Speak for yourself; I'm delighted to see Wikimedia Commons grow even
more. It's not just about WIkipedia any more, it's about bringing
together freely licensed images and making them available for anyone
to see and use more broadly. Servers do break, and websites
frequently go away over
Thanks to @mia_out on Twitter, I've just found out about:
http://osconsult.ernestmarples.com/
The Government have launched a consultation on how to make Ordnance
Survey data free with no restrictions on reuse.
Full details are given in:
Hi all,
In case you haven't heard already, Britain Loves Wikipedia, a free
photography scavenger hunt following on from Wiki Loves Art et al.,
will be taking place in 21 museums and archives across the UK
throughout February, and is launching on Sunday at the Victoria and
Albert Museum!
Hi all,
In case you haven't heard already, Britain Loves Wikipedia, a free
photography scavenger hunt following on from Wiki Loves Art et al.,
will be taking place in 21 museums and archives across the UK
throughout February, and is launching on Sunday at the Victoria and
Albert Museum!
public interest in the stories within collections held
in museums across the country. MLA is very pleased to support this
initiative and welcomes the development of partnerships between
museums and Wikimedia.
Chair of Wikimedia UK, Michael Peel, said, Museum collections hold a
vast range
Hi all,
The current leaflet design for BLW is at:
http://www.mikepeel.net/temp/blwleaflet.pdf
The VA version of this (the first 2 pages) needs to go to the
printers tomorrow morning, so any last-minute corrections/changes
sent to me in the next ~ 8 hours would be welcome...
Thanks,
Mike
The Wikimedia UK AGM will be happening at this conference as well.
(Seddon, you need to make info on this available!)
OKCon I believe is open to all, although there may be an entrance fee
as per previous years. The WMUK AGM will definitely be open to all,
and won't have an entrance fee
Not sure if this came through yesterday, so resending...
Mike
On 20 Jan 2010, at 21:40, Michael Peel wrote:
Hi all,
I've just started the press release page for the Britain Loves
Wikipedia event at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia
This includes
Hi all,
I've just started the press release page for the Britain Loves
Wikipedia event at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia
This includes a whole host of cool information (at least in my
opinion) about the event - including a few details about the events
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
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
The Times Educational Supplement contacted WMUK today about the
ofqual guidance, with an urgent deadline to meet (2.30pm). I
explained to them that the information they provide is good, and that
Wikipedia is a great starting point, and a stepping stone to learning
more (emphasising the
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6943325/Schoolchildren-told-to-
avoid-Wikipedia.html
Perhaps Ofqual are the first people we should be aiming the schools
project at, to teach them how to use Wikipedia properly so they can
pass that guidance on?
Mike
mentions the School's Wikipedia.
Mike
On 6 Jan 2010, at 19:32, Michael Peel wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6943325/Schoolchildren-told-to-
avoid-Wikipedia.html
Perhaps Ofqual are the first people we should be aiming the schools
project at, to teach them how to use Wikipedia
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/ireland/schools-to-get-free-access-to-
online-encylopedias-440794.html
The country’s 4,000 schools are to get free access to online
versions of the popular Encyclopedia Britannica and World Book as
part of an e-Learning initiative announced today.
... do you
(resending as the Wikimedia IE mailing list apparently defies the -
l convention...)
On 5 Jan 2010, at 16:10, Michael Peel wrote:
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/ireland/schools-to-get-free-access-to-
online-encylopedias-440794.html
The country’s 4,000 schools are to get free access
On 3 Jan 2010, at 10:44, Brian McNeil wrote:
I have moved material around to get the punch into the first para.
Mary
Rose is good: on everyone's radar, apparently.
Are press releases going onto any of the semi-junk freebie pseudo-
wires?
There's several of these turn up in Google News
On 2 Jan 2010, at 20:27, Charles Matthews wrote:
In the end, a story appeared today:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6916596/WB-Yeats-
and-Sigmund-Freud-works-posted-on-Wikipedia-as-copyright-expires.html
Well done indeed to Mike and Andrew in particular for pushing on
On 3 Jan 2010, at 00:35, Brian McNeil wrote:
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 23:24 +, Michael Peel wrote:
The next press release, due to go out tomorrow evening, will be about
a donation of images from the Mary Rose Trust:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Mary_Rose_Trust_donation
- and make these works
available on Wikisource etc. as soon as we can tomorrow. Who can help
with this?
Brian: did you get anywhere with getting Stephen Fry etc. to record
some of the works of Yeat to go onto Wikip/media?
