Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Wikipedia quietly censored by Internet WatchFoundation

2008-12-07 Thread geni
2008/12/8 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/12/7 AndrewRT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> It seems the IWF are getting so much flak they've put a front page >> statement on their website: >> http://www.iwf.org.uk/media/news.249.htm > > > So who thinks they'd issue a press release accusing Amazon o

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Wikipedia quietly censored by Internet WatchFoundation

2008-12-07 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/7 AndrewRT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It seems the IWF are getting so much flak they've put a front page > statement on their website: > http://www.iwf.org.uk/media/news.249.htm So who thinks they'd issue a press release accusing Amazon of distributing child porn if it were Amazon being bloc

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Wikipedia quietly censored by Internet WatchFoundation

2008-12-07 Thread Kwan Ting Chan
Oldak Quill wrote: An Associated Press article has just been posted at FoxNews website: http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Dec07/0,4670,EUBritainWikipediaCensorship,00.html Including ZDNet and The Register, this is the largest (albeit, international) news source to mention the story. The story is

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid - an update

2008-12-07 Thread Kwan Ting Chan
Thomas Dalton wrote: On Dec 7, 9:52 pm, "Thomas Dalton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hopefully it will be done by the AGM, although that's a little optimistic. Hmm, that depends when you expect the AGM to be. We cant hold the AGM until at least 21 days after the bank account is opened and they h

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid - an update

2008-12-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/8 AndrewRT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Dec 7, 9:52 pm, "Thomas Dalton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hopefully it will be done by the AGM, although that's a little >> optimistic. > > Hmm, that depends when you expect the AGM to be. We cant hold the AGM > until at least 21 days after the b

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid - an update

2008-12-07 Thread AndrewRT
On Dec 7, 9:52 pm, "Thomas Dalton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hopefully it will be done by the AGM, although that's a little > optimistic. Hmm, that depends when you expect the AGM to be. We cant hold the AGM until at least 21 days after the bank account is opened and they haven't even asked u

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Wikipedia quietly censored by Internet WatchFoundation

2008-12-07 Thread AndrewRT
It seems the IWF are getting so much flak they've put a front page statement on their website: http://www.iwf.org.uk/media/news.249.htm Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikim

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid - an update

2008-12-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/7 AndrewRT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Dec 7, 9:07 pm, "Thomas Dalton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't see how it taking quite a lot longer than we were hoping is a win... > > No, indeed. Although it's good to have a clear indication of what kind > of timescales people are working to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid - an update

2008-12-07 Thread AndrewRT
On Dec 7, 9:07 pm, "Thomas Dalton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see how it taking quite a lot longer than we were hoping is a win... No, indeed. Although it's good to have a clear indication of what kind of timescales people are working to - personally I'll keep off opening the metaphoric

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid - an update

2008-12-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/7 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > WIN!!! I don't see how it taking quite a lot longer than we were hoping is a win... ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailm

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid - an update

2008-12-07 Thread David Gerard
WIN!!! 2008/12/5 Andrew Turvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > Just to keep you up to date regarding Gift Aid. I spoke to the HMRC > Charities Unit today and asked them when we should expect a response. They > said they are currently taking between 6-8 weeks so we should expect to hear > around

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Wikipedia quietly censored by Internet WatchFoundation

2008-12-07 Thread Chris McKenna
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Oldak Quill wrote: > > The Internet Watch Foundation consulted with British law > enforcement before concluding that the picture could break the law, > she said." > As all things related to child pornography it seems that "guilty until proven innocent" (and even then sometime

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Wikipedia quietly censored by Internet WatchFoundation

2008-12-07 Thread Oldak Quill
2008/12/7 Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Thanks, but I got in via a different route. Thing is I suspect that issue >> will be catching many others too. This whole thing is a disaster sfaiac >> for editors and readers alike. > > Indeed. There's not a lot we can do about it, though... hopefull

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [WikiEN-l] UK censorship: I'm on BBC Radio 4 Today show tomorrow 8:20am

2008-12-07 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/7 Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/12/7 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I think the BBC make everything available on their site for a week. >> Someone recording it and putting up an ogg would be nice! > Nice, sure, but isn't that illegal? I'm sure I read a Wikipedia > articl

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [WikiEN-l] UK censorship: I'm on BBC Radio 4 Today show tomorrow 8:20am

2008-12-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/7 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think the BBC make everything available on their site for a week. > > Someone recording it and putting up an ogg would be nice! Nice, sure, but isn't that illegal? I'm sure I read a Wikipedia article on something called "copyright" one time... _

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK censorship: I'm on BBC Radio 4 Today show tomorrow 8:20am

2008-12-07 Thread AndrewRT
excellent - well done David, please let us know how it goes. On Dec 7, 5:31 pm, "David Gerard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's now mainstream. IWF representative to be present. I look forward > to dropping in the line "Wikipedia smells of hammers." ([[Brass Eye]]) > > - d. > > __

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [WikiEN-l] UK censorship: I'm on BBC Radio 4 Today show tomorrow 8:20am

2008-12-07 Thread Andrew Gray
2008/12/7 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think the BBC make everything available on their site for a week. > > Someone recording it and putting up an ogg would be nice! I'll see what can be done (though it'll have to wait until the evening). Good luck, and you may want to emphasise that we

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [WikiEN-l] UK censorship: I'm on BBC Radio 4 Today show tomorrow 8:20am

2008-12-07 Thread David Gerard
I think the BBC make everything available on their site for a week. Someone recording it and putting up an ogg would be nice! 2008/12/7 John Reaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Will this be available online anywhere (either as a live stream or > archived)? > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:31 AM, David Ger

[Wikimediauk-l] UK censorship: I'm on BBC Radio 4 Today show tomorrow 8:20am

2008-12-07 Thread David Gerard
It's now mainstream. IWF representative to be present. I look forward to dropping in the line "Wikipedia smells of hammers." ([[Brass Eye]]) - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Wikipedia quietly censored by Internet Watch Foundation

2008-12-07 Thread Sean Whitton
2008/12/6 Paul Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:43 PM, David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> you need to try the link, and if it doesn't work, contact your >> ISP and ask WTF. >> > > HTTP 404 error on Eclipse Internet for page and image. Circumventable by > going to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] London Wikimeet 16 - 14th December 2008

2008-12-07 Thread AndrewRT
If someone could print out a few membership forms (http:// upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/6/6f/ Wiki_UK_Ltd_membership_application_form.pdf) and take them along that would be great! Cheers On Dec 6, 11:55 am, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The next London Wikimeet is at the usual p

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Wikipedia quietly censored by Internet WatchFoundation

2008-12-07 Thread Andrew Gray
2008/12/7 Alison Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Would you like me to tell it to email you a new password? > > Thanks, but I got in via a different route. Thing is I suspect that issue > will be catching many others too. This whole thing is a disaster sfaiac > for editors and readers alike. I bel

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/7 James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK folks, I asked around at the sqn, and the general consensus of opinion > was that the best place to meet would be Birmingham University itself - > there's a railway station in the middle of the campus (a direct line from > Birmingham New Street), plenty of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-07 Thread James
OK folks, I asked around at the sqn, and the general consensus of opinion was that the best place to meet would be Birmingham University itself - there's a railway station in the middle of the campus (a direct line from Birmingham New Street), plenty of rooms available for conference hire, and,