"Thank you. I'm familiar with that document - you'll see that I commented on it, and offered to help (that offer stands), as did others.
The issue not whether we could "use elements of" the paper, but the bogus claim of copyright over someone else's work, which was both bad practice - breaching other people's copyright undermines our mission - and opened the chapter to potential embarrassment, if not legal action. That said, I don't believe that the document supports the claim that "Our wiki, like pretty much any Media Wiki installation I can think of, is not very accessible"; and where there are accessibility concerns, they're mostly content issues, which are easily fixed by educating authors (and without such education, are just as likely to be introduced in any new work), rather than being problems in the underlying wiki. On 12 June 2014 11:16, Stevie Benton <[email protected]> wrote: > Some examples were discussed on the Wikimedia UK wiki a while back here - > https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Talk:Accessibility_of_the_Wikimedia_websites > > One of our trustees, Carol Campbell, put together a really good paper on > this, including some advice from the RNIB which we were given permission to > use. I seem to remember that rather than focusing on the issue of > accessibility, there was more discussion about whether we could use those > elements of Carol's paper. It wasn't very productive, to say the least. > > > On 11 June 2014 21:08, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 10 June 2014 18:28, Stevie Benton <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Our wiki, like pretty much any Media Wiki installation I can think of, >> > is >> > not very accessible >> >> How so? >> >> -- >> Andy Mabbett >> @pigsonthewing >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > > > > > -- > > Stevie Benton > Head of External Relations > Wikimedia UK > +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 > @StevieBenton > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
