Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting/18 June 2019
Wikimedia ZA Board meeting - 18 June 2019
[edit]Attendance
[edit]- Michael Graaf
- Ian Gilfillan
- Rossouw
- Coenraad
- Adri Baard
- Bobby Shabangu
Apologies
[edit]- Deon Steyn
- Douglas
Agenda
[edit]Previous minutes
[edit]Wiki Loves Africa 2019 - Report
[edit]- Completed: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019_South_Africa
- Winners to be announced and contacted by the end of this month (June)
Survey for Wikipedia ZA
[edit]- Been some email discussion
Wikimania Scholarships
[edit]- Douglas and Bobby going
- Judges - David Richfield, Dumisane, Martin (German chapter)
- Number of applications
- Ian will send out more reminders closer to time
Hackathon update
[edit]- Dragging out, making things complicated, may be better off doing ourselves
- Also problems with phone conference
- Sentech wants to follow the manual to the letter, including server setup - Coenraad offered help, Michael and Coenraad will discuss
- Reuben has got involved too which is great
Afrikaans Wikipedia
[edit]- R500 token award for person making the 2 millionth edit
- Surprise
- 1700 edits away from 2 millionth edit
- Initial support, but then discussion about conflict of interest, some knowing about the prize in advance and others not
- There will be social media posts afterwards to recognise this milestone, Adri will coordinate
- Agreed that those who are aware of it are not eligible
Events
[edit]Madrid
[edit]- Douglas needs to report back
Cape Town Meetup
[edit]- Ian, Douglas, Adri, Michael attended, approx 10 attendees, 10:00-14:00
- Good meetup, another one in early July - meetup.com account managed by Reuben
- https://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-ZA/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Cape_Town/Cape_Town_16
- Next one: July 7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Cape_Town/Cape_Town_17
Goethe Institute
[edit]- Bobby met with them in Berlin. Bobby presented along with German chapter, GI wants to integrate ?
- GI will provide with venue, catering and internet for workshops
- Expressed interest in sponsoring attendees to Wikimania. Too late for this year, request to be asked in time for future years
- There were no attendees from Cape Town center, but same applies.
- Coenraad: Can we need to send them an official thank you letter? - Yes, as a chapter. Bobby to draft letter, and ask for Cape Town contact person.
Puku
[edit]- No followup yet, Bobby still tying to confirm a date
Rhodes - June 28 - July 2
[edit]- Deon attending
- Rossouw' was due to attend, but flights from Namibia too expensive (R8500), unfortunately we cannot afford. Bobby has volunteered to go.
- Friday meeting with Wynand(?) to confirm schedule (Bobby, Deon and Douglas - Bobby will forward email)
- Whitelist IP, create dashboard, track new members
- Meeting on Friday
Climate Change workshop
[edit]- date has changed, now 6-8 August https://cdkn.org/2019/05/news-participate-in-africas-first-ever-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-on-climate-change/?loclang=en_gb
- Expecting ~30 researchers to attend. Focused around species under threat.
- Ian, Reuben and Michael expressed interest, others welcome
Communication and social media channels, infrastructure
[edit]- Twitter: 1407 followers -> 1414
- Facebook (Afrikaans): 309 members -> 308
- Facebook (English): 957 follows (904 likes) -> 962 (908)
- Instagram 110 Followers
- Mailing list (Afrikaans): 312 members. Suspect most are fake, aol addresses, no valid activity for years -> 312
- Mailing list (English): 284 members -> 284
- Meetup: 85 members -> 92
- Youtube: 47 subscribers -> 47
- Zulip: 13 users -> 13
Next Meeting
[edit]- Tue 02 July 7pm