!--Pharos (talk) 19:28, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Changing pictures

Is it possible for us to change the pictures on the page? I think we're giving too much weight to India with all their meetups. Perhaps we should make it more geographically representative by replacing some of them with pictures of meetups from other parts of the world? --Sky Harbor ^(talk) 10:12, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Do we have a userbox for Wikipedia meetups?

Not spotting any userboxes for folks who enjoy Wikipedia meetups. Do we have any? Djembayz (talk) 15:32, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

A fun one would be a good way of promoting them. Searching WP:meetup userbox I found a couple mentions, but I don't think any were general. CarolMooreDC 22:44, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

@Carolmooredc: how about this:

This user attended a Meetup, meeting other Wikimedians.

--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:57, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

May we have a traveling Meetup? ^{(It would raise funds for the WMF!)}

In regards to raising €/$/¥/£ for the WMF: A charity journey from the 1,000,000th to the 4,000,000th article locations could raise a lot!

It could be a caravan of buses all ridden by Wikipedians. (Or if the community wishes, a group of Wikipedian cyclists, or a posse of Wikipedian train-riders if you all decide to take (most of) the journey on a train.)

Numerous charity events involved journeying thousands of miles in order to promote and raise funds for noble causes. Therefore, what say there be a trip that editors who start from Jordanhill Railway Station and finish at Izbat al-Burj?

This is the route from Jordanhill to Izbat al-Burj. It will take about a week, in order to account for fuel, food, resting, and recreational (sightseeing) stops. (The 86-hour figure would not.)

This is the no-toll route, but slightly longer.

Yes, both would involve ferries, but that's another sort of excitement.

Such an event could raise significant media coverage, which would lead to even more funds raised for the Wikimedia Foundation.

^{As a bonus, if traveling on the route through Spain, the traveling group could meet the cast & crew of El Hormiguero at their studio. Or if not through Spain, if the bus and/or train receives international TV broadcasts, the passengers can tune to the subject of the 2,000,000th article. If that can't happen, they could order DVDs of it to watch throughout the trip. Moreover, I would recommend inviting Beate Eriksen to come along!}

^{If the motorcoach has a microphone & PA system, any of the passengers could feel free to lecture the articles about Joe Connor and the kanab ambersnail, word-for-word.}

^{After the 1M-4M trip concludes, some of the travelers may feel like flying to Hastings, New Zealand, or prefer to fly to Russia to visit the former Forced settlements in the Soviet Union first.}

Just thought to pass along a suggestion with a lot of fundraising potential! --129.130.239.163 (talk) 04:26, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

PS: If any Wikipedians live or will be anywhere near along the route, we should feel free to pick them up as seats are available! --129.130.239.163 (talk) 04:26, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Contribution days

Is there a separate place on English Wikipedia for Contribution days? Amqui (talk) 20:22, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Meetup

I am planning a meet up for San Diego Comic Con for this July (2013). I have started a page, and a talk page for it. This will be my first time attempting to host a Wikipedia event, so please let me know if there is anything I should be doing, that I have not yet.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:25, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Meetup Request

I am excited to hear the announcement for Wikipeida Meetup at New Delhi, India, it is requested that please bring the news as soon as possible and don't forget to knock me on my talk page. — CutestPenguin^Hangout 05:53, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Non English meetups

