On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Please see my new blog post here:
http://thomas-dalton.com/blog/2012/09/22/success-and-its-curse/
TL;DR: Wikimedia UK has had many successes throughout the last four
years, but it has moved too fast and this has caused problems. We need
to stop and think. To give ourselves time to do that, we need to
rewrite the 2013 Activity Plan so we’re not doing too much.
I have to agree with some of this.
I think that there is definitely a risk with Wikimedia UK that because
of the relatively large budget the chapter has, the board may rush
headlong into things which there isn't volunteer backing for.
We need to focus more on ensuring that we have enough volunteers that
we can actually pursue the goals we want. The important thing is that
all of the projects Wikimedia UK really ought to be pursuing are the
sorts of things that you can't just throw money at to solve. The money
should be there to support the activities of volunteers rather than
having the strange situation of having the money and the staff and the
ideas ready to go and having to scrape around to find volunteers.
--
Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>