Wikimedia Chapters Association/Meetings/2013-30

Purpose

• Preparation of Wikimania

Schedule

Date/Time

• Thursday, July 25th, 19:00 PM UTC

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Reports from action groups
   1. Research
   2. Peer review
   3. Voice
3. Wikimania
   1. Pre-conference (wm2013:Wikimedia Chapters Association - Organisations Seminar)
   2. Chapters Village (wm2013:Chapters Village)
4. Outreach
   1. New organisations
5. Closing

Dial-in

see Wikimedia Chapters Association/Meetings/Talkyoo

Whiteboard

http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/WCA

Attendees
On the telecon WMEE --Oop (talk) 19:00, 24 July 2013 (UTC) WM IT - Laurentius (talk) 20:52, 24 July 2013 (UTC) WMAT Manuel Schneider WM US-NYC Pharos	On Etherpad WMEE --Oop (talk) 19:00, 24 July 2013 (UTC) WM IT - Laurentius (talk) 20:52, 24 July 2013 (UTC) WMAU - Chuq (talk) 14:04, 25 July 2013 (UTC) WMAT Manuel Schneider WM US-NYC Pharos

Minutes

Reports from action groups

Research

Ziko: Michał put up a questionnaire. Status is a bit unclear. WMNL filled in the form.

Markus: WMDE is in process of filling it in

Manuel: it's quite some work, so WMAT is not done yet

Richard: yes, it's a bit of work, so it will take us longer as well

Manuel: future surveys will become easier, as one just has to adjust / add the current info

Manuel: we really should do this every year on a fixed schedules

Ziko: Chapters Manual will be handed over to Action team "Voice"

Markus: Chapters Manual is a long term project. We might raise volunteers to get involved in skimming the mailing lists for relevant input

Manuel: agree - Chapter's Manual is long-term

Charles agrees

Peer review

Markus: Fae is no longer CM. Who can take over peer review? Especially with respect to Wikimania and the workshop he proposed

Markus: can take on the moderation task, but we need experts. We could do this a s a kind of panel

Manuel: Fæ himself suggested that people from WMEE and WMAT could do this

Richard: the substitute member from NYC worked with Fae a bit on the Peer Review proposal: User:Bluerasberry

Manuel: (any chapter who has been reviewed so far)

Manuel will ask Claudia

Manuel asks for a link to this review session

Charles: http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Peer_review_for_chapters_and_thematic_organizations

Charles: if FAe is not coming in HK, he can replace him for the WK

Voice

Ziko: Chapters Manual is part of Voice, also Glossary and the Journal.

Markus: Journal is a success. Ziko does great advertising. Please go on to do so

Manuel agrees

Wikimania

Pre-Conference

Ziko: Organisation Seminar (WCAWOS). Wednesday is on a good way. Thursday is still open

Markus: Name the programmes, put in Journal, Glossary and such in the agenda. Then I can advertise this on the mailing lists

Chapters Village

Markus: Do you have ideas of what you want to talk about? Sessions?

Ziko: Preparing a slide show for WMNL. We might do something similar

Charles: for the chapter's village already indicated he will be present

http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Village#Saturday.2C_10_August

Agenda for Council Meeting

Markus: Nothing special to organize, as we do not have any internal matters. We will focus on our programmes in HongKong. Thematic work is done on Wednesday and Thursday, but outside the meeting.

Ziko: What about the name?

Manuel, Charles, Pharos: we should collect suggestions until HongKong and vote there

Manuel: agree - finding name should be done beforehand

Manuel: we could only do a vote on already selected finalists

Richard: finalists vote is good

Charles: ok, let's try to get names before HK

Manuel: sounds good

Charles: we will see if people are more interested to propose name than bashing the Visual Editor ;)

Markus: Will call for suggestions. Shall I use wikimedia-l

Charles: yes Wikimedia-l

Pharos: yes, might be a good idea

Charles: and each of us forward to local mailing list

Richard: we can do it like the logo contests

Richard: we could have a vote among the top ten or so that the community likes

Markus: Please keep in mind we have only one and an half week until Wikimania. This is too short for a long voting period. We might collect suggestions, though, and present them for voting in the meeting.

Handout

Ziko proposes we should have another handout

Manuel agrees

Markus: Shall we take the one of Wikimedia Conference and add Chapters Manual?

Ziko: yes, and also the program items where WCA CMs are involved

Outreach

New Organisations

Markus: Shall we actively approach new organisations, and who?

Ziko: That's something for Voice

Markus: We need to get a process going that links from AffCom recognition to support by WCA

EU Parliament project

Markus: Olaf proposed a project that could be endorsed by the WCA: he want's to go to the European Parliament, take pictures of the MEPs and improve their articles. Besides the fact that this adds content to Wikipedia, it also raises MEPs awareness for Wikipedia, free licenses and free knowledge. What do you think?

Richard: sounds good to me

Manuel: I am unsure, it is a content-project, while WCA is more a "meta" organisation

Markus: Yes, I agree. But we can see it as distributing organisational knowledge. In getting a few chapters together to work on this project, they will get the knowledge of how to do such projects in their countries.

Manuel is semi-convinced

Laurentius: yes, it's "meta", but it's also international. It's the only (generic) international organization we have

Richard: I think it would be good if WCA helped develop a few content projects

Richard: things like WLM perhaps

Laurentius: and I think that having international projects under the name of the WCA is good

Other

Markus: disabled moderation on wca-announce-l. We can use this for organisational issues at least until Wikimania. You all can answer to the list. It's open, public and archived. Manuel, is it archived?

Manuel: yes, it is:https://intern.wikimedia.ch/archive/wca-announce/

Closing

Meeting closes @2100UTC