Meeting August 13, 2012

Meeting Minutes August 13 2012

Agenda

1. Design, Search function, Contact Us page
2. Check-in from Researchers
   1. Geographical Representation
3. Mandate, Privacy Policy and Disclaimer
4. Organizing content - use Aspects or create more categories
5. Community portal
6. Continuing on past September launch
7. Volunteers

1. Aiming to add another approx. 200 by August 27th, to get 600 profiles! Yes - 2. Mandate, Privacy Policy and Disclaimer - responses were only approvals. So, approved until further drafts are brought forward – Yes until anyone comes up with any problems 3. Design (any updates from David re: new mediawiki version, search functioning, update on sub-categories (can it be by geography too), calendar removal or traffic re-direct, adding existing wikipedia article information) 4. Categories for the site (10-12 categories are needed for the entire site ie: Artist, Music, Community Organization, Politics, Journalism, etc..) 1. Rob has pulled out report on which categories are used the most 5. Volunteers - who has connections to people who can translate a sentence or our press release into different languages? 1. Elena – will ask about recruiting volunteers 6. Community Portal - any additional files we can add? 7. Geographical Representation - we'll need at least 5 profiles from YK, NW Territories, and Nunavut.

Design

David will report on design on Thursday (16th) meeting.

Categories

ie: science, politics, arts, community organizations

David: we need a good base of categories. Look at how many profiles in each category and decide which require division.

Rob: pull out reports to see which ones need separate categories

Subcategories

Subcategories on the front, or the series of pictures?

David: suggest categories; page could be interactive, 5 categories chosen randomly and images chosen randomnly with the sub category attached

Rob: Regional option, so somebody could find something in BC?

Calendar

Remove Calendar function, or redirect traffic to main page.

Check-in with Researchers

• Adrienne and Rob will continue as volunteers. Elena will volunteer starting September.
• Interest in recruiting volunteers for translating ACW material (esp. into asian languages). Banner on main page? Need text for this-Elena

Mandate

• What differentiates ACW from Wikipedia

Wikipedia is world-scale notable, objective. ACW can provide more diverse perspectives, as well as connecting points and stories. acw can create timelines and maps of artsts. Over time, the relationship between artists and organizations can be developed.

• Why ACW is helpful to the average user etc.

Discovering artists by their name, type, connection

Proposed Mandate

Asian Canadian wiki is a website dedicated to promoting Asian Canadian community and is a database of all things Asian Canadian - from artists, scientists, leaders, to cultural centres, community organizations to festivals.

Proposed History

The intent of this site was to gather like minded Asian Canadians from arts and cultural communities to participate in a National Asian Heritage Month Symposium in 2010. Locating Asian Canadian artists, arts organizations, communities and centres was a challenging process. We realized that connecting these communities required more research and development.

The asiancanadianwiki.org was soon created by compiling, Canada Council for the Arts connections, renowned artists, established artist organizations, and re-usable third-party information into a online resource. Spearheaded by Festival Accès Asie, the site was created by a small team of dedicated volunteers to realize objectives for the National Asian Heritage Month Symposium.

With funding from Canada Council for the Arts and with your support, our 2012 goal is to “kickstart” asiancanadianwiki.org with design elements and substantial and credible content. Our hope is that the site will has the necessary visibility and participation to foster connection, culture and community.

Privacy Policy

• Will email to members of the collective for approval.

Disclaimer

• Will email to members of the collective for approval.

Search function

• David

Organizing content - use Aspects or create more categories

see above.

Contact Us page

• Available on Navigation page?
• Use asiancanadianwiki gmail account
• Add note: ACW is volunteer-run. We aim for a 48-hour response time, however we cannot guarantee it.

Community portal

• Desired content:
  • public documents coming out of forums, event, discussions, relevant to asiancanadian community-building, within the mandate of the asiancanadianwiki

Continuing on past September launch

• Adrienne and Rob will continue as volunteers for maintenance of wiki. Elena will volunteer for maintenance starting September.
• Maintenance includes: checking email account, responding to emails, removing spam, simple editing, attendance at collective meetings whenever an issue arises