I'm free this Thursday until 4, and I have at least been on a couple
of digs, though not I admit Bronze age ones.
WSC
On 25 July 2011 03:15, John Byrne wrote:
> This will be announced with a bit more fanfare, and detail, shortly, but
> already has a page at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped
On 24/07/2011 14:42, Chris Keating wrote:
> [...]
> Well of course we could decide that WMUK would pay the full costs of
> anyone from the UK who wanted to go to Wikimania. I'm not sure why
> that would be a good use of WMUK's funds, though.
>
>
Why not offer a limited travel bursary (but without
On 24/07/2011 16:11, Christopher Cooper wrote:
>> In the longer-term, the chapter would benefit greatly if the UK
hosted the conference, of which it has not yet done so.
Ah, yes, that old chestnut
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 14:19, Gordon Joly wrote:
> On 24/07/2011 14:42, Chris Keating wrote:
>> [...]
>> Well of course we could decide that WMUK would pay the full costs of
>> anyone from the UK who wanted to go to Wikimania. I'm not sure why
>> that would be a good use of WMUK's funds, though.
> On 24/07/2011 14:42, Chris Keating wrote:
> > [...]
> > Well of course we could decide that WMUK would pay the full costs of
> > anyone from the UK who wanted to go to Wikimania. I'm not sure why
> > that would be a good use of WMUK's funds, though.
> >
> >
> Why not offer a limited travel bursar
>
>
>> Also, since Chris raised the idea of us hosting Wikimania - personally I'm
> not sure what the benefits to WMUK of hosting would be - can someone spell
> them out?
>
Here are some benefits off the top of my head. I am sure there are more too,
but these seem to be the most important:
- B
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 16:17, Alex Stinson wrote:
>>>
>> Also, since Chris raised the idea of us hosting Wikimania - personally I'm
>> not sure what the benefits to WMUK of hosting would be - can someone spell
>> them out?
>
> Here are some benefits off the top of my head. I am sure there are mor
On 25 July 2011 14:31, Chris Keating wrote:
> However, all of that said, I don't really think it is WMUK's "problem" if
> not many people from the UK attend Wikimania.
I never actually said it was. This list is for the Wikimedia community
in the UK, not just the chapter. I was just commenting gen
Hi Tom,
The 10K was in the budget and had not been spent at last meeting in
Birmingham. It was thought then too late to spend it, but I volunteered for
the task. Basically I sent out an email and funded those people who applied
and we also funded some who had failed to get foundation funding (two