Hi. I'm active on the Swedish Wikipedia where there are a few meetups organized every month. Those meetups are mostly in Swedish and the information (on the Swedish Wikipedia) is only in Swedish. However, people of every language are welcome. I think everyone speaks English and quite a few speaks one or two more languages. Now to my question. Should I add add those meetups here in your calendar? Regards Averater (talk) 14:41, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi @Averater: -- Sorry no one has written back to you before now. If you are still interested, yes please definitely add them to the Future meetups calendar section for each month, i.e., Template:Meetup/July 2016, etc. It looks like Swedish Wikipedia is doing a lot of cool events at Wikipedia:Wikiträffar and I know I would love to hear more details about what you are accomplishing. Info sharing would be great amongst meetup initiatives. -- Best, Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 13:22, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi! Finally an answer. Thanks! I have not added any yet both due to the lack of responses and also because of that there are a lot of meetups in Swedish. Maybe should filter them? There are different kinds of meetups (photo walks, regular meetings, weekly edit meetings and different kinds of workshops). Should I add all or just the regular meetups? What do you think? Regards Averater (talk) 10:29, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Averater: -- This is just my opinion but I think that it would be great if you would like to add as many or as few meetups as you would like to the meetup calendar. Please let me know if you need any help figuring out how to update the {{meetup}} template. It's not difficult once you've done it a few times. On this topic, I have been trying to figure out a good solution for Wikipedia meetups to be on some sort of consolidated -- or even automated -- calendaring system (see Phabricator task to consolidate tech calendars). At Wikimedia NYC, we have been using Google calendars to keep track of events so they don't get double-booked -- and so people can copy the events to their personal Google calendars. The Art+Feminism initiative has found that many people are most comfortable with Facebook event pages but they do not always export easily, so we've been relying on the Google calendar. I've found that separating out initiatives like AfroCROWD, Art+Feminism, and WM NYC planning (with duplication between initiatives) has helped to keep things straight -- at least for me. Assume because you are so active someone might be doing this for your country chapter? Please continue this dialog here and/or reach out privately if I can be of any assistance or if you have suggestions and/or any good ideas to solve this. :-) All the best, Erika email aka BrillLyle (talk) 15:40, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi again Erika. Some events at Svwp do also get a Facebook event created. But most do not... It depends on those engaged in the event and who they are inviting. Interesting regarding both the Google calendar and the Phabricator calendar system. I hope something works out as a convenient system for us all to use. The current system with all different calendars is quite suboptimal I think. I'll start by adding the more "major" events now and ask the others at Svwp for more input. Averater (talk) 16:20, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Done. I had to make a few null-edits though to make everything appear. --Averater (talk) 16:31, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Averater: -- 1000% agree it is suboptimal and duplication of efforts. I'm really glad you added events. I hope other chapters will do the same. Yay! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 17:02, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

How to add a meetup to the calendar?

In the Procedure and advice section, could we have formal instructions on how to add a Wikipedia:Meetup page to the central calendar? I've been trying to do it and have run into issues. This isn't formally explained anywhere. Lugevas (talk) 23:43, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

+1! I'm going through this process and there's no instruction on categories, or adding your page to the calendar or the Meetup box.

For example, is this page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Calendar#October - supposed to update automatically when you add yourself to the Template:Meetup/Month Year page?

Is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup#Future_meetups loading automatically from that page, in turn?

How do I get into the Wikipedia meetup box?

Allanaaaaaaa (talk) 23:18, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Meet ups for November?

Is anyone updating this page? I'd like to list a November Meet Up, which has a Meetup page in Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/New_Jersey/Aphra_Behn_Society_Editathon. Calliopejen1 recommended I move the page to Wikipedia so that users can have the links to their user pages. LLRungegordon (talk) 17:55, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay responding on this! I'll help now. The meetup shouldn't go on this page directly -- I'll create a good place for it. Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:56, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

@LLRungegordon: I created a new page at Wikipedia:Meetup/Aphra Behn Society Editathon and added the event to the page at WP:MEETUP/NYC (it seems that this is the nearest meetup community). November events aren't showing yet at the WP:MEETUP main page, but your event is in the queue for when they do. Another way to get your event advertised is with a "geonotice" -- which adds a banner-type notice to the watchlist of people in the immediate geographic area (based on their IP address). It's too early to post that at this point, but ping me or create a request at Wikipedia:Geonotice 3 weeks or so before the event. You can also ask at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/NYC to have someone send a user talk page message to all users on the list Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list. That sort of message probably should go out a week or two before the event. It looks like when they send out messages to the list, they include a list of upcoming events at the bottom of the message (see e.g. User_talk:2much#September_16:_WikiWednesday_Salon_and_Skill-Share_NYC) so yours will likely be included in upcoming messages, even before a dedicated talk page message goes out. Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:22, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

