Asynchronous Wikis/Asyncwiki Working Group/April 10th 2018

Attendance


 * David : Product Manager for Fundraising Tech at WMF. Currently spending free time on space related projects
 * Cindy : project manager for MW platform at WMF. 10 years developing maintaining wikis. Software gal
 * Chris : recovering MW admin. WMF liaison
 * Daren : NASA. 7 years MW. Synchronization
 * Stéphane : the other Kiwix guy
 * Florence : the WikiFundi gal and non software dev
 * Mark : everybody knows Mark

Grants


 * Nasa. A call in April ?
 * WMF : project grant call should have been around June/July. But WMF is likely to have only one call in Y18-19. Deadline is likely to be pushed a bit.

Notes


 * Nasa wiki can only be accessed by Nasa. Need an external server
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meza
 * https://enterprisemediawiki.org/demo/index.php/Special:Version
 * There is an external server that kiwix should have access to that is roughly configured like the nasa versions
 * We could create a second wiki on this server with the same config as NASA wikis but import space pages from Wikipedia for content
 * https://github.com/enterprisemediawiki/meza
 * Grants:
 * There is a mini proposal already written by Daren and somewhat in progress. 10k. Currently in red tape

Actions / Next steps


 * Daren - share proposal online - DONE
 * Daren - Get intern to test ZIM file creation from NASA wikis - IN WORK
 * David looking at other funding options and looping in good grant writers