Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/minutes 2020 05 27

This meeting[edit]

Wed May 27 12pm – 1pm Eastern Time - New York

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Attendees[edit]

Joining #1 time --Zblace (talk) 20:02, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agenda and notes[edit]

Items for every meeting

etherpad
- Take notes here during meeting
- Transfer notes from etherpad to this page after meeting
- Anyone can take notes and format them here!
Note - anyone can add to this agenda or the agenda of any future meeting!
- At start of meeting, we will move items around
- Quick items first!
- Confirm agenda at the start of the meeting!
New attendee introductions
- What do you do as a Wikimedian in Residence?
- What organizational support do you want?
Media featuring Wikimedians in Residence

This meeting

onboarding new WiR? and WiR self-documentation?
redesign
- post latest meetup or news to this project's main page at Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network
- previously, next meetups were posted at Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/meetups
- now, meeting notes are at Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/reports
- now, new page at Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/showcase, please link to any description of your project
new documentation drafts
- Wikimedian in residence/program deliverables (from bluerasberry)
- Wikimedian in residence/Wikimedia project endorsement (from bluerasberry)
- request feedback please
proposal: Wikimedia Social Suite
- situation - more people organizing online activities with third party tools
- proposal: Wikimedia Social Suite is a central page presenting all these tools
- Criteria to list
  - Must have the purpose of directly improving social coordination for developing Wikimedia projects
  - installed on Wikimedia servers (which has its own criteria, like being free and open)
  - available for general use and not by special permission
- Possible tools to include
  - Mailing lists/Administration, uses mw:Mailman (mailing list)
  - Volunteer Response Team, uses OTRS (ticket management)
  - Wikimedia Meet, uses Jitsi (video chat)
  - Etherpad (collaborative text editing)
  - SecurePoll (natively developed?) (voting)
  - Programs & Events Dashboard (natively developed?) (event registration)
  - Wudele (scheduling)
  - absent - "project page template", such as for setting up Wikimedian in Residence program setup on Meta-Wiki
    - Could be modeled after this WREN page?
WikiConference North America 2020
- if at all this year, online, around October 2020
- Does this group wish to commit to contribute to planning a session?
- example contributions:
  - pre-recorded talks from any individuals, of any length
  - organizing a live presentation
  - organizing a talk, whether live or asynchronous
- no one is certain how online Wikipedia events should work
- report to WikiConference North America if interested
June is LGBT month in the United States
- en:Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride/2020
- d:Wikidata:WikiProject LGBT
2030 Movement Brand Project - update from John Cumming the brand liaison