Mike
On 29 Dec 2009, at 16:05, Michael Peel wrote:
Just as a follow
Ideally, it needs board approval before going out, to make sure that
the whole board's happy with it (as it WMUK's name on it). I'm hoping
that we can get at tonight's board meeting. If we can hold off until
then, that would be great...
Mike
On 29 Dec 2009, at 12:19, Charles Matthews
Hi all,
The next board meeting, and the last of 2009, will be this evening
(Tuesday 29 December 2009) 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
--
From: Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 4:36 PM
To: Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net
Cc: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Steve Virgin
st...@mediafocusuk.com
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Press release
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
Hi all,
The next board meeting will be on Tuesday 15 December 2009,
8.30-10.30pm GMT. We'll be using both Skype for discussion, and the
#wikimedia-uk-board channel on IRC for sharing information, with
discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend
the IRC session. If
My viewpoint is: why restrict editing? As Geoffrey and Peachey
mentioned, there are some pages that do need protecting, but other
than that? A central part of the Wikimedia zeitgeist for me is that
anyone can edit.
If you restrict editing, then you're removing the ability for non-
members
A Musselburg teacher has caused controversy after he admitted pupils
should use the often-inaccurate website Wikipedia as a resource tool.
http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/musselburgh/articles/
2009/12/10/394976-school-web-controversy/
Obvious links in with the Schools project - I'm not
Nice idea, but it seems to me that this is a little premature. I
think it's something that wikimedians in wales, scotland and northern
ireland need to say that they want before time is invested setting it
up...
BTW, I would have the officers of the branches elected by members
rather than
It's out - as in no longer draft. Andrew will be sending it out by
email this evening, and it will be going on the WMUK blog and twitter
feed at the same time. Please feel free to mention it to all your
favourite journalists... ;-)
On 2 Dec 2009, at 16:20, michael west wrote:
On 02/12/2009, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
Telegraph today: A senior judge has ordered Wikipedia, the online
encyclopedia, to disclose the identity of one of its contributors
after a mother and her young child pleaded for help
On 2 Dec 2009, at 20:23, geni wrote:
I see no problem with the court's or WMF's actions. Slightly worried
about the attempt by the plaintiff to prevent the WMF's name from
being released but the court didn't grant that I can understand why
that might have been attempted.
Um... that's not
On 2 Dec 2009, at 20:53, geni wrote:
2009/12/2 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net:
On 2 Dec 2009, at 20:23, geni wrote:
I see no problem with the court's or WMF's actions. Slightly worried
about the attempt by the plaintiff to prevent the WMF's name from
being released but the court didn't
On 1 Dec 2009, at 15:18, Brian McNeil wrote:
There are a few special pieces of Javascript active on enWN which
try to
detect incoming Wikipedians and caution them about editing on
Wikinews,
i.e. articles are a snapshot, not to be encyclopedic, c.
IIRC the flow is as such:
1. User
Does someone want to start drafting a press release that can be sent
out, then?
Mike
On 30 Nov 2009, at 16:06, Brian McNeil wrote:
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 15:41 +, George D. Watson wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/11/30 Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org:
The thought's good, but
On 29 Nov 2009, at 18:47, Isabell Long wrote:
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 06:10:22PM +, zeyi wrote:
Dear All,
Our initiative, Britain loves Wikipedia is coming. According the
plan,
the event will launch at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Sunday, 31
January 2010, followed by a series
I've just spoken to Rory by phone, and managed to touch on a number
of different topics with him - including the Usability Initiative,
the bookshelf project, Britain Loves Wikipedia and other local
events, etc. There were lots of issues that I didn't cover (different
language versions,
On 25 Nov 2009, at 13:18, Brian McNeil wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 13:08 +, Gordon Joly wrote:
Michael Peel wrote:
I've just spoken to Rory by phone, and managed to touch on a number
of different topics with him - including the Usability Initiative,
the bookshelf project, Britain Loves
On 25 Nov 2009, at 12:53, Michael Peel wrote:
I've had no other calls/emails from any other media organizations
about this story.
I perhaps shouldn't have said that. ;-) I've since spoken to the
press association:
Wikipedia UK 'definitely not dying'
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress
From Rory at the BBC:
@ruskin147: @mike_peel it's a recorded piece at around 1825 on the
R4 Six O Clock news - have you seen the blog post? http://tinyurl.com/
yljcrko
Mike
On 25 Nov 2009, at 17:01, Gordon Joly wrote:
Michael Peel wrote:
On 25 Nov 2009, at 12:53, Michael Peel wrote
Next up I think is Andrew, who's talking on BBC Radio 5 Live sometime
around 11pm tonight (Richard Bacon show). Hopefully that's the end of
the media deluge then. ;-)
Mike
On 25 Nov 2009, at 19:58, Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/11/25 Douglas Gardner microchi...@btinternet.com:
That was a good
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/394.htm?news=rss
The National Archives and the Museums, Libraries and Archives
Council (MLA) welcome the new government policy on archives -
Archives for the 21st Century - which was laid before Parliament today.
