Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Chicago

message: We met at the University of Chicago, in the Ryerson Physical Laboratory, the 4 of us, augmented by the ACM  chapter leadership and students at the University of Chicago, plus at least one financial/trading IT industry representative from downtown. There were over a dozen of us in all. As we were all at least acquainted with Wikipedia, Jimbo Wales gave a quick overview and settled down for a question/answer session. 
There were several questions about the CD/DVD version of Wikipedia which is to be published. In order to get to that stage, we need to pass the (publishable) articles through a quality procedure, at least at the level of not publishing vandalized articles etc.
Jimbo publicly revealed his concepts for a prototype procedure for getting to this stage (ala version 1.0), the most important of which involves separate steps:
*a preliminary statistical step which collects the consensus rating 0 to 3 of each article (0=VfD, 1=Cleanup, 2=usable, 3=Featured Article standard). This includes who gave the rating, revision status of the article, etc.
*the actual vetting of each article.
I had the chance to ask about some history:
#The NPOV concept was physically written by Jimbo Wales, but it was done in true collaborative style with the rest of the readership (i.e. Larry Sanger, etc.).
#WikiLove is Jimbo Wales' own concept for the love and respect that is part and parcel of the community that is Wikipedia.
We got a heads-up about the de.Wikipedia involvement in the Chaos conference in Berlin, December 27,28,29 2004 in Berlin. Jimbo and other Board members will be there, as well as several Wikimedia developers.
After the session, 5 of us got a chance to sit down at a restaurant together before Jimbo had to catch his plane home. Ancheta Wis 00:17, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Oct 24, 2004 Meetup

message: See Wikipedia:Meetup/Chicago 2. -- DS1953 talk 16:44, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New Meetup announced

message: Are there any Chicago residents interested in participating in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a multi-national effort to improve coverage of LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects? Perhaps an edit-a-thon or a photography project? Please visit the project page for details or let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! --Another Believer (Talk) 17:33, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I am - there's an Old Town, Chicago historic article that could use some photos: Society for Human Rights More info here: 
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Victor Grigas (talk) 04:06, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Pritzker GLAM has added a few articles.  Check out what we are doing at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Pritzker 
If there are articles you think we could support based on our collections, please feel free to add them to our list.
TeriEmbrey (talk) 21:55, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki Loves Pride 

message: Howdy, my name is User:Mitchazenia, I am on the board of Wikimedia New York City until the middle of June. I know there are Wikipedians in Chicago and people have thrown around the idea of a future Chicago chapter. My fellow board members and members of WMNYC are pushing me as I prepare to move to Macomb, Illinois for graduate school to look in being a spearhead. I worked for 8 years at WMNYC and am ready to basically get things started. If there's interest, I am all ears if there are other people interested. Mitch32(The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.) 03:11, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: (Paging Keilana, I JethroBT) Harej (talk) 03:12, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikimedia Chicago usergroup? 

message: I'd like to invite you good folks to add a Chicago event for the Great American Wiknic :)  This year we're aiming to coalesce nationally around July 5 or 25, but any date that is convenient to your local community works as well.  And don't be shy about putting something preliminary on the national Wiknic page, it all helps!--Pharos (talk) 04:03, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great American Wiknic 2015 - Chicago 

message: A Wikipedian who attended this meetup has passed away. See Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians/2015#Belissarius. Anyone wishing to send his condolences or such is welcome to do so at :pl:Wikipedysta:Belissarius/(Ostatnie) podziękowania. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:25, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Belissarius]], RIP 

message: I'd like to invite folks to add preliminary info for Minnesota's event this year at Wikipedia:Wiknic.--Pharos (talk) 18:40, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiknic - July 2016 

message: Hi all -- I'm wondering whether anyone has been discussing any plans for a Chicago meetup this year.  I'm new to Wikipedia and would love to meet others.  Is there any interest or plans afoot?
Cloud atlas (talk) 02:26, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey Cloud! Myself, , and  just organized a User Group here in Chicago from which we'll start organizing events. Sign up on the page and we'll let you know when our next event is scheduled. I actually just became a dad, so I've been unable to spend time planning our next event, but I have been thinking about holding some casual, monthly meetings where we can edit and work together. Our last meeting was at the Conrad Sulzer Regional Library-- if you have suggestions for other venues that would be convenient for you to get to, let us know. I JethroBT drop me a line 21:25, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I JethroBT.  I added my name to the other page.  Congratulations on your growing family, and I look forward to hearing about the next event.  Cloud atlas (talk) 04:07, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chicago meetup 2017? 

message: I'm sure Chicagoans, have felt the software limitations of attracting local groups, mostly limited to watchlist notices and mailing lists.  In 2016, WM-NYC filed a task to allow CentralNotice (the banners on top of article pages) to target readers in local areas.  Efforts have stalled and to spur progress it would be great if you could support it in the Community Wishlist Survey.  Voting ends November 30.
An example, CentralNotices were ran for Wikipedia's 10th birthday.  WM-NYC had to cut pre-registration early, unable to accommodate the shear number of people signing up.  Subsequent birthdays had at most 1/10 the RSVPs.  — Dispenser 11:35, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community Wishlist Survey 2019 

message: The American Library Association will be holding its conference in Chicago in June 2020. Two sections of the Association of the College and Research Libraries is working on submitting a program for the conference and would like to host an edit-a-thon as well.  Panel title: Building bridges between libraries and marginalized arts groups: A closer look at documenting women artists of Mexican ancestry.  
I know this is really early in the planning, but a) are Wikimedians able to help out with the edit athon?  b) can we get stickers and other swag to use as door prizes? c) what other good ideas do you have that can be shared?
(A earlier preliminary inquiry was previously posted on the user group's Facebook page.) TeriEmbrey (talk) 15:04, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Library Association conference in Chicago in 2020