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Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland
by Andrew Turvey 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

I saw on the news that there are discussions underway for an Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland which may include funding support of up to £20m. [1] Is anyone interested in getting together to put forward a proposal for a project supporting the Irish language projects on Wikimedia? We may also be able to apply for funding from Wikimedia UK, which has recently raised over £40,000 as part of the fundraiser and is looking for worthwhile projects to spend the money on. [2] A skeleton proposal for WMUK funding has already been started [3] Is anyone on this mailing list active on the Irish language projects or interested in getting involved in something like this? Andrew [1] http://www.u.tv/News/%C2%A320m-deal-to-protect-Irish-language/b771a609-f7b4… "£20m deal to protect Irish language" [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg02107.html [3] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Proposals/Support_UK_indigenous_mi…

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Re: [Wikimedia IE] [Wikimediauk-l] "Schools to get free access to online encylopedias"
by Michael Peel 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

(resending as the Wikimedia IE mailing list apparently defies the "- l" convention...) On 5 Jan 2010, at 16:10, Michael Peel wrote: > http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/ireland/schools-to-get-free-access-to- > online-encylopedias-440794.html > > "The country’s 4,000 schools are to get free access to online > versions of the popular Encyclopedia Britannica and World Book as > part of an e-Learning initiative announced today." > > ... do you think we should offer to generously let them access > Wikipedia for free as well? We can even throw in the native language > version. ;-) > > (via Mathias Schindler on wmfcc-l) > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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Re: [Wikimedia IE] Hello (with ideas)
by Durova 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Trying this again... From: dgerard at gmail.com (David Gerard) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:19:02 +0000 Subject: [Wikimedia IE] Hello (with ideas) In-Reply-To: <a01006d90911212030i3d6ebe05t335ea9f74823e406(a)mail.gmail.com> References: <a01006d90911212030i3d6ebe05t335ea9f74823e406(a)mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <fbad4e140911220719g3dad812i3fdd43e197a7d3d1(a)mail.gmail.com> 2009/11/22 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>: > There's an idea I'd like to put forward to the Irish community, to see if it > would help to grow the Irish Wikipedia.? People have been looking for ideas > about how to help the smaller Wikipedias grow.? I'd like to try a pilot > project with the Irish community, if you're amenable.? The basic idea is to > build interest in the project with quality media. > Two things happen when people see featured pictures about their culture: > they're delighted and they want to share information. +1 This will also have other useful effects. Talking to London museum people, the main thing they want is for their collections to be *used* - essentially, we pay them in credit. So a programme to get stuff up will make life easier for Irish editors to deal with Irish museums. - d. For some reason this list isn't getting delivered to my mailbox yet, so pulled the above response off the recent archive. There have been two different directions that museum partnerships with WMF groups have taken: quantity and quality. The optimal solution is to seek a combination of the two. A selection of highlights from the museum's collection that are potentially feature-worthy certainly helps. Neither the curators nor the average WMF volunteer, though, is familiar with the >From dgerard at gmail.com Sun Nov 22 15:19:02 2009 -- http://durova.blogspot.com/

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Hello (with ideas)
by Durova 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hi there, Seddon from WMF UK mentioned this list and Alison helped get things started. Greetings from California. Although I don't speak a word of Irish, I have six featured content credits at the Irish Wikipedia. What I do is digitally restore historic media. Have done a few restorations specifically about Irish history and culture, mostly for Alison because she's such a fantastic person. The most recent of the restorations was Daniel O'Connell. There's an idea I'd like to put forward to the Irish community, to see if it would help to grow the Irish Wikipedia. People have been looking for ideas about how to help the smaller Wikipedias grow. I'd like to try a pilot project with the Irish community, if you're amenable. The basic idea is to build interest in the project with quality media. Two things happen when people see featured pictures about their culture: they're delighted and they want to share information. Most people are aware that the English language Wikipedia is the largest in terms of total articles, and that German is second. In terms of featured pictures, though, German doesn't have the second largest collection. The Turkish language Wikipedia does. A group of about half a dozen Turkish editors have been going through the featured media from other projects, translating the captions, and getting the material featured at their own project. They have nearly a thousand featured pictures in the Turkish Wikipedia now--about two hundred more than the German language project. >From time to time I do a restoration about Turkish history, in thanks for their efforts. It would be exciting to see if the Turkish featured picture project could be emulated at the Irish Wikipedia. The greater aim, of course, would be to improve the reader experience and get more readers to begin editing. After all, it's much easier to translate a caption than to translate a full article. I could help by doing more restorations of particular relevance to Ireland and the Irish people, and by assisting as an image editing coach for people who want to learn how to restore images themselves. With a little bit of assistance on my end, WMF Netherlands has built a partnership with the Tropenmuseum of Amsterdam where the museum is opening more of its collection to digitization and free culture, while volunteer editors have helped present a physical space exhibit at the museum. Perhaps this kind of work could open doors in Ireland also. Until we get that far, there's quite a bit of material already available through the Library of Congress. As long as people such as Alison and yourselves supply enough context that this ignorant Yank can make sense of them. :) Let's work together. Best regards, Lise Broer (Durova) -- http://durova.blogspot.com/

