It's because Rich is using that page as a template to create the entries. I
assume it's easier for the script that scrapes the database to just supply
parameters to a template. The three crosses (or ticks) are for confirmed,
linked and used.
HTH
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On 2 August 2015 at 20:56, Michael Peel
if you get any support or opposition. If you get support, then
involve them in the cleanup. If you get opposition, then at least you know
what obstacles will be in the way. If nobody seems bothered, it's a green
light to go ahead yourself.
Let us know if you run into problems.
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On 19 July
I've put that page on my watchlist. Hopefully other members of this list
may keep an eye on it as well.
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On 19 July 2015 at 23:09, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote:
On 19/07/15 22:51, rexx wrote:
As with most issues on Wikipedia, the best solution will always involve
Congratulations, Lucy, and welcome to WMUK!
I hope you've subscribed in time to be reading this.
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On 13 July 2015 at 18:54, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
On 13/07/15 18:43, Michael Maggs wrote:
Dear all
I am very pleased to be able to announce today that Wikimedia UK
Bugzilla report filed.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org.uk/show_bug.cgi?id=384
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On 25 June 2015 at 00:05, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
Will check this tomorrow first thing Andy. Haven't had any notifications
but will take a look!
On 24 Jun 2015 23:51, Andy
If you try to look at https://qrpedia.org, you'll find this message:
This server could not prove that it is qrpedia.org; its security
certificate expired 41 day(s) ago.
So if the certificate has expired, it's presumably invalid.
I'll file a bug report.
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Rexx
On 24 June 2015 at 23:51, Andy
item (out of 11) is likely to give the wrong impression of the
value the charity places on member participation in the AGM?
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On 20 June 2015 at 23:20, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 20 June 2015 at 16:41, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:
1 July - Formal notice
voting means that members aren't going to turn up just for that
item. I'd much rather members turned up for the AGM because they found
something of interest per se, rather than just hanging on because they've
been to the VSD.
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On 19 June 2015 at 21:48, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com
reserved for debating members' resolutions has
the potential to make the AGM more interesting for many.
Looking forward to seeing lots of you on 25 July.
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___
Wikimedia UK mailing list
wikimediau...@wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org
That's odd. I thought it was remarkably light of any business that couldn't
be dealt with by reading.
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting
I don't need to travel to London to have somebody read Report by XYZ to
me. YMMV.
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Rexx
On 19 June 2015 at 17:27, Gordon Joly
the
non-board committees (whatever we eventually decide to call those).
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On 6 June 2015 at 14:14, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
On 06/06/15 14:08, Michael Maggs wrote:
The change in the articles will not require membership as a condition of
serving on a board committee, so
them to have a continuous existence,
preferably independent of the Board and Office, to allow them the
additional role of critical friend of each of those.
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On 5 June 2015 at 14:38, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote:
Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we
,
then you can look at varying times, days, venues to see if more editors can
be attracted. I'll certainly discuss the ideas at the next meetups that I
get to.
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On 2 June 2015 at 19:48, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote:
I quite like the Cambridge format of meeting in a cafe and later
:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3790
There is a potential candidate for a solution at:
http://www.x3dom.org/
It might be worth pinging John Cummings as he's been interested in 3D for a
while.
Hope that helps
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On 26 May 2015 at 15:07, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk
Excellent software skills, including word-processing, spreadsheets, event
management programmes, and CRM databases to plug that gap. At £25K-£28K,
full-time in Central London, I won't be holding my breath for that to
happen.
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On 14 May 2015 at 00:03, Thomas Morton morton.tho
the contractors (who ironically have no employment *contract*)
have been taken out of the picture to avoid confusion with the staff
restructuring.
Give it a little more time to settle down, I reckon.
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On 13 May 2015 at 22:58, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
The staff page [2
Your maths is wrong, Gordo. It appears that only 8 of the 9 posts have been
filled internally (and I'm far from happy about that), so we're losing 6
out of 14 staff (43%).
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Rexx
On 13 May 2015 at 11:59, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
On 12/05/15 13:31, Michael Maggs wrote
staff with those responsibilities, it should
keep him/her busy.
