Everyone is cordially invited to attend the 22nd Wikipedia Meetup in Cape Town.

Wikipedia is one of the leading resources of knowledge for anyone who has access to the internet. Make an impact by helping contribute to the free encyclopedia which anyone can edit. Come join us as we assist members of the public join our editing/contributing community and answer questions about Wikipedia.

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Code Bridge

  

The location of the Wikipedia Meetup at the Code Bridge.

Date

Saturday, 7 December 2019

Location

Code Bridge, 1 Thicket St, Newlands, Cape Town, 7700

We will be using a new location for this meetup. OpenUp has very kindly let us use their downstairs space at the Code Bridge in Newlands which is very near to Claremont train station and taxi rank. It also has ample free parking in front of the building. Cavendish Square is only a few blocks around the corner on the same side of the railway tracks. Code Bridge is located in the bridge (hence the name) that allows Campground Street (M33) to cross both the railway line and Letterstedt Road (also known as Claremont Boulevard).

The parking and building can only be access by the Helmlock Street / Letterstedt Road entrance. Parking is free. You don't pay for parking. Tell the parking guard you're visiting Codebridge.

See the location on the map to the right.

Time

Any time between 10:00 - 14:00

• 5 year Wikimedia ZA strategic planning event on the 14th December
• Wikimedia ZA AGM on the 15th December
• Copyright Amendment bill status
• OpenStreetMap 2020 conference (State of the Map 2020) in Cape Town
• User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer (HN) - WMF spending, including local chapters, and possible risks.
• Interaction with Western Cape Provincial Libraries as outreach venues.
• How to get politicians photos into Commons. (Task Force, Copyright, Anti-Ghosting strategies)

For sharing notes, links, snippets: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Meetup%2FCape_Town%2FCape_Town_22

Libraries

http://www.liasaconference.co.za/ (September '19, workshops) ZivaHub: UCT Open Data Storage and Datasets https://zivahub.uct.ac.za/

Stats SA Logo

Conversation around updating logos on Wikipedia. How to do it and copyright issues with different options. Drum Logo: http://cs2016.statssa.gov.za/

Student assignments

Discussion with new attendee about integrating Wikipedia editing into the film and media curriculum at the University of Cape Town. Meeting setup with UCT to design this in January 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Student_assignments

OpenStreetMap

Brief discussion about the OpenStreetMap convention, State of the Map, in Cape Town in 2020. How WMZA could better support it. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/Call_for_venues/CapeTown#Team

Photos of politicians (national, provincial)

Possible Strategies:

• Set up a photo booth during session.
  It'd fulfil outreach function. Solves the problem that the parliaments are uninformed regarding license and photographer. It would require volunteers travelling to events and communicating their intent in advance.
• Addressing the parties instead of parliament.
  They'd have better motivation.
• Advocate for permissive license on with all governmental publications
  Not NC (non-commercial) which is not allowed on Commons. This would be a long term concerted effort.
• Appeal to existing less favourable pictures.

Example stats:

• 6th Western Cape Provincial Parliament
  8/42. 7 DA. 1 ANC. WDQS
• 27th South African Parliament
  58/397. 31 ANC, 17 DA, 2 EFF, 2 FF+ etc. WDQS

• Discott
• YaguraStation
• Greenman
• Rossouw
• Ingrid Thomson

About 9 cups of tee or coffee along with 12 doughnuts were consumed.