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It was incorporated on the 5/11/2008. | It was incorporated on the 5/11/2008. | ||
=== The membership === | |||
Wiki UK Limited currently has 5 members, all of whom are on the board of directors. | |||
=== The board === | === The board === | ||
* '''Chair''' - Kwan Ting Chan | |||
* '''Secretary''' - Andrew Turvey | |||
* '''Treasurer''' - Thomas Holden | |||
* '''Communication Officer''' - Mickey Conn | |||
* '''Membership Secretary''' - Mike Peel | |||
== Operational Plan == | == Operational Plan == | ||
Revision as of 18:14, 14 November 2008
Executive Summary
Organizational Background
Mission and Objectives
The charity's mission 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.
It proposes to do fulfil this mission by means including (but not limited to):
- promoting freely accessible online information repositories whose content is freely and collaboratively editable;
- acting as a voice and representative for the community of UK residents and citizens who use and edit such repositories;
- preserving world heritage, and particularly that of the UK, through such repositories;
- supporting the charitable work of the Wikimedia Foundation;
- 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;
- furthering the development of electronic, printed, and other resources required to support such participation;
- producing, publishing and developing, or causing to be produced, published and developed, information resources, whether in printed, electronic, or other forms;
- making use of or encouraging the use of information resources for the advancement of education; and
- encouraging the adoption of practices and policies to widen education, participation and dissemination of information worldwide.
Current status
Wiki UK Limited is a registered, private company, limited by guarantee, with no share capital. It is company number 06741827 and its current registered address is:
Wiki UK Limited
23 Cartwright Way
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG9 1RL
It was incorporated on the 5/11/2008.
The membership
Wiki UK Limited currently has 5 members, all of whom are on the board of directors.
The board
- Chair - Kwan Ting Chan
- Secretary - Andrew Turvey
- Treasurer - Thomas Holden
- Communication Officer - Mickey Conn
- Membership Secretary - Mike Peel