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Wikimedia UK is pleased to report the election of four trustees to the Board of the charity by its membership. The election took place at yesterday's Annual General Meeting in Lincoln.
''The below was originally published by Simon Knight. [http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/2013/06/wmuk-conference-mediawiki-for-oer-and-learning-analytics/ You can read the original here].''


Saad Choudri was previously co-opted to the Board of Wikimedia UK in September 2012. He has taken a very active role and and has been involved in projects such as Wikimania 2014 and continues to work on the transfer of QRpedia to the charity. Saad works as a lawyer in the video games industry.
On Saturday I spoke in Lincoln at the [[WikiConference UK 2013|WikimediaUK Conference]] on Mediawiki for OER and Learning Analytics – [http://www.slideshare.net/sjgknight/media-wiki-for-oer-and-learning-analytics-understanding-learning-resources-and-learners?ref=http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/2013/06/wmuk-conference-mediawiki-for-oer-and-learning-analytics/ slides (with audio) here], video (I think) available on the conference link some time later this week.


Greyham Dawes was co-opted to the Board of Wikimedia UK in February 2013, replacing John Byrne as Honorary Treasurer. He has worked hard to make sure the charity’s accounts are ready for submission to the Charity Commission and Companies House. Greyham is a chartered accountant and has extensive experience of charitable governance.
I’d met a group of the people last year at [[EduWiki Conference 2012|EduWiki 2012]] (and my thoughts at: [http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/wikipedia-education-and-tracking-how-knowledge-used EduWiki 2012]), and my talk built a lot on the work I did at Cambridge on the [http://orbit.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/Home ORBIT] project – creating a platform for OER on interactive teaching particularly in STEM subject, as well as more recent work related to my PhD. In particular I was talking about some stuff I’ve covered in blogs on:


Michael Maggs will be serving on the Board for the first time. He is a bureaucrat on Wikimedia Commons and is currently a key member of the Wiki Loves Monuments steering group. Michael worked as a patent attorney for many years until his recent retirement.
*The extent of ‘openess’ in [http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/creative-commons-open-government-licensing-and-pdfs OGL licence material released solely as PDF]
*[http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/2013/01/mediawiki-for-learning-analytics/ Mediawiki for Learning Analytics]
*[http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/finding-knowledge-linking-open-educational-resources Paradata, linked data and creating personalised learning pathways]
*[http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/2013/05/collaborative-information-seeking-on-wikipedia-talk-pages/ Collaborative information seeking on talk pages] (I didn’t really mention this in the talk, but it was something I chatted to people about over the weekend)
I was particularly happy to hear talks from education organiser [http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/03/toni-sant-joins-wikimedia-uk-as-education-organiser/ Toni Sant], WMUK Associate (and a big contributor to education outreach) [[User:MartinPoulter|Martin Poulter]], and communications organiser (and someone I’ve talked to a bit about [http://www.digitaldisruption.co.uk/about/ Digital Disruption's] work) [[User:Stevie Benton (WMUK)|Stevie Benton]].


Alastair McCapra will also be serving on the Board for the first time. He has previous experience of governance, having served as a trustee of Birkbeck College. He also sits on the Finance Committee of the Construction Industry Council. Alastair is currently the Chief Executive of the Landscape Institute. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/06/wikimedia-uk-announces-election-of-new-board-members/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
I’ve put some thoughts below on particular aspects of the event, in the long run I think there are some interesting questions around how wikimedia meets its targets (and what those are), one thing I was thinking about yesterday was whether we need to start thinking about the mediawiki platform as a classroom tool in the same way as google has pushed google docs – it’s a good way to encourage brand affiliation, and familiarise people with your tools (and get them off microsoft’s – who of course do exactly the same thing). '''It may be that tools like mediawiki – particularly given that they are open source, very flexible, and allow a lot of interesting pedagogic and analytic things to happen, might be particularly amenable to the sort of ‘technology for pedagogy' things I talked about not so long ago.''' <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/06/wmuk-conference-mediawiki-for-oer-and-learning-analytics/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>Continues ...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>


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