Thanks Fabian - and yes, I will do that. I'm sorry Hannah didn't contact this list about her departure, which I'm sure was an oversight. I have also been meaning to email the list about my return, but I'm going to do that in a separate message :)
Best Lucy On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 15:42, <leu...@fabiant.eu> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for that, Lucy. > > Might I suggest a small improvement which could be achieved for little > expense is that you use both this list and the wiki to keep people informed. > > Please have a look at the Engine Room > <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Engine_room>. It is unfortunate that there > has been no reply to Brian Kelly's inquiry about the VLE made back in > August. > > Likewise, the outdated staff photo – dating from 2015 is still the one > currently being used, despite the prompt dating from March 2018, which > Michael kindly responded to over four months later. > > Perhaps if you could ensure that a member of staff is charged with > checking this and responding to queries at the start of every week. This > would only take five minutes most weeks, as the unresponsiveness on the > wiki has meant there have only been 10 posts in all of 2018. > > Likewise the water cooler, where the sole inquirer for 2018 has been > waiting four months for a response! > > Also I understand that Hannah Evans has left. I feel that people on this > list had been informed. > > all the best, > > Fabian Tompsett > > aka Leutha > > > On 30 November 2018 at 14:17 Lucy Crompton-Reid < > lucy.crompton-r...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > > > Hi all > > Thanks for your comments and suggestions about the chapter's Wiki, and > related technical issues. There have been a few conversations around this > at board and senior management level recently and we are aware that there > is a need to improve our approach to technology both at an operational > level (with some work currently happening on this front) and at a > programmatic/strategic level (ditto). There is much more to be done however > > and we're aware that we also need to work more closely with the volunteer > community on both the challenges and opportunities we're facing regarding > technology - so please bear with us while we seek to address some of the > issues highlighted (and others that haven't been!) > > Thanks and best > Lucy > > > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 14:02, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > -- > Lucy Crompton-Reid > Chief Executive > Wikimedia UK > +44 (0) 203 372 0762 > > *Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open > knowledge movement, and a registered charity. 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