Hi all,
You may well have noticed that Wiki Educational Resources / Wikimedia
UK has an internal wiki which is restricted to members of the board.
Following a recent question on this list, and some discussions between
board members I'll try to outline why we have not given greater access
to the WMUK internal wiki and how I see us developing policies for the
UK chapter.
We use the internal wiki primarily as an easy way to hold various documents that
we would not want to be made public (home phone numbers of the
directors, for example), copies of the agenda and minuets of the board
meetings (once minutes are approved, we intend to make them public),
the register of members (who are just the directors at present). For
various legal reasons (not least English libel law and the data
protection act) we can not give general access to the internal wiki.
We will adopt the guideline that only documents that need to be
private go on the internal wiki.
I think the best place to develop general policy and plan projects is
the wikimedia pages, where the chapter was first planned (there should
be a link at the bottom of this email). To this end I have just
created two new pages [[Membership of Wikimedia UK]], where I outline
my current thoughts on membership of the chapter and [[Future UK
meetups]] where I am hoping to find volunteers to help organise future
local meetings, which will be useful as the chapter starts to grow.
People should feel free to edit and comment on both of these pages!
Finally, David Gerard has indicated that he intendeds to plan the
press launch in the same way.
I welcome comments on this.
Happy editing,
Andrew