In conjuntion with my role as Wikipedian in Residence at Staffordshire
Archives and Heritage Service, I'm thinking of starting WikiProject
Staffordshire.
Would there be any interest from subscribers to this list?
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Andy Mabbett
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http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Hello again,
This conversation seems to have ground to a halt. I'm keen to support any
work that the community wants to see done to develop a more interesting
newsletter but need your input!
Do share some ideas at
Morning all,
So, I'm sensing that while there is some acceptance that a bit more
gatekeeping may be warranted, we don't want anything heavy handed, and that
verifying identity prior to voting each time isn't practicable.
How do we feel about Jon's suggestion of confirming address? I can easily
The Postcard idea is good, but remember that a postcard isn't in an
envelope, so please don't print anything more on it than the minimum needed
for us to know which postcards have come back - i.e. a membership number.
I would suggest that you also want something in the process to raise an
alert
I absolutely agree with Harry and Andreas that the newsletter should
reach beyond the chapter list communities to the much larger group of
UK-based editors and readers. And donors, though they are supposed to
be getting their own version. We should always bear this in mind, and
encourage
A model such as the Wikipedia signpost might work...
Which, for those that don't know, has a fairly regular format of things it
covers (with a nice layout), plus it accepts articles/editorial from the
community.
I'm sure the current monthly reports could be formatted in a similar way;
find
Just to put this into a real world perspective. I an a member of the
Labour Party which gives me certain rights to vote. I've never once in
23 years been asked to provide evidence of who I am. In terms of
entryism the Labour Party has had a long history and the problem is
dealt with not with
On 22 November 2012 12:44, michael west michaw...@gmail.com wrote:
Just to put this into a real world perspective. I an a member of the
Labour Party which gives me certain rights to vote. I've never once in
23 years been asked to provide evidence of who I am. In terms of
entryism the Labour
This is, of course, the way that we originally started the newsletters/reports
way back in 2008, when we took the Signpost model and adapted it. ;-)
E.g. see:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newsletter/July2009
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/Newsletter/Subscribers
Just a few thoughts in reply.
Yep, I'm a member of several organisations including a political party, as
of course will be some of our Trustees, and true, not all of them verify
applications but rely on the caveat of kicking people out if caught doing
something 'naughty'. I don't think the
On 22/11/12 12:05, Katherine Bavage wrote:
How do we feel about Jon's suggestion of confirming address?
Suppose a group with funds wish to influence a body. They pay for the
membership fees (and a little on the side for goodwill).
All these schemes will not uncover that scam.
Gordo
On 22 November 2012 14:12, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
Suppose a group with funds wish to influence a body. They pay for the
membership fees (and a little on the side for goodwill).
All these schemes will not uncover that scam.
Our threat model here is dedicated Internet trolls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_probability
We get enough of that from the board, thanks Gordon.
Harry Mitchell
http://enwp.org/User:HJ
Phone: 024 7698 0977
Skype: harry_j_mitchell
From: Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com
To:
All,
Andrew Gray and I met with the Imperial War Museum in London earlier this
week. They're the lead organisation for marking the 2014 WWI anniversary in
the UK, and they're very interested in cooperating with Wikimedia UK as
part of the program.
The main part of the discussion was their plans
A military history-based Wikipedian in Residence position? I'm sure Wikipedia's
most highly-organised WikiProject will dispatch a whole platoon.
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... creating railway lines in the mid-west - you mean like in *Blazing
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On 22 November 2012 16:10, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
I for one will be around, creating railway lines in the mid-west...
Hello everyone,
I'm really happy to welcome our latest employee, Richard Nevell. Richard
joins us to provide some valuable admin support and is an experienced
Wikipedian.
Please do take a look at our blog where Richard introduces himself in his
own words -
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