Not quite - I think Wales got involved after I left them a message on Y Caffi (the Welsh village pump). It took a few weeks for a reply, but eventually, Robin Owain rang my office phone and we had a long chat! It's really worth reaching out to these groups so that they know you're there.
Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 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. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 1 February 2013 09:40, Roger Bamkin <[email protected]> wrote: > When we started the second museum collaboration with Derby it was > based on the work that Liam and Mike had kicked off at the British > Museum. The BM had put up prizes to encourage 5 or so Featured > articles - not sure if it was the plan but only one of the winners was > in English (I think). In Derby we decided to take that idea and pitch > it to those multi lingual people *in Derby* to write articles that > were not in English. We failed - as we had lots of articles but only a > small proportion were non English articles from Britain. The articles > were mostly from Western Europe and Indonesia. > > It is a tricky subject to try and find these minorities. As Mike > suggests this is maybe best left to those communities to ask if they > need help. This has happened in Wales - and Wicipedia is a reat Welsh > (and a UK) project. > > R > > On 31 January 2013 17:22, HJ Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think it needs to be done in any way that might be contentious. > We > > (the members of this movement) all share a roughly similar vision, and > > realise that attracting new contributors (whether they speak English, > > Polish, Irish, or even Huttese) is essential to to keeping that vision > > alive. > > > > It would be interesting to find out how the proportion of the Polish > > population in the UK that edits Wikipedia (in any language) compares to > the > > overall proportion of UK residents who edit Wikipedia. It would > certainly be > > interesting to try to do some outreach to non-English-speaking groups. > Not > > necessarily easy, but worthwhile... > > > > Harry Mitchell > > http://enwp.org/User:HJ > > Phone: 024 7698 0977 > > Skype: harry_j_mitchell > > > > ________________________________ > > From: WereSpielChequers <[email protected]> > > To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 16:49 > > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Polish becomes England's second language > > > > I can see a case for Wikimedia or Wikimedia Poland doing something about > > that. But I would advise against a UK based organisation trying to > involve > > itself in the Republic, especially on such a contentious issue as the > second > > language of Ireland. > > > > WSC > > > > On 30 January 2013 15:54, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Related note: There are more native Polish speakers in Ireland than > native > > Irish speakers. We may be able to inspire something to happen there too. > > > > > > On 30 January 2013 15:04, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/30/polish-becomes-englands-second-language > > > > Anything we can do to get more UK-resident Poles editing? > > > > Do we have any idea of edits to pl:wp from the UK? > > > > > > - d. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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