Full PDF at:
Hi all,
Thanks to Kaldari, the photos from the Wiki Loves Art event at the
Victoria and Albert Museum last February are now (finally) online!
You can find them at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Category:Wikipedia_Loves_Art_at_the_Victoria_and_Albert_Museum
Please help categorize them
Hi all,
The next board meeting will be on Tuesday 19 November 2009,
8.30-10.30pm BST. The first hour will be by Skype, the second hour
will be held on IRC in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on
irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more
than welcome to attend the
That should have been the 17th, not the 19th... oops. :-)
Mike
On 14 Nov 2009, at 19:16, Michael Peel wrote:
Hi all,
The next board meeting will be on Tuesday 19 November 2009,
8.30-10.30pm BST. The first hour will be by Skype, the second hour
will be held on IRC in the #wikimedia-uk
Begin forwarded message:
From: Ridge Mia mia.ri...@sciencemuseum.org.uk
Date: 5 November 2009 18:31:52 GMT
To: m...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Like museums? Wikipedia? Beer?
Reply-To: Museums Computer Group m...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Or any two of the three above? Then come and have a drink with
I've been putting together some pages on content partnerships so that
I can point UK collections towards the information:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cultural_partnerships/Content_partnerships
I'm adding information as I find it to that page; if you know of
anything I've missed, please let
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening: Tuesday 20 October 2009,
8.30-10.30pm BST.
The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-10-20/Agenda
Following from a conversation at the in-person board meeting, we'll
be trying something different this meeting to try to
On 20 Oct 2009, at 14:25, Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/10/20 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net:
That technical limitation. :-) Also, there are concerns about the
required connection speed for hosting a multi-way conference like
this (as I understand it, the calls are all routed through the host
... or perhaps not. Wikimedia UK is a peaceful organization, as is
Wikimedia as a whole, and I'm sure that none of our members would
ever seriously consider doing anything like this.
Mike
On 20 Oct 2009, at 16:30, Bod Notbod wrote:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Andrew Turvey
On 20 Oct 2009, at 14:45, Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/10/20 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net:
I'm not aware of a way to record a Skype conference without requiring
an external device (i.e. recording the signal to the speaker, rather
than digitally within the computer); if anyone knows a way
Hi all,
Would anyone be interested in trying a different type of wikimeet?
The idea would be to meet at a museum (presuming that I can get one
interested in hosting this), and have a meet-up with both wikimedians
and also museum people present. People would bring along laptops (or
use
On 10 Oct 2009, at 00:41, Samuel Klein wrote:
In my experience, high-school teachers were 90/10 anti Wikipedia 3
years ago, and are slightly in favor of it today. This sort of thing
would be a fascinating survey to run year after year.
Does the WMF commission surveys like this? It would
On 10 Oct 2009, at 15:00, geni wrote:
2009/10/10 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net:
On 10 Oct 2009, at 00:41, Samuel Klein wrote:
In my experience, high-school teachers were 90/10 anti Wikipedia 3
years ago, and are slightly in favor of it today. This sort of
thing
would
Hi all,
Just a reminder that the regular London Wikimeet is happening
tomorrow at Pendrel's Oak in London:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London_26
We'll also be having a WMUK board meeting at the same time and place:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-10-11/Agenda
Hi all,
Is it possible to find out how many times any given image has been
viewed?
I know that this can be done on Wikipedia (e.g. [1]), but can it be
done on Commons?
Ideally, I'd like to know how many times an image is viewed by all
sites that use Commons as their image repository,
Hi all,
The next WMUK board meeting will be at the London Wikimeet, at
Pendrel's Oak in Holborn, on the 11th October. You can find
information about the wikimeet at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London_26
and the agenda for the board meeting is being developed at:
On 1 Oct 2009, at 03:33, Steve Bennett wrote:
The thing that puts me off most, personally, is that the IP is
recorded and published. I wouldn't really care if there was some other
way to identify anonymous users, but raw IPs? Ick.
Is there much difference between the way a new (redlink)
Hi all,
The next board meeting is tomorrow evening: Tuesday 29 September
2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on
irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more
than welcome to attend. If you don't have an IRC client, then you can
connect using
On 26 Sep 2009, at 12:52, Al Tally wrote:
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:44 PM, brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
From: Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com
- Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.com wrote:
also, where is it going to be? That's the biggest factor for me.
