WALRUS/August 2012
Appearance
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IRC meeting at #wikimedia-usconnect on August 8 at 9pm Eastern Time / 6pm Pacific Time.
Agenda
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- Wikimania meetings: WALRUS/July 2012
- Proposal for the evolution of Wikimedia chapters in the United States (multiple proposals)
- Great Name Debate
- Wiki Loves Monuments US coordination
- August and September Wiki Loves Monuments and Wikipedia Loves Libraries banners (see commons:Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/CentralNotice)
- Adding more local events to ENWP Wikipedia Takes America
- Wikipedia Loves Libraries events
- WALRUS Congress 2013- DC in Spring?
Meeting
[edit]Things that came up
[edit]- The logged nature of the meetings
- The log is never publicly published
- Introductions of new members of the meetings
- The regions
- There was an agreement that they needs to be nuked at started over from scratch
- Some didn't think that such overhead was necessary
- some didn't think that the US should be carved up before organic chapters start
- It was mentioned that we shouldn't talk about voices before there are people to represent
- The number of votes/country
- We shouldn't give up votes without being asked was the agreement
- Regional Noticeboards Were sent up
- Organize events, improve communication, ect.
- There was a call to cut down on speculation
- The name of our body
- WALRUS
- US Chapters Congress
- US Chapters Federation
- US Chapters Council
- US Alliance
- Wiki loves Monuments / Wiki Takes America
- New England is trying to plan an event for open access week
- There is a call to independently take photos that week
- Beware of trespassing laws
- http://wikilovesmonuments.us/
- There was discussion of the use of Wordpress
- The site will need to be reenforced
- There was discussion of Copyright issues
- There was an agreement not to do anything special to weed out copyvios
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America
- There will be an smart phone app
- The jury list is out https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Register_of_Historic_Places&pe=1&#WLM-US_jury
- there is a mailing list
- There will be community voting to narrow the images that the jury sees down
- Prizes
- IPad?
- Free copy of Linux?
- scholarship for Wikimania?
- a camera?
- Working groups
- Large meetings produce little real work
- 5 people or so
- In person meeting
- When?
- March or April
- Location
- DC (pending)
- Othere cities/ares were proposed including: Texas, Pittsburgh, Boston, NYC, Alaska, McMurdo, and Bangor
- DC (pending)
- When?
- A call to end silly names
Attendees
[edit]- Pharos (talk · contribs)
- Guerillero (talk · contribs)
- Varnent (talk · contribs)
- Sven Manguard (talk · contribs)
- Aude (talk · contribs)
- Jeremyb (talk · contribs)
- Bob The Wikipedian (talk · contribs)
- Matthew A Roth (talk · contribs)
- Ragesoss (talk · contribs)
- Krill (talk · contribs)
- Ktr101 (talk · contribs)
- Blur (talk · contribs)
- Yume Hikari (talk · contribs)
- Dmcdevit (talk · contribs)
- Djembayz (talk · contribs)
- Soap (talk · contribs)
- Slowking (talk · contribs)