> On 08 January 2019 at 09:53 John Lubbock
> wrote:
> Please ask us.
>
Here's a thought I last expressed 20 years ago, to the chair of a voluntary
organisation experiencing disaffection: when things get a bit better, people
complain more.
That was in private, and I have no reason to
But also: why not just do those small projects with the chapter? There's
nothing stopping anybody from organising an editathon and asking for help
and expenses for it by way of a small grant. I'd love to help people do
field trips for WLM, for example. I'm here to help, so please use me as a
On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 23:41, Harry Mitchell wrote:
>
> By the way, since I know you and I are not the only ones who feel, to be
> charitable to both sides, that WMUK's focus on large projects and residencies
> has squeezed out the smaller projects, why don't we set something else up?
Because
By the way, since I know you and I are not the only ones who feel, to be
charitable to both sides, that WMUK's focus on large projects and
residencies has squeezed out the smaller projects, why don't we set
something else up? Not a chapter but a society of Wikimedians focusing on
small projects
As I recall, there was a reason for that professionalisation. Something to
do with a mismanaged conflict of interest by a board member, compounded by
a PR scandal involving a certain other. Be careful where you point those
rose-tinted spectacles.
And re: Richard, diversity of experience is of
Seems negative Harry. This is surely the outcome that everyone
expected when the WMUK board was professionalised by going from
volunteer led, to appointing trustees without even minimal Wikimedia
project experience. Add to this a significant reduction in
transparency and reducing elections, while
The fact that recent changes and watchlists are not working is certainly an
issue as it hinders the website's ability to function as a discussion forum
and it makes maintenance and dealing with spam much harder. And for anyone
who uses them to see what's going on and stay in touch it does look
The Wikimedia UK wiki used to see a lot of activity. It was never
coherently organised, but the staff and volunteers who were running
projects used it as a sort of filing cabinet for documentation of events
etc, and a small group of us used to keep an eye on the recent changes for
spam and other
Thanks Chris, and apologies that these issues are still not resolved - I
appreciate that this is very frustrating. I'll need to look into this over
the next few days and get back to you, but just wanted to acknowledge your
message in the meantime. Cheers, Lucy
On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 at 17:27, Chris
This issue was raised on the wiki and this mailing list at the end of
November. We were assured then that the problem, apparently also affecting
QRpedia among other things, and action was in hand to resolve this problem
and prevent similar issues in the future.
However, over a month later
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