Meeting Minutes-4 August 2015

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

User Group

Survey-RO contacted WMF and the South African Chapter for guidance on developing a survey to send out to our users. WMF has a survey question bank. We just need to decide what we want to learn. Some of the questions we will ask include general demographics, knowledge and use of Vicipéid, what activities they are interested in attending, knowledge of the group and our activities. RO will look at the survey bank and see if she can develop a survey for us.

Edit-a-thons

No News

Conferences

Valetta, Malta-October-RO has confirmed her attendance. She will presenting a paper comparing the two years of WLM.

Python Talk-12 August-EE is giving a lightning talk about WLM at the monthly Python meetup

WLM

Grants-the DAHG grant has been submitted. SE will submit the WMF grant this week.

RO will create an invite for the launch on 29 August.

Other Events

Meetup-We didn’t have a good turnout. It was decided by the group that we would attend other group’s meetings to try to recruit instead of holding our own.

UCD-RO was contacted by a professor in UCD for help running a Wikipedia module in the autumn. RO is investigating the use of the Education Extension.

Irish Year of Design-RO was contacted by a professor at University of Limerick about running a Wikipedia module focused on the Year of \design. They are also keen to run a hack-a-thon in October or November.

RO heard back from WIkipedia Library will some helpful advice. They will be joining one of our next meetings to discuss it further.

The next meeting will take place on 11 August at 6:30pm in Dublin. If you would like to attend, either in person or via Google Hangouts, please send an email to wikimediaireland@gmail.com