User:Aude/Meetup Notes

Chapter business

 * WM NYC is almost ready to file non-profit status, in ~2 weeks, consulted with pro-bono lawyer
 * Wikipedia Day! WM NYC is organizing something...
 * WikiPop at Brooklyn Museum, did it on their own! They also want help with their article about the Brooklyn Museum.
 * Wikipedians in Residence program by Liam Wyatt, interest from other institutions now
 * Public policy campus ambassadors program; for students, instead of doing a term paper, students can work on Wikipedia articles.
 * User:DGG was at Princeton, trying to recruit faculty but what they want to do does not fit in with public policy in a narrow sense; they want to work on political philosophy, but could be run in parallel. Problem is to find appropriate topics / articles for students;
 * First need to teach people about Wikipedia, then be available to answer questions (online ambassadors).
 * WMF is thinking about what to do next year, will know better after first term.
 * Faculty have trouble with the editing interface.
 * Project to rate articles, established editors are rating articles more poorly/critically
 * WMF fundraiser recently, WM NYC was invited!
 * WM NYC represents only 5% of NYC area editors
 * Internship program and workspace
 * coworking space
 * more funding, more interns/applications this year
 * nycwiki.org, met with small group of people in Harlem
 * what's appropriate info for the wiki, what are people looking for. it has factual, historical info, but what about current issues (e.g. 3-1-1 issues)? not far into the project to know or decide.
 * how to make the wiki more usable? template folding features, etc.
 * need help from mediawiki-savvy folks on technical tasks
 * nyc is the only chapter in america... dc wants to formalize the group, as a chapter? or what? how to strike the right balance between autonomy and combining strengths
 * communication happens on #wikimedia-northeast IRC channel
 * would like to revive the wikimedia-us mailing list
 * there's also a #wikimedia-us IRC channel, but it redirects to #wikimedia-chapters which is totally inactive
 * wikipedia takes manhattan, run the event again
 * future meetup location
 * company (?) has small conference room, will let us it, have a small computer lab for teaching classes, located in Manhattan, downtown
 * symposium restaurant near columbia will let us use meeting room, as long as we eat dinner there too.
 * need to have some meetups on sunday
 * CUNY - do some outreach, event there

Fundraising
User:Jamesofur (James Alexander) speaking:


 * Goal is $16 million, double from last year
 * Fundraiser not so popular w/ Wikipedians last year
 * Size of average donation might be smaller this year, but ...
 * This year, we are testing each Thursday afternoon
 * need to earn $10k an hour, only time it's worked is with Jimmy on the banner (text appeal, "please read... from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales)
 * mission-oriented messages were not popular, people got suspicious
 * Community involvement on meta-wiki, and there is the #wikimedia-fundraising IRC channel.

GLAM outreach

 * WP:GLAM/SI
 * Alexis Rockman - article collaboration
 * User:Aude/FedFlix
 * Meetup/DC_12
 * Hack-A-Ton DC

Controversial topics
User:Chaoticfluffy speaking:


 * for text, we are okay
 * for images, commons start enforcing educational scope requirements
 * study presented to the board, some points the board members agree, some they disagree
 * DGG: where do we agree on what's culturally acceptable?
 * DGG: much better approach, duplicate and unnecessary images