Meeting Minutes-28 July 2015
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
User Group
Titles-It was agreed at the previous meeting that the working group members
should have titles. At this meeting the following titles were agreed upon
SE-Chair
RO-Deputy Chair/Community Liaison
EE-Deputy Chair/Special Projects
SF-Education Outreach Officer
Edit-a-thons
No news
Conferences
Wikimania-RO wrote a post outlining what she learned at Wikimania 2015 and
posted it on our Meta page. You can read it here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Community_Ireland#Wikimania_…>.
We discussed several of her observations in detail and made plans to put
them into practice.
Surveys-It was agreed that we would develop a survey to send out to our
mailing list and also through a banner ad on WIkipedia. This survey will
give us a better idea of the level of activity in Ireland and what our
members want from the User Group. RO will move forward with her contacts on
this.
Wikipedia Library-This can be used in Ireland to create a list of freely
accessible resources for writing Wikipedia articles. We might also look
into creating a community library of source materials. RO will contact the
WIkipedia Library developers.
Wikipedia Anniversary-we have decided it would be more appropriate for the
group to commemorate the founding of WikiProject Ireland which took place
on 15 September 2006.
Endangered Languages-the Armenian chapter runs wiki-camps to encourage
editing in the western Armenian language. This could be adapted for use
with Vicipéid.
100 wikidays-it was agreed that RO’s participation could become a news
article for promotion of the group.
Gender Gap-we are interested in working to close the visual gender gap
(having stock images avalible with both men and women). RO will contact the
Year of Irish Design to propose a picture-a-thon to get images of women
doing their craft work.
Facebook/Twitter postings-EE will create a BOT to automatically post Irish
Wikipedia articles to Facebook and Twitter.
Wiki Gear-It was agreed that we need more SWAG. EE will begin to get
pricing for these items.
WLM
Grants-SE will complete the Department grant by the end of this week and
the WIkipedia grant by the end of next week.
Other Events
Wiki Pints takes place tomorrow in Dublin.
The next meeting will take place on 4 August at 6:30 online. If you would
like to attend via Google Hangouts please send an email to
wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com
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Meeting Minutes-22 July 2015
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Joseph Quinn (JQ)
User Group
Domain-SE realized the website wasn’t there anymore and thought the
registration had expired. EE sent an emergency email to Wikimedia UK but no
response. RO spoke to someone from the UK at Wikimaina. They are looking
into it.
Titles-it was decided that the members of the working group should have
titles. Everyone will suggest a title for themselves and titles for
everyone else.
Edit-a-thons
No news.
Conferences
Wikimania-RO is still recovering from jet lag. She will have a fuller
report for the next meeting. Here are some of the highlights:
It was recommended that a survey be sent out to the mailing list to guage
our user base and what they would like to see us do.
RO will contact Irish Year of Design to pitch a photo workshop on
addressing the gender gap.
Ways to grow our “brand” include titles for the working group members and
defining our projects.
“Wiki Cheese”-a crowd-funded activity in France to increase the coverage of
cheese on Wikipedia. What is the Irish equivalent?
Should we charge membership fees? Both Wikimedia UK and Chile charge a
small fee.
Wiki Library project-something we would like to look into.
EE is doing a lightning talk at the Python meeting on 12 August on Wiki
Loves monuments.
EE is going to being running the Open Data monthly meetings with us as a
sponsor.
WLM
SE met with the organisers of Archeofest. We have confirmed that we will
launch the contest there. As part of the Wiki grant we will request funds
to cover the launch. We will also request PR funds from the Dept AHG just
like last year.
The international WLM team responded to our question about the Wildcard
entry. They requested that we either adapt the current template or create a
new one.
Other Events
We have organised a meetup at Stag’s Head on 29 July at 6:30 to meet some
of our members and chat over pints.
Open Government meeting-EE attended on behalf of the group. He made a few
contact with the Dept of Expense and Reform which might be useful later.
The government policy on Open Data seems positive but they are looking for
help from civic groups.
Misc
Several members of the Cascadia User Group joined our meeting to chat about
ways to grow their group. We had a very positive talk and gave them some
ideas to use.
The next meeting will take place on 28 July at 6:30pm 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-7 July 2015
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Joseph Quinn (JQ)
Emma Clarke (EC)
User Group
No new on domain name. EE will send out another email.
We now have 41 members of the meetup group. We will plan an informational
meeting/meetup for the end of July. RO will try to book Stags Head.
Edit-a-thons
PRONI-JQ is still moving forward with planning an event for early 2016. He
is also looking into working with the Dubli Jewish Museum and the Diocesan
Archive.
Conferences
Wikimania-RO is off to Wikimania in Mexico. She will present a talk at the
pre-conference and will attempted to tweet while she’s there.
Cultural Mapping-Valletta, Malta-RO is also giving a paper at this
conference in October on WLM.
WLM
SE will be meeting the coordinator from Archeofest on 16 July to discuss
the launch on 29 August.
SE sent an email to the international coordinators about starting the
contest early and a few other questions. Waiting for a response.
EE found software that we can install on our site to use for voting by the
public.
MISC
We have been contacted by DBpedia about running training for secondary
school teachers on Vicipéd. It was agreed that we will move forward.
The next meeting will take place on 22 July at 6:30pm 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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Online: Wikimedia Community Ireland
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On Twitter: @WikimediaIE <https://twitter.com/WikimediaIE>