Jump to content

Wikipedia:Meetup/Cape Town/Cape Town 16

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia Meetups
   December 2024 +/-
Christchurch 34 December 1, 2024 (2024-12-01)
BLT Antenna New Orleans December 7, 2024 (2024-12-07)
Haitian Creole NYC December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08)
London 211 December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08)
Chicago December 2024 December 14, 2024 (2024-12-14)
Perth 85 December 15, 2024 (2024-12-15)
San Diego 117 December 16, 2024 (2024-12-16)
Seattle meetup December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17)
   January 2025 +/-
Wikipedia Day Seattle January 11, 2025 (2025-01-11)
London 212 January 12, 2025 (2025-01-12)
Wikipedia Day Minnesota January 15, 2025 (2025-01-15)
Exeter 2 January 18, 2025 (2025-01-18)
Wikipedia Day Toronto January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)
Edinburgh 19 January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)
Wikipedia Day NYC January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)
Brixton 6 January 27, 2025 (2025-01-27)
Full Meetup Calendar • Events calendar on Meta
For meetups in other languages, see the list on Meta
A group photograph of Cape Town 16 meetup at Truth Coffee HQ on the day.

Date:

Sunday, 2 June 2019

Location:

Truth Coffee, 36 Buitenkant St, Cape Town 8000, South Africa
Map location here.

Time:

10:00 - 14:00

Discussions

[edit]

Actual discussions

[edit]

At the event we discussed:

  • Offline Wikipedia
  • 1Lib1Ref at the University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape
  • Biography articles and notability
  • WikiData
  • The Wikimania 2019 scholarship that WMZA will be giving out
  • Climate change editathon
  • Afrikaans Wikipedia notability committee
  • Political party articles
  • Sport articles
  • Increasing non-NPOV article vandalism in South Africa to insert POV content.
  • Need for greater diversity in the South African editing community and how to achieve that.
  • Copyright Amendment Bill
  • Next meetup set for Sunday 7 July at the same time and place.

Attended

[edit]

A total of 10 people joined us for the meetup.

Apologies

[edit]

Coffee

[edit]

18 cups of coffee/tea were consumed at the meetup