On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WMF is completely separate, I don't think accepting donations to them
in exchange for membership of the chapter is a good idea.
Yes, yes, yes. Linking chapter membership to WMF donations is, in my
opinion, even worse than
2008/11/28 Andrew Turvey [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have written up the dratf minutes of our meeting on Tuesday and put them
on meta here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/Board_meetings/2008-11-25
6.6 - MP reported that the membership application form has been
advertised on the
I was having a think about this project and I wondered what the nascent UK
chapter could easily do to help out for this. Two ideas sprang to mind:
1) Looking at Wikipedia Loves Art on flikr, it mentions Teams with the most
points at the end of the month will get cool prizes
2008/11/28 Andrew Turvey [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I was having a think about this project and I wondered what the nascent UK
chapter could easily do to help out for this. Two ideas sprang to mind:
1) Looking at Wikipedia Loves Art on flikr, it mentions Teams with the most
points at the end of the
The nature of online communities is such that you simply won't have
access to the information that would be required to make an informed
judgement about an applicant. You can't require details of their
Wikimedia activities since they could simply deny being a Wikimedian
(and I believe we are
The Board has already reached out to these projects by asking if the
newsletter could be translated into these languages. My suggestion is we set
aside two reserved seats on the Board for people who actively contribute to
at lease one wikimedia project in a minority language of the UK.
Two
Surely the chapter is about the promotion of Wikimedia in the UK, raising
awareness of our projects and supporting the wider projects of WMF. I don't
see a link between SPs on Wikipedia (and or other projects) whose disruption
is essentially behind a computer screen and who wish to engineer
What languages are spoken in the United Kingdom?
Afrikaans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans and
Dutchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language Approximately
400,000
South African-British
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African-Britishand Dutch
British
