There is going to be an article in the Sunday's Observer about
wikipedia vandalism featuring yours truly.
The author is the same reporter who did the thing on Charles Matthews
in the Times ( the one at the London meetup), so I'm hoping that she
will not sensationalise it. I basically told her that yes vandalism
happens all the time but no, it's not really a problem, we have ways
to deal with it that work very effectively. Hopefully the piece will
be positive.
Theresa
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The recent reduction in income tax by 2% from April 2008 means that
the Gift Aid percentage will be reduced.
Gordo
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I'm just putting some stuff together before I head out for this
tomorrow - is anyone else from the list going?
http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
London E14, 11 to 6.30. Looks quite interesting.
http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
Someone carefully noted on Our Dear Leader's bio that she had tendered
her resignation. Despite my followup here and on the article talk,
no-one's corrected this ... fairly obviously, neither she nor any WMUK
director should make an edit. I welcome the wisdom of the editing pool
on this point.
- d.
[Forwarded from Arkady Rose, whose main SMTP server seems to be at
odds with mail.wikimedia.org]
"I don't think the majority of directors fully understand that
volunteering to be on the board of directors of a company is a damned
sight more legally binding than volunteering on WP, and that if you fail
to discharge the duties you've willingly taken on there can actually be
legal repercussions.
It sounds very much as though an emergency meeting of the board needs to
be convened so the treasurer and secretary can be replaced - granted my
grasp of company law is nowhere near as good as yours, but I'm recalling
a similar incident that happened in the National Fancy Rat Society some
6 years ago in which an EGM was called, Treasurer, Secretary and Press
Officer were dismissed, three new people appointed to the board and the
positions reappointed, which was done in the absence of the Treasurer
and Press Officer. The votes were overwhelming majorities."
What's needed now is an EGM to do precisely that. If board members
cannot or will not fulfill their duties, they must be removed -
forcibly, through a vote of no confidence if need be - and replacements
appointed. WMUK is a legal entity, like it or not, and it's about time
people started treating it like one.
So... yes, feel free to forward this whole thing on to the list. In the
meantime I need to poke my subscription settings for the list I think
and change my email address to my Gmail one so I can actually
participate myself.
-d.
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