On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 13:31, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
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> Trust me nobody is more frustrated about it all than me.
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> The whole "three wise monkeys" approach by WMUK to its wiki has been going on for years, and is quite unacceptable.
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> Charles
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Now would be a good time for the WMUK board to review whether having
its own wiki is worth the on-going investment in scarce volunteer time
or employee time. Running a blog does not need a wiki, and many other
chapters happily use meta to publish reports and documents which can
be discussed by anyone there, with zero budget or consultancy needed.

When we created the charity's own wiki, there was a vibrant and highly
active UK charity volunteer community of hundreds. A significant
proportion of the most active volunteers used our entirely volunteer
driven wiki to coordinate the projects and policies of the evolving
charity. Those reasons no longer exist. Projects can, and probably
should, be coordinated on WMF supported sites, such as project pages
on Meta, Wikipedia and Commons, with the obvious benefits that
volunteers globally can easily link to it, find it (via standard
search), and participate, rather than being directed to a peculiar
chapter wiki that they will have no special incentive to use for
discussion and is increasingly subject to outage and maintenance
headaches.

For QRpedia, current and potential usage is far wider than the UK.
Discussing its maintenance and long term future should be widely
promoted and can easily justify a specific WMF funding case.

Thanks
Fae
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faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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