Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Steering Committee/2011-10-23

Attending:

  • Chris Cheney
  • Donald Albury
  • Jan eissfeldt
  • Tom Fish
  • Cindy Nelson
  • Swaroop Rao

Topics of Discussion:

  • Confirm of Election Results
    • No Opposition
  • India Update
    • Swaroop gives the committee an update of what is happening in India, and that he will be developing contacts
    • Also mentions students will be encourage to start more articles in their userspace, to help avoid some of the issues that have occured
  • Branding of Ambassador Program
    • Jan gives an overview of some of the copyright issues and brief background on German Project, for new members
    • Tom adds in some background information about Copyright being a "seven deadly sin"
    • Chris mentions that initiative is more a marketing effort for the community effort
    • Cindy suggests
      • We need a more visible Steering Committee page, will work on it for the next meeting
      • We also need a more visible timeline
      • Newsletter can we pick up what Sage used to do?
        • Tom will look into it
    • Jan will also talk to Frank in order to get more Wikimedia Foundation presence
  • Canadian Integration
    • Chris brings up background that Canadian Program was looking for support structure (Regional Ambassador & this committee handling more of their affairs)
    • General consensus that Chris will talk more with Canadian Program
  • Re-look at definition of the role of Steering Committee
    • Donald brings up topic of picking up some slack newsletter, page updates...
      • Committee agrees, that Donald will chat with user:Dcoetzee on the topic of streamlining ambassador pages
    • Cindy asks for everyone to send a rough idea set of what the committee does for purposes of new page
  • Conflicts between Community and Class needs
    • Chris brings up general topic, that AfD requests, DYK have been difficult
    • Cindy brings up that may be an information issue where Community is not 100% sure of what the project is about. At the same time, Community may not be supporting the project due to splintering our efforts (hoops to be an Ambassador/Professor...)
      • Brings up question of what Regional Ambassador duties are, should we encourage them to focus more on Campus Ambassadors then getting more classes.
    • Tom brings up issue we may need to request the Wikimedia foundation to slow down a little while resources catch up.
      • Jan will see if he can talk to Frank about general pace of expansion and general resource needs
    • Cindy brings up issue of Wikimedia losing the ball on knowing which classes are actually in the program
    • Cindy talks about more prominent banners for student articles
      • Tom mentions that making current banners, on the article itself may cause more issues than worth (ie: Community backlash)
    • All: lets table this a little, as it relates to a lot of the other topics were are talking about. We do agree that userifying a new article may make sense but it does not solve issue with editing existing articles.