Wikipedia:Meetup/South Africa/South Africa 2

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This was our first remote Meetup, held at https://wikimediaza.zulipchat.com/ - Zulip is an open source text chat platform.

Date and time[edit]

It took place on Saturday, 13 June 2020, 10h00 – 13h00. It was slated to end 14h00 but was ended earlier.

Discussions[edit]

  • Lefcentreright's two articles promoted to GA-status
  • African COVID-19 articles
  • The South African COVID-19 article and possibly split it into other smaller articles
  • Local Wikipedias and the state of them
  • "#1Lib1Ref #AfLibWk" participants
  • A 1,000 South African articles challenge
  • AfroCuration Moleskine
  • AfroCROWD events (specifically this one)
  • Vandalism on some articles
  • Reaching out to other Wikipedians

Attended[edit]

Impressive turnout.

  1. Jan-Hendrik du Toit
  2. Ian Gilfillan
  3. Rossouw van Rooyen
  4. Ingrid Thomson
  5. Michael Graaf
  6. Winny Tshabalala
  7. Adri Baard
  8. Vuyokazi Jamieson
  9. Douglas Scott

Expressed interest[edit]

Coffee/Refreshments[edit]

Anything available in your cupboard was deemed acceptable. Unfortunately, Wikimedia ZA did not pick up the tab.