You can view the minutes from the meeting on 16 November below. The working group will be taking a break from meetings for the month of December. We will resume again in January 2017.

Happy Holidays to you all!

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

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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

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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

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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

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No news.

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