I am also out of the loop when it comes to the chapter but am a Wikimedia / Mediawiki / Wikidata developer & deployer. I'm sure I can be of help, although I will be away for a considerable amount of 2019.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 10:18, Katie Crampton < katie.cramp...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Hi Lewis > > Thank you for volunteering your tech skills, I'm sure they'll be very > helpful. I'm not really involved in the tech side of things, but just > checked your membership and can say yes it has expired. Feel free to > contact me or members...@wikimedia.org.uk (which gets directed to me) for > any member related questions. Thought I'd let you, and anyone else on this > list who thinks their membership has expired, that you can sign up again on > this > page <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Membership>. > > Many thanks > > Katie > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 19:00, Lewis Cawte <lewisca...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> 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. We rely on donations from >>> individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you >>> considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk >>> Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered >>> No. 6741827 >>> Registered Charity No.1144513 >>> Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, >>> London SE1 0NZ >>> >>> The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate >>> Wikipedia, amongst other projects). 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