Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting/19 November 2019

Time: 18h00

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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