[Wikimediauk-l] East Midlands Wikimedians?
Are there any wikimedians in the East Midlands on this list or that you know who may be interested in helping with a meeting with one of our MEPs on copyright reform? I am working with Dimi who is based in Brussels and Stevie at WMUK and we are trying to contact all relevant MEPs to brief them on the items we would like to see in this work. More details are here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Statement_of_Intent Please could you get in touch with me offlist if you are interested and able to help with this. For information, East Midlands includes everywhere from the Peak District and Chesterfield down to Derby, Nottingham and Lincoln and then as far south as Northampton and Corby, as per the following map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Midlands_counties_2009_map.svg Many thanks for any help you could give. Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Draft EGM resolutions
When the chapter was set up back in 2008 we had had the recent experience - the so-called Wikimedia UK v1 - of a board which had been established, wasn't functioning well but the community was unable to correct this situation. For that reason the new chapter, when it managed to set itself up said we are committing now to being open, transparent and democratic from the get go http://uk.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Pageoldid=1852 The explanatory notes that accompanied the original Articles of Association proclaimed that *our charity will be member-led **and we want the norm to be that directors are elected by the members*** A member-led organisation - imagine that? In simple terms, an organisation that trusts the 5,000-strong UK Wikimedia community more than a handful of people who currently sit on the board. My goodness how far away has the chapter gone from those original values. First step down the slippery slope was the move towards two-year terms. Now we have these bonkers changes drempt up by a consultancy who took no consideration whatsoever of our particular values and want to model ourselves on other board-led charities. Guess what, we know how other charities are run and make a conscious decision at the start to do something different. After all, no other encyclopedias are written by non-specialists. Wikipedia was the first major website to give its entire content away under a free license. No other major website is run by a charity. Of course we're different. That's the bloody point. For goodness sake, they even want to change the articles to get some complex provision in there that means there would never be a majority of directors up for election in a single year - because god forbid that the community would actually wanting to kick out a poorly-performing board en mass. God forbid the board should be subject to any accountability for their performance. All I can say is thank goodness we don't have a board that is poorly performing, divided, poorly led, losing control of the direction of the charity, losing their major source of income or anything like that. Because who knows what would happen then? On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.comwrote: Obviously it will be for the membership to decide whether to accept or reject these particular recommendations but it would be great if you could review the draft amendments at this stage. Please do read, consider and comment, here: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/EGM_2013/Draft_Resolutions PS. Just to clarify, these are resolutions as drafted by our lawyers: they have not yet been reviewed by the Board - obviously it remains important that we draft things in public where we can! Chris ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Greyham Dawes co-opted to the Board of Wikimedia UK
Thanks Chris Jon for providing the context. Clearly Grayham will bring some valuable experience to the board and it's great to have him involved. However, it's less clear how he will meet the other requirements of being a trustee, in particular understanding the Wikimedia culture of openness and volunteer leadership. Has the board arranged anything for his trustee induction to fill these gaps? In particular, the Treasurer plays a key role in ensuring that certain standards of openness and accountability set out in the Finance Policy, such as: [1] The key principles underlying this policy are ... financial reporting is clearly expressed and highly transparent Individual expense claims are normally published on the office wiki (Administrator) with a summary of the claims posted on the public wiki Office expenses and the Chief Executive's expenses are published on the public wiki in summary form ** Monthly financial reports to be published on the public wiki ** Interesting to see this was watered down at the last board meeting, although it's unclear if even the watered-down version has ever been implemented. Is Grayham planning to introduce himself to the community or engage on this list or on the wiki? It's notable that he responded to the advert but then didn't come to the board interest day and didn't put himself up for election. I would be interested to hear his explanation for why this was the case. I presume this decision was taken at the last board meeting on 9-10 February. It's very disappointing that the draft minutes of the last board meeting still haven't been published, a week and a half after the meeting. I asked when this would be published over a week ago and was told that a reasonably final draft was available on Sunday. Chapter policy says that Volunteers are encouraged to ... hold the Trustees and staff to account, through public and private discussion. [2] It's impossible to do this if we're not even allowed to see on a timely basis the decisions that are being made by the board. Regards, Andrew [1] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Finance_Policy [2] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Policy On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: We received 13 final applications. From this six were shorlisted to attend our board interest day. Two stood for election, one was elected and one subsequently co-opted. Greyham, as Chris explained, emerged over the last couple of months as we had a vacancy. Are your chapter thinking of a similar exercise? If so would be happy to liaise. Jon On 17 February 2013 09:28, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:38 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Chris for the context, some of which appears to have been omitted from the governance review. I am a bit surprised by that. I'm guessing that Greyham didn't respond to the call to the community ;-) How many responses did you receive from the advert in the Third Sector? I think the review notes we engaged in a proactive trustee search exercise, though it doesn't go into any more detail. Jon D would know the answer, but I think answer was somewhere in the dozens. Chris ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Call for Tellers
EGM? Is this still planned given the governance recommendations? On Feb 15, 2013 12:23 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: All, At present, myself and LondonStatto are likely to be tellers for the AGM (and the planned EGM). However, I'm hoping that there will be someone else who would be willing to step forward to help administer the election in an impartial manner (eg counting votes, deciding lengths of statements, etc. This would need a few visits to the office (expenses paid) and a little bit of a time commitment. Prior experience would be helpful but not necessary. If you're interested, please let me know privately. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] WMF withdraws support from WCA
I see the Foundation has withdrawn their support for the Wikimedia Chapters Association, the cross-chapters partnership that WMUK backed. Their statement included some significant criticisms about the way the WCA has been implemented, something that individual Foundation board members expanded on in their personal comments further down the page. I understand that the WCA Council is meeting on 16th February to discuss this but I wanted to ask if WMUK was planning to review its involvement in the WCA and to review for itself what went wrong in its implementation? Thanks, Andrew https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Chapters_Association#WMF_Board_letter_regarding_the_Chapters_Association WMF Board letter regarding the Chapters Association At our February 2 Board meeting, we spent several hours discussing the proposed Chapters Association and its potential role in the Wikimedia movement. Despite our initial optimism, we have now reluctantly concluded that the proposed Chapters Association is unlikely to advance the Wikimedia mission significantly. We encouraged the concept in its early stages, but in light of the implementation to date, we regretfully have come to believe it will not be successful. In our opinion, the Chapters Association hasn’t made a persuasive case that it will be effective. We believe that during its development thus far, it has not consulted sufficiently with movement stakeholders. We are concerned that it will not be equipped to offer oversight, which would be essential for an entity expected to provide governance support and oversight for the chapters. Considering its proposed role in the movement as well as the demand it would place on movement resources, we believe these factors are decisive. Our reservations about the Chapters Association are serious, and we have difficulty envisioning circumstances in which the Wikimedia Foundation would be able to recognize it. That said, we believe in individuals and movement entities organising themselves to support each other, and that successful models for this exist. We are acting now because of the recent call for hiring of the Secretary General by the Chapters Association and its apparent plans to incorporate soon. We acknowledge that significant time and effort have been put into this initiative, and understand that some people will be disappointed by this conclusion. We welcome your comments. For the Wikimedia board, Kat Walshhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage (spill your mind?) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mindspillage 05:26, 5 February 2013 (UTC) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMF withdraws support from WCA
That's an interesting way of putting it! However, now that the WMF has come out against, is there any way that the WCA can fulfill its stated aims? Furthermore, if WMUK continues to support the WCA, will this damage the chapter's relationship with the Foundation? On Feb 6, 2013 9:12 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 February 2013 21:07, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: I see the Foundation has withdrawn their support for the Wikimedia Chapters Association, the cross-chapters partnership that WMUK backed. To be honest, it never really offered any support in the first place... they said they liked the idea, but that's as far as it got. They haven't withdrawn their support, they've said they aren't going to be giving any support - subtly different! ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Latest WMUK blog post - message from our Board
As I've said directly on the blog post I personally appreciate that the board is willing to acknowledge that mistakes have been made and understand that damage has been caused. It is very hard for the board to go into any details while the review is ongoing. That will inevitably come up with detailed findings and recommendations and the board will have an opportunity to respond in detail at that stage. Particularly if there is a range of views on the board, I don't see the point of going into detail at the moment. As I've mentioned before, I do hope the board agree to publish the terms of reference so the community can start to have a conversation about the detail before waiting for the review to complete. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: The board needs to learn how to write a statement that actually says something... Apologising for mistakes is meaningless if you don't acknowledge what those mistakes are. This statement comes across as defensive and empty of actual content. What have you done wrong? What are you doing about fixing the problems caused by those mistakes and making sure similar mistakes don't happen again? That's what people want to know. If you want to wait until the review is complete before going into details, then say that. Don't post this kind of meaningless drivel. On 13 October 2012 19:43, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hello everyone, I thought I'd drop you a line to let you know that Wikimedia UK has just published its latest blog post. The post is a message to our community from the Board of Trustees. You can find the blog post at http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/10/a-message-from-the-wikimedia-uk-board/ As ever, please do feel free to get in touch with your comments. Thanks and regards, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Independent review: timetable
As with many other members I've been quite concerned with recent developments so I dialled into this public board meeting to hear for myself what was happening. I hope that showing an interest can be some help to the board in pulling together and repairing the damage. I was actually quite impressed with what I heard. Although trustees seem to be feeling bruised by it all, it was good to see the board starting to pull together and start focussing on what can be done in the future. The board seemed very well advised both from their lawyers Stone King and from Jon who are both playing a very positive role in all this. I would definitely recommend anyone else who is interested and available to dial in as well and hear for themselves. Regarding the terms of reference of the review, the minutes mention that they have been approved by WMUK. I got the impression that they still need to be signed off by the WMF and presumably the reviewer themselves may also have tweaks they want to make. When this is all done, would the board be prepared to publish the Terms of Reference so the community can see what's happening, see the timetable and can put their tu-p-orth in as they feel inclined? Given that the final report is going to be published (according to the blog post [1] that announced the review) and the report will clearly include a description of the terms of reference, I can't see to be any reason on the surface not to do this at this stage. Many thanks, [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/09/joint-statement-from-wikimedia-foundation-and-wikimedia-uk/ Andrew On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: Charity Commission indeed. On 10 October 2012 14:45, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: Minutes have been posted of a 9Oct12 meeting discussing the appointment of the independent reviewer: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes_9Oct12 Just out of interest, where it refers to a preference to the ex-CC candidate, am I correct in assuming that CC stands for Charity Commission rather than Creative Commons? Andreas On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: We are still discussing this and will publish the details as soon as possible. On 4 October 2012 15:52, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: What is the timetable for the forthcoming independent review? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Independent review: timetable
I got the impression it had been negotiated in conjunction with the WMF and the reviewer candidates so I think it's too late for that - but the board/Jon can confirm. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Joe Filceolaire filceola...@gmail.comwrote: Can we have a look before it gets to the final version so that when it goes to wmf and reviewer it has our suggestions for consideration Joe On Oct 11, 2012 8:26 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: As with many other members I've been quite concerned with recent developments so I dialled into this public board meeting to hear for myself what was happening. I hope that showing an interest can be some help to the board in pulling together and repairing the damage. I was actually quite impressed with what I heard. Although trustees seem to be feeling bruised by it all, it was good to see the board starting to pull together and start focussing on what can be done in the future. The board seemed very well advised both from their lawyers Stone King and from Jon who are both playing a very positive role in all this. I would definitely recommend anyone else who is interested and available to dial in as well and hear for themselves. Regarding the terms of reference of the review, the minutes mention that they have been approved by WMUK. I got the impression that they still need to be signed off by the WMF and presumably the reviewer themselves may also have tweaks they want to make. When this is all done, would the board be prepared to publish the Terms of Reference so the community can see what's happening, see the timetable and can put their tu-p-orth in as they feel inclined? Given that the final report is going to be published (according to the blog post [1] that announced the review) and the report will clearly include a description of the terms of reference, I can't see to be any reason on the surface not to do this at this stage. Many thanks, [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/09/joint-statement-from-wikimedia-foundation-and-wikimedia-uk/ Andrew On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: Charity Commission indeed. On 10 October 2012 14:45, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: Minutes have been posted of a 9Oct12 meeting discussing the appointment of the independent reviewer: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes_9Oct12 Just out of interest, where it refers to a preference to the ex-CC candidate, am I correct in assuming that CC stands for Charity Commission rather than Creative Commons? Andreas On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: We are still discussing this and will publish the details as soon as possible. On 4 October 2012 15:52, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote: What is the timetable for the forthcoming independent review? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403
[Wikimediauk-l] Annual accounts
Looking at Companies House, I notice that the annual accounts have yet been filed and are due at the end of the month. This caused considerable issues in the past so I wondered whether these were now complete? If not, is there a risk that they will be late? If so, I suggest you bring this to the attention of the Foundation immediately. Regards, -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Annual accounts
For completeness, can I also mention that you don't appear to have filed the form AP01 with Companies House regarding the appointment of Saad [1] nor the revised Articles of Association which were approved at the AGM regarding Scottish charity compliance and 2 year director terms. [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/09/wikimedia-uk-appoints-saad-choudri-to-its-board/ Regards, On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: Looking at Companies House, I notice that the annual accounts have yet been filed and are due at the end of the month. This caused considerable issues in the past so I wondered whether these were now complete? If not, is there a risk that they will be late? If so, I suggest you bring this to the attention of the Foundation immediately. Regards, -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Daily Telegraph error
I though this was a largely accurate article without any major errors. Far better than most media articles! On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote: The DT are reporting that Wikimedia UK has been barred from processing donations: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9581813/Wikipedia-charity-faces-investigation-over-trustee-conflict-of-interest.html Can we get this error corrected ASAP? It's also in the Wikipedia article on Gibraltarpedia. (I haven't yet read all of the article) -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Social enterprise
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:53 AM, fab...@unpopular.org.uk wrote: Essentially this would require the Board making a decision that it was interested in looking into the idea and setting up a steering committee to take the matter forward. This could be done with a limited amount of officer time. The board would have to consult the Wikimedia Foundation and the English Wikipedia community on this and would be ill-advised (particularly in light of recent events) to go ahead with this decision without their support. In particular, jimbo's recent signpost article [1] seems fairly opposed to this direction of travel. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-01/Paid_editing If you're serious about taking this forward, I think you need to flesh out the proposals and see how they fit in with en-wp policies and statements of Foundation board members before it can be submitted to the WMUK board. Why don't you set up a wiki page to gather ideas? Regards, ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK board election process
If we pencil in 9-10 Feb for the EGM then we have until, say, the end of November to discuss and agree on the proposal. I do think we need to have a reasoned argument set out in favour of the change before we call the EGM itself - after all a constitution is not something that we should tinker with lightly, hence the requirement for it to pass with a 75% change. I've started this: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AndrewRT/Why_change_the_voting_system#What_won.27t_change bringing together the arguments that various people have already made on this list. Please go ahead and expand! On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: This could run and run! How about a guillotine motion? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] social enterprise
Fabian, Thanks for this very interesting idea. I've also thought that there are a number of opportunities in this space derived from the wikimedia projects that aren't entirely suited to a registered charity. A number of UK charities manage to combine an enterprise through a trading subsidiary. Would this idea work through such a vehicle? Regards, On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:24 PM, fab...@unpopular.org.uk wrote: Hi all, I would like to thank Thomas Morton for his well thought explanation addressed to Roger (Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:51:10 +0100). It covered a number of points I felt need addressing and Tom put them in a useful and tactful way - much better than I could have hoped to do. However, I would like to address some ramifications of this. This is one reason why charities are often run by older, retired, types who do not need to go out and earn a living. Quite so. However, one of the consequences of the phenomenal success of WP is that the potential development of where we are now has created space for activity beyond that which WMUK as a charity is best placed to carry out. a) Wikiversity has a great potential, however the development of such a repository of Open Educational Resources (OERs) will be very slow without people being paid - not so much for editing but for delivering teaching which uses WV as a platform, creating OERs free for other people to use. The dynamic for this is quite different from WP and Wikicommons. I have not been involved in all the sister projects, but suspect that they will each have their own dynamic, which needs to be addressed in its own terms. b) Linked to a) is the delivery of training in how to use WP. It seems to me very straight forward to see WV as an ideal platform for this. There is also much to be learnt from WikiEducator, which uses a Mediawiki in conjunction wit the moodle software. c) Another aspect of this is that I have noticed that some of the people who attend WMUK training sessions are people who are employed by learned societies as Social Media Officers. While I find volunteering to train other volunteers quite attractive, when it comes to giving time freely in order help in the training for paid workers of organisations I am confident that i am not the only person who finds this a bit awkward. Likewise as we welcome academics who stipulate that their students achieve certain goals in order to pass a course, this to me creates a market for delivering training outside a volunteer - to -volunteer framework. Aside from the problems which have arisen from Roger being a trustee, I think the work he has done is amazing and really innovative. I would like to see it continue. However what I feel would really facilitate this is the creation of a not-for-profit social enterprise which would provide a structured way in which innovations like QRpedia could be placed in relation to both WMUK, WMF and the broader community. I feel that our community has an amazing range of diverse talents, and that if the possibilities provoked by WPs success are to be realised, then we need to develop a way in which the ethos of unpaid editing of WP itself can be balanced with other roles which are emerging which are peripheral to editing but which can greatly enhance WP and its sister projects. I hope that the recent experiences at WMUK will stimulate a discussion about how such a social enterprise might be set up, how the ethos of collaborative working and sharing of resources might be taken forward, how this can be done in a way which does not disrupt the very success which WP has enjoyed, and how such a social enterprise can contribute towards fundraising for WMUK to deliver its charitable goals. If such a discussion is got going now, there is some prospect that we could have a concrete proposal which has been mulled over by the community in time for the next AGM. As Tom said: Bottom line; you (as a board), we even, fucked up. Not maliciously, but very badly. You lost sight of the wider objective. But it's not something to beat each other up over. Learn from it, make improvements, move on. I am proposing this as a way of moving on in a way which keeps people like Roger with their brilliant ideas involved but not as trustees. all the best Fabian (User:Leutha) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK board election process
Thanks for this WSC, this is a great start. However, I'm not sure it describes what's broken with the current system - what factions do we actually have that are under-represented in the board due to the current system? I wonder whether this model actually reflects how people tend to vote in WMUK elections. Just looking at the results, there seems to be little in the way of factionalisation. Would adoption of STV encourage greater factionalisation and if it does would this be a good thing? On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 1:04 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Re Andrew's request for a clear statement setting out the reasons for the change. The difference between STV and a majoritarian system is that if you have a community where factions have emerged then STV ensures that all significant factions can see someone elected who they approve of. By contrast a majoritarian system is by its nature winner takes all and you can have a result where everyone associated with a particular significant viewpoint is not elected. If you are confident that you will be in the majority then it may seem logical to support a majoritarian system. If you aren't sure if you'd be in the majority then it makes sense to support a system such as STV. If you are somewhat irritated by the bickering and want a representative board with the most sensible people regardless of their stance on certain controversies then you desperately need a system such as STV. If in a divided organisation a narrow majority gets a clean sweep in the elections for the committee it is very difficult if not impossible for the resulting committee to reunite the organisation and defuse tensions. WSC On 29 September 2012 21:55, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.comwrote: On a different note... Regarding the switch from approval voting to STV (or whatever) what I think is missing the most is a clear statement setting out the reasons for the change (i.e. what's broken and how would this change fix it). I've also suggested a tweak to the EGM motion on the page (hope this is ok to do there) Lastly, we could do with pencilling in a date for the EGM - how about coinciding with the board meeting 9-10 February 2013 - and aim to do it by electronic voting as much as possible. Regards, Andrew On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:26 PM, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.comwrote: OK, here's a very quick first draft of the motion and election rules for STV. http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LondonStatto/Proposed_EGM_Motion_on_Voting_System ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Joint statement with the Foundation
