Meetings/2010-03-02/Agenda/Chair's Report

Actions

• MP to investigate moving our wiki at http://uk.wikimedia.org to http://www.wikimedia.org.uk subject to technical feasibility re Single User Logins and hosting, with gb.wikimedia.org as a potential alternative. Once this has been completed, MP to follow up with Wikimedia Ukraine regarding the "uk." website conflict.
• MP agreed to investigate moving our OTRS system to one hosted by ourselves to reduce the risk that confidential emails are inappropriately viewed by non-WMUK people or emails are sent in the name of the chapter without approval.
• MP agreed to follow up with the foundation his request for detailed statistics on the proportion of UK internet users who use Wikipedia
• MP will send out the agreed wikinews press release when the story next flares up (Sunday evening was suggested as generally a good time)
• MP volunteered to follow up the photo donation opportunity
• JS and MP will do a timeline and budget for GLAM-WIKI
• ...

Press coverage

• 16/02/2010 - Was interviewed by Radiolive in New Zealand (the overnight show for Ewing Stevens) on Wikipedia in general.

Britain Loves Wikipedia

• Initiatives/Britain Loves Wikipedia/Diagnosis
• Spoke to Patrick Steel from Museums Association about Britain Loves Wikipedia (11 Feb)
• 62 people attended the event at the Postal Archive

Comscore information Discuss

Useful things would include:

• Reach within the UK of, and unique visits from UK people to, the various projects (we already know for en.wp, but not for other projects)
  • Languages: English, Welsh, Gaelic, ...
• Anything else?

Misc

• Received an invitation to "The Social Media Reality Check" on 4 March in London; anyone interested in going? Discuss

Other things to do

• Bioblitz proposal - revamp