[Wikimediauk-l] BBC: UK politicians' Wikipedia worries

2009-03-06 Thread Thomas Dalton
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7921985.stm A decent article, all told. One mistake (it's not just admins that revert vandalism) and one misleading statement (the group of editors that will flag revisions will be extremely large, which isn't made clear). There is a comments form at the bott

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC: UK politicians' Wikipedia worries

2009-03-06 Thread Peter Cohen
In-Reply-To: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7921985.stm > > A decent article, all told. One mistake (it's not just admins that > revert vandalism) and one misleading statement (the group of editors > that will flag revisions will be extremely large, which isn't made > clear). There is a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC: UK politicians' Wikipedia worries

2009-03-06 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/6 Peter Cohen : > In-Reply-To: >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7921985.stm >> >> A decent article, all told. One mistake (it's not just admins that >> revert vandalism) and one misleading statement (the group of editors >> that will flag revisions will be extremely large, which is

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] When's the best date for the AGM?

2009-03-06 Thread Michael Peel
All, Thanks to all that filled in the poll. The conclusion poll was that either saturday or sunday was fine (based on Andrew's and Tango's comments that they're happy with either day). We'll make the final decision between the two based on the availability of the location for the AGM. Mik

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMF Chapter's Grants

2009-03-06 Thread Michael Peel
Can I disagree with Andrew's email? This sort of thing's best done collaboratively, rather than coming from a single person, and that's what a wiki's best at. I've just set up a proposals page at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projects/Proposals Please could people go there to submit ideas, fle

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMF Chapter's Grants

2009-03-06 Thread AndrewRT
Thanks for setting up the page, Mike. Perhaps I should reword: > > Unfortunately, the Board is pretty busy at the moment organising the > > AGM and related matters, so we don't really have the time to organise > > anything on this by the deadline. However, if any--- _group of people_ in > > the c