Meetings/2010-02-09/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. 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
• 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
  • 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?