Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we were already a charity). Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money reclaimed under the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to mention. WSC On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011 and Wikimania 2012? Monmouthpedia, of course but also, separately, the spread of QRpedia around the world. Becoming a charity for #3? -- 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] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
Have just received the HMRC registration forms so about to make first Gift Aid claim. For my three.. Monmouth - volunteers and innovation Opening an office with staff (this is BIG in wiki terms and other chapters want to follow) Leading the movement during the Black-out for eight hours while San Francisco was asleep. Jon On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:38 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we were already a charity). Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money reclaimed under the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to mention. WSC On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011 and Wikimania 2012? Monmouthpedia, of course but also, separately, the spread of QRpedia around the world. Becoming a charity for #3? -- 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 -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. 07976 935 986 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
@Andrew - some reasons why @Jon. Well you'll get quite a bit of push back from the French/German's et al on 3 if not phrased well. They were awake too during the blackout. Adding in *multi-lingual challenges* is a good idea if you want the popular vote. Anastasis Lvova from Russian wrote 200 articles. This idea was used in Russia, Spain, USA, Netherlands etc etc. We have a map of world showing where QRpedia is used and its pretty global. Getting *registered charity status* was the hard thing to do *the fund raiser* was brilliant because we had this. Our Wikimedian of the year, John Byrne, took leading role with Steve Virgin. We extended the law to do this! We ran an EGM. *Monmouth*. First agreement between a public body and WMF and WMUK. First wiki-town. £1m benefit. Most of the articles were not in English. We did first WMUK work in Wales and befriended the Welsh wicipedia. We now can claim to support two Wikipedias. We have 6 PhD students studying what was done! Steve Virgin crowd sourced P.R, Show them the animation!. *WIR at the British Library*. A decent wage and externally funded. Thats a long way from the first ones where WIR's funded the work themselves in previous year. *GLAM in general* - Lots of events, Coventry, GLAMcamp, Amsterdam, QRpedia hit the news #2 WMUK media story, This Week in GLAM, the idea was used for Wiki loves Monuments photo exhibitions, ARKive *Staff and Office*. Andrew Turvey took leading role here driving it through to make sure we have 5 staff and a spare desk. I know this is covetted and was hard for us as volunteers to do, but not sure it will attract popular votes. *Green for reporting*. We were the only chapter! *Wikimeets* - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as well) On 7 June 2012 09:45, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Have just received the HMRC registration forms so about to make first Gift Aid claim. For my three.. Monmouth - volunteers and innovation Opening an office with staff (this is BIG in wiki terms and other chapters want to follow) Leading the movement during the Black-out for eight hours while San Francisco was asleep. Jon On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:38 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we were already a charity). Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money reclaimed under the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to mention. WSC On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011 and Wikimania 2012? Monmouthpedia, of course but also, separately, the spread of QRpedia around the world. Becoming a charity for #3? -- 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 -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. 07976 935 986 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Roger Bamkin 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
Is there voting?! The black out was only the EN version so not sure how big a story it was. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com wrote: @Andrew - some reasons why @Jon. Well you'll get quite a bit of push back from the French/German's et al on 3 if not phrased well. They were awake too during the blackout. Adding in *multi-lingual challenges* is a good idea if you want the popular vote. Anastasis Lvova from Russian wrote 200 articles. This idea was used in Russia, Spain, USA, Netherlands etc etc. We have a map of world showing where QRpedia is used and its pretty global. Getting *registered charity status* was the hard thing to do *the fund raiser* was brilliant because we had this. Our Wikimedian of the year, John Byrne, took leading role with Steve Virgin. We extended the law to do this! We ran an EGM. *Monmouth*. First agreement between a public body and WMF and WMUK. First wiki-town. £1m benefit. Most of the articles were not in English. We did first WMUK work in Wales and befriended the Welsh wicipedia. We now can claim to support