Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Update - January 26th 2009

Seddon, Thanks for the update. > 3) To assist in gathering information for the bid i suggest using > content from the Travelwiki page on Oxford. > Not everything on that page should be included in the bid, but alot > of it is useful. As far as i am aware the GFDL > allows CCBYSA contribs but

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Update - January 26th 2009

> CC-BY-SA text cannot be used on GFDL pages; the two licenses are > > incompatible. That's part of the reason why the WMF is currently > setting up > a poll about switching Wikipedia et al. over to CC-BY-SA > (see the countless > messages about this on foundation-l).> > The only exception to t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk.org

The new wiki has now been set up, see: http://uk.wikimedia.org/ Now it just needs populating (using the import function), and the domain repointing... Mike ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/w

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk.org

At 16:55 + 24/1/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: > > Wikimedia UK is an independent organisation from the Wikimedia >> Foundation. We (WMUK) need a website of our own that we control, and >> ideally, where we own the domain name. >> >> If the WMF or James F want to keep control of wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk.org

Great! This may appear picky, but could we maybe replace the logo (with the dodgy white border) with the de-fringed version Wikipedia now uses? It would be even better if we had a logo of our own, but that's a different discussion altogether. Michael Peel wrote: > The new wiki has now been set u

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk.org

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:02 PM, George D. Watson < george.paleon...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Great! > This may appear picky, but could we maybe replace the logo (with the > dodgy white border) with the de-fringed version Wikipedia now uses? > It would be even better if we had a logo of our own, bu

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk.org

2009/1/26 Gordon Joly > > Could go for something in ltd.uk (as well)? > > Nominet have strict rules on use of .ltd.uk domains, and an algorithm for their generation The only two possibilities for Wiki UK Ltd are wikiuk.ltd.uk or wiki-uk.ltd.uk; anything else fails their tests. As the intention i

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk.org

2009/1/26 James Hardy : > 2009/1/26 Gordon Joly >> >> Could go for something in ltd.uk (as well)? >> > Nominet have strict rules on use of .ltd.uk domains, and an algorithm for > their generation > > The only two possibilities for Wiki UK Ltd are wikiuk.ltd.uk or > wiki-uk.ltd.uk; anything else fa

[Wikimediauk-l] Joining.

Hello, I am not sure yet whether I want to join or am able to, being under 18 (I'm 15) and needing parental consent and also because, looking at the recent posts to the mailing lists, it all seems to be just starting out and organising itself. Lets say I did want to join, I paid £12 and my parent

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Joining.

Isabell, It probably makes far more sense for you to join the French chapter: WMFR activities take place in France and WMUK in, well, the UK. You'd probably get more out of your physically local chapter, which is also a very well established one. Saying that, I need to get round to rejoining WMUK