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 through this website 'overlay'. We have smartened it up already through the support of UK Wikipedians but it has its limits.
Stevie has explained it in greater detail at https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Engine_room#Digital_design_work_required On 8 June 2014 17:58, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 fellow volunteers. > Instead, we will have a public relations website subject to control by > the Chief Executive, presumably full of good news, and hidden behind > it will be the UK wiki, now acting only as a forum rather than a space > where volunteers could create pages that support fund-raisers, openly > discuss real issues, problems and so forth. > > As a community of volunteers, we seem to have let the charity > gradually drift away from being volunteer driven and volunteer centric > and become overly sensitive to public relations. I am not sure why we > let that happen. > > Link > https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Engine_room#Digital_design_work_required > > Fae > -- > fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
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