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* 50 people attended launch event | * 50 people attended launch event at the V&A | ||
* http://www.britainloveswikipedia.org/ launched - 1340 visits between 28 and 31 January, and over 200 more this month. | * http://www.britainloveswikipedia.org/ launched - 1340 visits between 28 and 31 January, and over 200 more this month. | ||
* 53 photos so far at the V&A (48 pending, 3 approved, 2 tests) | * 53 photos so far at the V&A (48 pending, 3 approved, 2 tests) | ||
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* Planned improvements to website: | * Planned improvements to website: | ||
** Modifying upload form to remember details entered on previous uploads | ** Modifying upload form to remember details entered on previous uploads | ||
** Approval page: potentially have a way for volunteers to help importing official descriptions of objects and adding collection IDs and URLs | |||
** Pages displaying the approved photographs need improving, including viewing only certain museums, themes or photographers, and allowing people to vote on the images | ** Pages displaying the approved photographs need improving, including viewing only certain museums, themes or photographers, and allowing people to vote on the images | ||
** Complete code to transfer files onto Wikimedia Commons | ** Complete code to transfer files onto Wikimedia Commons | ||
Revision as of 20:16, 2 February 2010
- 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.
Carried forward - ongoing, not high priority. - 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. Carried forward - ongoing, not high priority.
- MP agreed to follow up with the foundation his request for detailed statistics on the proportion of UK internet users who use Wikipedia Carried forward (awaiting suggestions of desired statistics)
- MP will send out the agreed wikinews press release when the story next flares up (Sunday evening was suggested as generally a good time) Carried forward
- MP volunteered to follow up the photo donation opportunity Carried forward
- JS and MP will do a timeline and budget for GLAM-WIKI Carried forward
- MP will forward proof of ID and address to AT for the solicitors
Done - MP will arrange access to internal-l and to board.wikimedia.org.uk for Tango Done
- MP and JS to arrange the Britain Loves Wikipedia logo/leaflet design Done
- MP, TH and SV to approve Britain Loves Wikipedia press release Done
- MP, AT and JS to approve Britain Loves Wikipedia rules Done
- Press
- All quiet on the British front.
- Britain Loves Wikipedia
- 50 people attended launch event at the V&A
- http://www.britainloveswikipedia.org/ launched - 1340 visits between 28 and 31 January, and over 200 more this month.
- 53 photos so far at the V&A (48 pending, 3 approved, 2 tests)
- Photographs already approved by the V&A are at http://www.britainloveswikipedia.org/seeshots.php.
- Lots of activity on Twitter about the event: http://www.britainloveswikipedia.org/tweets.html . Now have 110 twitter followers.
- Planned improvements to website:
- Modifying upload form to remember details entered on previous uploads
- Approval page: potentially have a way for volunteers to help importing official descriptions of objects and adding collection IDs and URLs
- Pages displaying the approved photographs need improving, including viewing only certain museums, themes or photographers, and allowing people to vote on the images
- Complete code to transfer files onto Wikimedia Commons
- Urgent actions:
- Leaflets need finishing
- Longer term actions:
- Need to put together the jury for deciding who wins the prizes
- Other notes / things not to forget
- Two bugs currently with webhost: one for increasing the virtual memory of the host, the other for resolving intermittent network/DNS problems.
- http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/node/8 - worth signing?