I do hope we're not keeping the "signed" authoritative copy of legal documents on the wiki. If we are, these should be page protected and properly noted with the correct template until we can take a long hard look in the mirror at our file keeping.
Meeting minutes are legal documents once they have been approved and signed by the meeting chair. In the case of an AGM, this approval is generally the next AGM. The page on a wiki itself notes that the minutes are a draft and have not been approved. Should they not be approved because of a very controversial internal link added by a seasoned contributor, these can be amended. I'd like to think we're a little more open as a chapter and a movement that's based on the principles of free and open knowledge than to shun help from our valued people who are simply trying to aid readability.
The issue Deryck is describing is technical, if the report is correct, and needs to be sorted by Jarry1250 (or whoever has taken over the bot maintenance), and Deryck needs to follow the steps https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/User:Global_block_importer_bot listed on the bot's user page for an unblock.
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On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 22:28, Katie Crampton katie.crampton@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
To be fair minutes for meetings shouldn’t be able to be edited by general editors anyway. I don’t really understand the issue you’ve described Deryck, but minutes of AGMs are legal documents that we need auditors and the membership to approve, so it’d be grand if edits can be suggested to a member of staff such as myself or Lucy as common practice rather than made to the page itself.
Many thanks for highlighting the issue though.
Best Katie
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On 7 Jul 2021, at 20:36, Lucy Crompton-Reid < lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Hi Deryck
I'll ask someone to look into this tomorrow. In the meantime, feel free to ping me the links and I will add them in.
Thanks for flagging this up.
Lucy
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 19:17, Deryck Chan deryckchan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I've just tried to edit the WMUK wiki to add a few internal links to the 2020 AGM minutes but saw that I was blocked due to a block imported by the global block importer. I had logged in.
On further investigation I realised that there's a WM global softblock on my IP range, but the WMUK wiki imported it as a hardblock. Can this be adjusted?
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