[Wikimediauk-l] Long Term Support (Wheezy)

2012-11-13 Thread Gordon Joly
I was very pleased to find this in the release notes for Mediawiki 1.20 getting the Mediawiki message out there with the huge Linux userbase. *** We're working closely with Linux distributors to make sure that the MediaWiki bundled in Linux is something

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Media training available for volunteers

2012-11-13 Thread Stevie Benton
Hello everyone, I have one space remaining for this. If you'd like to take part please do let me know soon. Thank you, Stevie On 31 October 2012 17:17, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: Thank you for the clarification. There are no plans to introduce a group known as

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Media training available for volunteers

2012-11-13 Thread Roger Bamkin
Sgn me up Stevie! On 13 November 2012 09:53, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: Hello everyone, I have one space remaining for this. If you'd like to take part please do let me know soon. Thank you, Stevie On 31 October 2012 17:17, Stevie Benton

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] In response to today’s news articles in The Times and The Daily Telegraph about PR editing of Wikipedia

2012-11-13 Thread Michael Peel
According to the Times, the reverted edits referred to were made by 212.161.34.130. Looking through the history of the article, the relevant diffs seem to be: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alisher_Usmanovdiff=379790641oldid=377970394 and

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] In response to today’s news articles in The Times and The Daily Telegraph about PR editing of Wikipedia

2012-11-13 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: According to the Times, the reverted edits referred to were made by 212.161.34.130. Looking through the history of the article, the relevant diffs seem to be:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] In response to today’s news articles in The Times and The Daily Telegraph about PR editing of Wikipedia

2012-11-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 November 2012 20:59, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: According to the Times, the reverted edits referred to were made by 212.161.34.130. Looking through the history of the article, the relevant diffs seem to be: BTW - if you can get a copy of yesterday's Times, you

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] In response to today’s news articles in The Times and The Daily Telegraph about PR editing of Wikipedia

2012-11-13 Thread Michael Peel
On 13 Nov 2012, at 21:16, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: (It's such a pity the Times really doesn't want its stuff widely read on the net, i.e. by the people who would be most interested in this.) I completely agree. It's very scary that the Daily Mail is more accessible than the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] In response to today’s news articles in The Times and The Daily Telegraph about PR editing of Wikipedia

2012-11-13 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Along with MSN News, the Daily Mail is in fact the most read news source in the English speaking world, according to this article: http://www.nouse.co.uk/2012/11/12/the-daily-mail-lolcats-with-a-masthead/ I don't know whether that is just online, or the combined number of online and print

[Wikimediauk-l] PR industry blames 'cumbersome' Wikipedia

2012-11-13 Thread fabian
Hi all, I found this a bit comical: http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/1159206/pr-industry-blames-cumbersome-wikipedia-finsbury-editing-issue/ They don't get it that the COI policy affects everyone. They think that just because they want people to pay them to change the articles they should be

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] PR industry blames 'cumbersome' Wikipedia

2012-11-13 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:14 PM, fab...@unpopular.org.uk wrote: Hi all, I found this a bit comical: http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/1159206/pr-industry-blames-cumbersome-wikipedia-finsbury-editing-issue/ They don't get it that the COI policy affects everyone. They think that just because

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] PR industry blames 'cumbersome' Wikipedia (Andreas Kolbe)

2012-11-13 Thread Paul Wilkinson
Dear Andreas Francis Ingham is DG of the PRCA. Its fee-paying members include RLM Finsbury (among other WPP companies), so, ultimately, it contributes to his salary. Possible COI? Paul ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] PR industry blames 'cumbersome' Wikipedia (Andreas Kolbe)

2012-11-13 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Paul Wilkinson paul.wilkin...@pwcom.co.uk wrote: Dear Andreas Francis Ingham is DG of the PRCA. Its fee-paying members include RLM Finsbury (among other WPP companies), so, ultimately, it contributes to his salary. Possible COI? Paul Come on, you are a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] PR industry blames 'cumbersome' Wikipedia

2012-11-13 Thread Doug Weller
The OTRS Quality queue is again over 200, which is pretty worrying. Partially my fault as I haven't been doing much if any OTRS work recently. Doug On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:31 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: