Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggestions for Merchandise
On 13/09/2011 22:14, Andrew Gray wrote: On 13 September 2011 13:58, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: +1. I very much like this idea! Does anyone know who set that up/who was in charge of that idea? Commons has the PDFs here (which are bizarrely distorted by mediawiki, but there you go): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Commons_Postcard.pdf http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Commons_Postkarte_(sw).pdf You can probably chase down the original details via the author (or just by asking WMDE directly) If you download the PDF files (from Commons), they are not distorted. Must be in the inline reader... Gordo -- Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com http://www.joly.org.uk/ Don't Leave Space To The Professionals! ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Third Sector's Driving Donations Through Social Media Online Masterclasses
FYI Gordo *** Dear Gordon, So which charities have really increased donations through social media? And how did they go about it? Join the hundreds of charity professionals already confirmed for Third Sector's Driving Donations Through Social Media Online Masterclasses to hear the secrets behind the most lucrative charity social media case studies of 2011, such as: - The Big March - Beatbullying - increased website traffic by 3000% - The Battle of Britain - RAF Benevolent Fund - doubled online donations - Baby Joey Appeal - Childs i Foundation - raised £10,000 on day 1 - iPhone app - BackCare - was the most downloaded charity app Plus more - view the full speaker list @www.donationsthroughsocialmedia.com Driving Donations Through Social Media Streamed live to your desk on 1st, 3rd and 8th November 2011 At a time when social media offers more potential to charities than ever, these masterclasses are designed to give you cost-effective access to information that will help your charity unlock the full donation-driving power of sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Full details of the masterclasses can be found atwww.donationsthroughsocialmedia.com Sharon Williams, who attended last year said; the format was great and much easier than attending a physical event. Even though we were doing some stuff with social media before, the case studies gave me loads of ideas that are already generating demonstrably more funds for our charity. I hope that you can take part. If you have any questions at all about what's involved, please feel to contact me on the details below. Best Wishes, Shreena Shah Senior Content Executive Third Sector Online Events Email:shreena.s...@haymarket.com Tel: 0208 267 4281 -- Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com http://www.joly.org.uk/ Don't Leave Space To The Professionals! ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Third Sector's Driving Donations Through Social Media Online Masterclasses
We will be using our participation in the Wikimedia fundraiser to promote our social media presence and vice versa, but I'm not sure training from Third Sector is going to help. ;-) Chris On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: FYI Gordo *** Dear Gordon, So which charities have really increased donations through social media? And how did they go about it? Join the hundreds of charity professionals already confirmed for Third Sector's Driving Donations Through Social Media Online Masterclasses to hear the secrets behind the most lucrative charity social media case studies of 2011, such as: - The Big March - Beatbullying - increased website traffic by 3000% - The Battle of Britain - RAF Benevolent Fund - doubled online donations - Baby Joey Appeal - Childs i Foundation - raised £10,000 on day 1 - iPhone app - BackCare - was the most downloaded charity app Plus more - view the full speaker list @ www.donationsthroughsocialmedia.com Driving Donations Through Social Media Streamed live to your desk on 1st, 3rd and 8th November 2011 At a time when social media offers more potential to charities than ever, these masterclasses are designed to give you cost-effective access to information that will help your charity unlock the full donation-driving power of sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Full details of the masterclasses can be found atwww.donationsthroughsocialmedia.com Sharon Williams, who attended last year said; the format was great and much easier than attending a physical event. Even though we were doing some stuff with social media before, the case studies gave me loads of ideas that are already generating demonstrably more funds for our charity. I hope that you can take part. If you have any questions at all about what's involved, please feel to contact me on the details below. Best Wishes, Shreena Shah Senior Content Executive Third Sector Online Events Email:shreena.s...@haymarket.com Tel: 0208 267 4281 -- Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com http://www.joly.org.uk/ Don't Leave Space To The Professionals! ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] August report coming out tomorrow - has anything been missed?
Hi all, The draft Wikimedia UK report for August is on the wiki at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/August Please let me know if there's anything that's been missed out - the report will be sent around tomorrow. Thanks, Mike P.S. the September report is in embryo form at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September - please add things that have happened/are happening this month to that rather than the August report. :-) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] August report coming out tomorrow - has anything been missed?
