Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Telegraph runs story ...

2010-01-05 Thread Gordon Joly
Charles Matthews wrote: Brian McNeil wrote: I don't think WMUK needs a style guide as long as Wikinews' but, it might be an idea to note points as we go along that should be consistent. Oooh, let's do the endash-hyphen thing right here ... not. The press do have their own

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Telegraph runs story ...

2010-01-05 Thread Bod Notbod
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote: I contacted Stephen Fry's agent but got no response. It may have been bad timing given the holidays, perhaps someone else could try and see if that can be arranged after the fact. Stephen Fry posted on his blog

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Telegraph runs story ...

2010-01-05 Thread Bod Notbod
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: If he hadn't just announced that he's going incommunicado until April to work on his autobiography, I would have suggested contacting him via Twitter. He won't do any recordings until he's finished the book, though.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Telegraph runs story ...

2010-01-05 Thread Thomas Dalton
2010/1/5 Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com: Style guides? A few weeks back, I contacted The Guardian to correct the spelling of PARC quoting a well known online encyclopedia as a reliable source. I also pointed out that parc appeared to be a registered trademark. They were adamant. Their

[Wikimediauk-l] Schools to get free access to online encylopedias

2010-01-05 Thread Michael Peel
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

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Schools to get free access to online encylopedias

2010-01-05 Thread Michael Peel
(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 to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Schools to get free access to online encylopedias

2010-01-05 Thread Charles Matthews
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 to online versions of the popular Encyclopedia Britannica and World Book as part of an e-Learning initiative

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Schools to get free access to online encylopedias

2010-01-05 Thread Brian McNeil
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 17:44 +, Chris McKenna wrote: I'd suggest that some FoI requests to likely ministries/departments asking how much they spend annually on such subscriptions, and which budget it comes out of. I'd suggest the Home Office; Communities and Local Govt; Business,