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Re: [Wikimedia IE] great idea! ... how many on the list?
by Cary Bass 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is great start, and I hope some more people get interested. I'll use any excuse to visit Ireland again, too. The direct flight fares on Aerlingus are generally pretty good from San Francisco, and there was so much to see! Start planning some meetups--very important. Just set a time and date and place. Even if you think you're going to be the only one that shows up, you may be surprised. We had an impromptu meetup of three Wikimedians in Dublin, although two of the Wikimedians, were, in fact, residents of the United States! Cary Oliver Moran wrote: > Thomas, > > Could I assume that you would be willing to participate in a > formalised Wikimedia Ireland? Are there others on the list that > would be willing to do so too (or simply lend support the the > idea)? > > Link: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ireland > > Oliver > > On 26 Aug 2009, at 18:47, JD wrote: > >> / I did a piece on Newstalk a few months back and am happy for >> future > />/ enquiries to be referred to me. />/ />/ Thomas Ralph > (User:Stifle) />/ admin at thomasralph.com > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie> />/ +353 > 86 3355051 />/ />/ />/ Original message sent: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 > 13:40:33 +0100 />/ From: Oliver Moran <oliver.moran at gmail.com > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie>> />/ > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia IE] Interview on Dublin Radio 4, ~1:30 />/ > To: Wikimedia IE <wikimediaie at lists.wikimedia.org > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie>> />/ > Message-ID: />/ <79911ef70908260540g6cfb43e0nc0c8810ffd087cb1 at > mail.gmail.com > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie>> />/ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" />/ />/ Thanks, > Andrew. />/ />/ It's a pity we have to go across the water to get > someone, but thank />/ you. If />/ the program is any of these, let > me know so I can listen to the />/ podcast: />/ > http://www.4fm.ie/listenagain_dj.asp />/ />/ To others, is it not > time we can handle these things ourselves? />/ > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ireland />/ />/ Regards, > />/ Oliver />/ />/ 2009/8/26 Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey at > googlemail.com > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie>> />/ />/ > > Hi everyone, />/ > />/ > Just to let you know, if you're in > Dublin at the moment, I'm going />/ to be />/ > interviewed by > Dublin's Radio 4 on Wikipedia's Flagged Revisions />/ changes />/ > > that's been working its way round the news media. />/ > />/ > If > you hear it please let me know what you think />/ > />/ > Regards, > />/ > />/ > -- />/ > />/ > Andrew Turvey />/ > Secretary />/ > > Wikimedia UK />/ > Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK > Limited. />/ > Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee > registered in />/ England and />/ > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. > />/ > The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, > NG9 />/ 1RL, United />/ > Kingdom. />/ > />/ />/ > _______________________________________________ />/ WikimediaIE > mailing list />/ WikimediaIE at lists.wikimedia.org > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie> />/ > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie / -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqmn+IACgkQyQg4JSymDYmosgCeI+1KZ0mEuUm27SIjSIxuGdXE siIAoN9Gcys88XVBmgc2WaSbu6AMn5Pw =ff6G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Wikimedia IE] Interview on Dublin Radio 4
by JD 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

