Sue's in town next week. Wednesday 5th, anyone? What was the pub we
went to (near Holborn I think) that didn't suck? (After going to the
one that did suck.)
Wed 5th afternoon is my works' Christmas party, so expect me to be
mostly trashed and sipping Coke and Red Bull.
- d.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 29 Nov 2007 00:22
Subject: Re: I'm coming to London :-)
To: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Cc: James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>, Alison Wheeler
<wikimedia(a)alisonwheeler.com>, Arkady Rose <arkady.rose(a)gmail.com>
David Gerard wrote:
>
>
> I think a London wikimeet would be quite feasible! Shall I suggest it
> to wikimediauk-l? Do we know any pubs that definitely don't suck and
> will be open Wednesday evening? We've had a bad record at picking
> these so far ...
>
> (I have my works Christmas party that afternoon. I expect to be half
> trashed and sipping Coke.)
>
>
> - d.
>
Lovely - fun! I am in, just tell me where to be & when :-)
Forwarded with permission of sender, [[User:SlimVirgin]]. Is anyone
with a camera wandering in the direction of Battersea Park in the next
week or two?
- d.
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> > David, do you happen to know any Wikipedians with a camera who live
> > near Battersea Park?
> >
> > I'm looking for someone to take a photograph of a statue in the park.
> > It's for an article I'm quickly trying to get to FA status - the Brown
> > Dog affair. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Dog_affair
> >
> > I just realized a couple of days ago that December 10, 2007 is the
> > 100th anniversary of the Brown Dog riots, apparently some of the worst
> > riots in London before the Poll Tax riots.
> >
> > I'm therefore going to try to get it through the FA process in the
> > hope it can go on the front page on December 10. (It's still being
> > worked on; not ready yet.)
> >
> > At the heart of the dispute was the Brown Dog statue, destroyed in
> > 1910, but recommissioned by Geraldine James in 1985. It now stands in
> > woodland near Battersea Park's Old English Garden, and looks like this
> > http://www.batterseapark.org/images/dogsculp.jpg
> >
> > It would be great to have a free image of it, but all the images I've
> > found online are of uncertain copyright. The one above on the
> > Battersea Park site was copied from a postcard, for example.
> >
> > Do you know of anyone who might be willing to take a photograph?
On 11/22/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Not that spring to mind. I know Secretlondon has been going wild
> taking pics of anything useful she sees, though. So you may care to
> ask her (probably email as well as talk page).
Okay, thank you, I'll ask her.
>
> I can forward this to wikimediauk-l if you like, that might be
> productive in a short time.
>
That would be very helpful. We have just 18 days to finish the
writing, get all the images sorted out, get it through the FA process
(!), and onto the front page.
I've been writing to the sites that have posted images of the statue,
trying to pin down the copyright holder, but it's all "Oh, an old
girlfriend copied that from a postcard she found in an antiques fair
in New Zealand." :-)
I'm now getting desperate for someone to do this, because I *haven't a
clue* about Wiktionary myself. In absolute desperation I could wing it
if someone can point me at the relevant "how things work here" pages,
but I'd rather not ... Wiktionarians outside the UK would be fine too,
even by phone (preferably the highest-quality line available, e.g.
ISDN or Skype, though landline would be tolerable).
They need to record this afternoon or tomorrow morning.
Help please!
- d.
Any UK Wiktionarians who think they could explain it to the media? I
know *nothing* about the internals of the project myself ... if you
do, please email me.
- d.
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I don't think we have the power to bulldoze the entire Lea Valley though :P
Did we or did we not establish that QM was full over the summer do to the
OU? (I honestly can't remember/missed it)
I have a friend at QM actually, I will try and ask her unless anyone else
knows.
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On 11/11/2007, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> At 23:05 +0000 6/11/07, Cormac Lawler wrote:
> >On 11/6/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a proposal for a venue in London which we could almost
> certainly have
> >> for free I've been told. It's in North London and the problem I guess
> would
> >> be accommodation. It may or may not be large enough. I will
> investigate.
> >
> >
> >That's great Gary. Yes, the main thing is whether the venue can
> >actually hold a conference :-) - so a variety of rooms for hosting
> >keynotes and simultaneous sessions, as well as other rooms/spaces, is
> >a must. Accommodation is preferable to have on-or-adjacent-to-site,
> >but there could be ways around this too (eg. shuttle buses)...
> >
> >Cormac
>
> It really does help to have everything on one site. After, that was
> one of the selling points for the London Olympics 2012.
>
> :D
>
> So, UCL, Queen Mary, UEL (all in London) and many other campus sites
> are excellent starting points. In fact the Open University take many
> weeks from the schedule of Queen Mary's facilities for summer schools.
>
> Gordo
>
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On 11/11/2007, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> So, UCL, Queen Mary, UEL (all in London) and many other campus sites
> are excellent starting points.
IC has some accommodation on campus that gets used for conferences, too.
