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