I did a piece on Newstalk a few months back and am happy for future enquiries to be referred to me. Thomas Ralph (User:Stifle) admin(a)thomasralph.com +353 86 3355051 Original message sent: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:40:33 +0100 From: Oliver Moran <oliver.moran(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia IE] Interview on Dublin Radio 4, ~1:30 To: Wikimedia IE <wikimediaie(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <79911ef70908260540g6cfb43e0nc0c8810ffd087cb1(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks, Andrew. It's a pity we have to go across the water to get someone, but thank you. If the program is any of these, let me know so I can listen to the podcast: http://www.4fm.ie/listenagain_dj.asp To others, is it not time we can handle these things ourselves? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ireland Regards, Oliver 2009/8/26 Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com> > Hi everyone, > > Just to let you know, if you're in Dublin at the moment, I'm going to be > interviewed by Dublin's Radio 4 on Wikipedia's Flagged Revisions changes > that's been working its way round the news media. > > If you hear it please let me know what you think > > Regards, > > -- > > Andrew Turvey > Secretary > Wikimedia UK > Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. > Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. > The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United > Kingdom. >

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Interview on Dublin Radio 4, ~1:30
by Andrew Turvey 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Hi everyone, Just to let you know, if you're in Dublin at the moment, I'm going to be interviewed by Dublin's Radio 4 on Wikipedia's Flagged Revisions changes that's been working its way round the news media. If you hear it please let me know what you think Regards, -- Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom.

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Re: [Wikimedia IE] Interview on Dublin Radio 4, ~1:30
by Andrew Turvey 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Yes, it would be much preferable if Wikimedia Ireland could handle it themselves. I'm not too comfortable crossing borders like this, but it was a bit last minute and we didn't have any media contacts from Ireland to refer it to. Is there someone who would be able to do this in future? It's "lunchtime on 4" so should be up there. It was on at about 1:42. Do you know how long it takes to get uploaded there? Any comments gratefully received. Apart from being introduced as the "Secretary of Wikimedia" (they may have deliberately dropped UK to avoid highlighting that fact!) I think it went pretty well and gave a very positive impression - presenter certainly had a good opinion of the site. ----- "Oliver Moran" <oliver.moran(a)gmail.com> wrote: > From: "Oliver Moran" <oliver.moran(a)gmail.com> > To: "Wikimedia IE" <wikimediaie(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 13:40:33 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia IE] Interview on Dublin Radio 4, ~1:30 > > Thanks, Andrew. > > It's a pity we have to go across the water to get someone, but thank you. If the program is any of these, let me know so I can listen to the podcast: http://www.4fm.ie/listenagain_dj.asp > > To others, is it not time we can handle these things ourselves? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ireland > > Regards, > Oliver > > > 2009/8/26 Andrew Turvey < andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com > > > Hi everyone, > > Just to let you know, if you're in Dublin at the moment, I'm going to be interviewed by Dublin's Radio 4 on Wikipedia's Flagged Revisions changes that's been working its way round the news media. > > If you hear it please let me know what you think > > Regards, > > -- > > Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. > Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. > The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom. > > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaIE mailing list > WikimediaIE(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie > > > > _______________________________________________ WikimediaIE mailing list WikimediaIE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie

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Dun Laoghaire, 29&30 August
by Clement McGann 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

The Dun Laoghaire Festival will be on Saturday & Sunday, 29th & 30th August It is always a fun time for all Can you spare an hour or two between 11am and 6pm either day We will be collecting for the Maritime Museum There is goodwill - it is rewarding If you can - please contact me - ClemMcGann thanks: http://www.mii.connect.ie Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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great idea! ... how many on the list?
by Oliver Moran 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Wow! I never heard of this before ... how is it being advertised? From the archives, I see it's been set up since June but it only looks like there are three or four on the list (or at least that all that have posted to it) ... is this true? I posted at message on the Irish Wikipedian's Notice board two weeks ago about forming a Wikimedia chapter in Ireland (got one "maybe" back and Bastun posted a fair funny comment on my talk) ... but I didn't know about this at all! A meet-up sounds like the first step to anything ... and something positive, anyway: those of us involved in Ireland-related articles are probably less like to end up Wiki-murdering each other if we had a face to put behind the screen name. Regards, Oliver a.k.a. rannpháirtí anaithnid / sony-youth

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