Hi all,

Thanks for that, Lucy.

Might I suggest a small improvement which could be achieved for little expense is that you use both this list and the wiki to keep people informed.

Please have a look at the Engine Room. It is unfortunate that there has been no reply to Brian Kelly's inquiry about the VLE made back in August.

Likewise, the outdated staff photo – dating from 2015 is still the one currently being used, despite the prompt dating from March 2018, which Michael kindly responded to over four months later.

Perhaps if you could ensure that a member of staff is charged with checking this and responding to queries at the start of every week. This would only take five minutes most weeks, as the unresponsiveness on the wiki has meant there have only been 10 posts in all of 2018.

Likewise the water cooler, where the sole inquirer for 2018 has been waiting four months for a response!

Also I understand that Hannah Evans has left. I feel that people on this list had been informed.

all the best,

Fabian Tompsett

aka Leutha

On 30 November 2018 at 14:17 Lucy Crompton-Reid <lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:


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 <faewik@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 13:31, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews@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
--
faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

_______________________________________________
Wikimedia UK mailing list
wikimediauk-l@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.
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia UK mailing list
wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk