Notes are posted for DC Meetup #13 on Wednesday:
http://bit.ly/dc13notes (sorry, they are lengthy, we have lots going on!)
In summary, we talked about:
1) Social media outreach for the fundraiser, and beyond that for when we
reach the fundraising target. Let's use social media and outreach to engage
with people and encourage more contributions (e.g. edits). Swatjester will
follow-up with more info on this.
2) Public policy initiative - how's it going, what's up for the Spring
semester?
3) Smithsonian collaboration - it's continuing, working with Smithsonian
American Art Museum on article collaboration, strong possibility for us to
work with Archives of American Art, we have more contacts elsewhere w/in the
Smithsonian and can connect people
4) Holocaust museum wants to work with Wikipedia, perhaps bring in an intern
to work on Wikipedia
5) National Archives is another important collaboration possibility, via the
FedFlix project and has lots of potential, with people high up in NARA
supporting FedFlix and have approached us to see how they can engage with us
more directly in cool ways
6) User:Econterms and a colleague from the Bureau of Labor Statistics talked
about how they might contribute data to Wikipedia, as "Economy of Virginia"
or such state infoboxes.
7) Wikipedia's 10th birthday is coming up in January. We are talking about
doing something special to celebrate, perhaps the following weekend!
8) Talked about next meetups and future events
9) Talked briefly about Wikimedia DC chapter stuff, trying to gauge where
consensus is (towards having a local group, but find ways to coordinate
regionally and nationally where it makes sense, maybe a loose structure such
as US Chapters Council)
10) Ed Summers (user:edsu) was at the meetup, he works at the Library of
Congress, created the linkypedia tool (
http://linkypedia.inkdroid.org/),
etc. He (we agree) suggests the DC area might be ripe for holding a
GLAM-Wiki type symposium to bring folks together. He also says he's willing
to host us for meetups!
11) We also have contacts in Baltimore, with historic preservation folks,
who are interested in doing a Wikipedia Takes Baltimore event (photographing
historic sites)
Wow, that's a lot... that's why I think more regular meetups are a good
idea. We might not be able to do all these things but if we get enough
people involved, we can do a lot and much as possible.
Cheers,
Katie (@aude)
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Katie Filbert
filbertk(a)gmail.com
@filbertkm