Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Announcing: Britain Loves Wikipedia

2010-01-31 Thread Isabell Long
Hi, I had a good day today and I thank everyone for organising this event! I have really enjoyed it, and right now I'm uploading all the 5 photos I took! Aaah shiny shiny iMacs! -- Regards, Isabell Long. [[User:Isabell121]] on all public Wikimedia projects. Freenode Community Co-Ordinator - i

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] The Public Domain Manifesto

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Peel
See below. Is it worth us signing this as an organization? Note that both Asociación Civil Wikimedia Argentina and Wikimedia Nederland have already. Mike Begin forwarded message: > From: shi zhao > Date: 26 January 2010 12:29:44 GMT > To: Communications Committee > Subject: [Wmfcc-l] The P

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] The Public Domain Manifesto

2010-01-31 Thread David Gerard
On 31 January 2010 15:13, Michael Peel wrote: > See below. Is it worth us signing this as an organization? Note that > both Asociación Civil Wikimedia Argentina and Wikimedia Nederland > have already. Yes. - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimed

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] The Public Domain Manifesto

2010-01-31 Thread geni
On 31 January 2010 15:24, David Gerard wrote: > On 31 January 2010 15:13, Michael Peel wrote: > >> See below. Is it worth us signing this as an organization? Note that >> both Asociación Civil Wikimedia Argentina and Wikimedia Nederland >> have already. > > > Yes. > > > - d. Sadly no. Good on id

[Wikimediauk-l] Related places tool

2010-01-31 Thread Magnus Manske
Hi all, just toolspamming my latest... I read the announcement for "Britain Loves Wikipedia", was sad to find no museum in or immediately around my place participates, and tried to look for the nearest one. Harder than it sounds, if you're not very familiar with British geography. So I wrote a t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Announcing: Britain Loves Wikipedia

2010-01-31 Thread Gordon Joly
On 31/01/2010 15:12, Isabell Long wrote: > ing this event! > I have really enjoyed it, and right now I'm uploading all the 5 > photos I took! Aaah shiny shiny iMacs! > > I missed the iMacs! *** Today I have uploaded two couplets to to the wiki: http://britainloveswikipedia.org/wiki/Main_

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Announcing: Britain Loves Wikipedia

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Peel
Hi Gordo, It was good to meet you today - even sans hat. ;-) > Today I have uploaded two couplets to to the wiki: > > http://britainloveswikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page > > The pair first via a mobile phone and the second pair at home. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/loopzilla/4319060815/ > > http:

[Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Open Data City

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Peel
Hi all, Hopefully the last cool thing for today: just discovered the following thanks to a tweet from @jwyg (Jonathan Gray of the Open knowledge Foundation) http://www.futureeverything.org/news/opendata1 "We were funded in November 2009 by the Manchester Innovation Investment Fund* to work

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph images

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Peel
As a result of this, one of the Geograph articles has become Wikimedia Commons' 6 millionth file. Please help writing the blog post about this: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blog_posts/Geograph_images :-) Mike On 30 Jan 2010, at 19:38, Andrew Turvey wrote: > Could anyone help us draft a blog