the 7 available seats, and it was a very close-run election. The new Board
consists of Roger Bamkin (Chair), Andrew Turvey (Treasurer), Michael Peel
(Secretary), Chris Keating, Martin Poulter, Ashley Van Haeften and Steve
Virgin. The new Board put out a blog post announcing their appointment and the
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On 14 Jul 2011, at 10:09, Charles Matthews wrote:
> There are certainly other approaches. No serious use has been made of
> the UK wiki in relation to WLM.
>
> I don't see a WMUK board minute on the matter. I think WMUK
> participation in WLM went by default earlier in this year, because it
>
Hi Tom, Daniel, all,
There are already plans afoot here. :-) On the day before the conference,
Martin Poulter's organising a Wikipedia Workshop for the Institute of Physics
(which has obvious overlaps in terms of audience with this conference):
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Physics_W
On 27 Jul 2011, at 13:04, Thomas Morton wrote:
> It will take at least a year to put together a good bid, especially if
> we want to line up sponsors in advance of the bidding. (If we put a
> large budget in the bid with no evidence that we'll be able to fund
> it, we don't stand a chance. If we
I suspect that, if we end up in the situation where we've improved a given
article as much as possible given the extra information they're providing (and
particularly if we go a step further than this and incorporate sources that
they haven't encountered or haven't managed to utilise), and if a
Hi all,
I'm currently putting together the July WMUK report at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/July
If I've missed anything out, then please let me know before Sunday morning,
either by editing the report directly on the wiki or emailing me.
Thanks to Rock drum for adding pictures to
On 5 Aug 2011, at 21:21, Gordon Joly wrote:
> On 04/08/2011 15:23, Michael Peel wrote:
>> let me know before Sunday morning, either by editing the report directly on
>> the wiki or emailing me.
>>
>
>>> Charity status (SV/Johnbod) was discussed in camera.
>
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Hi all,
The Guardian have an article today on "British Museum makes the Wikipedia
connection":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2011/aug/08/british-museum-wikipedia
which is based on an interview with Matthew Cock - covering the museum's
viewpoint of Liam's Wikipedian in Re
Hi all,
Is anyone able + interested in doing an interview with BBC Radio Scotland late
this afternoon? Description as follows:
"I'm writing to you from BBC Radio Scotland's "Newsdrive" programme. We
spotted an article in today's press about Wikipedia's drive for more female
contributors and w
myself off this list, it was only meant to be
> > temp But every so often, something catches my interest. :p
> > Iain (Blood Red Sandman onwiki).
> >
> > Original Message
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Urgent: interview request from BBC Radio
>
On 15 Aug 2011, at 12:17, Chris Keating wrote:
> Indeed, I'm hoping that for 2012 escalating the current "microgrant" scheme
> to handle larger grants as well, so we have a more transparent and
> easy-to-publicise process than people posting on this email list and then
> someone from the board
On 15 Aug 2011, at 12:31, Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 15 August 2011 12:22, Michael Peel wrote:
>>
>> Just a quick comment on this point - we'll be increasing the microgrants to
>> a maximum of £250, and streamlining the process
>> a bit more, in the very near fu
Hi all,
Can you help brainstorm about what WMUK's audiences are, and what the best ways
of reaching them might be?
I've started a page at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Audiences
with some initial ideas, based on what we've done in the last few years -
please edit this page in traditional Wikime
On 18 Aug 2011, at 23:39, Richard Farmbrough wrote:
> What about the "missing pages" from the DNB project? Fairly small scale,
> the list is at least ready to go for a significant number of volumes,
> and an individual copy of the DNB is not a priceless artifact.
That sounds like an excellent
the Dictionary of National Biography; see:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_DNB
Mike
On 19 Aug 2011, at 08:50, Patel, Vinesh wrote:
> What's DNB?
