Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Steering Committee/2012-04-04

Attending

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  • Donald Albury (OA)
  • Christopher Cheney (CA)
  • Tom Fish (OA)
  • Richard Knipel (CA/RA)
  • Swaroop Rao (OA)
  • Jami Matheson(WMF)
Guests

Discussion Topics

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  • May Elections
    • Up for Election: Chris (CA), Donald (OA), Richard (Open Spot), Piotr (Open Spot)
      • As Donald is retiring - agrees to handle election process
    • Tentative Schedule:
      • Request for nominations sent out 2nd-3rd week of April
      • Nominations will remain open 7-10 days
      • Voting period will last 7-10 days (roughly ending start of May)
      • New Members join next meeting 2nd? week of May
  • Revisit Journal Idea
    • Noticed that [1] was proposed, similar to past ideas, will need to keep an eye on it.
    • per Jan, Daniel Mietchen might work with Piotr's idea - may need to wait till WikiMania ([2]) since it is being discussed there.
      • Jan will continue to be liaison on this, although Richard will be the second point person.
  • Online Ambassador Recruitment
    • Agreement on getting site-notices up, potentially geo-localized near current schools? Will also need to officially post a notice on the appropriate places (signpost, talk pages (student pages as well?), GEP,...) to try and bring in more people.
      • Max/Jami will be the point person
    • Adding questions regards plagiarism - agreed on 3 questions to be added to OA application:
      • How would you make sure your students were not violating Copyright laws?
      • If one of your students had an issue with Copyright Violation how would resolve it?
      • In your own words describe what Copyright Violation is.
  • Signpost Update
    • Going well but only focusing on bi-weekly till we get more content.
  • Future Re-Org Meeting
    • Looking for roughly 20 people to participate in early summer in SF or NYC? (Exact date will not be same time as Wikimania)
      • Prelim discussion will be on-wiki, to help get ideas into the pot, final number of folks in the room TBA depending on schedules/interest
      • Will need to coordinate with tabled talks from conferences & wmf affairs end of june/early july
    • Email will be sent out Monday with more precise details, but focus will be on long-term strategy / project organization
      • Will also need to firm up how to "train" Online Ambassadors in a more formal way -> alot will need to go on-wiki and combined with Professor Aid?
    • Bottom line, WMF is trying to hand-off most of the remaining responsibility back to the community - transition period will probably last through Dec 2012?
  • Recap IRC OA Chat
    • Biggest takeaways are we need more formal training, and to really make roles and responsibilities more explicit instead of the current more laissez-faire - Jami will send a more defined list on Monday as she had to head to the airport
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academical_Village
    • A few minor updates - waiting on Education Extension to go fully live to launch
      • Do need to port over last few pages, but partly waiting on...
      • [[3]] still in Beta
        • Keyholdback is GUI - worst case ready Q3 2012 - may depend on Jeroen?
        • Current Schedule? [4]
    • Consensus is extension may take a while, so best to launch early, may coordinate with NYPL efforts?