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On 12 May 2015 at 16:17, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote:
A major part of this leadership will be the development of new income
streams.
Yet we've just axed our entire fundraising department. How does that work
, but if
there's research showing people do that, I'm willing to revise my opinion.
I still maintain an email is the likeliest means for letting folks now
there's a meetup planned.
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On 17 March 2015 at 18:51, Jonathan Cardy jonathan.ca...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
Hi Rexx,
There are two types
the margin of error for geolocation of IPs, of
course.
As it's about as difficult to write a personal email as it is to write a
personal talk page message (possibly easier if you use MailChimp), I
wouldn't attach a lot of weight to the separate argument.
Cheers
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Rexx
On 17 March 2015 at 10:24
them into a mailing group - then send out a
group email with the url of the signup page as soon as you know about a
meetup.
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On 16 March 2015 at 20:32, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com
wrote:
On 16 March 2015 at 14:56, Crockford, Ally a.crockf...@nls.uk wrote:
Hi
to enable the attendance of some members at the Scotland
conference.
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On 26 February 2015 at 15:33, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
The OpenStreetMap Foundation have taken the decision not to hold an
international State of the Map conference (their Wikimania) this
year
started in 20-30 mins.
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On 22 September 2014 12:58, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
I'd also say that a noisy pub isn't the most welcoming of venues for
people new to the movement as well.
On 22 September 2014 12:55, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com
I spent all day travelling yesterday, but I am dismayed at the threads
running both through this list and on Facebook.
I have spoken to Fae and he has offered to anyone with a bona fide interest
that he would be willing to give them - for their personal avail - a copy
of the document that laid
Correction - the page is on meta, not wmuk, so the link would be:
[[meta:Connecting knowledge to power: the future of digital democracy in
the UK]]
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Doug
On 30 May 2014 15:24, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
Looking at the introduction from Stevie, it seems that the idea is to see
Looking at the introduction from Stevie, it seems that the idea is to see
if Wikipedia can be used as a vehicle to engage UK citizens (not just UK
editors) in collaborating to produce a piece of work (i.e. a response to a
consultation). From that point of view, we would need to aim at notifying
.
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On 30 May 2014 11:49, Edward Hands edwar...@gmail.com wrote:
Richard
That's what we like to hear. Of course, whether any of them will ever
edit on a regular basis remains the elephant in the room...
Edward
Word in the office was that it was an ideal editathon with smart
the years, when it comes to
practical matters, she makes decisions based on increasing her own little
empire at WMF to the detriment of those working for the Wikimedia movement
throughout the rest of the world.
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Rexx
On 21 May 2014 14:10, Deskana djgw...@gmail.com wrote:
For those not up
Yes David. Did you know she's staying on as a special advisor?
Plus ca change.
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On 21 May 2014 15:11, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 May 2014 14:39, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
Taken as a whole, it is clearly part of Sue Gardner's agenda to get rid
been proven right on each count.
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On 21 May 2014 15:30, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.comwrote:
On 21 May 2014 14:39, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
snip
Taken as a whole, it is clearly part of Sue Gardner's agenda to get rid
of chapters - or at least reduce
quickly;
4, There's no incident of vandalism (that I could see) that remained more
than a couple of hours.
In other words, our system works. But that's not news.
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On 24 April 2014 21:27, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
Just for some context, it's been reported
.
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On 25 April 2014 00:43, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
If you spend a short while looking through the history of the article, you
can see that:
1. there has been all sorts of vandalism over the years;
2. Cluebot caught a lot of the vandalism within a minute of it being made;
3
/Women_in_Science_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_at_the_University_of_Manchester_2014
I'm looking for two or three volunteers to help out with the editathon; you
don't have to be an accredited trainer (although it helps!). If you can
give some time, please sign up on the event page in the trainers section.
Cheers
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Rexx
Nice work Fae!
Hehe - I was converting it to webm at the same time.
If anybody wants the webm version which is 13.8 MB, rather than the ogv
which is 17.9 MB (same 1280x720), just let me know.
