WikimediaIE February 2015

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2015
by Shannon Eichelberger 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

Hello Irish Wikimedians! The Wikimedia Community Ireland has begun planning for the 2015 edition of Wiki Loves Monuments. Below you will see a list of tasks. Please let us know if you can help out in any way by emailing wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com Update and Expand Monuments ListContact County/City CouncilsMeeting with DAHGSearch for Lists OnlineCrowdsourcing-on WebsiteMegalithic/Neolithic MonumentsNational Inventory of Architectual HeritagePossibly Northern Ireland MonumentsMaps on WebsiteReach out to PartnersHeritage Week/Heritage CouncilOPWLook for more PartnersRecruit Judges Organise Awards EventVenuePossible Road ShowPhotowalks Cheers, Shannon

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Meeting Minutes
by Shannon Eichelberger 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

Meeting Minutes- Attendees: Shannon Eichelberger (SE) Eugene Eichelberger (EE) Clem McGann (CM) Sharon Flynn (SF) Rebecca O’Neill (RO) Joseph Quinn (JQ) User Group The Grant for the remaining funds has been submitted. There have been several endorsements but no comments as of yet. Edit-a-thons RO attended a meeting of Girl Geek Dinners and gave a brief talk about the group. They seem interested in working with us. JQ contacted PRONI about possible WWI themed edit-a-thon. He will meake sure to reitreate that we are working in conjunction with Wikimedia UK. Conferences Oliver attended the Open Data meeting held in Dublin. He will prepare a paper on behalf of the group is refernce to copyright of government data. He also indicated that there will probably be opportunities for the group to run workshops or give talks at future events. WLM SE created a list of work to be done for the 2015 competition. This includes expanding the monuments list, reaching out to new partners, creating new maps on the website, planning the awards event, selecting judges, planning photowalks and applying for grants to fund the event. SE will write the grants and create a cheat sheet with stats from 2014 competition. Other Events We have scheduled our first Meetup. It will take place on 20 February at 7pm at the Lord Edward Pub. The Meetup group can be found here. The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 3 March at 7pm in Dublin. If you would like to attend, either in person or via Google Hangouts, please send an email to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com

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Meeting Minutes-18 February 2015
by Shannon Eichelberger 20 Feb '15

20 Feb '15

Meeting Minutes-18 February 2015 Attendees: Shannon Eichelberger (SE) Eugene Eichelberger (EE) Sharon Flynn (SF) Rebecca O’Neill (RO) Joseph Quinn (JQ) User Group We have received the final User Agreement from Wikimedia. We are now officially a user group. The Outreach Grant is complete and awaiting endorsement. SE will officially submit in on 23 February. EE and SE are in the process of becoming certified trainers by Wikimedia UK. In return we would like to try to hold some outreach in Northern Ireland. SE will reach out to her contact at the Titanic museum. JQ will reach out to his contacts as well. Our Twitter following is slowly increasing, but certainly within range of other user groups our size. SE will continue to maintain the account while RO will continue to maintain Facebook. Edit-a-thons WWI-Collins Barracks-we had 1 participant at this event. Though the group was small, we did manage to improve several articles dealing with the Irish in WWI. Due to an incident at the event it was decided that a code of conduct should be published before we have another event. NUIG Writing Centre-10 March-SE will conduct the training on this date. The follow up Edit-a-Thon will take place sometime during the week of 13 April. SE and RO will attend. Ro is working with WITS to join their event in March. Cochrane Symposium-April-SE confirmed that we will run a masterclass at this event. WLM SE will create a To-Do list for WLM activities. This will be discussed at the next meeting. Conferences CELT Annual Symposium-NUIG-19 June-We have been invited to run a workshop at this event. More information to follow. Misc RO has created a group on Meetup.com for the Wikimedia Community Ireland to help with recruitment. SE has agreed to personally greet each new member. We are already seeing some activity. It was agreed that we will start to organise some social events for the group. EE will arrange for speakers. Also in recruitment, RO will be speaking at the Girl Geek Dinner meetup on Thursday. The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 24 February at 7pm in Dublin. If you would like to attend, either in person or via Google Hangouts, please send an email to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com

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Grant Application
by Shannon Eichelberger 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Hello Irish Wikimedians! The Wikimedia Community Ireland User Group is applying for a grant to use the remaining funds from our Wiki Loves Monuments contest for Outreach events over the next year. Please the support the community efforts and endorse the grant request. You can find the grant here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_Community_Ireland/2015… Thanks! Shannon Eichelberger Wikimedia Community Ireland

