Correct Harry. Although the QRpedia and training bit comes in too. R
On 20 September 2012 14:28, HJ Mitchell <hjmitch...@ymail.com> wrote: > Very well said. > > This is an important issue, and it's quite right for the members to > discuss it, but they could do so in a way that smacks slightly less of a > vendetta. And if the campaign to force Roger to stand down succeeds, we > will rapidly find ourselves with an alarmingly small board. > > For my personal two cents, it appears to me that Roger is being paid for > volunteer coordination and project management. If I'm honest, I'm not > entirely comfortable with the situation, but we all have to make a living. > Sadly, altruism doesn't put food on the table or a roof over one's head. > > Harry Mitchell > http://enwp.org/User:HJ > Phone: 024 7698 0977 > Skype: harry_j_mitchell > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Nicholas Jackson <dr.nicholas.jack...@gmail.com> > *To:* wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org > *Sent:* Wednesday, 19 September 2012, 15:43 > > *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Paid editing by Roger Bamkin > > On 19 September 2012 14:13, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would ask that you resign from the board. > > > Perhaps it's not my place to say this, but here goes anyway. I've edited > Wikipedia articles on and off for a few years, but after attending a couple > of absolutely splendid local outreach events I was inspired to actually > join the UK chapter and subscribe to this mailing list. > > In the two or three months I've been lurking here, I've witnessed two > campaigns for board members to resign, and I have to say I'm beginning to > wonder quite what sort of organisation I've joined. I know almost nothing > about the background to either of these cases, and to be honest I don't > really think I want to know. Maybe the critics do have a point, after > all. Certainly the trustees of a charity should behave with decorum and > integrity, so I wouldn't want to gainsay any legitimate attempts to hold > them to account. But it seems that all the necessary information was made > available to the voting members well before the election, and they > collectively decided that they'd still rather elect these people to the > board. So in the absence of compelling further evidence, which this > doesn't appear to be, I'd have thought that's that until the next election. > > I'm on the board of a small educational charity myself, and I'm very glad > that I and my fellow trustees don't have to put up with constant sniping > from the sidelines, calls for our resignation, or suspiciously-timed > articles appearing in the national press. If we did, I'd almost certainly > just say to hell with it, and walk away. > > I suppose my question is: does this sort of politicking actually serve the > aims of Wikimedia UK at all, and if not could it perhaps stop soon? It > just seems as though all this infighting does far more damage to the > reputation of the chapter than the fact that one of the trustees was > temporarily banned, under somewhat questionable circumstances, from editing > Wikipedia, or that one of the other trustees might have got a handful of > free leaflets in connection with a pretty cool-sounding outreach initiative > he's working on. > > Anyway, if you'll excuse me, I've got a stack of other things to do this > afternoon so I'm going to get back to them. > > Nicholas > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > -- Roger Bamkin Victuallers Ltd 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2
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