Meeting Minutes-16 November 2016

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Kelly Fitzgerald (KF)

Brian McKenzie (BM)

Gabriel Beecham (GB)

User Group

• Simple APG-RO and SE have a meeting with the WMF representative about this grant on 29 November. The following changes have been made to the budget and schedule for 2017:

• Budget

• Reduced to just over €58,000

• Includes funds for 1 FTE and 2 short term contract positions

• FTE to focus on outreach and education

• Contractors to clean up dirty data for WLM and to run WLE

• Schedule

• We are planning the following:

• 5 training workshops

• 5 meetups/social meetings

• Attend/present at 2 conferences

• Wiki Conference 2017-The group needs to choose a representative by 8 January.

• GB was contacted by an Irish Language radio station to talk about Vicipéid over the next 2-3 weeks.

Workshops

• HSTM Workshop-12 November-As it was a lunch meeting, it became more of a Q&A than a workshop. RO made several contacts in DCU and the HTSM Network.

• NUI Maynooth -BA is overseeing 1st year University students working with Wikipedia. Mostly adding references, links, ect. Currently they have 351 editors

• Upcoming Events

• UCD-23 November-O’Brien Science Ctr-9-12

• 91 students expected and is open to the public

• Subjects covered-basic Wikipedia editing, uploading images to Commons, and moving information from the Sandbox to the articles

• NUI Galway-Neuroscience Project-SF was contacted about 14 Masters students using the Education Extension to work with Wikipedia. SF will ask for admin rights on the extension.

• NUI Maynooth-International Women’s Day-8 March 2017-All Day drop-in

• NUI Galway-Possible International Women’s Day workshop-8 March 2017

• Trinity College, Dublin-possible Library event in 2017

Conferences

No news.

WLM

• Awards Celebrations to take place on 22 November at 7pm in Dublin.

• SE and RO have heard back from several of the winners, some of whom will be attending.

• RO has lined up 4 judges for the writing contest. They should have the winners by the end of the month. It was agreed that the draft article for Patrick Whelan will be eligible.  

Misc

• No news.