Wikimedia Northern Europe/Workspace/Monthly meeting minutes, November 2019

Wikimedia Northern Europe – Monthly meeting, November 2019

Held on the 5th of November 2019 at 18:00 UTC on the Wikimedia Northern Europe Slack in the #monthly-meeting channel.

Agenda[edit]

Formalities
- Request for Topics
- Present
- Selection of moderator
Topics
- Potential funding source for climate change / Baltic Sea project
- Museum Task Force ideas
- Phabricator support group
- Misc.

Request for Topics: A Request for Topics was posted in the #monthly-meeting channel and reposted in the #announcements channel on the 29th of October at 17:06 UTC. All topics were collected and compiled at 13:41 UTC today.
Present: Ivo Kruusamägi, Nicolás Tamargo, Miku Malinen, Matthias Smed Larsen, zache, silraks
Selection of moderator: Not needed

Märt posted a link to the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region as a potential funding source.
Applying for funds from them, or anywhere else for that matter, requires some sort of project design, and we're not there yet, but it's a funding source which is directly relevant to the topic.
Nicolás asked about whether 'museum nights' existed in the different countries, it exists in Estonia, Finland, Denmark and Latvia. A science related museum night might be a good launching point.
Any lists should be at least reviewed if not put together by people working with climate science.
Importance of involving stakeholders. If we have a list of articles its easier to involve people, especially those outside the movement.
Is there another type of date or event that we can connect it to?

Test run? Maybe choose 5 articles, make a call to relevant communities and see if there's actual interest in contributing?

If we're going to do a shorter list, we should actually get in touch with experts to have a solid basis to work off of.

Matthias will get the people who showed interest together in a Slack channel and either have articles selected by next meeting or at least some idea of people to contact for suggestions regarding article topics.

Ivo would like one project idea per country. There's no hurry, but it would be great to have some small projects that can inspire further collaboration.
Basically think of projects where we can utilize each other.
Start small and slowly grow when we know who is actually interested and get things done.
Example project from Estonia: https://et.wikisource.org/wiki/Eesti_Loodusmuuseum/N%C3%A4itus/M%C3%BCstiline_%C3%BCrgmeri/ENG (if that gets translated and promoted, then it could serve as a good example to other Estonian museums)
What would be example projects from Finland, Denmark, etc? It would be great it those examples are also relevant in nearby countries.
Anyone who is interested should consider projects and relevant persons for next time.

Setting up a "Phabricator for dummies" page as a first point of entry for chapters/UGs who want to use Phabricator or just linking to already existing documentation. Maybe an overview from people who already use it and are well-versed at it.
Having a channel of communication with people who already know something about Phabricator for chapters/UGs

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help is a thing and some videos there might be useful, so we should make sure that's easy to find in the channel
Relevant people: Sebastian Berlin (WMSE developer, ask Axel to invite), Nicolás Tamargo & Märt Poder (WMEE, more beginner-level, but able to answer some questions)

A rephotography channel has been created (#rephoto), please join if you are interested in doing rephotography in your own country.
We should endeavour to have one person from each country joining each time.
We should emphazize that groups can use this meeting to ask for help with certain issues.
Next meeting is 3rd of December at 18:00 UTC.