I took the liberty to add myself onto the list of WMUK presenters at Wikimania. I think James Forrester and Tom Morris belong to the list too, having been on Ironholds' panel! On Sep 14, 2011 10:32 PM, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi all, The draft Wikimedia UK report for August is on the wiki at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/August Please let me know if there's anything that's been missed out - the report will be sent around tomorrow. Thanks, Mike P.S. the September report is in embryo form at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September - please add things that have happened/are happening this month to that rather than the August report. :-) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Question: UK versus regional branding
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 12:15 +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 13 September 2011 09:22, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any views for or against using an image of Wikimedia in Scotland rather than just the WM-UK logo? My concern is that some will resist joining in a UK branded programme but would rush to support a country specific initiative. If it gets better results, we could follow a similar pattern for Wales and avoid appearing to push UK in every document (or teeshirt). Before signing the chapters agreement with the WMF, we were careful to amend it to include permission for us to call ourselves Wikimedia Scotland (etc.) in order to leave our options open for this kind of thing. You could, therefore, use a Wikimedia Scotland logo (with some small print making clear that both Wikimedia Scotland and Wikimedia UK are trading names of Wiki UK Ltd. on anything more important that a t-shirt). The downside of that is that it harms brand recognition, since neither brand is getting used as much as a single brand would be. The only question really is whether the benefit from appeasing Scottish nationalists outweighs the harm from splitting our brand. I don't know enough about Scottish nationalism to know, but I can believe that it would be. A simple illustration of the view from this side of the border was expressed in today's freebie paper, the Metro. Surprisingly, it's near-identical to one I personally used over ten years ago when living in Belgium: Scottish first, European second, and British last. That, as I'd hope people south of the border understand, is because to much of the rest of the world Britain = England. All three of the major UK political parties are looking seriously to, at a minimum, devolve their Scottish presence and give it far more autonomy. Further to that, a recent survey found that over 30% of the population expect to see a truly independent Scotland in their lifetime. Scottish national identity, and political awareness, has come a long, long way since I was a student chucking past-their-sell-by-date duck eggs at the Iron Lady. Brian McNeil. -- http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil - Accredited Reporter. Facts don't cease to be facts, but news ceases to be news. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Question: UK versus regional branding
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote: All three of the major UK political parties are looking seriously to, at a minimum, devolve their Scottish presence and give it far more autonomy. The impression I got, in the case of the tories, was that the Scottish tory MPs wanted to re-brand and distance themselves but their English counterparts weren't keen on them splitting away. I'm not sure that's looking to devolve. But I guess this point is not particularly relevant to Wikimedia UK's merchandising... Bodnotbod ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] August report coming out tomorrow - has anything been missed?
I've tweaked the wording on ARKive and added something on QRpedia. On 14 September 2011 15:32, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi all, The draft Wikimedia UK report for August is on the wiki at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/August Please let me know if there's anything that's been missed out - the report will be sent around tomorrow. Thanks, Mike P.S. the September report is in embryo form at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September - please add things that have happened/are happening this month to that rather than the August report. :-) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.
The Scotland vs. UK debate has reminded me that we're using uk.wikimedia.org which is, strictly speaking, the Ukrainian sub-domain; and should be using gb.wikimedia.org Is this something we should rectify sooner, rather than later, choosing some pain now over more pain later? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.
I don't see what gb.wikimedia.org has to do with anything, to be honest. We are very definitely not Wikimedia Great Britain. Ideally we would make greater use of wikimedia.org.uk but we have promoted uk.wikimedia.org well enough that we should probably deflect uk.wikimedia.org to wikimedia.org.uk when we make the move. Chris On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote: The Scotland vs. UK debate has reminded me that we're using uk.wikimedia.org which is, strictly speaking, the Ukrainian sub-domain; and should be using gb.wikimedia.org Is this something we should rectify sooner, rather than later, choosing some pain now over more pain later? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.
