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Ideas/informal brainstorming for 2025

This is a place for informal suggestions and ideas re:WCNA 2025 in NYC. If you want to be on the organizing committee or help volunteer, please reach out to the Wikimedia NYC chapter: info@wikimedianyc.org

Programming

• Hackathon
• Scanathon
• Curated "bring-your-dslr quest"
• WikiFashion show
• Wikiracing

Culture crawl possibilities

• GCT basement tour
• en:List of museums in New York City
• en:Little Red Lighthouse (tours arranged through parks department)
• en:High Line
• en:Intrepid Museum (event spaces)
• NYC WikiTrain (Long Island Rail Road and New York City Subway possibilities)
• Bird-watching? (Prospect Park, Greenwood Cemetery, or Central Park)
• possible combinations of culture crawl and food (possible dinner arrangement with multiple smallish flexible options; probably food courts or other areas with lots of fast choices and seating)

Food

• vegan lunch options (also consider kosher/halal)
  • Box lunches at Toronto WCNA were quick, but presumably more food waste
• WikiCake/s

Communications

• centralized chat location
  • WCNA 2024 used telegram
  • WMNYC uses discord
  • new ideas?

Travel and lodging

• discounted group rates for travel
• coupon codes or anything when booking hotels and flights
• discounted Citibike passes:
  • would extend the radius of where we could house people and/or culture crawl
  • riding a bike in Manhattan is not for the faint-hearted, so may not be popular

Random

• breaking a world record at the conference?
• side event for Wikimedians who also play Magic the Gathering