Wikipedia:Meetup

Jimbo suggested that wikipedians make an effort to meet each other. He and Larry Sanger used to have bitter Usenet exchanges and when they met in person they became friends; so maybe a wikipedia meetup would help the sense of community.

This page should help Wikipedians organise meetings. For meetings in other languages/places please go to the other languages of this Article (see above/below).

There are two ways:

• Just put a date/place on this page, advertise on the village pump, contact Wikipedians by location, and you can set up meetings whenever and wherever you please! The German Wikipedians use this Wikipedia-system and it works really well. Meetings just show up on your watchlist :-)
• You could use an external tool (e.g. Wikipedia @ Meetup.com), but you have to create an extra account, the tool takes decisions instead of you, no Watchlist... if you are serious about Wikipedia just use Wikipedia.

Currently there are in the following places meetings happening regularely:

• Berlin, Munich (see German Wikipedia)

Provisional dates:

• 30. May - Some Dutch Wikipedians met in Utrecht (See nl:Wikipedia:Ontmoeten/Plaatsgevonden)
• 5. June - London (See User:Jimbo Wales/2004-06-05)
• 8. June - Frankfurt, and would like to meet for dinner
• 10.-12. June - Berlin (Jimbo will be present)
• 19. June - Munich (Jimbo will be present)
• 26. or 27. June - Genoa (Jimbo will be present)
• 4 July - Paris
• 6. - 10. of July, there is World Meeting on Free Software in Bordeaux. cf. http://lsm2004.abul.org/ several of the French Wikipedians will be there. (Jimbo was unfortunately unable to make his schedule work for this)
• 14. August - somewhere in Belgium (see nl:Wikipedia:Ontmoeten)
• 21. August - Rotterdam or The Hague (see nl:Wikipedia:Ontmoeten)
• any other proposals/ideas?
• ? August - Amsterdamn
• 31 August - London.
• ? September - Linz

See also: Jimbo Wales' user page for his itinerary and meta:Wikipedian meetings in Europe for reports.

If you want to join in or help organising, you are welcome :-) Fantasy 18:03, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

For those of you in London, England, you may be interested in a Wikipedia talk taking place next Tuesday. Jimbo and I will be giving a talk about Wikipedia at Oyster, 1 Naoroji Street, London WC1X 0JD on August 31. It will start at 19:10 (BST). Updates on the event will be made at minty.org, a wiki run by the BBC employee who is organising this. (map) Angela. 00:41, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)

from the pump

Hey, why dont we have a Wikipedia 'meetup' in my hometown, Las Vegas! Please, respond on my talk page for further details! Comrade Nick

Have you seen http://wikipedia.meetup.com/ ? Marnanel 19:35, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

Or, just use wikipedia itself, and organise things via Wikipedia:Meetup, which makes more sense if you ask me. - IMSoP 12:40, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Why think "either/or"? Take advantage of the free publicity of Meetup, and cross-reference your local Meetup to this page. My profile on the Sacramento Meetup is an example. (Just type the URL for Wikipedia:Meetup into your profile -- it will be replaced by the word "link" which is linked here.) Jrv 14:27, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

June 2004, time and location to be determined. Add your name here if interested

• UninvitedCompany
• Montanean 03:03, May 27, 2004 (UTC)

Also placed on User:Jimbo Wales I'm moving down to Tampa and I would like to meet everyone in the Florida/Southeast area, or whoever else would like to come. I've talked with Jimbo a little bit on this, so does anyone want to do something in Tampa on September 6? That's Labor Day. If that date isn't good, please suggest another one. And what do we want to do? Where to do it? Suggestions! Mike H 16:14, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)

I found these three places for suggestions on the Meetup site. I'm not 21 yet so I don't know if it'd be such a great idea to go to "that alcohol place." Can someone suggest anywhere else? I mean, even a restaurant like Outback or something. Mike H 14:55, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)

• Tampa Bay Brewing Company

1812 N 15 St, Ybor City, FL

• The Blue Martini

2223 N. Westshore Blvd. #2000, Tampa, FL

• Caffe Amaretto

5915 Memorial Hwy, Tampa, FL

Hmm. I live in Palm Beach County.--Neutrality 21:18, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi. I'm new to Wikipedia. I love the concept. I'm in Sarasota and prefer smokefree places, outdoors, even, during the day. How about Siesta Key Beach? User:sketchgrrl

I don't know where that is. A user on User:Jimbo Wales suggested doing something at USF. I don't know much about Tampa so that might be the best bet for me. Tell me what you think. Mike H 17:24, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)

Jimbo Wales will be in Boston, Massachusetts this Saturday, July 31, 2004 to meet a number of Wikipedians at the S&S Restaurant in Cambridge. Time is set for 3:30pm.

