Meeting: Community (2019-09-30)

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== Introduction ==
:Date: Monday 30 September 2019
:Time / time zone: 5pm WA / 6.30pm NT / 7pm AEST 

:Meeting channel: BigBlueButton https://wikimedia.blindsidenetworks.net  
===Attendance===
:Attendees:  Alex, Robert, Pru, Ann, David, Matt, Nick, Sam, Thomas, Tom, Gideon and Gillian
:Apologies: Steven

Introductions from each attendee.

==Walk through Wikimedia space by Sam (via shared screen)==
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org
*Discussion of gadgets, lua, mediawiki development was very fractured
*Mailman has issues but upgrading is a big job
*Discord platform tested for technical discussion 
*Now being tested more broadly

*Benefits:
:*gathered topics, tags etc
:*not threaded
:*moderation capabilities (general and per-topic)
:*can be used fully in-email
:*Events can be viewed as calendar and map and are machine-readable

Organising a new editing event
*Many alternatives, incomplete lists:
*[[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetups/Melbourne|WP:Meetups/Melbourne]] ... etc
*[[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board|WP:Australian Wikipedians' notice board]]
*https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Upcoming_events

==Feedback==
*Report summarising comm meetings  from the committee for the community webinar

==Possible items for next meetings==
*Reaching people who don't know about WMAU or who are only peripherally involved
*Wikipedians in residence discussions and proposals
*Monthly cross-city editing meetups
*Short updates on upcoming and recent events
*Some open meeting discussion structure and how to form partnerships

===Appendix===
Australian artist biographies in peer review with WikiJournal of Humanities:
*Hilda Rix Nicholas
*Florence Fuller
*https://wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Humanities/Potential_upcoming_articles

==Upcoming talks/conferences==
*Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research & Open Science (https://www.aimos2019conference.com/abstracts#wikipedia)
*New Zealand conferences
:*https://2019.foss4g-oceania.org/
:*http://www.ndf.org.nz/workshops

==Meeting closed==

Meeting closed at: 8.10pm AEST

Next Community webinar: To be discussed via membership list for the next meeting time and date