[Wikimediauk-l] Have your say in how Wikimedia UK supports volunteers

2021-11-02 Thread Lucy Crompton-Reid
Dear all Following Katie's email last month, I would like to warmly invite you to an online meeting next Tuesday 9th November from 3 to 5pm, to explore the future strategy of Wikimedia UK and discuss how the chapter can best serve its community of volunteers, contributors and members. I will be

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: IT Development Updates

2021-11-02 Thread Sam (TheresNoTime)
Many thanks all for your comments and insights - I appreciate this is a question where the answer is not a simple one. As to DPA/UK GDPR, fair points and not something I had considered. I agree that upgrading to current versions of PHP/MediaWiki should be the immediate focus

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: IT Development Updates

2021-11-02 Thread Mike Peel
On 2/11/21 12:51:24, Andy Mabbett wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 09:38, Mike Peel wrote: (would be really nice if WMUK did a WMDE and hosted the technical development of a Wikimedia project!). Isn't that QRpedia? Has anything (technical or otherwise) been done with that, lately? Is

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: IT Development Updates

2021-11-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 09:38, Mike Peel wrote: > (would be really nice if WMUK did a WMDE and hosted the technical > development of a Wikimedia project!). Isn't that QRpedia? Has anything (technical or otherwise) been done with that, lately? Is anything planned? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: IT Development Updates

2021-11-02 Thread Mike Peel
Hi all, Following from what Doug and Charles have said: this was indeed part of the change to a dedicated tech system, from things running on my personal VPS and on the WMF servers. In case it's not clear: there are multiple wikis that WMUK hosts, not just the public one. This was important