Meeting: Committee (2020-01-13)

This meeting has two pages: one restricted-access page (only for members of the current Board) and one public-access page (which may have sensitive information redacted).

Introduction

Date: Monday 13 January 2020

Time / time zone: 4pm WA / 5.30pm NT / 6pm QLD / 7pm AEDT

Meeting channel: https://wikimedia.blindsidenetworks.net

Attendance

Attendees: Pru, Alex, Sam, Caddie

Apologies: Robert (Fire duties), Steve (working away), Jacinta, Matt (travelling)

Previous minutes

Minutes of previous meeting:

Monday 9 December 2019 Meeting:Committee_(2019-12-09)
That the minutes of the 9 December 2019 meeting be accepted.

Moved: Sam; Seconded: Alex
ACTION: Sam: Publish Minutes to Comm and Public

Business arising and actions

ACTIONS - dealt with under appropriate reports below

Agenda

Reports

President's report

Survey Drafts - review members’ responses - DEFER
ACTION: Pru to follow up with banner ad - to be continued
Partnerships - legally drafted template for organisational partnerships. Define levels of partnership. Active and Past partnerships. Partnerships page: Add start & finish dates and review dates - For next meeting

Secretary's report

ACTION: Further investigate and identify accounts that require a common password

Correspondence

ACTION: Alex to back up Secretary unanswered correspondence, Pru to back up Treasurer and membership

https://comm.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Email_responses

Query about DGR status

ACTION: Alex to respond, and include note on https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Donate

Katherine Maher: Sending love and care to Australia in time of bushfire
Request about joining WikiClub West: Sam and Alex responded

Treasurer's report

No Treasurer’s report Profit & Loss Statement since last meeting: Net change:

Current Account balances as of 8 December 2019: Westpac: $ CC: $ PayPal: $
Income: ATO: $0 , $0 renewals, $ in donations, $ in interest.
Expenses:
Financial actions from previous meeting, signatories

ACTION Financial when Pru and Alex return

(2019-10-16) WMF Grants Admin $102.11 AUD to return from 2018-19 Simple APG

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Return_unused_funds_to_WMF

ACTION: Steve, Pru work out how to wire funds back $102.11 AUD

Membership report

Joining: =

Communications report

Newsletter

January due date:

Survey, WLM, MOU NGA,
Social media

Facebook Steve to do weekly

Twitter Steve to do weekly

Post an Australian article regularly

Promoting WMAU Grants

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Technical report

A number of requests for access to the WMAU Wiki received

Question about whether users need to be members of WMAU; What is the process for responding to these?; Sam or Robert check for legitimate (not spam) requests; Leave welcome note on page; User creation log: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Special:Log?type=newusers
ACTION: Sam set up a Welcome Template. Done: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Template:Welcome

Activities

Local activities

ACT: Caddie run NGA Art+Feminism event in March
QLD: #1Lib1Ref in January at SLQ (Jacinta);

Project with the digital experience program - Public libraries in QLD using open data from https://data.qld.gov.au/organization/state-library-queensland

Libraries in Australia query: https://w.wiki/DXZ

Libraries in Wikidata: https://w.wiki/4ah - Quick Statements ACTION: Alex to respond to Rachel. Consider unique identifier for libraries

Dashboard: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Australia/Libraries_in_Australia

Art+Feminism venue: GoMA, Louise, Jacinta & Kerry Coordinator

NSW: TBC
NT: Art+Feminism Araluen Art Centre
SA: Pru to confirm Art+Feminism
TAS: Alysia & Alex coordinator, request application
VIC: Coordinators, Caroline & Juliette Art+Feminism
WA: Art+Feminism Facilitators: Gideon & Ingrid. Venue: Waiting for Feb re-opening

National activities

Wiki Loves Science -https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Science_Competition_2019_in_Australia Uploads: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Uploaded_via_Campaign:wsc-au

Wikipedia Day, 15 January 2020 Community Meeting

Agenda finalisation

Personal reports:

1Lib1Ref - Jacinta

Caddie - workflow, state and regional lists, questions, promotion for Know My Name

WikiCite ANZ, Friday 14 February 2020: Pru

Application for a WikiCite Satellite event grant (of $1375 USD equivalent) - for an event in association with the VALA 2020 library technology :conference - has been approved.

Program

Alex Welcome & history of WikiCite

Siobhan Leachman: workflows around people authorities, women

Toby : blurb TBC

Nicole Kearney:

Art+Feminism & Know My Name, 7-8 March 2020: Caddie

See above

Global activities

Wikimedia Summit: Alex

Travel is sorted. Travel insurance quote in vicinity of $100

Wikimania 2020

Process for determining scholarship applications for Wikimania 2020 with process defined by the end of January, with a call for expressions of interest soon after.

If you are applying for Wikimania,

Other business

REDACTED
Notes from December Community Meeting

ACTION: Pru to make a report from the recording and post on the wiki.

Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019_in_Australia

ACTION: Only 5 responses from prizewinners thus far

Meeting closed

Closed: 8.31pm

Next Committee meeting: February: Mon 3 February 2020 (Apology Sam)
Next Community meeting: Wed 15 January 2020, 19 February 2020

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