I think we still need to add the English subtitles, unless I'm missing
something when I play the file
. As I said - nice work!
Cheers
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Rexx
On 15 April 2014 13:50, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 April 2014 13:39, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
Nice work Fae!
Hehe - I was converting it to webm at the same time.
...
Rexx, I may be wrong (I did not follow the development
/wiki/Visual_identity_guidelines
Praise where it's due, the WMF have made a real effort to accommodate
genuine use of its marks. In case of doubt, just ask - they are on the ball
and are trying to help.
Cheers
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Rexx
On 8 April 2014 23:05, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote
The photo is on Commons at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Volta_lake_from_the_Saint_Barbara_Church.JPG
Congratulations to Sandister on very nice work!
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Rexx
On 6 April 2014 19:03, Enock Seth Nyamador kwadzo...@gmail.com wrote:
Rupert,
Where is the link? :-)
Here:
http
legibility - well done!
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Rexx
On 21 February 2014 14:54, Martin Poulter infob...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's a tool for testing web sites for suitability for colour-blind
users. http://colorfilter.wickline.org/
It may be worth creating a mockup on a public server and testing.
Good luck
Places are limited to 15 people, due to the museum's small size.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/WM_Police_Museum#Sign_up
Grab a place while they're hot.
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Rexx
On 11 February 2014 08:20, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.comwrote:
Great news Andy, how limited
The single biggest problem, Michael, is that when one talks in the
abstract, we end up chasing illusory problems that don't actually have any
impact. It's very difficult to create systems that are always 100%
accessible by all if we start by trying to second-guess what accessibility
problems
On the English Wikipedia, Graham Pearce (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Graham87) is unfailingly helpful. He is
an admin who is very familiar with the problems for visually-impaired users
as he has been blind since birth and uses the JAWS screen reader to edit
Wikipedia. I'm sure he won't
.
There is no problem with using the word Wikipedia in plain text, so
captions such as Scan this QRcode to read the corresponding Wikipedia
article would be perfectly acceptable as I understand it.
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On 13 December 2013 18:20, Michael Peel michael.p...@manchester.ac.ukwrote:
Begin forwarded message
- my sense of duty to the givers finally overcame my distaste for Amazon's
tax avoidance; on the other hand, my John Lewis voucher was used almost
immediately. You may draw the conclusion that either (i) I own a lot of
cushions, or (ii) the plural of anecdote is not data.
Cheers
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Rexx
On 29
Ask Sue Gardner.
On 28/11/2013, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote:
That's outrageous. Why are we wasting money?
On 28 Nov 2013 02:32, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
About £200,000 per year. It's a pity Amazon isn't as publicly spirited as
WMUK.
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On 27 November 2013
About £200,000 per year. It's a pity Amazon isn't as publicly spirited as
WMUK.
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Rexx
On 27 November 2013 21:38, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote:
How much more tax than legally required does WMUK pay?
On 21 Nov 2013 09:04, fab...@unpopular.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
Can I go
@Doug (W): sorry, I usually sign myself as Rexx on this list to avoid
confusion, but I believe I forgot to this time.
@Richard (New): Romaine is a GLAM volunteer from WMNL who speaks good
English and subscribes to the Wikimedia GLAM collaboration [Public]
list, which Mike cc'd his post
Compromised pc?
http://www.ico2006.com/an-overview-of-raspberry-ultra-drops/
http://www.scambook.com/report/view/238183/Raspberry-Ultra-Drops-Complaint-238183-for-$0.00
You all may wish to check for malware if you followed the link.
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Rexx
On 17 April 2013 12:51, fab...@unpopular.org.uk
/File:Example_WiR_agreement.pdf ). This is
something that Andy's doing as an individual.
Thanks,
Mike
On 16 Apr 2013, at 14:53, rexx
r...@blueyonder.co.ukhttp://mc/compose?to=r...@blueyonder.co.uk
wrote:
Excellent Andy, please bug me to call in and see the Gallery - I'm bound
to forget
Well done to everybody involved - and a massive thanks for all the hard
work to all of you, Ed and James in particular!
