Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Steering Committee/2011-12-23
Attending:
- Jami Mathewson
- Tom Fish
- Christopher Cheney
- Cindy Nelson
- Donald Albury
- Richard Knipel
Topics of Discussion:
- Ambassador Ratios
- Officially long-term objective is 1 to 15/20, with at least one officially Wikipedian per class - but in short-term this ratio will not be enforced
- Guidelines will be officially posted by noon PST today
- May require some classes to be only "1st come, 1st serve" although this will not
- Objective is to improve quality, and will require turning down some professors but will get better results from the program overall
- Officially long-term objective is 1 to 15/20, with at least one officially Wikipedian per class - but in short-term this ratio will not be enforced
- Ambassador Recruitment Ideas
- Current predictions give us ~20 Online Ambassadors at most, and in order to stay even at least we need to increase numbers
- We need to look at improving feedback/communication between OA and CA/Professors
- Encouraging students to send a message to CA/OA/Professor Account in the 1st/2nd week
- Determine more active WikiProjects (WikiMedia might have something like this?) we should be able to get some very targeted individuals
- Roles & Responsibilities
- Looking at Long-term prospects, will be confirming with the Foundation as things are still changing
- Will bring more Regional Ambassadors into our discussions to firm up relations on the Campus Ambassador side of things
- Newsletter Revitalization
- LiAnna Davis, is looking at bringing this back - no need to worry about this right now
- Increasing Regional/Campus Ambassador on the SC
- Jami/Richard will get 2-3 RAs to attend next SC meeting
- 1st Semester wrap-up
- Obar Project to make a class about Admin duties
- Media-commons classes working on images/videos has helped as well
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- India Program bleed-in issues, should be better for 2nd semester with the project being tabled
- Past: Many issues, nothing that directly in the classroom carried over into North America - but image wise it still hurts
- Future: "India loves Wikipedia commons" project, should help as well. (where guys just take pics, do diagrams, and put it up on commons)
- Final stats to verified shortly
- Usergroups to be made for each class, to improve stats/communications; ETA next semester?
- Training Programs (video wise) will be ready Fall 2012
- Professors, Students, Ambassadors
- Wikipedia Recruitment Ambassadors
- Currently focused on hubs of San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Washington, D.C.; Ann Arbor, MI; Bloomington, IN
- Talk page check
- Focus on professors/over students? Beg/accept classes into program
- Page Updates
- Some disconnect with LiAnna on what we should/can edit
- Some Streamlining has occurred by the foundation, eta 1st of year?
- Do we officially need to adopt Canada/North America into the name?
- Yes/No will look into based on what comes out of the next week or so.