User:Econterms

I'm Peter Benjamin Meyer. For Wikimedia & chapter purposes I can be reached at peter.meyer@wikidc.org.

I'm a director and officer of this chapter. I'm focusing on chapter business of two kinds (a) being treasurer and (b) participating in and hosting edit-a-thons.

My regular user page is on the English Wikipedia.

Ongoing chapter business

• Public policy joint workspace
• Need to audit chapter's finances from 2014-2015.
• Glossary for Wiki-DC
• All our chapter meetups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC
• We also sponsored the New England meeting: [1] ; [2] ; [3]
• Our chapter uses a growing number of software platforms, including: github, trello, quickbooks, meetup.com, WorPress, . . .
• Fiscal sponsorship of Art + Feminism, whose chiefs are Michael Mandiberg, Jacqueline Mobey-, Siân Evans, and Dorothy Howard -- grant is for $11226, here. The money arrived 12/12/2014 and $15 went to wire transfer costs.
• /June 2015 meeting
• /AAAS meeting
• /Online harassment reference points
• /Congressional staff edits
• /Konkani editathon -- an interesting prospect
• internal@wikidc.org goes to all board and Wiki DC committee members -- I don't know who else, if anyone
• /Affiliates Conference April 2016
• Effie at SI on Wikidata
• U South Florida SOLIS: [4]

Financial matters

• /Audit Committee 2016 prep

To do

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Strategy_2017 -- follow up wikidata strategy flow
• [wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:2015/Making_2016_the_Wikipedia_Year_of_Science 2016 Year of Science]
• fill out: /Wikiscience proposal draft
• possible blog post: /Wikipedia is not doomed
• review: http://blog.wikimediadc.org/2013/10/the-annual-meeting-is-upon-us/
• Help organize edit-a-thons:

• /Possible GHI-Goethe-Institute edit-a-thon
• Wikisource edit-a-thon -- need funding; tentative time and place: the 2014 WikiConference USA, tentatively May 30-June 1, 2014 -- organizers are Pharos, HareJ, and (Jen), recent NY LS grad and organizer of FCX2013 and on board of Free Culture Foundation)
• National Geographic Society edit-a-thon
• Possible Harvard club edit-a-thon
• /Possible Government procurement edit-a-thon

• keep working Event_guide/Edit-a-thon and Internal:Partnership guide‎
• in 2014: /Bylaws tweaks for the future; present WikiDC activities next yr to NYC conference as lightning talk
• draft /presentation for GLAM Boot Camp on chapters and funding

• broken but want to follow up: list of verified users on this wiki ; we're not using https: (aka SSL) on this wiki.
• List of Econterms user space on this wiki
• recent changes, excluding new-accounts and user space
• examine later: https://transcription.si.edu/project/6631

Org development coordinator

• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_US-DC/Cultural_Partnerships_2015
• GLAM-wiki org is under construction and this employee would support that; they are or have been a user group ; not incorporated ; dominc and lori
• we do meeting support for nara too

Scientific photography contest possibility 2017

• local winners must be announced in January 2018 at the latest and international jury must have the list of the local winner by the second week of January.
• We hope to announce the overall intl winners in February.
• In the international competition there are 5 categories you can submit the winners, but locally it will be up to you on how many images you feature.
• In Estonia where this competition started there are special prizes. Companies provide them. US chapters might want/need to do that.
• Competition subpages have mostly been on Wikipedia. Example: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:Teadusfoto_2015
• US chapters could also propose 1-2 members for the international jury.
• our chapter could organize this competition for the United States!
• the contest itself will take place in November?
• would you need the results of the US competition provided to the international jury, or any other schedule constraints that we should know about?
• Would you also be looking to us for funding the prizes for the US completion, or do you have a different plan in place for that?
• Science photo competition is coming again in this November: http://www.wikisciencecompetition.org/
• Based on the last competition in 2015 it's reasonable to assume that there could be ca 10 000 participants and over 50 000 submissions this time.
• there's a need to find enough local organizers who would take care of local country-based sub-competitions.
• June contacts from Ivo
• The task is relatively simple: there has to be someone, who would promote the competition locally and set up a jury to select the local winners.
• Any interest in Wikimedia District of Columbia about organizing this competition in the USA?

Done!

I helped eat the cake at the annual membership meeting

• I was a candidate for the Wiki-DC board of directors in the 2013 election. Here were my candidacy statements. -- Feb/Mar 2013
• My Report from the 2013 WikiSym/OpenSym conference, Aug 2013
• Economic History Association presentation about Wikipedia -- went well! Sept 2013
• Annual budget plan thru Sept 2014 -- Aug-Nov 2013
• Statistics editathon -- Dec 8, 2013
• Updated with nonprofit language: Internal:Annual financial report (2012–2013) -- Oct 2013-Jan 2014
• I am no longer the treasurer, but I was. Treasurer duties and updates