Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Steering Committee/2011-11-16

Attending:

• Annie Lin
• Jami Mathewson
• Tom Fish
• Christopher Cheney
• Cindy Nelson
• Donald Albury
• Richard Knipel
• Piotr Konieczny

Topics of Discussion:

• Branding / Image
  • Cindy still compiling pages/subpages, working with LiAnna Davis on this
    • 1st Draft: User:Cindamuse/Workshop/Steering_Committee
    • Will have new pages for committee
    • Looking for more coordinated efforts on signposts about the successes of the program
      • May need to re-iterate that GLAAM != Ambassadors
      • Some feedback issues - contact with User:Tbayer (WMF) or Sage?
      • link: wp:Wikipedia_Signpost/About
  • Branding Efforts: Logo will come shorty, from Wikimedia
  • Newsletter revitalisation
    • Tom has access to send newsletter bot
    • Should restart soon, led by Cindy - will find our "editor"

• Conflicts between Class Needs & Community
  • Generally more isolated seems ok? right now
  • Update Impact of India
    • Copyright violations has been "interesting" (many copy/paste, weird citations...), many warnings were given on the ground either through local professors/wikimedia staff
    • Had some cultural issues and combined with lack of enough ground support / Online Ambassadors, issues have had problems
      • Cleanup is occurring right now
    • As of right now India program, is mothballed, with no new edits will occur. Chances are program will restart in June at the earliest.
  • Userfying vs creating new articles - recommendation?
    • No longer as large of an issue - will revisit as need be.

• Meeting closes, tentatively scheduling next meeting for Early/Mid December
• Canada Update
  • It's official, adopting the Canadian Program on the backend, currently the Great Lakes Region is covering the Ontario Classes
  • In the future will have distinct regions that may overlap - will happen on a case by case basis.

• Roles & Responsibilities of the Steering Committee
  • Those who haven't need to send Cindy an email, with thoughts
    • Cindy and Jami will coordinate and stay in touch, since both wanted to collect information about what each Steering Committee sees as the role of the Committee
    • Cindy would like the information for the revamp on pages
  • Management of Online Ambassador program needs to be looked into
    • Wikimedia would like the Steering Committee, to handle the more day to day management
    • Currently unsure of who is an (active) OA
      • wp:United_States_Education_Program/Online_Ambassadors? or wp:United_States_Education_Program/MOU/sign?
  • Does the MOU need to be reviewed
    • Currently feels very "contracty", may need to be more friendly
    • Can it be shortened to a nutshell into a brief format with attachments/links
    • Also need to add to Campus Ambassador training that enabling email support is a great thing
    • Annie/Jami will be looking into this
  • Leaderboard what's up with it?
    • Frank is bringing it back to life, should start back up within a week or two

• Roles of Online Ambassadors
  • Do we need to make their focus less class oriented and more subject oriented?
  • Do we need to ask get Regional Ambassadors, to drum up support, on a class by class basis?
  • Richard will look into this

• Update on where Wikimedia is heading with the project
  • Biggest Current Goal: Focus on Sustainability over size - Focusing on Depth instead of Breadth
    • Workoverload has been an issue, and need to make sure we don't lose the support we already have

• Check on Talk page of U.S. Education Program
  • Need to check up on a more regular basis, some very interesting discussions as of late
  • Good bellweather on situation

• Giving Professors more support
  • Is it possible to invite them to campus ambassador like training?
    • General note this should be online by Jan 31 2012?
    • Some kind of faculty orientation (online or in-person) is being planned for the Spring 2012 professors
  • There is a program is being set in motion, may not occur till Fall 2012
  • Each of us needs to contribute to talk page of U.S. Education Program (linked above)