User:Aude/Meetup Notes

Chapter business

  • 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

User: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

Controversial topics

User: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

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