Wikimedia UK v1.0

Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki Educational Resources Limited, a company limited by guarantee, the Wikimedia chapter in the United Kingdom. You can contribute ideas to its possible projects.

Objects

to enable, assist, promote and promulgate wider participation in the creation, dissemination and expansion of information and educational resources covering the world's knowledge and languages to all persons, everywhere;
to further the development of electronic, printed, and other resources required to support such participation;
to produce, publish and develop, or cause to be produced, published and developed, information resources, whether in printed, electronic, or other forms;
to make use of or encourage the use of information resources for the advancement of education;
to encourage the adoption of practices and policies to widen education, participation and dissemination of information worldwide; and
to undertake and carry on any other business which may seem to the Company capable of being conveniently carried on in connection with any of the above specified objects, or calculated directly or indirectly to enhance the value of or render profitable any of the Company's property or rights.

Board of Directors

At the meeting in London on 15 January 2006, the nominees to be the first Directors were selected. They officially became Directors on the founding of Wiki Educational Resources Limited ("WER") on 14 February 2006. This Board will seek to get WER registered as a charity. At the first Annual General Meeting, which was held on June 23, 2007, all directors stood down and sought re-election. The present Board is listed below. If you wish to be involved in helping us get registered charity status, please let us know - there's plenty to be done and you don't need to be a director or member to help!

The present Board are:

Chair – Alison Wheeler
Treasurer – Paul Sinclair
Company Secretary – Arkady Rose
Membership – vacancy (pending resolution of related issues)
Press – David Gerard

We are interested in hearing from UK-based editors who would like to get involved in the operations and management of WER/WMUK; more information about the above vacancies is on the WMUK website.

Website

The website for the chapter is located at http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/

Miscellany

Name

Legally we chose not to be called Wikimedia UK, as that would have created a trademark which we did not wish to own, but we do use that as our operating name. We therefore needed a different name for the company and Wiki Educational Resources Limited was chosen - see /Company name for background.

Domains

The chapter's domain, presently registered to James F., is http://wikimedia.org.uk/ and all chapter email, wiki and websites are under this domain.

The following domains also exist but are not used nor controlled by the Chapter in any way.

http://wikipedia.co.uk - owned by Bomis, redirect to the English Wikipedia
http://wikipedia.org.uk - owned by Chris Brooking, redirect to the English Wikipedia
http://wikimedia.co.uk - owned by James F., non-responsive on port 80

Mailing list

WikimediaUK-l

Note this is for discussion of the Wikimedia in the UK - for general discussion of the English language Wikipedia, see Wikien-l.

People interested in supporting a local chapter

Please see Wikimedia UK/People interested in supporting a local chapter.

Meetings

Next meeting (post-incorporation)

EGM in 2008. See also Future UK meetups

Directors meetings: happen regularly, both in person and online.