Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting/16 January 2019

WMZA Board Meeting

Present

• Adri Baard
• Bobby Shabangu
• Coenraad Loubser
• Douglas Scott
• Ian Gilfillan
• Michael Graaf
• Raymond Ellis
• Rossouw van Rooyen

Agenda

Wikipedia's birthday User Oesjaar

Suggestions

• Biltong package (Who?)
• Tweet (Ian)
• Was mentioned in a FB post
• Personal call
• Find a list of local users
• Website post (Douglas)
• Douglas proposes Deon co-opted on to board
  • Adri seconds, all in agreement

Brief on Zulip/jitsi

• Some points of difficulty raised - integration, especially with GOogle, notifications
• Zulip does allow control over notifications, will stick with it and use more extensively to test, dealing with problems as they arise

Survey for 2019

• 5 years since last survey
• Questions can be mostly the same
• Douglas hoping to see April - May - June period (same as last time for comparison purposes)
• Requires liaising with WMF
• Douglas to initiate

Bquest administrators

Separate meeting to be set up to go through the proposed tasks and subsequent costs

Progress on APG application

• Bobby and Douglas met with WMF to discuss stumbling block, Joburgpedia
• WMF cannot give us grant until Joburgpedia is closed. Still unanswered questions about finances, expenses, what money was left
• Dispute is on how much is owed to WMF. Douglas believed it was closed. WMF expects $1779. Dumi thinks it is less, perhaps even $0. Dumi needs to sit with WMF

Afrikaans writing contest brief

• Douglas impressed by impact as shown by dashboard:
• https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_ZA/Afrikaans_Writing_Competition

Question about user from Elandskop Museum

• Request for laptop and camera
• suggestion to refer to 2nd hand goods program
• Coenraad has a donated laptop he fixed; will also look for local sponsors, an opportunity to do a small project, and get some articles up?
• Ask Dumi for the laptops he has
• Bobby: Have to ensure that she contributes free content - we have a long list of people waiting for laptops, who contribute to free content
• Adri to request user names so we can look up contribution history

20 mins Paybook demonstration

• Meeting adjourned to have 20m demo by Paybook

Did not have time for further items