Wikipedia:Meetup

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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).

European Wikipedia meetups 2004

Provisional dates:

  • 5. June - Jimbo will be in London (See User:Jimbo Wales/2004-06-05)
  • 8. June - Jimbo will be in Frankfurt, and would like to meet for dinner
  • 10.-12. of June in Berlin (Jimbo will be present)
  • 19. June in Munich (Jimbo will be present)
  • 26. or 27. June in Genoa (Jimbo will be present)
  • ???? in 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)
  • any other proposals/ideas?

See also: Jimbo Wales' user page for his itinerary.

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


Wikipedia Meetup, in Las Vegas???

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)

Proposed Meetup in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area

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

Organisational issues

  • 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


Regular meetings

Currently there are in the following places meetings happening regularely:

  • Berlin, Munich (see German Wikipedia)

How to organise a meeting

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.
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