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| | If you'd like to see what Wikimedia UK is working on, our website is the best place for our community of volunteers, donors and members to stay up to date. |
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| '''Wikimedia UK v2.0''' is the second attempt at a [[Wikimedia chapter]] for the UK. The Company is called '''Wiki UK Limited'''; it intends to operate under the name "''Wikimedia UK''" after approval by the Wikimedia Foundation. [[#Board members|Board members]] were elected in September 2008, and the company was incorporated on 5 November 2008. [[/Membership|Membership applications are now being invited]], to be processed as soon as we have a bank account. The chapter has received initial approval from the [[Chapters committee]], and is currently awaiting approval from the [[Wikimedia Foundation]].
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| | General inquiries: info{{@}}wikimedia.org.uk<br> |
| | Media: press{{@}}wikimedia.org.uk |
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| Discussion is taking place on the [[mail:WikimediaUK-l|Wikimedia UK mailing list]] (see the [[mailarchive:wikimediauk-l|archives]]), as well as in real time on the following IRC channels:
| | You can follow us on Twitter (<span class="plainlinks">[http://twitter.com/wikimediauk @wikimediauk]</span>) or Like us on Facebook (<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK WikimediaUK]</span>). |
| * General Chapter discussion: [[irc:wikimedia-uk]]
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| * Discussion of the [[Wikimania 2010/Bids/Oxford|Oxford bid to host Wikimania 2010]]: [[irc:wikimania-oxford]]
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| * [[Wikimedia UK v2.0/Board meetings|Board meetings]]: weekly in [[irc:wikimedia-uk-board]].
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| The [[Wikimedia UK|first attempt]] failed due to problems with getting set up and is in the process of being dissolved. In order to avoid some of these problems we have been committed to being open, transparent and democratic from the start.
| | You can also sign up to the <span class="plainlinks">[https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l email discussion list]</span> for the Wikimedia community in the UK. |
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| == Objectives == | | :'''''[[contact us|More contact details]]''''' |
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| The [[Wikimedia UK v2.0/MoA|Memorandum of Association]] sets out a formal "''Object''" of the company which forms an absolute restriction on its activities. The contents are hard to change and therefore have been drafted in a general form so that the chapter has maximum flexibility for its future operations, yet also complies with the requirements of the [[en:Charity Commission|Charity Commission]], [[en:Companies Act|Companies Acts]] and [[Wikimedia Foundation]]'s [[Requirements for future chapters]] including Wikimedia's [[Mission]] Statement. We have also considered the Wikimedia Foundation's [[Guidelines for future chapters]] where appropriate.
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| {{quote|The charity's Object is to aid and encourage people to collect, develop and effectively disseminate knowledge and other educational, cultural and historic content in the public domain or under a license that allows everyone to freely use, distribute and modify said content, by means including (but not limited to):
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| # promoting freely accessible online information repositories whose content is freely and collaboratively editable;
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| # acting as a voice and representative for the community of UK residents and citizens who use and edit such repositories;
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| # preserving world heritage, and particularly that of the UK, through such repositories;
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| # supporting the charitable work of the Wikimedia Foundation;
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| # enabling, assisting, promoting and promulgating wider participation in the creation, dissemination and expansion of information and educational resources covering the world's knowledge and languages to all persons, everywhere;
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| # furthering the development of electronic, printed, and other resources required to support such participation;
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| # producing, publishing and developing, or cause to be produced, published and developed, information resources, whether in printed, electronic, or other forms;
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| # making use of or encouraging the use of information resources for the advancement of education; and
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| # encouraging the adoption of practices and policies to widen education, participation and dissemination of information worldwide|[[Wikimedia UK v2.0/MoA|Memorandum of Association]] (extract)}}
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| * to create a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge by empowering and engaging people to collect, develop and effectively disseminate educational content under a free license or in the public domain;
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| * to act as a voice and representative for the UK Wikimedian community;
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| * the advancement of education for all in particular by supporting the charitable work of the Wikimedia Foundation;
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| == Potential future activities == | | <h4><span class="plainlinks">[https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=4 Join Wikimedia UK]</span></h4> |
| | | Members play a key role in shaping the future of the Chapter. Membership is open to all and costs just £5 a year. |
| The interim board is focussed on the practicalities of setting up the chapter - incorporation, opening a bank account, gaining official Chapter status, processing membership, arranging Gift Aid and organising the first Annual General Meeting. However, once this has been completed, we intend to turn our attention to substantive actions we can do to support the Wikimedia projects.
