Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates/Message board/December 2006


This is the AMA Meeting board for December, 2006! The following items are up for discussion by anyone and everyone, but only AMA Members may vote. Please leave your signed comments in the appointed areas:

Meet & Greet

Result: We have many, many new members since the last meeting.

Previously Unresolved Issues

Result: The proposal for an Election Officer was withdrawn by the nominator. The idea of developing a system of accountability will be carried over to the next meeting after several good proposals were made and plenty of discussion.

Possible Deputy Election

Result: A new third deputy will now be elected.

Deputy election

Result: Martinp23 has been elected as a deputy coordinator.

AMABot

Result: AMABot is working rather well and is facilitating the Advocacy process.

Advocates IRC Channel

Result: The "never been on it, but want to" section wins by one vote. New ways to connect to the system could well encourage an increase in use.

New Requests for Assistance System

Result: Everyone seems to like how the new system is working, and Martin has interfaced AMABot with it.

Result: No new policies enacted. Any MyWikiBiz related action should be separate from the AMA.

Membership Roll

Result: Response to the template was apparently not as was hoped. Some suggestions were made as to how to improve the template and could well be worth a try.

Policy considerations

Advocate screening and bar

Result: Good points were raised by all. It is a contentious issue and should be discussed in greater detail at the next meeting.

Advocees demanding wikilawyering

Result: This proposal should be considered in more detail at the next meeting.

Advocates on either side of a dispute

Result: The idea is a good one, further discussion at the next meeting is in order.

Team structure

Result: The proposal for teams to tackle recurring topics is a good one, discussion will continue at the next meeting.

Esperanza Co-Op

Result: The proposal unfortunately died (for now) when Esperanza did.

Deputy Coordinator Review

Result: The community response seems to be that I am seen to be doing alright, I felt suitably humbled. Wikiwoohoo 19:29, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Result: Image:DFRAMA.png by Dfrg.msc was voted the replacement to Steve's original design. Implementation of the image as the official AMA logo is down to Steve.

Other Business?

Result: Greater co-operation with Arb Com is an idea that should be developed further. This discussion will be carried over to the next meeting.


Page organization

Result: The somewhat varied styles for AMA pages were fixed by Martinp23 and Royalguard11 who have made all pages subpages of the main AMA page.

Result: The message was disappointing, though it gives us something to work on. Improving co-operative work with the Arbcom is something which will be carried over to the next meeting for greater consideration.

Fair Use images pollcy

Result: Royalguard11 and Martinp23 both gave good responses to an enquiry relating to fair use and how Wikipedia deals with it.

Cases

Result: Royalguard11 provided an excellent answer to a new member's query.

Requests by email

Result: The idea is a good one and should be discussed further at the next meeting.

Designation of interim Coordinator

Result: Discussion will be put on hold until the next meeting.