On 8 June 2012 10:15, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
At risk of sounding trollish, unappreciative or rude, can I suggest that in talking about the successes of Wikimedia UK, less focus should be given on the meta-charity stuff, important though it is, but on the thing which the charity's existence has enabled. There's plenty of it: GLAM outreach, other forms of outreach (Monmouth!), the Wikimania bids and so on.
Internal governance is important, but think about other charities. The reason anyone gets excited about any charity is the actual work they do rather than the governance stuff they do in order to let them do the actual work.
And I say that with the greatest of respect to the people who have put enormous amounts of work into making Wikimedia UK work and doing all that very important and necessary meta-work! ;-)
The non-meta stuff is more exciting, but I'd argue it is less important. We've done good stuff over the last year, but it's still just one year. The meta stuff allows us to do even better stuff for many years to come. Do we want to just tell people the exciting stuff, or do we want to take this opportunity to explain to them how important the less exciting stuff is?