WALRUS/April 2012

IRC meeting at #wikimedia-us^connect on April 11 at 9pm Eastern Time / 6pm Pacific Time.

Agenda

• Share advertising strategies for in-person meetup

• Talkpage spam, geonotices, user categories, wikiprojects, etc

• Plan Meetup at Wikimania

• wm2012:WALRUS Congress

• (perhaps off topic) In Campus Ambassador program there is currently no system for handling complaints about OAs and CAs. Does anyone want to get involved? See Outreach Wikimedia
• Wiki Loves Monuments

• commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 in the United States
• w:Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places
• Berlin discussion
• Any good candidates for WLM-USA Grand High Coordinator?

• Recent Wikimedia Conference 2012 in Berlin
• Setting up banners for Great American Wiknic in June
• Founding Wikimedia New England General Meeting on Apr 22, Wikimedia Midwest idea and Wikimedia Cascadia stirrings
• Wikipedia Loves Libraries Berlin session, Wikipedia Loves Libraries
• GLAM-Wiki updates and an appeal to please add yourself as Online Volunteers on the new GLAM:US/Connect page.
• Wiki Travel Guide / Wikilocal possibilities?

Meeting

Things that came up

• Looking at forming additional chapters in the US
  • New England
    • There is a meeting in a few weeks with interested people and representatives from WM-DC and WM-NYC
  • The Midwestern US/Chicago/Great Plains
  • Pacific North West (Cascadia) - contact user:Bluerasberry to discuss this region
    • Some feelers have been send out between Portland, Vancouver, and Seattle but nothing too formal has happened
• There was a general agreement among the people in attendance that it makes most sense to organize by region (such as Sunny Southern California!) instead of by state or city.
• Wiki Loves Monuments USA (WLM USA)
  • At the Berlin meeting, the Europeans asked for there to be contact person
    • There will be a steering committee with a chair
      • Chair: Pharos (he is not entirely sure he agreed to this!)
      • Other members: TBD for Mid-Atlantic, South, Midwest, Cascadia, SoCal etc
  • The central WLM organizers have put together the list and mechanism of monuments/buildings on the NRHS
  • The idea of photo road trips and assigning people monuments was thrown around
  • Partner with WM-Canada?
• Chapter Council
  • Both NYC and DC have signed intent to join papers
  • Starts at Wikimania in DC this July
• Great American Wiknic 2.0
  • 7 July (NYC)
  • 23 June (Rest of the Country)
  • There will be a site banner
• GLAM
  • The need behind the scenes Online Volunteers to do wiki work
  • There are state pages that need to be made
  • The GLAM staffers are making headway
• Ambassador Program
  • There is a shortage of ambassadors of all stripes (Online, Campus and Regional)
• The Wikipedia Teahouse, which looks like an awesome way to smooth the path for new editors.
• outreach:LGBT
• Wikimedia Affiliates Network
• Wikipedia Loves Libraries
  • It is returning and will be worldwide
  • Coordination Mailing List
  • We hope the Libraries will sponsor events and clamor for wikipedians to come
• WALRUS Communications
  • Mailing List
  • WALRUS Congress

Attendees

• Bluerasberry (talk · contribs)
• DaveMenninger (talk · contribs)
• DGG (talk · contribs)
• Dmcdevit (talk · contribs)
• Emufarmers (talk · contribs)
• Epistemophiliac (talk · contribs)
• Gaurav (talk · contribs)
• Guerillero (talk · contribs)
• Harej (talk · contribs)
• HstryQT (talk · contribs)
• Ijon (talk · contribs)
• Jeremyb (talk · contribs)
• Jtmorgan (talk · contribs)
• Kirill Lokshin (talk · contribs)
• Peter.C (talk · contribs)
• Pharos (talk · contribs)
• PKM (talk · contribs)
• Tjf (talk · contribs)
• TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs)
• Varnent (talk · contribs)