Talk:Agenda 19Nov11
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Pre Work
Mermbership retention
- Sue volunteered to talk about member retention which fitted in with our membership theme for this meeting. This is a big subject on en:wikipedia and will be a problem on other wikis. I'm told Norway lost a lot of editors. Victuallers 16:10, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
- Is there confusion here between 'member' (of WMUK) and 'editor' (of the Wikimedia projects)? We aren't doing badly with retaining members once they've joined, and our number of members is growing at a stable rate - so I suspect that 'editor' is meant here. It would certainly be good to discuss ways to ramp up WMUK's activities to engage with more people, and draw them into becoming active editors. That's probably Wikimedia's biggest problem right now. Mike Peel 18:26, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Media
- I also asked her to talk about working with media because
- Its what she used to be a journalist (Canadian Newspaper I was told)
- Its a skill that the board members need to improve?
- We are in the middle of media interest with the fundraiser and imminent charity approval?
- We are a big brand and silly and scandalous stories come our way (Andrew told me his babysitter was given a court summons last year) Victuallers 16:10, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
- Sue's last job prior to joining the Foundation was 'director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website and online news outlets', which is a distinct role from being a reporter, although she was trained and worked as a journalist. I'm sure that she can tell us a lot about working with the media, but that's not the most beneficial thing we can discuss. There's plenty of skill and knowledge on the board, and we can involve others as consultants to gain more understanding of this topic - the limiting factor here is person-time to implement things (we're very much focused on doing, rather than talking, right now).
- Court summons are a completely separate issue, and are related to misunderstandings where people think that WMUK is responsible for Wikipedia's content (whereas it clearly isn't). Talking about the legal issues surrounding Wikimedia and UK law would be a more useful discussion topic, but still not the optimal one.
- Please see Fæ's email for discussion topics that would be more useful. Thanks. Mike Peel 18:26, 4 November 2011 (UTC)