Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting/16 January 2019
WMZA Board Meeting
Present edit
- Adri Baard
- Bobby Shabangu
- Coenraad Loubser
- Douglas Scott
- Ian Gilfillan
- Michael Graaf
- Raymond Ellis
- Rossouw van Rooyen
Agenda edit
Wikipedia's birthday User Oesjaar edit
Suggestions
- Biltong package (Who?)
- Tweet (Ian)
- Was mentioned in a FB post
- Personal call
- Find a list of local users
- Website post (Douglas)
- Douglas proposes Deon co-opted on to board
- Adri seconds, all in agreement
Brief on Zulip/jitsi edit
- Some points of difficulty raised - integration, especially with GOogle, notifications
- Zulip does allow control over notifications, will stick with it and use more extensively to test, dealing with problems as they arise
Survey for 2019 edit
- 5 years since last survey
- Questions can be mostly the same
- Douglas hoping to see April - May - June period (same as last time for comparison purposes)
- Requires liaising with WMF
- Douglas to initiate
Bquest administrators edit
Separate meeting to be set up to go through the proposed tasks and subsequent costs
Progress on APG application edit
- Bobby and Douglas met with WMF to discuss stumbling block, Joburgpedia
- WMF cannot give us grant until Joburgpedia is closed. Still unanswered questions about finances, expenses, what money was left
- Dispute is on how much is owed to WMF. Douglas believed it was closed. WMF expects $1779. Dumi thinks it is less, perhaps even $0. Dumi needs to sit with WMF
Afrikaans writing contest brief edit
- Douglas impressed by impact as shown by dashboard:
- https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_ZA/Afrikaans_Writing_Competition
Question about user from Elandskop Museum edit
- Request for laptop and camera
- suggestion to refer to 2nd hand goods program
- Coenraad has a donated laptop he fixed; will also look for local sponsors, an opportunity to do a small project, and get some articles up?
- Ask Dumi for the laptops he has
- Bobby: Have to ensure that she contributes free content - we have a long list of people waiting for laptops, who contribute to free content
- Adri to request user names so we can look up contribution history
20 mins Paybook demonstration edit
- Meeting adjourned to have 20m demo by Paybook
Did not have time for further items