I
Hi all,
I propose that a Celtic Wikipedia Project be undertaken to
significantly increase the number of articles available in the Celtic
languages
http://www.agencebretagnepresse.com/fetch.php?id=16115title=Celtci%
20languages%20Internet%20project
Don't we already have a Celtic language
On 19 Sep 2009, at 21:47, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Credit to Wikipedia is about as much as you can realistically
expect.
For the many who don't even realize that they can edit themselves
Wikipedia is only one monolithic entity. The thought process that
distinguishes individual Wikipedia
On 17 Sep 2009, at 17:22, Gregory Kohs wrote:
They are a key constituency in
supporting the financial stream, as every single one of them is
worth 16 or
more average donors.
This doesn't seem quite right to me. average donors may financially
be worth less in each donation, but remember
Hi all,
The following might be of interest:
Defamation on the internet: Ministry of Justice seeks your views:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/newsrelease160909a.htm
Plan to update libel law for web:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8259814.stm
Summary: A debate on aspects of defamation law, and
On 14 Sep 2009, at 22:47, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
At another conference, the video switched from the camera
viewpoint to the slides back and forth (I do not know wheth-
er that was done while recording or in post-production). Ob-
viously, this requires more manpower but the result was
worth
On 15 Sep 2009, at 23:05, Durova wrote:
An eBay vendor is exploiting a volunteer restoration of the Holocaust.
They are profiteering off public domain material (at least in the
case of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). As it's public domain, there's no
actual legal requirement to provide
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Tuesday 15 September 2009,
8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on
irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more
than welcome to attend. If you don't have an IRC client, then you can
connect using
On 9 Sep 2009, at 00:42, Yann Forget wrote:
Michael Peel wrote:
** A few of my favourite examples: WikiJournal, publishing scholarly
works;
These works are welcomed on Wikisource, if they are under a free
license, of course.
WikiReview, providing in-depth reviews of subjects;
I think
On 8 Sep 2009, at 18:46, Samuel J Klein wrote:
Hello,
We wanted to have a more informal forum for discussing Wikimedia
issues with Board members, so the three new Wikimedia Trustees (Arne,
Matt, and myself) are hosting an open meeting on IRC in #wikimedia
this Friday.
Where : #wikimedia
On 2 Sep 2009, at 12:35, David Goodman wrote:
There is sufficient missing material in every Wikipedia, sufficient
lack of coverage of areas outside the primary language zone and in
earlier periods, sufficient unsourced material; sufficient need for
updating articles, sufficient potentially
Hi all,
WMUK _might_ be able to provide limited travel funds for someone to
attend this seminar. Is anyone interested?
In general, I've been wondering whether it would be worthwhile for
WMUK to generally offer limited amounts of travel funds for Wikimedia-
related activities, such as
Hi all,
According to Wired, WikiTrust will be enabled on Wikipedia. Does
anyone know anything about this?
It's also been picked up by TG Daily - http://www.tgdaily.com/content/
view/43812/140/ - which says it's already in place.
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
From: Keith Old
On 26 Aug 2009, at 00:48, David Gerard wrote:
2009/8/26 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
2009/8/26 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com:
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,
On 29 Aug 2009, at 22:21, Isabell Long wrote:
2009/8/29 Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl:
Hi everyone,
In a couple of days from now (three?) Wikimedia Commons will hit
the 5
million uploaded files (see the statistics at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics).
At that
It's also in snippet form at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8222397.stm
I have no idea whether this works outside the UK, though...
Mike
On 26 Aug 2009, at 12:12, Andrew Turvey wrote:
Don't know if this has been posted yet (apologies if yes)
Recording available on
Just to explain: David's going to be on BBC radio 2, rather than me
(as per my previous email), as he's based in London and hence can get
to the BBC studio. The press like to geographically discriminate. ;-)
Mike
On 26 Aug 2009, at 16:19, David Gerard wrote:
I'm on BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans
Hi all,
I'll be doing a short (3 minute) interview on the Chris Evans
Drivetime show on BBC Radio 2, at around 5.30pm today, on flagged
revisions.
I've just talked to them on the phone, and given them a brief
overview of the situation, so hopefully things will go fairly
smoothly...
