On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 13:31, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > Trust me nobody is more frustrated about it all than me. > > The whole "three wise monkeys" approach by WMUK to its wiki has been going on > for years, and is quite unacceptable. > > Charles > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list
Now would be a good time for the WMUK board to review whether having its own wiki is worth the on-going investment in scarce volunteer time or employee time. Running a blog does not need a wiki, and many other chapters happily use meta to publish reports and documents which can be discussed by anyone there, with zero budget or consultancy needed. When we created the charity's own wiki, there was a vibrant and highly active UK charity volunteer community of hundreds. A significant proportion of the most active volunteers used our entirely volunteer driven wiki to coordinate the projects and policies of the evolving charity. Those reasons no longer exist. Projects can, and probably should, be coordinated on WMF supported sites, such as project pages on Meta, Wikipedia and Commons, with the obvious benefits that volunteers globally can easily link to it, find it (via standard search), and participate, rather than being directed to a peculiar chapter wiki that they will have no special incentive to use for discussion and is increasingly subject to outage and maintenance headaches. For QRpedia, current and potential usage is far wider than the UK. Discussing its maintenance and long term future should be widely promoted and can easily justify a specific WMF funding case. Thanks Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
