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Chicago Meetup

You're invited to share delicious food and edit with us at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library!

What, Where, and When?

What? Editors of all experience levels are invited to:

Kibitz with your fellow Chicagoland Wikipedians in person!
Help work on articles! There is a full list of new article topics as well as a list of articles that could use some work. Choose anything that suits your fancy!
Have a fantastic lunch, courtesy of the Pritzker!
Spend some time checking out the Pritzker's art gallery and exhibitions!

Where? Pritzker Military Museum & Library, 104 S. Michigan Avenue ^{Google Maps link}

Nearest Transit Stations

Blue Line - Monroe

Red Line - Monroe

Brown Line - Adams/Wabash

Pink Line / Green Line / Orange Line - Madison/Wabash

Metra - From Union Station, it's about 10-minute walk. Refer to Google Maps for directions from the station.

Nearest Bus Lines:

Northbound:

MichiganAvenue buses — 3, 4, 6, 26, 143, and J14 stop at Michigan & Monroe, walk across Michigan and you'll be right where you need to be!

Southbound:

Michigan Avenue buses — 3, 4, 26, 143, 147, 151 stop at Michigan & Madison/Monroe, walk south to corner, cross Monroe, and you are at the library.
State Street buses — 2, 6, 10, 29, 36, 62,146, 148 stop at State & Monroe, walk (under the South Wabash elevated tracks) along East Monroe block and a half to the library.
Clark Street buses — 22, 24 stop at Clark & Madison & Monroe, walk lakeside (away from the South Wells elevated tracks and toward the South Wabash elevated tracks) along East Monroe three blocks and a half to the library. Can transfer at Monroe & La Salle to J14 for less walking (walk south to corner and 1 block west crossing La Salle).

Eastbound:

Monroe Street buses — 850, 851, 855, J14 stop at Monroe/Wabash, walk (away from the South Wabash elevated tracks) along East Monroe half a block to the library.
Washington Street buses — 20, 56 stop at Washington & Wabash, walk as suggested above (along East Washington). The library is 2 blocks to the south.
Jackson Street buses —1, 7, 28, 126 stop at Jackson & Wabash, walk as suggested above (along East Jackson). The library is 2 blocks to the north.

Best navigation/schedule of buses/trains aid:
- Google Maps Android or iOS App SHOWS IT THE BEST, as well as moving 3-D contours of Loop buildings as you move the map:
  - type: prit and select Pritzker Military Museum & Library from the list of Chicago Pritzker institutions (1st item),
  - zoom in/out, move the map until you see nearby bus/train icons
  - tap bus/train icon once for stop name,
  - tap stop name for list of lines + three next arrivals.

The Pritzker is on the corner of Michigan and Monroe in the Monroe Building (across Michigan from the Art Institute). Our event is likely to be on the 3rd floor of the building, where you can get a nametag and information on the day's events.

When? Saturday, April 18th 2015 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM.

What else do I need to know?

Participants will be given lunch and their entry fees to the Pritzker waived, but they must sign up at the bottom of this event page. All you have to do is check in on your arrival.
The general agenda will look like this:

We will meet initially at the Pritzker at 10:00 AM, get ourselves situated and introduced, and begin some planning and editing.
Around 1:00 PM, we'll get started with lunch, which is likely to be catered by Panera. If you have particular dietary restrictions, please contact I JethroBT (talk · contribs) ahead of time, and we can make accommodations for you.
After lunch, we'll head back to the Pritzker where we can resume editing and take some time to check out the Pritzker's excellent art gallery and collections. We'll finish up around 3:30.
For folks interested in hanging out afterwards, there's a reasonably-priced Thai place not too far from the Pritzker we've been to that's pretty good, but we can discuss other options.

Join us!

Nice work everyone. I've posted the outcomes of our event below. Thanks for working with us at the Pritzker! I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 19:59, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Haven't edited Wikipedia before? No problem. Editors of all experience levels are welcome. We'll help you get setup with an account and get you started on whatever kind of work interests you. Let us know if you are coming by signing in below using four tildes (~~~~).

I'll be there!

I will! Jdanbeck (talk) 15:15, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 17:11, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Drummerdg (talk) 08:14, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I will be here in the morning only. TeriEmbrey (talk) 16:07, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I added to Pritzker Library-sourced GLAM red link list: "Virtual Periscope, a red link in USS Chicago (SSN-721) (current USS Chicago, a Los Angeles-class submarine, also listed in the improve section below)" Mareklug ^talk 10:08, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
With pleasure! belissarius (talk) 18:49, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nick Number (talk) 14:47, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I might be able to make it

czar ⨹ 04:17, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I definitely can't make it, but contact me about future meetups

Orange Mike | Talk 00:02, 4 April 2015 (UTC) I'm a delegate to a union convention that weekend[reply]
Mchuedem (talk) 14:15, 7 April 2015 (UTC) Unfortunately I have to work that day.[reply]

Outcomes

Attendees

Article creation

Morten Storm (Additional article material for Morten Storm drafted on User:Jdanbeck/sandbox)
Dave Kohn
Virtual periscope

Article improvements

Editing by the numbers

During the event, we collectively...

...contributed about 24 hours of time to editing Wikipedia,
...added 14,386 bytes of information to Wikipedia pages/drafts,
...made 46 discrete edits to Wikipedia articles,
...added or began drafts for 3 new articles,
...and improved 5 existing articles!

Stats calculated using Wikimetrics