>
>
>
> On 19 Aug 2011, at 08:43, "Michael Peel"
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On
Hi all,
Wikimedia UK is pleased to announce that we are offering two full scholarships
to enable UK researchers to attend WikiSym this year. You can find the full
information, and details of how to apply, at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSym_Scholarships
Please let me know if you have any q
Requesting a geonotice is a good plan.[1] We can also tweet about it from
@wikimediauk if that would help - there's a lot of mediawiki techie people on
twitter. Dropping a note to wikitech-l [2] would also be a good plan. But I'd
recommend expanding the info on the wiki page some more before adv
On 26 Aug 2011, at 09:18, Lewis Cawte wrote:
> On 26/08/11 09:15, Michael Peel wrote:
>> Requesting a geonotice is a good plan.[1] We can also tweet about it from
>> @wikimediauk if that would help - there's a lot of mediawiki techie people
>> on twitter.
> Sounds
> Crumbs, I'm not having the best of luck with organising a date for this
> :| I see the wiki was only just updated for both of these …
Sorry about that - the dates have been at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings
for a while, but I only realised that they weren't on the events page this
morn
Hi all,
The 49th London Wikimeet will take place on Sunday 11th September:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/49
We're hoping that the finalist candidates for the position of Wikimedia UK's
chief exec will be able to attend this wikimeet, although this is still to be
confirmed. This w
If still in doubt, check the WMUK events list/calendar:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events
;-)
Mike
On 4 Sep 2011, at 21:23, Richard Symonds wrote:
> Yes :-)
>
> -Original Message-
> From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
Forwarding, might be of interest to those working on GLAM…
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Jodi Schneider
> Subject: [Wikimedia IE] Fwd: [LOD-LAM] Open data in cultural heritage
> (LODLAM-London), October 6th
> Date: 6 September 2011 08:56:31 GMT+01:00
> To: open-data-irel...@googlegroup
Oops - fixed! Thanks for pointing it out. :-)
Mike
On 7 Sep 2011, at 18:36, HJ Mitchell wrote:
> 'Cos there'an embarrassing typo on the Main Page! See
> http://uk.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&curid=317&diff=13871&oldid=13817
>
> Harry
> ___
Hi all,
The draft Wikimedia UK report for August is on the wiki at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/August
Please let me know if there's anything that's been missed out - the report will
be sent around tomorrow.
Thanks,
Mike
P.S. the September report is in embryo form at
http://uk.wi
On 14 Sep 2011, at 22:49, Chris Keating wrote:
> I don't see what gb.wikimedia.org has to do with anything, to be honest. We
> are very definitely not Wikimedia Great Britain.
Actually… we could be. ;-) See:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_Agreement#Name
"Irrespective of their locally inco
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On 15 Sep 2011, at 14:57, Katie Chan wrote:
> On 15/09/2011 07:34, Michael Peel wrote:
>>
>> The downside of moving to wikimedia.org.uk is that we use access to the
>> Single User Login system (we'd have the site on our own server, and I don't
>> believe
We're working on finding an easy way to give donors the choice of monthly or
quarterly direct debits, but we haven't got it working quite yet. For now, if
you want to donate by direct debit each month, then you can do so by visiting:
http://directdebit.wikimedia.org.uk/index_monthly.html
Hopeful
Hi all,
All members of Wikimedia UK should have just received the notice below of our
Extraordinary General Meeting to change our objects in October. If you haven't
received it and think you should have, please let us know. If you're not a
member, then you should join (visit http://donate.wikim
On 28 Sep 2011, at 09:58, Harry Burt wrote:
> Sorry to ask such a tangential question, but what is WMUK's position
> on non-English wikis that might be suitable for a Scottish audience
> (e.g. Scots)? Will it seek to actively promote interest in them?
In general, yes, most definitely.
In realit
If any WMUK member is interested in attending this, but can't due to travel
costs, then I'd encourage you to apply for a microgrant:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Microgrants
Thanks,
Mike
On 3 Oct 2011, at 16:16, Sam Reed wrote:
> If there is any interest on this, please feel free to sign up at
On 30 Sep 2011, at 13:19, Andrew West wrote:
> On 30 September 2011 13:04, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>
>> Indeed. Part of the issue there is that the number is diminishing so
>> much that there aren't enough speakers left to really produce a good
>> encyclopaedia (there's something like 60,000 glob
Hi all,
The September WMUK report is nearly complete at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September
If anything's been missed out, or could be expanded upon, then it would be
great if you could make use of the 'edit' button and lend a hand. :-) We'll be
sending out the finalised report
Should be fixed now… (or at least, will be once the caches clear).
