Wikimedia South Africa/Board Meeting/28 May 2019

Wikimedia ZA Board meeting - 28 May 2019

Attendance

• Adri
• Douglas
• Ian
• Michael
• Coenraad
• Bobby

Apologies

• Deon
• Raymond

Agenda

Previous minutes

• Wiki Loves Africa - Adri's internal report 90% done, social media followup done
• Wikimania 2019 - Bobby and Douglas were to follow up on selecting judges, no feedback yet, Douglas to follow up

Application for funding progress.

• Largely done, Douglas signed docs a few days ago
• Few more details needed around KZN roadshow
• Bobby confirms its a repeat of last-years figures
• Expected funds arrive beginning of June
• Bobby and Douglas together to complete details

Bobby going to Germany for a Goethe institute conference

• Bobby attended Goethe Institute's AGM
• They were looking to better align better with outside organisations, WMZA was only one present
• Bobby presented there on Decolonising the Internet (Wikimania presentation)
• Goethe asked Bobby to repeat presentation in Germany - focus on inclusion and diversity, how we view the internet
• Bobby presenting in Berlin on Tuesday next week
• Bobby planning to blog on experience
• Douglas will be in Berlin the week after, offers to do any followups if needed

Survey for Wikipedia ZA

• Need for this, especially post Wikimania
• Dougas ran previous survey (2015), has sent out email to contact person (2/3 months ago), hasn't heard back yet
• Query about Google form
• Douglas prefers WMF's professional survey tool, better analytics
• Previous survey results at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Infographic-WMZA_survey_results_2015.png
• Douglas to follow up, needs to find new WMF contact person

Communication and social media channels, infrastructure

• We are still hosting with 1-grid, fees paid annually in advance, so no pressing need to change right now
• Can look at this closer to the end of our contract (Oct/Nov)
• Twitter: 1407 followers
• Facebook (English): 957 follows (904 likes)
• Mailing list (Afrikaans): 312 members. Suspect most are fake, aol addresses, no valid activity for years
• Facebook (Afrikaans): 309 members
• Mailing list (English): 284 members
• Meetup: 85 members
• Youtube: 47 subscribers
• Zulip: 13 users

Hackathon update

• Sentech have come on board, broadcasting Wikipedias (part of the unused frequency will be used to send out offline files - Kiwix/Sentech)
• All on track, should have date soon

Events

• Douglas going to Madrid for advocacy conference (no agenda yet)
• Rhodes university event, Deon and Rossouw both confirmed, intros done, will be in early July
• Cape Town Meetup happening 2 June, R1500 snacks budget approved
• Bobby and Dumi have met Puku, a followup Puku event to be organised. Puku wanted to go big with training their writers - will start small with edit workshop. Bobby to followup
• 1 lib 1 ref good feedback, going ahead on own steam

Next Meeting

• Tue 11 June 7pm