Do any fellow unpaid volunteers have a view on the changeover of the
charity from using the volunteer controlled wiki as a front end, to
using a fixed employee controlled website?
I feel this will be the end of the UK wiki in terms of being a public
landing site with immediate engagement with fell
Like other chapters, including the Netherlands, Swiss, French, Swedish and
German chapters, we need a professional looking website that will attract
new volunteers and contributors, not just people who have an existing
knowledge of wikis. The wiki will not change: indeed it will still be
linked to
If someone makes a mistake when putting content into the new website, then
that mistake will remain for longer as volunteers won't be able to fix it.
On the other hand, a wiki isn't a great primary website for an
organisation, and WMUK should gain a lot from having a website that's
easier to naviga
There's a few points I made on the wiki that I think are worth repeating
here and that I hope can help:
- The* wiki is not going anywhere* and will remain the primary resource.
- For those who wish to go straight to the wiki, there will be a simple
option on their first visit to add a co
I think this makes sense. It is easy for experienced Wikimedians to lose
sight of the fact that wikis are not the most welcoming environment to
newbies. Meanwhile, people who otherwise might've had something to
contribute to WMUK but got lost in the weird world of the wiki will now
have a resource
On 10 Jun 2014, at 17:12, Jon Davies wrote:
> We have smartened it up already through the support of UK Wikipedians but it
> has its limits.
This is the bit I don't understand. What does the current proposal do that
*can't* be done on the wiki? Why do we *have* to have these non-editable page
On 10 Jun 2014, at 20:16, Dan Garry (Deskana) wrote:
> Obviously for the more regular, hardcore WMUK volunteers, the wiki will
> remain the primary resource, and if someone wants to become a hardcore
> volunteer then they'll need to deal with that. But for other casual
> volunteers, having th
Actually, you can hide the top and side bars as well, fairly straightforwardly.
For once, I'm with mike. A decent front end dev with a bit of patience really
can do anything you want with the wiki front page.
Forget the anti-cabal rhetoric for a minute. I'm a big fan of a more inviting
landing
On 10 June 2014 18:28, Stevie Benton wrote:
> Our wiki, like pretty much any Media Wiki installation I can think of, is
> not very accessible
How so?
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Some examples were discussed on the Wikimedia UK wiki a while back here -
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Talk:Accessibility_of_the_Wikimedia_websites
One of our trustees, Carol Campbell, put together a really good paper on
this, including some advice from the RNIB which we were given permission to
A charity is to have a website controlled by employees under direction from
the trustees who are elected by the members?
How awful.
On 10 Jun 2014 16:02, "Fæ" wrote:
> Do any fellow unpaid volunteers have a view on the changeover of the
> charity from using the volunteer controlled wiki as a fro
"Thank you. I'm familiar with that document - you'll see that I
commented on it, and offered to help (that offer stands), as did
others.
The issue not whether we could "use elements of" the paper, but the
bogus claim of copyright over someone else's work, which was both bad
practice - breaching ot
I, as yet, have no opinion on whether a website 'overlay' is a god idea or not;
I've been away for a week or so and I've just read through this thread. I would
caution against reinventing the wheel, though - accessibility has been a known
issue on Wikipedia for many years, and some considerable
On 12 June 2014 11:47, HJ Mitchell wrote:
>
> "Wikis aren't accessible" is one of those things people say, but nobody
> has yet provided anything concrete to explain that position.
>
Not helped by a required disambiguation:
*"Accessible" in common parlance for a website may equate to easy
navig
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