Board Meeting 19 November 2019

Latest revision as of 15:38, 27 November 2019

Time: 18h00

[edit] Attendees

• Adri
• Bobby
• Coenraad
• Deon
• Douglas
• Michael
• Rossouw

[edit] Apologies

[edit] Wikimedia Summit Registration

• Berlin - April 3-5
• Need to send someone with experience in movement strategy.
• Bobby proposes Adri goes, seconded by Douglas, no opposition

[edit] Afrikaans competition

• Rossouw - https://maroelamedia.co.za/afrikaans/ontkiem-n-wiki-saadjie-en-wen/ - can we allocate R2500 -requested
• Line item for R10,000 for Puku-Trust which hasn't been used as they are not interested in doing a project with us, which means that we have finances left.
• Rossouw only needs $170 for the competition. The rest of the money should be used for local language support.

[edit] Solidariteit:Maroela Media

• Deon - Employees of Maroela Media are doing bad edits.
• Deon has visited Maroela media 4 times to give training
• They are copying items from Kennis and Wereldspektrum, 2 Afrikaans encyclopedias, to Wikipedia
• They are inserting marketing material and non-NPOV material
• Deon's calls to Cecil Lombard has fallen on deaf ears
• Douglas: This is an Afrikaans Wikipedia issue, they need to consult their policy, Chapter can only place a consultative role
• Adri will set up an independent Afrikaans meetup

[edit] Strategy Day & AGM Planning

• Strategy Day & AGM Planning: We have a venue for the Strat and AGM
• Email from Paul: Create AGM event page and add Paul's agenda items. Keep this as an open item and discuss it once everyone has a chance to read it.
• Suggestion to invite board nominations telephonically - Coenraad suggestion that we invite people to a members hangout next week via email and individually for the first week of December - where we invite people to the AGM - and strategy day.
• Please start adding ideas here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wmza-strategy
• Board members have 1 bed available. We have accommodation requests for 5 and flight requests for 3. Flights will be arranged by end of week by Coenraad.

[edit] Jhb City Library Edit Workshop

• Bobby - Jhb City Library Edit Workshop - 5 December
• 2019 is the year of indigenous languages.
• This workshop was planned since January, but no date has been found yet. The JHB City Library Bookclub would be involved.
• They agreed. Bobby needs budget for refreshments and modem.
• Bobby needs to organise a modem/wifi and snacks
• The library organises the space and computers.
• Budget: R4000

[edit] Budget

• Remainder of Puku trust R10k - ~R7500 to find African Language projects to spend on

[edit] Meetup

• Next meetup is on 7 December

[edit] Strategy

• Wikimedia Survey - Douglas to jump on this asap.

[edit] Afrikaans Skryfweek

• Feedback on Afrikaans Skryfweek - focus on Namibia
• A lot of articles written and great community.

[edit] Wiki Indaba

• Wiki Indaba: 40-50 ppl attended.
• Lots of visa issues.
• Bad internet at venue, but many memorable sessions and materials on Commons.
• How to bridge language gaps and grow African communities.
• Need to choose next host - resolution was reached to choose Uganda. Some of us were hoping for Namibia.

[edit] WMZA survey

• Douglas to follow up

[edit] Communication and social media channels, infrastructure

From 21 August to 19 November:

• Twitter: 1487 followers -> 1538
• Facebook (English): 965 follows (903 likes) -> 965 (899)
• Facebook (Afrikaans): 319 members -> 391
• Mailing list (Afrikaans): 313 members. Suspect most are fake, aol addresses, no valid activity for years -> 313
• Mailing list (English): 280 members -> ??
• Instagram 122 Followers -> 133
• Meetup: 103 members -> 113
• Youtube: 47 subscribers -> 47
• Zulip: 13 users -> 13