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| This is a preliminary list of ideas that have been suggested; please add yours too and add your comments on the ideas proposed:
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| # Public relations
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| # Supporting [[w:Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team|Wikipedia v1.0]]
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| # Running campaigns in universities and schools encouraging students and academics to edit
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| # Installing new tool servers in Kennisnet that we would have (some) control over (probably no legal issues with this)
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| # Giving sessions at teacher training "top-up" days on the responsible use of Wikipedia (et al.) in the classroom
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| # Working with the community to increase coverage of e.g. historical sites
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| # Supporting the [[Wikimania 2010/Bids/Oxford|Wikimania 2010 Oxford bid]]
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| # Employing developers
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| # Hosting an annual UK Wiki-conference, combined with AGM. [[/AGM|Details]]
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| # Sourcing and digitising public domain works located in the UK (e.g. documents, books, pictures, ...)
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| # Encouraging the release of new and currently copyrighted works under free licenses
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| # Stimulate research into the use of wikipedia as an educational and communication tool. Seek academic partners to further this aim and bid for research funds.
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| # Donating back to WMF, subject to charitable restrictions
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| # Hosting/funding a local mirror ("squid server") of the Wikimedia websites, subject to legal issues regarding libel law
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| # Supporting the German Chapter owned, Amsterdam located toolserver, subject to charitable restrictions and considerations of libel law
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| # Events along the style of [[:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes The City]]?
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| # Supporting projects in [[w:Languages of the United Kingdom|minority languages native to the United Kingdom]], accessing public funds that are available to promote these languages
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| # Using our name to get into areas that would otherwise be hard to get into (museam backrooms bits of industrial archology) or doing much the same for major document collections.
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| # Using the name to pursuade people doing significant digitalisation projects to release these under a free license
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| == Board members ==
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| The initial board members, responsible for setting up the company and then turning it into a charity, are:
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| | Kwan Ting Chan || [[User:KTC]] || Chair | | |[[File:Comments alt font awesome.svg|40px|link=Events|Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0]] |
| | |<h4>[[Events]]</h4> |
| | We organise dozens of events each year, including meetups, editing events, "Backstage Pass" events at museums, workshops and conferences. |
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| | Michael Conn || [[User:Warofdreams]] || Communication Officer
| | |[[File:User font awesome.svg|40px|link=Volunteer|Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0]] |
| | |<h4>[[Volunteer]]</h4> |
| | Participate in one of our ongoing outreach projects, working with the cultural and education institutions of the UK. |
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| | Tom Holden || [[User:Cfp]] || Treasurer | | |[[File:Book font awesome.svg|40px|link=Project grants|Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0]] |
| | |<h4>[[Project grants]]</h4> |
| | Request a project grant to help you with your editing or outreach activities on any Wikimedia project. |
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| | Michael Peel || [[User:Mike Peel]] || Membership Secretary | | |[[File:Credit card font awesome.svg|40px|link=https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk|Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0]] |
| | |<h4><span class="plainlinks">[https://wikimedia.access.charity/donate/donate Donate]</span></h4> |
| | Donate to Wikimedia UK to keep Wikipedia running free from advertising and support our work getting more people and institutions working with Wikipedia and its sister projects. |
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| | Andrew Turvey || [[User:AndrewRT]] || Secretary
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| These members met the 50% support requirements in the elections held in September 2008. If by May 2009 (6 months after becoming a company) we have still not held an AGM at which all of the board stood down, or if we have not processed more than 95% of the membership applications received more than one month before the AGM, by the time it happens, then we will ask the WMF to withdraw any trademark license and official UK chapter status they have given us. We hope to arrange for WMF to commit to doing this.
| | We are always interested to hear from new [[volunteer|volunteers]]. If you have an idea you'd like to help make happen, or time and skills you would like to offer Wikimedia UK, please get in touch on volunteering{{@}}wikimedia.org.uk |
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| Voting pages were at [[Wikimedia UK v2.0/Vote]] and [[Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/Candidate_FAQs]]. Minutes of board meetings are at [[Wikimedia UK v2.0/Board meetings]].
