What is Wiki Wednesday?

• Wiki Wednesdays are held (mostly) the first Wednesday of each month
• People get together to chat, learn about wikis, find jobs, talk deals and generally cavort
• Some events have featured speakers, some have a round robin of 5 minute talks, some are unstructured
• You RSVP and swing by if you like
• What else should I know about wiki Wednesdays?
• If you're blogging or using flickr, use the tag wikiwed
• live chat: irc://irc.freenode.net/wikiwed
• Twitter channel #wikiwed http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wikiwed

Regular Wiki Wednesdays:

• Ann Arbor - March 4, 2009, 2pm at Cafe Ambrosia; weekly column in the Ann Arbor Chronicle
• Chicago (Chicago 01-Oct-2008)
• Chennai- (June 3,2009)
• Copenhagen - attempting regular meetings since beginning of 2010
• London - Alternating pub meet-ups and presentation evenings - next full meeting 7th July 2010
• Paris, France (in French) although this may be the correct link for Paris
• Portland - see http://pdx.wiki.org
• Sydney, Australia 9th September 2009
• San Francisco
• Toronto Tuesday

Cities interested in having an event:

Make a page for your event, tag it, and put a link to it right here on this page.

• Vancouver
• Los Angeles (Our nonprofit/arts community can host future events in LA)
• Austin
• Fort Collins

Past events:

Past events are listed on their own page and on their city's page, which you can find from locations.

When you host an event, let us know what you talked about. Write it up, link outward to people and blogs, link to it from the location page, and tag it "past event".

Who's Coming?

• Developers, social software geeks, web 2.0 and open source
• Entrepreneurs, deal mavens, general business folk
• Wiki editors, administrators, teams, gardeners
• Individuals looking to leave work to chat at a local watering hole
• WikiWed 2.0 Demo

Karma Distribution

Credit for the name "Wiki Wednesday" goes to Phil Wolff, who had a flash of inspiration at Supernova (even though he wasn't the first to use the term).

Mad props also to Russell Beattie and Mike Rowehl of Mobile Monday, for starting alliterative tech days, and to the Tag Tuesday folks (you know who you are) for making it a trend! :-)

The wiki-neighbourhood

The 'Whats new' list' is the "recent changes" display for this social text wiki software. Here you can see the wiki edits happening within in this "workspace". Would be great if socialtext would make more direct links to the latest edit diff and also implement captchas on addition of external links, but in the meantime if you have the patience to help keep an eye on this list and revert wiki sp@m here, that would be appreciated. Stupid spammers generally add links immediately below this as comments, but watch out for sp@m elsewhere.