What I find a bit confusing is whether you are looking for Wikipedia's Public Benefit proof, for Wikimedia Foundation or Wikimedia UK. I can imagine that whether Wikipedia is publicly beneficial is not really into question - whether WMUK is, is a whole different game and discussion. In that case, I would rather focus on events organized by WMUK which support free knowledge, perhaps a joint press release with Charity institutions in the past (any press release together with the British Museum by any chance?)
Just thinking along here :) Lodewijk Am 18. September 2011 15:50 schrieb Fae <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > ** Do you know of examples of WM-UK's charitable public benefit? ** > > Please go to the collaboration page at > <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charity_status_application/help_wanted> > to raise further good examples for our charity application team to > incorporate in our final proposal to the Charity Commission. > > Text from the call for help on :wmuk copied below for information. > > Cheers, > Fae > -- > http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae > Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags > > ---- Text from uk.wikimedia.org [18 September 2011] ---- > > Call for help! > > For the application to become a Registered Charity, we think we still > need more evidence as follows. Ideally please send a link plus a quote > or brief summary/abstract of the material (example at bottom), the > sooner the better, but by Wednesday September 21st at latest. > > PUBLIC BENEFIT evidence of public benefit in some areas. The best sort > of evidence are: academic studies, reports in top-quality press, > quotes from top figures in their fields. The emphasis is on evidence > of specific and actual public benefit that does not amount just to > "the increase of knowledge". More evidence that lots of people use > Wikimedia is not needed; we need specific beneficial results of that > usage, other than increasing knowledge . > > I think we have higher education covered, but primary secondary > education, public health, and other areas could use more. Also > academic studies from 2010/11 - I think we have the earlier ones > covered. > > WMF: the record of the Wikimedia Foundation intervening in or > controlling policy and content areas. > > WE ALREADY HAVE covered the following sources, among others: 2005 > Nature WP/Encyc Brit study; PC Pro stories; Hansard quotes, WMF > fundraiser testimonials, the big stories from the NYT, Economist, New > Yorker, Guardian; Casper Grathwohl of Oxford University Press, How > today’s college students use Wikipedia for course–related research”, > by Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg. First Monday, Volume 15, > Number 3 - 1 March 2010., Are chemicals killing us? By S. Robert > Lichter, Ph.D, May 21, 2009 - Society of Toxicologists; “Early > response to false claims in Wikipedia”, by P.D. Magnus, First Monday, > Volume 13 Number 9 - 1 September 2008, > > http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2115/2027 > ; > “How quickly are errors corrected?” by Stuart Andrews, PC Pro, 12 Jul > 2007 > http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/119641/how-quickly-are-errors-corrected > ; The paradox of expertise: is the Wikipedia Reference Desk as good as > your library? > > IDEALLY post in this sort of format: "Through user-generated efforts, > Wikipedia is comprehensive, current, and far and away the most > trustworthy Web resource of its kind. It is not the bottom layer of > authority, nor the top, but in fact the highest layer without formal > vetting. In this unique role, it therefore serves as an ideal bridge > between the validated and unvalidated Web." Casper Grathwohl, vice > president of Oxford University Press > http://chronicle.com/article/Wikipedia-Comes-of-Age/125899/ > > ---- End ---- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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