Earlier this month, the board sat down for our first in-person meeting since the AGM. We talked about our plans and achievements so far this year and wrote down where we wanted the chapter to be in three years' time.
Below are the notes we made on the day, which we'd like to share with you. By their nature they are abbreviated. Please let us know any comments or input you have to these, or if you have any queries about what this would mean for the chapter.
Regards,
Andrew Turvey Chair Wikimedia UK
----- Forwarded Message -----
Wikimedia UK Book Sprint: where do we want to be in 2013? - Fully professionalised chapter - Supporting non-UK chapters with historical links to the UK
Projects: - Culture - Education - Academic - Community - Multilingual
- Wikipedia Academies / Workshops. Target audiences/locations aimed at getting people involved in editing Wikipedia. Two Wikipedia academies a year? Also workshops (~6 per year?). - Academic/external peer review process of Wikipedia articles? - Content partnerships (led by board members) - Fostering Wikimeets in different cities - Community editing sessions in libraries/museums/universities/schools/etc. (parallel to meetups?) - Yearly UK Wikimedia conference - Fundraising/international meetings - Wikimania???
5 November 2013: WMUK 5th birthday celebrations
Budget FTE staff 2010 £50,000 0.2 2011 £125,000 1.5 (+ events, 0.5 x admin [starting from August with managed office]) 2012 £200,000 3 (+ fundraiser/sponsorship) 2013 £300,000 5 (+ developer, CEO/grants) Other possibilities: media contact. (All amounts are 50% of the total raised - starting to get grants etc. in 2013)
Also contractors for tech work etc. Potentially sharing full-time staff with like-minded organisations?
Asking Foundation to pay for first year of fundraiser/grants staff member?
WMUK Board: aim to diversify it and make it richer in experience - Board Interest meeting on Saturday 12 February. First of an annual event? - Trustee Proposition. Separation of executive decisions from the full Board. - 7 board members (maybe 9 by 2013) - 4 community-elected members, 3 expert seats proposed by the outgoing community-elected members of the Board at the AGM (subject to community approval) - 2012? - Quarterly in-person meetings (in addition to AGM). 2011: also interim online meetings in between in person meetings. - ExecCom for 2011, transitioning to CEO in 2013 (with ExecCom oversight). ExecCom meetings as required. - Community appointments for 2 years (half elected each year) - avoids 'lame duck' period, adds continuity. Institutional memory. 2011.
- Advisory Board???
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Unfortunately, we ran out of time to talk more about the potential projects and non-admin targets for the chapter, so those sections are particularly abbreviated (there was a lot to discuss at this meeting...). I'd like to encourage everyone to give input to this in particular - what projects/targets should the chapter be aiming to carry out/achieve over the next three years?
Thanks, Mike
On 23 Sep 2010, at 22:29, Andrew Turvey wrote:
Earlier this month, the board sat down for our first in-person meeting since the AGM. We talked about our plans and achievements so far this year and wrote down where we wanted the chapter to be in three years' time.
Below are the notes we made on the day, which we'd like to share with you. By their nature they are abbreviated. Please let us know any comments or input you have to these, or if you have any queries about what this would mean for the chapter.
Regards,
Andrew Turvey Chair Wikimedia UK
----- Forwarded Message -----
Wikimedia UK Book Sprint: where do we want to be in 2013?
- Fully professionalised chapter
- Supporting non-UK chapters with historical links to the UK
Projects:
Culture
Education
Academic
Community
Multilingual
Wikipedia Academies / Workshops. Target audiences/locations aimed at getting people involved in editing Wikipedia. Two Wikipedia academies a year? Also workshops (~6 per year?).
Academic/external peer review process of Wikipedia articles?
Content partnerships (led by board members)
Fostering Wikimeets in different cities
Community editing sessions in libraries/museums/universities/schools/etc. (parallel to meetups?)
Yearly UK Wikimedia conference
Fundraising/international meetings
Wikimania???
5 November 2013: WMUK 5th birthday celebrations
Budget FTE staff2010 £50,000 0.2 2011 £125,000 1.5 (+ events, 0.5 x admin [starting from August with managed office]) 2012 £200,000 3 (+ fundraiser/sponsorship) 2013 £300,000 5 (+ developer, CEO/grants) Other possibilities: media contact. (All amounts are 50% of the total raised - starting to get grants etc. in 2013)
Also contractors for tech work etc. Potentially sharing full-time staff with like-minded organisations?
Asking Foundation to pay for first year of fundraiser/grants staff member?