Hi Jan-Bart and others, I would hope we can wait until we hear the results of the review before jumping to the conclusion that what has gone on is highly irregular (which incidentally, clearly *is *an accusation of wrong doing). There are certainly allegations that have been made that are of serious concern but I would hope people are able to wait to see the evidence and the report before assuming they are well founded. In the meantime, everyone involved is clearly going through a very difficult time so I hope we are able to pull together, work through this and we can come through a stronger chapter at the end. Regards, On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi It doesn't work like that, as I indicated there have been some (highly) irregular activities in the past months (which is not the same as what you state below). The timing is such that a decision on Payment Processing (which is indeed not the same as fundraising or applying to the FDC, but is actually quite separate) had to be made now. After what I know was a lot of consultation both ways this is the conclusion that we arrived at. Please don't read more into this than that. Its not a power grab and its not an accusation of wrongdoing, its what we feel is the right thing to do under the difficult circumstances. (oh and payment processing is actually work, it does not get done automatically) Jan-Bart de Vreede Wikimedia Board of Trustees On 29 Sep 2012, at 19:07, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: On 29/09/2012 16:28, Jan-bart de Vreede wrote: Hi James (and others) What I find puzzling in your reasoning is that you automatically assume bad faith on the part of the WMF. At this point everyone should be concerned about the fact that over the past months we have had several (highly) irregular activities within the UK chapter. It is important that we (as in the movement) conduct a thorough review to see what the complete facts are so that we can make sure that we can learn from this and draw proper conclusions. Woah, hold it right there Jan-bart. What *I* find puzzling is how you (personally and WMF in general) assumes that Wikimedia UK has done wrong before this supposedly independent review has started never mind been completed. KTC -- Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Joint statement with the Foundation
Hi Jan-Bart, Don't worry, I understand, irregular is often used as a euphemism for improper but I guess that's something that a non-native speaker may not necessarily be aware of. At the same time I should have said I think the Foundation's actions are understandable and reasonable in the circumstances, even if they are very disappointing. These are serious allegations after all. Regards, On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Thank you Andrew, although I must confess that I thought that my English was very good I apparently chose the wrong words. What I meant to convey was unusual and unusual enough to warrant further review… Jan-Bart On 29 Sep 2012, at 21:09, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Jan-Bart and others, I would hope we can wait until we hear the results of the review before jumping to the conclusion that what has gone on is highly irregular (which incidentally, clearly *is *an accusation of wrong doing). There are certainly allegations that have been made that are of serious concern but I would hope people are able to wait to see the evidence and the report before assuming they are well founded. In the meantime, everyone involved is clearly going through a very difficult time so I hope we are able to pull together, work through this and we can come through a stronger chapter at the end. Regards, On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi It doesn't work like that, as I indicated there have been some (highly) irregular activities in the past months (which is not the same as what you state below). The timing is such that a decision on Payment Processing (which is indeed not the same as fundraising or applying to the FDC, but is actually quite separate) had to be made now. After what I know was a lot of consultation both ways this is the conclusion that we arrived at. Please don't read more into this than that. Its not a power grab and its not an accusation of wrongdoing, its what we feel is the right thing to do under the difficult circumstances. (oh and payment processing is actually work, it does not get done automatically) Jan-Bart de Vreede Wikimedia Board of Trustees On 29 Sep 2012, at 19:07, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: On 29/09/2012 16:28, Jan-bart de Vreede wrote: Hi James (and others) What I find puzzling in your reasoning is that you automatically assume bad faith on the part of the WMF. At this point everyone should be concerned about the fact that over the past months we have had several (highly) irregular activities within the UK chapter. It is important that we (as in the movement) conduct a thorough review to see what the complete facts are so that we can make sure that we can learn from this and draw proper conclusions. Woah, hold it right there Jan-bart. What *I* find puzzling is how you (personally and WMF in general) assumes that Wikimedia UK has done wrong before this supposedly independent review has started never mind been completed. KTC -- Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK board election process
On a different note... Regarding the switch from approval voting to STV (or whatever) what I think is missing the most is a clear statement setting out the reasons for the change (i.e. what's broken and how would this change fix it). I've also suggested a tweak to the EGM motion on the page (hope this is ok to do there) Lastly, we could do with pencilling in a date for the EGM - how about coinciding with the board meeting 9-10 February 2013 - and aim to do it by electronic voting as much as possible. Regards, Andrew On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:26 PM, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.comwrote: OK, here's a very quick first draft of the motion and election rules for STV. http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LondonStatto/Proposed_EGM_Motion_on_Voting_System http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LondonStatto/Proposed_STV_Election_Rules Thoughts, questions, suggestions all gratefully received. I'm not at work tomorrow so will do my best to monitor email/talk pages. J. On 17 September 2012 23:03, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote: Certainly my sense of the various discussions over the past 18 months is that there's near-consensus on STV as the best alternative to the current system. I intend to draft a motion with new election rules for STV; if anyone has other systems they'd like to put forward I'll be happy to draft election rules for them. However, if we have more than two systems to choose between, we then have to decide which system to choose to decide which system we use... On 17 September 2012 22:54, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: The problem probably lies with the volume of business on each board meeting agenda. We're only just keeping up with the business, and as much as I'd like to see a constructive discussion and a positive decision made on the future election process, I personally won't find the time in the near future to organise an EGM. I'm encouraged by James' offer, and the more volunteers we have who would be willing to devote some time into defining the parameters for discussion (maybe a proposer and seconder for a resolution?), or suggesting possible timescales and venues for an EGM, the easier it gets to fulfil our commitment to having a new process in place by the next AGM. All contributions are welcome. -- Doug On 17 September 2012 22:24, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote: Now that I am no longer in the process of getting married, I can start making some progress on this. On Sep 17, 2012 9:48 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: Chris, if I may at least ask for a very short clarification of the no: are you confirming there has been no communication/decision on the issue on board level, or do you confirm there will be no such EGM (as far as the board is concerned)? There has been no progress. :-) Personally I would quite like some progress, and think we ought to use STV - it would be great if people could get drafting resolutions. Thanks, Chris ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Joint statement with the Foundation
Yes, David, sounds like it. The opening to this week's signpost article seems to sum it up the situation: In the second controversy to engulf Wikimedia UK in two months... Both controversies seemed to have damaged the relationship between the chapter and the editing communities, in particular on English Wikipedia. I think we need to get together a plan, if we haven't got one already, for how to engage better and build stronger links. After all, this is where most of the chapter's members, activists and income comes from. Has any thought been put into this? Andrew On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 September 2012 21:14, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to draw to your attention this joint statement with the Foundation which I have just, with the authority of the Board, posted on our blog regarding the management of conflicts of interests and this year's fundraiser. http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/09/joint-statement-from-wikimedia-foundation-and-wikimedia-uk/ Right, so money-SF and so much for Gift Aid? - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Status of the five year plan
I appreciate that recent events have overtaken things to an extent but I wondered what the status is with http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_Five_Year_Plan? On the page ist says This version will be discussed at a special board meeting to be held during Wikimania in Washington - did that happen? It seems in fairly good shape, although it could do with a section saying how progress towards achieving the plan will be reviewed. The best thing may be to adopt it as is until the next review. We do five year plans at our work and they work in a rolling format - i.e. each year you do another five year plan based on the last and extending out another year. This works fairly well and I'd recommend it as an approach. -- Andrew Turvey -- 07403 216 991 @AndrewTurvey https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewTurvey http://www.facebook.com/andrew.turvey http://en.wikipedia.org/User:AndrewRT http://englishwikipedian.blogspot.co.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Status of this list and its archives
-- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com Date: 16 Aug 2012 13:56 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Status of this list and its archives To: HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com Likewise I think this is a good decision. A truly public mailing list is a valuable thing in many ways, just like a wiki history tab. For instance it will let people years in the future understand the background to decisions made by the chapter today, even after the people have moved on and forgotten. We already have cases on 'linkrot' where chapter minutes or other wikipages are linking to mailing list archives that no longer work. This decision will make that less likely in the future. Andrew Turvey On 15 Aug 2012 22:53, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: It is disingenuous to suggest that, in posting to a *public* mailing list, the risk that your post... From: Fae fae...@gmail.com To: James Forrester jdforrester... Thanks James. In light of this I'll unsubscribe from this list until such a time as the risks for n... ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@w... ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK staff policies
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: On Feb 10, 2012 12:48 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On Feb 9, 2012 4:14 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: On 09/02/2012 15:14, Richard Symonds wrote: Hope this makes sense! I have been a volunteer editor at Wikipedia for about since 2004 (25th January 2004 at 23:13 or possibly earlier). Are these volunteers you mention in the same class? No. I started editing in 2003. Newbie My first registered edit was in 2002. Who's the newbie now? ;) 31 October 2005. I'm practically a baby! :) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Survey about WikiConference UK 2011
For people who are on this list but didn't register via EventBrite. Apologies to anyone who gets this message twice. -- Forwarded message -- From: Wikimedia UK cont...@eventbrite.com Date: Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:24 AM Subject: Message to attendees of WikiConference UK 2011 To: andrewrtur...@googlemail.com If you joined us at the WikiConference UK 2011http://wikiconferenceuk2011.eventbrite.com/last weekend, we hope you enjoyed it and welcome any feedback about the event. We have created a short survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MKT3Q6N - please take a short time to complete this so we can see what people enjoyed and how we can make it even better next year! Many thanks! *Wikimedia UK* ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election of directors - Candidate statements and ballot paper
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com wrote: Totally agree. I think it is reasonable that candidates should be asked to reveal their wikimedia user names (I'm not sure it should be made compulsory though), but demanding that they reveal all their multifarious online identities unrelated to wikimedia is going way too far, and would be an unenforceable and unwarranted invasion of privacy. Andrew Personally I would also agree. We also have to balance the need for voters to have all the information they reasonably require to make their decision with a need to encourage people to come forward to stand for election. Pseudonymity is still very much a part of the internet, and many people still run blogs, twitter accounts and so forth on that basis. If they're not related to Wikimedia, I'm not sure I understand why people should be compelled to reveal them - or indeed how such a rule could ever be enforced. I'd rather leave it up to the voters to decide. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election of directors - Candidate statements and ballot paper
I think it would probably sit better in the election rules - these have been entrenched so have the same status as the articles. I'm happy to assist anyone who wants to have this change debated at the agm. Andrew Turvey This message was sent from my mobile On 9 Apr 2011 13:23, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2011 10:48, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: On 08/04/2011 10:31, Andrew Turv... You want to amend the Articles of Association to that effect? I think that's the only way of making it properly binding. It's too late to propose such a motion for this AGM, I think, but you can propose it next year (I would probably vote for it, actually). ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.o... ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK Annual Conference AGM
Hi all, Just a reminder for anyone who is thinking about standing for election to the Board, the deadline for nominations is midnight this evening. A simple email is all it takes - details are in the notice below. As you know, we currently have three empty spaces on the board in addition to the four people who are standing for re-election. We had a good turn out to the Board interest day a few weeks ago and we are all looking forward to getting an influx of new board members to help with the exciting things ahead for us this year. I've put together a proposed list of meeting dates for next year at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings#2011-2012 (subject of course to the agreement of the next board) if you want a better picture of what is involved. Please get in touch with me or any other board member if you have any questions on this. Regards, Andrew Turvey Company Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: Please find forwarded below the message that was sent to all the members of Wikimedia UK this morning. If you're not a member of the chapter yet and would like to get involved in the AGM, it's not too late. The easiest way is through the online application form at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Membership If you are a member but haven't received the message below please let me know as we may have an error in your records. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair Company Secretary, Wikimedia UK -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com Date: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:25 AM Subject: Wikimedia UK Annual Conference AGM To: off...@wikimedia.org.uk Bcc: [memberslist] Dear Member, Thank you for being a member of Wikimedia UK - the movement promoting and supporting Wikipedia, its sister projects and open content here in the UK. We are now over two years old. We have made a real impact in the last year, hosting a major GLAM-WIKI conference, celebrations around the 10th Anniversary of Wikipedia and, last month, BRIS-WIKI - a conference about Wikipedia in Bristol. This year has also seen significant growth in Wikimedia UK: our income has topped £500,000, our membership is now close to 200 and we employed our first member of staff. Next year we have many exciting plans, but we need you to be involved to make that happen! Our Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday 16th April at the The Watershed Media Centre, Bristol. There will be a full programme of events starting at 9:30am and finishing at 5:00pm, including speakers, panel discussions and the business of the AGM itself at 1pm. Please come along to hear what we have achieved and help us plan our activities for the future. The address of the venue is: Watershed Media Centre 1 Canon's Rd, Harbourside Bristol, BS1 5TX Bristol is easy to get to via car, bus, train or airplane. Directions to the venue can be found on Watershed's website at http://www.watershed.co.uk/info/access.php. For National Express buses to Bristol, see their website at http://www.nationalexpress.com/coach/destinations/england/south-west/bristol/bristol-introduction.aspx. Hotel options if you plan to stay over are shown on our main wiki page at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2011#Getting_to_the_conference If you need financial support to attend the conference, please contact User:Mike Peel via the wiki page. So that we can plan for the right number of people, if you are attending, it would help us if you could register for the event via EventBrite at http://wikiconferenceuk2011.eventbrite.com/ AGM The official AGM will run from 1pm to 3pm and cover the annual report, election of a new Board of Trustees and five official motions listed below. Would you like to stand as a member of the board? Next year is set to be another big and exciting year of growth for Wikimedia UK: we plan to recruit several more members of staff so we can scale up our activities, enable more activity by volunteers and professionalise the chapter. Our own developer, events organiser, a full time office manager and a chapter manager pulling everything together will no doubt transform Wikimedia UK. This is an exciting time to be part of the board of trustees and there will be a real opportunity to make a difference and influence the future direction of the chapter. We expect that being a board member will take up at least three hours per week. We expect that the Board will meet once every four to six weeks, with one meeting in person every three months. We also hope that directors take a lead in chapter projects outside meetings. However
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Wikimedia UK Annual Conference AGM
Please find forwarded below the message that was sent to all the members of Wikimedia UK this morning. If you're not a member of the chapter yet and would like to get involved in the AGM, it's not too late. The easiest way is through the online application form at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Membership If you are a member but haven't received the message below please let me know as we may have an error in your records. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair Company Secretary, Wikimedia UK -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com Date: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:25 AM Subject: Wikimedia UK Annual Conference AGM To: off...@wikimedia.org.uk Bcc: [memberslist] Dear Member, Thank you for being a member of Wikimedia UK - the movement promoting and supporting Wikipedia, its sister projects and open content here in the UK. We are now over two years old. We have made a real impact in the last year, hosting a major GLAM-WIKI conference, celebrations around the 10th Anniversary of Wikipedia and, last month, BRIS-WIKI - a conference about Wikipedia in Bristol. This year has also seen significant growth in Wikimedia UK: our income has topped £500,000, our membership is now close to 200 and we employed our first member of staff. Next year we have many exciting plans, but we need you to be involved to make that happen! Our Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday 16th April at the The Watershed Media Centre, Bristol. There will be a full programme of events starting at 9:30am and finishing at 5:00pm, including speakers, panel discussions and the business of the AGM itself at 1pm. Please come along to hear what we have achieved and help us plan our activities for the future. The address of the venue is: Watershed Media Centre 1 Canon's Rd, Harbourside Bristol, BS1 5TX Bristol is easy to get to via car, bus, train or airplane. Directions to the venue can be found on Watershed's website at http://www.watershed.co.uk/info/access.php. For National Express buses to Bristol, see their website at http://www.nationalexpress.com/coach/destinations/england/south-west/bristol/bristol-introduction.aspx. Hotel options if you plan to stay over are shown on our main wiki page at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2011#Getting_to_the_conference If you need financial support to attend the conference, please contact User:Mike Peel via the wiki page. So that we can plan for the right number of people, if you are attending, it would help us if you could register for the event via EventBrite at http://wikiconferenceuk2011.eventbrite.com/ AGM The official AGM will run from 1pm to 3pm and cover the annual report, election of a new Board of Trustees and five official motions listed below. Would you like to stand as a member of the board? Next year is set to be another big and exciting year of growth for Wikimedia UK: we plan to recruit several more members of staff so we can scale up our activities, enable more activity by volunteers and professionalise the chapter. Our own developer, events organiser, a full time office manager and a chapter manager pulling everything together will no doubt transform Wikimedia UK. This is an exciting time to be part of the board of trustees and there will be a real opportunity to make a difference and influence the future direction of the chapter. We expect that being a board member will take up at least three hours per week. We expect that the Board will meet once every four to six weeks, with one meeting in person every three months. We also hope that directors take a lead in chapter projects outside meetings. However, there is no requirement to dedicate a certain amount of time to the chapter or to have any particular skills - just disclose what you can bring to the table and let the members decide! Board members legally act as the chapter's Directors and Trustees. The eligibility criteria and duties are set out at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board#Duties - please check that you are eligible and accept these duties before putting yourself forward for election. If you have any questions you are welcome to contact me, another board member or take your own legal advice. To nominate yourself as a candidate, simply email tell...@wikimedia.org.uk by 23:59 on Saturday 2nd April with the following: * a statement that you would like to nominate yourself to serve as a director and trustee of Wikimedia UK and you fulfill the legal criteria for appointment * Full name * any previous names * date of birth * business occupation * the names of any other UK companies which you have been director of in the last five years During the election only your name will be made public. If you are successful these other details will be filed with Companies House as a public record. You will also be required to file your usual residential address with the Company Secretary, but this will be kept
[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK Fundraising Report
We have today published on the Wikimedia UK wiki our report on the 2010-11 fundraiser and I include a link below for your information. Please let me know if you would like any further information about this. Regards, -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM Subject: Wikimedia UK Fundraising Report To: Moushira Elamrawy melamr...@wikimedia.org Cc: Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org Dear Moushira, I include below a link to our fundraising report regarding the 2010-11 Fundraiser which has been published on our website. If you would like any further information please do not hesitate to contact me. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/uk/8/85/FundraisingReport2010-11Final.pdf Kind Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] job descriptions
In advance of the board meeting next Tuesday, I've started drafting up some job descriptions on the wiki at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Job_Descriptions for the new members of staff that we are recruiting. Please add your contributions on the main and talk page to develop this. Many thanks, Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] job descriptions
. If people knew WMUK's overhead to activity ratio do you think they'd still be happy to donate? Or a similar question, do you think a £1 given to WMUK does more for the interests of UK Wikimedians than £1 direct to Wikimedia? I note that the bulk of your programme expenditure is going straight to the WMF anyway, so all that's happening is that the money's being processed by WMUK's (less efficient, due to lower scale) system, then going to the WMF (with additional overheads from them). Indeed it seems that it's only going to their international projects which is arguably further from the interests of UK Wikimedians than server/code expenditure is. I don't know the details of what you're doing at the moment so maybe I'm completely wrong. But my distinct impression at the moment is that UK donations would be much more effective if they went straight to the WMF then groups of users petitioned them for money for UK specific projects. Perhaps something like WMUK could intermediate, but it could certainly be a much lighter organisation. Admittedly charitable status if it ever arrives will change this story, providing the gains from gift aid outweigh the relative inefficiencies of WMUK. Even this isn't totally obvious at the moment, particularly as unclear whether the things WMUK is spending money on are more useful to the average user of Wikimedia projects than what the WMF project is spending money on. I hope to hear some serious arguments about the chapter's efficiency at the next AGM. I also hope for the chance for some significant input from the membership on expenditure priorities. Tom -Original Message- From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Turvey Sent: 27 February 2011 15:57 To: WMUK-L Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] job descriptions In advance of the board meeting next Tuesday, I've started drafting up some job descriptions on the wiki at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Job_Descriptions for the new members of staff that we are recruiting. Please add your contributions on the main and talk page to develop this. Many thanks, Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Roger Bamkin (aka Victuallers) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] AGM tellers - can you help?
