Hi John If there is an existing instance of MediaWiki, I would be happy to volunteer a few hours to install the extensions you are missing, update to the latest version, and make any other changes I think are within my abilities.
I’m not a professional techie but I’ve installed MediaWiki on several occasions and maintain a couple of instances for work. I will pull together a brief of the updates/changes for your approval, if you still need the help. Best regards, Anthony > On Oct 9, 2018, at 12:04, John Lubbock <john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > > We don't have any technologists on staff. We contract work to someone, but I > believe they are pretty fully occupied with some back end issues at the > moment. > 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. > > 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 Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 11:56, Lewis Cawte <lewisca...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> 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 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. >>> >>> The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate >>> Wikipedia, amongst other projects). 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