Meeting Minutes-18 November 2014

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Sabina Bonnici (SB)

User Group

No objection to new name so far

Planning Session for 2015 will take place on 1 December 2014 at 1:30pm in Dublin. Location still to be determined

SE will put out a call to translate the Meta page on the mailing list

Wiki Loves Monuments

SB sent all of the judges prizes except one

SB will update the press page on the WLM website and provide links to the international press page

SE sent the participant prizes out today. Notification was put on the talk pages of the last 2 winners to contact us by 5 January 2014

SB will send the semi final list to DAHG

SE will look into Wiki Data to see if it would be useful for the monument data

SB and EE will set up a meeting with DAHG

Edit-a-Thons

UCD-workshop went very well. Many of the pages were well fleshed out. SE and RO invited to the open house for the project in a few weeks

Collins Barracks/WWI-room booked for 6 December. RO will look into possible speakers

Cork-Oliver is in talks with Cork Library about monthly drop-in events to learn about Wikipedia

Education

EE applied to present at CESI conference on February 2015 in Galway

Misc

SB attended Open Data Meet-up-mostly just a recap of activities over the last year

Package of cheatsheets/books arrived from UK (thanks!)

The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 27 November  @ 6pm. If you would like to attend the meeting via Google Hangouts send an email to wikimediaireland@gmail.com.