Our Annual General Meeting is just around the corner and we'll be holding the annual election of the board of directors. As with previous years, we'd like to appoint two independent tellers who will be responsible for running the election, counting votes and announcing the results. We plan a similar approach to the election as last year, with ballot papers sent out electronically and voting both by email and on paper on the day itself. The main difference is the scale, as our membership has grown from 70 to nearly 200. The election rules are on the wiki at [1]. The main restriction is that tellers cannot themselves be candidates for the board, must be a member of Wikimedia UK and must be able to attend the AGM in person on 16th April. [2] [1] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_Rules [2] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2011 If you are able to help us with this please could you email me by next Sunday 6th March with details of any previous similar experience. Many thanks, Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Motions for AGM
The Annual Conference in April will be a mixture of the informal panel discussions and talks that are familiar in events such as Wikimania and the more formal company business, such as electing the new board of directors. In the latter section, we also have an opportunity to debate and vote on any motions that are proposed either by the board or by members. Resolutions can be used to spark a debate about the activities of the chapter if that is useful, or a more informal debate can be organised. As well as the standard resolutions, such as reappointing auditors, approving the accounts and electing the board, we are planning to propose a change to the structure of the board as previously discussed to introduce two year terms and expert board seats. More details of these will be sent out prior to the AGM notice. If any members are interested in proposing motions please let me know by 10th March so we can incorporate it into the agenda and the AGM notice. Motions can be proposed by any member as long as another member seconds the motion. Special Resolutions - essentially changes to the constitution - must be passed with a 75% majority of those members who vote. Members' Special Resolutions must also be proposed in writing no less than 28 days before the meeting, and that includes amendments. Other resolutions can be proposed at any time and require only a 50% majority. If you would like any assistance in drafting a motion please let me know any we will do what we can to help. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Could you lead Wikimedia UK to success?
Just a note to say thank you to everyone who came along to the board interest day on Saturday. We had an excellent turnout - fourteen people in total including seven people who were interested in standing for the board for the first time. Thanks to the people who presented, including Gemma Griffiths who talked about our PR plan and 10th anniversary coverage, Joseph Seddon who explained the proposed board changes and Sebastien Molenski, President of Wikimedia Deutschland, who talked to us about the kind of strategic planning we could be thinking about for our current stage of development. Thanks also to Mike Peel, who spoke about his experiences as board member and James Forrester who gave us a longer view, sharing his experiences as director of Wikimedia UK version 1. The next stage is the invitation for candidates, which will be sent out in five weeks' time on 13th March. Nominations will then close on 2nd April. If anyone has any further questions about standing for election next year and would like to discuss it further, please do not hesitate to get in touch either on email - andrewrturveyatgooglemail.com - or by phone on 07403 216 991 or speak to another one of the existing board members. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: From our blog, http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/: Could you lead Wikimedia UK to success? Next year is set to be another big year of growth for Wikimedia UK: we have just raised over £500,000 in the Wikimedia Annual Fundraiser. Most of this money will support the technical side of Wikimedia through donations to the Foundation and the Toolserver. However, we also plan to use the funds to recruit four more members of staff. These staff will mean we can scale up our activities, enable more activity by volunteers and professionalise the chapter. Our own developer, events organiser, a full time office manager and a chapter manager pulling everything together will no doubt transform Wikimedia UK. However, a key factor in our success will still be the board, which will continue to lead the chapter and be made up of unpaid volunteers. It will continue to be elected by our members, ordinary Wikimedians who support our mission and want to make Wikipedia and free knowledge even more successful. Can you help lead the chapter to success in 2011 by standing for election as a board member? If so, you’re warmly invited to join us on Saturday 5th February from 5pm where you can find out more about what is involved in being a board member and have an opportunity to ask any questions and meet other interested people. This “board interest day” will take place in central London (venue to be confirmed). If you are interested please drop me a line to chair @ wikimedia.org.uk to reserve your place. You can also give me a ring on 07403 216 991 if you would like to discuss further. Look forward to hearing from you! Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal to Strike off
Dear All, I promised everyone I would keep you informed on this list about progress with our accounts. As you may have heard, we filed our accounts last week and I can confirm that Companies House are showing these accounts on their website and the proceedings for striking off the company has been discontinued. This now removes any risk to the chapter's funds. We were able to file the accounts last week as a result of a discussion I had with Companies House which allowed us to shorten the procedure. In brief, although we are not yet recognised as a charity, we have up to now always acted as if we were. This means we have complied with various additional requirements to the requirements for other not for profit companies. In relation to our accounts, these requirements include having them independently reviewed and not being eligible for the reduced disclosures allowed for small non-charitable companies - so-called Abbreviated Accounts. In my discussion with Companies House, they advised that there is no reason why we, given our current status, cannot submit unreviewed Abbreviated Accounts to them in fulfilment of our statutory obligations. This is notwithstanding the requirement set out in our constitution to prepare full charity accounts for our members. I therefore completed the abbreviated accounts from our accounting records, had them approved by our board, and submitted them. We have uploaded these accounts to our wiki at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMUK_Jan2010_Abbreviated_Accs_FINAL.pdf Our accountants have not yet completed preparing and reviewing the full accounts, which we will still continue with in order to comply with our constitution, and will submit them to Companies House as revised accounts when they are complete. I am meeting them tomorrow morning and hope to have a better idea of progress after then. It's great to have this cloud lifted from us and to get the chapter back on track so we can focus again on our objectives and events. My personal thanks to everyone who helped resolve this immediate situation. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear All, As I promised before, here is a further update on our progress with our accounts. As I mentioned in my emails below, we were originally given a date of 17th December for receiving draft accounts from our accountants, UHY Hacker Young, which would have enabled us to file accounts with Companies House by the end of December. I was in constant touch with our accountants from 13th December until they left on 23rd December. Although they started work on the accounts on time, when they started to look at the information we had provided they were unable to read the GNUCash file which contains the detailed records. We have made some progress with converting the file into CSV format or similar but this has taken far longer that expected. They have now completed their work on the numbers but the extra work they had to do meant they have not yet completed their work on accounting disclosures and the independent review. Their scheduling peak regarding tax returns due at the year end and holidays over Christmas means they have not been able to dedicate any more staff to the work until the first week of January. However, we now have two staff dedicated full time to working on these accounts from today, Tuesday 4th January, and they now expect that they will be able to complete the accounts by 14th. Although this is all extremely disappointing, we should keep in mind that we are still on track to file the accounts before the final date for striking off. This means that all money received from our donors will be spent on supporting the goals and activities of the chapter and will not be lost to the movement. We are fully aware of the reputational impact this has on Wikimedia UK with potential donors, members and the Wikimedia Foundation. As mentioned previously, we are putting in additional processes to ensure that nothing like this happens again. Thank you for bearing with us over this and please let me know if you have any queries on this situation. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear All, I promised I'd keep everyone on this list information about progress with our accounts. Our accountants have now given us a date of 17th
[Wikimediauk-l] Ockham Blue Plaque
Just noticed this posting on the Wikipedia @ 10 website. Is anyone interested in taking this forward? A Wikipedia drinks reception sounds like a great way to involve a new group of people in the things we do, although 10th April is a little close to the Annual Conference AGM on 16th. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/London#Ockham_Blue_Plaque Ockham Blue Plaque Hi everyone. I am shortly applying to the City of London for a 'blue plaque' to be installed at the site of the old Greyfriars monastery on London Wall, by Newgate Street, to commemorate the great English philosopher William of Ockham. I have a long list of distinguished (some not so distinguished!) philosophers from all over the world who are prepared to support this. I am not sure whether the process will be finished by April 10 2011. Even if not, it would be great to add to the London Greyfriars article on Wikipedia to include some facts about Ockham's period of residence there (when he wrote some of his greatest works). And I am sure that Merrill Lynch (current occupiers of the site) would be happy to host drinks, perhaps with a Wikipedia connection, on April 10. Also the article on Ockham himself could do with a lot of work. Would anyone be happy to help with this? I could post material here, and people could paste it into the relevant articles. Best Peter Damian 12:36, 31 December 2010 (UTC) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal to Strike off
Dear All, As I promised before, here is a further update on our progress with our accounts. As I mentioned in my emails below, we were originally given a date of 17th December for receiving draft accounts from our accountants, UHY Hacker Young, which would have enabled us to file accounts with Companies House by the end of December. I was in constant touch with our accountants from 13th December until they left on 23rd December. Although they started work on the accounts on time, when they started to look at the information we had provided they were unable to read the GNUCash file which contains the detailed records. We have made some progress with converting the file into CSV format or similar but this has taken far longer that expected. They have now completed their work on the numbers but the extra work they had to do meant they have not yet completed their work on accounting disclosures and the independent review. Their scheduling peak regarding tax returns due at the year end and holidays over Christmas means they have not been able to dedicate any more staff to the work until the first week of January. However, we now have two staff dedicated full time to working on these accounts from today, Tuesday 4th January, and they now expect that they will be able to complete the accounts by 14th. Although this is all extremely disappointing, we should keep in mind that we are still on track to file the accounts before the final date for striking off. This means that all money received from our donors will be spent on supporting the goals and activities of the chapter and will not be lost to the movement. We are fully aware of the reputational impact this has on Wikimedia UK with potential donors, members and the Wikimedia Foundation. As mentioned previously, we are putting in additional processes to ensure that nothing like this happens again. Thank you for bearing with us over this and please let me know if you have any queries on this situation. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear All, I promised I'd keep everyone on this list information about progress with our accounts. Our accountants have now given us a date of 17th December for completion of the draft accounts, subject to us providing them with adequate explanations and information. The board is committed to meeting its side of the agreement, which means we will be in a position to file the signed accounts by the end of the month. At the same time, we are putting in place changes to our processes to ensure that these problems do not cause us to be late with the accounts next year or beyond. Thank you for your continued understanding with this and our apologies once more for any concern caused. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear All, Just to follow up from Mike's previous email. I spoke to our accountants, UHY Hacker Young, earlier today and they are working on our accounts at the moment. The client manager was out of the office today but he will give me a ring tomorrow with an ETA for the draft accounts. The proposal for strike off looks alarming, but Companies House has given us until 9th February before any further action is taken. Our accountants have assured us that they will be able to turn things around quickly enough to avoid this outcome. Unfortunately, Companies House in England has an automatic policy of filing for winding up when the first set of accounts are late and they are not willing to suspend their proceedings until the accounts are filed. We can reassure you that there is no significant risk to donors' money from this procedure, given that our accounts are close to completion. However, we fully understand that this looks alarming and creates a bad impression. I apologise for any concern this has caused to any of our donors, members or supporters. I'll make sure I keep this list informed so you can monitor our progress with this matter. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: I'll leave it to Tango and Andrew to provide the full story, but in a nutshell: due to the complexities of our accounts (and hence the time demands they place on our Treasurer), we're rather late in having the first set of them checked over by an accountant. They're currently with the accountants, though, and we'll be able to file them soon. Being listed as 'proposal to strike off' is an automatic thing as we haven't previously filed accounts, but there's a long time (6 months) before
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal to Strike off
Dear All, I promised I'd keep everyone on this list information about progress with our accounts. Our accountants have now given us a date of 17th December for completion of the draft accounts, subject to us providing them with adequate explanations and information. The board is committed to meeting its side of the agreement, which means we will be in a position to file the signed accounts by the end of the month. At the same time, we are putting in place changes to our processes to ensure that these problems do not cause us to be late with the accounts next year or beyond. Thank you for your continued understanding with this and our apologies once more for any concern caused. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear All, Just to follow up from Mike's previous email. I spoke to our accountants, UHY Hacker Young, earlier today and they are working on our accounts at the moment. The client manager was out of the office today but he will give me a ring tomorrow with an ETA for the draft accounts. The proposal for strike off looks alarming, but Companies House has given us until 9th February before any further action is taken. Our accountants have assured us that they will be able to turn things around quickly enough to avoid this outcome. Unfortunately, Companies House in England has an automatic policy of filing for winding up when the first set of accounts are late and they are not willing to suspend their proceedings until the accounts are filed. We can reassure you that there is no significant risk to donors' money from this procedure, given that our accounts are close to completion. However, we fully understand that this looks alarming and creates a bad impression. I apologise for any concern this has caused to any of our donors, members or supporters. I'll make sure I keep this list informed so you can monitor our progress with this matter. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: I'll leave it to Tango and Andrew to provide the full story, but in a nutshell: due to the complexities of our accounts (and hence the time demands they place on our Treasurer), we're rather late in having the first set of them checked over by an accountant. They're currently with the accountants, though, and we'll be able to file them soon. Being listed as 'proposal to strike off' is an automatic thing as we haven't previously filed accounts, but there's a long time (6 months) before there's a risk of that actually happening, and this will definitely be sorted out in short order. This is essentially a symptom of us having too much to do and not enough time to do it, I'm afraid... Mike On 29 Nov 2010, at 21:04, geni wrote: I saw this post at the village pump suggesting wikimediauk's accounts are seriously late and this presents issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VP/M#Wiki_UK_Ltd_to_be_struck_off.3F The company in question is wikimedia UK (the Company No. 06741827 is consistent with that given in past emails) According to companies house the accounts were due 05/08/2010 and the company's status was listed as Active - Proposal to Strike off. Whats going on? -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal to Strike off
Dear All, Just to follow up from Mike's previous email. I spoke to our accountants, UHY Hacker Young, earlier today and they are working on our accounts at the moment. The client manager was out of the office today but he will give me a ring tomorrow with an ETA for the draft accounts. The proposal for strike off looks alarming, but Companies House has given us until 9th February before any further action is taken. Our accountants have assured us that they will be able to turn things around quickly enough to avoid this outcome. Unfortunately, Companies House in England has an automatic policy of filing for winding up when the first set of accounts are late and they are not willing to suspend their proceedings until the accounts are filed. We can reassure you that there is no significant risk to donors' money from this procedure, given that our accounts are close to completion. However, we fully understand that this looks alarming and creates a bad impression. I apologise for any concern this has caused to any of our donors, members or supporters. I'll make sure I keep this list informed so you can monitor our progress with this matter. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: I'll leave it to Tango and Andrew to provide the full story, but in a nutshell: due to the complexities of our accounts (and hence the time demands they place on our Treasurer), we're rather late in having the first set of them checked over by an accountant. They're currently with the accountants, though, and we'll be able to file them soon. Being listed as 'proposal to strike off' is an automatic thing as we haven't previously filed accounts, but there's a long time (6 months) before there's a risk of that actually happening, and this will definitely be sorted out in short order. This is essentially a symptom of us having too much to do and not enough time to do it, I'm afraid... Mike On 29 Nov 2010, at 21:04, geni wrote: I saw this post at the village pump suggesting wikimediauk's accounts are seriously late and this presents issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VP/M#Wiki_UK_Ltd_to_be_struck_off.3F The company in question is wikimedia UK (the Company No. 06741827 is consistent with that given in past emails) According to companies house the accounts were due 05/08/2010 and the company's status was listed as Active - Proposal to Strike off. Whats going on? -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Person of the year
Are there any open source people we can promote as a person of the year? -- Forwarded message -- From: steve virgin st...@mediafocusuk.com Date: 28 Oct 2010 19:32 Subject: Just a thought To: Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com http://blogs.forbes.com/michaelnoer/2010/10/26/help-us-crowd-source-forbes-magazine-names-you-need-to-know-in-2011/ Forbes are going to Crowd Source ‘names’ that will shape 2011 Would people on our internal lists have any strong opinions on that? Maybe they could share them with Forbes? Would be good if they were all Open Source Open Rights Open Data people, wouldn’t it? I’d have thought Jimmy would be a good candidate for January with the 10thAnniversary ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK in 2013
Earlier this month, the board sat down for our first in-person meeting since the AGM. We talked about our plans and achievements so far this year and wrote down where we wanted the chapter to be in three years' time. Below are the notes we made on the day, which we'd like to share with you. By their nature they are abbreviated. Please let us know any comments or input you have to these, or if you have any queries about what this would mean for the chapter. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair Wikimedia UK - Forwarded Message - Wikimedia UK Book Sprint: where do we want to be in 2013? - Fully professionalised chapter - Supporting non-UK chapters with historical links to the UK Projects: - Culture - Education - Academic - Community - Multilingual - Wikipedia Academies / Workshops. Target audiences/locations aimed at getting people involved in editing Wikipedia. Two Wikipedia academies a year? Also workshops (~6 per year?). - Academic/external peer review process of Wikipedia articles? - Content partnerships (led by board members) - Fostering Wikimeets in different cities - Community editing sessions in libraries/museums/universities/schools/etc. (parallel to meetups?) - Yearly UK Wikimedia conference - Fundraising/international meetings - Wikimania??? 5 November 2013: WMUK 5th birthday celebrations Budget FTE staff 2010 £50,000 0.2 2011 £125,000 1.5 (+ events, 0.5 x admin [starting from August with managed office]) 2012 £200,000 3 (+ fundraiser/sponsorship) 2013 £300,000 5 (+ developer, CEO/grants) Other possibilities: media contact. (All amounts are 50% of the total raised - starting to get grants etc. in 2013) Also contractors for tech work etc. Potentially sharing full-time staff with like-minded organisations? Asking Foundation to pay for first year of fundraiser/grants staff member? WMUK Board: aim to diversify it and make it richer in experience - Board Interest meeting on Saturday 12 February. First of an annual event? - Trustee Proposition. Separation of executive decisions from the full Board. - 7 board members (maybe 9 by 2013) - 4 community-elected members, 3 expert seats proposed by the outgoing community-elected members of the Board at the AGM (subject to community approval) - 2012? - Quarterly in-person meetings (in addition to AGM). 2011: also interim online meetings in between in person meetings. - ExecCom for 2011, transitioning to CEO in 2013 (with ExecCom oversight). ExecCom meetings as required. - Community appointments for 2 years (half elected each year) - avoids 'lame duck' period, adds continuity. Institutional memory. 2011. - Advisory Board??? -- ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Part time office manager
