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If Wikipedians—most of whom are broke or cheap —could afford the $17.50 to get a ticket to take the elevator to the top of this building, we might get to see our fair city from this view at one of our events.
If Wikipedians—most of whom are broke or cheap —could afford the $17.50 to get a ticket to take the elevator to the top of this building, we might get to see our fair city from this view at one of our events.

Welcome to the Wikipedia Club of New York!

After a surprisingly successful New York City meetup on 9 December 2006 in which almost 50 people expressed an interest in attending, several participants discussed the possibility of getting together more often than the infrequent meetup. One thing that all of us who attended the December 2006 meetup noticed is that there are a wide variety of interesting personalities in our area who work on Wikipedia....most of whom are just normal enough to want to meet again.

The Wikipedia Club of New York gets together about once each month for various activities which may include:

  • Culture: Visiting local historic sites, museums, attending concerts, musicals, opera, festivals
  • Eat: Enjoy one of NYC's 39,000 restaurants and bars or join us for a barefoot picnic in the Central Park (someone's gotta bring a frisbee)
  • Volunteer: Give some time en masse to the community in one of New York's soup kitchens, repairing a dilapidated historic structure, etc.
  • Field Trips: Do what most New Yorkers don't admit they do: go to New Jersey...or worse...go to Philly...often because New York doesn't have it...like good beaches, decent Cheesesteaks, clean air, for starters, half-way decent baseball (go Red Sox!...o.k. I might be rubbing it in.) or there happens to be a much-hated sales tax on it in NYC. Join us for field trips to important places, like Washington's Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, or Thomas Edison's Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, or museums, or baseball games, or college campuses (or campi), or parks.
  • and more (anything is possible in New York)!

So keep posted, we'll probably be planning something in the early weeks of each month.

[edit] Upcoming Events

  • 31 JANUARY 2007: Wikipedia's own Jimmy Wales is giving a talk entitled Free Culture, Transparency, and Search for the Free Culture Club at New York University, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. to be held at the Courant Institute, 251 Mercer Street, Room 109, in New York City. More details can be found at www.freeculturenyu.org.
  • Sometime in April 2007: Dinner at an Upper West Side sushi place. Send requests or comments to Uncle Ed 21:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC).


  • 3 JUNE 2007: Picnic on Central Park's Great Lawn. (Rain Date: 10 June 2007).

[edit] Contact

Please e-mail User:ExplorerCDT at cdthieme-AT-gmail-DOT-com to be added to a mailing list, find out more, discuss, organize, plan events, and just generally keep updated on what WCNY is doing.

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