Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal of trustees collective responsibility

2012-10-08 Thread Gordon Joly
On 07/10/12 22:34, Roger Bamkin wrote: Hi Gordan I thought your comment was a bit uncalled for. Good think that I did not make. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal of trustees collective responsibility

2012-10-08 Thread Gordon Joly
Have I? Gordo On 08/10/12 09:09, Andy Mabbett wrote: You've obviously seen some evidence that the rest of us have not. Perhaps it's time you shared that with us. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk On Oct 7, 2012 8:24 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal of trustees collective responsibility

2012-10-08 Thread Gordon Joly
On 08/10/12 10:35, David Gerard wrote: On 8 October 2012 09:09, Andy Mabbett pigsotw...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 7, 2012 8:24 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: It seems clear that being friends allows a group to protect an individual, when that person (e.g. Roger Bamkin) should asked

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal of trustees collective responsibility

2012-10-08 Thread Gordon Joly
On 08/10/12 10:39, David Gerard wrote: Yes indeed. However, this does not constitute substantiating evidence for your claim, as you have even quoted above. Do please try again. Sorry David. I will not try again. Many thanks for the offer. Gordo ___

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal of trustees collective responsibility

2012-10-08 Thread Gordon Joly
On 08/10/12 10:45, Thomas Dalton wrote: It is clear that the board protected Roger. It is not clear that they did so because of an overfamiliarity among the board. I think they probably thought they were just being supportive colleagues. Well put. Gordo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Urgent: Drinks with Sue Gardener, Garfield, Asaf WMUK

2012-10-09 Thread Gordon Joly
On 08/10/12 15:52, Richard Symonds wrote: Sue Gardner, from the WMF, is in our office today, along with a few others (Garfield and Asaf from the WMF). She's keen to meet UK Wikipedians for a drink - is anyone available for drinks in the Old Street area of London this afternoon/evening? If

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal of trustees collective responsibility

2012-10-09 Thread Gordon Joly
On 09/10/12 12:31, Richard Symonds wrote: As far as I am aware a resignation offer has not been publicly minuted, but that may well be because the minutes from the meeting in question are still being drafted (and certainly haven't been approved!) My collection was that Roger Bamkin's

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Urgent: Drinks with Sue Gardener, Garfield, Asaf WMUK

2012-10-09 Thread Gordon Joly
On 09/10/12 11:02, Richard Symonds wrote: Asaf is more than happy to meet anyone today or tomorrow. He's actually really keen to do so! OK. I will be there Wednesday afternoon. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Urgent: Drinks with Sue Gardener, Garfield, Asaf WMUK

2012-10-09 Thread Gordon Joly
On 09/10/12 13:37, WereSpielChequers wrote: But shifting the office is a bigger job, and wherever the office is we will have spontaneous meetings taking place. Salford? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Urgent: Drinks with Sue Gardener, Garfield, Asaf WMUK

2012-10-09 Thread Gordon Joly
On 09/10/12 14:31, David Gerard wrote: Media storms were fun when I was the only person on hand to do telly ... Like I said, move the offices to Salford. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] London Wikimeet, November 11th and Wikimedia UK 4th Anniversary.

2012-10-11 Thread Gordon Joly
On 11/10/12 09:55, Hasina Khatun wrote: Sorry for the late reply. The booking has been made for the downstairs area. I will also leave a note before I leave to the office, to call before The Penderal's Oak meet up to make sure they are still aware of the booking. So. downstairs room

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Urgent: Drinks with Sue Gardener, Garfield, Asaf WMUK

2012-10-13 Thread Gordon Joly
On 09/10/12 13:36, Gordon Joly wrote: On 09/10/12 11:02, Richard Symonds wrote: Asaf is more than happy to meet anyone today or tomorrow. He's actually really keen to do so! OK. I will be there Wednesday afternoon. Gordo We met, we chatted. Gordo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] A message from the Wikimedia UK Board

2012-10-14 Thread Gordon Joly
There is, of course, an inquiry underway on that precise question. So everything is sub judice? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotices.