To help us with the growth in Wikimedia UK, we have decided to employ a part time office manager, who will provide the chapter with administrative support. Working from home at hours to suit, the position will be for an initial term of six months for eight to twelve hours per week. The role is paying £10 per hour on a PAYE basis. Standard holidays will be payable in addition along with the necessary expenses for the role, including internet costs, telephone calls and stationery. The ideal candidate will be IT literate with a number of years of administrative and bookkeeping experience, ideally in a non-profit context. Full details of the position are on the wiki at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_Manager/Advertisement. If you are interested in applying or would like further details please contact me at ch...@wikimedia.org.uk or call me on 07754 881 562. The deadline for applications is 31 August. To apply please send a CV and covering letter detailing your skills and experience in this area. Please feel free to forward this on to anyone you know who may be interested. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] New board of trustees
The AGM on Saturday elected a new board of trustees. Many thanks to everyone who attended or sent proxy ballots. Full details are on the wiki at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2010_AGM/Minutes#Election_results. All five remaining candidates received more than 50% support and were therefore elected. Our thanks go to Tom Holden and Zeyi He who stepped down from the board this year and to the tellers, James Farrar and James Humphries who did a fantastic job once more of running the election. After the AGM the first board meeting elected me as the new Chair, Mike Peel stepped into the position of Secretary and Tom Dalton became Treasurer. Regards, Andrew Turvey ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Help elect a new board of trustees for Wikimedia UK
with organizations to forge content partnerships. In terms of a direction for the organization of the chapter, I would like to focus on professionalization - hiring an office administrator and technical developers. It has become very apparent over the last year that there is a lot that can be done, but rarely enough volunteer time to make it happen and to do it successfully. Professionalization will greatly ease this, and make the chapter a lot more streamlined and capable. I have been active on Wikipedia for over 5 years (my first edit was in March 2005), during which time I've made around 15,000 edits (although my edit rate has dropped off considerably since being involved with Wikimedia UK). I'm also active on the Commons, where I have made over 3500 edits and uploaded over 650 images of my own creation. I have also made over 2000 edits on Wikisource. In real life, I'm employed as a postdoctoral researcher at Jodrell Bank (part of the University of Manchester). Please don't hesitate to ask me any questions you might have (on my talk page, on irc (nick mpeel) or anywhere else you see me around). Joseph Seddon My name is Joseph Seddon and I have been involved within the Wikimedia projects since November 2006 and a director of Wikimedia UK since April 2009. Outside the chapter I am currently in my second year of an undergraduate Masters degree in Exploration and Resource Geology at Cardiff University. On the wikimedia projects my main area of activity has been on the English Wikipedia and I am a former mediator, arbitratation clerk and administrator. These roles I recently gave up so that I could focus my time on the chapter. I have very specific roles that I see myself undertaking over the next year. The first of these is the organisation of conference to bring together Wikimedia and the Cultural sector within the UK. Work has already begun for and being part of this years new board will greatly assist me in bringing this fantastic opportunity together. Secondly, I want to strengthen our working relationship with free knowledge organisations such as the open knowledge foundation, creative commons uk, icommons and other free culture and software organisations. These groups have been active in the uk for many years and are successful in thier operation and we have so much to learn and gain from them. The contacts, skills and experience that they bring in the technology, culture and education sectors are invaluable in our work to bring the sum of all human knowledge to the UK and internationally. Finally I want to encourage the growth of the chapter professionally. Employing professionals to the chapters increases our efficiency and impact many times over compared to being run by volunteers. It frees up volunteer time and means we can do more. With my knowledge and understanding of our communites and an increasing understanding of the sectors we will work closely with I feel that being part of the new board will be a huge positive to our ever growing chapter. Andrew Turvey I have been on the board for the last two years and would like to stand for a third and final term to see through the things I have been working on, in particular our application to the Charity Commission. I have found the board a very enjoyable and enriching experience, even if sometimes frustrating and time consuming. Sadly I'm not able to devote as much time as I'd like to Wikimedia given the recent changes in my life, but I'm sure that one board meeting per month plus the various commitments outside the board will be achievable. Next year will see some important developments with Wikimedia UK - continued growth in membership, activities and income; employing our first staff member and, hopefully, a successful conclusion to our charity application. It would be a privilege to be part of this! Steve Virgin It has been a privilege to serve during the last year and it has proved both challenging and highly rewarding. Challenging because as a Board we have had to work hard to raise the profile of both the Chapter and the range of projects that Wikimedia UK promote and support. However, although it has been time consuming and the Board had to operate on tight budgets right up until the Fundraiser last winter, this problem is now resolved and the Wikimedia UK chapter has a healthy bank balance which will allow the new Board to push the development of the Chapter further forward. Fortunately, the rewards are plenty and the warm reception that Board members get when they talk about our projects are such that it makes me optimistic about the coming year. My discussions have led to a recent internal BBC Future Media Team proposal to set up a project to channel image donations to Wikimedia Commons. They have led to nearly concluded discussions with ARKIVE/WildScreen about the likelihood of a large content donation of data, images, video and audio archive from its endangered animals and species database. There are on-going talks
[Wikimediauk-l] Talk in Bristol
Steve Virgin, one of the Wikimedia UK board members, recently gave a talk at a Bristol Social Media forum about various things happening with Wikimedia projects in Britain. The talk was positively covered in a blog from a participant: http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2010/02/18/discussion-group-shows-geeks-are-social/#more-22714 How can fictional stories incorporate technology? What does the future hold for Wikipedia’s sister projects ? And is it fair to say that social media sucks?... ... Next up was Steve Virgin , a member of the United Kingdom chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind Wikipedia. After sharing some arresting statistics about the site’s impact (347 million people — 35% of the online population –use Wikipedia, while 40,000 English speakers make at least five edits each per month) he talked about the work that is going on with the organization’s nine other projects which cover, among other topics, news , books , quotations and the classification of species . The biggest growth is in Wikimedia Commons , a project to collect copyright-free media resources such as photographs and videos. The big push this year is to encourage museums to follow the example of the Dresden University Library which donated 250,000 images. One tactic is to promote the potential benefits of such donations, such as releasing part of an archive as a promotional tool to boost sales of other images. There is also work in progress to reduce the technical hassles involved in donating images, which may include a tie-in with Flickr .___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Geograph images
Could anyone help us draft a blog post about this? I've started a page at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Geograph_images - Forwarded Message - From: Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net To: bo...@wikimedia.org.uk WMUK Board bo...@wikimedia.org.uk Sent: Saturday, 30 January, 2010 11:58:22 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [WMUK Board] Geograph images Hi all, I've just been given a heads-up that 250,000 images of the UK that people have released on Geograph.org.uk are currently being mass- uploaded onto Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Category:Images_from_the_Geograph_British_Isles_project We should probably do a blog post about this sometime soon; next week perhaps? Mike ___ Board mailing list bo...@wikimedia.org.uk http://wikimedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/board_wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Budget for next year
of the conference in Australia in August 2009. [8] We have had tentative discussions with museums who would be interested and may be able to arrange it for August 2010. The purpose of the conference is to bring key decision makers in the GLAM sector into contact with Wikimedia people to persuade them to partner with us on content donation, partnerships like Britain Loves Wikipedia and other ways we can help each other achieve our aims. Costs are expected to be in the region of £5,000, of which some or all may be funded by the GLAM partners or through sponsorship. Do you think this is a worthwhile use of our resources? Other projects Other projects that have been proposed, but not yet discussed by the board, in connection with the 2010 Budget include: £1,000 for a microgrant project, along the lines of Wikimedia Poland's scheme [9] £1,000 to sponsor Wikimedians to attend Wikimania Gdansk 2010 [10] £500 to fund travel to museums etc for discussions on content access £500 to assist in the development of Wikimeets £300 to pay for members to attend free content conference [11] £340 to fund preliminary work on Wikimania Manchester 2013 [12] Do you think these are worthwhile things to spend our money on? Is there anything else you think should be added to the list? If you've managed to read this far then I'm impressed and thank you! All comments are gratefully received whether on our general approach or on specifics. We look forward to hearing your ideas! Regards, Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. [1] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:2010_Budget [2] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2010-01-19/Agenda/Fundraiser_Report [3] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Budget#Restricted_funds_brought_forward [4] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Budget#Administrative_costs [5] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Main_Page [6] http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page [7] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-10-20#AOB [8] http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/GLAM-WIKI [9] http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpl.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikikonkurssl=pltl=en [10] http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page [11] See list at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Budget#Restricted_funds_brought_forward [12] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Wikimania_Bid/Bid_budget ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Board member vacancy
We are happy to announce that the board has decided to co-opt Thomas Dalton onto the board of trustees to replace Paul Williams who recently resigned. I'm sure Tom needs no introduction here: he currently serves as our Head of Fundraising and has been involved in the setting up of Wikimedia UK v2 from the start. Tom, like the rest of the Board, will serve until the AGM in April when a new election will be held. Regards, Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. - Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: From: Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 29 December, 2009 23:35:34 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Board member vacancy Hi all, It is with regret that I announce that Paul Williams (Skenmy) is leaving the WMUK Board for personal reasons. This obviously leaves a vacancy on the board between now and the next AGM, which we would like to fill if a suitable candidate can be found. Who would be interested in joining the Board until the next AGM (24 April)? The legal duties and the eligibility criteria for being on the board are described at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees#Duties You would be expected to attend the board meetings online, which currently take place fortnightly by Skype. You would also participate in the organization of the various initiatives that are currently being planned, and the development of future initiatives, as well as the forthcoming AGM. Whether the role of 'volunteers director' is kept has not yet been decided; in general however there is a lot of freedom to focus on what you're interested in, or help out with bits of everything, rather than being tied to specific areas. If you are interested, please email the board at bo...@wikimedia.org.uk . A brief background of yourself would be useful, as would a description of what you would like to achieve by being on the Board. If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to ask me or any of the other current (or past) board members Thanks, Mike Peel Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Next board meeting: 19th January
Hi all, Unfortunately the board meeting this evening has had to be cancelled due to lack of quorum. The meeting will be deferred until next Tuesday, 19th January 8:30 - 10:30. As before, The meeting will primarily be via Skype, but we'll also be in #wikimedia-uk on IRC and everyone is more than welcome to attend the IRC session, and participate in the discussion there. The agenda will be up at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings Board members + Tango: please post whether you can attend, and your reports if applicable, to the agenda page. Regards, Andrew - Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: From: Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net To: bo...@wikimedia.org.uk WMUK Board bo...@wikimedia.org.uk, wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 12 January, 2010 15:52:29 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [WMUK Board] Next board meeting: This evening Hi all, The next board meeting, and the first of 2010, will be this evening (Tuesday 12 January 2010) at 8.30-10.30pm GMT. The meeting will primarily be via Skype, but we'll also be in #wikimedia-uk on IRC. Everyone is more than welcome to attend the IRC session, and participate in the discussion there. If you don't have an IRC client, then you can connect using http://webchat.freenode.net/ . The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2010-01-12/Agenda Board members + Tango: please post whether you can attend, and your reports, to the agenda page. My thanks to those that have already given their attendance and started their reports. (Note that I'm currently out of the country, and will likely be unable to attend by voice and/or a bit late. Either way, please could someone else chair the meeting?) Thanks, Mike Peel ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day
Well worth doing and well written - many thanks for this. We're getting together quite a list of press contacts and it's the kind of story in a news-light time of the year that could fly well. When should it be put out? Given that 1 Jan falls on a Friday and the previous Monday is a bank holiday, does Tuesday 29th make sense? Also coincides with a WMUK board meeting, so if anything needs approving at that level (although I'm not sure it needs to) we can do that as well. I guess we should add some bits at the end: - explaining who WMUK - link into Britain Loves Wikipedia? Headline? Wikipedia looks forward to Public Domain Day? - Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote: From: Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 21 December, 2009 17:12:14 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:08 +, David Gerard wrote: 2009/12/21 Charles Matthews :Draft, then.Worth noting: It's A Wonderful Life only became a popular Christmas movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford may be well worth mentioning - people who read will certainly take the opportunity to push his works. Send to the more literary publications? I took Charles' draft, put it on the wiki, and did a slight rewrite. David's suggestion is an excellent point to add to a detail I inserted - build the membership. http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Public_domain_day -- Brian McNeil Wikinewsie.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Computer quote
As discussed at last week's board meeting, the chapter has been given a £500 grant to fund the purchase of a computer to help with outreach work. As per previous discussions, it would be useful to have a projector at the same time so that we can do presentation on the go. I've had a look on the internet and this is the best deal I can find: £199 - Dell Inspiron Mini 10 V (http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home/Laptops/laptop-inspiron-10/pd.aspx?refid=laptop-inspiron-10s=dhscs=ukdhs1~oid=uk~en~20211~laptop-inspiron-10_n00b1001~~) £11.99 - Laptop bag (http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/PopupProductDetail.aspx?cs=ukdhs1l=enc=uksku=A2568188price=11.99) £285 - Dell M109S On-the-go projector (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/projector-dell-m109s?c=ukl=ens=dhscs=ukdhs1) £30 delivery Total - £496 Comments appreciated! Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] First Wikmedia Seminar
We're happy to report that Steve Virgin and I have just given our first Wikimedia Seminar or Learning Lunch to Kaizo, a PR firm in London. The reaction was very positive, with a raft of questions that kept us speaking for around 90 minutes. There were some great opportunities discussed regarding their clients. One was a publisher who owns an archive of of professional journals going back over 100 years; we spoke about how a content release deal could fit into a freemium model and the example of the Saxon State Library experience [1]. Wikimedia would benefit from getting great content whilst the client would gain a positive image, a raised profile within their specialist community and traffic back to their own website where premium content is sold. We're now going to work with Kaizo on taking forward these ideas with their clients. I will upload the presentation we gave to the main Wikimedia presentation site [2] and would appreciate any feedback. Plans are in the pipeline for further seminars at, among others, BBC Bristol and the Brrism social networking group - if you're interested in getting involved in either delivering or writing further presentations please get in touch either by replying to me directly or adding your details to the speakers page on the wiki. If you've already volunteered we haven't forgotten and will be in touch shortly! Travel expenses are will be covered by the host organisation. [3] These learning lunches are one of three main projects that Wikimedia UK are focusing on achieving this year - alongside the Britain Loves Wikipedia museums event next February and the schools project. Alongside these three main projects we are also active in responding to various media enquiries, speaking to libraries and museums about content release and attending various conferences to give the Wikimedia perspective. Let us know if you can help us with any of these activities! [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/03/31/over-250k-new-images-join-the-wikimedia-commons/ [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presentations/en [3] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Speakers Regards, -- Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] URGENT: Conference this Thursday in West Midlands
We've been invited to a conference in Birmingham this Thursday and are urgently seeking anyone who may be able to go along and is able to speak on Wikimedia's perspective. The conference is called Digital Treasures and is being organised by the museum sector. It's a very important event for us as we're currently developing our links with the museum sector through Britain Loves Wikipedia, the GLAM-WIKI conference and various content release discussions so we need someone who will be able to represent Wikimedia. It's next Thursday 26th November - the conference is from 10am to 5:30pm and our session is 1:30 - 2:30 pm. Travel costs will of course be paid by the chapter. Not exactly Italy I know! ;) Please let me know if you're able to help or if not or need any more information, or if you have any ideas for who else could do it. Cheers - Forwarded Message - From: Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk To: bo...@wikimedia.org.uk WMUK Board bo...@wikimedia.org.uk Sent: Saturday, 7 November, 2009 16:54:56 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [WMUK Board] Fwd: 'Our Hidden Treasures' conference 26th November in West Midlands See below. Sounds like a very good opportunity to talk about what Wikipedia can do to help archives. Is anyone able to go? (I'll go if no-one else can, but I should really be focusing on my thesis...) Mike Begin forwarded message: From:*** Date: 6 November 2009 13:45:39 GMT To: Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk Subject: 'Our Hidden Treasures' conference 26th November in West Midlands Hi Mike, I just wanted to let you know about a conference on digitising archives and using their content on the net that is happening later this month. I have spoken to the conference organisers and they are very keen for someone from Wikipedia to come along and possibly even sit on a panel discussion about financing models and repurposing content. Other speakers at the conference include Tony Ageh, Ed Vaizey and someone from Microsoft. Let me know if you’re interested and I’ll put you in touch with the conference organisers. Cheers, Katie ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Notes from the Cbinet Forum
Sorry - just to clarify - the extreme language I quoted was NOT from Sion Simon, they were from the industry representatives who were talking on a different panel. - Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote: From: Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 27 October, 2009 17:56:31 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Notes from the Cbinet Forum On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 17:10 +, Andrew Turvey wrote: - SIon Simon, another politician present, mentioned that the copyright debate is highly polarised between the industry and free copyright advocates, both sides are deaf to the other and they need to engage. Despite this the discussions on copyright have been largely one sided, unbalanced, with some fairly extreme language used - copyright warriors, green ink brigade. a generation of stealing etc. That's a complete and utter misrepresentation of the other side. It's a random representation from some file-sharer or other. He has obviously made absolutely any effort to talk to the other side. If you get the chance, suggest he talk to Richard Stallman, in fact, urge him to do so. I've been following the Pirate Party mailing list the past few days. They don't want the abolition of copyright; they've read what RMS has to say on the topic, and their interest is more in seeing a complete reevaluation of copyright in the context of it being a social contract. Not just rights granted to a copyright holder by society, but responsibilities that come with them - like not just letting things enter the public domain when copyright expires, put actually taking the time to put them out there, freely available. Creative works are, collectively, our cultural heritage; with regard to music, the vast majority creating it see little to no financial reward for doing so. The 'industry', on the other hand, has a long and shameful history of assuming they have a right to be paid over and over and over again for exactly the same piece of work. -- Brian McNeil Wikinewsie.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] What should we spend our money on?