On 14 September 2011 22:40, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The Scotland vs. UK debate has reminded me that we're using uk.wikimedia.org which is, strictly speaking, the Ukrainian sub-domain; and should be using gb.wikimedia.org Is this something we should rectify sooner, rather than later, choosing some pain now over more pain later? It is correct. x.wikimedia.org subdomains use country codes (ISO 3166). x.wikipedia.org subdomains use language codes (ISO 639). uk is the language code for Ukrainian. In country codes, it is a recognised alternative code for the UK [1]. We prefer uk to gb since it is actually an abbreviation for the name of our country, rather than being an abbreviation for the name of an island that makes up part of our country. 1. http://www.iso.org/iso/support/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/iso-3166-1_decoding_table.htm#UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Question: UK versus regional branding
Devolution is a good idea; though with care taken to make sure links are strong and it is not seen as a division but as a recognition of you're much better placed to organise this area of our outreach. Wikimedia in Scotland is a great idea for focusing the brand. There is no rule that says we have to use a single Wikimedia UK brand, and in the current climate (especially in Scotland) companies are now quite successfully leveraging a Scots targeted sub-brand. If this makes things more palatable north of the border - lets do it :) Tom ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.
In answer to Andy's original question: I'd rather sort it out later, after the fundraiser. There is quite enough on our collective plate at present, and perhaps this should wait until after the CEO is in position and the fundraiser is comfortably set up. -Original Message- From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andy Mabbett Sent: 14 September 2011 22:40 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb. The Scotland vs. UK debate has reminded me that we're using uk.wikimedia.org which is, strictly speaking, the Ukrainian sub-domain; and should be using gb.wikimedia.org Is this something we should rectify sooner, rather than later, choosing some pain now over more pain later? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.
On Sep 15, 2011 12:11 AM, Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 September 2011 22:50, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: x.wikimedia.org subdomains use country codes (ISO 3166). x.wikipedia.org subdomains use language codes (ISO 639). uk is the language code for Ukrainian. In country codes, it is a recognised alternative code for the UK [1]. That's not quite true. uk has been exceptionally reserved at the request of the United Kingdom, as it is required in order to support a particular application, as specified by the requesting body and limited to such use; any further use of such code elements is subject to approval by the ISO 3166/MA. Therefore it should not be used in applications of ISO 3166, and is not a recognised alternative code -- gb is the only official country code for the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, the use of ISO 3166 country codes for wikimedia subdomains is just a wikimedia convention, and there is no law against us squatting on Ukraine's country code. While you may be right that it isn't strictly accurate to call uk an alternative country code for the UK, it is definitely incorrect to call it Ukraine's country code. That is ua. uk is Ukrainian's language code, but that it a completely different standard. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.
On Sep 15, 2011 12:16 AM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: In answer to Andy's original question: I'd rather sort it out later, after the fundraiser. There is quite enough on our collective plate at present, and perhaps this should wait until after the CEO is in position and the fundraiser is comfortably set up. Please don't sort anything out. It's fine how it is. We are, and should be, Wikimedia UK. It would be confusing for us to use gb for our subdomain. Especially since our primary url uses the country top level domain, uk. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.
On 15 September 2011 00:37, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: While you may be right that it isn't strictly accurate to call uk an alternative country code for the UK, it is definitely incorrect to call it Ukraine's country code. That is ua. uk is Ukrainian's language code, but that it a completely different standard. Of course, thanks for pointing that out -- I must have confused myself half way through writing that. Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] August report coming out tomorrow - has anything been missed?
Wright Challenge finished this month, and therefore belongs to the September report. On Sep 15, 2011 4:52 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Also, shouldn't there be something about the results of the Wright challenge? On 14 September 2011 21:38, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: I've tweaked the wording on ARKive and added something on QRpedia. On 14 September 2011 15:32, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi all, The draft Wikimedia UK report for August is on the wiki at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/August Please let me know if there's anything that's been missed out - the report will be sent around tomorrow. Thanks, Mike P.S. the September report is in embryo form at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September - please add things that have happened/are happening this month to that rather than the August report. :-) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