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Rexx
On 1 May 2013 19:19, Katie Chan katie.c...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Congratulations to everyone who's been involved with the London bid.
Looking forward to seeing
Excellent Andy, please bug me to call in and see the Gallery - I'm bound to
forget otherwise.
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Rexx
On 16 April 2013 13:26, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
What makes you think I'm limited to the UK? ;-)
Thank you, all, for your kind words. some great images being uploaded
The most impact that we could realise on a global scale would be to make
the knowledge in the English Wikipedia available to people who don't speak
English. £500,000 and Google technical support would go a long way to
realising some of that goal.
As the largest established chapter in the
, obviously). I think Rexx's idea is a very good one - and we
already know Google loves Wikipedia.
Stevie
On 25 March 2013 21:47, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 March 2013 21:43, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
The most impact that we could realise on a global scale would
See if this helps, Stevie:
http://knowit.co.nz/2010/03/remember-to-check-and-empty-your-wordpress-spam
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Rexx
On 22 March 2013 18:45, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
Thank you.
On 22 March 2013 17:31, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
Hi Andy
://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaTutorial
As far as I can tell Scribunto is currently set up for Lua 5.1 (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto).
Cheers
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Rexx
On 15 March 2013 16:24, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
May 11th is a board
/ - I reckon that a
few more of those and she'll be notable enough for her own Wikipedia
article!
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Rexx
On 12 March 2013 16:32, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
Hello everyone,
I write to let you know that Daria Cybulska, Wikimedia UK's Events
Organiser, presented
It is perfectly understandable that people on this list are curious to know
what is happening with QRpedia and its transfer to Wikimedia UK. I'll do my
best to clarify as much as I am able.
First of all it is not about money or payments. Roger and Terence have been
absolutely clear about this
Postal voting FTW.
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On 28 February 2013 14:40, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
Unfortunately it's on the same day as GLAM-WIKI and the EGM…
Thanks,
Mike
On 28 Feb 2013, at 14:39, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Not at all - we're
Congratulations indeed.
Putting 29,000+ biographies onto Wikisource is a monumental achievement;
Charles and all those who contributed deserve to be told by us how much
their efforts are appreciated.
What's next, Charles?
--
Doug
On 11 February 2013 17:23, Richard Farmbrough
and
are willing to go the extra mile for us when we need them.
Thanks to all involved in making sure the technology works!
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Rexx
On 11 February 2013 20:31, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
On 11 Feb 2013, at 20:02, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 11, 2013 7
FYI
https://mmo-mumble.com/help/ComparisonChart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mumble
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Rexx
On 7 February 2013 12:28, Katherine Bavage
katherine.bav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Hi All,
As staff member responsible for liaising with our development contractors
I've taken
Well done, Andy, a wonderful achievement; I'm so pleased for you!
Doug
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On 12 January 2013 06:56, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/1/10 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk:
...if you can find it ;-)
I've accepted a nomination, by their Regional Programme
The ability to turn this on or off for your browser is unfortunately hidden
away in a tab in the 'Filter preferences ...' of ABP. There's also an
individual whitelist there. It's probably worth reading the developer's
blog at http://adblockplus.org/blog/typo-correction-feature-in-adblock-plusfor
a
... creating railway lines in the mid-west - you mean like in *Blazing
Saddles*?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Saddles
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Rexx
On 22 November 2012 16:10, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
I for one will be around, creating railway lines in the mid-west
It certainly does, although we don't think it's quite ready for rolling out
to the entire world yet.
Would you be interested in becoming a beta-tester when we start
larger-scale testing? If so, please drop Charles a line.
Cheers,
--
Doug
On 14 November 2012 20:39, Gordon Joly
Done. There was a missing ; to close the background declaration (and the
colour was wrong, which is why there was white background below the text in
the left column).
All fixed now.
I think, :D
--
Doug
On 6 November 2012 17:10, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
The problem
Yes - they've simply suppressed the redirection to
m.wikimedia.org.uk(which still doesn't exist). My mobile phone is
simply displaying
wikimedia.org.uk - just as my pc does. There's simply no point in that link
at present.
