You can view the minutes from the meeting on 16 November below. The working
group will be taking a break from meetings for the month of December. We
will resume again in January 2017.
Happy Holidays to you all!
Meeting Minutes-16 November 2016
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Kelly Fitzgerald (KF)
Brian McKenzie (BM)
Gabriel Beecham (GB)
User Group
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Simple APG-RO and SE have a meeting with the WMF representative about
this grant on 29 November. The following changes have been made to the
budget and schedule for 2017:
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Budget
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Reduced to just over €58,000
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Includes funds for 1 FTE and 2 short term contract positions
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FTE to focus on outreach and education
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Contractors to clean up dirty data for WLM and to run WLE
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Schedule
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We are planning the following:
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5 training workshops
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5 meetups/social meetings
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Attend/present at 2 conferences
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Wiki Conference 2017-The group needs to choose a representative by 8
January.
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GB was contacted by an Irish Language radio station to talk about
Vicipéid over the next 2-3 weeks.
Workshops
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HSTM Workshop-12 November-As it was a lunch meeting, it became more of a
Q&A than a workshop. RO made several contacts in DCU and the HTSM Network.
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NUI Maynooth -BA is overseeing 1st year University students working with
Wikipedia. Mostly adding references, links, ect. Currently they have 351
editors
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Upcoming Events
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UCD-23 November-O’Brien Science Ctr-9-12
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91 students expected and is open to the public
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Subjects covered-basic Wikipedia editing, uploading images to
Commons, and moving information from the Sandbox to the articles
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NUI Galway-Neuroscience Project-SF was contacted about 14 Masters
students using the Education Extension to work with Wikipedia.
SF will ask
for admin rights on the extension.
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NUI Maynooth-International Women’s Day-8 March 2017-All Day drop-in
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NUI Galway-Possible International Women’s Day workshop-8 March 2017
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Trinity College, Dublin-possible Library event in 2017
Conferences
No news.
WLM
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Awards Celebrations to take place on 22 November at 7pm in Dublin.
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SE and RO have heard back from several of the winners, some of whom will
be attending.
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RO has lined up 4 judges for the writing contest. They should have the
winners by the end of the month. It was agreed that the draft article for
Patrick Whelan will be eligible.
Misc
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No news.
--Shannon Eichelberger
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