I *think* Mike Peel reads this list. I was about to do something else, so maybe someone else could point this out to them? They probably know already, but it wouldn't hurt to ask (I'm just not going to do it right now).

I think we should also note that one of "Wikimedia's own" was involved in this project from the beginning. In his professional capacity (not as a volunteer Wikimedian) former en.wp Arb - James Forrester ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jdforrester) has played an important roll in achieving the launch of data.gov.uk and the licensing arrangement therein. Congratulations! I'm also guessing that is no small part of the reason why their wiki just happens to be a heavily skinned MediaWiki :-) http://data.gov.uk/wiki/User:Jdforrester Now that it's live - I'd love to see if we can demonstrate some innovative re-use cases of the UK datasets on en.WP to help justify to the UK gov't (and other governments who are investigating releasing their data freely - like my own here in Australia) the positive outcomes of making their content available both Gratis and Libre. You might also be interested in Creative Commons' own blogpost about this http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20228 Sincerely, -Liam [[witty lama]] wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l