2012-10-15 Thread Gordon Joly
On 15/10/12 13:28, Craig Franklin wrote: Geonotices are only as good as the database underneath. If the IP database doesn't think you're in London, no amount of tinkering with skins will fix that. Cheers, Craig Franklin I see. So in what sense is this a good communications tool? Can I

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotices.

2012-10-15 Thread Gordon Joly
On 15/10/12 14:07, Harry Burt wrote: Hi Gorgo, What does http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org report for you? The database is usually pretty accurate. Harry Geo = {city:London,country:GB,lat:51.514198,lon:-0.093100,IP:86.157.yyy.xxx,netmask:22} Looks like that is correct then(I have

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotices.

2012-10-15 Thread Gordon Joly
Fixed. I restarted my BT equipment, got a brand new IP address, and it works... Huzzah! Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotices.

2012-10-15 Thread Gordon Joly
other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 15 October 2012 14:57, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com mailto:gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: Fixed. I restarted my BT equipment, got

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotices.

2012-10-16 Thread Gordon Joly
On 16/10/12 13:24, Thomas Dalton wrote: It is very difficult to accurately identify geographic locations within the UK. IP addresses are generally assigned from an ISPs pool which they use nationwide, so they just identify to wherever the ISP is based. Not the datacenter (first hop)? I did

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotices.

2012-10-18 Thread Gordon Joly
On 18/10/12 00:11, Alison M. Wheeler wrote: Truth. I just checked wherehttp://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ believes my (fixed) IP addresses are. Truro is the response! (I'm actually just north of London). Geolocation has been something of an interest of mine for a few years and whilst

[Wikimediauk-l] London pub meetups, November and December 2012

2012-10-23 Thread Gordon Joly
4th Birthday bash, with cake? See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/63 December meeting - note change of pub! http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/64 * There has been a lot of talk about the pros and cons of Penderel's Oak, so in December 2012, we will try

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Having an advisory board

2012-10-23 Thread Gordon Joly
On 23/10/12 16:26, David Gerard wrote: On 23 October 2012 16:19, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: Advisory board? Why? Why not just put petrol on the flames? A charity that is as small as Wikimedia U.K. has no need of more dimensions of governance... An advisory board

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Having an advisory board

2012-10-23 Thread Gordon Joly
On 23/10/12 17:45, Thomas Dalton wrote: What do you want to ask the charity commission? I think the guidance is pretty clear. You just need to have it written down somewhere what their role is and what authority they have (ie. none). I would ask them, given the current age of the charity,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Having an advisory board

2012-10-23 Thread Gordon Joly
On 23/10/12 22:31, Thomas Dalton wrote: We could have quarterly general meetings if we wanted to. We don't need to change legal structure for that. But stakeholder groups in CICS can be a subset of the membership, I believe. The CIC decides at the start how to run the stakeholder function.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Digest of board decisions regarding Monmouth, Gibraltar and QR codes

2012-10-25 Thread Gordon Joly
On 25/10/12 17:11, Jon Davies wrote: One person has a very strong objection and since it is all public anyway and accessible through the board minutes I responded to that person's honest objections by withdrawing what is an incomplete document. But, of course, the document could have been

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gazette of board decisions on Monmouth, Gibraltar at QR.

2012-10-25 Thread Gordon Joly
On 25/10/12 18:59, Jon Davies wrote: They will in any case being going back to zero and creating their own chronology. Jon. Like Pol Pot? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] ENGAGE 2012: Responding to Change

2012-10-26 Thread Gordon Joly
On 26/10/12 18:05, Paul Wilkinson wrote: I am also a PR person and a Wikipedian (user Paul W - since 2003). I introduced myself to David Gerrard at a CIPR/Wikipedia event during London Social Media Week and he encouraged me to make myself known. *Ducks down below parapet again* David

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] HTML editor software

2012-10-30 Thread Gordon Joly
On 30/10/12 12:02, Richard Symonds wrote: Bear in mind that we get a massive charity discount for a lot of these products via CTX, so cost isn't necessarily an issue. Cost is an issue. Value for money! Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list

