Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouth Chartists video on Commons 'Media of the Day'
thx richard On 5 May 2012 18:47, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: The Shire Hall's professionally produced dramatisation of the Chartist Trial is today's Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day. Not an *amazing* accolade, granted, but the video is very interesting and very professional. The Chartists were early proponents of suffrage - votes for all men, regardless of wealth or class. They were a bit before their time, and were executed for their views. The video is well worth watching! All the best, Richard ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Roger Bamkin 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] What are our staff doing :)
On 05/05/12 23:10, Thomas Dalton wrote: By my reckoning, there is something like 160 person-hours of work being done in the office every week. I would love to know what that work actually is! I was invited into the office, I spoke to staff, and I was given a mug. That all takes time, you know! Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] What are our staff doing :)
As a trustee with a duty to monitor rather than direct, I'm interested in necessary, accurate and easy to consume reporting. The Board needs to know that our investment in staff and office is well spent. Jon and I have talked about the option of one-page dashboard style reports that might be maintained publicly on-wiki so everyone can get an idea what is going on. At the moment we have an office wiki where staff and board can see loads of (mostly rather dull) stuff including the weekly one-page operations report which Jon calls the Chief Exec report. It contains some detail we ought to keep confidential such as exactly who has been part of what meetings (for example, it says that Edward Buckner came in for a friendly chat last week with generally positive results, but I hope you realize that I would not tell you all that on a public list unless Edward had written about the experience himself in another public place) and how many bids we have had for the Train the Trainers requirement. However, I see no reason to avoid being open about the non-confidential stuff and our most eager critics may be just the right people to find new angles on hard problems. It is important that any reporting does not become a massive burden compared to its value, but simple reporting of key metrics, necessary tracking of risks and issues and progress to plan might be the sort of things to make public so our widest possible community can review and contribute early to opportunities for improvement based on the best live data on the weekly and monthly level. Stevie had some ideas about what a one-screen full Operations page on our wiki might contain (including our live IRC channel as part of a mash-up to keep it interesting?). This coming week we are all going to be committed to having a great WikiConference UK, but this would be a useful topic to kick about and think of pragmatic ways of doing it, and for Jon to pick up on in a couple more weeks. Please, however, try to be kind to the lovely staff we have with their fragile egos, and keep your expectations realistic for the small but smart organization we believe we all are part of. I can assure you they are not sitting around drinking tea from Wiki mugs editing articles about celebritards. Apart from lunch times. ;-) Cheers, Fae ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] What are our staff doing :)
On 6 May 2012 23:15, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: As a trustee with a duty to monitor rather than direct, I'm interested in necessary, accurate and easy to consume reporting. [snip] It is important that any reporting does not become a massive burden compared to its value Hopefully, we can find a way for the staff to provide you with what you need to know to fulfil your duties as a trustee that can very easily be used to also keep the community informed about what is happening. Hopefully the amount that will need redacting will be very small, so it shouldn't be too much work. In order to correctly budget for different projects and monitor their effectiveness, there needs to be some monitoring of how much time the staff are spending on different things. That should be very easy to just publish on the wiki - it should be very rare for the staff to be working on something so secret that even their timesheet would need more than minimal redaction. Even if it is too much work to write detailed reports about what they're doing (we do need to leave them a little time for actually doing their jobs!), it would be useful to at least know what they are spending time on. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Announcing the WIG (Wikipedia Interest Group) for UK Education
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/01/wikipedia-research-jimmy-wales-online?newsfeed=true On 6 May 2012 14:18, Martin Poulter infob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've created a mailing list to bring together our education contacts and volunteers who are interested in helping educational projects. Long overdue, I know. Despite the name, Wikiversitans and other Wikimedians are very much welcome. The mailing list home page and subscription instructions are here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=WIKIPEDIA-INTEREST-GROUP Messages are publicly archived and the list membership is open for review, *but* it's possible to set an option to hide your email address from the review. The description follows: For anyone in the UK wanting to implement or support educational projects that use Wikipedia or its sister projects such as Wikibooks and Wikiversity. The list can be used for announcements of relevant activities, and offers or requests for help in making things happen. It is a UK-focused list, not meant to duplicate the global Wikimedia in Education mailing list. To keep down traffic, the list is intended mainly for announcements rather than discussion: if you want list members' perspectives on a topic, create a post on a blog, forum or wiki and post the link. We have much to discuss: September's EduWiki Conference, Wikimedia UK's education strategy and recruitment of education staff, creating publicity materials to credibly set out how Wikimedia UK and Wikipedia can support educators, and setting up an Ambassador network in the UK. http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2012 http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_strategy The principles of Good Faith Collaboration that we use in creating Wikipedia also apply in this mailing list. https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=WIKIPEDIA-INTEREST-GROUP -- Dr Martin L Poulter Board member/ Trustee, Wikimedia UK http://uk.wikimedia.org/ Wikipedia contributor http://enwp.org/User:MartinPoulter Musician http://myspace.com/comapilot Person http://infobomb.org/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Roger Bamkin 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
