Wiki Wednesday
Wiki Wednesday is an informal designation for events, typically informal and unstructured, for people interested in wiki and online collaboration to meet up, socialize, discuss relevant ideas, demonstrate new features or software they're working on, or work on wikis. They have been held in many places since at least 2007, sometimes with a focus on Wikimedia wikis, but typically with a broader focus.
The idea was noted in the English Wikipedia's Signpost in October 2007: w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-15/News and notes
Places that have held WikiWednesday events:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA [dead link]
- Chennai [dead link]
- Chicago [dead link]
- Denmark has had a regular series (roughly 2010 through 2016): w:da:Wikipedia:WikiWednesday
- London: http://web.archive.org/web/20070715030349/http://londonwikiwed.ning.com/
- New York City - currently - 2016 Dec
- Montreal (mentioned in 2007 Signpost article)
- Paris
- Portland, Oregon, USA held monthly WikiWednesdays for several years, and set up a dedicated wiki to support them (roughly, 2007 through 2010) and has had occasional Wiki Wednesdays (2014) since then: w:en:Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/WikiWednesday
- San Francisco hosts the Bay Area WikiSalon the last Wednesday of each month (December is 3rd Wednesday - and January's may be moved up to coincide with Wikipedia Day which is the 15th)
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Sydney, Australia held Wiki Wednesdays from 2008 through at least 2010: [1] (and see: Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Australia/2008-10)
- Toronto Tuesday (Canada) (the exception that makes the rule?) [dead link]
- Vancouver (mentioned in 2007 Signpost article)
- ...
See also
[edit]- WikiSalon
- RecentChangesCamp, a similar concept, but typically a weekend-long Open Space conference
- GLAM Cafe