Dear all,<div><br></div><div>Though I should clarify a few issues. 4 different issues have been raised in this thread and it&#39;s important that they don&#39;t get conflated.</div><div><br></div><div>1. &quot;Paid editing&quot;</div>
<div>To respond to Tom Dalton&#39;s original point, there isn&#39;t any specific Wikimedia UK policy on &quot;paid editing&quot;. We have never actively decided not to have one, we just don&#39;t - this is really the Wikipedia community&#39;s call not ours. </div>
<div><br></div><div>2. Gibraltarpedia</div><div>Wikimedia UK&#39;s sole involvement with this to date has been the despatch of a few booklets. Really, with most organisations, we&#39;d just have sent the booklets, and it&#39;s only because of Roger&#39;s position that it took a board discussion to do so. </div>
<div><br></div><div>For the future - at the meeting last weekend, the Board decided that it would be an interesting project to get more involved with. We looked at a draft memorandum of understanding that would enable us to be clear about the terms of engagement with the project in future, and thought it needed some more work. Part of that work would involve defining shared expectations and establishing what Wikimedia UK&#39;s involvement would add - and if we found that &quot;marketing Gibraltar as a tourist destination&quot; was all Gibraltar cared about, I doubt we would proceed any further.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would also point out that we have not received any proposals for us to spend any money or use more than a trivial amount of staff time on this. </div><div><br></div><div>3. Conflicts of interest</div>
<div>Our conflict of interest policy is available here: <a href="http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_Interest_Policy">http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_Interest_Policy</a> and is supported by the Declarations of Interest register here: <a href="http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Declarations_of_Interest">http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Declarations_of_Interest</a>. The Conflict of Interest policy is modelled quite closely on Charity Commission guidance and is very clear that we can&#39;t pay our board members, and that if they have a conflict of interest on a particular item they have to recuse themselves. We have followed this policy in all discussions related to the subjects mentioned in this thread.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is some debate on the Board about whether we need to develop this policy further, and members&#39; views are welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>4. QRpedia</div><div>QRpedia.org is owned by Roger Bamkin and Terence Eden, who have been maintaining it, along with <a href="http://qrwp.org">qrwp.org</a> (where the &quot;qrpedia&quot; links resolve), as volunteers. An agreement between Roger and Terence on the one hand and Wikimedia UK on the other is in the works, shouldn&#39;t take more than a few weeks to finish off, and will provide a firm basis for the growing use of Wikipedia-linked QR codes in future.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div>Chair, Wikimedia UK</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div>