[Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread Michael Bimmler
Dear all, I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER). Copies of the resolution will be posted on

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread Al Tally
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Michael Bimmler mbimm...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread David Gerard
2009/1/12 Michael Bimmler mbimm...@gmail.com: I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER). *champagne*

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread Michael Peel
Michael, Great. :-) Now we can start on the interesting stuff... Thanks for letting us know. Mike Peel On 12 Jan 2009, at 14:24, Michael Bimmler wrote: Dear all, I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread geni
2009/1/12 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: Michael, Great. :-) Now we can start on the interesting stuff... Thanks for letting us know. Mike Peel So time for me to put together that list of all the national collections that may be of interest to us. -- geni

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Williams
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Michael Bimmler mbimm...@gmail.com wrote: I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread Gordon Joly
At 14:39 + 12/1/09, David Gerard wrote: 2009/1/12 Michael Bimmler mbimm...@gmail.com: I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread Mickey Conn
It's fantastic to hear the news we've all been waiting for. So much to do! There's plenty which can be updated now; the board meeting could provide a usual place to discuss what other online information needs updating. Mickey On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Sam Korn smo...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/1/12 Mickey Conn mickey.c...@gmail.com: It's fantastic to hear the news we've all been waiting for. So much to do! There's plenty which can be updated now; the board meeting could provide a usual place to discuss what other online information needs updating. Now we are an official

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread David Gerard
2009/1/12 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: Now we are an official chapter, we should be able to get our own site on WMF servers - we'll have a lot to do transferring things over to that site. The current site, wikimedia.org.uk, will need to be redirected as well. There's a bug filed

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread Al Tally
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/1/12 Mickey Conn mickey.c...@gmail.com: It's fantastic to hear the news we've all been waiting for. So much to do! There's plenty which can be updated now; the board meeting could provide a usual place to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread Tom Holden
Already requested. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16996 T 2009/1/12 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/1/12 Mickey Conn mickey.c...@gmail.com: It's fantastic to hear the news we've all been waiting for. So much to do! There's plenty which can be updated now; the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/1/12 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2009/1/12 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: Now we are an official chapter, we should be able to get our own site on WMF servers - we'll have a lot to do transferring things over to that site. The current site, wikimedia.org.uk, will need to be

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Approval as chapter by the Board - Congratulations

2009-01-12 Thread Michael Peel
Note that this is in no way mandatory - other chapters have servers hosted in all sorts of places. Typically the US, which is of course *the* place for cheap noncontroversial hosting :-) Sure, but the WMF servers seems to best place to get started. Maybe once the chapter is a little more