Meetings/2010-03-16/Agenda/Chair's Report

MP to investigate moving our wiki at http://uk.wikimedia.org to http://www.wikimedia.org.uk subject to technical feasibility re Single User Logins and hosting, with gb.wikimedia.org as a potential alternative. Once this has been completed, MP to follow up with Wikimedia Ukraine regarding the "uk." website conflict. Carried forward
MP agreed to investigate moving our OTRS system to one hosted by ourselves to reduce the risk that confidential emails are inappropriately viewed by non-WMUK people or emails are sent in the name of the chapter without approval. Carried forward
MP agreed to follow up with the foundation his request for detailed statistics on the proportion of UK internet users who use Wikipedia Carried forward
MP will send out the agreed wikinews press release when the story next flares up (Sunday evening was suggested as generally a good time) Carried forward
MP volunteered to follow up the photo donation opportunity Doing... Discuss
JS and MP will do a timeline and budget for GLAM-WIKI Doing... see [1]
Mike to update BLW prizes to include a Wikimedia branded T-shirt (budget £50) Cancelled Discuss
Agreed to sign the Public Domain Manifesto following discussion on the email list. MP will arrange to sign on our behalf Doing... (email sent)

Competition is now closed; upload form is still live until the end of the month but is now marking uploads as not eligible for the competition
Currently 490 photographs eligible for the competition, out of 582 total [2].
300 photographs currently approved; 263 pending. Will be chasing museums to approve the rest of these by the end of the month.
V&A are having internal discussions about image resolutions today, which is delaying the transfer of photographs to Commons. Will hopefully be resolved soon so that the transfers can start going ahead by the end of the month.

In early planning stages
Currently proposed for 14 May. However I would be unable to attend it on that week. Would anyone else be able to help 'hands on' on that day - or should it be delayed?
A budget needs writing; would like to use some of the content generation funds from the WMF grant to support this.

Have registered http://www.glamwiki.org/ (covering costs out of my own pocket); currently not working due to a technical problem with the host (to be resolved). Have also set up a planning wiki at http://glamplan.wikimedia.org.uk/ - who wants access to this? Discuss

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