The 2009 Annual Wikimedia Fundraiser is just round the corner and we need to crystallize the list of items that we will use our income for so that we can encourage people to donate. I've done a first draft at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2009_Winter_Fundraiser#Use_of_funds - please could you take a look and edit away! What would inspire you to donate? Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Cbinet Forum
We've been invited to go along to a conference next week organized by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on creative industries. Although we made it clear to them that we are not-for-profit and a lot of the programme is not particularly relevant, they were very keen to get us to go along, even to the extent of giving us a free ticket. The website is at http://www.cabinetforum.org and the agenda is: * Access to finance for creative industries: What do creative businesses need to do to attract investment and demonstrate reliability of future cash flow? How do you tackle the lack of understanding between investors and creative * New business models for online content: How can a viable business be made out of online content without relying on advertising? * Developing Talent: What can be done to create opportunities for the next generation of creative talent? How can creative businesses make sure tomorrow’s employees have the right skills to thrive? * Securing creative rights: How best to ensure that those who generate and fund creative product are able to secure its value? Both regulatory and non-regulatory methods will be examined. Some of these things are clearly not relevant for us but some - securing creative rights and new business models - are issues that we may wish to have input into. There are also likely to be some big hitters there who we would be interested in partnering with in the future, including senior people from companies like Spotify, BBC Vision and Wired UK. Peter Mandelson is a keynote speaker, which could be an important opportunity to put the case for public domain to a key decision maker. My question: what should I focus on at this conference and what should I aim to get out of it? Any thoughts appreciated. Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Multimedia Usability Project Meeting in France - Call for participation
We have been approached by Wikimedia France who are organising, with the Wikimedia Foundation, a project meeting for the Usability Project in early November - see email below. They have offered to fund the travel and accommodation of a UK-based person who is active in Wikimedia technology. Is anyone on this list interested in attending? If so, please could you email me offlist with brief details of your technical experience on Wikimedia. Many thanks -- Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. - Forwarded Message - From: Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com To: Chapters mailing list chapt...@wikimedia.ch Sent: Sunday, 4 October, 2009 12:53:00 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [Chapters] Multimedia Usability Project Meeting in France - Call for participation Dear fellow chapter people, Wikimedia France and the Wikimedia Foundation are organizing a meeting in Paris on November 6-8, which is meant to find its place within the Ford Grant about usability on Commons. We have already about 25 participants confirmed, and we potentially have a few spaces left. I would like to ask you if you knew of anyone within the community who would be interested and useful to participate in the meeting. Some of the chapters are already participating by sending people, from the chapter and/or community (Wikimedia Nederland, Wikimedia Polska, Wikimedia Australia, Wikimedia Deutschland) and maybe we've missed people who are within your community of choice and who would bring lots to the meeting. ... You will find more info about the meeting here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Usability_Project_Meeting_France Thank you for your help, Best, Delphine ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Microgrants strategy workshop
Wikimedia Poland has just published their latest chapter report which contains two interesting ideas: a) A Wikicontestmicro grants scheme b) A workshop for strategy planning Could/should we do something similar for WMUK? Andrew - Forwarded Message - From: Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com To: chapters-repo...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, 1 October, 2009 13:45:39 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Wikimedia Polska Report July-September 2009 See with some pictures: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Polska/July-September_2009 Financial matters The budget of the Wikimedia Polska as calculated on 11 September 2009 Current account: 27838.54 PLN (9899 USD, 6732 EUR) Tax deducible donation account: 281463.31 PLN (100100 USD, 68060 EUR) In cash: 250.00 PLN (89 USD, 60.45 EUR) Balance: At the of 2008: 146898.66 PLN (52230 USD, 35520 EUR) Expenditures in 2009: 110562.04 PLN (39310 USD, 26730 EUR) Income in 2009: 274063.16 (97450 USD, 26730 EUR) Current balance: 310399.78 (110 400 USD, 75060 EUR) 1% tax deducible donations 1% tax deducible donation season is almost finished. Till 11 September 2009 we have collected this year 149489,58 (53160 USD, 36150 EUR) which is already slightly more than in all 2008 (136636.05 PLN). [edytuj] Meetings and promotion GDJ 2009 A workshop for Polish Wikipedians devoted to strategy planning took place in Sopot, 11-13 September 2009. There were around 40 participants in the meeting. 11 lectures and discussion panels took place during GDJ. See more: [2] Bulletin 2 issues of Wikimedia Polska bulletins were published during vacation time. See: No. 6 and No.7 Wikimedia Polska Blog A pilot official blog was launched by Leinad. There are discussions about the shape of the blog and if it is going to replace Bulletin or rather coexist with it. Wikimania 2009 Saper and Szwedzki represented Wikimedia Polska during Wikimania 2009. Their travel costs were paid by Wikimedia Polska. Saper showed a short presentation about Wikimania 2010. [edytuj] Outreach activities Wikiexpedition Wikiexpedtion took place on July 10th till 20th. In the territory of Polish Podlaskie voivideship a group of 13 Wikimedians photographed whatever there was to be photographed in the area, as well as collected materials related to the places and sights of the region, while all the time contacting the local people, bringing them news of Wikipedia and Wikimedia in general. More than 1800 pictures were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons of which around 300 were used to illustrate various articles in Polish Wikipedia. More info: [3]. See also Category:Wikiekspedycja 2009 on Commons. Wikicontest V edition of Wikicontest - a micro grant system established by Wikimedia Polska in 2006 is still working. In current edition 8 applications were sent to Wikicontest committee of which 7 were accepted and 6 are in progress. Wikiworkshop III OZD A workshop for 30 scouts, leaders of teams from Polish Scouting Association was organized by Tomasz Chabinka. It was basic Wikipedia workshop for beginner editors. See more: [4] [edytuj] Press and media [edytuj] Mainstream media * July 2009 - Młody Technik (weekly,popular techie journal) - Kościół scjentologiczny dostał bana na Wikipedii, (about Scientology in Wikipedia) * 2009-09-17 Blogoskop Radia Wrocław - Dokąd zmierza Wikipedia? - interview with Szwedzki about Wikipedia and Wikimania * 2009-07-22: lookr.tv interview Wikipedyści podbijają Podlasie with Przykuta, Zwiadowca21 i Sp5uhe about Wikiexpedition and Wikipedia nagranie. [edytuj] Internet portals * 2009-09-28 gazeta.pl - Wojna o Polańskiego na Wikipedii. Administratorzy blokują stronę * 2009-09-26 onet.pl - Polska Wikipedia ma już osiem lat * 2009-09-25 dobreprogramy.pl - 8 lat polskiej Wikipedii * 2009-09-25 chip.pl - 8 lat polskiej Wikipedii * 2009-09-23 dobreprogramy.pl - Konkurs dla aktywnych wikipedystów * 2009-09-12 wiadomosci24.pl - Co to ludobójstwo? Skąd jest Beenhakker? - Wikipedia Ci powie * 2009-09-11 money.pl - Wirtualna Polska łączy Wikipedię i aktualności * 2009-09-11 heise-online.pl - Wikipedia WP: pierwszy efekt partnerstwa Orange i Fundacji Wikimedia * 2009-09-11 wp.pl - Wirtualna Polska z Wikipedią * 2009-09-11 idg.pl - WP.pl z Wikipedią * 2009-09-10 webinside.pl - Wirtualna Polska 'kupiła' sobie Wikipedię * 2009-09-10 madia2.pl - Wirtualna Polska z Wikipedią * 2009-09-08 gazeta.pl - (za Chipem) 5 milionów plików w Wikimedia Commons * 2009-09-08 di.com.pl - 5 milionów plików w Wikimedia Commons * 2009-09-08 chip.pl - 5 milionów plików w Wikimedia Commons * 2009-09-03 osnews.pl - Pięciomilionowy plik w Wikimedia Commons * 2009-09-03 komputerswiat.pl - Wikipedia: 70 rocznica wybuchu II wojny światowej * 2009-09-03 wp.pl - Wikipedię tworzą mężczyźni * 2009-09-03 media2.pl - Zmiany w angielskiej Wikipedii *
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM dates
- Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.com wrote: also, where is it going to be? That's the biggest factor for me. I think the idea was London - Seddon could you confirm? Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Online libel law consultation launched by the government
Online libel law consultation launched by the government http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.28413 Sound interesting - any idea how it will affect Wikipedia? Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Merchandising
Thanks everyone for their responses. Back to the original questions: - what kind of thing would you, personally, be interested in buying or getting as a gift? Tshirts, mousemats, cufflinks? - how much would you be willing to spend? - what logos would you like? Wikipedia? WMUK, complete family? Discussions so far have focussed on very limited sales, order on demand only. No one wants to spend lots of effort doing this, or taking any significant levels of stock. I don't think it has any potential to be a major source of funding so I don't suggest we go down that route. We're an association, a group of people with a common interest. The best way to encourage more and more people to join is to generate an enthusiasm for what we have in common. Stuff like Wikipedia T-shirts have a great potential to do that. Please don't pile in to rubbish the idea before it even takes shape. Andrew On Sep 13, 11:04 pm, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: We've received approval from the Wikimedia Foundation to produce merchandising with Wikimedia trademarks and copyrighted logos on it for sale to our members - anything from mugs and mouse-mats to cufflinks and ties. The plan is to sell them at cost price to members only. Quick question - what kind of thing would you be interested in buying and which logos would you want to use (Wikipedia globe? Wikimedia? Wiktionery? Complete family? [1]) [1]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_logo_family_complete... Please let me know either by personal reply or just reply to the list. Regards, ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.orghttp://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK:http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Merchandising
The main monetary benefits of charity status are being able to reclaim Gift Aid on donations and reduced rates on expenses like room hire and paypal fees. These are far larger than any profit on T-shirt sales would ever be. Andrew On Sep 14, 9:34 am, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: At 23:40 +0100 13/9/09, Andrew Turvey wrote: Hopefully it will be the kind of perk that will attract people who are already active in the projects to become members. As to selling at above cost, the Foundation wasn't too keen on that - worried that we would develop into some kind of commercial arm of the Foundation, which is not really their idea of the role of chapters. Andrew Run that by me, one more time? Why then seek to gain a tax advantage? Gordo -- Think Feynman/http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.j...@pobox.com/// ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.orghttp://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK:http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Merchandising
Re-reading my original email and the reaction to it I should clarify: - Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: The plan is to sell them at cost price to members only. Cost price isn't a restriction from the Foundation - their main restriction is that it must be either sold only to members or given away for free as publicity. It's up to us what price we sell them at, although if we make significant profit margins there are certain tax and charity consequences which may be better avoiding. Also I don't want members to get the impression we're profiteering. Thinking about it again, cost+20% - which I understand is what cafepress do - sounds about right to cover waste, stock etc. As I've mentioned before, I don't think the potential volumes justify turning this into a fundraising business. However, I do think it could be a good way to attract new members and give a benefit to existing members. I love the idea of a calendar, and we already have a potential partner in this with Robbies Photographics - one of the sponsors of the Wikipedia Loves Art event. Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art winner in London
One of the winners of the Wikipedia Loves Art project that we ran in February is in London later this month (she lives in France) - would anyone be interested in meeting up? Please let me know. Andrew === Forwarded message: Andrew, I just booked a Eurostar ticket for Sept. 23rd. (arrive around 12 leave at 8 p.m.) I am planning to spend time in the VA reveling in the beauty. I would love to meet some of the folks there that are involved in the Wiki program. Is there a chance of that? Thanks so much, Jenny O'Donnell ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Daily Mail on Flagged Revisions
You're absolutely right - posting snips is ok, whole articles isn't. I apologise and wont do it again! Just out of interest, can we delete posts from the archive? - Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote: From: Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 13:46:27 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Daily Mail on Flagged Revisions Both this list and wikien-l are public. To repost a substantial portion of a news website’s article on either of these mailing lists is a copyright violation. Brian. - Forwarded Message - From: Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com To: English Wikipedia wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 13:20:00 GMT + 00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland , Portugal Subject: Daily Mail ( England ) on Flagged Revisions Local english tabloid puts it's slant on the news. Unfortunately we didn't get any quote in there. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208941/Free-edit-Wikipedia-appoints-volunteer-editors-vet-changes-articles-living-people.html ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Interview on Dublin Radio 4, ~1:30
Just to let you know, I've just had an interview on Dublin's Radio 4 which should available soon at : http://www.4fm.ie/listenagain_dj.asp (about 2:41) (lunchtime on 4 - Wednesday - check you're not listening to last week's! - if you start hearing about Hurricane Bill, it's last week's) Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. - Forwarded Message - From: Oliver Moran oliver.mo...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia IE wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 13:58:26 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimedia IE] Interview on Dublin Radio 4, ~1:30 Just caught the tail-end of you by accident in the car, Andrew. Sounded great. Well done. More credit to you. Oliver 2009/8/26 Oliver Moran oliver.mo...@gmail.com Thanks, Andrew. It's a pity we have to go across the water to get someone, but thank you. If the program is any of these, let me know so I can listen to the podcast: http://www.4fm.ie/listenagain_dj.asp To others, is it not time we can handle these things ourselves? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ireland Regards, Oliver 2009/8/26 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com Hi everyone, Just to let you know, if you're in Dublin at the moment, I'm going to be interviewed by Dublin's Radio 4 on Wikipedia's Flagged Revisions changes that's been working its way round the news media. If you hear it please let me know what you think Regards, -- Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. ___ WikimediaIE mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie ___ WikimediaIE mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Digitisation equipment
We had a discussion at a recent Wikimedia UK board meeting about potentially buying some digitisation equipment which could be used to generate content for the Wikimedia projects. This recent email to the EN-WP list sparked my interest. Does anyone have any experience with equipment like this, and could you recommend anything? Any idea what the price range and quality typically is? Also, is anyone else in the Wikimedia community currently doing this? Thanks, Forwarded Message - From: Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, 23 August, 2009 10:55:32 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia reaches 3 millionth article On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:15 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: I believe they have machines to turn pages, and something to figure out the distorted photo of the book and render it how it would look as a flat page. Yeah, there are videos of these machines. The book sits open, the scanner comes down and scans both open pages at once. As it goes up again, it sucks on one page, causing it to flip over. Then repeat. Oh, look, here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOQuuLYavY And while we're at it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning Steve ___ WikiEN-l mailing list wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Flagged Protection in the UK press
- Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: and Andrew Turvey should be talking on Tom McGurk’s Irish radio show as I type this (6.45pm BST). They didn't get the email in time unfortunately, so will be doing it tomorrow instead. Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Y! Alert: Wikimedia UK Blog
Now that we've got this new blog, it would be useful if we could get the various media integrated so that the message is getting through all the different channels. I've been looking at ways to get blog posts automatically fed into the email list. I've come across Yahoo Alerts, which runs off the RSS feed and seems to work, but it doesn't give you any images and mixes in the image captions to the text. Of course there is a link to the story if anyone wants to follow up. My question: would people like, in principle to receive an alert like this to this email group whenever a blog story is published? If so, is a Yahoo Alert like below good enough? Does anyone know of any other system that is better? Andrew Forwarded Message - From: Yahoo! Alerts ale...@yahoo-inc.com To: andrewrtur...@googlemail.com Sent: Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 18:22:23 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Y! Alert: Wikimedia UK Blog Yahoo! Blog Alert Yahoo! Alerts My Alerts The latest from Wikimedia UK Blog • Welcome to the Wikimedia UK blog! Welcome to the Wikimedia UK blog! Image via Wikipedia Welcome to the blog of Wikimedia UK , the chapter of the Wikimedia projects covering the United Kingdom. We’ll be using this blog to bring you news and information both about Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia projects within the UK in general. Location of UK in Europe (Image via Wikipedia ) Wikimedia UK aims to be as transparent as possible – our board meetings are held publicly on IRC, all important decisions are discussed first on our mailing list , and we have a monthly newsletter . All of our initiatives are volunteer-driven ( get involved! ) and are funded by your donations . We are kept running by our membership , which is open to all ( join now! ). We hope that this blog will let us be even more transparent, and communicate more efficiently with you (either as a member, as a user of Wikimedia or simply some who uses or takes interest in our projects or open knowledge as a whole). Please, subscribe to the RSS feed , leave comments, and get in touch if there’s something you want to post here. CREATE MORE ALERTS: Auctions - Find out when new auctions are posted Horoscopes - Receive your daily horoscope Music - Get the newest Album Releases, Playlists and more News - Only the news you want, delivered! Stocks - Stay connected to the market with price quotes and more Weather - Get today's weather conditions You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use this link to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences . To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy . Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Reminder: Next WMUK board meeting this evening (Tuesday 18 August), 8.30pm BST
- Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com 2009/8/19 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com: ... do you think you might ever be able to use someone to transcribe audio files? ... I wouldn't mind having a transcription of our AGMs (at least the important parts of them). I second this - that would be very useful! Next AGM is planned for early next year, so we can keep this in mind for then. In the meantime: Please consider signing up as a member - the form is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Membership and subscription fees start from just 50p per month. We're keen to have the widest possible membership base so we can support our activities and get input from UK Wikimedians on our direction and focus. If you haven't already, please sign up to our monthly newsletter at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newsletter Please add any ideas you have for new initiatives at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives and get involved in any of the ones listed there that interest you - quite a few of them need just online help. Let me/us know if you want any help with anything. Regards, Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art - prizes
Kwan Ting Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: From: Kwan Ting Chan k...@ktchan.info To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, 15 August, 2009 02:29:51 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art - prizes Andrew Turvey wrote: Thank you for your patience with us whilst we have processed these photographs, and we hope you enjoyed participating in this event. If you have any comments about this event or how it could be improved in the future, please let us know. *Look at the calendar* Hmm Indeed. Uploading of photographs finished at the end of February. It was decided by the organizers that awarding of prizes would wait until after all the photographs had been individually assessed by museum staff for copyright validity etc. Given the quantity of photos this has taken quite a very long time to finish. The recent Dutch Wiki Loves Art contest had a prize awarding event in the calendar from the start, which I think is a good idea. I think next time we should talk to the museums about awarding prizes before all the images are assessed. Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Pausing revision of the chapters agreement
