[WikiFM] Minutes of today's meeting

[Jeremy Whiting]

If you need a phabricator project to have a board for the TODO list,
just file a sysadmin ticket to add a project. (Or if there's already a
wiki2learn phabricator project, just use it's workboard as the todo
list...) :)

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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