WALRUS/February 2019

WALRUS is a monthly online meeting for Wikimedia community organizers in the United States to discuss and collaborate on events and outreach of national interest.

Join the pan-USA Wikimedia local activists' chat on Monday February 11 2019 at 6:00 PM Pacific / 9:00 PM Eastern.

Zoom videoconference information

Getting set up with Zoom

• We will use a meeting tool called Zoom instead of Google Hangouts. Please sign up for an account on www.zoom.us and then take a look at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362033-Getting-Started-on-PC-and-Mac
• Note that Zoom provides a telephone interface and that the Zoom software applications are proprietary. Use the telephone interface if you want more privacy and freedom.

How to join the meeting

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Chromebook or Android:

https://zoom.us/j/248280924

One tap mobile

+16468769923,,248280924# US (New York)

14086380968,,248280924# US (San Jose)

Dial by your location

+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)

+1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose)

+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

Meeting ID: 248 280 924

Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/avRO9uO9q

Chair & secretary for this month

• Meeting host for Zoom: Pharos
• Meeting chair: Pharos (or another volunteer)
• Meeting secretary for minutes: TBD

Agenda

• Introductions
• Rapid grants for February (can submit up to Feb 15)
• Black WikiHistory Month editathons
• Art + Feminism editathons
• Voting reminders
  • Vote for 2019 steward
    • post support for anything good, do not feel committed to review everything in entirety before voting
    • Right now!
    • Stewards/Elections 2019
  • Vote for Commons Picture of the Year
    • Right now!
    • commons:Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2018
  • Vote for Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
    • Affiliate-selected board seats
    • Affiliate-selected Board seats/2019
    • In a few months, but start discussing!
• Model for meetups
  • en:WP:Meetup
  • Rubric for guiding what event organizers should request before committing to a meetup
• Wikiconference North America 2019 alternatives
• WMF and Google
• Wikidata update(s)
• Please check out WALRUS, a site redesign of Wikimedia United States Coalition
  • Controversy: name "WALRUS" versus name "Wikimedia United States Coalition"
    • Argument for Wikimedia United States Coalition
      • Sounds corporate
      • Aligns with corporate interests, like universities and museums
    • Argument for WALRUS
      • Walruses live in the United States
      • animal
      • the organization was founded as WALRUS in 2012 and has used the name since
  • Use WALRUS as landing page?
• Rotating presidency of usergroups for WALRUS calls (next call on Monday March 11!)
• Add your agenda items!

Notes

• Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Walrus_rolling_notes