• Restaurant address:
  1334 Cambridge Street (Inman Square)
  Cambridge, MA 02139
  617.354.0777

• Restaurant website: http://www.sandsrestaurant.com/

• Map: http://www.sandsrestaurant.com/images/inman.map.gif

• Parking (see map above for locations):
  • S&S parking lots (free) - Three lots off of Hampshire St.
  • Public parking lot (meters*) - on Springfield St. off of Cambridge St.
  • Street parking (meters*)
    • Free after 6 pm and on Sundays

• Directions (driving): http://www.sandsrestaurant.com/ss.driving.html
• Directions (public transportation): Take the Red Line subway to the Central stop. You will exit in Central Square on Massachusetts Ave. near the intersection with Prospect St. Walk north on Prospect St. about 1/2 mile to Hampshire St. Turn left onto Hampshire St. The S&S is on the right side of the street in that first block. For more info on the subway and other public transportation see http://www.mbta.com

• Menus:
  • Brunch: http://www.sandsrestaurant.com/ss.bru.menu.html until 4 p.m.
  • Lunch: http://www.sandsrestaurant.com/ss.lun.menu.html until at 4 p.m.
  • Dinner: http://www.sandsrestaurant.com/ss.din.menu.html starting at 4 p.m.

Further details at User:Jimbo_Wales/Boston

Well, that was fun. But a decent number of Wikimedians in the area couldn't make it. Let's have anohter meetup sometime this month... perhaps in NYC during the RNC, for balance? +sj+ 06:26, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

recently missed - #Ieshan, dchen, jt, sgj, mihai?, St.P.

I would be up for a second meet-up. New York would be most convenient. Danny 00:57, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thursday, August 19, 2004 7pm PDT

Dana Street Roasting Company
744 W. Dana St. (between Castro St. and Hope St.)
Mountain View, CA
http://www.mountainviewca.net/restaurants/danastreet.html

Dana St. is about three blocks from the Mountain View Caltrain station which is also accessible via the VTA light rail. There is ample parking. (Map) The Dana Street Roasting company has wireless access. Peter Hendrickson

• Nohat 02:42, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC) - considering I work about 2 blocks from there, I can't really say no.

• —Hob←Talk 04:42, 2004 Aug 16 (UTC) - I'm not so nearby, but might be able to make it. Hope so.

• 64.166.84.78 14:33, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC) - Sure, I can drop by. How do wikipedians identify each other in a crowd?

• Peter Hendrickson 16:17, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC) - I'll bring a sign, but it's a small place anyway.

• RayKiddy 02:51, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC) - I'll be there also.

• mhr 20:49, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC) - Sadly, I couldn't make it, tho that's an easy location for me to get to. Maybe next time...

• I propose to make this "meet the Wikipedians in Europe" a big headline on our Main pages in the different languages. It would be a shame if people who would like to get to know other Wikipedians would simply "not know" that there are meetings about to be held. Fantasy 12:23, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Or even Wikipedians in places outside of Europe. Sj

How about just"meet Wikipedians in Europe"? who needs the?Sunja

==China Meetup in Beijing== (see zh:Wikipedia:聚会)

Zh.wikipedians - As Fuzheado (Andrew Lih) will be in Beijing during the weekend, there will be an informal meeting of the wikipedians in Beijing.

Details of the meeting (tentative):

• Date: 25 July (Sunday)
• Time: 7:00pm
• Venue: Room 1364, Science Building No. 1, Peking University
• Attending: Mountain (Beijing), Shizhao, Xyb and Fuzheado (Hong Kong) ....
• Contact: Mingli Yuan(Mountain in Wikipedia), yuanml AT pku.org.cn

--Shizhao 07:51, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)