[Wikimediauk-l] Daria Cybulska presents at the Women of the World Festival

2013-03-12 Thread Stevie Benton
Hello everyone, I write to let you know that Daria Cybulska, Wikimedia UK's Events Organiser, presented at the Women of the World Festival in London this past weekend. She spoke about why it's important that women engage with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. She did an excellent job and

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Daria Cybulska presents at the Women of the World Festival

2013-03-12 Thread rexx
That's a super piece of outreach and Daria deserves all our congratulations for the success of the work she's doing. It's worth pointing out that the Southbank Centre also has a short article on Daria in their Artists and Speakers section at

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedians: your Conference Committee needs YOU!

2013-03-12 Thread Harry Mitchell
Please forgive my pathetic imitation of Kitchener! Wikimedia UK's Conference Committee (that is, the committee responsible for the annual conference and, nominally, the Wikimania bid) is in need of volunteers. In particular, we need people to help with putting together the programme for the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] when qrpedia and qrwp domains will be transferred?

2013-03-12 Thread geni
On 11 March 2013 15:46, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Firstly, holding our hands up here, we have been relying on pro-bono legal advice to do most of the work in getting the full arrangements in place. There have been some delays owing to the lawyer concerned having a rush of his paid

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] when qrpedia and qrwp domains will be transferred?

2013-03-12 Thread Thomas Morton
Geni; it *is* frustrating that the domains have not been transferred, let alone the hosting. However, it's not surprising that the charity is taking its time over some of these issues given recent events. I encourage you to join one of the Tech Committee meetings because you'd get a much better

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedians: your Conference Committee needs YOU!

2013-03-12 Thread Gordon Joly
On 12/03/13 20:10, Harry Mitchell wrote: While I'm here, it's a good excuse to remind you that we are still accepting talk submissions for said annual conference: https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2013/Talk_submissions Care to re-confirm that URI? Gordo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedians: your Conference Committee needs YOU!

2013-03-12 Thread Katie Chan
On 12/03/2013 22:13, Gordon Joly wrote: On 12/03/13 20:10, Harry Mitchell wrote: While I'm here, it's a good excuse to remind you that we are still accepting talk submissions for said annual conference: https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2013/Talk_submissions Care to re-confirm