[Wikimediauk-l] London Wikimeet 63

2012-11-01 Thread Gordon Joly
Sunday November 11th, at the Penderel's Oak. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/63 Downstairs room booked? Cake ordered? Wikimedia UK will be 4 years young on Monday 5th November, and this wikimeet is the celebration! Gordo ___

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] qrpedia.org and qrwp.org

2012-11-02 Thread Gordon Joly
On 02/11/12 20:22, geni wrote: On 2 November 2012 16:28, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: The plans have not been scrapped. -- Doug However given the time so far taken there are only 3 three options: WMUK doesn't have the ability to handle domain and software back-end WMUK is incompetent

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] qrpedia.org and qrwp.org

2012-11-02 Thread Gordon Joly
On 02/11/12 20:37, Thomas Morton wrote: What I should have said is: the QRpedia code is available on Google Code Well, yes, it would be... Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] qrpedia.org and qrwp.org

2012-11-02 Thread Gordon Joly
I grabbed the source, Luke... svn checkout http://qrwp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ qrwp-read-only Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Comet Group

2012-11-03 Thread Gordon Joly
On 02/11/12 21:09, michael west wrote: Hi I just wanted to check the background of the Comet Group on wikipedia. I'm on my mobile and can't edit it, but there are a few issues regarding grammar and a few issues regarding the company entering administration. I do realise that this list is for

[Wikimediauk-l] Happy Anniversary!

2012-11-05 Thread Gordon Joly
Four years of Wikimedia UK! Incorporated, 5th November, 2008. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] DCMS consultation on e-lending in libraries

2012-11-05 Thread Gordon Joly
On 05/11/12 14:00, Stevie Benton wrote: If contributions could be made and a final response reached by 3.30pm on Tuesday 6 November that allows us time to make a final submission. Departments: Department for Culture, Media and Sport Document type: Consultation paper Date of publication:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Consultation] Members strategy and members survey - 1st deadline 26th October (Friday)

2012-11-08 Thread Gordon Joly
A few spelling mistakes on the survey, for example: To young To far from where I live Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Consultation] Members strategy and members survey - 1st deadline 26th October (Friday)

2012-11-10 Thread Gordon Joly
One question about was staff (or Trustees), and are they accessible / accountable? This is two questions. People can be very accessible. And accountable or not! Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Consultation] Members strategy and members survey - 1st deadline 26th October (Friday)

2012-11-10 Thread Gordon Joly
On 09/11/12 19:22, Katie Chan wrote: With respect, it's simply not a case of merely appearing as politically correct. Indeed. Somebody should have carried out an Equality Impact Assessment on the survey and the methods used. I also question the fact that the first survey was tied to a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Consultation] Members strategy and members survey - 1st deadline 26th October (Friday)

2012-11-12 Thread Gordon Joly
On 12/11/12 13:21, Katherine Bavage wrote: . On the one hand, anonymity protects people when answering questions with sensitive personal data such as income or sexuality, and may ensure the results are more genuine. Surely, like job applications, these can processed separately, or made

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Consultation] Members strategy and members survey - 1st deadline 26th October (Friday)

2012-11-12 Thread Gordon Joly
On 12/11/12 13:35, Katie Chan wrote: Who's going to do the anonymousing? When it happens in a job application (for a large enough company), the company (HR) still see the data, it's just that the persons making the hiring decision doesn't. Indeed. Who would do it? Maybe Wikimedia UK could

[Wikimediauk-l] Long Term Support (Wheezy)

2012-11-13 Thread Gordon Joly
I was very pleased to find this in the release notes for Mediawiki 1.20 getting the Mediawiki message out there with the huge Linux userbase. *** We're working closely with Linux distributors to make sure that the MediaWiki bundled in Linux is something

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] PR industry blames 'cumbersome' Wikipedia

2012-11-14 Thread Gordon Joly
On 14/11/12 05:51, Doug Weller wrote: The OTRS Quality queue is again over 200, which is pretty worrying. Partially my fault as I haven't been doing much if any OTRS work recently. Doug This is volunteer effort, so, from time to time volunteering effort can slide (I speak from my own

