Hi everyone,
On Sunday 2nd November Wikimedia Ireland will hold it's second editathon.
We are being kindly hosted once again by the Science Gallery, where we will
be hard at work from 2-5pm.
So in honour of Ada Lovelace Day, we are looking to add, improve and expand
upon articles on Irish Women in STEM (and related fields). You find all the
details here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ireland/Women_in_STEM_E…
If you can come along in person, or lend a hand virtually, we would love to
work with you.
Thanks,
Rebecca
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PhD candidate University of Hull - Media & Memory Research Initiative
<http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/mamri.aspx>
Member of Wikimedia Ireland Community
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ireland_Community>
Meeting Minutes-22 October 2014
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Clem McGann (CM)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Oliver Moran (OM)
User Group
EE looked into loading CiviCRM to the Wordpress site-Wordpress needs to be
updated and he’s not sure if the Wiki Loves Monuments theme will work with
an upgrade. It was decided to wait until the completion of the contest to
load it
Wiki Loves Monuments
There was a total of 31 monuments in the semi-final round. The judges are
due to return their final 10 by Friday 24 October
As minister Humphrey’s can’t attend it was decided that Jan O’Sullivan,
Minister for Education, will be invited. EE will craft and send the invite
Upon completion of the contest SE will do some work on the monuments list
and start to create a list of tasks for next year’s competition. Once the
list is complete it will be put on the Meta page to encourage volunteers
Edit-a-thons/Training
NUIG Event-7 November 9:00-13:00. This will be a combination
training/edit-a-thon on both English Wikipedia and Vicipéid. EE, SE, OM,
and SF will be attending. We will suggest topics around National Monuments
and the Wiki Projects pages for the participants to work on.
Collins Barracks Event-Saturday 25 October 10:00-5:30. We are not able to
speak at this event but RO will attend to fly the Wikimedia Ireland banner
and make some contacts about future edit-a-thons. SE will also try to attend
We were contacted by Fabian Tompsett from Wikimedia UK about organising an
edit-a-thon in Northern Ireland. He joined our call to discuss it. RO will
reach out to her connection in some of the Universities in NI as well as
through Royal Irish Academy. CM and SE will look into anniversaries of
events beginning in mid-January 2015 that we could build an edit-a-thon
around. SE and EE will speak to Fabian at training event in Edinburgh in
November
SF will be attending EduWiki in Edinburgh on 31 October. SE, EE, and Roy
Murray are attending the Train the Trainers event in Edinburgh 1-2
November. SE will meet with the Wikipedian in Residence at National Library
of Scotland to discuss implementing the program here. RO suggested we might
start with smaller museums before approaching the larger ones
Misc
It was agreed, after issues with Skype, that we will begin using Google
Hangouts as of next week. SE will send out the link for the Hangout 15 mins
before the start of the meeting
The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 29 October @ 6pm. If you
would like to attend the meeting via Google Hangouts send an email to
wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com.
Meeting Minutes-16 October 2014
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Clem McGann (CM)
Sabina Bonnici (SB)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
User Group
Still no word from the committee about becoming a User Group-SB will
contact them again
Wikimedia branded materials that we requested from Wikimedia UK are on the
way (thanks!)
Wiki Loves Monuments
SB set up a Facebook event for the Awards Ceremony. Invitation has been
sent to Minister Humphreys
Semi-Final images have been coming in from the judges-all images due by 17
October. SE will contact all of the semi-finalists via their talk pages to
obtain email addresses
SB will follow up with judges about attendance to awards ceremony
Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht might be willing to fund an
exhibition of the winning photographs in the winners locality
Edit-a-Thons
RO created pages on Wikipedia for the Ada Lovelace and UCD edit-a-thons
Wikimedia UK contacted us to provide support for upcoming edit-a-thons. RO
is in contact with them
SE will look into grants for edit-a-thons from Wikimedia. EE will contact
the Irish Computing Society and Python Ireland about grants
Misc
CM was on TG4 on Sunday speaking about Ireland’s Maritime history during
WWII. It can be viewed on the TG4 player online
EE will have the CVCRM software up for the next meeting
Several members of the group plan to attend the Open Here conference in
Dublin on 14-16 November
The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 22 October @ 7pm. If you
would like to attend the meeting via Skype send an email to
wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com.
Meeting Minutes-9 October 2014
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Clem McGann (CM)
Edit-a-thons
RO has confirmed a venue for the Ada Lovelace edit-a-thon-it will take
place on Sunday 2 November beginning at 2pm at the Science Gallery
Wiki Loves Monuments
SE sorted through the category page. We began with 2015 images and ended
with 1931. 84 images were ineligible, 4.2% of the total.
SE had a spirited discussion with an administrator on Commons about the
eligible images.
The list was sent to the judges. There were several questions about how to
sort images.
The awards ceremony has been confirmed for IGS on 5 November, 6-8pm. RO
will mock up an invitation.
Education
EE sent proposal for CESI to present at annual conference in February 2015.
They are not accepting proposal yet, but EE spoke to his contact in CESI
and was assured we would be given a spot for a presentation or workshop or
both.
The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, 16 October @ 7pm. If you would
like to attend the meeting via Skype send an email to
wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com.
Meeting Minutes-30 September 2014
Attendees:
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Sabina Bonnici (SB)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
User Group
SB-filled out questionnaire from committee-waiting on status
Domain-EE notified that the community needs group status before the domain
will be turned over
Wiki Loves Monuments
SE filled out the WLM Quick License as requested
After questions about the locations of some monuments in Cork, SE found
several issues with Co. Cork monuments. The issues will be fixed before the
list is returned to the Department
Email was sent to IGS about Awards ceremony-waiting for reply
SB will send an email to the judges outlining the process. Judging will
begin on 6 October. Top 7 picks from each judge due by 17 October. SE will
compile the new list and send it to the judges. Judges each pick their top
10 and send it back to the committee. Image with most votes wins. Any ties
will be decided by the committee
SB complete the In the News page on the website
Edit-a-Thons
RO is giving a short talk on edit-a-thons at UCD on 8 Oct. Genealogy
edit-a-thon to follow
WWI edit-a-thon at end of November
Ada Lovelace edit-a-thon possibly moved to early November
RO making long term plans for the next year. Looking to work with National
Museum of Ireland and Women’s Museum Ireland
Education
CESI Annual Conference will be in Galway on 28 February 2015. EE will
contact about possibly giving a talk or a workshop
EE will craft a group ‘message’ to bring to the group for approval
The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, 9 October @ 7pm. If you would
like to attend the meeting via Skype send an email to
wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com.