Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting/28 April 2020

Wikimedia ZA Board Meeting - 28 April 2020 18h30 - 19h30

Attended

• Ian
• Wynand
• Michael
• Deon
• Coenraad
• Douglas

Agenda

1. Support for the smaller SA language Wikipedias
2. Support for the Afrikaans Wikipedia
3. Finances
4. Going over the 2020 grant application
5. Followup on Stategy session
6. Previous minutes

Going over the 2020 grant application

• The only point covered this meeting was going over the grant submission,
• Due 1 May 2020
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple/Applications/Wikimedia_South_Africa/2020

Communication and social media channels, infrastructure

From 15 April to 28 April:

• Twitter: 1561 followers -> 1564
• Facebook (English): 978 follows (896 likes) -> 978 (895)
• Facebook (Afrikaans): 640 members -> 639
• Mailing list (Afrikaans): 314 members. Suspect most are fake, aol addresses, no valid activity for years -> 314
• Mailing list (English): 268 members -> 268
• Instagram 159 Followers -> 164
• Meetup: 124 members -> 125
• Youtube: 51 subscribers -> 51
• Zulip: 25 users -> 25