This is perfectCalliopejen1. I will follow up on each of these suggestions. Thank you so much!Beachmirage Please see the new page. This is set, and so we can use this in our promotion of the event.LLRungegordon (talk) 18:28, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Meetup advertisement at a country Wikipedia page

Hi all,

I am thinking to boost the reach and promotion for any Wikipedia meetup event, is it possible (under Wikipedia rules) to advertise the meetup event at inside (the top position) of that particular country Wikipedia page? Let's say for the incoming Wikipedia:Meetup/Singapore 8 in November 2015, is it possible to put the invitation template (Wikipedia:Meetup/Singapore/Invite) at the top of Singapore Wikipedia article? Because it looks like generally, people browse more on country article pages instead of Wikipedia Meetup article pages. Thanks for the info. Chongkian (talk) 09:57, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Real-time collaborative editing

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T112984

Hey folks. For those of you involved in meetups of the edit-a-thon kind, there's an interesting proposal on phabricator (T112984) to plan and develop a real-time collaborative editing environment, which could have a lot of positive outcomes amongst edit-a-thon participants who want to work on the same article. The proposal is submitted for the Wikimedia Developer Summit, and requires more community input at this time before it is accepted. If you're interested, please feel free to voice your support over at the phabricator page. For those of you who haven't used phabricator, you can sign in with your Wikipedia login using OAUTH. Thanks, I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 16:23, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Next such event?

Hi, I want to know when will be next Wikimeetup Karachi, I am eager to join any such event of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation in Pakistan.regardJogi 007 (talk) 05:04, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

El Paso Meetup

Hi! My event isn't on the front page. Can someone help me with that? It's an Art + Feminism event at the El Paso Public Library, this is the page: Wikipedia:Meetup/El Paso/ArtAndFeminism 2016. Thanks! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:29, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

You won't be able to edit for 30 minutes in March 2016

Some planned technical work for the servers that host Wikipedia may affect some meetups and edit-a-thons:

All of the wikis (all languages, all projects) will be put into read-only mode briefly, three times in the next two weeks as part of a major data center project. The official schedule is on Wikitech, but what you probably need to know is this:

• Nobody will be able to edit or save pages for five minutes early this coming week (probably 15 or 16 March, probably early morning UTC).
• Nobody will be able to edit or save pages for 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 22 March.
• Nobody will be able to edit or save pages for 15 to 30 minutes on Thursday, 24 March.

The time of day has not been settled, but the most likely time is early morning in Europe/midnight in California. User:Pharos, assuming that the schedule doesn't change, this should all be finished some hours before the African Diaspora meet up starts.

I hope that this won't affect any events that you have planned. If you see the red error message that a wiki is in read-only mode, you should be able to wait (until the tricky bits are completed) and save your changes after read-only mode is disabled (but you might make a copy before you try to save, just in case something goes wrong). You will still be able to read all of the pages. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:42, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

The five-minute test was largely successful.

The rest of the schedule is being postponed until mid-April (the week of 18 April 2016). User:Pharos, this means that the Africa Diaspora event will definitely not be affected. If anyone has any events scheduled during that week (other than WikiCon in Berlin, which I already know about), please {{ping}} me or leave a note on my talk page, and I'll see if I can get the exact days and times for you. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

PROBLEM

I really want to attend this meeting and not to say I am bit younger than anybody in this talk page. But the problem is that I live in India and don't know what to do! I really am anxious to meet such experienced editors and am really having trouble to know what to do in this situation. Please, please, please, please help me! Please!

