North Carolina Wikipedians/Monthly-Meeting

These are the meeting notes for the monthly North Carolina Wikipedians meetings. We take our meeting notes on our Etherpad and then copy them over here for long-term storage.

May 14, 2024

North Carolina Wikipedians monthly meeting

• Attending: Gaurav, Jennifer, Emily, Morgan, Max, Richard (User:Pharos)
• Agenda:
  • Introduction
  • New meeting format:
    • Use etherpad to collect notes
    • In each meeting, we'll start with an introduction and ask each member how they want to be recorded in the notes
  • Debriefs
    • Annual report: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/reports#2023
    • Wikimedia Summit [Morgan]
      • Voting for Movement Charter will take place between June 25 to July 9, 2024! **
      • Here's the current draft of the Charter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter
      • The FAQs page for the Charter is really helpful: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Frequently_Asked_Questions
        • For example: "What happens if the Charter is not ratified?" https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Frequently_Asked_Questions#What_happens_if_the_Charter_is_not_ratified?
      • How are they going to hand over future Summits to the Affiliates?
        • Smaller and separate track
        • Meta page about this work: "Future of Affiliate Gatherings" https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Affiliate_Gatherings
        • slides with results of the survey are here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Future_of_Affiliate_Gatherings_-_Survey_report_2024.pdf
      • Would you endorse the Charter?
        • Tentatively yes
    • Earth Day in Carrboro [Max]
      • About 10 people came by: UNC students who have edited, a kid who dragged his father
      • Had fun chatting with people
      • The banner is very effective!
      • Would be great to do this again
      • The Geonotice was VERY helpful in bringing in new people
  • Upcoming events/plans
    • North America Hub next Monday night (https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/NARWHAL/May_2024)
      • RDU meetup in Fall?
      • Wiknic 2024 approaches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
      • Max needs someone to take photos of Utah vs NC soccer game (this weekend)
  • Work related to NC WikiPix 2022
    • Cleanup instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SHz0G8jS2QqAZR4MLUF6JUndpKPsB8q_NLI-AXF8cmM/edit
    • Images to check: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NiBmuf5auQCjhPwAsG1kLbywLhumAUWqsrs3_5cGzSE/edit#gid=1066616149
      • Podcast episode about one of the co-founders of the Duke Lemurs center https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-122-professor-quaalude-9-13-2019/
  • Next meeting: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 7pm ET
    • Facilitator: Emily
    • Notetaker: Max

Summit Takeaways

• key links for Movement Charter info:
  • Monthly Updates from the Drafting Committee:
    • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Updates
  • As of mid-May, the MCDC is:
    • considering feedback, and working to update the final version of the Movement Charter between April 30 and mid-May. Then, the Charter will go through more preparatory phases, including copy-editing review, legal review, and translations.

Next Steps for the Movement Charter

• The final Movement Charter text is expected to be shared in the third week of June.
• The Movement-wide ratification vote on the Movement Charter will take place between June 25 to July 9, 2024.
• The Charter will be voted on by among others: Individual contributors, affiliates, and the Board of Trustees of the WMF.
• Voter eligibility guidelines - will be the same as for Wikimedia Foundation elections 2022 : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Voter_eligibility_guidelines
• Example of guidelines for that election:
  • To qualify, this one account must:
    • not be blocked in more than one project;
    • and not be a bot;
    • and have made at least 300 edits before 5 July 2022 across Wikimedia wikis;
    • and have made at least 20 edits between 5 January 2022 and 5 July 2022
    • there's also an AccountEligibility tool - I haven't tried it yet! https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/63

Outputs and documentation from the Summit

The full documentation of the event will be published by the end of June 2024.

Meta Page with information on the outcomes, the evaluation survey, and photos from the conference days:

• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2024#Final_Outputs_of_the_Wikimedia_Summit_2024
• List of outputs that were included in voting: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2024#Final_Outputs_of_the_Wikimedia_Summit_2024
• Photos of documentation, including outputs created during the event: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Summit_2024_documentation
• PDFs of the giant posters that were used for/by the various topic groups: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:WMS2024_GW1_Online_Topic-Feedback.pdf&page=1

Especially interesting :

• Program page has the full schedule, and (links to recorded sessions? maybe not links actually!)
  • this page gives a sense of the various steps in the process, and how feedback was gathered and processed!
  • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2024/Program
• List of Dealbreakers - (at the top, in the list of voting results from the last day) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2024#Deal-breakers
  • Topic Groups https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2024/Topic_groups
    • I was in Topic Group 2: Global Council: Global Council and WMF
      • this group processed feedback for this area in the charter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Content/One-page_draft#Wikimedia_Movement_Bodies
      • There was some interesting overlap between this group, and the topic group: "Global Council: Purpose and resources [Purpose statement; Global Council budget, Global Council staffing]"

April 9, 2024

North Carolina Wikipedians annual business meeting

action items:

• MM will create an etherpad version of NC Wikipedians leadership structure doc,
  • DONE - see below
• and MM will also add this to our Meta pages

agenda: This will be our annual business meeting, where we'll talk about our annual report covering the events of the last year, which is due April 30. We'll also talk about leadership for the user group for the year ahead.

And we'll do any last planning or prep for our Earth Day meetup on the lawn at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro, which will take place on Tuesday, April 23, from 5:30 to 7:30. If you're planning to attend, please add yourself to the list of attendees!

At our last meeting we made plans to hold an informal, drop-in-style meet-up at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro as an Earth Day event. It will be outside on the lawn, and folks are invited to come and go as they please. BYO laptop if you want to edit or ask questions about editing, but it's also cool to just come and talk about whatever Wikimedia topics arise!

links:

• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/reports#2023

Previous years

• /2022
• /2021
• /2020
• /2019