Mike
Just to explain: David's going to be on BBC radio 2, rather than me
(as per my previous email), as he's based in London and hence can get
to the BBC studio. The press like to geographically discriminate. ;-)
Mike
On 26 Aug 2009, at 16:19, David Gerard wrote:
I'm on BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans
Interesting. I've had emails from the BBC in the past asking to reuse
images I've taken and uploaded to Commons (to which I replied saying
yes), but I haven't seen them actually using them yet. Perhaps this
explains why.
Mike
On 25 Aug 2009, at 19:11, Andrew Turvey wrote:
I had an
(This doesn't seem to have come through... Also, expect more to come.
Mike)
Begin forwarded message:
From: Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net
Date: 25 August 2009 14:05:29 BDT
To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: Communications Committee wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Flagged
On 23 Aug 2009, at 09:50, Bod Notbod wrote:
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Milos Rancicmill...@gmail.com
wrote:
There won't be new lingua franca. ~30 years is now very small amount
of time for changing behavior of the global society, while it is very
large amount of time for machine
Would it be worth applying for a grant via the below incubator?
Particularly for the schools' project, I guess - does anyone have
other projects in mind that this would suit?
Thanks,
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
From: Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com
Date: 20 August 2009
You may want to take a look at the Guardian blog post:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/aug/17/wikipedia-three-
million
and also a couple by the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6042931/Wikipedia-
reaches-three-million-articles.html
On 18 Aug 2009, at 18:34, Carcharoth wrote:
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Michael Peelem...@mikepeel.net
wrote:
snip
All of them are better reads than the article in the Christian
Science
{{citation needed}} Monitor.
Really?
The Telegraph one was poor.
... of course, I meant _Tuesday_, not Wednesday.
Mike
On 18 Aug 2009, at 13:47, Michael Peel wrote:
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Wednesday 18 August 2009,
8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on
irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone
On 16 Aug 2009, at 03:58, Pavlo Shevelo wrote:
For me Google Groups do a good job and it's enough.
Yes, I would support the proposal to look at Google Groups (as
alternative mailing list platform) closer.
As we can see Wikimedia Brasil and Wikimedia UK are using that
platform and perhaps
It's also in today's Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6020775/Wikipedia-
growth-slowing-as-it-reaches-3-million-articles.html
Mike
On 13 Aug 2009, at 13:10, Tom Holden wrote:
There’s a further post on the Guardian technology blog about this
here:
Hi all,
You may wish to add yourselves to the following page, if you're happy
to do presentations about Wikimedia:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_speakers#United_Kingdom
(That's in addition to the WMUK page at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Speakers , to which I've added a see also
On 11 Aug 2009, at 14:56, Carcharoth wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Joseph Reaglerea...@mit.edu wrote:
On Wednesday 01 July 2009, Steve Bennett wrote:
::Archived at: http://marc.info/?
i=b8ceeef70907012048r74142a7av7b8db293e005b...@mail.gmail.com
There must be a page for
Hi all,
Anyone interested in the below? As I understand it, they want to
cover the range of philosophies on Wikipedia - they already have
people involved with an inclusionist or middle-ist point of view, but
no-one from a deletionist viewpoint.
Thanks,
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
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
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
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Wednesday 5 August 2009,
8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on
irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more
than welcome to attend. If you don't have an IRC client, then you can
connect using
Hi all,
This is just a quick reminder of the meeting this evening on
initiatives; see
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-07-28/Agenda
for more information. Please add your name to the list of attendees
if you plan on attending.
Thanks,
Mike
The website link states 21st July - so I assume this evening...
Mike
On 21 Jul 2009, at 10:37, Florence Devouard wrote:
Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
Hi everybody,
We're still in the process of getting up to speed, but I'm anxious to
start interacting with more of you and garnering some feedback
In another thread, Will Johnson (I think) argued that activity levels
(new articles, in particular) would continue to decline rapidly in the
next few years and that by Christmas we would have fewer than 1000 new
articles per day. Looking at the new stats, I'm more confident that
en-wiki can
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
Last time I checked, arXiv was for pre-prints - the word suggests to
me that it has to actually be going to get printed. It's not supposed
to be a place to publish papers, just distribute them faster when they
are being published elsewhere.
That's normally the case, but you do get some papers
This is something I'm currently trying to become much more active in
- I've talked to one museum (Manchester Museum of Science and
Industry), but haven't gotten much further with other museums yet
(need to spend the time to write emails etc.). My focus is much more
on starting talking to
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Tuesday 7 July 2009,
8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on
irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more
than welcome to attend.
The draft agenda is at:
What Wikimedia events or activities would you like to see take place
in the UK?
We're currently trying to pull together ideas for initiatives that
Wikimedia UK can support, at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Proposals
There have been lots of ideas posted at:
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