We previously mentioned that the Wikimedia Foundation has started a discussion about concluding a new Chapter Agreement with Wikimedia UK and the other chapters. Unfortunately, the draft agreement that was put forward has generated significant disagreements between the Foundation and chapters and it hasn't been easy to get a consensus. The Foundation has therefore decided to put this process on hold until the next chapters meeting in spring next year. Full email from the Foundation is copied below for your information. We will, as always, keep supporters informed as to any further developments. Regards, Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. - Forwarded Message - From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org To: Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription) interna...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 03:20:10 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [Internal-l] Pausing revision of the chapters agreement I apologize for the delay in composing this note. As you know, earlier this year we shared with you a first draft of a revised chapters agreement. This was designed to bring greater clarity to the chapters / WMF relationship. There are clearly some points in this draft about which there is significant disagreement. While we would have ideally liked to develop consensus quickly, after some internal discussion, we've concluded that this is clearly not going to happen. We don't want disagreements about legal language to distract us from shared objectives, so we're suggesting that we park the issue for now. WMF and the chapters are working together constructively in many areas and we want to focus our energy on growing and deepening those relationships. With regard to newly approved chapters, we will execute the existing agreement: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Agreement_between_chapters_and_Wikimedia_Foundation There are some inconsistencies in current agreements with some chapters which we may seek to resolve directly with those chapters. And of course we'll continue to develop the fundraising agreement for the fundraiser and beyond. As you know, the strategic planning process is kicking into full gear, and we want chapters to be involved in this process to the greatest extent possible. The process may also inform how we want to structure the WMF / chapters relationship. Finally, we simply don't have the organizational bandwidth to engage in a deep, prolonged discussion about every element of the agreement structure at this point, and we don't want to do so at the expense of critical mission activities. I suggest that we reopen this discussion at the next WMF / chapters meeting at the earliest. I know there are some specific issues that are of concern to some chapters, such as online shops, and I hope that we'll be able to give more attention to these issues soon, and independently of this process. Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l -- ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England
It would be good to see what they come back with. They already release low res images on the website for free personal non-commercial use, and they say they've researched all the copyright holders, so we may be lucky with this one. Having said that, I don't think it's an either - or situation. If things are available and legally in the public domain we should take full advantage of that, notwithstanding any agreements we may be able to make with the archive holders. - Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: From: Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List common...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 10 August, 2009 23:31:46 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England Rather than taking that approach, it would be much better if we could try to co-operate with them to upload their photos to Wikipedia, complete with metadata, etc. As such, I've just emailed them to see if they're interested in uploading some of their images to Commons. Mike On 10 Aug 2009, at 18:56, Andrew Turvey wrote: I've recently come across the following website that publishes a large number of old photographs held in local council archives in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire: http://tinyurl.com/nydpcj Many of the pictures are still in-copyright and have been released for private use only. However, many are pre-1923 and hence copyright expired, such as: http://tinyurl.com/npay5t Would it be copyright-compliant for someone, particularly someone based in the US, to upload these photos to Commons based on the principles of PD-ART? Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Last meeting
Please find copied below the minutes of the last board meeting that we had last Wednesday 5th August. The main business was our continuing work on our charity commission application. The wording of our application has now been substantially finished. However, an investigation has revealed that the Schools Project will classify us as a childrens charity - a charity whose people work with children more than once a month. This will expand our child protection duties, including the requirement for written policies, complaints procedures and criminal checks on all trustees. We have decided to delay the application until these procedures are in place. Other items discussed included: - We have received the $8,150 grant from the Foundation to kick start our initiatives. - We're going to investigate moving the wiki from http://uk.wikimedia.org to http://www.wikimedia.org.uk , so as to avoid any conflict with Wikimedia Ukraine - the Ukrainian Wikipedia is at http://uk.wikipedia.org. - The August newsletter has been penciled in for Friday 14th. Any queries, comments or corrections are welcome either in reply to this message or on the talk page of the wiki. Regards, -- Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK Board meeting Wednesday 5th August 2009, 8:30pm BST at #wikimedia-uk-board Present: Michael Peel (MP) (Chair); Andrew Turvey (AT) (minutes); Zeyi He (ZH); Tom Holden (TH); Joseph Seddon (JS); Paul Williams (PW) (part) Apologies: PW for late arrival; Steve Virgin (SV) Minutes of previous meetings The minutes of the meetings dated 21 July and 28 July were approved. It was agreed that the action for TD to contact the gazette to solicit a pro-bono lawyer would be dropped given the discussion on engaging a paid lawyer. The following actions were carried forward: 1. PW agreed to draft an email to the WMF formalising the agreement to use Wikimedia Foundation trademarks in members-only merchandising and to look into where we could produce merchandise. 2. MP agreed to draft templates for the six press scenarios identified at Media relations#Media response . 3. AT to send out the details of the February 2009 Wikipedia Loves Art prizes. 4. MP agreed to install a wordpress blog at http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/blog . 5. MP agreed to work with SV to do mini press releases, no more than one per month, advertising spikes in traffic per WP:POPULAR related to particular news events. 6. JS agreed to get a copy of the WMF's press release contact list in the UK. 7. MP agreed to add the HMRC letter appendices as attachments to section C of the Charity Commission application 8. PW will research into the requirement for CRB checks for Schools Project volunteers and their transferability in liason with JS. 9. PW will develop a proposal for buying a computer for the Schools Project with, potentially, peripherals such as a projector, screen, printer etc. Matters arising JS will draft an email for the Open Knowledge Foundation mailing list, to recruit new members. ACTION: JS With regard to setting up wikipedia.x.uk as a portal along the lines of http://wikipedia.de , it was agreed that the risks were unquantified. Rather than looking into it at the moment, it was agreed we would revisit in January 2010. AT agreed to take on the business cards printing. ACTION: AT Reports Secretary The Secretary's Report was noted. AT will reply to the charity as proposed. ACTION: AT It was agreed that we would try to move 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. MP will investigate. ACTION: MP Treasurer The Treasurer's Report was noted, which includes the receipt of the Foundation's grant. TH has created subaccounts in the accounting software which ensures that the funds, which are designated for particular purposes, are not used for other expenses. Balances for each initiative will be reported in future Treasurers' Reports. Chair The Chair's Report was noted. MP agreed to follow up with Wikimedia Ukraine regarding the uk. website conflict. Initiatives PW joined the meeting The Initiatives Report was noted. ZH agreed to follow up with each initiative leader on progress with the timeline milestone of Establish a plan for each initiative including timetable, aim and outline costing, which is due by 31 August. Corporate relations SV had spoken to AT before the meeting: SB has been in touch wanting to progress the BBC work, having received his token of thanks. For the next fortnight, SV has focus on his work where he is facing
[Wikimediauk-l] Last week's board meeting summary
Please find copied below the draft minutes of last week's board meeting: The meeting focused on the chapter's initiatives, in particular the three initiatives that we have committed to completing by the next AGM. At a previous meeting the Board agreed to adopt the Schools Project, London Loves Wikipedia and Workplace Learning Lunches as the three initiatives and to find a project leader and a core group of volunteers for each of these by the end of July. If you're interested in volunteering with any of these initiatives please contact the project leader or sign up on the initiative page. The Schools Project is being led by Paul Williams and six more volunteers have already put their names down to go into schools. PW updated the board on progress and full details are available at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Schools_project London Loves Wikipedia will be led by Mike Peel, with four other volunteers assisting. It may be made wider in scope than just London - discussions are ongoing. It was agreed that we would not actively recruiting museums at the moment whilst the National Portrait Gallery controversy is ongoing. Workplace Learning Lunches is being led by Steve Virgin. Four speakers have volunteered and we will try to recruit organisations as well as the BBC to push this programme. We have also put in a request to advertise this with a Geonotice on English Wikipedia and this is currently active. In addition to these three initiatives, we also have funding from the Foundation for content access partnership work. The original idea was that this would be along the lines of the Bundesarchiv deal with Wikimedia Germany. Although individual contacts are ongoing, we do not currently have a tangible plan for delivering this. Discussions are ongoing - please let us know if you can help us take this forward. We also have a good list of other ideas at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Proposals and http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Ideas - please let us know if you are interesting in taking any of these forward and let us know what we can do to help! Regards, -- Andrew Turvey Director Andrew Turvey Solutions Limited Registered Office: 23 Cartwright Way, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 1RL Registered in England, Registration Number 5596974 Information contained in this email may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. Unauthorised copying, forwarding or other use of any confidential information in this email may result in legal action. Wikimedia UK Board meeting Tuesday 21st July 2009, 8:45pm BST at #wikimedia-uk-board Present: Michael Peel (MP) (Chair); Andrew Turvey (AT) (minutes); Zeyi He (ZH); Tom Holden (TH); Joseph Seddon (JS); Paul Williams (PW) (part) Apologies: PW for early departure; Steve Virgin (SV) Note: The chair delayed the meeting from 8:30 to allow for ZH to arrive. Fundraising resolution Thomas Dalton (Tango42, TD) has approached the board with a suggestion regarding a fundraising drive. TD proposed the following text: The board resolves to authorise Thomas Dalton to form a temporary working group to put together a proposal for a fundraising drive starting on 9th August 2009 and lasting 2 weeks TD explained that he had offered to organise a fundraiser and wanted help. He wants to have an official working group to produce a proposal that the board would then consider. AT suggested that the board should instead appoint the working group members. Whilst this was being discussed, TD withdrew the motion. Initiatives (ZH) Role of Board, Chair, Secretary, Initiatives Director It was agreed that the initiatives director should coordinate the various initiatives, producing a progress report for each board meeting with, for instance, achievements, plans and obstacles. The board then has an overview role to monitor progress and discuss obstacles as needed. ACTION: ZH Geonotice It was agreed that the chapter would seek a geonotice on the watchlist of UK contributors to English Wikipedia to advertise the chapter and its initatives. Various options for wording was discussed and MP agreed to approach the page to request. ACTION: MP Done see wikipedia:Wikipedia:Geonotice#Wikimedia_UK_initiatives_notice . Wiki page It was agreed to set up a wiki page - Volunteer - where new supporters can be directed which would have all the ways that people can get involved. PW agreed to establish Schools project (PW) PW has been developing the initiative page . Eight people have volunteered so far, including six who are prepared to go into schools. PW will research into the reqirement for CRB checks and their transferability in liason with JS. ACTION: PW PW will develop a proposal for buying a computer with, potentially, peripherals such as a projector, screen, printer etc. ACTION: PW PW
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice
Indeed - it's up to them whether they publish it or not. We're just asking like any other editors - they're free to say no. - Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: From: Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 00:47:33 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Andrew Turveyandrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: Is it worth putting in a request like this? Just make sure that you *request it* so that enwp doesn't get into one of its moods and is like omg, a chapter thinks they have a say on wiki, heads will roll. Having a paper trail that you followed protocol/filed a request is a good thing. :-) That being said, seems like a good idea to me. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice
What's your timescale for the fundraising geonotice? This is what I'm unsure of. If people are publishing notices for every monthly meetup, we may be ok to have both. - Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 00:30:19 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice 2009/7/22 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com: Following a discussion after the Board, someone suggested putting up a geonotice on Wikipedia watchlists to advertise the chapter's activities. Looking through the archive they seem quite happy to publish even monthly meetups, so I'd like to suggest that we do one now, along the lines of: Wikimedia UK are currently recruiting volunteers for three new [[wmuk:Initiatives|initiatives]]. Please help us support open knowledge in the UK (too long I know - suggestions gratefully received) Is it worth putting in a request like this? As I said on IRC, hold off on that. We can't bombard people with too many notices, so we need to wait and work out what we want to say. I'm investigating the possibility of using geonotices for a fundraising drive, so let me finish that before you start carrying out conflicting plans. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] London Loves Wikipedia
Before we start running ahead of ourselves on this, please remember that we need to get volunteers to help out first! Please spread the word and ask anyone who you think might be able to help. I'm happy to lend a hand - I had the discussions with the VA last time - but would prefer someone else led the initiative. It would be particularly good if someone from outside the board could lead this one, given that the other three initiatives are all going to be lead by board members. Regards, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 20 July, 2009 17:05:16 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] London Loves Wikipedia 2009/7/20 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: Hi all, You're probably all aware of the London Loves WIkipedia initiative, which has been funded (via the WMF) and will be running in the next year (most likely the actual event will run in february 2010). The page for this is at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/London_Loves_Wikipedia Who would be interested in lending a hand organizing this? The first task would be figuring out everything that's necessary - but a broad-brush overview would be: 1. Get museums involved, start discussions with them as to what can be photographed, what rules are necessary, when special events should happen etc. Someone should contact the London Mayor's office as well - if we can get their endorsement it would probably help a lot. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Presentation - Wikipedia in Schools
cheers Tango! Comments in-line - Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, 19 July, 2009 22:30:11 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Presentation - Wikipedia in Schools 2009/7/19 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com: All comments gratefully received! I'll comment as I read - please excuse me not using a sandwich technique! Slide 2: Where does the 900,000 contributors come from? http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediansContributors.htm. Note this is all languages - 928,022 is exact figure I think I'll change it to 95,000 - the figure for Active Wikipedians Not all use pseudonyms, registered users would be better. Registered users is a good phrase to use when talking to wikipedians but I'm not sure someone outside will know what this means. I came across pseudonym as a description for usernames when reading a few external articles - more accurate than anonymous. Of course some people use their real names, but the norm seems to be pseudonyms - like Tango for instance - and I think thats all thats needed fotr a general introduction like this, The WMF prefers not to be thought of as a publisher for legal reasons - I would go for hosted. I agree. Hosted sounds a bit to little - I'll go with operated which is how the Foundation terms it here, for instance: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/e/e5/WP_Key_Facts_jun_2009.pdf Slide 4: I think statements are better than questions for this kind of thing. As far as I know, you aren't leading a discussion session. The slides should summarise what you are saying. Changed. Although I've put it as a presentation, they've asked for it to be as interactive as possible, but I agree these shouldn't be in as questions. Slide 5: There is some non-free content in Wikipedia. While fair use images should be reusable as part of the articles in which they appear, they may not be reusable in their own right. Good point - i've amended. Slide 6: An example with references would be better. (It looks like you've removed the references because there were too many - find an example with a more reasonable number so you can include them.) Not clear from the slide notes, but the purpose of this slide is to show how one third party attributes text copied from Wikipedia - I'll circle the the source of this article is Wikipedia, the free enclyclopedia. The text of ... and add this to the notes. Slide 7: I'd rather WMUK didn't draw conclusions about how child-friendly Wikipedia is. Present the facts and let people make up their own minds. Personally, I think it is perfectly child-friendly, since I don't see any harm coming from exposure to sex and violence. I'm talking to primary school teachers here as well as secondary school teachers. From the schools Wikipedia website: Wikipedia is not necessarily a childsafe environment and has adult content. I'll change it to use their wordings. Slide 9: Bear in mind that the Nature study is several years old now. Wikipedia has changed a lot since then. True, and the study was very limited anyway. However, I'm not aware of any other studies that have been done. Slide 10: Typo: an-a. Good spot! I wouldn't recommend COIs - drop the school bit. Changed. Slide 12: WikiSpecies is hardly one of our major projects. I would replace it with Wiktionary (I would also spell Wiktionary correction! ;)). It isn't, but it contains lots of educational material, which I could imagine teachers using. I've added Wiktionary though, spelt correctly! Ok, those are my negative comments. Positive comment (half a sandwich, at least!): I think you've chosen the correct material. You are prioritising the right stuff. Just make sure you time yourself going through it (out loud) to make sure you can fit it all in. Good luck! Cheers! I've got 20 minutes to do 10 slides (well, 10 with material on it) which seems about right. I'll let you know how I get on. Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Open Source Schools conference, Nottingham, Monday 20th July
I'm pleased to share with everyone that I've managed to get myself in as a speaker in the Open Source Schools unconference in Nottingham next Monday 20th July. Although it's primarily focused on open source software, they have agreed to extend it to talking about open source content as well. I'll be leading a session from 2:05 - 2:35 on the subject of using Wikipedia in Schools More details are: Session introduction: http://opensourceschools.org.uk/node/11659 Conference programme: http://opensourceschools.org.uk/unconference09 Venue: http://www.ncsl.org.uk/lcc-map.pdf If you are able to come along please do - it runs from 10-4 at a venue near Nottingham University. The cost is free for all school and local authority staff and presenters and £55 for others. The key note speakers are George Auckland , Head of Learning Innovation at BBC Learning and Graham Attwell , Director of Pontydysgu , an e-learning company. Please spread the word and please let me have any suggestions for the kinds of things I should cover. Regards, Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Source Schools conference, Nottingham, Monday 20th July
- Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 14 July, 2009 16:50:09 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Source Schools conference, Nottingham, Monday 20th July Great stuff! Take a stack of Wikipedia for Schools CDs (or DVDs, I'll try! Hope they arrive on time. whatever it's on these days) to hand out. I guess you need to spend most of the time emphasising how to use Wikipedia properly and that, if you do use it properly, it is a good research tool so shouldn't be banned. Yes - I guess primary and secondary school teachers aren't going to be so focused on reliability issues compared to university teachers - but I might be proved wrong! ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Who in the UK has done museum negotiations?
The Victoria and Albert Museum worked with us on the Wikipedia Loves Art project - that involved licensing photographs of their work under CC-BY-SA. - David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, 12 July, 2009 19:36:37 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Who in the UK has done museum negotiations? As in, not the NPG, but museums who are actually willing to do a deal, get works out as CC by-sa if not PD with a great big credit, etc. Anyone in the UK actually done this? - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Tuesday's Board meeting
Hi all, Copied below is the minutes of the meeting we had last Tuesday which are also published on the wiki at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-07-07. Please let me know if you have any questions or corrections. The main topics of discussion were our initiatives and charity application: Initiatives The board decided to choose the following three initiatives as the ones we're committed to completing by March next year: 1) The Schools Project, led by our Volunteers Director, Paul Williams - see http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Schools_project 2) The London Loves Wikipedia project - see http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/London_Loves_Wikipedia 3) The workplace learning lunches initiative at the BBC The Foundation grant previously announced on this list will fund the first two initiatives as well as a fourth initiative - engaging with museums and similar bodies to encourage them to release content under free licenses - which we aim to complete by July next year. Charity application Given that the grant from the Foundation pushes us over the £5,000 threshold, the Commission has advised us that we should submit our application to them within a reasonable time of receiving the donation, notwithstanding our previous correspondence with HMRC. We have therefore started work on this immediately. Regards, Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK Board meeting Tuesday 7th July 2009, 8:30pm BST at #wikimedia-uk-board Present: Michael Peel (MP) (Chair); Andrew Turvey (AT) (minutes); Joseph Seddon (JS); Paul Williams (PW) Apologies: Steve Virgin (SV); Tom Holden (TH); Zeyi He (ZH) for late arrival [ edit ] Minutes of the previous meetings The minutes of the meeting dated 23 June were approved. The following actions have been carried forward: 1. JS to send the tokens of our appreciation to the retiring Directors, tellers and external speakers. ACTION: JS 2. PW will arrange the production of business cards for Wikimedia UK officials. ACTION: PW 3. TD agreed to contact the gazette on behalf of WMUK to solicit a pro-bono lawyer ACTION: TD 4. The cost to attend the Online Information 2009 (1-3 Dec, London) conference is £400/day/person (£400 for the 3 days for registered charities). JS will confirm whether speakers have to pay this fee. In the event that speakers do have to pay the fee, SV will look into getting a slot in a fringe event instead. ACTION: JS; SV 5. AT to thank the pro-bono lawyer for his offer of help, explain the Board has decided to respond to HMRC ASAP; if this is not successful we may then seek legal advice so would be grateful for assistance then if it's still available and would they be prepared to advise us on the chapters agreement. ACTION: AT 6. AT to submit expenses AGM claim . ACTION: AT 7. PW agreed to finalise the design, contact interested members to see what cards they want and organise the printing. ACTION: PW 8. PW agreed to draft an email to the WMF formalising the agreement to use Wikimedia Foundation trademarks in members-only merchandising and to look into where we could produce merchandise. ACTION: PW [ edit ] Matters arising [ edit ] Press response templates It was agreed that the six scenarios identified at Media relations#Media response would be sufficient for now. MP agreed to draft these templates. ACTION: MP [ edit ] Pro bono lawyers It was decided that we would approach potential pro-bono lawyers once the chapter agreement and the charity application were at a stage where we needed specific advice, rather than seeking to engage a general on-call lawyer. [ edit ] .uk project domain names Board members were concerned that if the chapter owned domains like wikipedia.org.uk they could attract liability to the chapter for project content and make it subject to UK libel laws. However, it was acknowledged that it could be a good source of traffic and hence revenue if it is used to redirect to uk.wikimedia.org. It was agreed that MP would contact Wikimedia Deutschland to ask them how much revenue they get from their redirect from wikipedia.de and we will reconsider when this is known. ACTION: MP [ edit ] Reports [ edit ] Secretary's Report The report here was noted. AT informed that he had not heard anything back from HMRC and isn't sure if it will take another 8 weeks for our letter to be processed. JS volunteered to help Wikimedia Indonesia with their proofreading request - AT will put them in touch. ACTION: AT Done [ edit ] Treasurer's Report This was unavailable so it was agreed the next meeting would have a report to cover four weeks. [ edit ] Chair's Report The report
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Speakers
On Jul 8, 3:17 pm, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: Here we assume! http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Speakers Gordo -- Indeed! Although, http://uk.wikimedia.org/Speakers automatically redirects there and it's shorter to type! :) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Speakers
A few opportunities are coming up for members who may be willing to speak on behalf of the chapter in lunchtime meetings, conferences etc or as interviewees. We will sometimes, but not always, be able to pay for travel and subsistence expenses. This is a great way of helping the chapter spread the word about the things we do and it also gives you good exposure in public speaking and raises your profile among media circles. If you are interested in volunteering for this, please could you email me the following details: - what experience you have in public speaking, if any - what experience you have with Wikimedia projects, including any roles such as administrator - what is your availability (location/times) - what kind of events you would like to help with - how you would like to be contacted I will be putting these details (minus the contact details) on the wiki at uk.wikimedia.org/Speakers - if you want it to be kept confidential please let me know and I will put it on board.wikimedia.org/Speakers instead. Alternatively please feel free to add yourself to the wiki directly. Regards, Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Phorm opt-out for Wikimedia.org.uk
You may remember that a few months ago, the Wikimedia Foundation decided to send an opt out message to Phorm regarding their user-profiling system. At the time we decided in principle to do the same for our domain - wikimedia.org.uk - but we delayed implementing this until the ownership had been transferred. Now that the transfer has been completed, we have sent our notice to Phorm, which is copied below. Please note that uk.wikimedia.org has already opted out as this is a subdomain of wikimedia.org, whcih is owned by the Foundation. Regards, - Forwarded Message - From: Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com To: website-exclus...@webwise.com Sent: Tuesday, 7 July, 2009 17:40:37 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Phorm opt-out for Wikimedia.org.uk To whom it may concern, Wikimedia UK requests that the following website, owned by us, and all related domains be excluded from scanning by the Phorm / BT Webwise system, as we consider the scanning and profiling of our visitors' bahaviour by a third party to be an infringement on their pirvacy: wikimedia.org.uk (including all subdomains) Thank you for your time, Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Interview request
I've replied to Ian volunteering to be interviewed, as no one else has expressed an interest. I'll let you know what he comes back with - sounds interesting! On Jun 25, 5:56 pm, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/25 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/6/25 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/6/25 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: From: Ian Hawkins ian.hawk...@gmail.com It's rare to find anything other than top-down structures in business, banking, the media, education etc. I wondered if Wikipedia is a great example of a more open and democratic structure. Controversial topic! Wikipedians can't generally agree on how democratic Wikipedia is currently or how democratic it should be in the future. Doing justice to the topic will probably take longer than the couple of minutes I expect he's after. Personally, I wouldn't want to step on that particular ants nest without doing justice to it, so I'm afraid I will decline. Might be worth emailing him to point out that per policy wikipedia is not a democracy and see if he realises what he is getting into. Yes, I agree. We should let him know that the answer isn't going to be anything simple. (If anyone is interested in this topic, there is a discussion on the future governance of Wikipedia going on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giano/The_future The discussion is focuses around deciding if we need to have a more formal discussion about the issues. [Don't be frightened away by the fact that it is in Giano's userspace, it's being held with an amazing amount of maturity and courtesy by all parties.]) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.orghttp://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK:http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Board meeting - membership recruitment, fundraising, initiatives
inutes Hi all, The minutes of the last board meeting are now up on the wiki at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-06-23 and copied for your convenience below. Please could you let me have any corrections or queries. At the last meeting, we had three key discussions on membership recruitment, fundraising and initiatives. One of the key conclusions was how interlinked these are - the more initiatives we have, particularly those that are participative, the more members we can attract to the chapter. Subscription fees will then be able to cover the administrative costs of running the chapter, meaning we can focus our fundraising on initiatives. We affirmed our commitment to completing at least three initiatives by the time of the next AGM in spring 2010. To this end, we've adopted a timeline (at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives#Timeline) which says we aim to identify the three initiatives by 15 July, establish a person to lead for each task by 31 July and set out a full plan with costs, timetable and resource requirement by the end of August. Next Tuesday, the board will holding an open discussion on initiatives in #wikimedia-uk - please come along and let us know what ideas you have, share ideas and let us know what you can do to help. In the meantime we are looking into creating a range of members-only merchandising, which will feature Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK logos on mugs, ties, cufflinks and so on. Let us know what kinds of items you would be interested in buying! We are also having business cards printed so that those people who represent the chapter will be able to give out a professional and consistent image. If you would like to have some of these cards printed, please contact Paul Williams, our Volunteers Director (ccd above) . Finally, we noted that our response to HMRC has now been sent in, and we are waiting to see how that is received. Regards, Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK Board meeting Tuesday 23rd June 2009, 8:30pm BST at #wikimedia-uk-board Present: Michael Peel (MP) (Chair); Andrew Turvey (AT) (minutes); Joseph Seddon (JS); Paul Williams (PW); Tom Holden (TH) Apologies: Steve Virgin (SV); Zeyi He (ZH) Contents [ hide ] • 1 Minutes of the previous meetings • 1.1 Matters arising • 1.1.1 Business cards • 2 Reports • 2.1 Secretary's Report • 2.2 Treasurer's Report • 2.3 Chair's Report • 2.4 Conferences Report • 2.5 Corporate relations Report • 3 Membership recruitment • 4 Newsletter • 5 Initiatives • 6 Fundraising • 7 Next meeting [ edit ] Minutes of the previous meetings The minutes of the meetings dated 9 June were approved. The following actions have been carried forward: 1. JS to send the tokens of our appreciation to the retiring Directors, tellers and external speakers. ACTION: JS 2. TH to contact the bank to notify them of the new directors, to change the signatories to any two of MP, AT and TH and to set up AT and MP on the online banking. ZH, SV and JS to return to TH the forms they have received. ACTION: ZH, SV, JS, TH 3. MP to organise transfer of wikimedia.org.uk to WMUK. ACTION: MP /wiki/ File:Yes_check.svg Picture (Metafile)/wiki/ File:Yes_check.svg Done 4. AT will send the opt out email re Phorm once wikimedia.org.uk has been transferred. ACTION: AT 5. PW will arrange the production of business cards for Wikimedia UK officials. ACTION: PW 6. SV, MP, JS to collate press response template list ACTION: SV, MP + JS 7. TD agreed to contact the gazette on behalf of WMUK to solicit a pro-bono lawyer ACTION: TD 8. MP agreed to contact pro bono lawyer groups by email ACTION: MP 9. JS to copy the standard templates from OTRS for use in the press response template ACTION: JS 10. JS to clarify if the offer of help from WJBScribe means formal written advice that can be relied upon or informal word of mouth assistance. ACTION: JS 11. The cost to attend the Online Information 2009 (1-3 Dec, London) conference is £400/day/person (£400 for the 3 days for registered charities). JS will confirm whether speakers have to pay this fee. ACTION: JS 12. In the event that speakers do have to pay the fee, SV will look into getting a slot in a fringe event instead. ACTION: SV 13. Once this is established, JS, MP, AT will work on a submission 14. AT to thank the pro-bono lawyer for his offer of help, explain the Board has decided to respond to HMRC ASAP; if this is not successful we may
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: worth watching
Interesting information below.It would be great if they could come up with a form of "Crown Commons" that was compatible with our licenses rather than ending up with something like the BBC's creative license. - Forwarded Message -From: "Steve Virgin" steve.vir...@dowjones.comTo: "WMUK" bo...@wikimedia.org.ukSent: Friday, 19 June, 2009 14:05:28 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, PortugalSubject: worth watching New Infomation Advisor http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digitalengagement/ by Richard 9. June 2009 12:40 First off a big thank you to everyone who has contributed to our earlier post on what a data.gov service might look like in the UK. The big news for us is that Tim Berners-Lee has agreed to help the UK government make our information more open and accessible on the web - part of a drive towards letting the data about public services be public and open. This work will be building on the work of the Power of Information Taskforce and their report. The Digital Engagement team are delighted to be supporting Tim in his work. A few of the things he and his panel of technical and delivery experts will doing are: · overseeing the creation of a single online point of access and work with departments to make this part of their routine operations. · helping to select and implement common standards for the release of public data · developing Crown Copyright and 'Crown Commons' licenses and extending these to the wider public sector · driving the use of the internet to improve consultation processes. · working with the Government to engage with the leading experts internationally working on public data and standards This is strengthening the oversight, challenge and insight available as we drive the Digital Engagement agenda forward. Steve Virgin Media Consultant Dow Jones Insight Commodity Quay, East Smithfield, London E1W 1AZ. Tel: +44 (0) 203 217 5281/+44 (0) 117 965 4041 Mob: +44 (0)7795 031 935/07766 227 352 Fax: +44 (0)203 217 5232 Email: steve.vir...@dowjones.com www.solutions.dowjones.com Dow Jones Factiva - Winner of the 2009 Software and Information Industry Association for its content and software solutions Factiva is the number one provider of News and Business information to organizations worldwide, delivering essential content via products and services to help you make better decisions, faster ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Digital Britain
Promising extract from the Executive Summary: 79 Public Service data and content play an increasingly important role in the digital economy. The Government has embraced the vision of the Power of Information Task Force and, in respect of important data sources for innovation, such as geospatial data, agencies are significantly improving access to data and clearer licensing pathways from innovation to large scale commercial use. 80 Government commissioning represents a third of the total investment in professional UK online content. Despite existing guidance many public online commissions still prohibit the re-use of IP. This leads to wasteful warehousing of rights. NESTA will pilot a simplified IP framework for digital media bringing together PACT, the Cabinet Office, Kew Gardens and Arts Council England. The Power of Information Task Force sounds interesting - it includes Tom Steinberg from MySociety (publishers of TheyWorkForYou.com) - Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: From: Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009 01:07:21 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Digital Britain Has anyone had a read of the Carter Report that's been in the news today. I wondered if there are any opportunities there for pressing open knowledge? One quote stood out: Britain is going to lead the world. This is us taking the next step into the future, being the digital capital of the world Could that include being the open knowledge capital of the world? Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Tuesday's board meeting
Hi all,
The minutes of Tuesday's Board meeting are now published on the wiki and are
copied below for your information. If you have any queries on any items please
let me or another board member know and let me know if you have any
corrections.
The main items that were discussed that may be of interest to members and
supporters:
- Our response to HMRC regarding charity status is nearly finalised and will be
sent out this week
- Discussions are ongoing with Manchester Tourist Board regarding a possible
bid for Wikimania 2013
- Discussions are ongoing regarding potential initiatives with the BBC, the
Manchester Museum of Science Industry, Vega Science Trust and other people
- The board continues to deal with various press enquiries and is putting
together a set of template press responses
- We are looking into the costs of producing business cards for chapter
officers and supporters
Board members - please could you mark your actions as {{done}}, {{doing}},
{{cf}} pr {{not done}} as appropriate and also mark {{discuss}} if you think it
needs discussing again.
Regards,
--
Andrew Turvey
Secretary
Wikimedia UK
Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited.
Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales,
Registered No. 6741827.
The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United
Kingdom.
