I'll guess I'll start this off then - I'm Lewis (and I go by Lcawte in most online spaces), I own ShoutWiki.com, which is a wiki farm powered by MediaWiki. I've been involved in the MediaWiki sphere on and off for a while, I have a few lines of really not very important code running in MediaWiki core, and some other bits in our closed source codebase. Seasoned members of the chapter/list may remember me from that slightly over budget "hackathon" I ran when I was a teenager in... 2011?
I am (and where necessary, the small team I work with at ShoutWiki) happy to lend a hand with any MediaWiki related issues in whatever capacity. I can probably lend an ear to other chapter related tech things. I'm a bit out of the loop on chapter business - not even sure I've got a current membership - but feel free to drop me an email offlist if there's anything I can do to help! -- Lewis Cawte On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 16:46 Rex X <r...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Thanks Lucy, for your positive response to the issues raised recently. > > On the technology front, I'm sure I'm not speaking out of turn when I say > that I'd like to see something like the old Technology Committee revived to > give volunteers a defined channel for communication with the Board and > Staff, and also to encourage volunteers to give their time and expertise to > help address technical issues and to expand our technical capacity in the > future. > > To that end, I'd like to survey informally what skills participants on > this list would be willing to bring to help WMUK's technology programme. It > would be also very helpful if those who would be keen to help re-establish > some sort of Tech Committee could express their interest. > > It doesn't matter whether you're just interested in tech or a seasoned > developer - all offers are welcome. Any takers? > > -- > > Doug > > > On 11 January 2019 at 16:19 Lucy Crompton-Reid < > lucy.crompton-r...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > > Hi all > > Thanks for your contributions and discussions on here this week. It's > clear that as an organisation we need to reflect on how we're engaging with > the volunteer community, and there has already been quite a lot of internal > discussion about this over the past few months. I would encourage you, if > you can, to attend the meeting on 30th January to help develop our next > three year strategy; however please be assured that in the draft version > I'm working on (based on the 2018 board away day, and to give us a starting > point for discussions) there is a greater focus on both volunteers and > technology, which of course underpin all of our activities. > > I'm sorry that the issue about recent changes and watchlists on the main > Wiki has not yet been resolved. Our technical contractor has been working > to debug this however he has not yet been successful and needs more time to > try to ascertain and address the problem. Obviously if anyone has any > practical suggestions of what the issue might be and how it could be fixed > then please feel free to get in touch :) > > As some of you know, Wikimedia UK has worked with the support of two > technical contractors - both from the Wikimedia community - for a number of > years, however one of them had to step away from the role in September and > it has taken a little time to find a replacement (although we have now done > so). This means that the remaining contractor (Tom Morton) has been working > on his own, and we have needed to try to prioritise his workload. In the > past few months we have undertaken quite a big, although not outwardly > visible, technical project, which has been to migrate all of our websites > to new host servers. In doing this, we needed to employ a specialist > consultancy to upgrade and migrate the Wikimedia CiviCRM installation > such that it could be moved onto the new hosting platform, which has been a > high priority for us as CiviCRM is so central to our work with volunteers, > members and donors on a day-to-day basis. Tom has worked with the > consultancy on this but has also been required to fix a number of other > issues including QRpedia (which still has some bugs), the Board Wiki, and > problems with MediaWiki and the visual editor. I'm not trying to excuse the > fact that there are still unresolved technical issues, just to put this > into context and explain what else has been going on in the past month or > so. > > Chris, you asked what concrete actions we are putting into place to ensure > this doesn't happen again. These include the appointment of another > technical contractor who will support Tom in resolving outstanding and > urgent technical issues in the short term, but in the medium term will also > work with us and the community to identify our priorities going forward. In > the next few weeks, Davina and I are also meeting with several board > members to scope out the charity's technical ambitions (which I hope we > will also discuss on 30th), and in December I submitted a provisional > budget to the board for 2019/20, with a view to presenting an updated > budget at the March meeting that supports these plans. There is more to do, > of course, but hopefully these things will all make a positive difference. > > Thanks and best wishes > Lucy > > -- > Lucy Crompton-Reid > Chief Executive > Wikimedia UK > +44 (0) 203 372 0762 <+44%2020%203372%200762> > > *Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open > knowledge movement, and a registered charity. 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