Activities

Activities Current — Proposals — Ideas

Wikimedia UK is currently active in the following projects:

• Wikipedia Loves Art
• Copyright consultation

Also see the Wikimedia UK Business Plan.

Potential future activities

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.

This is a preliminary list of ideas that have been suggested; please add yours too and add your comments on the ideas proposed:

1. Public relations
2. Supporting Wikipedia v1.0
3. Running campaigns in universities and schools encouraging students and academics to edit
4. Installing new tool servers in Kennisnet that we would have (some) control over (probably no legal issues with this)
5. Giving sessions at teacher training "top-up" days on the responsible use of Wikipedia (et al.) in the classroom
6. Working with the community to increase coverage of e.g. historical sites
7. Supporting the Wikimania 2010 Oxford bid
8. Employing developers
9. Hosting an annual UK Wiki-conference, combined with AGM. Details
10. Sourcing and digitising public domain works located in the UK (e.g. documents, books, pictures, ...)
11. Encouraging the release of new and currently copyrighted works under free licenses
12. 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.
13. Donating back to WMF, subject to charitable restrictions
14. Hosting/funding a local mirror ("squid server") of the Wikimedia websites, subject to legal issues regarding libel law
15. Supporting the German Chapter owned, Amsterdam located toolserver, subject to charitable restrictions and considerations of libel law
16. Events along the style of en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes The City?
17. Supporting projects in minority languages native to the United Kingdom, accessing public funds that are available to promote these languages
18. 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.
19. Using the name to pursuade people doing significant digitalisation projects to release these under a free license
20. Persuade a newspaper to reuse content from Wikinews, possibly regularly?