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Meeting Minutes-10 February 2015
by Shannon Eichelberger 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Meeting Minutes-10 February 2015 Attendees: Shannon Eichelberger (SE) Eugene Eichelberger (EE) Clem McGann (CM) Sharon Flynn (SF) Rebecca O’Neill (RO) User Group There has been no news on the domain name being turned over us. EE will send out another email to check in. SE and RO signed the User Group Agreement. A copy can be found in the shared folders. Edit-a-thons Engineering 8 February-We had a poor turnout, regardless some articles were worked on. RO created a new article for Alice Perry and expanded another. She will nominate both articles for the “Did you know?” section on the front page of Wikipedia. WWI/Collins Barracks 14 February-it is being promoted by several historical groups. Flyers were put up at Trinity and it was sent out on the mailing list. SE will also send out a notification on the Irish Wikipedians mailing list. NUIG/Writing Centre March-SE will conduct the initial training and possibly the edit-a-thon. Cochrane Symposium 24-25 April-SE talked with two members of the Cochrane team. It was agreed that a training session would be run as part of the conference. The Cochrane group will create a list of article to work on in WikiProject Medicine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine>. They have also offered us exhibition space. Only SE and EE will be available for the event. They will discuss their plan for the symposium and report back to the group. Conferences DBpedia-RO reported on her attendance to the DBPedia meetup on 9 February. It was a very international group. During the DBpedia as Gaelige meetup RO promoted out group and offered our assistance. Two attendees that are based at NUIG were interested in getting involved. RO put them in touch with SF. CESI/Education 28 February-it will continue to be promoted on twitter. EE and SF made changes to the Education Outreach <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/Ireland> page for Ireland. SF will add the Education outreach events to this page. Misc Meetup Page-EE suggested that we use the Ireland Meetup Page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ireland> on Wikipedia to promote our events to a wider audience. It was also proposed that we post the details for one meeting per month as a recruitment tool. This was agreed. Recruitment-It was agreed that we need to recruit more members. It was proposed that we start giving talks at other groups that might be interested in what we are doing (eg. Open Data, Open Knowledge, Girl Geek Dinners, Python, ect.). A spreadsheet has been created in the shared folders for information on groups we can reach out to. EE will look at technical groups while RO will look at womens groups. It was also suggested that we might hold more “social gatherings” rather than workshops/trainings. The next meeting will take place on 18 February at 7pm in Dublin. If you would like to attend, either in person or via Google Hangouts, please send an email to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com

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Edit-a-Thon-Collins Barracks
by Shannon Eichelberger 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

The Wikimedia Community Ireland User Group would like to invite all of you to our Edit-a-Thon at Collins Barrack on 14 February. You can find all of the information listed below. We look forward to meeting some new Irish Wikipedians! Shannon Eichelberger Wikimedia Ireland Community Ever wondered how to get started editing Wikipedia? On Saturday 14th February an editathon will be held in the the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks from 13:00-16:30, when experienced editors will guide you through your first edits. One of our aims is to improve and expand articles relating to Ireland and the Irish during World War I. This event is organised by Wikimedia Ireland Community, with Shannon and Rebecca as trainers. All are welcome, no editing experience is necessary and the event is free. It will take place in the Palatine Room, above Brambles Cafe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ireland/ Intro_to_Wikipedia_-_Ireland_in_WWI_Editathon_Feb_2015

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Meeting Minutes-4 February 2015
by Shannon Eichelberger 07 Feb '15

07 Feb '15

Meeting Minutes-4 February 2015 Attendees: Shannon Eichelberger (SE) Eugene Eichelberger (EE) Clem McGann (CM) Sharon Flynn (SF) Rebecca O’Neill (RO) Joseph Quinn (JQ) Bryan McClure (BM) We welcomed a new member, Bryan McClure, to the group User Group As a result of the hacking of wikilovesmonuments.ie Google is now marking info@wikilovesmonuments as spam. The easiest way to get around this is to created an email that is hosted by Google. The cost is €4 per month to be covered by EE until we have external funding WLM Report has been accepted by the grants committee. It can be viewed here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_Ireland_Community/Wiki…>. To request to use the remaining funds we need to file another grant proposal within the next 30 days. SE will file the grant The USer Group Agreement has been amended. RO and SE will sign on behalf of the group Edit-a-thons Engineers Ireland-8 February-Currently 14 are registered on Eventbrite. RO sent out a press release for event WWI/Collins Barracks-14 February-RO will send out press release on Monday. JQ will put up flyers at Trinity and put it out on the Trinity mailing list Cochrane Collaboration reached out to us via WIkimedia UK to run a training session at their symposium on 23-24 April 2015. SE will reach out to the Cochrane contact Irish Design is advertising an edit-a-thon in Limerick in December. RO will reach out to the organisers to see if they need support Writing Centre at NUIG-they would like to run the event in two stages: an evening session as an intro to Wikipedia and then the edit-a-thon at a later date. SF would like to help run the event but needs support. SE and EE will put together a resource pack. SE has also said she will travel to Galway to help run the event if necessary Conferences DRI Digital Conference-RO has put in proposal for talk Education SF will edit education Outreach Page to update the contact info. EE and SE will then update with event info Other Events PubhD-RO is starting a group to present PhD research in the pub atmosphere. The group discussed whether this could be aligned with the work we are doing (outreach, education, ect). In principle we agreed to co-sponsor events and use them to recruit Misc UCC Volunteers-JQ is creating a database. Will contact UCC about creating a Wikipedia page for the project The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 10 February 2015 in Dublin. If you would like to attend, either in person or via Google Hangouts, please send an email to wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com

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