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] PR industry blames 'cumbersome' Wikipedia

2012-11-14 Thread Gordon Joly
On 14/11/12 12:55, Charles Matthews wrote: Training in the UK, and the WMUK VLE, are two things in which I have a personal involvement. Charles Does the WMUK VLE exist? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] PR industry blames 'cumbersome' Wikipedia

2012-11-15 Thread Gordon Joly
On 15/11/12 12:18, Andreas Kolbe wrote: CIPR CEO Jane Wilson added: 'I recognise that it can be a frustrating process for any organisation with inaccurate information on the site. 'Wikipedia is working on the speed and ease with which simple factual inaccuracies can be amended without

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Verifying membership applications - Suggestions and comments

2012-11-19 Thread Gordon Joly
On 19/11/12 10:54, Katherine Bavage wrote: At the board meeting on Saturday a valid point was made that currently the verification process for membership applications doesn't really prove a barrier to fraudulent or duplicate applications. fraudulent or duplicate applications. Isn't

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Anyone interested?

2012-11-20 Thread Gordon Joly
On 20/11/12 09:30, Jon Davies wrote: No but they seem nice people. IF you can spare the time I'll send you the details. Yes, but they put the definite article before Strand :-) Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Verifying membership applications - Suggestions and comments

2012-11-20 Thread Gordon Joly
On 20/11/12 11:42, Thomas Morton wrote: I suppose what we need to demonstrate is that, say 'Joe Bloggs' is a) Is who he says he is (proof of photo ID) and b) Lives at the address he says he does (utility bill? Electoral roll?). If people pay from a verified paypal account the need to check

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Verifying membership applications - Suggestions and comments

2012-11-20 Thread Gordon Joly
On 20/11/12 12:35, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 20 November 2012 12:30, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: This is all a bit exclusive. Widening membership should not be down PayPal or electoral roll or having a bank account (since this would exclude people aged 17 years old and under). You

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Verifying membership applications - Suggestions and comments

2012-11-20 Thread Gordon Joly
On 20/11/12 13:34, David Gerard wrote: We can easily come up with all sorts of ways to make membership a massive pain in the arse. But what was the threat model again? And what's accepted practice - how do other UK charities deal with said threat model? Sounds like something for the Audit

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Verifying membership applications - Suggestions and comments

2012-11-21 Thread Gordon Joly
On 20/11/12 20:12, Chris Keating wrote: Another step some organisations take is to say that someone has to be a member for a certain length of time before conferring voting rights on them, though the only time I've seen this is enacted is when there have been serious problems with people

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Verifying membership applications - Suggestions and comments

2012-11-22 Thread Gordon Joly
On 22/11/12 12:05, Katherine Bavage wrote: How do we feel about Jon's suggestion of confirming address? Suppose a group with funds wish to influence a body. They pay for the membership fees (and a little on the side for goodwill). All these schemes will not uncover that scam. Gordo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK Finance Action Plan 2012/13 and Finance Policy revision 2012

2012-11-25 Thread Gordon Joly
On 25/11/12 01:33, John Byrne wrote: I'd like to announce two new finance documents, now on the WMUK wiki: * Finance Action Plan 2012/13 http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Finance Action Plan 2012/13. This is our planned timetable for introducing improvements to our financial controls and

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [WMUK Office] Volunteer Declarations of Interest.

2012-12-08 Thread Gordon Joly
Has any benchmarking been done on this? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

[Wikimediauk-l] London Wikimeets 65 and 66

2013-01-01 Thread Gordon Joly
After much discussion, back to Penderel's Oak! January 13th and February 10th 2013. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/65 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/66 Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Stay in touch with me through LinkedIn

2013-01-02 Thread Gordon Joly
On 02/01/13 02:41, michael west wrote: Why has our friend got a BLP on Wikipedia though? See also http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Tompsett Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] FYI: BBC Your paintings artist list

2013-01-03 Thread Gordon Joly
On 03/01/13 00:22, geni wrote: On 1 January 2013 22:06, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: Happy new year all! I'll be brief: last year, the BBC put a lot of digitised paintings online: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/ With massive copyright claims in the metadata.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikivoyage launched today by the Wikimedia Foundation

