Wikimediauk-l December 2009

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2010 Budget - suggestions needed
by Thomas Dalton 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

I don't think it ever got mentioned here, so I'll do so - there is a board meeting a week next Tuesday to discuss the budget for 2010 (I believe it is just an initial discussion, so I doubt any final decisions will be made). There is a page on the wiki: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Budget. I suggest everyone (board member or not) make suggestions either on that page or its talk page so there is plenty of material for discussion during the board meeting. I would estimate the chapter will have £10k-£15k of unrestricted funds to spend during the year. There may also be grants and other sources of income we can get for specific initiatives.

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Favourable publicity on academic portal
by Andrew Turvey 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

List members may be interested to hear about this blog post on Wikipedia that was forwarded to me. Regards, ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Martin Poulter" <M.L.Poulter(a)bristol.ac.uk> To: secretary(a)wikimedia.org.uk Sent: Thursday, 3 December, 2009 13:33:40 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Favourable publicity on Hi, I wasn't sure where to post this on the meta-wiki. I have something for your publicity file: I wrote a guest post on the Intute blog yesterday which gives a positive view of WP's policies. Intute is a publicly-funded internet portal for UK academics. http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/2009/12/02/advent-calendar-wikipedia-and-acade… Cheers, -- Dr Martin L Poulter ICT Manager, The Economics Network Based at the ILRT, University of Bristol: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ The full experience: http://infobomb.org/ Wikipedia contributor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter Bias research: http://biasandbelief.wordpress.com/ Serious music: http://virb.com/comapilot Comedy music: http://www.myspace.com/glandscape Community blog: http://doodznchyx.wordpress.com/

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First Wikmedia Seminar
by Andrew Turvey 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

We're happy to report that Steve Virgin and I have just given our first Wikimedia Seminar or "Learning Lunch" to Kaizo, a PR firm in London. The reaction was very positive, with a raft of questions that kept us speaking for around 90 minutes. There were some great opportunities discussed regarding their clients. One was a publisher who owns an archive of of professional journals going back over 100 years; we spoke about how a content release deal could fit into a "freemium" model and the example of the Saxon State Library experience [1]. Wikimedia would benefit from getting great content whilst the client would gain a positive image, a raised profile within their specialist community and traffic back to their own website where premium content is sold. We're now going to work with Kaizo on taking forward these ideas with their clients. I will upload the presentation we gave to the main Wikimedia presentation site [2] and would appreciate any feedback. Plans are in the pipeline for further seminars at, among others, BBC Bristol and the Brrism social networking group - if you're interested in getting involved in either delivering or writing further presentations please get in touch either by replying to me directly or adding your details to the speakers page on the wiki. If you've already volunteered we haven't forgotten and will be in touch shortly! Travel expenses are will be covered by the host organisation. [3] These "learning lunches" are one of three main projects that Wikimedia UK are focusing on achieving this year - alongside the "Britain Loves Wikipedia" museums event next February and the schools project. Alongside these three main projects we are also active in responding to various media enquiries, speaking to libraries and museums about content release and attending various conferences to give the Wikimedia perspective. Let us know if you can help us with any of these activities! [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/03/31/over-250k-new-images-join-the-wikimedi… [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presentations/en [3] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Speakers 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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"Wikipedia ordered by judge to break confidentiality of contributor"
by Michael Peel 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Telegraph today: "A senior judge has ordered Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, to disclose the identity of one of its contributors after a mother and her young child pleaded for help in identifying an alleged blackmailer." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6710237/Wikipedia- ordered-by-judge-to-break-confidentiality-of-contributor.html It's also in "This Is London": http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23778384-wikipedia- told-to-help-track-blackmailer.do Mike

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Paying for news
by Thomas Dalton 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

There is a lot in the news at the moment about newspapers, etc. charging people for accessing news on their websites. I wonder if Wikimedia UK should issue a press release recommending Wikinews as an alternative. The project could do with some publicity and this might be a good time to get it some since the subject of news websites is being discussed. It probably won't be in the news for long, though, so we would have to move quickly (the release probably needs to go out in the next 24 hours at the longest).

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 52, Issue 5
by zeyi 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Oh, sorry for that, thanks for pointing it out, Thomas. > Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:14:17 +0000 > From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Help us on Britain loves Wikipedia! > To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: > <a4359dff0911291014k6bd61dc1s7001064f4cfd627f(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 2009/11/29 zeyi <zeyi.he(a)googlemail.com>: >> 2, designing T-shit: T-shit will be given to volunteers on that day, >> which need to be remarkable, and represent our logo. > > That would be T-*shirt*, Zeyi... > > > > I would (although not yet a WMF-GB member) be delighted to chase up > Chamber's Street Museum in Edinburgh to do a day. > > I got dragged round there from around age 8 (32 years ago) by my > grandfather. He was a teacher and ex-mining engineer from WWII. At that > thime they had a lot of hand-made (but look like Hornby) models of > engineering work. I would be most interested in knowing if they still > have them hidden away somewhere. As a kid I loved going round and > pushing all the buttons to make things like bridges raise and mineheads > run. Those would make great little video clips for commons if I can > borrow some sort of decent vid-cam. > > > -- > Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> > http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil > Content of this message in no way represents the opinions or official > position of the Wikimedia Foundation or any of its projects. >

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Next board meeting: This evening
by Michael Peel 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hi all, The next board meeting will be this evening (Tuesday 1 December 2009) at 8.30-10.30pm BST. The first hour will be by Skype, the second hour will be held on IRC in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend the IRC session. If you don't have an IRC client, then you can connect using http://webchat.freenode.net/ . The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-12-01/Agenda Board members + Tango: please post whether you can attend, and your reports, to the agenda page. My thanks to those that have already given their attendance and started their reports. Thanks, Mike Peel

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