Activities/Proposals
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Before Wikimedia UK starts with a project, it ideally needs to be proposed. This is a fairy easy process, and just involves setting down the idea and the resources it will need. Please add new proposals as a section below. You should have a number of subsections as shown by the template.
Prior to 7 April 2009, there is the opportunity for funding from the Wikimedia Foundation.
A lot of projects were proposed for Wikipedia UK v1: m:Wikimedia UK v1.0/Possible projects.
Template
Outline
[Describe the idea]
Benefits
[Why is this a good thing to do?]
Financial requirements
[What will the project require for funding? Are there other potential sources for the funding?]
Volunteering
[How many volunteers would be needed? Have you got any so far? Please list usernames of anyone able to help, and encourage people to add theirs]
Discussion
[Add anything extra here. Mainly a space for other people to discuss the proposal, though.]
London Loves Wikipedia
Outline
Two proposals have been received both focusing on the events on St Valentine's Day]2009.
- a) Restricting the event to a centralised programme around working with museums along the lines of Loves Art Wikipedia Loves Art, thereby achieving an extensive relation to art
- b) Making the event extra lovely by including Wiki Art], a project set up on the same day which exhibits an intensive relation to art.
Benefits
It benefits the projects - especially Wikipedia - as it generates photos that can be used.
Financial requirements
Not much - prizes Could be sponsored as per Wikipedia Loves Art
Volunteering
Organisers (two? - one Board, one non-Board? User:AndrewRT was original proposer, Editor Potter also available.) Participants to take photos, process, upload, use (as many as possible)
Discussion
We could try to generalise things a bit more - e.g. go a bit more sciency and get the Science Museum and/or Natural History Museum involved, or have an additional focus on architecture. Mike Peel 22:43, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Schools project
[Tango42 / Skenmy to complete]
Outline
The idea of the Schools project is to get WMUK / Community representatives into schools (primary & secondary) and give a course of instruction to staff and/or pupils on the correct way of using Wikimedia projects in their school work, along with showing staff and/or pupils how to effectively and constructively contribute to the various projects.
Benefits
This will benefit the projects as we may be able to, as an example, get a journalism club in a secondary school writing for Wikinews, or primary school children contributing to the Simple English Wiktionary / Wikipedia. Photo projects could contribute to the Commons, and we could instruct on how to use the Commons to find appropriate pictures for school work. Sources such as Wikipedia and Wikiquote could become well used in school projects, without the stigma associated with Wikipedia usage in schools.
Financial requirements
- Travel costs for travelling to remote sites
- Equipment costs (A laptop will probably be required - Wikimedia UK Branded?)
There is, of course, the possibility of inviting people to a conference centre and holding a larger conference, instead of visiting individual schools.
- This exists in my locality, for instance, where the school I am employed by has a large conference suite and ICT suite, capable of holding and catering for 75 delegates at a time (one PC each). --Skenmy 19:17, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Volunteering
Do you work in or near a school and think you can help? List your name and your ideas for the project!
Discussion
We need to make sure we fully consider the controls required for working with children including whether this turns the chapter into a "childrens charity". AndrewRT 19:17, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
- At no time would we be responsible for any children, so I don't think there is much to worry about. Some CRB checks might be a nice touch, but even they wouldn't be essential. --Tango 22:03, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
- The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (which is not currently in force) will significantly extend the groups of people who need to be checked. When we start doing this the Board will need to look into it with great care. The Act requires all those carrying out a "regulated activity relating to children" to register; Sch4 1(2) would probably catch the WfS volunteers themselves as they would likely do volunteer work in schools more than 2 days in 30 and would have an opportunity for contact with children. All trustees might then be caught by Sch4 4(1)(g) as WMUK may be defined as a "children's charity" - something so broadly defined that it captures every charity which has at least two volunteers who are regulated themselves. So, if we had ten regular projects, one of which was WfS which had two people working on it, it looks like we might be caught. Daft I know - that's the consequence of the idiots we've got in parliament. AndrewRT 23:09, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Some parts of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 seem to have already come into force: [1][2][3].
Seed grant
Outline
The chapter needs income of £5,000 before it can register with the Charity Commission.
Benefits
Registering brings considerable benefits, such as status, perceived trust and cheaper costs. The alternative currently pursued is to register with HMRC, which is subject to significant delays.
The money itself can be earmarked by the WMF for particular projects, current or future.
Financial requirements
Our total income has to be brought up to £5,000. We have already raised around £300, so we need a further £4,700.
Other potential sources of funding are appeals to members and supporters.
Volunteering
No volunteers needed.
Discussion
This would be better done through a series of specific projects or general fundraising than as a proposal to the WMF. Mike Peel 19:50, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
- If we win the Wikimania 2010 Oxford bid, we might generate enough turnover/income to qualify for registration with the Charity Commission. – Kaihsu 22:11, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Content access partnerships
Outline
Working in collaboration with organisations that hold cultural, scholarly etc. archives that could be of benefit to the Wikimedia projects to release the material under free content licenses. This might include archived news stories (wikisource & wikipedia) or images (commons & wikipedia).
Benefits for the organisations involve free publicity, hits back to their websites where people could order, for instance full resolution prints of images, and verification of materials by the wiki community (e.g. checking descriptions for images)
Similar projects have been successfully completed by Wikimedia Deutschland:
See also the session at the Chapters meeting 2009
Leads we could follow up include:
- BBC - see discussions at AGM
- Dow Jones - Steve Virgin is standing for the 2009 Board
- Leicestershire County Council - discussions are taking place re their Photo Digitisation Access Project (see [6])
- etc.
Benefits
It releases large quantities of valuable content to the projects, and can increase the understanding of Wikipedia by large public organizations (and vice versa)
Financial requirements
<£200 to cover:
- Telephone
- Travel
- Lunches
Volunteering
Mainly contacts with possible organisations.
Need organiser to coordinate efforts, identify leads and focus efforts. Mike Peel is happy to lead this.
Volunteers needed to sort and use the content when it's released.