Meetings/2010-03-02/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. Doing...
• 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 (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 Doing... see below
• 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 Doing...
• JS and MP will do a timeline and budget for GLAM-WIKI Carried forward
• Mike to ask someone from MLA/V&A to be on the jury for Britain Loves Wikipedia Done (Nadia Arbach)
• Mike to update BLW prizes to include a Wikimedia branded T-shirt (budget £50) Carried forward
• Agreed to sign the Public Domain Manifesto following ddiscussion on the email list. MP will arrange to sign on our behalf Doing... (email sent)
• The Collections Trust is arranged a meeting on 22 February about Linked Data - MP agreed to attend. Done

Press coverage

• 16/02/2010 - Was interviewed by Radiolive in New Zealand (the overnight show for Ewing Stevens) on Wikipedia in general. Discuss

Britain Loves Wikipedia

• Initiatives/Britain Loves Wikipedia/Diagnosis
• Spoke to Patrick Steel from Museums Association about Britain Loves Wikipedia (11 Feb)
• 62 people attended the event at the Postal Archive
• Nearly 200 photos have been uploaded so far - now visible at http://britainloveswikipedia.org/seeshots.php
• Timeline: Until 14 March to upload photographs; until end March for museums to approve photographs; prizes then awarded in the middle of April.

Comscore information Discuss

Useful things would include:

• Reach within the UK of, and unique visits from UK people to, the various projects (we already know for en.wp, but not for other projects)
  • Languages: English, Welsh, Gaelic, ...
• Anything else?

Misc

• Received an invitation to "The Social Media Reality Check" on 4 March in London; anyone interested in going? Discuss
• Meeting "Juice Digital" (representing the Liverpool Biennial) on the afternoon of Thursday 4 March to discuss the possibility of doing a "Wiki Takes Liverpool" event

Other things to do

• Bioblitz proposal - revamp