Wikibase Community User Group/Meetings/2021-06-09

Online meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group.

Schedule

• Wednesday, June 9, 2021, 16:00 UTC
• Online meeting on Jitsi
• Notes

Agenda

• Notification of User Group Expiration - Renewal pending submission of reporting
• Group contacts
  • Rights & Expectations
  • Selection process in the user group
    • Simple approval vote? More complex system?
    • 1-2 weeks notice, 1-2 weeks for votes?
    • More elaborated rules? Only one vote per person (a same person can't vote with several accounts, like their personal and professional accounts); accounts should have been registered before a specific date...
• Annual reports writing
  • 2020
  • 2021 (let's get ahead this time!)

Participants

• Envel Le Hir
• Myst
• GreenReaper
• Lozana Rossenova
• anonymous participant

Notes

• Group contacts
  • number of group contacts / primary group contact, secondary? (in part, I think WMF wants it as a backup if the primary is unavailable) -> ask questions to MKaur (WMF) -> answers
  • Selection process:
    • 2 weeks notice;
    • vote on meta;
    • announce notice period at next wikibase meeting;
    • ranked or approval votes? Like affiliate board position votes? Will investigate what others use.

• Report
  • Collaborative writing by the user group
  • 2020: cleaning to keep only activities of the user group -> Envel Done
  • Scour telegram and mailing list for any additions directly related to the group. eg. dev help, wikibase registry
  • Community members encouraged to add their projects in the future when relevant; and related discussions on desired features, discussion platform -> potentially justifies WMF/WMDE contributions/assistance to group.

• Next steps
  • Questions to Manav -> Envel Done
  • Set up meta page for user contacts voting – have people nominate themselves. -> GreenReaper Done - created draft election plan, suggest ratification at the 2021-06-24 meeting prior to nominations.
  • Announce nomination process to the group via Telegram / Mailing list / Next meeting / Meta -> Envel Waiting for the set up by GreenReaper
  • Announce collaborative writing activities on report to the group via Telegram / Mailing list / Next meeting / Meta -> Lozana Done

• At the end of the meeting, a question was raised about the usage of Telegram, which can be difficult due to some corporate policies.