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Doug
On 29 October 2012 21:59, Thehelpfulone
Hi all,
There has been some discussion in advance of the Nov 17 Board meeting
proposing that we should establish a charter for the Education Committee.
We have several pages relating to Education projects at
https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_projects so it might be worth
reviewing what's
Or somebody could trawl through the board minutes and make their own
summary.
--
Doug
On 25 October 2012 17:28, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
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
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/82141975/RexxLolCat.jpg
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Doug
On 12 October 2012 16:54, Joe Filceolaire filceola...@gmail.com wrote:
Oh dear. Now I'm going to see you as a LOLCat.
Joe
On Oct 12, 2012 4:34 PM, Katherine Bavage
katherine.bav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
I has actually achieved
If she were actually keen to meet UK Wikipedians, shouldn't she have given
us a bit more than a couple of hours notice?
--
Doug
On 8 October 2012 15:52, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
All,
Sue Gardner, from the WMF, is in our office today, along with a few others
constraints.
FT2
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:40 PM, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
If she were actually keen to meet UK Wikipedians, shouldn't she have
given us a bit more than a couple of hours notice?
--
Doug
On 8 October 2012 15:52, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk
Sam,
From the context, I think Deryck meant all the money we (the whole of
WIkimedia) raise (through the fundraiser) will nominally pass through the
FDC. I took him to be saying that every pound which WMUK raises
independently reduces by a pound the amount we would be requesting from the
FDC. In
Set up an UK office hours on IRC like the Foundation does. By the way,
did you ever read Asimov's Foundation? They thought they were writing an
encyclopedia as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_%28novel%29#The_Encyclopedists
--
Doug
On 27 September 2012 14:11, Jon Davies
Well if you look at the costs of VLE, for example, there are hosting and
development costs and then the costs of writing new modules. £4.5K would
still buy quite a few new modules, just not as many as £9.5K would - and
asyou say, there's always next year. Similarly I would expect that a
one-day
On the contrary, I really do get it: you don't think it matters what gets
cancelled; and I disagree. You don't think we can deliver the planned
programme; and I disagree.
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Doug
On 27 September 2012 22:41, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sep 27, 2012 10:29 PM, rexx r
Tom, Roger has clearly stated already in this thread:
The project does not involve me in being paid to create articles. I am
creating plaques based on QRpedia, I am supplying training and I am
encouraging people to use and edit wikipedia (and open street map et al).
You really can't tell him
Wearing another hat, I'm Chair of Trustees of a local charity that owns a
community interest company (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_interest_company ), and that works
well because the CIC can bid for and take on work that the charity can't.
We reinvest any surplus from the CIC back into
He's mistaken. There is no mechanism in place for generating income from
the domains qrpedia.org and qrwp.org. Commentators also need to
differentiate between the site (which physically hosts the servers) and the
domain names. WMUK's interest in QRpedia is in finding ways to ensure that
the
I have a preference for the Schulze method as well, since it is generally
superior to many other methods, even if somewhat opaque in its mechanism.
Examining the comparisons at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method#Comparison_table
should give an indication of its strengths.
The only
Well placed gunpowder?
--
Guy
On 20 August 2012 15:17, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
Hello everyone,
We have some anniversaries coming up on 5 November - four years since
incorporation, a year since achieving charitable status - and we were
wondering how you'd like
Which goes to show the unanticipated problem of electing trustees who know
everything about nuclear reactors and nothing about sheds.
It's not my fault my degree in theoretical physics was missing the cycling
module :(
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Rexx
On 10 August 2012 13:22, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk
Human perception is rarely governed by either reason or reality.
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Rexx
On 4 August 2012 21:52, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
On 04/08/12 19:14, Deryck Chan wrote:
No they aren't, and they shouldn't be expected to, because the two have a
great overlap of membership
That's excellent - do you think we could use our own-branded derivative as
it's CC-BY-SA 3.0?
I've attached a tiny thumbnail of what it might look like.
--
Doug
On 3 August 2012 17:10, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
On 3 Aug 2012, at 09:06, Gordon Joly wrote:
On
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