Good afternoon everyone! I have a couple of things that I'm begging your assistance with: I hope you folks can help.
1. We need the page at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer expanding a bit. Perhaps with 'volunteer stories', or something similar. The comment at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Volunteer raises an important point, and from a new volunteer too. At present, it's a bit... basic and functional, and could use some expansion. 2. We've had a couple of contacts from local political parties trying to get pages about candidates in the upcoming London Assembly elections. At present, we only really have stubs on a few of the candidates. We told them politely that it's not something we can help with - WP is written by volunteers - although we did of course offer to teach their volunteers how to edit (and edit ethically and openly) if necessary. Perhaps this is something to keep an eye on when you're patrolling articles, or looking for a new DYK? 3. Does anyone have decent photoshopping skills? I have a few pictures that need digitally improving at some point - nearly all WMUK-related, and a few are planned for upcoming blog posts. Credit will go where credit is due, of course, and they'll all be uploaded to Commons on good time - but we need the colour/lighting levels adjusted on a few, maybe some artistic cropping, etc. Only a small job, but it needs doing, and no doubt there are people out there who are better at it than I would be!
Really hope you all can help. Feel free to reply on- or off-list.
All the best,
Richard Symonds Office& Development Manager Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0991