Meeting August 16, 2012

Meeting Minutes August 16 2012

Agenda

1. Design, Search function, Contact Us page
2. Categories
3. Subcategories
4. Calendar
5. Check-in with researchers
6. Contact Us Page
7. Community Portal

Design

• Design 1 for consideration

• Does not allow hover on touch mobile devices
• Use default mediawiki for mobile devices? - David will investigate

• Elena - find background image for front page under creative commons

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1. Front page – rough version for August 27th
2. Comment September 3rd
3. Ready by September 10th

• 
  Tab names - Change "Contribute" to "Add Page"?
• Remove Calendar or direct traffic to Main Page

Search Function

• Change default to relevance- David
• Change all "Vancouver" to "Vancouver, B.C."?

Categories

ie: science, politics, arts, community organizations

Elena suggestion-

1. Art:
   1. Visual, Performing, Mixed Media, Multimedia, Film, Video, Manga, Literature, Architecture, Music, Dance, Theatre, school, association, Cartoons, Carving, Photography, Institute, Gallery, Artist Collective
2. Humanities:
   1. history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, Institute
3. Science:
   1. Medicine, Engineering, Architecture, Spaceflight, Institute
4. Media:
   1. Journalism, Newspaper, Magazine, Television, online, radio, Cartoons
5. Politics and Law:
   1. Municipal, Provincial, Federal, Institute, Association, judge, activist
6. Sports:
   1. Hockey, Hapkido, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Kung Fu, Yoga,
7. Community:
   1. Association, Festival, Cultural Centre, Museum, Gallery

Subcategories

See above

Calendar

• Need to get rid of Calendar

Check-in with Researchers

• Aiming to exceed our original goal of 400.
• Interest in recruiting volunteers for translating ACW material (esp. into asian languages). Elena to contact
• Banner for recruiting volunteers for translation - David will look into it
• Geographical representation - complete (Rob)
• Articles - Rob will write one, Elena will write one
• Elena will write press release/translation into French for September 10th

Contact Us page

• To be created on new design
• team [at] asiancanadianwiki.org
• Add note: ACW is volunteer-run. We aim for a 48-hour response time, however we cannot guarantee it.

Community portal

• Need at least 5 pages total

Next meeting: Monday August 27th 6pm EST