Wikipedia:Meetup/Cape Town/Cape Town 7
Date:
- 1st February 2015
Location:
- Truth Coffee, 36 Buitenkant St, Cape Town 8000, South Africa
Wikimedia ZA's office is located just upstairs. NOT to be confused with the Truth Coffee at the Prestwich Memorial. See the map location here.- Contact number: +27 21 200 0440
If you have any questions please feel free to drop me a message on my user page or phone/message me on the day:
- User page: Discott
- Phone: 079 515 8727
Time:
- 11:00am - 2:00pm
Reasons to come:
- Good vibes, good company, and yes, as much free coffee as you can drink.
When you arrive look for the bearded man with the Wikipedia T-shirt, that's me. --Discott (talk) 08:42, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Agenda
[edit]Its not really an agenda but more like a list of things we could talk about if we run out of more interesting conversation topics.
- Drone competition: Content for Wikipedia
- Wikimedia's efforts to increase female participation
- 2015: the year ahead
- Anything you want to talk about
Discussions
[edit]
- Status of Afrikaans Wikipedia
- Lots of discussion around editing in different languages, both language translations into Afrikaans, and differences of Afrikaans and Dutch
- Growth in page views on af.wikipedia noted
- General updates on Wikipedia in South Africa as well what the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia chapters are.
- How to apply for Wikimania 2015 scholarship
- Micro grants, PEG grants
- Drone competition and Wiki Loves Monuments
- A bit of photography and IR photography in particular
- Wikimedia ZA membership
- Dumbassman mentioned he liked the venue
- Adriaan mentioned that we should do meetups more often
Coffee
[edit]Feedback on quality of coffee was overall positive.
- 6 cups of coffee consumed.
Attended
[edit]- Discott (talk) 14:22, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
- Adriaan Joubert (talk) 10:51, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- Dumbassman
- AHB (af.Wikipedia)