A celebration and mini-conference of Wikipedia and Free Culture, with a participatory unconference format.

The Wikipedia Day 12th Birthday Bash NYC is a celebration and mini-conference to be held on Saturday February 23, 2013, at the Washington Square Campus of New York University. It’s hosted by NYU‘s Tisch School of the Arts, and also supported by Wikimedia New York City, Free Culture @ NYU and other Free Culture Alliance NYC partners. It will be held at the NYU Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program building (ITP), located at 721 Broadway, between Waverley Place and Washington Place.

The NYC celebration is one of a number of Wikipedia Day being held in the United States and worldwide.

See our past years’ local celebrations at Wikipedia Day 2010 NYC, Wikipedia Day 2011 NYC and Wikipedia Day 2012 NYC.

You can register for the Wiki-Conference here—which can also be linked as bit.ly/wikidaynyu.

Participation (and pizza and cake!) will be free, with room for ~100 participants, who should bring a photo ID for the door. All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from cultural institutions interested in developing Open Education projects.

In addition to the party, the event will be a modified unconference, with dedicated plenary sessions (organized on this wiki), lightning talks to the whole assembly, and of course open space sessions. The Lightning Talks and Open Space will be determined during the event itself, so it will be good to bring your ideas with you.

There is wifi access, and we will give you the log in details on-site. Projectors will also probably be available for use by the various presenters.

VENUE INFORMATION:
NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (NYU-ITP), located in the NYU Tisch building at 721 Broadway, between Waverley Place and Washington Place.