[Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia in the Guardian

2012-01-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
There's a great article about MonmoutpediA in the Guardian today; congratulations to all involved, it's a great advert for our work, despite some (baseless) naysaying. However (there's always a catch!), the article says: By April the aim is to dot 1,000 QR codes – a barcode that smartphones

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia in the Guardian

2012-01-26 Thread Tom Morris
On 26 January 2012 17:30, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: There's a great article about MonmoutpediA in the Guardian today; congratulations to all involved, it's a great advert for our work, despite some (baseless) naysaying. However (there's always a catch!), the article says:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia in the Guardian

2012-01-26 Thread Richard Symonds
Aye, I just saw it too! Matthew Roth (from WMF) is impressed about the coverage, and overall it's not a bad piece... Richard Symonds Office Development Manager Wikimedia UK +44 (0)207 065 0991 On 26/01/2012 17:30, Andy Mabbett wrote: There's a great article about MonmoutpediA in the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia in the Guardian

2012-01-26 Thread Roger Bamkin
We had a bit of a mix up with the journalist as I told him we had been shortlisted for the SmartUK award and then I realised it was not public knowledge. I think the piece is very well written and includes more that just what we told him. Hes done some research! I thought we were on the cutting

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia in the Guardian

2012-01-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 26 January 2012 17:43, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com wrote: We had a bit of a mix up with the journalist as I told him we had been shortlisted for the SmartUK award and then I realised it was not public knowledge. If it's not public knowledge, why did you just mention it on a public

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia in the Guardian

2012-01-26 Thread Richard Symonds
It wasn't public at the time they interviewed us - weeks ago. I believe it is now. Richard Symonds On 26 Jan 2012, at 19:00, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 January 2012 17:43, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com wrote: We had a bit of a mix up with the journalist as I told

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia in the Guardian

2012-01-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 26 January 2012 19:16, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: It wasn't public at the time they interviewed us - weeks ago. I believe it is now. I haven't found any announcements... shouldn't there be a blog entry or something?

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia in the Guardian

2012-01-26 Thread HJ Mitchell
You mean like dedicating a section of the chapter wiki's main page to it? ;) Harry  From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2012, 19:19 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia in the Guardian

2012-01-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 26 January 2012 19:24, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: You mean like dedicating a section of the chapter wiki's main page to it? ;) Why would I go to the main page? Isn't the Latest News section supposed to summarise the most recent blog post? (It links to the blog at the end of it.)

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia in the Guardian

2012-01-26 Thread Roger Bamkin
Sorry Tom, the blog entry may not have been mounted correctly. Please feel free to fix. We've been making the press too on the SmartUK shortlist - which sounds like a magazine but is actually a competition to represent the UK mobile industry on a government stand at the World Mobile Conference.