2013-01-15 Thread Gordon Joly
On 15/01/13 16:12, Stevie Benton wrote: I thought you might like to know that the Wikimedia Foundation has today officially launched Wikivoyage, the free worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit. It's the 12th official Wikimedia project and it's fittingly been launched on Wikipedia's 12th

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikivoyage launched today by the Wikimedia Foundation

2013-01-15 Thread Gordon Joly
On 15/01/13 17:30, Gordon Joly wrote: On 15/01/13 16:12, Stevie Benton wrote: I thought you might like to know that the Wikimedia Foundation has today officially launched Wikivoyage, the free worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit. It's the 12th official Wikimedia project and it's

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikivoyage launched today by the Wikimedia Foundation

2013-01-16 Thread Gordon Joly
On 15/01/13 18:35, David Gerard wrote: On 15 January 2013 17:36, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: http://wikitravel.org/ Makes me feel a bit sick travel sickness. http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangeslimit=500 - about 15 hours. Spam, spam, chips

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Where are we with QRpedia?

2013-01-21 Thread Gordon Joly
On 21/01/13 17:10, Jon Davies wrote: However I do not think an acceptable agreement will come any more quickly if we rehearse the many and complicated arguments on this list. How did we get get here then? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Polish becomes England's second language

2013-02-01 Thread Gordon Joly
On 01/02/13 11:05, Richard Symonds wrote: Not quite - I think Wales got involved . Jimbo? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Governance review

2013-02-06 Thread Gordon Joly
On 06/02/13 09:15, Jon Davies wrote: Phone me if you want more background. Jon Not sure how that would add to transparency Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] John Byrne stands down as Treasurer and Trustee of, Wikimedia UK

2013-02-06 Thread Gordon Joly
On 05/02/13 13:48, John Byrne wrote: Saad of course is semi-elected as he is the runner-up in the last election with the highest votes who still wants to be on the board. I have taken up a position in the same way, a year after an election (it was 2009). Hence, in a three year term, I

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMF withdraws support from WCA

2013-02-07 Thread Gordon Joly
On 06/02/13 23:08, Andrew Turvey wrote: That's an interesting way of putting it! However, now that the WMF has come out against, is there any way that the WCA can fulfill its stated aims? Furthermore, if WMUK continues to support the WCA, will this damage the chapter's relationship with the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Governance review

2013-02-09 Thread Gordon Joly
I got revison 5. Can we see 1 thru 4? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership grace period

2013-02-10 Thread Gordon Joly
On 09/02/13 20:43, Richard Symonds wrote: No Jess - each individual is due to renew at a different time each year, depending on when they joined. I joined on 5 December, I think: That means that I am due for renewal on 4 December. I will get an email just before that date. Time to change?

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-11 Thread Gordon Joly
On 11/02/13 17:34, Stevie Benton wrote: If I'm available, I'll bring along my Photoshoppery skills! I will bring GIMP skills... Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Governance review

2013-02-11 Thread Gordon Joly
On 11/02/13 16:51, Andy Mabbett wrote: Unremarkably, I have first-hand knowledge of some things, and not of others. Welcome to the human race. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership grace period

2013-02-11 Thread Gordon Joly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic YMMV, Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership grace period

2013-02-11 Thread Gordon Joly
On 11/02/13 21:37, Thomas Dalton wrote: Can you elaborate? What does interval arithmetic have to do with anything? Donations are due at a certain date. Then there is a grace period: that is the interval. And affects a lot of things, such as cash flow... Gordo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-13 Thread Gordon Joly
On 12/02/13 14:39, John Byrne wrote: I'd love to know of a free easy to use lossless cropping thingy. Sounds like a project for the Google Summer of Code? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Greyham Dawes co-opted to the Board of Wikimedia UK

2013-02-16 Thread Gordon Joly
On 15/02/13 22:07, John Vandenberg wrote: Im not seeing full details, like the process used to identify Dawes. Surely that will be in the Board of Trustees minutes? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Greyham Dawes co-opted to the Board of Wikimedia UK

