Wikimediauk-l March 2009

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools
by Sam Korn 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote: > The announcement is rather odd. Bit like saying "children should > watch more television" in the 1950s and 1960s. Twitter, WIkimedia, > Bebo, Facebook, MySpace are (social) media: is the suggestion that > they start media studies in school from the first day? Or is the > suggestion that 5 year olds become Wikipedia editors? Which God forbid... -- Sam PGP public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/public_key

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid update
by Thomas Dalton 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

2009/3/23 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>: > It is important for a local authority or a registered charity to be prudent.... The regulators said there was nothing wrong with the Icelandic banks - I think going with what the regulators say is sufficient to satisfy the duty of care. Anyway, this is massively off-topic!

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My Recent Inactivity
by Paul Williams 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Hi All, I would like to apologise for my sudden spate of inactivity in WMUK / Wikimania 2010 matters - just 5 days ago I suffered the loss of my father who had been suffering from cancer for the past year. It is high on my list of tasks to get to the AGM and to get reinvolved as soon as possible - but I didn't want you to think I had just popped out of existance! I am as interested in WMUK and its' acitivities as I will ever be - I just, right now, don't have the time to be as involved proactively as I would like to be now and in the future. As always, if you need me for anything, please do not hesitate to email me. I am willing and able to work on projects (it does infact help me to busy my mind). Regards, -- Paul "skenmy" Williams -- paul(a)skenmy.com

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Wikimania bid IRC meeting
by Thomas Dalton 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Apparently, there is an IRC meeting to discuss the wikimania bid (in #wikimania-oxford) at 8:30 tonight. I only know this because I saw it in the chapter website's sidebar (and got the time from the IRC channel topic) - there doesn't seem to have been an email about it (unless I missed it). So, here is an email! There are lots of tasks (mostly small) that still need to be done, so as many people turning up as possible would be great. See you all there!

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid update
by Thomas Dalton 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

2009/3/22 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>: > > > Why is registered charity status predicated on a successful Wikimania bid? It's not, but getting it soon is. You need an annual income of over £5000 to register, we're not likely to get that kind of money (or pledges for it) for several months at least without including Wikimania sponsorship.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid update
by Thomas Dalton 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

2009/3/23 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>: > At 22:31 +0000 22/3/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: >>2009/3/22 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>: >>> Also recall how local authorities got their fingers burned in Iceland... >> >>That wasn't due to risky investments, that was due to putting your >>money in a bank that then went bust. Hardly their fault. >> >>_________________ > > > Only in that they chased a better return offshore? Of course it was their responsibility. They made the decision to put their money in those banks. That doesn't mean it was their fault the money disappeared.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art?
by David Gerard 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

2009/3/22 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>: > This whole project has really been thought through... It got a bucketload of images, so it achieved its aims ;-p - d.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gift Aid update
by Thomas Dalton 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

2009/3/22 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>: > Also recall how local authorities got their fingers burned in Iceland... That wasn't due to risky investments, that was due to putting your money in a bank that then went bust. Hardly their fault.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art?
by Isabell Long 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

2009/3/22 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>: > At 15:16 -0700 20/3/09, Cary Bass wrote: >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>I'm supposed to be one of the judges. I found out that it's a lot of >>work assessing 6,300 images and haven't yet found much time for it. >> >>Cary > > > This whole project has really been thought through... I have just read through the rules again and it does seem like a rather big project! I would offer my services and help people like Cary assessing the images, but I don't know how to and even if I would qualify to do so, having not been involved in anything like this before?! Good luck to you all! Isabell -- Regards, Isabell Long. <isabell121(a)gmail.com> [[User:Isabell121]] on all public Wikimedia projects. OpenPGP Key ID: C395CE07

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Wikipedia Loves Art?
by Gordon Joly 22 Mar '09

22 Mar '09

What happened to Wikipedia Loves Art? http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art Did I win? :D Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.joly(a)pobox.com///

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