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Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Steering Committee/2011-11-16

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Attending:

  • Annie Lin
  • Jami Mathewson
  • Tom Fish
  • Christopher Cheney
  • Cindy Nelson
  • Donald Albury
  • Richard Knipel
  • Piotr Konieczny

Topics of Discussion:

  • Branding / Image
    • Cindy still compiling pages/subpages, working with LiAnna Davis on this
    • Branding Efforts: Logo will come shorty, from Wikimedia
    • Newsletter revitalisation
      • Tom has access to send newsletter bot
      • Should restart soon, led by Cindy - will find our "editor"
  • Conflicts between Class Needs & Community
    • Generally more isolated seems ok? right now
    • Update Impact of India
      • Copyright violations has been "interesting" (many copy/paste, weird citations...), many warnings were given on the ground either through local professors/wikimedia staff
      • Had some cultural issues and combined with lack of enough ground support / Online Ambassadors, issues have had problems
        • Cleanup is occurring right now
      • As of right now India program, is mothballed, with no new edits will occur. Chances are program will restart in June at the earliest.
    • Userfying vs creating new articles - recommendation?
      • No longer as large of an issue - will revisit as need be.
  • Meeting closes, tentatively scheduling next meeting for Early/Mid December
  • Canada Update
    • It's official, adopting the Canadian Program on the backend, currently the Great Lakes Region is covering the Ontario Classes
    • In the future will have distinct regions that may overlap - will happen on a case by case basis.
  • Roles & Responsibilities of the Steering Committee
    • Those who haven't need to send Cindy an email, with thoughts
      • Cindy and Jami will coordinate and stay in touch, since both wanted to collect information about what each Steering Committee sees as the role of the Committee
      • Cindy would like the information for the revamp on pages
    • Management of Online Ambassador program needs to be looked into
    • Does the MOU need to be reviewed
      • Currently feels very "contracty", may need to be more friendly
      • Can it be shortened to a nutshell into a brief format with attachments/links
      • Also need to add to Campus Ambassador training that enabling email support is a great thing
      • Annie/Jami will be looking into this
    • Leaderboard what's up with it?
      • Frank is bringing it back to life, should start back up within a week or two
  • Roles of Online Ambassadors
    • Do we need to make their focus less class oriented and more subject oriented?
    • Do we need to ask get Regional Ambassadors, to drum up support, on a class by class basis?
    • Richard will look into this
  • Update on where Wikimedia is heading with the project
    • Biggest Current Goal: Focus on Sustainability over size - Focusing on Depth instead of Breadth
      • Workoverload has been an issue, and need to make sure we don't lose the support we already have
  • Giving Professors more support
    • Is it possible to invite them to campus ambassador like training?
      • General note this should be online by Jan 31 2012?
      • Some kind of faculty orientation (online or in-person) is being planned for the Spring 2012 professors
    • There is a program is being set in motion, may not occur till Fall 2012
    • Each of us needs to contribute to talk page of U.S. Education Program (linked above)