Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting/16 October 2019

Time: 12h30

Attendees

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

Apologies

• Bobby
• Ian
• Raymond

Report back on Moleskine Event - 5 Oct

• 139 attendees - teachers, students, Harambee and Wikipedians
• 114 minus Harambee and Wikipedians
• Bobby, Howard, Rossouw,?
• Managed to log in ~60 out of 80 laptops to the dashboard.
• Almost everyone presents worked on non-english Wikipedia
• Michael's friend Howard (first Wikipedia event) went as a qualified teacher/mentor and enjoyed it.
• Dashboard is up. They think more than 100 articles were edited.
• Photos need to be uploaded

Update WikimediaZA SA Survey

• Douglas needs to email Jamie with questions to be included in the survey and set a date. Last date was April/May 2018.
• (formalize discussion started at Wikimania)

Update on Website, domain and Media monitoring

• The site went down a few weeks ago as the invoice wasn't paid. It's been sorted out now.
• Coenraad to set up accounting calendar to be reviewed at every meeting

Johannesburg book club edit workshop

• Bobby to feedback next time

Afrikaans Skryfweek - Expanding on articles on topic Namibia

• Any updates on how it went Rossouw
• Check the Skryfweek page

Afrikaans Editithon: Deon is organising an event in December

• Catering budget - moving to fund from Michael(STB)&Bobby's(KZN Activation) projects - Adri pledged the remainder from her grant
• Possibly from Puku's primary project.
• Updates on the Afrikaans destubathon in December

Afrikaans writing competition - Dec/Jan

• Rossouw talked to Marola Media and they pledged support for prizes
• Want to do like last year - incl. gift vouchers

AGM

• Final Date? (8, 14 or 15 Dec?)
• Dec 14: Workshop
• Dec 15: AGM - Codebridge/C4A have a venue for us - want to focus budget on getting people there - ~R30k
• Douglas to send to list
• Adri will update FB
• Coenraad to send travel grant form
• 3 free beds offered to attendees between Adri, Coenraad & Douglas

Set top box project

• Michael raising additional funds based on fact that we already have a bit of funding. (Do not confuse with WikiFundi project - which also involves Pi - was misnamed on a budget)

Letter about school outreach to follow up on Moleskine event

• WMF offering funding to incubate Wikipedia into the school curriculum - email on the mailing list - WMF has a team, but needs support from local chapters.
• Reach out to Moleskine for partnership
• Find someone who already doing some aligned project

UN Wikimedian in Residence update

• UN has reviewed their post
• There's a conversation between UN and WMF, our only updates have been from WMF

Meetups

• 20th Wikimedia meetup co-hosted with Creative Commons ~15 people attended
• 21st meetup same venue, followed by design workshop

Design workshop

• encourage designers to add their works to Wikipedia
• highlight need for illustrations in Wikipedia
• and cc license benefits