2013-02-16 Thread Gordon Joly
On 16/02/13 12:07, Chris Keating wrote: Greyham responded to that, spent a bit of time getting to know the organisation, and given his experience the Board was keen to co-opt him. Yes, I can see why. http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/user/18322 ** Spare-time activities include running a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Greyham Dawes co-opted to the Board of Wikimedia UK

2013-02-20 Thread Gordon Joly
On 20/02/13 11:17, Andrew Turvey wrote: Thanks Chris Jon for providing the context. Clearly Grayham Grayham vs. Greyham. cf. Andrew Grey vs. Andrew Gray. Confused? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Draft EGM resolutions

2013-03-07 Thread Gordon Joly
On 06/03/13 23:45, Andrew Turvey wrote: A member-led organisation - imagine that? In simple terms, an organisation that trusts the 5,000-strong UK Wikimedia community more than a handful of people who currently sit on the board. I see this as a confusion of the legal situation. I

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Draft EGM resolutions

2013-03-07 Thread Gordon Joly
On 07/03/13 12:14, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 7 March 2013 09:54, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: I see this as a confusion of the legal situation. I understand the aspiration, of course. Board - a dozen, or so.. Membership - several hundred Community - several thousand

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Draft EGM resolutions

2013-03-07 Thread Gordon Joly
On 07/03/13 12:25, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 7 March 2013 12:23, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: Increasing the membership has to be planned. If there were 5,000 members overnight, it would not be good at all. Previously I have suggested multiple levels of membership

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Draft EGM resolutions

2013-03-07 Thread Gordon Joly
On a slightly related note, I have just involved with new registered charity (unincorporated). At the first monthly meeting, there was question what happened to the old friends group. It was quite clear that year working on application to Charity Commission and the ramifications had

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

2013-03-09 Thread Gordon Joly
On 08/03/13 14:40, geni wrote: Credit? I'd recommend the Affero General Public License v3 GFDL gets my vote! :-) Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK:

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

2013-03-11 Thread Gordon Joly
On 10/03/13 22:17, Michael Peel wrote: qrpedia.org appears to have been renewed for a year - its expiry date is now 13-Mar-2014. Many thanks to Terence and Roger for renewing it. All those qr codes pasted on buildings and the like with nowhere to go? The Meaning of Liff for the 21st Century

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!

2013-03-13 Thread Gordon Joly
On 12/03/13 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

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014 in London.

2013-03-18 Thread Gordon Joly
Seems that Wikimedia UK are the body involved in running this event Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014 in London.

2013-03-18 Thread Gordon Joly
On 18/03/13 22:47, Gordon Joly wrote: Seems that Wikimedia UK are the body involved in running this event Gordo And we are all volunteers! They need 50 per day Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014 in London.

2013-03-19 Thread Gordon Joly
On 18/03/13 22:57, Katie Chan wrote: On 18/03/2013 22:47, Gordon Joly wrote: Seems that Wikimedia UK are the body involved in running this event Wikimedia UK is supporting the bid, offering advice and support where it can. The actual bid itself is led by volunteers Ed, James, Kimi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014 in London.

2013-03-19 Thread Gordon Joly
On 18/03/13 23:15, Michael Peel wrote: The thing I'm personally worried about is that not enough WMUK volunteers are engaging with the bid. So if you're reading this and you're not already involved in the bid, then please involve yourself! The bid mentions the 70,000 volunteers (Games Makers)

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014 in London.

2013-03-19 Thread Gordon Joly
On 19/03/13 08:18, Chris Keating wrote: Will Wikimedia UK be company doing the business (hiring, contracts, publicity, registration, etc), or will a new company be formed for the purpose? We are looking at these kinds of details at the moment and haven't reached a firm decision,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014 in London.

2013-03-19 Thread Gordon Joly
On 19/03/13 08:40, James Farrar wrote: Perhaps I'm being particularly dumb this early in the morning, but I can't actually see why these semantics matter - certainly compared with, for example, delivering a high-quality bid. Very high quality. And that may be an issue the Barbican,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014 in London.

