Wikipedia Day 2013 in New York City was held on Saturday 23 February at the Tisch School of the Performing Arts. So many people I wanted to see were there, including most of Wikimedia NYC, Mike Christie and Jami Mathewson from the Wikipedia education program, Adam Hyland user:Protonk who has helped me in the education program and who just got a job doing data visualizations for a small company in Boston, Jake Orlowitz from Philly who is promoting the Wikipedia Library, Katie from Wikimedia DC/Open Street Maps, Eric user:EMW from DC who does 3D modeling and who has adapted versions of the Wikipedia article traffic reports in a way that is useful to me, Tom Sulcer who had helped me with the Science 2.0 article, Eric Hellman who has a project called unglue.it for making books more available, and lots of other people.
I presented on a panel moderated by Jennifer Baek of Students for Free Culture along with some others. We all talked about access to information. Here is a 7-hour video of the day. I speak with others on that panel at 2 hours 42 minutes.
I am grateful that Columbia University’s EdLab made this video of Wikipedia Day 2013. I am interviewed here. I was told that the program retains copyright over these things and I was wondering why because my thought was that the video would get huge exposure if it could be put on Wikipedia, but I understand the fear that the last generation has of sharing its media.