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.
Cities and countries hosting meetups around the world
Projects and events
Projects and initiatives
- AfroCROWD
- Art+Community
- Art+Feminism
- Black WikiHistory Month
- Black Lunch Table
- Black Women Intelligentsia
- Wikimedia User Group China (中国维基媒体用户组)
- Florida Librarians of Wikipedia
- GLAM Café in Philadelphia
- Kentucky Wikimedians User Group
- Smithsonian APA Asian Pacific American
- Wikimedia United States Coalition aka 'Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States' (WALRUS) committee WP:WALRUS
- Wikipedia Day US (January)
- Great American Wiknic (June)
- Wikipedia Takes America (September)
- Wikipedia Loves Libraries (October/November)
- Wiki Loves Pride
- wikiD: Women. Wikipedia. Design.
- Women in Red
- Writing Middle Eastern Women into History Initiative (WMWH)
- Wikipedia:Meetup/IndigenousFilmandMedia
International
- WikiCon (WikiConference/WikiConvention)
Categories
- Wikiday
- Wikimania
- Wikipedia:Meetup/WikiWednesday
- Wikipedia Takes The City
- WikiSym
- Wikiversity Meetup
See also
Future meetups
Scheduled future meetups
| May 2025 +/- | |
|---|---|
| Exeter 3 | May 3, 2025 |
| San Diego 121 | May 3, 2025 |
| San Francisco | May 8, 2025 |
| San Diego 122 | May 10, 2025 |
| London 216 | May 11, 2025 |
| Los Angeles | May 11, 2025 |
| US Mountain West online | May 13, 2025 |
| WikiCon New Zealand | May 16–18, 2025 |
| Singapore 21 | May 17, 2025 |
| Chicago May 2025 | May 24, 2025 |
| June 2025 +/- | |
| Full Meetup Calendar • Events calendar on Meta For meetups in other languages, see the list on Meta | |
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.
- See Wikipedia Meetups - A design pattern catalogue for advice about Locations, Timing, People, and Topics.
- 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.
- Contact your local chapter - if you have one - who will be able to contact people in the local area, or help you in other ways.
- 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).
Past meetups
There have been many meetups in various locations across the globe.
Pictures
A gallery from many different cities can be found at:
Gallery
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Tools
See also
- Geonotice
- Meta Meetup
- WikiCon (WikiConference/WikiConvention)
- Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon
- Community of Wikipedia
- Program evaluation: edit-a-thons
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikipedia events.