2013-03-19 Thread Gordon Joly
On 19/03/13 08:44, Gordon Joly wrote: On 19/03/13 08:40, James Farrar wrote: Perhaps I'm being particularly dumb this early in the morning, but I can't actually see why these semantics matter - certainly compared with, for example, delivering a high-quality bid. Very high quality

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014 in London.

2013-03-19 Thread Gordon Joly
On 19/03/13 12:52, Richard Symonds wrote: It's a complex set of affairs - but this is something that we'll have to discuss in part with the WMF's financial and legal teams, once the UK team win the bid. We're still in the first stages at the moment. Rest assured that we will be taking

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Funding Opportunity: Google launch the Global Impact Challenge

2013-03-26 Thread Gordon Joly
On 26/03/13 08:45, WereSpielChequers wrote: Taking things to the logical next step, we could introduce a system of hidden templates to resolve words with multiple meanings such as bonnet, bolt, batter, tramp or pants. As well as transforming the quality of machine translation of the pedia,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Funding Opportunity: Google launch the Global Impact Challenge

2013-03-26 Thread Gordon Joly
On 26/03/13 18:24, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 26 March 2013 13:53, Harry Burt harryab...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO the idea of translation hints embedded into Wikipedia articles is a better one. I'm not sure it's going to be possible to construct a pitch for as complex a project as that within a short

[Wikimediauk-l] WMUK EGM Saturday 18th April.

2013-04-03 Thread Gordon Joly
Was the EGM announced here, or to members via CiviCRM? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK EGM Saturday 18th April.

2013-04-03 Thread Gordon Joly
On 03/04/13 21:43, Gordon Joly wrote: Was the EGM announced here, or to members via CiviCRM? Gordo Sorry, Saturday April 13th. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK EGM Saturday 18th April.

2013-04-04 Thread Gordon Joly
On 03/04/13 22:32, Katie Chan wrote: On 03/04/2013 21:43, Gordon Joly wrote: Was the EGM announced here, or to members via CiviCRM? Members entitled to vote should have received an email notice of EGM individually. As a member, I received an email from fundrais...@wikimedia.org.uk on 20

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK EGM Saturday 18th April.

2013-04-04 Thread Gordon Joly
On 04/04/13 08:42, Michael Peel wrote: Indeed, the email should have come from that address, but was accidentally sent from the fundraising address (which is easy to do accidentally from the civicrm interface). Future emails should be coming from the membership@ address. Thanks, Mike Many

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK EGM Saturday 18th April.

2013-04-04 Thread Gordon Joly
On 04/04/13 08:42, Michael Peel wrote: Andrew, could you check your spam folder please? That is why the from/sender field is so important!!! Many addresses are whitelisted in the MTA system I use, so sending from a different address can lead to confusion. I also use from,cc,bcc etc to sort

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] EGM resolution regarding the change in board structure - alternatives

2013-04-10 Thread Gordon Joly
I believe that quorum is about 30 people, but there are only 20 names on the list here: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/EGM_2013 Given the importance of this agenda, can WMUK assure members that meeting will indeed be quorate? Or is the sign up list not representative? Gordo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] EGM resolution regarding the change in board structure - alternatives

2013-04-10 Thread Gordon Joly
On 10/04/13 08:47, Andrew Gray wrote: I doubt WMUK can absolutely assure people of quoracy, given it's dependent on whether those same people turn up! Indeed. How about a reminder to members? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Nice piece from another country.

2013-04-25 Thread Gordon Joly
On 24/04/13 23:32, i...@cymruwales.com wrote: I think that your choice of words for the title of this email / thread was not only very appropriate but also exceedingly timely! Diversity is the spice of life! Indeed, and as a charity registered in England and Wales, Wikimedia UK has to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2014: London

2013-05-08 Thread Gordon Joly
On 01/05/13 19:45, Fhaidel Dominguez wrote: Hosting a Wikimania must not be an easy challange for any chapter. Funny that I thought the bid was produced by a group of volunteers, supported by the Chapter. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list

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