In place of a more useful researched answer (as I'm in a lecture) but does the chapter not employ/contract people to manage the websites and IT?
I'm a bit out of touch with chapter things these days, but I'm sure this was a thing that the contractors used to handle for staff? -- Lewis Cawte On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, 11:35 John Lubbock, <john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Hi all, this is an email to ask for help and advice on improving the > Wikimedia UK websiite. Speaking to RexX recently at an event, I was > discussing some of the issues we are having with the UK website recently as > a result of it not being updated much. Some other chapters have recently > gone down the path of moving away from MediaWiki to make their sites more > user friendly, but I don't think we want to do that and I feel sure that > with a bit of effort we could make our MediaWiki site look a lot nicer. > > If you look at the Special:Version > <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Special:Version> page on the WMUK site, > you can see all the extensions that are installed currently. It appears we > are lacking many that would be useful, and not being a huge MediaWiki > person I wonder if anybody could lend a hand with helping to install some. > In particular, we cannot display video on the site, because there is no > Timed Media Handler extension. We probably also need Template Styles for > reactive tables, and there's probably more that would be useful. I would > really appreciate if anybody could offer help in installing these and/or > advising what other extensions we should install. > > The website really needs quite a lot of work, but one thing I would really > like to be able to do is to automate scraping the image and lead paragraph > off blog posts and having it go onto the WMUK main Wiki page. At the moment > this needs to be done manually and this is quite annoying. The same goes > for the events list on the main Wiki page, which constantly has to be > updated and duplicated from the Events page. Again, if anybody knows how > this could be achieved, we would be very grateful. > > One idea I'd like to suggest for doing this is to have a WMUK one day > workshop with anybody who is interested to meet up and work with us on > improving the site. I would be happy to organise this and arrange it if > people would like to attend help us improve the site. If you would be > willing to willing to come to London for this kind of event, please let me > know so I can get an idea of how many people might come and help out. > > I hope that Wikimedia UK can also be here to support your Wikimedia work > and projects, so please bear in mind that there are always small grants > available for expenses to cover members' projects, so please let us know > what interesting things you have been doing and if there is any way we can > support you. > > All the best, > > John Lubbock > > Communications Coordinator > > Wikimedia UK > > +44 (0) 203 372 0767 > > > > Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1, > Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ. > > Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open > knowledge movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our > work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting > Wikimedia UK? Donate here <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk>. > > 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 > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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