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.
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:
- WP:Meetups/Melbourne ... etc
- 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
Meeting closed
Meeting closed at: 8.10pm AEST
Next Community webinar: To be discussed via membership list for the next meeting time and date