Hi all Thanks for your comments and suggestions about the chapter's Wiki, and related technical issues. There have been a few conversations around this at board and senior management level recently and we are aware that there is a need to improve our approach to technology both at an operational level (with some work currently happening on this front) and at a programmatic/strategic level (ditto). There is much more to be done however - and we're aware that we also need to work more closely with the volunteer community on both the challenges and opportunities we're facing regarding technology - so please bear with us while we seek to address some of the issues highlighted (and others that haven't been!)
Thanks and best Lucy On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 14:02, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 13:31, Charles Matthews > <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > > > > Trust me nobody is more frustrated about it all than me. > > > > The whole "three wise monkeys" approach by WMUK to its wiki has been > going on for years, and is quite unacceptable. > > > > Charles > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia UK mailing list > > Now would be a good time for the WMUK board to review whether having > its own wiki is worth the on-going investment in scarce volunteer time > or employee time. Running a blog does not need a wiki, and many other > chapters happily use meta to publish reports and documents which can > be discussed by anyone there, with zero budget or consultancy needed. > > When we created the charity's own wiki, there was a vibrant and highly > active UK charity volunteer community of hundreds. A significant > proportion of the most active volunteers used our entirely volunteer > driven wiki to coordinate the projects and policies of the evolving > charity. Those reasons no longer exist. Projects can, and probably > should, be coordinated on WMF supported sites, such as project pages > on Meta, Wikipedia and Commons, with the obvious benefits that > volunteers globally can easily link to it, find it (via standard > search), and participate, rather than being directed to a peculiar > chapter wiki that they will have no special incentive to use for > discussion and is increasingly subject to outage and maintenance > headaches. > > For QRpedia, current and potential usage is far wider than the UK. > Discussing its maintenance and long term future should be widely > promoted and can easily justify a specific WMF funding case. > > Thanks > Fae > -- > fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 203 372 0762 *Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement, and a registered charity. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827 Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.
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