WALRUS/February 2020

WALRUS is a monthly online meeting for Wikimedia community organizers in the United States to discuss and collaborate on events and outreach of national interest.

Join the pan-USA Wikimedia local activists' chat on Monday February 17 2020 at 6:00 PM Pacific / 9:00 PM Eastern.

• We will use a meeting tool called Zoom instead of Google Hangouts. Please sign up for an account on www.zoom.us and then take a look at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362033-Getting-Started-on-PC-and-Mac
• Note that Zoom provides a telephone interface and that the Zoom software applications are proprietary. Use the telephone interface if you want more privacy and freedom.

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Chromebook or Android:

https://zoom.us/j/879733944

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Dial by your location

+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)

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+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

Meeting ID: 879 733 944

Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agcOMmoE4

• Meeting host for Zoom: Pharos
• Meeting chair: Pharos (TBC)
• Meeting secretary for minutes: primarily Pine

• Introductions

• Discuss 2020 events:

• Feb 2020 - Wikipedia:Black WikiHistory Month
• 21-22 February 2020 - MisinfoCon at National Academy of Sciences conference to include 2 days of Wikipedia training
  • Wikipedia:National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
• Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Recommendations, get your feedback in by Feb 21
• Wikimedia Foundation project grants proposals close 20 February
  • proposals for anyone to review, comments welcome - Grants:Project/Browse applications
• rename of "Wikimedia Foundation" to "Wikipedia"
  • workshop in India to confirm the WMF's proposal for renaming - https://brandingwikipedia.org/workshops/india
• Rapid grants and one-day conferences
• March 2020 - Art+Feminism + WikiWomen's History Month
• April 2020 - Wikimedia Summit (Berlin)
  • Proposed meetups in Berlin
• May 2020 - Queering Wikipedia, LGBT+ usergroup, in Austria + Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 in Albania and travel
• Wikimania and scholarships
• October 2020 - WikiConference North America 2020 (Canada, facilitated by WMCA)
• Lightning talk: Strategic Lessons for the Wiki Revolution Pharos

• Updates

• Wikidata update(s)
• Movement strategy update FULBERT

• Other

• Annual reporting reminder

• Add your agenda items!

• Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Walrus_rolling_notes

• Attendees