Meeting Minutes-22 October 2014
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Clem McGann (CM)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Oliver Moran (OM)
User Group
EE looked into loading CiviCRM to the Wordpress site-Wordpress needs to be
updated and he’s not sure if the Wiki Loves Monuments theme will work with
an upgrade. It was decided to wait until the completion of the contest to
load it
Wiki Loves Monuments
There was a total of 31 monuments in the semi-final round. The judges are
due to return their final 10 by Friday 24 October
As minister Humphrey’s can’t attend it was decided that Jan O’Sullivan,
Minister for Education, will be invited. EE will craft and send the invite
Upon completion of the contest SE will do some work on the monuments list
and start to create a list of tasks for next year’s competition. Once the
list is complete it will be put on the Meta page to encourage volunteers
Edit-a-thons/Training
NUIG Event-7 November 9:00-13:00. This will be a combination
training/edit-a-thon on both English Wikipedia and Vicipéid. EE, SE, OM,
and SF will be attending. We will suggest topics around National Monuments
and the Wiki Projects pages for the participants to work on.
Collins Barracks Event-Saturday 25 October 10:00-5:30. We are not able to
speak at this event but RO will attend to fly the Wikimedia Ireland banner
and make some contacts about future edit-a-thons. SE will also try to attend
We were contacted by Fabian Tompsett from Wikimedia UK about organising an
edit-a-thon in Northern Ireland. He joined our call to discuss it. RO will
reach out to her connection in some of the Universities in NI as well as
through Royal Irish Academy. CM and SE will look into anniversaries of
events beginning in mid-January 2015 that we could build an edit-a-thon
around. SE and EE will speak to Fabian at training event in Edinburgh in
November
SF will be attending EduWiki in Edinburgh on 31 October. SE, EE, and Roy
Murray are attending the Train the Trainers event in Edinburgh 1-2
November. SE will meet with the Wikipedian in Residence at National Library
of Scotland to discuss implementing the program here. RO suggested we might
start with smaller museums before approaching the larger ones
Misc
It was agreed, after issues with Skype, that we will begin using Google
Hangouts as of next week. SE will send out the link for the Hangout 15 mins
before the start of the meeting
The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 29 October @ 6pm. If you
would like to attend the meeting via Google Hangouts send an email to
wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com.