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| If you would like to be kept informed of developments by receiving a copy of the monthly newsletter, please sign up [[/Newsletter|here]].
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| We are now inviting applications for membership! Membership is open to all; there are no restrictions in the location or age of members, and members do not need to be editors of any of the Wikimedia Foundation projects.
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| Members have the right to elect the Board, submit motions and vote at AGMs, thereby playing a central role in determining the activities of the chapter.
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| The annual subscription costs £12 (£6 for concessions). Please apply using the form [[Image:Wiki_UK_Ltd_membership_application_form.pdf|here]] and note that applicants under 18 need to have the form countersigned by their parent or guardian.
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| These applications will be processed as soon as our bank account is opened. We have recently applied for the account and hope that this will be up and running by late December.
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| If you are interested in supporting the chapter but do not want to join as a member, please consider donating to the chapter.
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| We applied for Gift Aid on 23 November; HMRC are currently working to a response time of 6-8 weeks, so we expect to hear back around the middle of January. We will be able to reclaim income tax from UK tax-payers as soon as this is accepted and will also be able to reclaim tax on donations given prior to the date of acceptance.
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| ==Interested in being kept informed==
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| If you do not wish to be a member at this time but wish to be kept informed or can help in other ways please add your name below.
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| # Following proceedings with interest. [[User:Adambro|Adambro]] 06:53, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
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| # Particularly interested in being involved if the new entity is Not-For Profit [[User:Open Research|Open Research]] 08:45, 29 August 2008 (UTC).
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| #:It will most certainly be non-profit, we will eventually be registering for charitable status (there are hoops to jump through first). — [[User:Tango|Tango]] 18:17, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
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| # I'd like to know what's going on. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Axl Axl] 07:31, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
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| # Please keep me informed...[[User:Zir|Zir]] 00:16, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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| #[[User:Hiding|Hiding]] 11:20, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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| # Please keep me informed.[[Special:Contributions/82.29.255.162|82.29.255.162]] 08:45, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
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| # I need to know what the fees are before I commit, but I'm interested in seeing whats happening. [[User:Anonymous101|Anonymous101]] 10:39, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
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| # Interested. Please don't call it a "chapter" though. Unless it's actually a section of a book. Or possibly Hell's Angels. Does it come with a leather jacket? --[[User:Dweller|Dweller]] 11:30, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
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| #:"Chapter" is the correct term for something like this. Even if we didn't like it, we have little say in the matter since that's what the WMF calls organisations like ours. --[[User:Tango|Tango]] 17:39, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
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| #::Although we don't have to call it that ourselves if we dont want to! [[User:AndrewRT|AndrewRT]] 21:56, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
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| #:::It's not a name, it's a description. I don't think there is a better way of describing ourselves. --[[User:Tango|Tango]] 22:14, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
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| #::::To my delicate ears, it's a horrible Americanism. I'm sure there are UK organisations with "chapters" (Google is your friend), but it makes me shudder. --[[User:Dweller|Dweller]] 14:16, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
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| #::::: And to mine, good sir. --[[User:Celestianpower|Celestianpower]] ([[w:User:Celestianpower|wp]], [[wiktionary:User:Celestianpower|wikt]], [[b:User:Celestianpower|books]]) 21:59, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
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| # [[User:Martinp23|Mart]]'''[[User_talk:Martinp23|inp23]]''' 17:48, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
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| # [[User:Celestianpower|Celestianpower]] ([[w:User:Celestianpower|wp]], [[wiktionary:User:Celestianpower|wikt]], [[b:User:Celestianpower|books]]) 21:59, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
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| # I'm interested, but been very busy. Looks like I missed the vote and all of the discussions :-( -- [[User:Harry Wood|Harry Wood]]
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| # [[User:J Milburn|J Milburn]] 19:56, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
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| # --[[User:MichaelMaggs|MichaelMaggs]] 18:11, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
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| # I'm not much interested in joining, but I would be willing to make a donation if and when you are registered for Gift Aid. [[User:Angusmclellan|Angus McLellan]] [[:en:User talk:Angusmclellan|(enwiki talk)]] 00:00, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
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