Mike
On 10 Oct 2011, at 09:48, Chris Keating wrote:
> Please feel free
>
> Any admin can change the geonotice, but I shouldn't really edit from my desk
> at work ;-)
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Andrew West wrote:
>
In related news…:
http://www.japantrends.com/qr-code-graves-give-a-memorial-window/
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-07-19-qr-codes-smartphones_n.htm
(I think the URLs are self-evident - although note that this is effectively
'vanity QR codes' rather than notable people ones.)
Mike
On 10
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Hi all,
As a result of WMDE's recent successful OTRS workshop, Wikimedia UK's interest
in hosting an OTRS workshop in the UK has been significantly
rekindled/increased. If you would be interested in participating in such a
workshop in the UK (whether you are based in the UK or not), or if you k
Hi Geni & all,
When WMUK's promoted public domain day in the past, we've run into problems
with explaining what this actually means for Wikimedia - since all of the
projects follow US copyright law, nothing seems to change in terms of what
content the Wikimedia projects can host and/or reuse. T
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Sue Gardner
> Subject: [Wmfcc-l] BBC 4: I'm on now! :-)
> Date: 15 November 2011 14:33:33 CET
> To: Communications Committee
> Reply-To: Communications Committee
>
> Hey I'm on BBC 4 right now, live.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_fourfm :-)
erested in Sue's abilities with the media :-)
>
> On 15/11/2011, Michael Peel wrote:
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: Sue Gardner
>>> Subject: [Wmfcc-l] BBC 4: I'm on now! :-)
>>> Date: 15 November 2011 14
On 15 Nov 2011, at 00:13, Harry Burt wrote:
> it's vaguely that time of year again when I feel like I ought to be coughing
> up membership dues. Will a reminder be sent out at the correct time
> automatically or is there some other process I should be following? (I've
> been a member for two y
Hi all,
It's now December - which means it's time to put together the November WMUK
report! The current draft's at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/November
Please add to it. :-) It will go out next weekend (9th December).
Thanks,
Mike
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Hi all,
We've previously had discussions on this list about the UK participating in
Wiki Loves Monuments. There were a number of issues raised, and it would be
good to sit down and brainstorm the solutions to those issues, and seeing
whether we've got a critical mass of people to participate in
On 9 Dec 2011, at 00:50, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> I just loaded a Wikipedia article and rather than a fundraising
> banner, I saw a banner asking me to participate in a research project
> (a fairly standard game theory type experiment involving how to share
> money between yourself and other partic
On 9 Dec 2011, at 19:44, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 9 December 2011 02:57, Michael Peel wrote:
>> None whatsoever. It falls outside of the fundraising agreement, since
>> fundraising banners are now turned off for logged-in users, and we don't
>> have any control o
On 11 Dec 2011, at 22:57, HJ Mitchell wrote:
> Is it safe to say that the weekend of 7-8 January is going to be the date for
> the OTRS workshop? It seems to have been pencilled in but without being
> widely publicised. I'll put a geonotice up if we have a date and a venue.
Yes - those dates a
I'm sure that we can consider this, but we'd need to know the expected costs -
and I suspect funding isn't the main issue here, permission to put the plaque
up is?
Thanks,
Mike
On 19 Dec 2011, at 18:06, steve virgin wrote:
> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Microgrants
>
> Sounds like a great id
Done...
Mike
On 30 Dec 2011, at 23:31, findingma...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> REMOVE ME FROM THE LIST PLEASE.
> Thank you
>
> From: Richard Symonds
> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Friday, 30 December 2011, 23:16
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia
>
> I've just found th
On 31 Dec 2011, at 11:32, Roger Bamkin wrote:
> We have the Archaeological Society "signed up". They tell me that we can
> "have the lot" - they are convinced that CC by SA beats (c) 2011..
