Talk:Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019/Meetups/CEE Wishlist

Link to etherpad

I am updating the main page, so I place here the link to ehterpad. Juandev (talk) 20:27, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

Saving text

In case the etherpad page disappears, I am leaving the list here. --Mickey Mystique (talk) 12:44, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Recollection of problems and needs

• Needs from 2016 meeting

Our problems and needs

• Wikimedia Ukraine needs more volunteers to do chapter work (to work on chapters)
• Shared knowledge (North Macedonia) - lack of volunteers, many people would like just to engage in online activites (editing)
  • Foundation is not in favor to have many paid staff members
• Kazak group needs help with a tool, which helps with changing a text from one script to another, as the guy, who was maintaining it is not available and they are in pressure of time (by their government)
• Is it possible to find funds for paid edits?
  • Answer: WMF would not grant it, due to possible conflicts in the community, but e.g. Google was paying interpreters to translate articles between languages, sometimes GLAM/educational instutions pays their personnel to contribute etc.
• We need to help newbies to overcome troubles and demovitvation during their first minutes/hours/days on wiki - the clue might be paid group of mentors, who can respond immediately
• Juan: the problem is the self-presentation of CEE, which is kind of passive, we need to work on that, that we present our activities proudly and work on common problems actively without a push

• no funding for edit-a-thons, wiki loves * (per the change of WMF grant policy not to support such activities)
• no money for travel costs - strenghtening community, cooperation, boosting new groups
• NC license of files, commons 2 for images under ND license, because many parties do not want to release under NC, but they can release under ND
• legal problems, different laws in different countries, geoblocking
• no freedom of panorama in Italy
• Turkish Wikipedia - User:Sakhalinio - Excel list of Wikidata QID + city population, need to add population statement (with year and source) to wikidata (~1000 statements)
• Turkish Wikipedia - User:Sakhalinio - Excel list of monuments with official monument ID (~15000 rows) - merge with existing Wikidata items (which might or might not have a monument ID), then create an item the ones not on Wikidata

• Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus - User:W - for presentation needs projector (not all places have projector), too expensive in Belarus (? maybe the community already has it)
• Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus - User:W - testing system for Wikiversity courses