Does getting shortlisted for Wikimania 2013 count, do you think? On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:39 AM, <[email protected]>wrote:
> Send Wikimediauk-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimediauk-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Wikimedia UK's coolest projects (Roger Bamkin) > 2. Re: Wikimedia UK's coolest projects (Jon Davies) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 10:42:20 +0100 > From: Roger Bamkin <[email protected]> > To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects > Message-ID: > <CAE576=uv0wissmbnmsx8o0-afmoxm2thc9tea0mj-qcsjt+...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > @Andrew - some reasons why > > @Jon. Well you'll get quite a bit of push back from the French/German's et > al on 3 if not phrased well. They were awake too during the blackout. > > Adding in *multi-lingual challenges* is a good idea if you want the popular > vote. Anastasis Lvova from Russian wrote 200 articles. This idea was used > in Russia, Spain, USA, Netherlands etc etc. We have a map of world showing > where QRpedia is used and its pretty global. > > Getting *registered charity status* was the hard thing to do *the fund > raiser* was brilliant because we had this. Our Wikimedian of the year, John > Byrne, took leading role with Steve Virgin. We extended the law to do this! > We ran an EGM. > > *Monmouth*. First agreement between a public body and WMF and WMUK. First > wiki-town. ?1m benefit. Most of the articles were not in English. We did > first WMUK work in Wales and befriended the Welsh wicipedia. We now can > claim to support two Wikipedias. We have 6 PhD students studying what was > done! Steve Virgin crowd sourced P.R, Show them the animation!. > > *WIR at the British Library*. A decent wage and externally funded. Thats a > long way from the first ones where WIR's funded the work themselves in > previous year. > > *GLAM in general* - Lots of events, Coventry, GLAMcamp, Amsterdam, QRpedia > hit the news #2 WMUK media story, This Week in GLAM, the idea was used for > Wiki loves Monuments photo exhibitions, ARKive > > *Staff and Office*. Andrew Turvey took leading role here driving it through > to make sure we have 5 staff and a spare desk. I know this is covetted and > was hard for us as volunteers to do, but not sure it will attract popular > votes. > > *Green for reporting*. We were the only chapter! > > *Wikimeets* - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as well) > > On 7 June 2012 09:45, Jon Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Have just received the HMRC registration forms so about to make first > Gift > > Aid claim. > > > > For my three.. > > > > Monmouth - volunteers and innovation > > > > Opening an office with staff (this is BIG in wiki terms and other > chapters > > want to follow) > > > > Leading the movement during the Black-out for eight hours while San > > Francisco was asleep. > > > > Jon > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:38 AM, WereSpielChequers < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we were already a > charity). > >> Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money reclaimed > under > >> the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to mention. > >> > >> WSC > >> > >> On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds < > [email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania > >>> 2011 > >>> > and Wikimania 2012? > >>> > >>> Monmouthpedia, of course but also, separately, the spread of QRpedia > >>> around the world. > >>> > >>> Becoming a charity for #3? > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Andy Mabbett > >>> @pigsonthewing > >>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikimedia UK mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > >>> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia UK mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. 07976 935 986 > > tweet @jonatreesdavies > > > > Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513 > > Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, > > London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. > > Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. > > Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate > > Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit > > organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for > > its contents. > > > > > > Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia UK mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > > > > > -- > Roger Bamkin > 01332 702993 > 0758 2020815 > Google+:Victuallers > Skype:Victuallers1 > Flickr:Victuallers2 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/private/wikimediauk-l/attachments/20120607/e8d3f922/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 10:49:29 +0100 > From: Jon Davies <[email protected]> > To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects > Message-ID: > <cam7s2qoeemejr0l4j6z_uxrp3n6e0jxy+iuwgnvvohswthw...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Is there voting?! > > The black out was only the EN version so not sure how big a story it was. > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Roger Bamkin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > @Andrew - some reasons why > > > > @Jon. Well you'll get quite a bit of push back from the French/German's > et > > al on 3 if not phrased well. They were awake too during the blackout. > > > > Adding in *multi-lingual challenges* is a good idea if you want the > > popular vote. Anastasis Lvova from Russian wrote 200 articles. This idea > > was used in Russia, Spain, USA, Netherlands etc etc. We have a map of > world > > showing where QRpedia is used and its pretty global. > > > > Getting *registered charity status* was the hard thing to do *the fund > > raiser* was brilliant because we had this. Our Wikimedian of the year, > > John Byrne, took leading role with Steve Virgin. We extended the law to > do > > this! We ran an EGM. > > > > *Monmouth*. First agreement between a public body and WMF and WMUK. First > > wiki-town. ?1m benefit. Most of the articles were not in English. We did > > first WMUK work in Wales and befriended the Welsh wicipedia. We now can > > claim to support two Wikipedias. We have 6 PhD students studying what was > > done! Steve Virgin crowd sourced P.R, Show them the animation!. > > > > *WIR at the British Library*. A decent wage and externally funded. Thats > > a long way from the first ones where WIR's funded the work themselves in > > previous year. > > > > *GLAM in general* - Lots of events, Coventry, GLAMcamp, Amsterdam, > > QRpedia hit the news #2 WMUK media story, This Week in GLAM, the idea was > > used for Wiki loves Monuments photo exhibitions, ARKive > > > > *Staff and Office*. Andrew Turvey took leading role here driving it > > through to make sure we have 5 staff and a spare desk. I know this is > > covetted and was hard for us as volunteers to do, but not sure it will > > attract popular votes. > > > > *Green for reporting*. We were the only chapter! > > > > *Wikimeets* - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as > well) > > > > > > On 7 June 2012 09:45, Jon Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Have just received the HMRC registration forms so about to make first > >> Gift Aid claim. > >> > >> For my three.. > >> > >> Monmouth - volunteers and innovation > >> > >> Opening an office with staff (this is BIG in wiki terms and other > >> chapters want to follow) > >> > >> Leading the movement during the Black-out for eight hours while San > >> Francisco was asleep. > >> > >> Jon > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:38 AM, WereSpielChequers < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we were already a > >>> charity). Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money > >>> reclaimed under the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to > mention. > >>> > >>> WSC > >>> > >>> On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds < > [email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania > >>>> 2011 > >>>> > and Wikimania 2012? > >>>> > >>>> Monmouthpedia, of course but also, separately, the spread of QRpedia > >>>> around the world. > >>>> > >>>> Becoming a charity for #3? > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Andy Mabbett > >>>> @pigsonthewing > >>>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Wikimedia UK mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > >>>> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikimedia UK mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > >>> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. 07976 935 986 > >> tweet @jonatreesdavies > >> > >> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > >> Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513 > >> Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, > >> London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. > >> Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. > >> Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate > >> Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit > >> organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for > >> its contents. > >> > >> > >> Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia UK mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Roger Bamkin > > 01332 702993 > > 0758 2020815 > > Google+:Victuallers > > Skype:Victuallers1 > > Flickr:Victuallers2 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia UK mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > > > > > -- > *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. 07976 935 986 > tweet @jonatreesdavies > > Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513 > Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, > London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. > Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. > Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate > Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit > organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for > its contents. > > Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/private/wikimediauk-l/attachments/20120607/66609864/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediauk-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > > > End of Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 83, Issue 11 > ********************************************* >
_______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