Is there a link here with Wikisource? Do they have digitized documents that
could be hosted there? Or i
>From the board side of things, I'm the person to talk to - but Richard's
>dealing with the day-to-day work with the membership database now.
Thanks,
Mike
On 3 Jan 2012, at 12:43, Thomas Morton wrote:
> Thanks Fae :)
>
> Tom
>
> On 3 January 2012 12:41, Fae wrote:
> You should raise any ques
On 3 Jan 2012, at 16:34, Fae wrote:
> On 3 January 2012 16:29, Charles Matthews
> wrote:
>> Template:Membership on the Wikimedia UK wiki directs Membership Secretary to
>> Andrew Turvey's page, however.
>>
>> Charles
>
> It's a wiki; anyone can fix it, hint. ;-)
Fixed. The reason for the con
t http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS_workshop, or email me directly.
Thanks,
Mike
On 25 Dec 2011, at 11:56, Michael Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Following from this, my understanding is that, as things currently stand,
> WMUK will be covering travel expenses and booking accommodation fo
Hi WSC,
The numbers are available in a couple of places.
The 2010-11 numbers are in the fundraising report at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FundraisingReport2010-11Final.pdf
the spreadsheet (with other chapter's number, and the currency conversions) at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/cc
Hi all,
As a WMUK trustee, I'm finding this whole issue to be a serious dilemma. I'm
deeply committed to the 'open to all to participate and contribute' philosophy
for all of our activities, and find it very saddening that the WMUK board has
been put in the position where we have to ban someone
My apologies; I wasn't meaning to contradict Richard here. If this conversation
needs to be kept confidential due to privacy concerns, then using the
i...@wikimedia.org.uk address (emails to which are directed to OTRS rather than
solely to individuals) is also a good approach to take. I note tha
Hi all,
I'm currently putting together a proposal for purchasing tech equipment to
support future events/activities at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_Event_Tech
Input on this would be very welcome - please edit the page directly, or leave
comments on the talk page.
In particular, I'm going
On 14 Jan 2012, at 22:58, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> I don't see the point of buying Windows and then deleting it,
> especially on a machine that is going to be used by lots of different
> people. Pretty much everyone is comfortable using Windows, but a lot
> of people aren't familiar with Linux. If
On 14 Jan 2012, at 23:13, James Forrester wrote:
> On 14 January 2012 22:39, Michael Peel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm currently putting together a proposal for purchasing tech equipment to
>> support future events/activities at:
>> http://uk.wikimedia.org
Can we discuss this on-wiki please? and ideally focus on hardware rather than
software? ;-)
Thanks,
Mike
On 14 Jan 2012, at 23:44, Thomas Morton wrote:
> To be honest; for a newbie Windows is absolutely fine and dandy. I have a W7
> install for gaming and other bits that goes just fine :) And
But only the editing interface of the API - not the reading interface? So this
will only keep people from changing the site, rather than accessing the content?
Mike
On 17 Jan 2012, at 09:53, Gordon Joly wrote:
>
>
> Looks like the API is also going to be down for 24 hours
>
> Gordo
>
>
For the US, part of the plan is to get people to call their congress people and
get them to oppose the legislation (and by having so many telephone calls, make
it clear that this is a big issue). So the blackout isn't the only part of
this, just the most publicly-visible part.
I'm really not su
Hi all,
Personal opinion: The best place to discuss UK-specific text, including for the
proposed petition, would be on-wiki at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Proposed_Messages
since it would probably have to be a community-driven action rather than a
WMUK/WMF one, as wit
feed.
Mike
(personal viewpoint)
On 17 Jan 2012, at 23:15, Michael Peel wrote:
> Watch if you can. :-)
>
> Mike
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Watch if you can. :-)
Mike
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Don't forget that whilst we have photos of a lot of things, we don't
necessarily have *good* photos of them. In particular, Geograph consists mostly
of low-resolution (and often low-quality) images. We could/should be
encouraging people to share higher quality photos with Commons as well as
cov
On 23 Jan 2012, at 22:16, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On 23 January 2012 21:54, Chris Keating wrote:
>> On Monday, January 23, 2012, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>
>>> The QRpedia link on the WikimedaiUK main page goes to the Ukrainian
>>> article.
>
>>> How does one become an admin on this wiki, BTW?
>>
>
On 30 Jan 2012, at 18:26, Marco Chiesa wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Gordon Joly wrote:
>
>>
>> There are 9,352 according to
>> http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/listed-buildings/
>>
>> I really had no idea that there were that many!
>>
> It's a reasonable number
Hi Harry,
I'm working on this at the moment (my next email's going to the Wikimania
organisers). Hopefully the answer will be via the main Wikimania scholarships
program, but we don't know for sure yet. So at the moment I'd recommend
applying via the main scholarships program at:
http://wikiman
a2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
So that you can judge your odds of success: we'll be providing up to £5,000
worth of scholarships for UK individuals via a mix of full- and
partial-scholarships.
Thanks,
Mike
On 6 Feb 2012, at 19:31, Michael Peel wrote:
> Hi Harry,
>
> I'm
> From: Chris Keating
> Subject: Openness - "copyright policy"
> Date: 12 February 2012 12:48:23 GMT
>
> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Policy
>
> Please read, contemplate, discuss and amend!
>
> Chris
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wikimedi
Hi all,
Please see the reminder of the Wikimania scholarships application deadline
below. WMUK is offering UK wikimedians scholarships via this process, so please
make sure you get your application in on time if you want a UK scholarship. :-)
Thanks,
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
> From: aude
Hi all,
We're* putting together a policy on participation at Wikimedia UK events, in
order to ensure that they are open to all, and that they don't have disruptive
or discriminatory behaviour taking place at them. The policy is at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation_policy
Please take
Hi all,
I'm doing a comedy-science talk on Wikipedia with the theme of 'histories' at a
[[Bright Club]] Manchester early next month. My current plan (which is still
subject to change) is that I'll talk about the histories of Wikipedia articles,
and show some interesting/amusing changes made to
On 23 Feb 2012, at 14:26, Roger Bamkin wrote:
> I'd also note your credentials as Financial Times Journalist -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Peel
Hmm; worst Wikipedia article ever? Every single fact is completely wrong, it's
almost as if they're writing about someone else! ;-)
Thank
Hi all,
For those that don't know already: the Wikimedia chapters are currently in the
process of nominating two people for the chapter-selected WMF board seats. The
background and timeline for this is at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats
The list of candidates is pub
This may be of interest to UK wikimedians...
Thanks,
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
> From: David Gerard
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Open Digital RFC on Hargreaves Review comment
> Date: 4 March 2012 19:43:57 GMT
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing Lis
>
> This leads into a serious point about knowledge for its own sake.
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Roger Bamkin wrote:
>> That works! You ought to do a few edits to show how peiople should not edit
>> there own articles
>>
>>
>> On 23 Februar
On 9 Mar 2012, at 14:32, Tom Morris wrote:
> On 9 March 2012 13:48, Charles Matthews
> wrote:
>> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/who-are-the-commons-moles-changing-wikipedia-entries-7545991.html
>>
>
> Headline: "Who are the Commons moles changing Wikipedia entries?"
>
> My ini
nard Street,
> London EC2A 4LT.
> Wikimedia UK is the local 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.
>
&g
The story has also been covered by various national and local newspapers, see:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2012/March#Miscellaneous
Thanks,
Mike
On 13 Mar 2012, at 10:09, Gordon Joly wrote:
>
>
> I remember when he was advising the BBC. What next?
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12
On 13 Mar 2012, at 10:35, Gordon Joly wrote:
>
> Thanks
>
> "Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia chief to advise Whitehall on policy"
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9137339/Jimmy-Wales-Wikipedia-chief-to-advise-Whitehall-on-policy.html
>
> Chief? Says who?
The Telegraph. ;-)
Mik
On 20 Mar 2012, at 10:35, David Gerard wrote:
> Is it feasible for the Board to all say today "whatever Tom writes,
> WMUK will endorse"?
>
> (I'm sure there are ways for that not to pass constitutional muster,
> I'm looking for ways it can ...)
Probably not in that sense, but if it were develo
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