Talk:Reports 17Nov12/Events

Harry, regarding the Reports pages that Fae has changed from a PDF to a wikipage, and the edits you made to Daria's - we supported the Coventry event by emailing people in advance, organising spending linked to it, approving purchases, etc. Because staff time was spent on the event, it should go in the list - this isn't implying Daria 'ran' it, but instead that she spent her time on it. It's meant to be a report of the activities that that staff member for the month, rather than a list of the events. I don't want to create a big fuss about this either, but it really is Daria's report, and she has to have the final say on what goes into it - because she has to answer questions from the board and her manager about what she's done that month. Objections should really go to Jon. As a sort of middle-ground option, I've made an edit here acknowledging that the event was run by yourself and RD. I hope this is OK. Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 15:50, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

The report description says: "The report highlights the events that Wikimedia UK has been focusing on supporting for the last two months, and outlines the future projects." (emphasis mine) Wikipedia Takes Coventry was a WMUK event. There is nothing in the report that suggests Daria is trying to take credit for it. --Tango (talk) 16:03, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

• BTW, my intention of creating wikipages is to demonstrate that on-wiki reports might be more accessible than uploaded pdfs. I do not believe I changed the reports in any substantive way, my intention was to helpfully provide them in an alternative format. The fact that Harry, for the first time, is motivated to try to correct and comment on a staff report is a step forward, and shows that more people are likely to click through to reports on-wiki rather than embedded in pdfs which need a separate download to read properly—at least, I find them impossibly awful to try and read on-wiki upload image pages. I agree that it would be better that (apart from fixing typos or incorrect links) reports from staff or others are not changed without asking first. In this case, a note on this talk page and/or an email to Daria to point out the correction requested would be a good way to handle any significant changes. PS I made use of http://w-i-k-i.appspot.com to do the conversions, which made the pages about 90% suitable. I'm commenting as a volunteer interested in our use of this wiki of course, apart from the general requirement for accessibility and our interpretation of "open" in our values, this is an operational wrinkle; I would not dream of attempting to direct staff on this matter as a trustee but still believe I am allowed to make helpful comments as a volunteer, please correct me if you think otherwise. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 17:16, 15 November 2012 (UTC)