At 12:43 +0000 10/1/07, Steve Block wrote:
>David Gerard wrote:
>> follow Morwen's infallible ale detector to the Shakespeare's Head near
>> Holborn tube station, another Wetherspoons but this time of the
>> tolerable variety.
>
>This was a much better choice if you ask me, and might be one to
>bookmark if we ever do it again. I really enjoyed myself.
>
>> We got LOTS of people along and this was really good and productive,
>> despite the horrible first venue. Did anyone write up an attendance
>> list?
>
>I didn't, but from memory Jimbo, Morwen, yourself, myself, Gordo,
>Psychonaut, Whouk, Edward, Thryduulf, AJR, steve from openstreetmap, Tim
>Starling, Angela, Theresa Knott, um, Geni, Andrew Gray?. I didn't
>really circulate well and was half cut by the time we were in a quiet
>enough pub to do introductions. Apologies to those I have left off,
>because there most definitely was more people.
>
>
>--
Yes, I was there!! Honest!!!
Gordo
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I'm just getting ready for C4 to pick me up, take me to their office
and interview me for tonight's news re: the Microsoft-Wikipedia issue.
If someone could record it and throw us an MPEG afterwards, that would
be most helpful!
Now to get tarted up for the camera ...
- d.
On 1/25/07, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> I not sure DEFRA, MI5,
I've never looked into it but I've heard rumors that MI5 and the like
tend to use open source softwear a fair bit since they think it is
less likely to have back doors and the like in.
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geni
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From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Date: 25-Jan-2007 12:36
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] On Irish radio Today-FM today 12:15pm
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On 25/01/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/01/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/25/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Apparently http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinford had stories about
> > > werewolves in the article, it got into the Irish edition of the Daily
> > > Mail and so I'm on Irish radio again. Site at http://www.todayfm.com/
> > > . Probably just a few minutes.
> > Assuming Ireland is on GMT time, that's in 15 minutes. Can someone catch an
> > MP3?
> It is indeed, and yes please!
Ray Foley was pretty on side with Wikipedia and got the idea I think.
Hopefully I got across our level of unreliable reliability :-)
- d.
Anybody care to answer this?
Gordo
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>So, now that the dust as settled....
>
>What is happening with...
>
>WIKI EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES LIMITED
>340 LIVERPOOL ROAD
>LONDON
>N7 8PZ
>Company No. 05708269
>
>Has it become a charity? Not according to the Central Register of
>Charities maintained by the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
>
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Apparently http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinford had stories about
werewolves in the article, it got into the Irish edition of the Daily
Mail and so I'm on Irish radio again. Site at http://www.todayfm.com/
. Probably just a few minutes.
- d.
[[Marti Pellow]] had some vandalism that made the media - it said for
five hours on Friday that he was dead. If people could watchlist it,
that would be good (that should be enough for now).
The Independent, Tue 16 Jan
===
Pellow fans upset by death reports
Fans of the Wet Wet Wet frontman Marti Pellow were left stunned yesterday
after the online encyclopedia Wikipedia reported that he had died last
Friday. One fan, Sophie Cornwell, said: "I couldn't believe my eyes when I
read that he was dead - I was absolutely shell shocked." Natasha Mensah,
Pellow's publicist, confirmed he was "definitely still alive". A Wikipedia
spokesman, David Gerard, said: "We would like to apologise for any distress
we may have caused... but occasionally pranksters change details on the
site."
===
(Thanks to Steel359 for typing it in. Article was a tiny space-filler on p12.)
I'm sure what I actually said was "Yeah, we get this sort of rubbish
all the time ..." But newspapers are a reliable source, so that must
be what I actually said.
By the way, this article did not have a {{WPBiography}} template on
the talk page. Every bio should have one of these, particularly living
bios. If you EVER spot a bio, particularly a living one, with a
red-linked talk page, please put {{WPBiography}} on the talk page!
[[Template:WPBiography]] lists how to fill it in.
- d.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Cole
See talk page. Someone sent the URL for a somewhat libelous rev to
various newspapers - I've had two calls today about the same revision.
I think I explained matters okay.
Note that I did *not* delete the rev in question, but obviously if the
WMF was asked to it'd get zapped. It was vandalism that lasted two
minutes total, and I hope it'll help educate journalists as to how
Wikipedia works.
(I think I've managed to turn "Wikipedia is not reliable" into a
positive phrase for press use ;-)
- d.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jem Stone <jemstone66(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:08:41 +0000
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Matthew Taylor entry mentioned in Daily Telegraph feature
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/01/13/smtaylor113…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Taylor_%28Labour_politician%29
from the magazine yesterday...
"One little charge he has found hard to shrug off is that of writing
his own entry on Wikipedia, the online encylopaedia to which anyone
can contribute. The accusation is even appended to the entry, in the
form of a quote from Kevin Maguire, associate editor of the Daily
Mirror.
'The Downing Street thinking,' Maguire writes, 'is that this item is
so congratulatory, presenting Taylor as a master of the universe
famous for amusing anecdotes and witty one-liners, that no one else
could be responsible.'
The problem is that, by the time I visit Wikipedia, the entry is
rather subdued. It records youthful stroppiness, possibly a response
to lack of paternal nurturing: he was expelled from school in south
London, and 'failed to get his O-levels first time around because he
had eloped (to exotic Maida Vale) with a girl called Pandora'. Later,
there was a fight with the Southampton University Labour Group which
led to his setting up his own Socialist Society. But there's nothing
about witty one-liners.
Has Taylor deleted his own boasting? As a Labour spin-doctor during
the 1990s, he was, after all, responsible for developing the party's
rapid-rebuttal unit. Absolutely not, he insists. When I produce a
printout of the Wikipedia page, he says he's never seen it before, and
chuckles at the quote from Maguire. ('I like Kevin, but he really
doesn't like me.') Then he blinks in surprise at a blurred snapshot of
him with his arms around two girls in a snow-covered Southampton
street in 1982.
'That's my old girlfriend. I haven't seen her for 20 years. God, how
weird. I wonder how she feels about being on that website. Isn't it
amazing that we live in a world where this sort of stuff…' and he
pauses. 'I mean, what will it do to us?'
Clearly, Taylor has already spent a lot of time worrying about the
explosion of consumer choice, the deluge of information bearing down
on us, the menace and promise of new technology. But that Wikipedia
photo has touched a raw nerve.
'I'm gobsmacked,' he says. 'What will this do to relationships – the
knowledge that dumping a girlfriend, throwing up at a party, anything
at all can be on our internet profile for ever? We'll either end up
being more tolerant of the fact that we're all flawed, or we'll have
to be led by people who have kept their noses clean since the age of
three.'"
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What is happening with...
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LONDON
N7 8PZ
Company No. 05708269
Has it become a charity? Not according to the Central Register of
Charities maintained by the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
Gordo
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