Great American Wicnic (Wikipedia Picnic) June 23rd

The Great American Wicnic will take place this year on Saturday June 23rd.

The Wicnic is a physical meeting in the format of a Picnic, where people interested in the Wikipedia get together to do community building.

Wicnics are spontaneously planned by volunteers in order to bring Wikipedians together, out of the virtual world, and into the physical world (which we usually take for granted as not being virtual).

“The first national Wiknic was held in June 2011,
and 16 cities took part with Wiknics large and small.
This mid-summer date (with a local raindate the following day)
is generally the weekend before the U.S. Fourth of July holiday weekend.”

With grassroots organization help from local Wikipedia:Meetup groups and the Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS) committee… Everyone is free to start a Wiknic page for your own city. Please sign up at your city’s meetup page:

• Northeast

• Albany, New York: date: June 23 – Wikipedia:Meetup/Albany-Capital Region
• Boston, Massachusetts: location: Boston Common date: June 23 – Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Wiknic/2012
• New York, New York: date: July 7 – Governors Island – Wikipedia:Wiki World’s Fair
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: date: June 23 – place: Schenley Park – info: Wikipedia:Meetup/Pittsburgh
• Washington, DC: date: June 24 – Dupont Circle – Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wiknic/2012
• Frederick, MD: date: June 23 – Baker Park – Wikipedia:Meetup/Frederick/Wiknic/2012

• Midwest

• Evansville: 30 June – location tbd – WP:Meetup/Evansville/Wiknic/2012
• St. Louis, Forest Park, date: June 23 – Wikipedia:Meetup/St. Louis
• Cincinnati, Smale Riverfront Park: User:DaveMenninger: Wikipedia:Meetup/Cincinnati
• Chicago, Washington Square Park: Wikipedia:Meetup/Chicago 6
• Wichita, Central Riverside Park: Wikipedia:Meetup/Wichita
• Minneapolis, Minnehaha Park, 7 July: WT:Meetup/Minnesota

• South

• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville date: June 22 – Wikipedia:Meetup/Northwest Arkansas
• Wikipedia:Meetup/Houston
• Wikipedia:Meetup/North Florida, date June 23
• Miami, Florida: Biscayne National Park, June 23 – Wikipedia:Meetup/Miami/Wiknic/2012

• West

• Boulder, Colorado – Wikipedia:Meetup/Boulder/June 2012
• San Francisco, California: Golden Gate Park date: June 23 – Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Wiknic/2012
• Los Angeles, California: Pan-Pacific Park – Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/6
• Oahu, Hawaii: Kailua Beach Park – see Wikipedia:Meetup/Oahu/1
• Portland, Oregon Willamette Park – see Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Wiknic
• Seattle, Washington: Golden Gardens Park in Ballard date: June 24 – Wikipedia:Meetup/seattlewp/wiknic2012

• Possible cities under discussion

Possibly Ann Arbor with ArborWikifolks

• Atlanta, Georgia discussion
• Dallas-Fort Worth discussion
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania discussion
• Possibly Richmond, Virginia: Science Museum of Virginia

For the most up to date information on these events, please visit the Wikinic page:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic