Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Wikipedia quietly censored by Internet Watch Foundation

2008-12-07 Thread Sean Whitton
rnet for page and image. Circumventable by > going to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virgin_Killer Ditto - I'm on TalkTalk here and I get a weird 404 error for the original link, but that one works. -- Sean Whitton / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 _

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2009-02-08 Thread Sean Whitton
erstand us. But hey: we shouldn't bow to such influences; rigour comes first. S -- Sean Whitton / OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/

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2009-02-09 Thread Sean Whitton
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 09:30:48PM +, Thomas Dalton wrote: > Are you claiming to have understood that? I'm not sure how much sarcarm there is in that. No, I was referring to uk. etc. S -- Sean Whitton / OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 ___ W

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Interview with MD of Britannica UK

2009-02-10 Thread Sean Whitton
h a free year's subscription but frankly their site is awful so I wouldn't even want to use it (not that I would really, being a Wikipedian). S -- Sean Whitton / OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikime

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Woop-dee-doo (News from the co-op)

2009-02-24 Thread Sean Whitton
2009/2/24 Tom Holden : > I just phoned the co-op, and I’ve been told that our application has been > accepted, and that they’ll have a sort code and account number for us on > Thursday. Epic win. Shame you had to phone them as opposed to them phoning you, though.. S -- Sean Whitton /

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread Sean Whitton
ng it for coursework later on, at GCSE level. So this sounds good. Sean -- Sean Whitton / OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread Sean Whitton
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 22:45, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/3/25 Sean Whitton : >> The thing about Twitter really makes me laugh. Maybe the idea of >> microblogging and status updates on the likes of Facebook and Bebo >> makes sense. But I'm not convinced Twitter is suffi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-26 Thread Sean Whitton
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 23:51, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/3/25 Sean Whitton : > >> That is however off-topic. It would be fantastic to teach people to >> use Wikipedia properly at a young age. Then we wouldn't have so much >> misunderstanding when it comes to using i

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Bid - Local Team

2009-04-02 Thread Sean Whitton
from October (assuming I don't utterly mess up my exams) so I intend to volunteer for physical assistance at the actual conference should the bid be successful. But I'm not sure if this is precisely what you mean by local team since I'm not there yet and haven't been properly

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity application rejected

2009-04-25 Thread Sean Whitton
hat we support all our projects esp. Wikiversity and Wikibooks, then maybe their misapplication will dissapear. Focussing on Wikipedia whenever Wikimedia comes up is something people tend to do. S -- Sean Whitton / OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 ___ W

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Press response templates

2009-06-09 Thread Sean Whitton
get a lot of useful text for this from OTRS. Does anyone on the board/etc. have press queue access or would you like me to fetch some out? The standard info-en queue also has easily-tweakable messages for things like vandalism. S -- Sean Whitton / OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Press response templates

2009-06-09 Thread Sean Whitton
e why not - but I will check just to make absolutely sure. S -- Sean Whitton / OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org