Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Steering Committee/2011-10-23

Attending:

• Chris Cheney
• Donald Albury
• Jan eissfeldt
• Tom Fish
• Cindy Nelson
• Swaroop Rao

Topics of Discussion:

• Confirm of Election Results
  • No Opposition

• India Update
  • Swaroop gives the committee an update of what is happening in India, and that he will be developing contacts
  • Also mentions students will be encourage to start more articles in their userspace, to help avoid some of the issues that have occured

• Branding of Ambassador Program
  • Jan gives an overview of some of the copyright issues and brief background on German Project, for new members
  • Tom adds in some background information about Copyright being a "seven deadly sin"
  • Chris mentions that initiative is more a marketing effort for the community effort
  • Cindy suggests
    • We need a more visible Steering Committee page, will work on it for the next meeting
    • We also need a more visible timeline
    • Newsletter can we pick up what Sage used to do?
      • Tom will look into it
  • Jan will also talk to Frank in order to get more Wikimedia Foundation presence

• Canadian Integration
  • Chris brings up background that Canadian Program was looking for support structure (Regional Ambassador & this committee handling more of their affairs)
  • General consensus that Chris will talk more with Canadian Program

• Re-look at definition of the role of Steering Committee
  • Donald brings up topic of picking up some slack newsletter, page updates...
    • Committee agrees, that Donald will chat with user:Dcoetzee on the topic of streamlining ambassador pages
  • Cindy asks for everyone to send a rough idea set of what the committee does for purposes of new page

• Conflicts between Community and Class needs
  • Chris brings up general topic, that AfD requests, DYK have been difficult
  • Cindy brings up that may be an information issue where Community is not 100% sure of what the project is about. At the same time, Community may not be supporting the project due to splintering our efforts (hoops to be an Ambassador/Professor...)
    • Brings up question of what Regional Ambassador duties are, should we encourage them to focus more on Campus Ambassadors then getting more classes.
  • Tom brings up issue we may need to request the Wikimedia foundation to slow down a little while resources catch up.
    • Jan will see if he can talk to Frank about general pace of expansion and general resource needs
  • Cindy brings up issue of Wikimedia losing the ball on knowing which classes are actually in the program
  • Cindy talks about more prominent banners for student articles
    • Tom mentions that making current banners, on the article itself may cause more issues than worth (ie: Community backlash)
  • All: lets table this a little, as it relates to a lot of the other topics were are talking about. We do agree that userifying a new article may make sense but it does not solve issue with editing existing articles.