I do hope we're not keeping the "signed" authoritative copy of legal
documents on the wiki. If we are, these should be page protected and
properly noted with the correct template until we can take a long hard look
in the mirror at our file keeping.

Meeting minutes are legal documents once they have been approved and signed
by the meeting chair. In the case of an AGM, this approval is generally the
next AGM. The page on a wiki itself notes that the minutes are a draft and
have not been approved. Should they not be approved because of a very
controversial internal link added by a seasoned contributor, these can be
amended. I'd like to think we're a little more open as a chapter and a
movement that's based on the principles of free and open knowledge than to
shun help from our valued people who are simply trying to aid readability.

The issue Deryck is describing is technical, if the report is correct, and
needs to be sorted by Jarry1250 (or whoever has taken over the bot
maintenance), and Deryck needs to follow the steps
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/User:Global_block_importer_bot> listed on
the bot's user page for an unblock.

-- Lewis Cawte

On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 22:28, Katie Crampton <katie.cramp...@wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:

> To be fair minutes for meetings shouldn’t be able to be edited by general
> editors anyway.
> I don’t really understand the issue you’ve described Deryck, but minutes
> of AGMs are legal documents that we need auditors and the membership to
> approve, so it’d be grand if edits can be suggested to a member of staff
> such as myself or Lucy as common practice rather than made to the page
> itself.
>
> Many thanks for highlighting the issue though.
>
> Best
> Katie
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 7 Jul 2021, at 20:36, Lucy Crompton-Reid <
> lucy.crompton-r...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Deryck
>
> I'll ask someone to look into this tomorrow. In the meantime, feel free to
> ping me the links and I will add them in.
>
> Thanks for flagging this up.
>
> Lucy
>
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 19:17, Deryck Chan <deryckc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just tried to edit the WMUK wiki to add a few internal links to the
>> 2020 AGM minutes but saw that I was blocked due to a block imported by the
>> global block importer. I had logged in.
>>
>> On further investigation I realised that there's a WM global softblock on
>> my IP range, but the WMUK wiki imported it as a hardblock. Can this be
>> adjusted?
>>
>> --Deryck
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