Chapter business
edit- WM NYC is almost ready to file non-profit status, in ~2 weeks, consulted with pro-bono lawyer
- Wikipedia Day! WM NYC is organizing something...
- WikiPop at Brooklyn Museum, did it on their own! They also want help with their article about the Brooklyn Museum.
- Wikipedians in Residence program by Liam Wyatt, interest from other institutions now
- Public policy campus ambassadors program; for students, instead of doing a term paper, students can work on Wikipedia articles.
- User:DGG was at Princeton, trying to recruit faculty but what they want to do does not fit in with public policy in a narrow sense; they want to work on political philosophy, but could be run in parallel. Problem is to find appropriate topics / articles for students;
- First need to teach people about Wikipedia, then be available to answer questions (online ambassadors).
- WMF is thinking about what to do next year, will know better after first term.
- Faculty have trouble with the editing interface.
- Project to rate articles, established editors are rating articles more poorly/critically
- WMF fundraiser recently, WM NYC was invited!
- WM NYC represents only 5% of NYC area editors
- Internship program and workspace
- coworking space
- more funding, more interns/applications this year
- nycwiki.org, met with small group of people in Harlem
- what's appropriate info for the wiki, what are people looking for. it has factual, historical info, but what about current issues (e.g. 3-1-1 issues)? not far into the project to know or decide.
- how to make the wiki more usable? template folding features, etc.
- need help from mediawiki-savvy folks on technical tasks
- nyc is the only chapter in america... dc wants to formalize the group, as a chapter? or what? how to strike the right balance between autonomy and combining strengths
- communication happens on #wikimedia-northeast IRC channel
- would like to revive the wikimedia-us mailing list
- there's also a #wikimedia-us IRC channel, but it redirects to #wikimedia-chapters which is totally inactive
- wikipedia takes manhattan, run the event again
- future meetup location
- company (?) has small conference room, will let us it, have a small computer lab for teaching classes, located in Manhattan, downtown
- symposium restaurant near columbia will let us use meeting room, as long as we eat dinner there too.
- need to have some meetups on sunday
- CUNY - do some outreach, event there
Fundraising
editUser:Jamesofur (James Alexander) speaking:
- Goal is $16 million, double from last year
- Fundraiser not so popular w/ Wikipedians last year
- Size of average donation might be smaller this year, but ...
- This year, we are testing each Thursday afternoon
- need to earn $10k an hour, only time it's worked is with Jimmy on the banner (text appeal, "please read... from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales)
- mission-oriented messages were not popular, people got suspicious
- Community involvement on meta-wiki, and there is the #wikimedia-fundraising IRC channel.
GLAM outreach
edit- WP:GLAM/SI
- Alexis Rockman - article collaboration
- User:Aude/FedFlix
- Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_12
- mw:Hack-A-Ton DC
Controversial topics
editUser:Chaoticfluffy speaking:
- for text, we are okay
- for images, commons start enforcing educational scope requirements
- study presented to the board, some points the board members agree, some they disagree
- DGG: where do we agree on what's culturally acceptable?
- DGG: much better approach, duplicate and unnecessary images