--
Wikimedia UK Board meeting Tuesday 9th June 2009, 8:30pm BST at
#wikimedia-uk-board
Present: Michael Peel (MP) (Chair); Steve Virgin (SV); Joseph Seddon (JS); Paul
Williams (PW)
Apologies: Andrew Turvey (AT) (minutes); Tom Holden (TH) and Zeyi He (ZH), all
for late arrival
Minutes of the previous meetings
The minutes of the meetings dated 26 May and 2 June were approved.
The following actions have been carried forward:
1. JS to send the tokens of our appreciation to the retiring Directors, tellers
and external speakers.
'''ACTION: JS
2. TH to contact the bank to notify them of the new directors, to change the
signatories to any two of MP, AT and TH and to set up AT and MP on the online
banking. MP, ZH, SV and JS to return to TH the forms they have received.
'''ACTION: TH, MP, ZH, SV, JS
3. MP to organise transfer of wikimedia.org.uk to WMUK.
'''ACTION: MP
4. AT will send the opt out email re Phorm once wikimedia.org.uk has been
transferred.
'''ACTION: AT
5. PW will continue to research what is needed to produce business cards for
Wikimedia UK officials.
'''ACTION: PW
6. PW agreed to start pushing membership and organise the Membership/Drive
page.
'''ACTION: PW
7. MP, SV, JS agreed to send suggestions on membership to PW by 9 June.
'''ACTION: MP, SV, JS
8. SV, MP, JS to collate press response template list
'''ACTION: SV, MP + JS
9. ZH to prepare a timeline for WMUK initiatives.
'''ACTION: ZH
10. TD agreed to contact the gazette on behalf of WMUK to solicit a pro-bono
lawyer
'''ACTION: TD
11. TH + MP agreed to contact pro bono lawyer groups by email
'''ACTION: TH + MP
12. JS to copy the standard templates from OTRS for use in the press response
template
'''ACTION: JS
13. JS to clarify if the offer of help from WJBScribe means formal written
advice that can be relied upon or informal word of mouth assistance.
'''ACTION: JS
14. The cost to attend is £400/day/person (£400 for the 3 days for registered
charities). JS will confirm whether speakers have to pay this fee.
'''ACTION: JS
15. In the event that speakers do have to pay the fee, SV will look into
getting a slot in a fringe event instead.
'''ACTION: SV
16. Once this is established, JS, MP, AT will work on a submission
'''ACTION: JS, MP, AT
17. The Vega Science Trust, a not-for-profit publishing material on the
internet; JS and SV will follow up with a call to discuss collaboration
opportunities.
'''ACTION: JS; SV
18. Bairds, a public affairs consultancy who may be able to help regarding
funding for Welsh language projects. JS and SV will follow up to discuss
collaboration opportunities.
'''ACTION: JS; SV
19. The Red Maids school regarding the wikischools idea. JS and SV will
progress
'''ACTION: JS; SV
20. AT to thank the pro-bono lawyer for his offer of help, explain the Board
has decided to respond to HMRC ASAP; if this is not successful we may then seek
legal advice so would be grateful for assistance then if it's still available
and would they be prepared to advise us on the chapters agreement.
Matters arising
SV has followed up on the BBC email and has reported back by phone to MP, AT
and JS. SV agreed to phone TH, PW and ZH to inform them of progress.
'''ACTION: SV
''ZH joined the meeting
PW will circulate the designs of the WMUK business cards
'''ACTION: PW
''TH joined the meeting
''AT joined the meeting
PW will send AT a copy of the Wikimedia chapters design template
'''ACTION: PW {{done}}
TH will send AT a copy
[Wikimediauk-l] Press response templates
Hi all, Given the amount of recent press coverage we have had [1], we would like to develop some positive template messages promoting the Wikimedia projects and responding to common criticisms. We hope that these can be used to positively set the agenda for our media coverage rather than having to respond on the back foot. At the moment we would like to compile a list of common scenarios where these could be used. I've started a section at [2] to collate these - The examples I've put in already are: 1 Vandalism - Wikipedia's useless because it's full of vandalism 2 Reliability - Wikipedia is not as reliable as other sources We'd like to end up with about 6-10 scenarios - please could you help us with this by adding your suggestions there or by replying to this message. Many thanks! [1] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newsletter/June2009#Press_Coverage [2] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Media_relations#Media_response Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Press response templates
If you could fetch it out and put it up on the wiki that would be extremely helpful! presume it's ok to make this stuff publicly available? cheers - Sean Whitton s...@silentflame.com wrote: From: Sean Whitton s...@silentflame.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: WMUK bo...@wikimedia.org.uk Sent: Tuesday, 9 June, 2009 17:30:32 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Press response templates Hi, On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:11, Andrew Turveyandrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: Given the amount of recent press coverage we have had [1], we would like to develop some positive template messages promoting the Wikimedia projects and responding to common criticisms. We hope that these can be used to positively set the agenda for our media coverage rather than having to respond on the back foot. At the moment we would like to compile a list of common scenarios where these could be used. I've started a section at [2] to collate these - You can get a lot of useful text for this from OTRS. Does anyone on the board/etc. have press queue access or would you like me to fetch some out? The standard info-en queue also has easily-tweakable messages for things like vandalism. S -- Sean Whitton / s...@silentflame.com OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Independent: Wikipedia 'sentinel' quits after usi
I didn't understand that post. Who is Tristan and where are the comments attacking him? - Peter Cohen pet...@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote: From: Peter Cohen pet...@cix.compulink.co.uk To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 8 June, 2009 10:12:00 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Independent: Wikipedia 'sentinel' quits after usi In-Reply-To: 84629398-8b11-4412-a106-77156d534...@mikepeel.net It's a shame that the comments include an attack on Tristan. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Board minutes - 2nd June
Dear all, The draft minutes of our Board meeting last Tuesday, 2nd June are up at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-06-02 and copied below. Please let us know if you have any comments or corrections. Regards, Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK Board meeting Tuesday 2nd June 2009, 8:30pm BST at #wikimedia-uk-board Present: Michael Peel (MP) (Chair); Andrew Turvey (AT) (minutes); Steve Virgin (SV); Joseph Seddon (JS) Apologies: Paul Williams (PW), Tom Holden (TH) Absent: Zeyi He (ZH) Contents [ hide ] • 1 Minutes of the previous meeting • 1.1 Matters arising • 2 Reports • 2.1 Secretary (AT) • 2.2 Conferences (JS) • 2.3 Corporate Relations (SV) • 3 HMRC response • 4 New chapters agreement • 5 Process to appoint the chapter-selected Board members of the Wikimedia Foundation in 2010 • 6 Next Meeting Minutes of the previous meeting Approval of the minutes of the meeting of the 26th May was delayed to ensure all brought forward actions had been captured. The following actions were carried forward: • JS to send the tokens of our appreciation to the retiring Directors, tellers and external speakers. ACTION: JS • TH to contact the bank to notify them of the new directors, to change the signatories to any two of MP, AT and TH and to set up AT and MP on the online banking. ACTION: TH • PW will talk to SV and ZH to get them set up with an account on IRC and give them operator rights. ACTION: PW • MP has transferred ownership of wikimedia.co.uk to us; MP still to organise transfer of wikimedia.org.uk with current owner. ACTION: MP • AT will send the opt out email re Phorm once wikimedia.org.uk has been transferred. ACTION: AT • PW will continue to research what is needed to produce business cards for Wikimedia UK officials. ACTION: PW • PW to obtain the list of email recipients and send them the May newsletter ACTION: PW • PW agreed to start pushing membership and organise the Membership/Drive page. MP, AT, SV, JS agreed to send suggestions to PW by 9 June. ACTION: MP, AT, SV, JS • So that we can use it for members-only merchandising, AT agreed to send the email to the Foundation previously discussed asking for permission to use their trademarks. ACTION: AT • JS will discuss with Manchester Tourist Board on their support for a possible Manchester Wikimania Bid in 2013. ACTION: JS • MP to approach membership with regards to the membership list being on the Board wiki. ACTION: MP • TH to start discussion on the Board mailing list with regards to director access to paypal account. ACTION: TH • TH to change paypal address to pay...@wikimedia.org.uk ACTION: TH • MP to set previous board members emails to forward to him. ACTION: MP • SV, MP, JS to collate press response template list ACTION: SV, MP + JS • ZH to prepare a timeline for WMUK initiatives. ACTION: ZH • TD agreed to contact the gazette on behalf of WMUK to solicit a pro-bono lawyer ACTION: TD • TH agreed to contact pro bono lawyer groups by email ACTION: TH Matters arising SV agreed to email the WikimediaUK-L Mailing List to solicit views on scenarios that could be useful for the press response template mentioned above. ACTION: SV JS to copy the standard templates from OTRS. ACTION: JS JS has been in contact with WJBScribe, a lawyer who has offered to give pro-bono advice to the chapter. JS to clarify if this means formal written advice that can be relied upon or informal word of mouth assistance. ACTION: JS Reports Secretary (AT) AT has received an email from Steve Bowbrick, the BBC Radio 4 Blog Editor who spoke at the AGM regarding collaboration between the BBC and WMUK. SV agreed to pursue this as Director of Corporate Relations. ACTION: SV AT has also received an email from the Open Knowledge Foundation who were lined up to speak at the AGM but weren't able to in the end, also regarding possible collaboration. JS agreed to follow up. ACTION: JS Conferences (JS) JS had previously emailed the Board regarding the Online Information 2009 (1-3 Dec, London) conference. They are inviting speakers and although the deadline is officially passed they are accepting late submissions. The cost to attend is £400/day/person (£400 for the 3 days for registered charities). JS will confirm whether speakers have to pay this fee. ACTION: JS SV is already attending in a work capacity. In the event that speakers do have to pay the fee, SV will look into getting a slot in a fringe event
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapter-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's board
Hi Tom, Yep, it's pretty much the same. Since then the focus has been on finishing the 2008/9 selections and then onto the chapter agreement. This is an attempt to regain momentum on this issue before it becomes urgent. Do you have any further thoughts on the 2010 process? - Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 3 June, 2009 02:16:15 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapter-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's board 2009/6/3 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com: Proposal: Every even numbered year the chapters will select two people to take seats on The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) board. The chapters and WMF board agree that these board members are not intended to represent the chapters, they are expected to act in the best interests of the WMF at all times. These selections will be made by 1st July of each year. The following steps will be taken: By 1st April: The chapters will appoint a moderator to manage the election. This is intended to be very simple, sometime a few weeks before that date someone should nominate a moderator and if no-one objects (which they should only do if they have a serious problem with the candidate's ability to do the job in an fair and impartial manner) that person will be moderator. The moderator should not be a candidate, but they can participate in the process. The moderator is responsible for keeping the community updated with the progress through this process and will serve as liaison to the WMF board. By 1st May: Chapters will nominate at most two candidates each by supplying the following information on the chapters wiki: The name of the nominee The name of the nominating chapter A statement from the chapter in support of the nominee A statement from the nominee in support of themselves, confirming they are willing and eligible to take a seat on the WMF board From 1st May to 15th June: The chapters will discuss the candidates on the chapters wiki and will attempt to reach a consensus on which two to select. If, at any time during this period, the moderator feels a consensus has been reached he will clearly state who he/she believes the chapters have chosen and if no chapter has objected after a week, those nominees will be selected and the moderator will inform the WMF board. If a chapter objects, the chapters will go back to discussion. This process can be repeated as many times as appropriate during the period. If no consensus has been reached by 15th June the moderator will announce a vote. Each chapter will vote for two candidates by posting on the chapters wiki and, on 1st July, the moderator will count the votes and the two candidates with the most votes will be selected and the moderator will inform the WMF board. In the event of a tie, the moderator will toss a coin. The method(s) used by individual chapters to make any decisions required of them are entirely up to the chapter in question, however chapters are advised that the names of candidates and any discussion and votes are confidential and should be restricted to the chapters wiki. That looks absolutely identical to the proposal I put on the chapters wiki during the Berlin meeting (ie. months ago) after the relevant committee there met. What have you been doing since then? ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Announcing GLAM-WIKI in Australia
Forwarded below details of another exciting event, this time taking place in Canberra, Australia. I don't suppose anyone from the UK is going? It would be great to find out how this goes so we can pick up some tips for the London/Britain Loves Wikipedia event penciled in for next spring. Andrew - Forwarded Message - From: Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com To: Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription) interna...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: chapt...@wikimedia.ch Sent: Tuesday, 26 May, 2009 15:42:21 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Chapters] [Internal-l] Announcing Wiki loves art Netherlands Congratulations Hay and the rest of the Dutch team on your innovating work! From where I sit it looks like the Dutch are doing a lot of interesting things right now - including Wikiwijs - I'm jealous of your progress! However let me take this opportunity, in the spirit of healthy rivalry between Chapters, to announce an even that Wikimedia Australia will be hosting in August: Ladies and Gentlemen may I present to you the first ever GLAM-WIKI event. /fireworks G.L.A.M. (in English) stands for galleries, libraries, archives, museums and this will be the first time that the cultural sector of any country will come together to meet with WIkimedians to discuss how we can better work together. Whilst this is specifically looking at the Australian/NewZealand perspective I do believe that the discussions we have will be applicable to our two communities worldwide. You can find out more and download the poster here: glam.wikimedia.org.au We will be posting all event videos/slides/outcomes there afterwards. The idea is that both the GLAM sector and the Wikimedia community instinctively know that they could offer a lot of expertise to the other. So, rather than being a conference where one community tells the other what it is doing wrong, GLAM-WIKI is designed to be a two-way discussion where we share best-practices and each community asks how can we work better with you? This is collaborative relationship building. And the best bit is... everyone we talk to is very excited about it. Every national and State gallery, library, archive and museum we talk to says wow - yes, we'll come to that! We need to know about that! They've been told for the last decade that they need to be online but no one has come and said Hi - we are from the internet and want to work with you and this is how we recommend you do it. Equally we as a community have never formally sat down with the organisations that are the professional cultural organisations and ask them what their experiences, best-practices and expectations are. Thanks to the generous support of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Australian War Memorial we will be able to run this event with no attendance fee and in state-of-the-art facilities. WMF-CPO Jennifer Riggs will be coming out to grace us with her presence and the Australian Government representative who is most engaged in issues about Open Access, online rights, etc. ( senator Kate Lundy ) will be opening. I'm very excited about the range of big names who've said to us that they're supportive of this and have agreed to speak and use their considerable influence in their field to promote this. As part of the goals for each community to be able to take away with them an understanding of what they other community wants - and to see if those changes can be implemented - we would very much like to have some international representation from non-Australian Wikimedia communities. So today Brianna Laugher and I drove around the embassy quarter in our capital knocking on doors to see who would be interested in sponsoring people from their country to fly out here. Not surprisingly none said of course - here's a bag of money but many were very interested (especially the Swedish and Dutch actually...). If you would like to attend this event - please contact us and maybe we can organise a combined approach to your embassy or national culture ministry. If there are any questions or suggestions please contact me and we hope that some of you might be able to join us in person in Canberra in August. Otherwise, join us on Twitter during the event. Peace, Love and Metadata! -Liam Wyatt [[witty lama]] VP Wikimedia Australia wittylama.com/blog Sent from Canberra, Act, Australia On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Hay (Husky) hus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, here's an update on the Dutch Wiki loves art (WLA) project. This event was inspired by previous comparable projects (Wikipedia loves art) in the US and Australia (from which we also had some handy tips, thanks Liam!) The Dutch version of WL A will be organized by Wikimedia Nederland and Creative Commons Nederland, with support from the Museumnight Foundation, Digital Heritage Netherlands and ISP XS4ALL. [snip] I hope this answers a few
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Using Wiki software in higher Education: Interview request
Sorry this should have been using Wikipedia/Wikimedia in Higher Education. The overall course is about the use of wikis in general, and they are asking one of us to do a particular interview on the use of Wikipedia/Wikimedia in universities. Regards, - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: From: Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 1 June, 2009 13:23:58 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Using Wiki software in higher Education: Interview request 2009/5/31 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com: We have recently been approached by a company asking for someone to be video interviewed on the subject of how Wikipedia can be used in universities. The company is a spin off from Imperial College in London and is partly public owned and partly privately owned. They are currently preparing courses in new technology, which are expected to be used by over 100 higher education institutions around the world. Sorry, I'm a little confused - is this using Wikipedia in higher education, or using wikis in higher education? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Using Wiki software in higher Education: Interview request
Could Cormac travel to London do you think? - Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote: From: Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 1 June, 2009 23:20:13 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Using Wiki software in higher Education: Interview request Not a Brit, but IIRC Cormac Lawler was doing his PhD on Wikiversity. -Original Message- From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Turvey Sent: 01 June 2009 23:17 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Using Wiki software in higher Education: Interview request Sorry this should have been using Wikipedia/Wikimedia in Higher Education. The overall course is about the use of wikis in general, and they are asking one of us to do a particular interview on the use of Wikipedia/Wikimedia in universities. Regards, - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: From: Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 1 June, 2009 13:23:58 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Using Wiki software in higher Education: Interview request 2009/5/31 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com: We have recently been approached by a company asking for someone to be video interviewed on the subject of how Wikipedia can be used in universities. The company is a spin off from Imperial College in London and is partly public owned and partly privately owned. They are currently preparing courses in new technology, which are expected to be used by over 100 higher education institutions around the world. Sorry, I'm a little confused - is this using Wikipedia in higher education, or using wikis in higher education? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Minutes of the last meeting
Thanks Mike, that's the one! Sorry I didn't make it more explicit. The details of response times etc. are the same as the details in our letter I previously typed up here . regards, Andrew - Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: From: Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, 31 May, 2009 20:37:17 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Minutes of the last meeting Nick Palmer MP had contacted the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, about the issue on behalf of a charity in his constituency that had experienced a delay. a charity in his constituency == us. Pity they didn't mention us by name... Mike On 31 May 2009, at 20:30, AGK wrote: Andrew: I don't see any reference to WMUK in that article. Did you meant to say it referred to another germane topic, or am I simply being dense? AGK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
