Attendees
- Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
- Antonin Delpeuch - Advisory Committee
- Esther M. Jackson - Advisory Committee (last 30 minutes)
- Martin Magdinier - Project Manager
Discussion
Funding
NGI the grant is not available to organize a BarCamp. See Grant Opportunity: NGI Zero Commons Fund
Wikimedia General Support Fund - see Grant Opportunity: Wikimedia Community Fund: and DRAFT [English] [Public] General Support Fund application form (v3.0)
- Martin is still drafting the application to be ready by the deadline for the first round
- We need a detailed budget and timeline, with details of other funding that is supporting the project.
Discussion regarding the grant
- Different program officers at Wikimedia oversee different regions. Chris Schilling the PO for North America, is back on Monday
- Antonin: I would not assume they want to limit to the Commons Extension. It may include Wikibase.
- We can re-grant funds to WMSE. WMSE is already up to speed with the OpenRefine.
- Antonin and Martin agree that we should clearly separate the Wikidata reconciliation from this grant and not include it in its scope.
- Wikimedia is used to fund project are usually funded for 12 months.
- Round 2 fund is contingent on what’s left in round 1. It is better to apply earlier.
- Wikibase reconciliation. There is a discussion with NFDI and the Wikibase Stakeholder group to get financing. OpenRefine may participate in the fundraising by dedicating a small donation. It may come from the Wikimedia Support Fund.
Additional fundraising support: Introducing Lila Jane
Lila Jane has been appointed by CS&S to support fiscally sponsored projects to raise funds (with 5h/week available per FSPs). Martin had a meeting with her. She’s available to help review funding applications and guide in the fundraising landscape. In general, she encourages major gift fundraising, rather than crowdfunding campaigns which can be very time-consuming, but needs to get to know OpenRefine to better understand our situation. She knows the US landscape best.
Her approach
- perform a financial analysis (expenses / revenue) to develop a five year vision
- do fundraising landscape analysis to identify what organization are actively providing funds. Help to sequence the type of action we can do
- help formulate a plan and develop material (grant, one pager presentation…).
We are interested in getting long-term funding rather than short term and establishing long-term partnerships.
WMSE update
Antonin and Sebastian no longer have weekly meetings, as Sebastian is autonomous on the code base, and communication via GitHub is working well.
Martin to resume the monthly call to keep the conversation with WMSE going regarding the remaining deliverables by the end of the year
- WMSE development
- Update of the training
- Final reports (financial + narrative on the development).
Apple code signing update
Antonin continues to ask CS&S to regain access to the account or subscribe to a paid one instead.
We will need it for the next release. We need to coordinate with Tom regarding the date.
Upcoming new Wikidata tool guidelines
Due to the rapid growth of Wikidata, some guidelines for tool developers (inspired by the Wikimedia API policy) will be written. OpenRefine itself is being used to analyze the current activity around imports: Wikidata talk:Edit groups - Wikidata
Two problems to be addressed:
- Difficulty in maintaining the query service up due to size, with a current plan to split it (making it less usable)
- But also in the SQL table underpinning MediaWiki, whose growth is also concerning.
OpenRefine is already doing a reasonable job at making few edits but Jan is keeping an eye on this topic to watch out for potential adaptations required on our side. There might be new user groups with specific rights (but only a loose idea so far).