WikimediaIE August 2014

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Invitation to Wiki Loves Monuments Launch & Wikimania coverage in Irish Times
by Sabina Bonnici 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

Dear all, You are all kindly invited to the Wiki Loves Monuments launch next Tuesday 26th August. It¹s taking place in St Audoen¹s Church, 14 High Street, Dublin 8 at 6pm, and we¹d love to see as many Wikipedians there as possible. We¹re delighted to announce that Minister Simon Harris TD will be launching the event, and it¹ll be great opportunity for a meet up! Members of the working group will be speaking, and as well as run down of the competition, we¹ll be talking about our plans for future events. Please RSVP if you can make it to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com, just so we have an idea of numbers. Also, did you catch the coverage of Wikimania appearing in today¹s Irish Times? http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/good-citations-at-wikipedia-s-annua l-meeting-1.1900657 Cheers, Sabina. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: Sabina Bonnici :: Producer of all sorts :: + 353 86 815 8714 :: http://www.fizzythinking.com

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Meeting Minutes-21 August 2014
by Shannon Eichelberger 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Meeting Minutes-21 August 2014 Attendees: Eugene Eichelberger (EE) Shannon Eichelberger (SE) Rebecca O’Neill (RO) Sabina Bonnici (SB) Sharon Flynn (SF) Education -SF will be attending the EduWiki Conference in Edinburgh in October -Two educators at NUI Galway are interested in getting a program up and running with some of their Master level students in Irish. SF will contact Alison about the gaps in coverage on Vicipéid -SF found a page written by a Wikipedia editor about project and goals for Ireland around education and Wikipedia. SB attempted to contact but received no response. EE will reach out to him Edit-a-Thons -RO is still looking for a venue for Ada Lovelace Day -Roy has been in contact with a lecturer in Advanced Information Skills in UCD who is doing a module on genealogical sketches of people from 1913/1916 and she’s trying to gauge our interest in assisting. SE will let Roy know that we are very interested in helping -Roy was contacted by the Education Officer for National Council of Curriculum and Assessment about edit-a-thons in schools. EE will reach out to him User Group -SB followed up with coordinator via email. He said they should be looking at our application soon. It generally takes 3 weeks for a response -The incorporation paperwork came through. RO and SE will set up a bank account after the launch -We plan on giving a talk at the ODI meeting on 18 September at 6:30 Wiki Loves Monuments -Launch Speech-SB will will be the emcee, SE will speak about contest, EE will speak about Open Knowledge, RO will speak about Wikimedia Ireland -RO will create a powerpoint of images for the launch -Website-SE will get the multi-lingual app working this weekend and will post the 2 pages SF had translated -Photowalks information will be added to the site -EE and SE will replace the images on the banner with monument images -SB will add a terms and conditions page -RO translated the central notice on Wikipedia into Irish and changed the start date for our contest -PR-SB will have a briefing call with the PR company tomorrow. RO has agreed to be the media contact -Marketing-Roy sent over stats for the past month-but we think they include admin access. SE will check the settings on wordpress to be sure they are not being counted -We have 3 confirmed photowalks: Skerries, Cork City , and Drogheda The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday 4 September @ 6pm. If you would like to attend the meeting via Skype send an email to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com.

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Meeting Minutes-14 August 2014
by Shannon Eichelberger 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Meeting Minutes-30 July 2014 Attendees: Eugene Eichelberger (EE) Shannon Eichelberger (SE) Rebecca O’Neill (RO) Roy Murray (RM) Sharon Flynn (SF) Wikimania -RO will compose a blog post about the event for the website Edit-a-Thons -We missed the deadline for the Collins Barracks talk. RO is going to see if we can still have a presence there -The Ada Lovelace edit-a-thon is still searching for a venue -RM will reach out to librarians about organising edit-a-thons -SF will reach out in NUI Galway about edit-a-thons User Group -Planned meetup with user group facilitator at Wikimania did not happen Wiki Loves Monuments -E-vites were sent out to launch event. Launch was also registered on Heritage Week -Insurance has been secured. All events for the next year are covered -37 new monuments for Cork City have been added to the maps on the website -SE did a few test runs uploading images and all seemed to be working fine. Categories for the contest are now activated -The Awards Ceremony date and venue have been confirmed. The ceremony will be held at Pearse Library on Friday 7 November from 2-5 -RO is moving forward with the Marketing plan, interacting with influencers on social media -EE came up with a plan for the judging process. Each judge will select their top 7 pictures to move forward to the semi finals. They will then pick their top 10 out of the semi finalists. That should allow enough overlap to pronounce a winner. If there is a tie the organising committee will choose a winner -SF will try to get volunteers to translate some of the contest pages into Irish -SE has ordered stickers to hand out at the launch. In lieu of flyers it was decided to print out business cards instead -EE will contact framers to cost the printing and framing of the winning photgraphs to sell as a fund raiser The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday 21 August @ 6pm. If you would like to attend the meeting via Skype send an email to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com.

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Wikimedia Ireland Community - Meeting Minutes
by Sabina Bonnici 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

Meeting Minutes-30 July 2014 Attendees: Eugene Eichelberger (EE) Sabina Bonnici (SB) Rebecca O¹Neill (RO) WIKIMANIA * RO & SB will be attending Wikimania next week. USER GROUP * At Wikimania, SB has arranged a meeting with Applications Committee Chair to discuss Wikimedia Ireland. * * SB to re-sign Limited Partner form. EDITATHONS * RO is following up on editathons for WWI, and considering dates at the end Oct/Nov for Women in Science WLM * Prize categories were discussed, and in order to manage the competition effectively, the unlisted monuments prize award will not be offered, and the amount will be distributed amongst the other awards. * * Juror search continues. SB to follow up with professional photographers. * * Judging and verification process was discussed and will be shared with judges by SB. * * Website content has been updated by SB and the Taking Part & FAQ to be reviewed by EE & RO. * * SB trying to find someone to take on PR role. Planned call with PR intern on Friday morning. * * The website images to be updated to reflect monuments by RO/EE * * With regards to promoting photowalks, SB has contacted camera club associations, but in order to spread the word as far and wide as possible, it would be ideal for individual clubs to be contacted. As this is a lengthy process, the work will be split between SB & RO. * * We need some help putting together statistic tools for the competition. SB to contact our friends in Wikimedia UK to see if they can make any recommendations for this purpose. * Launch night event is being confirmed by SE with St Audeons for 26th, paperwork underway. * * Awards event to be confirmed by SE. AOB * As potential fundraising ideas for the organisation, EE suggested that the winning prints be printed and sold as a set. SB suggested a calendar might be an option as well. Both ideas to be costed up. The next meeting is scheduled for Monday 4th August @ 10am over Skype. If you would like to attend the meeting via Skype send an email to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com <mailto:wikimediaireland@gmail.com> .

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