Wikimedia District of Columbia

Official Wikimedia DC website: wikimediadc.org

A map of the United States, with the Wikimedia DC area in maroon.

Wikimedia District of Columbia is the second official Wikimedia chapter organized within the United States, covering the national capital region including the District of Columbia and the states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. The chapter was incorporated as the Wiki Society of Washington, DC Inc. in the District of Columbia on May 7, 2011, and it was recognized as a chapter on September 12, 2011. Per the Bylaws, the objects of Wikimedia DC "shall be the advancement of general knowledge, and the collection and development of educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and the dissemination of it effectively and globally."

Wikimedia DC is uniquely situated to support the Wikimedia movement. Being located in the capitol region of the United States, the chapter engages in free content promotion, outreach and partnership efforts with governmental organizations, universities, and museums, many of which have large amounts of useful public domain content readily available, or organizations willing to contribute under another free license.

The official Bylaws are published on the Wikimedia DC website; an additional copy is posted on Meta under /Bylaws. The Bylaws were approved by resolution of the Chapters Committee on August 22, 2011.

Board of Directors

See also Wikimedia DC wiki: Board of Directors. The business affairs of Wikimedia District of Columbia are managed by a seven-member Board of Directors. The current members of the Board are:

• Katie Filbert, President (Term expires 2013)
• Nicholas Bashour, Vice President (Term expires 2013)
• Kirill Lokshin, Secretary (Term expires 2013)
• James Hare, Treasurer (Term expires 2012)
• Tiffany L. Smith (Term expires 2012)
• Kristin Anderson (Term expires 2012)
• Kevin Chen (Term expires 2012)

Most meetings of the Board of Directors are open to the general public. To see the schedule of upcoming meetings, as well as the agendas and minutes of past meetings, please visit the Meetings page.

Initiatives

• Smithsonian collaboration
• FedFlix project & collaboration w/ National Archives, including the Wikipedian in Residence program.
• WikiXDC - tenth anniversary event at the National Archives
• Wikimania 2012
• Wikimedia DC/Local outreach
• Wikimedia DC/Project ideas

Calendar

• DC meetups
• Wikimedia DC/Calendar

Supporters

Working team members

This section kept for historical purposes -- does not reflect the enrolled membership of the chapter.

Please sign here if you are interested in joining the working team to help develop the chapter.

1. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 16:33, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
2. Staeiou (talk) 16:55, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
3. --NBahn (talk) 17:13, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
4. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 17:32, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
5. Maralia (talk) 17:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
6. Kirill Lokshin 23:54, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
7. Most certainly. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 19:02, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
8. Cbrown1023 talk 20:22, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
9. SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:22, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
10. Zidel333 (Talk) 14:44, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
11. Nishkid64 (talk) 23:11, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
12. - LA @ 19:41, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
13. Firefoxman 01:06, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
14. Sadads 16:33, 7 December 2009 (UTC) - primary on Wikipedia
15. Ragib --Ragib 00:29, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
16. Mheart 21:40, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
17. harej 02:27, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
18. Aude 18:56, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
19. Ottava Rima (talk) 17:50, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
20. Racepacket 18:46, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
21. Alexandanu 21:38, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
22. AutoGyro 21:20, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
23. --Rocketrye12 15:27, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
24. Carolmooredc 13:39, 10 May 2011 (UTC) To limited extent anyway.
25. Dank 15:09, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
26. Edsu (talk) 10:25, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Non-working-team members

Not interested in working on the setup and development of the chapter, but still want to be a part of the membership? Maybe you want to join once it's completed? That's okay! Please sign your name below to indicate that you would be interested in joining the chapter. (Note: if you are intending to help the working team, please sign above instead. It is assumed that people developing the chapter will become members upon its creation.)

1. Micahbrwn (talk)
2. Gyrofrog (talk) 19:32, 2 May 2008 (UTC) Hopefully I will be able to help out at some point, but right now I probably shouldn't commit myself.
3. The Placebo Effect (talk)
4. User:pohick2(talk)
5. Lynnmdoan (talk)
6. Lwoodyiii (talk)
7. concord
8. Econterms 03:51, 7 March 2011 (UTC) -- Could imagine helping but I'm usually swamped and overcommitted.
9. MZMcBride 01:44, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
10. John Broughton 13:51, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
11. Qwerty0 (talk) 08:04, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
12. BLM Platinum 14:22, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
13. EEMIV 14:32, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Contact

• Wikimedia DC - official website

Please signup for the Wikimedia-DC mailing list to be informed about what's happening in the DC area, to discuss about forming a chapter, and anything else of interest to DC-area Wikipedians.

• https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc

For a regional IRC chat with DC and Northeast US Wikimedians, please see:

#wikimedia-northeast^connect

Further reading

• Step-by-step chapter creation guide
• Guidelines for future chapters
• wmf:Agreement between chapters and Wikimedia Foundation