[WikiFM] Minutes of today's meeting

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

Hi,
today's quick sprint was extremely productive!

here is a summary of what has been done:

Discussed points and decisions:
   * Decide a unified terminology
		English terminology: abolish WikiNames. Department, Course, Collection
		Italian terminology: Dipartimenti, Corsi, Raccolte
		Other courses will follow, the exact definition is here (to be 
		translated):
http://it.wikitolearn.org/Guida_a_WikiToLearn/Terminologia_di_WikiToLearn

   * Converting already written material? (we need the .tex or anyways the 
	  sources)    
		We need a TeX converter, the development will be tracked on Phabricator. 
		All the rest of the development (content, infrastructure, promo…) will 	
		be tracked on WikiToLearn.

   * Review of preexisting content (license):
		we have a few documents which have been uploaded as PDFs with CC-BY-ND
		or similar licences, and the sources have been explicitly not uploaded.
		This is clearly against the CC-BY-SA licence of WikiToLearn, and we
		should set up a policy for which this kind of material is disallowed.
		Exceptions could be "exceptional" material, such as already published
		books. Existing material released under less-free licences should be 
		removed, upon contacting the authors. Davide will contact a few of them 
		for an ULTIMATUM (evil laughter...).

	* Help pages:
		Sofia is taking care of writing a guide (in Italian) which will be
		translated. In general help links should be more prominent. The guide 
		will have a structure similar to the one of a course.
		We need to open a section "How to help WikiToLearn".

	* University Portal:
		Davide is working on a portal where students from universities can match
		taught courses with WikiToLearn material, enabling them to create 
		collections perfectly tailored to what they need to study, and 
		eventually some more non-generic information, all beautifully organized 
		in their own pages. These pages will almost not have content, as they 
		should just be pages of links to existing material.

	* We need more templates for standard pages, we need more standard pages.    
		We will pay more attention to do this and start to create them ;-)

	* The homepage (and the navigation path) are not as good as they can be:
		We should do a dedicated sprint in which we go through the UI fixing it 	
		as	we go. Is anybody interested in helping out on this?

 	* custom TeX macros are essential to efficiently write mathematics.
		We decided to set up a page with the list of the officially supported 
		ones. This page will be linked from the help pages - Riccardo will take 	
		care of creating it and making sure it works with OCG.

	* More usage of the mailing list and Phabricator:
		Riccardo requested a project on Phabricator, and we should try to pay 
		more attention to the global structure of the pages. When you want to 
		propose a template for a certain page, you create a page under your user 
		namespace and you send it to the mailing list for review.

	* Other points/todos:
		* Sofia points out that we should promote translation work to help 		
		  populate some content
		* there is the idea of having a sprint of a few days before the courses 
		  re-start.
		* Riccardo will fix the interwiki table, so we can have nice internal 
		  links...
		* We need a list of templates in the guide
		* We NEED a TODO list to track all of the above. :D

I am amazed we could come up with so much in just three hours! Congrats to all 
who participated!

I think that is all... as you can see, we start to really NEED a TODO list, or 
a place on which to track tasks :-) it's really getting out of hand. ;-)

Bye,
-Riccardo