Meeting Minutes-18 October 2017

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Brian McKenzie (BM)

Bhargav Panth (BP)

User Group

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Simple APG Grant Report-SE and RO had a meeting with WMF about the mid-point grant report. Some changes need to be made to the layout and the project stories. It was also recommended that the contests section be changed to outreach. SE and RO will work on the changes over the next few weeks and bring it back to the group for approval.

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Project Coordinator Update (RO) -

UCD Workshop-11 October-the workshop went well. The class is working on articles on Irish WOmen. The follow up workshop is on November. -

Train the Trainer-NUIG-4 Irish speakers attended the workshop. They were shown how to use Vicipéid including the newly added Sandbox. Looking into improving the citation tool and the translation dashboard. -

Meeting with DRI about 30 November workshop-the event is in conjunction with TCD and RIA. The focus will be on obsolete file formats. TCD has a recently donated collections of old computers that may be available for the workshop. RO, SE and EE will attend. -

Open Street Map meeting-21 Ocotober 11-4 at TOG-they are looking to form a User Group. RO will attend. -

TOG editing event on 25 October in conjunctions with European Maker Day.

Workshops

Upcoming Workshops

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Wiki Awareness Workshop-NUIG-20 October-SF will be running the 2nd annual Wiki Awareness workshop at NUIG. As part of it they will be uploading images to Wikimedia COmmons. 14 members of staff are currently registered -

TOG-25 October -

DRI Workshop-30 November -

UCD Workshop-22 November -

Wiki Science-November-landing page is live. The Science Gallery, Science Foundation of Ireland and Women in Science, Technology and STEM (WITS) will promote it. The prizes are donated by the Designists. There is a possible workshop for the contest in TOG during Science Week.

Possible Future Events

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Vicipéid Workshop-Galway

Conferences

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Wikipedia Conference-NUI Maynooth-June 2018-BM spoke to Dean of Teaching and Learning who has agreed to sponsor a conference on Wikipedia. It will be a one day conference focused on research into WIkipedia and it’s use in Third Level education. The call for papers will go out in November. SF and RO will help choose the papers. Currently 7 teachers in Maynooth are using Wikipedia. -

Diversity Conference-10-12 November-RO invited to attend.

WLM

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Round 1 voting under way. -

Awards ceremony-possibly held in Science Gallery

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