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.
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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.
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.
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> .