On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 23:24, Thomas Morton
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 be
forded.
An image, I feel
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 13:44, Jon Davies wrote:
> Following the bard meeting at the weekend...
Good to see WMUK getting behind the Shakespeare birthday celebrations.
B
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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Tom Holden
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. :O)
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On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:50 PM, James Farrar 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 read all the statem
good for WMUK 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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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.
B
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Gordon Joly wrote:
>>in the spirit of our shared open and collaborative
>>goals - ask some of the attending Wikipedians to shoot some footage
>>for us, for release on an open platform (Kultura) to allow all parties
>>to use the footage under creative commons."
I wo
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Kwan Ting Chan 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
>> 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 http://we
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Michael Peel 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 into what's going
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Thomas Dalton 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 extremely reclusive an
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Most meetings take place online as text to start with, so obviously
> there is no need for transcription there, but AGMs are done in real
> life. I wouldn't mind having a transcription of our AGMs (at least the
> important parts of them). Th
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> The last one (which was our first) was held in the function room above
> a bar and could easily have been recorded had we thought of it. The
> next one will be held alongside a conference so will be in some kind
> of conference room or lectu
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 lect
I thought I'd start this thread for people to link to multimedia
(podcasts, video and photos) of Wikimania as they find them, so anyone
that wishes to can try and pretend they're there :o)
There's a "day zero" podcast here, supposedly, but the site seems to
be down. Server overload?
http://wikipe
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> Is there an online copy anywhere? Apparently you couldn't actually
>> watch it live unless you were a Sky subscriber, which we aren't any
>> more ...
>
> No idea. I watched it on Freeview - Sky News is a free channel.
Indeed, and the channe
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Michael Peel 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)
I'd be happy to
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Andrew Turvey
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 should I aim
> to get out of
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Michael Peel 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.
We're way behind
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Brian McNeil
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 punishment liable to be suffered as
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:08 PM, geni 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 unthought of ide
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:20 AM, paul reynolds
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 to be driven by
trying to
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Charles Matthews
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 be
> ArbCom-related and so pr
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Brian McNeil
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 yesterday that he has a boo
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Thomas Dalton 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.
Damn, must read t
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Thomas Dalton 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 very heavily, and I've
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Steve Virgin 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 saying "thanks". I wou
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Michael Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The full details about what will be happening during Britain Loves
> Wikipedia are now in - so it's time to start spreading the word about
> it now. ;-) See the complete info below. Hope to see you at some of
> the events!
Good
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Gordon Joly 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 mock up of The Invis
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Michael Peel 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 there's a Wikipedi
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Tom Holden
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 in the
> months before the
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Andrew Gray 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 for me.
I think a £5 ra
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Gordon Joly wrote:
> I spoke for lower fees (way back when), paid 13 quid a week ago via PayPal,
> and now you tell me it is a fiver
>
> Sheesh!
Aw, never mind: all in a good cause, eh?
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:52 PM, James Hardy wrote:
> I can not
> really imagine any tangible benefits that WMUK can provide. After all, our
> purpose is to make knowledge free, it would seem counter-intuitive to close
> anything off to be members-only.
One that occurs to me is that perhaps WMUK
One of you chaps has a contact in the BBC, I believe.
I've been thinking about the BBC and some of its news/factual content
and whether they might be willing to release some of it under CC-BY-SA
and therefore appropriate to embed in Wikipedia.
Obviously a lot of content needs to remain under rest
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Tom Holden
wrote:
> Perhaps the same day on which they announced a 50% reduction of the size of
> their website is not the best time...
Oh dear.
I did actually catch a slither of the news and heard they were cutting
down but I didn't realise it was going to be
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:12 PM, James Hardy wrote:
> I suspect it would not be as clean-cut as that. In an average 30 minute
> news bulletin for instance, I think there are often a few shots pulled in
> from the AP or similar agencies, or from partner broadcasters. Then in the
> sports segments
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Angela 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
> http://ww
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:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_20
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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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Thomas Dalton 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 appeal to UK donors. Th
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Michael Peel wrote:
> See below. This is a topic that I haven't heard much talk about in the UK yet
> - do we want to do something for Wikipedia's 10th birthday in the UK?
> Does anyone have any other ideas for what we could do in the UK?
Is there an argument f
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Steve Bowbrick
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 of In Our Time and as
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Richard Farmbrough
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 links is also on
> the tem
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Richard Symonds
wrote:
> I’m looking into replenishing the chapter’s supplies of merchandise, but
> rather than the standard fare of key rings and stress balls...
We have those, then?
The wiki page only mentions T-shirts but the page hasn't been edited since 200
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Richard Symonds wrote:
> That said, we can worry about the specific legalities later - I don't want
> to get bogged down in them now.
The idea that there may even be any sort of legal dimension hadn't
occurred in even the most over-active and alert synapses of my
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Brian McNeil
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 Scottish
tory MPs wanted to
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 y
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Chris Keating
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 a view to getting a co
Well done to everyone who worked for this.
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:38, geni wrote:
> If people are prepared to move away from monuments options include [...]
> underwater wrecks (which have a higher challenge aspect).
You have the most tremendous gift for understatement.
Bod
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 14:48, Richard Symonds
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 years in a variety of
> discipline
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