WMUK Board: aim to diversify it and make it richer in experience
Board Interest meeting on Saturday 12 February. First of an annual event?
Trustee Proposition. Separation of executive decisions from the full Board.
7 board members (maybe 9 by 2013)
4 community-elected members, 3 expert seats proposed by the outgoing community-elected members of the Board at the AGM (subject to community approval) - 2012?
Quarterly in-person meetings (in addition to AGM). 2011: also interim online meetings in between in person meetings.
ExecCom for 2011, transitioning to CEO in 2013 (with ExecCom oversight). ExecCom meetings as required.
Community appointments for 2 years (half elected each year) - avoids 'lame duck' period, adds continuity. Institutional memory. 2011.
Advisory Board???
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
The board restructuring sounds sensible, providing you are not replacing the difficulty of filling board positions with the difficulty of filling executive ones. You might lure me back to the board yet. (^_^)
Your proposed budget seems a bit ambitious. I'm not convinced donation amounts will ramp up that fast, but I'll take your word for it.
One project that popped into my mind earlier today is sorting out music notation support. There's been a bug for this on bugzilla (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189 ) for ever, but it really just needs some (paid) developer time. It's getting ridiculous how slow the progress is.
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-----Original Message----- From: wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael Peel Sent: 23 September 2010 22:34 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK in 2013
Unfortunately, we ran out of time to talk more about the potential projects and non-admin targets for the chapter, so those sections are particularly abbreviated (there was a lot to discuss at this meeting...). I'd like to encourage everyone to give input to this in particular - what projects/targets should the chapter be aiming to carry out/achieve over the next three years?
Thanks, Mike
On 23 Sep 2010, at 22:29, Andrew Turvey wrote:
Earlier this month, the board sat down for our first in-person meeting since the AGM. We talked about our plans and achievements so far this year and wrote down where we wanted the chapter to be in three years' time.
Below are the notes we made on the day, which we'd like to share with you. By their nature they are abbreviated. Please let us know any comments or input you have to these, or if you have any queries about what this would mean for the chapter.
Regards,
Andrew Turvey Chair Wikimedia UK
----- Forwarded Message -----
Wikimedia UK Book Sprint: where do we want to be in 2013?
- Fully professionalised chapter
- Supporting non-UK chapters with historical links to the UK
Projects:
Culture
Education
Academic
Community
Multilingual
Wikipedia Academies / Workshops. Target audiences/locations aimed at getting people involved in editing Wikipedia. Two Wikipedia academies a year? Also workshops (~6 per year?).
Academic/external peer review process of Wikipedia articles?
Content partnerships (led by board members)
Fostering Wikimeets in different cities
Community editing sessions in libraries/museums/universities/schools/etc. (parallel to meetups?)
Yearly UK Wikimedia conference
Fundraising/international meetings
Wikimania???
5 November 2013: WMUK 5th birthday celebrations
Budget FTE staff2010 £50,000 0.2 2011 £125,000 1.5 (+ events, 0.5 x admin [starting from August with managed office]) 2012 £200,000 3 (+ fundraiser/sponsorship) 2013 £300,000 5 (+ developer, CEO/grants) Other possibilities: media contact. (All amounts are 50% of the total raised - starting to get grants etc. in 2013)
Also contractors for tech work etc. Potentially sharing full-time staff with like-minded organisations?
Asking Foundation to pay for first year of fundraiser/grants staff member?
WMUK Board: aim to diversify it and make it richer in experience
Board Interest meeting on Saturday 12 February. First of an annual event?
Trustee Proposition. Separation of executive decisions from the full Board.
7 board members (maybe 9 by 2013)
4 community-elected members, 3 expert seats proposed by the outgoing community-elected members of the Board at the AGM (subject to community approval) - 2012?
Quarterly in-person meetings (in addition to AGM). 2011: also interim online meetings in between in person meetings.
ExecCom for 2011, transitioning to CEO in 2013 (with ExecCom oversight). ExecCom meetings as required.
Community appointments for 2 years (half elected each year) - avoids 'lame duck' period, adds continuity. Institutional memory. 2011.
Advisory Board???
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
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On 23 September 2010 22:43, Tom Holden tom.holden@economics.ox.ac.uk wrote:
Your proposed budget seems a bit ambitious. I'm not convinced donation amounts will ramp up that fast, but I'll take your word for it.
The agreement between the WMF and chapters will be a little different this year (pretty much all donations from the UK will come to us and then be split 50/50 with the WMF). Based on the proportion of donations that came to us vs the WMF last year, this alone will double our budget.
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