Talk:2012 Five Year Plan/Fourth draft

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  • This needs a copy-edit. I corrected a few of my pet peeves, but I'm assuming "draft" means "nowhere near being published beyond this wiki". Harry Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:47, 30 May 2012 (UTC)


Introduction



The Plan


Programmes and Activities


GLAM work


(How do you quantify 'trusted partner'? Haven't we already done that? Why is Bristol City FC mentioned here? 20 local partnerships should be a 1-year objective. Mike Peel (talk) 19:56, 20 May 2012 (BST))

Bristol City - to see if anyone noticed :) But why not? An editathon on a Saturday morning before kick off? There are at least 100 pages that could do with a brush-up.Jon Davies WMUK (talk) 14:38, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

(These aren't SMART goals - in particular they aren't quantifiable. As currently written, they're already done. Mike Peel (talk) 19:56, 20 May 2012 (BST))

(There are so many thing missing from this that I'm not sure where to start. Possibly try N partnerships per year, M documents released under a free license, N articles improved - and keep going from there? Mike Peel (talk) 19:56, 20 May 2012 (BST))

Working with Higher Education


Other education Projects


Technical Innovations


Members and Volunteers


Membership

  • To have 1000 members
    • Is this following our historical growth rate? Mike Peel (talk) 20:15, 20 May 2012 (BST)
  • To have established regional groups and special interest uses
    • I'm not sure we actually want this - would be better to keep membership cohesive on a national basis. Mike Peel (talk) 20:15, 20 May 2012 (BST)
Five year target
  • To have 2000 members
    • Note that Andrew Turvey's estimates were much higher than this. Mike Peel (talk) 20:15, 20 May 2012 (BST)
  • To have quarterly member's meetings to actively debate topics and issues.
    • Needs consideration of our online nature. Mike Peel (talk) 20:15, 20 May 2012 (BST)

Membership communications

Creating regular and informative methods of informing our membership and supporters about our activities.

One year target

A full evaluation of the current means of communications has been carried out and their efficacy measured and analysed. Symbol wait.svg Doing... --Stevie Benton (talk) 11:06, 24 May 2012 (BST)

Redundant channels are removed and successful channels re-inforced through greater variety and a more timely approach to the publication of information.

This will follow the above --Stevie Benton (talk) 11:06, 24 May 2012 (BST)

A quarterly enewlstter is established for supporters and members with news. Regular emails are sent drawing attention to events and activities. A lively member's fora is fostered.

I'm currently working on draft templates for this using MailChimp --Stevie Benton (talk) 11:06, 24 May 2012 (BST)

Wikimeets


Volunteer support


Annual Conference


Management and Governance


The Wikimedia UK Board

One year target
  • All trustees have received training in their role as a charity trustee.
  • That each meeting of the board includes an opportunities for feedback from the membership and wider community.
  • That two-year terms are providing sufficient stability for the chapter to operate flawlessly over the course of the AGM and the bringing-up-to-speed of new trustees
Three year target
  • All trustees have developed specialist roles within the board and gained the appropriate expertise.
    • Do we want specialist roles? If so, do we want those to be developed by existing trustees or to have been recognised in new trustees? If the former, do we want to provide training opportunities for trustees and potential trustees? Mike Peel (talk) 20:29, 20 May 2012 (BST)
  • That the community are familiar with the board and its operations and feel able to contribute to significant debates.
    • I'd hope that we were there already. If we're not, then we need to figure out what needs to be done to get to that state - and have those things as our goals. Mike Peel (talk) 20:29, 20 May 2012 (BST)
Five year target
  • The trustees have all become accomplished.
    • What does this mean? Mike Peel (talk) 20:29, 20 May 2012 (BST)
      • Indeed. There should be renewal. Six years maximum terms??? LoopZilla (talk) 11:59, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
        • I've yet to find a convincing argument for term limits for trustees. But perhaps that's because I'd probably be the first to be affected by them? Mike Peel (talk) 19:21, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
  • That the board has the full confidence of the community and competition for places is intense.
    • This implies that the board currently doesn't have that confidence, and that there isn't a strong competition for places - which our last AGM would appear to disagree with... Mike Peel (talk) 20:29, 20 May 2012 (BST)
  • That the WMUK board sets the standard for chapter boards and influences others.
    • How does this relate to smaller chapters that haven't yet reached WMUK's level of maturity? Providing guidance and encouragement for the development of other chapters would be a much better goal to aim for. Mike Peel (talk) 20:29, 20 May 2012 (BST)

Governance benchmarking


Staff and office


Publications and merchandising


External relations


UK organisations


Expert outreach


Press and media


The PR industry

One year target

To work with the PR trade bodies to develop codes of good practice for the industry with regard to Wikipedia. Symbol wait.svg Doing... --Stevie Benton (talk) 11:11, 24 May 2012 (BST)

To support training is offered based on good practice guidelines.

Three year target

To monitor the code of practice and pick up on breaches.

To have supported the international development of the code of practice.

Five year target

That the issue of inappropriate PR editing has ceased to be a problem in the UK.

A good aspiration! --Stevie Benton (talk) 11:11, 24 May 2012 (BST)
But not a realistic one. And I speak here as an experienced, slightly cynical OTRS agent. We might be able to eliminate almost al inappropriate editing from PR agencies, because there are only so many of them, and, through education (and some carrots and sticks), we can probably get them to understand Wikipedia. But a huge amount of OTRS emails come from marketing departments of companies and from agents directly employed by their client, and most of those result from them having tried to do something inappropriate and having been slapped down from it. I don't think it will ever go away completely, and I'm not sure it's WMUK's place to make it. Harry Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:32, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

International Links


Finances


Fundraising


Financial Management


Reporting and Accountability

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