Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2012/Meetings/2012-03-11

These are notes from a Skype meeting held between Lodewijk (Effeietsanders), Maarten (Multichill), Elke (Elya) and Tomasz (odder) on Sunday, 11 March 2012, 18:00—19:20 (UTC).

Topics discussed

Technical issues

• Elke is actively working with the WMF on the UploadWizard, including bug tracking and other issues. She won't do coding on this.
• Elke has also tested the Layar application and has been in touch with Raul & already updated the application a bit.
• Commonist — Tomasz has posted a request on the mailing list, forwarded by Lodewijk to Wikitech; no response yet.
• Monuments database — Elke knows someone who might be interested in helping out. We really need people to work on the front end.
• Maarten wants an OSM based map for Wiki Loves Monuments and will contact Tim (Colossus) about this.

Communication

• Email with summary still has to be sent -- will be done in the upcoming days (AP Tomasz & Lodewijk).
• The who's who page is also still in the works. (AP Tomasz)
• Standard welcome text still in the works. (AP Tomasz)
• The Facebook page got updated, and looks good!
• Elke updated the theme for the website, and it is downloadable from her website.
• Maarten is working on fixing the .org domain.
• Introduction of the website should be updated. (AP Elke)
• Tomasz needs to work on the Commons portal (AP Tomasz):
  • The general guidelines need an update;
  • Progress table is a mess. Should be fixed ASAP;
  • The documentation on monuments database is too crowded and needs a split.

Participating countries

• USA — Elke got in touch with Frank, more about that soon.
• Maarten contacted Moka; the WMF offered to help and will get in touch with the volunteers that signed up.
• Saharan Africa — Elke is in touch with Moushira. The Egyptian database looks promising (will be in Arabic and probably in English, too), more information to come this coming week.
  • There will be no news on Marocco before the end of the month.
  • No updates on Tunisia yet.
• India has national heritage level + local/govermenal level, "foundation + chapters" - summary: it's complicated.
• We already have a global map of participating countries :-)
• We need to merge the two Google Docs on participating countries (AP Tomasz).

Other issues

• We do need an extra person to deal with the budget.
  • Lodewijk will send out an email about it to wikilovesmonuments-l; we need someone who will be helpful in the general coordination and is also interested in money stuff (AP Lodewijk).
• The budget has been discussed shortly. We still need some additional funding.
  • Maarten is going to check this with Wikimedia France (AP Maarten)
  • Tomasz will ask Wikimedia Poland for additional money (AP Tomasz).
• Chapters meeting:
  • We are willing to have a meeting with individuals from the participating countries (chapter people) on Sunday afternoon, a detailed real-life discussion on Sunday evening and a meeting with an employee on Monday morning and afternoon.
• Trademarks will be discussed at a next meeting, to be held on Sunday, March 18, at 19:00 (UTC).

Action points

1.  Done AP Tomasz: Finish up action points (plural!) from last meeting;
2.  Done AP Maarten: Finish up action point from last meeting;
3.  Done AP Tomasz: set up a Doodle for next meeting;
4.  Done AP Tomasz: Rewrite the philosophy page on Commons;
5. (Moved to next meeting.) AP Elke: Figure out the Guiness Book of Records;
6. (Moved to next meeting.) AP Lodewijk: Send out an e-mail about a volunteer or an employee willing to take the lead on the budget of WLM;
7.  Done AP Tomasz: Move the notes from this meeting to Wikimedia Commons;
8. (Moved to next meeting.) AP Maarten: Poke Wikimedia France about ther involvement in the budget;
9.  Done AP Tomasz: Poke Wikimedia Poland for additional funds (€1000 or €2000);
10.  Done AP Elke: Check with Nicole about social activities (evening) and  Not done room for a Monday kick-off;
11.  Done AP Elke: Ask Hay to be a beta tester for the Layar map Wordpress theme;
12.  Done AP Elke: Update the introduction on the EU website;
13. (Moved to next meeting.) AP Elke: Take care of the map (update & think of another design; Lodewijk says it's sad to have that many grey countries);
14.  Done AP Tomasz: Merge the two Google Docs on participating countries;
15.  Done AP Tomasz: Fix the progress table, think of a new design;
16. (Moved to next meeting.) AP Tomasz: Split off the documentation on monuments database;
17.  Done AP Elke: Talk to Akoopal about check toolserver permissions (for the front end);
18.  Done AP Maarten: Contact Tim (User:Kolossos) about an OSM-based map.