[Wikimediauk-l] Have you applied for membership yet?
Hi all, This is your one and only reminder that, if you want to nominate yourself or other people for the next Board, you need to get your membership application to me asap. The next board meeting is on the 30th March - next Monday - so you should make sure that your application gets to me before then. If you leave it any later then it is unlikely that we'll be able to process it in time for you to submit nominations by the 5th April. Information on membership, and the application form, is available at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Membership . Please let me know if you have any questions, but note that I'll be offline from Friday evening until sunday evening. Mike Peel Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools
2009/3/26 Gordon Joly : > At 16:17 + 25/3/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7962912.stm >> >>"The Guardian said the draft review requires primary school children >>to be familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as >>sources of information and forms of communication." >> >>It looks like there may be a little more demand for my proposal for >>WMUK to go into schools... > > > As I recall, "projects in schools" was always part of Wikimedia UK > (1.0 and 2.0) thinking > > The announcement is rather odd. Bit like saying "children should > watch more television" in the 1950s and 1960s. Twitter, WIkimedia, > Bebo, Facebook, MySpace are (social) media: is the suggestion that > they start media studies in school from the first day? Or is the > suggestion that 5 year olds become Wikipedia editors? Wikipedia isn't social, it's academic. Learning how to use various academic media seems like a good thing to do in school. (We're talking about reading Wikipedia rather than contributing to it, I think - although if we do go into schools I'd like to talk briefly about editing too.) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid update
2009/3/26 Gordon Joly : > At 15:52 + 23/3/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: >>2009/3/23 Gordon Joly : >>> It is important for a local authority or a registered charity to >>>be prudent >> >>The regulators said there was nothing wrong with the Icelandic banks - >>I think going with what the regulators say is sufficient to satisfy >>the duty of care. Anyway, this is massively off-topic! > > Yes, massively off topic > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7963986.stm > > "Seven English councils have been accused of "negligence" for putting > money into Icelandic banks days before they went bust last October." Indeed - putting money in after the credit ratings were reduced was rather foolish, I hadn't realised they had done that! ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools
2009/3/25 Thomas Dalton : > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7962912.stm > "The Guardian said the draft review requires primary school children > to be familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as > sources of information and forms of communication." > It looks like there may be a little more demand for my proposal for > WMUK to go into schools... Now on the Slashdot firehose: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=3905743 Hey, I voted for it ... - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Gordon Joly wrote: > The announcement is rather odd. Bit like saying "children should > watch more television" in the 1950s and 1960s. Twitter, WIkimedia, > Bebo, Facebook, MySpace are (social) media: is the suggestion that > they start media studies in school from the first day? Or is the > suggestion that 5 year olds become Wikipedia editors? Which God forbid... -- Sam PGP public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/public_key ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 23:51, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/3/25 Sean Whitton : > >> That is however off-topic. It would be fantastic to teach people to >> use Wikipedia properly at a young age. Then we wouldn't have so much >> misunderstanding when it comes to using it for coursework later on, at >> GCSE level. So this sounds good. > > > I look forward to twenty thousand word featured articles on minor > characters from "Charlie & Lola." I'm sure there's a tremendous amount > the kids can write about Sizzles the dog or Lotte's fur coat. I'm not talking about editing, as already pointed out - I'm referring to using Wikipedia properly for research. Amusing illustration though :) -- Sean Whitton / OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools
At 23:53 + 25/3/09, David Gerard wrote: >2009/3/25 Sean Whitton : > >> This is precisely my point. The press are obsessed with it and it is >> increasingly used for commercial purposes. But it will be interesting >> to see how long it lasts. >> Maybe the draft review mentioned it because Number Ten has a Twitter >> feed and so they wanted to curry favour! > > >I presume earlier versions proposed teaching the kids about AltaVista >and GeoCities and the dangers of ARPANET email kiddy fiddlers. > > >- d. "Homesteaders" are fleeing Geocities At ever increasing velocities Since new owner, Yahoo, Wants their copyrights, too, While still running ad banner atrocities. -- Jeannine Mosely Gordo -- "Think Feynman"/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.j...@pobox.com/// ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools
At 16:17 + 25/3/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7962912.stm > >"The Guardian said the draft review requires primary school children >to be familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as >sources of information and forms of communication." > >It looks like there may be a little more demand for my proposal for >WMUK to go into schools... As I recall, "projects in schools" was always part of Wikimedia UK (1.0 and 2.0) thinking The announcement is rather odd. Bit like saying "children should watch more television" in the 1950s and 1960s. Twitter, WIkimedia, Bebo, Facebook, MySpace are (social) media: is the suggestion that they start media studies in school from the first day? Or is the suggestion that 5 year olds become Wikipedia editors? Gordo -- "Think Feynman"/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.j...@pobox.com/// ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid update
At 15:52 + 23/3/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: >2009/3/23 Gordon Joly : >> It is important for a local authority or a registered charity to >>be prudent > >The regulators said there was nothing wrong with the Icelandic banks - >I think going with what the regulators say is sufficient to satisfy >the duty of care. Anyway, this is massively off-topic! Yes, massively off topic http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7963986.stm "Seven English councils have been accused of "negligence" for putting money into Icelandic banks days before they went bust last October." Gordo -- "Think Feynman"/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.j...@pobox.com/// ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
