Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting/28 May 2019
Wikimedia ZA Board meeting - 28 May 2019
[edit]Attendance
[edit]- Adri
- Douglas
- Ian
- Michael
- Coenraad
- Bobby
Apologies
[edit]- Deon
- Raymond
Agenda
[edit]Previous minutes
[edit]- Wiki Loves Africa - Adri's internal report 90% done, social media followup done
- Wikimania 2019 - Bobby and Douglas were to follow up on selecting judges, no feedback yet, Douglas to follow up
Application for funding progress.
[edit]- Largely done, Douglas signed docs a few days ago
- Few more details needed around KZN roadshow
- Bobby confirms its a repeat of last-years figures
- Expected funds arrive beginning of June
- Bobby and Douglas together to complete details
Bobby going to Germany for a Goethe institute conference
[edit]- Bobby attended Goethe Institute's AGM
- They were looking to better align better with outside organisations, WMZA was only one present
- Bobby presented there on Decolonising the Internet (Wikimania presentation)
- Goethe asked Bobby to repeat presentation in Germany - focus on inclusion and diversity, how we view the internet
- Bobby presenting in Berlin on Tuesday next week
- Bobby planning to blog on experience
- Douglas will be in Berlin the week after, offers to do any followups if needed
Survey for Wikipedia ZA
[edit]- Need for this, especially post Wikimania
- Dougas ran previous survey (2015), has sent out email to contact person (2/3 months ago), hasn't heard back yet
- Query about Google form
- Douglas prefers WMF's professional survey tool, better analytics
- Previous survey results at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Infographic-WMZA_survey_results_2015.png
- Douglas to follow up, needs to find new WMF contact person
Communication and social media channels, infrastructure
[edit]- We are still hosting with 1-grid, fees paid annually in advance, so no pressing need to change right now
- Can look at this closer to the end of our contract (Oct/Nov)
- Twitter: 1407 followers
- Facebook (English): 957 follows (904 likes)
- Mailing list (Afrikaans): 312 members. Suspect most are fake, aol addresses, no valid activity for years
- Facebook (Afrikaans): 309 members
- Mailing list (English): 284 members
- Meetup: 85 members
- Youtube: 47 subscribers
- Zulip: 13 users
Hackathon update
[edit]- Sentech have come on board, broadcasting Wikipedias (part of the unused frequency will be used to send out offline files - Kiwix/Sentech)
- All on track, should have date soon
Events
[edit]- Douglas going to Madrid for advocacy conference (no agenda yet)
- Rhodes university event, Deon and Rossouw both confirmed, intros done, will be in early July
- Cape Town Meetup happening 2 June, R1500 snacks budget approved
- Bobby and Dumi have met Puku, a followup Puku event to be organised. Puku wanted to go big with training their writers - will start small with edit workshop. Bobby to followup
- 1 lib 1 ref good feedback, going ahead on own steam
Next Meeting
[edit]- Tue 11 June 7pm