Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2017/Meetings/2017-11-21

2017-11-21

Attendees

Lodewijk, Stephen, Jean-Fred

General announcements

• some stats by Erik!
  • The stats were generally good
  • Some discussion around what qualifies as a "country"
  • Some discussion about abnormal start/end dates
  • It's good to talk about stats beyond "what is the biggest", something that shows the impact on its own face value. We need some way to appreciate competitions. Call out how countries can be special (in some countries, it's a big deal to run in the first place, some countries have good coverage, some have good diversity)
    • Send suggestions to Erik
• In grant reports, be careful about the international team not claiming credit for what the national teams accomplish
• WikiIndaba
  • We have a clear idea of where the problems are, we need to figure out some new approaches to motivate contributors
  • m:WikiIndaba_conference_2018/venue
  • phab:T173611

What we have worked on

Lodewijk
What did you work on?

• Not much.
• Some emails about jury
  • one/some countries had to be excluded :-(
  • TODO: We need be better documentation on jury process for countries
• Some reporting/admin
  • m:Grants:Project/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_international_team/2017_coordination/Timeline#October

What will you be working on?

Blockers?

• unclear status of the meeting in winter/spring
  • We had a deadline a month ago about requesting additional funding
  • Should we meet in US or EU?
  • A lot of this depends on what we want to accomplish
  • There will be some challenges for the next year
    • how to keep a good engagement
    • good ideas, but limited resources. setting priorities.
    • if we build up to 2019, we could do that in improving documentation etc, running pilots? (toolkit!: streamlining)
  • added value may be less than last year. Rethink the scope?

Stephen
What did you work on?

• Responding to Montage questions for international jury (now out of stage 1)
• Not much

What will you be working on?

• Blog redesign (based on Pau's mocks), mid December is a nice aim.
• Low priority montage fixes.
• Work on Phab task for WikiIndaba

Blockers?

Jean-Fred
What did you work on?

• Community Wishlist proposal m:2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Programs_and_events/An_organizer_dashboard_for_multimedia_contribution_drives
  • \m/ Outsourcing awesomeness.
  • :)
  • Should we +1 it on Wiki? A little more than +1 :)
• Solving issues with the stats collection tool
• Solving issues linked to new WCS database replicas
  • breaking the world as we know it

What will you be working on?

• Adapting the tool for Wiki Science Photo Competition
  • untangling the hardcoded assumptions in the stats tool

Blockers?

Romaine :)
What did you work on?

• Wikidata import of monuments in Brussels

What will you be working on?

• Wikidata import of monuments in Brussels

Blockers

• Magic