two Wikipedias. We have 6 PhD students studying what was done! Steve Virgin crowd sourced P.R, Show them the animation!. *WIR at the British Library*. A decent wage and externally funded. Thats a long way from the first ones where WIR's funded the work themselves in previous year. *GLAM in general* - Lots of events, Coventry, GLAMcamp, Amsterdam, QRpedia hit the news #2 WMUK media story, This Week in GLAM, the idea was used for Wiki loves Monuments photo exhibitions, ARKive *Staff and Office*. Andrew Turvey took leading role here driving it through to make sure we have 5 staff and a spare desk. I know this is covetted and was hard for us as volunteers to do, but not sure it will attract popular votes. *Green for reporting*. We were the only chapter! *Wikimeets* - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as well) On 7 June 2012 09:45, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Have just received the HMRC registration forms so about to make first Gift Aid claim. For my three.. Monmouth - volunteers and innovation Opening an office with staff (this is BIG in wiki terms and other chapters want to follow) Leading the movement during the Black-out for eight hours while San Francisco was asleep. Jon On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:38 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we were already a charity). Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money reclaimed under the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to mention. WSC On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011 and Wikimania 2012? Monmouthpedia, of course but also, separately, the spread of QRpedia around the world. Becoming a charity for #3? -- 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 -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. 07976 935 986 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Roger Bamkin 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. 07976 935 986 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom.
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
It was quite a big story Jon throughout the world. Voting - whether real or imaginary it is important. The coolest project has to have some popular appeal I would say. Do we think WMDE are cool because they have 20 staff? ... or because they have launched the first new Wiki project for years? Definately the latter in my view - and they are using people from around the world. On 7 June 2012 10:49, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Is there voting?! The black out was only the EN version so not sure how big a story it was. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.comwrote: @Andrew - some reasons why @Jon. Well you'll get quite a bit of push back from the French/German's et al on 3 if not phrased well. They were awake too during the blackout. Adding in *multi-lingual challenges* is a good idea if you want the popular vote. Anastasis Lvova from Russian wrote 200 articles. This idea was used in Russia, Spain, USA, Netherlands etc etc. We have a map of world showing where QRpedia is used and its pretty global. Getting *registered charity status* was the hard thing to do *the fund raiser* was brilliant because we had this. Our Wikimedian of the year, John Byrne, took leading role with Steve Virgin. We extended the law to do this! We ran an EGM. *Monmouth*. First agreement between a public body and WMF and WMUK. First wiki-town. £1m benefit. Most of the articles were not in English. We did first WMUK work in Wales and befriended the Welsh wicipedia. We now can claim to support two Wikipedias. We have 6 PhD students studying what was done! Steve Virgin crowd sourced P.R, Show them the animation!. *WIR at the British Library*. A decent wage and externally funded. Thats a long way from the first ones where WIR's funded the work themselves in previous year. *GLAM in general* - Lots of events, Coventry, GLAMcamp, Amsterdam, QRpedia hit the news #2 WMUK media story, This Week in GLAM, the idea was used for Wiki loves Monuments photo exhibitions, ARKive *Staff and Office*. Andrew Turvey took leading role here driving it through to make sure we have 5 staff and a spare desk. I know this is covetted and was hard for us as volunteers to do, but not sure it will attract popular votes. *Green for reporting*. We were the only chapter! *Wikimeets* - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as well) On 7 June 2012 09:45, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Have just received the HMRC registration forms so about to make first Gift Aid claim. For my three.. Monmouth - volunteers and innovation Opening an office with staff (this is BIG in wiki terms and other chapters want to follow) Leading the movement during the Black-out for eight hours while San Francisco was asleep. Jon On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:38 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we were already a charity). Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money reclaimed under the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to mention. WSC On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011 and Wikimania 2012? Monmouthpedia, of course but also, separately, the spread of QRpedia around the world. Becoming a charity for #3? -- 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 -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. 07976 935 986 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Roger Bamkin 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
