Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/4/27 Andrew Turvey : > Of course! > > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-04-26a Those minutes are rather misleading... firstly, did you actually adjourn until 4pm or was the 4pm meeting impromptu (if the former, then I must salute your prescience)? Secondly, minutes are usually done i

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread Andrew Turvey
Of course! http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-04-26a - Original Message - From: "Thomas Dalton" To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 27 April, 2009 23:37:24 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l]

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/4/27 Michael Peel : > > On 27 Apr 2009, at 22:24, Michael Bimmler wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Thomas Dalton >> wrote: >>> One person joined about 30 seconds >>> before! >> >> Out of interest: Did this person then pay the fee in cash before being >> approved as a member? > > Y

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread Andrew Turvey
. - Original Message - From: "Michael Bimmler" To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 27 April, 2009 22:24:09 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Tho

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread Michael Peel
On 27 Apr 2009, at 22:24, Michael Bimmler wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: >> One person joined about 30 seconds >> before! > > Out of interest: Did this person then pay the fee in cash before being > approved as a member? Yes. Mike __

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread joseph seddon
Yes i believe so :) > From: mbimm...@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:24:09 -0700 > To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread Michael Bimmler
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >One person joined about 30 seconds > before! Out of interest: Did this person then pay the fee in cash before being approved as a member? michael -- Michael Bimmler mbimm...@gmail.com ___ Wikim

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/4/27 David Gerard : > 2009/4/27 James Farrar : > >> By the way, David, I noticed yesterday that your name was not on the list ;-) > > > *cough* I must get around to actually joining WMUKv2 ;-p We had a few people finally get around to it about an hour before we started voting on things yester

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/27 James Farrar : > By the way, David, I noticed yesterday that your name was not on the list ;-) *cough* I must get around to actually joining WMUKv2 ;-p - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread James Farrar
2009/4/27 David Gerard : > 2009/4/27 Andrew Turvey : > >> As David Cameron's such a fan, should we sent him a membership form! :) > > > And Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg, of  course ;-) > > Keeping resolutely nonpartisan is important, of course. When they praise Wikipedia in a speech :-) If we ha

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread Gordon Joly
At 14:40 +0100 27/4/09, David Gerard wrote: >2009/4/27 Andrew Turvey : > > > As David Cameron's such a fan, should we sent him a membership form! :) > > >And Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg, of course ;-) > >Keeping resolutely nonpartisan is important, of course. > > >- d. > >__ Imp

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/27 Andrew Turvey : > As David Cameron's such a fan, should we sent him a membership form! :) And Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg, of course ;-) Keeping resolutely nonpartisan is important, of course. - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimedia

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread James Farrar
Heh! :-) 2009/4/27 Andrew Turvey : > As David Cameron's such a fan, should we sent him a membership form! :) > > - Forwarded Message - > From: "James Farrar" > To: "English Wikipedia" > Sent: Sunday, 26 April, 2009 19:45:50 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: [WikiEN-l

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread Alison Wheeler
> "Our government spends nearly £400 million a year on advertising to > reach sixty million people while Wikipedia, one of the largest > websites in the world, spends about one per cent of that to reach 280 > million people." > > Not sure if his figures are accurate, but it's intriguing. It is, of

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread Andrew Turvey
As David Cameron's such a fan, should we sent him a membership form! :) - Forwarded Message - From: "James Farrar" To: "English Wikipedia" Sent: Sunday, 26 April, 2009 19:45:50 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia Well, in rela