(help also welcomed!) On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, 14:14 Thomas Morton, <morton.tho...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> There might be some plugins missing post update; a lot of the plugins dont > worl with the new version. > > If you get a list together I can look to get them reinstalled. > > > T > > On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, 12:05 John Lubbock, <john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk> > wrote: > >> We don't have any technologists on staff. We contract work to someone, >> but I believe they are pretty fully occupied with some back end issues at >> the moment. >> >> John Lubbock >> >> Communications Coordinator >> >> Wikimedia UK >> >> +44 (0) 203 372 0767 >> >> >> >> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and >> Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1, >> Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ. >> >> Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open >> knowledge movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our >> work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting >> Wikimedia UK? Donate here <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk>. >> >> The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate >> Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent >> non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility >> for its contents.* >> >> >> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 11:56, Lewis Cawte <lewisca...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> In place of a more useful researched answer (as I'm in a lecture) but >>> does the chapter not employ/contract people to manage the websites and IT? >>> >>> I'm a bit out of touch with chapter things these days, but I'm sure this >>> was a thing that the contractors used to handle for staff? >>> >>> -- Lewis Cawte >>> >>> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, 11:35 John Lubbock, <john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, this is an email to ask for help and advice on improving the >>>> Wikimedia UK websiite. Speaking to RexX recently at an event, I was >>>> discussing some of the issues we are having with the UK website recently as >>>> a result of it not being updated much. Some other chapters have recently >>>> gone down the path of moving away from MediaWiki to make their sites more >>>> user friendly, but I don't think we want to do that and I feel sure that >>>> with a bit of effort we could make our MediaWiki site look a lot nicer. >>>> >>>> If you look at the Special:Version >>>> <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Special:Version> page on the WMUK site, >>>> you can see all the extensions that are installed currently. It appears we >>>> are lacking many that would be useful, and not being a huge MediaWiki >>>> person I wonder if anybody could lend a hand with helping to install some. >>>> In particular, we cannot display video on the site, because there is no >>>> Timed Media Handler extension. We probably also need Template Styles for >>>> reactive tables, and there's probably more that would be useful. I would >>>> really appreciate if anybody could offer help in installing these and/or >>>> advising what other extensions we should install. >>>> >>>> The website really needs quite a lot of work, but one thing I would >>>> really like to be able to do is to automate scraping the image and lead >>>> paragraph off blog posts and having it go onto the WMUK main Wiki page. At >>>> the moment this needs to be done manually and this is quite annoying. The >>>> same goes for the events list on the main Wiki page, which constantly has >>>> to be updated and duplicated from the Events page. Again, if anybody knows >>>> how this could be achieved, we would be very grateful. >>>> >>>> One idea I'd like to suggest for doing this is to have a WMUK one day >>>> workshop with anybody who is interested to meet up and work with us on >>>> improving the site. I would be happy to organise this and arrange it if >>>> people would like to attend help us improve the site. If you would be >>>> willing to willing to come to London for this kind of event, please let me >>>> know so I can get an idea of how many people might come and help out. >>>> >>>> I hope that Wikimedia UK can also be here to support your Wikimedia >>>> work and projects, so please bear in mind that there are always small >>>> grants available for expenses to cover members' projects, so please let us >>>> know what interesting things you have been doing and if there is any way we >>>> can support you. >>>> >>>> All the best, >>>> >>>> John Lubbock >>>> >>>> Communications Coordinator >>>> >>>> Wikimedia UK >>>> >>>> +44 (0) 203 372 0767 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England >>>> and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1, >>>> Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ. >>>> >>>> Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open >>>> knowledge movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our >>>> work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting >>>> Wikimedia UK? Donate here <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk>. >>>> >>>> The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate >>>> Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent >>>> non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility >>>> for its contents.* >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimedia UK mailing list >>>> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >>>> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia UK mailing list >>> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >>> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > >
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