I would be grateful to learn how this Wiki project fits alongside
Simple English Wikipedia:
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
...and how the project intends to avoid a situation where well-meaning
volunteers find themselves spending a lot of effort doing work that's
already been done.
to know what she thinks and to feed
that back for when the next intern is present.
Don't know whether Isabelle is going to see this (is she on the
mailing list now?) but if so: hello! I hope you have a fulfilling
time.
Bod Notbod
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On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:50 PM, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote:
Therefore Christopher Keating, Michael Peel, Ashley Van Haeften, Joscelyn
Upendran,John Byrne, Roger Bamkin and Doug Taylor have been duly elected to
serve as Directors of Wikimedia UK.
Which sent me scurrying back to
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Tom Holden
tom.hol...@economics.ox.ac.uk wrote:
Should we have had confirmation of our proxy votes?
Going on personal experience, the trick here is to submit your votes
including a procedural mistake of some kind; they got back to me
straight away due to that.
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 23:24, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
By virtue of being very active the chapter may be stifling non-chapter chat.
You put an image in my mind of non-chapter messages being bounced out
of the system by a raging torrent of chapter messages that cannot
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 13:44, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Following the bard meeting at the weekend...
Good to see WMUK getting behind the Shakespeare birthday celebrations.
B
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 14:48, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
We’re happy to announce our fourth employee at the UK chapter – Stevie
Benton. Stevie will be taking on the communications role for the charity. He
has worked in non-profit communications for over eight
Well done to everyone who worked for this.
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Hello all,
I see from the 2012 activity plan that there's a budget for a World
Wars project [1]. Is there a leader for this? An online presence?
I'd like to keep in touch with the project with focus on WWI so as to
get stuff done before the centenary. I actually read a heap of WWI
articles last
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Chris Keating
chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
I am keen to move [the World Wars project] further, though I don't have much
time spare until
the New Year as I'm mainly occupied on the Fundraiser. So at the moment I'm
mainly collating interested parties, with
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
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Richard Farmbrough
rich...@farmbrough.co.uk wrote:
I created a template to link to the 330 episodes, {{In Our Time}}, and put
instructions on about 100 talk pages. The template links to the synopsis
page and to the listen again page. Status of placing the
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Steve Bowbrick
steve.bowbr...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
The producer of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time are wondering if there'd be
any value in adding episodes from the In Our Time archive, which is now
complete, to relevant Wikipedia entries?
This is fab! I am a great fan
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
Coming up with good banners is a very big part of that.
It seems very likely that we'll be able to have separate banners for
different countries this fundraiser, so try and come up with messages
that will really
Hi,
Stumbled across this page on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_email_management
Hardly any projects are listed thus far, but I thought I'd notify the
UK Chapter so it can consider adding itself.
Best,
en.User:Bodnotbod
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Hello,
Just thought I'd mention, since I hadn't seen anything on this list
yet, that 2010 Fundraising plans are being made. I assume some of you
will want to get involved since the Chapter stands to raise some money
too.
Here's the main page on Meta:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Angela bees...@gmail.com wrote:
One problem is their funding can be interpreted as meaning the content
should only be made available to the public _in the UK_. Which led to
the strange UK only licence at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/creativearchive/licence/index.shtml
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
* Demographics. Who are we targeting with reduced memberships? Is
there a definable group of people who can't pay the higher fee, and if
so, is it not being served by the existing two-tier group?
That would be key
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Tom Holden
tom.hol...@economics.ox.ac.uk wrote:
Does anyone object to this? We appreciate that some of you will have
recently paid membership fees at the full rate, but if we are to make such a
cut it is inevitable that some people will have paid the full rate
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
We also have lots of events coming up in the next week and a bit
across the UK:
- Saturday 13 February - Manchester Museum
- Sunday 14 February - East Lothian museums...
Feel I should mention at this opportunity that
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
Yes, odd that. What do other museums do?
Gordo
Well, it rather depends. Some museums show bones of dinosaurs, stuffed
walruses (walri?), a collection of moths, a few skulls. Others have
artefacts from Egypt (usually a
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Steve Virgin st...@mediafocusuk.com wrote:
Another thought
Is the WMFoundation putting out a press release saying 'thanks' to the
thousands of donors who have helped it to hit its global fund raising
targets?
Well, there's a massive banner on Wikipedia
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
■ you can find a pre-checked Wikipedia collection
of 5,500 articles targeted around the national
curriculum at http://schools-wikipedia.org.
Wow! I've been volunteering on Wikipedia since 2004, during some
periods
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Brian McNeil
brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
I contacted Stephen Fry's agent but got no response. It may have been
bad timing given the holidays, perhaps someone else could try and see if
that can be arranged after the fact.
Stephen Fry posted on his blog
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
If
he hadn't just announced that he's going incommunicado until April to
work on his autobiography, I would have suggested contacting him via
Twitter. He won't do any recordings until he's finished the book,
though.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Agreed, but my point really is that anyone dealing with the media would
be better prepared with some knowledge of other instances. And I don't
instantly have the facts (some of what I know about this might
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:20 AM, paul reynolds
paul.reyno...@mcgovern.co.nz wrote:
And all I have in the last post is offensive bollocks.
THis is way way disappointing
My sincere apologies to everyone. I'm fairly new to Wikimedia UK and
it's the case that other mailing lists I'm on tend not
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Andrew Turvey
andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote:
Peter Mandelson is a keynote speaker, which could be an important opportunity
to put the case for public
domain to a key decision maker.
My question: what should I focus on at this conference and what
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
... or perhaps not. Wikimedia UK is a peaceful organization, as is
Wikimedia as a whole, and I'm sure that none of our members would
ever seriously consider doing anything like this.
The North Korean Chapter has nukes.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Brian McNeil
brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Joking aside, I think that if I had a moment alone with Peter
Mandelson and could curb my violent impulses for five minutes, I'd put
it to him that cutting off someone's internet for illegal downloading
is a
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:08 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you get him to meet some famous musicians? Childhood TV stars
perhaps? No? Your opinion means approx diddly squat then.
I was under no illusions that Peter Mandelson would drop to his knees
and suck my cock for making hitherto
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Michael Peelem...@mikepeel.net wrote:
What do you all think to this? Note that no board decision has been
made on this yet - it will probably be discussed at the next board
meeting.
I've donated my concessionary rate of £6, so does that mean I can comment? :o)
Hello gentlemen,
I'm assuming that most, if not all, of you are trying to fit in your
Wikipedia work around jobs.
I just happened to put lecture into YouTube's search box. It could
have returned a lecture on *any* subject, of course, but it just so
happens that one of the top hits was this
The next board meeting is this evening; Wednesday 18 August 2009,
8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on
irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more
than welcome to attend. If you don't have an IRC client, then you can
connect using
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Michael Peelem...@mikepeel.net wrote:
Most of it is already online:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-08-18/IRC
See:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings
for minutes/logs of previous meetings.
Thank you!
Gave me a lot of insight
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
Gave me a lot of insight into what's going on, interesting stuff. Good
luck with it all. I'll try to keep abreast of UK Chapter work and
hope, one day, I'll spot something I can help you all with. I tend to
be
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Kwan Ting Chank...@ktchan.info wrote:
Yes, I fear the BBC story is going to over simplify the issues in
order to keep outsiders interested and to allow them to understand it.
If they do find a passionate Deletionist then they will have
somebody very much on
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