Good afternoon everyone, Just a reminder that the consultation on membership strategy has been open for ten days - and so far elicited some useful feedback (so thank you to those who have commented) Its looks at how members are different to volunteers, whether we think they should have a more direct role in the governance of the organisation (perhaps by developing chapter policy) and what we think a membership strategy should aim at (a wide membership base paying a nominal joining fee, or a smaller group of more invested people?)
Please have a look and if you've got the time, join in the discussion <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_Membership_strategy_consultation>with the benefit of your experiences. The consultation will remain open until the 2nd of November.* * More pressing - the draft members' survey questions <https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMUK_membership_survey_-_suggestions_and_comments#Draft_survey_text>are now up! These asks some tricky and varied questions - from trying to see if members think staff are responsive to queries to whether a change in voting system would make them more or less likely to vote in elections. I would like to send the survey out to members soon to give them time for people to respond and then for me to incorporate response results in a report to Trustees that must be finalised by the 7th November. Therefore I'd be grateful if all comments could be made by *no later than 9am this Friday morning (26th October) *which will allow me time to make any final tweaks prior to sending out the survey via email. Thanks all - hope you're having a good week! -- *Katherine Bavage * *Fundraising Manager * *Wikimedia UK* +44 20 7065 0949 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* * * On 11 October 2012 11:20, Katherine Bavage < [email protected]> wrote: > Good morning everyone! > > If you have time do look at pages on the UK Wiki about the direction > Wikimedia UK's membership can take in future. > > Here is the > page<https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMUK_membership_survey_-_suggestions_and_comments>discussing > the kinds of things you think a survey to members should cover - > I'd like to get the survey developed soon so contributions made now would > be very timely, and I can put up a draft of the survey questions when I've > written for further comment. > > Here is the page <https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges>with > some initial thoughts on building a membership strategy - all comments > welcome, including links to previous meeting minutes or otherwise that you > think should be considered. > > Many thanks, > > -- > *Katherine Bavage * > *Fundraising Manager * > *Wikimedia UK* > +44 20 7065 0949 > > Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered > Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. > United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia > movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who > operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). > > *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control > over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* > >
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