WALRUS/August 2012

IRC meeting at #wikimedia-us^connect on August 8 at 9pm Eastern Time / 6pm Pacific Time.

Agenda

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• Wikimania meetings: WALRUS/July 2012
• Proposal for the evolution of Wikimedia chapters in the United States (multiple proposals)
• Great Name Debate
• Wiki Loves Monuments US coordination
  • August and September Wiki Loves Monuments and Wikipedia Loves Libraries banners (see commons:Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/CentralNotice)
  • Adding more local events to ENWP Wikipedia Takes America
• Wikipedia Loves Libraries events
• WALRUS Congress 2013- DC in Spring?

Meeting

Things that came up

• The logged nature of the meetings
  • The log is never publicly published
• Introductions of new members of the meetings
• The regions
  • There was an agreement that they needs to be nuked at started over from scratch
  • Some didn't think that such overhead was necessary
  • some didn't think that the US should be carved up before organic chapters start
  • It was mentioned that we shouldn't talk about voices before there are people to represent
• The number of votes/country
  • We shouldn't give up votes without being asked was the agreement
• Regional Noticeboards Were sent up
  • Organize events, improve communication, ect.
• There was a call to cut down on speculation
• The name of our body
  • WALRUS
  • US Chapters Congress
  • US Chapters Federation
  • US Chapters Council
  • US Alliance
• Wiki loves Monuments / Wiki Takes America
  • New England is trying to plan an event for open access week
  • There is a call to independently take photos that week
  • Beware of trespassing laws
  • http://wikilovesmonuments.us/
    • There was discussion of the use of Wordpress
    • The site will need to be reenforced
  • There was discussion of Copyright issues
    • There was an agreement not to do anything special to weed out copyvios
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America
  • There will be an smart phone app
  • The jury list is out https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Register_of_Historic_Places&pe=1&#WLM-US_jury
  • there is a mailing list
  • There will be community voting to narrow the images that the jury sees down
  • Prizes
    • IPad?
    • Free copy of Linux?
    • scholarship for Wikimania?
    • a camera?
• Working groups
  • Large meetings produce little real work
  • 5 people or so
• In person meeting
  • When?
    • March or April
  • Location
    • DC (pending)
      • Othere cities/ares were proposed including: Texas, Pittsburgh, Boston, NYC, Alaska, McMurdo, and Bangor
• A call to end silly names

Attendees

• Pharos (talk · contribs)
• Guerillero (talk · contribs)
• Varnent (talk · contribs)
• Sven Manguard (talk · contribs)
• Aude (talk · contribs)
• Jeremyb (talk · contribs)
• Bob The Wikipedian (talk · contribs)
• Matthew A Roth (talk · contribs)
• Ragesoss (talk · contribs)
• Krill (talk · contribs)
• Ktr101 (talk · contribs)
• Blur (talk · contribs)
• Yume Hikari (talk · contribs)
• Dmcdevit (talk · contribs)
• Djembayz (talk · contribs)
• Soap (talk · contribs)
• Slowking (talk · contribs)