The partnership with the Herbert in Coventry is worthy of this list. It's arguably the most successful GLAM project in the UK outside London, it's led to the development of a community of editors in Coventry and the surrounding area, spawned local meetups which are very well-attended, and the only cost to the chapter has been feeding attendees. Harry From: Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012, 10:58 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects It was quite a big story Jon throughout the world. Voting - whether real or imaginary it is important. The coolest project has to have some popular appeal I would say. Do we think WMDE are cool because they have 20 staff? ... or because they have launched the first new Wiki project for years? Definately the latter in my view - and they are using people from around the world. On 7 June 2012 10:49, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Is there voting?! The black out was only the EN version so not sure how big a story it was. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com wrote: @Andrew - some reasons why @Jon. Well you'll get quite a bit of push back from the French/German's et al on 3 if not phrased well. They were awake too during the blackout. Adding in multi-lingual challenges is a good idea if you want the popular vote. Anastasis Lvova from Russian wrote 200 articles. This idea was used in Russia, Spain, USA, Netherlands etc etc. We have a map of world showing where QRpedia is used and its pretty global. Getting registered charity status was the hard thing to do the fund raiser was brilliant because we had this. Our Wikimedian of the year, John Byrne, took leading role with Steve Virgin. We extended the law to do this! We ran an EGM. Monmouth. First agreement between a public body and WMF and WMUK. First wiki-town. £1m benefit. Most of the articles were not in English. We did first WMUK work in Wales and befriended the Welsh wicipedia. We now can claim to support two Wikipedias. We have 6 PhD students studying what was done! Steve Virgin crowd sourced P.R, Show them the animation!. WIR at the British Library. A decent wage and externally funded. Thats a long way from the first ones where WIR's funded the work themselves in previous year. GLAM in general - Lots of events, Coventry, GLAMcamp, Amsterdam, QRpedia hit the news #2 WMUK media story, This Week in GLAM, the idea was used for Wiki loves Monuments photo exhibitions, ARKive Staff and Office. Andrew Turvey took leading role here driving it through to make sure we have 5 staff and a spare desk. I know this is covetted and was hard for us as volunteers to do, but not sure it will attract popular votes. Green for reporting. We were the only chapter! Wikimeets - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as well) On 7 June 2012 09:45, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Have just received the HMRC registration forms so about to make first Gift Aid claim. For my three.. Monmouth - volunteers and innovation Opening an office with staff (this is BIG in wiki terms and other chapters want to follow) Leading the movement during the Black-out for eight hours while San Francisco was asleep. Jon On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:38 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we were already a charity). Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money reclaimed under the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to mention. WSC On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011 and Wikimania 2012? Monmouthpedia, of course but also, separately, the spread of QRpedia around the world. Becoming a charity for #3? -- 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 -- Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK. 07976 935 986 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
Keeping this all under one topic: Ed Saperia suggests Does getting shortlisted for Wikimania 2013 count, do you think?. I think it does: we pulled a pretty amazing bid out - one of the reasons it was turned down, we hear, is that it was too big. Not a bad reason to be turned down Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk On 7 June 2012 11:37, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: The partnership with the Herbert in Coventry is worthy of this list. It's arguably the most successful GLAM project in the UK outside London, it's led to the development of a community of editors in Coventry and the surrounding area, spawned local meetups which are very well-attended, and the only cost to the chapter has been feeding attendees. Harry -- *From:* Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com *To:* UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Thursday, 7 June 2012, 10:58 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects It was quite a big story Jon throughout the world. Voting - whether real or imaginary it is important. The coolest project has to have some popular appeal I would say. Do we think WMDE are cool because they have 20 staff? ... or because they have launched the first new Wiki project for years? Definately the latter in my view - and they are using people from around the world. On 7 June 2012 10:49, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Is there voting?! The black out was only the EN version so not sure how big a story it was. