Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [GLAM] Soldiers' letters

2011-10-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 27 October 2011 00:44, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote: I might upset a few people here, but,... Why does this even have to in any way link to Wikipedia? [else where you also said The point here is not to drive traffic to Wikipedia] I'm not concerned with driving traffic to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [GLAM] Soldiers' letters

2011-10-27 Thread Fae
With regard to notability, all war monuments are landmarks potentially worthy of a Wikipedia article. Due to how difficult it is to source the material, I would encourage any group or individual to consider extending (or more likely creating) the article for the local town or village that created

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [GLAM] Soldiers' letters

2011-10-27 Thread Chris Keating
I might upset a few people here, but,... Why does this even have to in any way link to Wikipedia? Just because we've a pet 800lb gorilla is no reason to point people at it repeatedly. Because Wikipedia has the biggest audience. Most partners care about getting audience and exposure for

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK World War I universities GLAM

2011-10-27 Thread Chris Keating
(apologies for cross-posting, but it's a UK topic, a MILHIST topic, GLAM topic and an education topic all rolled into one) You might be interested to know that Wikimedia UK has lent its support to a bid led by a researcher at University of Birmingham, supported by Oxford University and also the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [cultural-partners] Wikimedia UK World War I universities GLAM

2011-10-27 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Chris Keating, 27/10/2011 19:51: 3) It's also relatively unusual for a Wikimedia organisation to provide support to someone else to apply for third-party funding in a competitive tendering process, but in this case the Wikimedia UK board thought it was quite justified in pursuit of our