--Amy2563 (talk) 16:53, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Amy, is there a meetup in your area? If not, maybe you can try to find advice from this article on how to create a meetup. That’s my advice. —TadgStirkland⁴⁰¹ (Tadg^Talk) 00:36, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Calendar

Would someone be prepared to write a simple guide or code template to explain how to add events to the calendar? This is really important for making sure that people know about these things and it just seems to be beyond most users. Blythwood (talk) 04:17, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

As a second choice, simply getting people to add categories to their event listing for the right month would be nearly as good so people can find it. Might suggest that. Blythwood (talk) 04:43, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Editing outages on 19 April and 3 May

The Wikimedia Foundation will be performing some maintenance and testing on the servers. One test will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.

They will switch all traffic from the main data center to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center. The time has not been finalized; however, the test will probably begin at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. You will be able to read, but not edit, all pages at all wikis for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May 2017. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

There will also be a code freeze for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. No non-essential code deployments will take place.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this project later, at the Village Pumps.

If you have scheduled any meet-ups or edit-a-thons around this time, please leave a message for me on my talk page at the English Wikipedia as soon as possible. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:01, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

The time has been confirmed: 14:00 UTC on both days. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:46, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

For meetup in my city

Can you run meetup in my city (Bhopal madhyapradesh, india ) . Pawantiwari9575 (talk) 16:48, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Pawantiwari9575, see Wikipedia:Meetup/Bhopal.

If you add your signature to the list at Wikipedia:Meetup/Bhopal#Notification, you will be notified of future meetings. --Pipetricker (talk) 14:09, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Reminder: read-only mode on September 12 and October 10

Hey everyone,

This is a reminder that, because of a server test to make sure we can still function in case of a catastrophe, there will be a short period of time (up to an hour, probably shorter) when you can read but not edit the wikis on September 12 and October 10. This will start at 14:00 UTC. You can read more at m:Tech/Server switch 2018. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 12:16, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Adding a Meetup Page

Hi everyone, I wanted to check if (and if so how best) to add a planned edit-a-thon to these listings? The draft event details are in my sandbox right now but I just wanted to check how best to add the page, if it's allowed? The event is in Germany but will be held in English so my (probably hamfisted) attempt to add the event on the de meetup pages was deleted for being in the wrong language and not strictly a "Stammtisch". So I don't want to make a similar mistake again! Thanks in advance.--Lozmatron (talk) 13:42, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi! Did everything work out from creating it in your sandbox and adding it somehow here? Thanks! Bumusiclibrary (talk) 19:04, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Reform the page January 2019

I just changed some parts of this page.

• before
• after

Here are the changes as I see them:

1. Changed emphasis from targeting experienced meetup organizers to targeting people who are new to organizing
2. Pushed many of the showcase resources to the bottom of the page to emphasize instructions over linking out to instances of events
3. Introduced the Wiki NYC event model of role differentiation (wiki person, outreach, expert, host)

Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:01, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Bluerasberry, that's terrific. thanks for these edits!!!! --Sm8900 (talk) 18:20, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Template

I suggest use meta:template:online or derived (but with similar parameters) and put online meetings, as Spanish Wikimedia is doing just now, with very interesting topics. And add subtitles / captions for deaf people (this can be recieved before and be put as in YouTube or similar).BoldLuis (talk) 09:53, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Looking forward to planning and hosting one of these!

Wow, this looks like so much fun to plan and run one of these and it looks like there hasn't been one in Minnesota, USA in a while, so I am hoping to organize one in the Twin Cities area sometime yet this year. Any particular advice for organizing one of these in 2023? Have people ever managed to do a hybrid model with some attending in person and some virtually? How has that worked? Thanks for any insights or ideas you may have! -- Helvishmelvi (talk) 03:33, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Creating a Meetup page

I think there needs to be more instructions here, I still don't understand how to create the page (the extent of the instructions in this article) Bumusiclibrary (talk) 19:02, 14 February 2024 (UTC)