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.comwrote: @Andrew - some reasons why @Jon. Well you'll get quite a bit of push back from the French/German's et al on 3 if not phrased well. They were awake too during the blackout. Adding in *multi-lingual challenges* is a good idea if you want the popular vote. Anastasis Lvova from Russian wrote 200 articles. This idea was used in Russia, Spain, USA, Netherlands etc etc. We have a map of world showing where QRpedia is used and its pretty global. Getting *registered charity status* was the hard thing to do *the fund raiser* was brilliant because we had this. Our Wikimedian of the year, John Byrne, took leading role with Steve Virgin. We extended the law to do this! We ran an EGM. *Monmouth*. First agreement between a public body and WMF and WMUK. First wiki-town. £1m benefit. Most of the articles were not in English. We did first WMUK work in Wales and befriended the Welsh wicipedia. We now can claim to support two Wikipedias. We have 6 PhD students studying what was done! Steve Virgin crowd sourced P.R, Show them the animation!. *WIR at the British Library*. A decent wage and externally funded. Thats a long way from the first ones where WIR's funded the work themselves in previous year. *GLAM in general* - Lots of events, Coventry, GLAMcamp, Amsterdam, QRpedia hit the news #2 WMUK media story, This Week in GLAM, the idea was used for Wiki loves Monuments photo exhibitions, ARKive *Staff and Office*. Andrew Turvey took leading role here driving it through to make sure we have 5 staff and a spare desk. I know this is covetted and was hard for us as volunteers to do, but not sure it will attract popular votes. *Green for reporting*. We were the only chapter! *Wikimeets* - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as well) On 7 June 2012 09:45, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Have just received the HMRC registration forms so about to make first Gift Aid claim. For my three.. Monmouth - volunteers and innovation Opening an office with staff (this is BIG in wiki terms and other chapters want to follow) Leading the movement during the Black-out for eight hours while San Francisco was asleep. Jon On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:38 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we were already a charity). Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money reclaimed under the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to mention. WSC On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011 and Wikimania 2012? Monmouthpedia, of course but also, separately, the spread of QRpedia around the world. Becoming a charity for #3? -- 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
[Wikimediauk-l] Glasgow
I shall be in Glasgow, with free time on the afternoon of 19 and daytime of 20 June. I hope to visit a couple of museums, and perhaps talk to their staff about GLAM QRpedia. Obviously, I don't want to tread on the toes of anyone already working in that area - do we have anyone already doing so? Otherwise, does anyone have any useful GLAM contacts there? Or just want to meet for coffee? On the evening of the 20th, shall be at this event, also in Glasgow: http://tartantweeple.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/protecting-you-social-media-assets/ Discussing social media in local government, should any of you wish to attend, or follow online. -- 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] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
Bear in mind that the request here is for the 3 coolest projects, and that the audience is going to be Wikimania attendees (i.e. mostly Wikimedians), presumably with the hope of getting them to do similar projects in their countries. So as cool as things like direct debits are, I don't think they'll particularly enthuse a room full of Wikimedians to do something similar elsewhere... (but I could well be wrong). Thanks, Mike P.S. does anyone 'lead the movement'? ;-) I think Jon meant 'Leading the public relations during ...' On 7 Jun 2012, at 16:02, Roger Bamkin wrote: agree with WSC - the direct debit was the fundraising coup and it was Chris's over achievement. £1m was the plan - collecting half of next years was just showing off On 7 June 2012 15:58, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: OK we shouldn't trumpet Gift Aid until we have our first big fat cheque from HMRC. But it is worth mentioning Direct debits. That may sound dry, but the UK chapter has a significant longterm income stream whilst the rest of the movement still depends on the annual fundraiser. WSC On 7 June 2012 09:45, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Have just received the HMRC registration forms so about to make first Gift Aid claim. For my three.. Monmouth - volunteers and innovation Opening an office with staff (this is BIG in wiki terms and other chapters want to follow) Leading the movement during the Black-out for eight hours while San Francisco was asleep. Jon On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:38 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we were already a charity). Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money reclaimed under the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to mention. WSC On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011 and Wikimania 2012? Monmouthpedia, of course but also, separately, the spread of QRpedia around the world. Becoming a charity for #3? -- 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 -- Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK. 07976 935 986 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ 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 -- Roger Bamkin 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2 ___ 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] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
