Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting/2 June 2020

WMZA Board Meeting - 2 June 2020

The committee was established to clarify why "Wiki Indaba"?
Idea from Felix Nartley
To increase African languages presence
To assist African organizers that want their own events
Bobby has been our representative
Bobby would like to stand again if possible, would not like to stand for a third time
Adri nominates Rossouw for a secondary position if possible to learn the process
Bobby seconds this
We should reply to the mail regarding this

Rossouw will mail her regarding date/details.
Suggestion from Douglas for two weeks from now
Michael also willing to assist
Proposal from Douglas to give an introductory crash course, and then perhaps pair users off with Rossouw and Michael

Burgert created his 6000th article for the Afrikaans Wiki recently (6.59% of all Afrikaans Wikipedia articles :) ) WHAT A LEGEND
Deon's proposal to gift him something in the range of R500 for his contributions
Adri's proposal for a gift basket from Netflorist
Proposal from Wynand to put up Burgert's achievement on our website and social media

Rossouw declined Pappa's offer to become a Wikipedian in residence for the Moleskine Foundation
Rossouw proposed Adri, or a referral from the board. Will probe him about this

Rossouw to mail the second batch of proposed translators
Recommendation to set up a Memorandum of Understanding between WikimediaZA and Moleskine Foundation
Broader discussion
Need Community Liaison person to talk to
Community
Partners
Work with other entities
Douglas point person
Sit down and develop structure for community support towards enablement
Date: 2 weeks from now - 18th and 21st of June - 6:00PM
Homework: Write down any steps towards creating order and structure, specifically from Wikimedia Boards training and meetings with other Chapters.

Wynand and Bobby to reach out to potential champions that would like to be Champions for their African language and potentially train their students to be editors.

Formal report to be collated and submitted
LIASA #1Lib1Ref champions
WhatsApp group - 30 Librarians
Training sessions
Douglas to write letter to Nikki Crowster (LIASA President) cc Ingrid Thomson in thanks for support to Wikipedia development? Wynand to send Douglas an email with the details so that he can send the thank you email.

Douglas has been asked to create a strategy to help facilitate design articles. Goal: to get more high quality art articles.