WALRUS/January 2017

Date and time

Monday, January 30th at 6:30 PM Pacific / 9:30 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 care about your freedom.

How to join the meeting

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/103824254

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Or Telephone:

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• Meeting ID: 103 824 254
• International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=gs5iGVpTiPh0NcLdcj50O3ddFHDocjBy

Chair & secretary for this month

• Meeting host for Zoom: Kirill Lokshin
• Meeting chair: Checkingfax
• Meeting secretary for minutes: Kirill Lokshin

Agenda

• 0:00-0:15 - "One minute updates" from each chapter and user group.

Possible agenda items suggested for January meeting

• 0:15-0:25 - reports on results of Wikipedia 16 - Bluerasberry
• 0:25-0:30 - notices - March 2017 Art+Feminism events - Bluerasberry
• 0:30-0:35 - WikiConference North America 2016 survey results - Rosiestep and FloNight
• 0:35-0:40 - Wikimania 2017 is in Montreal August 9–13, 2017. US wiki people have an opportunity to propose something. - Bluerasberry
• 0:40-0:45 - WikiConference North America 2017, 2018, 2019 - let's restate intentions - Bluerasberry
• 0:45-0:50 - Addressing link rot and shifting content in Wikipedia, with a new presidential administration. WMDC to lead a collaborative discussion/event with Internet Archive, Sunlight Foundation, NARA, Wikimedia community? Explaining IA's work with Wikipedia better (blog post on IA work; recent The Outline story on broken links). - Fuzheado
• 0:50-0:55 - Andrew's Wikipedia class in DC, looking for GLAM, Wikidata or shovel-ready projects (time permitting, nonurgent)

Tabled agenda items

(If there is time at the end of the meeting, anyone can pick up one of these items for discussion)

• Website for Wikimedia US Coalition
• Health & Medicine programs
• Wiki Loves Earth and other photography competitions
• Art + Feminism
• Legal activism and civil liberties

• Privacy
• Copyright

• Freedom of panorama
• Orphaned works

• Technical developments

• QR codes
• Wikimedia mobile apps and mobile web
• Wikidata and referencing

• Government agencies and NGOs with mission alignment (ex. National Archives, state and local governments, history societies, Red Cross, Consumer Reports, UNESCO, NASA)
• Grants:IdeaLab/Cameras for Commons photographers
• GLAM-US coordination and/or "GLAM-Wiki Consortium", possibly an intern, contract, or part-time position
• Requesting the www.wikimedia.us domain from WMF
• Collaboration with public broadcasters such as PBS, NPR, and BBC America, and public-interest broadcasters such as C-SPAN

Meeting minutes

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