Not quite UK, but close enough. (Is there a Wikimedia .ie list as
yet?) I'm on George Hook again, 5:50pm today, by phone. They want to
talk about the WikiScanner and this news story:
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhcweyojsnsn/
Last time was pretty lightweight and friendly, I expect this one will be too.
- d.
I wasn't sure if I was "allowed" to make the unofficial bid official bid
myself, but seeing as there are two other bids listed officially I thought
we should not let it slip us by. :)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/London is not very informative
currently. I will try and add to it today - the Cape Town
bid<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Cape_Town>[1]
has lots of sections and ideas to think about we can use ourselves. [2]
If I read the stuff on Meta correctly, we have nine days to make an official
bid into the running, then until the end of September to finalise.
Let's do it people!
--
Gary Kirk
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Cape_Town
[2] *wakes up* Oh, I see they just copied the template. Well, it's useful,
whoever worked on that :P)
I live in London and theres definitely no lack of conference facilities or
tourist activities, as well as an extensive if occasionally unreliable
public transport system. If this is over a weekend of course, there is a
large chance that several lines or sections of lines on the Tube will shut
down for engineering work.
Is there space for an external links section on the nomination page?
wikitravel.org/en/London, tfl.gov.uk and visitlondon.com etc
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> I wasn't sure if I was "allowed" to make the unofficial bid official bid
> myself, but seeing as there are two other bids listed officially I thought
> we should not let it slip us by. :)
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/London is not very
> informative
> currently. I will try and add to it today - the Cape Town
> bid<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Cape_Town>[1]
> has lots of sections and ideas to think about we can use ourselves. [2]
>
> If I read the stuff on Meta correctly, we have nine days to make an
> official
> bid into the running, then until the end of September to finalise.
>
> Let's do it people!
>
> --
> Gary Kirk
>
> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Cape_Town
> [2] *wakes up* Oh, I see they just copied the template. Well, it's useful,
> whoever worked on that :P)
>
Now doing this one at 6:30pm, not 5:30pm.
- d.
On 16/08/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> "The same stuff you were talking about on Radio 5 this morning,
> three-minute interview. I have the briefing notes from my colleagues
> at Radio 5, I'll call you at 4:30pm to talk more as well."
>
> We set the time for the piece around 5:30pm, I'd say listen from
> ~5:20pm if you can get BBC Radio 2. And of course it'll be streamed
> and on "listen again."
>
>
> - d.
>
Just spoke to Ian MacKenzie from BBC Radio 1, a piece for Newsbeat,
5:45pm today.
* I stressed that editing from work is fine, it's conflict of interest
that's bad.
* "the CIA guy can edit Buffy, he shouldn't edit CIA"
* "If your boss is OK with you editing from work, we're OK with you
editing from work"
* "Someone at the BBC shouldn't edit Radio 1, even if they're not in
that department"
* A lot of people just don't know how to approach us, e.g. Microsoft
example. We want to be more approachable, we don't want people scared
of us.
* Public perceptions - even though Microsoft were very open about
offering to pay a blogger to edit, people were outraged
* "Everything you do online is visible. If people catch you lying, or
even being unethical, it will be recorded online, it will be
remembered and they'll tear you to pieces. Be utterly honest." - he
really liked this one, I suspect it's going in.
(I know some here disagree on Microsoft's innocent intentions ... but
we lose nothing by being nice, and they did get massive bad publicity,
and everyone I've spoken to remembers them getting massive bad
publicity :-D )
I'm now going down the shops. Next radio interview will have to be on
the mobile ...
- d.
"The same stuff you were talking about on Radio 5 this morning,
three-minute interview. I have the briefing notes from my colleagues
at Radio 5, I'll call you at 4:30pm to talk more as well."
We set the time for the piece around 5:30pm, I'd say listen from
~5:20pm if you can get BBC Radio 2. And of course it'll be streamed
and on "listen again."
(I don't think I emailed this list about the Radio 5 piece, I expect I
didn't think anyone else would get up that early just to talk to
radio. See http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/08/15/i-saw-what-you-did-there/
.)
- d.
Interview just done with (I presume) Karen Patterson for Evening Extra
this evening:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/radioulster/evening_extra/
Show runs 5pm-6:30pm, 94.5 FM wherever their catchment area is. Should
be on "listen again" after that.
Just a short introduction to Wikipedia. I said it was popular because
it was useful, it's highly imperfect "because it's just written by
people" so isn't "reliable and checked", but it's a good starting
point for further reading.
One question I didn't expect:
Q. Do you think people are abandoning libraries for the Internet?
A. The Internet's more convenient. But I think libraries have been
systematically underfunded, so the Internet is filling a gap rather
than pushing them out.
- d.