On 7 June 2012 16:02, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com wrote: agree with WSC - the direct debit was the fundraising coup and it was Chris's over achievement. £1m was the plan - collecting half of next years was just showing off I agree. Direct Debits were the big thing I was disappointed not to achieve during my time on the board, and was very pleased to see Chris succeed where I had failed. The rest of the movement seems to have some difficulty understanding the important of direct debits (I think there are a very British way of giving to charity), but they really are very important. I look forward to the point (which may only be a couple of years away) when our goal in the annual fundraiser has nothing to do with the next year's income, because we already know we'll be getting that, and we're focusing on increasing revenue in the long term. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
On 7 June 2012 16:33, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Bear in mind that the request here is for the 3 coolest projects, and that the audience is going to be Wikimania attendees (i.e. mostly Wikimedians), presumably with the hope of getting them to do similar projects in their countries. So as cool as things like direct debits are, I don't think they'll particularly enthuse a room full of Wikimedians to do something similar elsewhere... (but I could well be wrong). I'd like other Wikimedians to replicate our success with recurring donations. At the very least, it would be good to get people thinking about a financial model that doesn't rely on 2 months of frantic fundraising each year. P.S. does anyone 'lead the movement'? ;-) I think Jon meant 'Leading the public relations during ...' We led the movement in the public relations effort. Leadership means more than being in charge. WMUK can, and should, take a position of leadership in the movement, even though we aren't in charge of anyone else. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
From an administrative point of view, I'd like to hold off on talking about direct debits until we get a proper hold on the impact they're having. At present, we're still very much in the experimental stage. We're also in the middle of the fundraiser agreement discussions with the WMF, and although this may have changed by Wikimania 2012, I'm not really comfortable talking hard figures. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk On 7 June 2012 16:59, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 June 2012 16:02, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com wrote: agree with WSC - the direct debit was the fundraising coup and it was Chris's over achievement. £1m was the plan - collecting half of next years was just showing off I agree. Direct Debits were the big thing I was disappointed not to achieve during my time on the board, and was very pleased to see Chris succeed where I had failed. The rest of the movement seems to have some difficulty understanding the important of direct debits (I think there are a very British way of giving to charity), but they really are very important. I look forward to the point (which may only be a couple of years away) when our goal in the annual fundraiser has nothing to do with the next year's income, because we already know we'll be getting that, and we're focusing on increasing revenue in the long term. ___ 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] Main page seen by library users - where is Wikipedia?
The screenshot at: http://twitpic.com/9trfss shows the first page seen by anyone using a computer in a library in my home city, Birmingham. There are a lot of popular websites listed - but Wikipedia isn't there! Maybe we could all check out our local libraries, for similar pages, and ask the staff to include Wikipedia, if they don't already? -- 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] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
On 07/06/12 10:42, Roger Bamkin wrote: *Wikimeets* - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as well) It will not be the same without James F BTW, have we decided if he is a spy? And for which side? :-) Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Main page seen by library users - where is Wikipedia?
I think they are getting value and price confused. I see they have quite a few paid for services. On 7 June 2012 20:08, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The screenshot at: http://twitpic.com/9trfss shows the first page seen by anyone using a computer in a library in my home city, Birmingham. There are a lot of popular websites listed - but Wikipedia isn't there! Maybe we could all check out our local libraries, for similar pages, and ask the staff to include Wikipedia, if they don't already? -- 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 -- Roger Bamkin 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
