Wikimedia Hungary have recently introduced an online form where applicants can fill in their details to apply for membership. It looks pretty snazzy - link below.
Is this something that Wikimedia UK should/could consider?
Andrew
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Samat, 21/04/2009 20:19:
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> * An online membership registration interface [5] was created to
> facilitate joining the chapter.
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> [5]: http://wiki.media.hu/jelentkezes
Please find below an email from Mike Goodwin, the Wikimedia Foundation's General Counsel, to the Wikimedia chapters regarding on-going discussions on a new standard chapters agreement. He has agreed that we can share this information with chapter members.
This information may also be relevant to the members when considering Resolutions 6a and 7 to the AGM, which require the Directors to get a vote of the membership in favour before agreeing to any changes to the Chapter Agreement.
Andrew
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Sent: Monday, 20 April, 2009 21:30:20 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: [Internal-l] Update on Chapters Agreement revision
Dear Wikimedians,
As those of you who were at the meeting in Berlin will recall, I said I hoped to have a revised standard Chapters Agreement available for your review by today. Thanks to the exceedingly useful feedback I received in Berlin about trademark issues and other considerations, that revision is taking a little longer than I expected. The delay is in part due to the fact that we are having Stanford Law School review the revised Agreement -- the revision is comprehensive, and it deals with a lot more than just trademark issues. The Stanford legal clinic has reviewed a range of chapter affiliation agreements from around the world, and the effort has been aimed at producing the best possible revised Agreement -- one that will, I hope, quickly gain consensus among Community members, Chapters, and other Wikimedian stakeholders.
I hope to have the revised agreement in front of you by the end of the month -- with luck, I'll have something to you before then. Thank you for your patience -- although I imagine there will be discussion about particular aspects of the new revised Agreement, I also think it will be apparent to everyone how much work we put into making the Agreement a better one.
And, again, thank you for your feedback in Berlin and afterwards -- it has been immensely helpful to me in this process.
--Mike
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WIKIMEDIA UK
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
SUNDAY 26TH APRIL, 1PM
MANCHESTER
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Here are some more details about the chapter's AGM coming up next Sunday in Manchester. Included below are further details of the venue, the agenda and the speakers. If you have any queries please email us at secretary(a)wikimedia.org.uk or reply to this message.
Regards,
The Board
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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AGM VENUE
The AGM will be held in Kro-Bar, 325 Oxford Road, opposite the main entrance to Manchester University Students' Union. We will be upstairs in the Matlock Rooms. Directions to kro-bar are at [1] and their website for more information is at [2]. Full address in at [3]. Downstairs will be open from 10:30 in the morning to 10:30 at night for anyone wanting to eat or drink before or after the AGM.
[1] http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Oxford+Rd,+Ma…
[2] http://www.kro.co.uk
[3] Kro Bar, 325 Oxford Rd., Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, M13 9PG
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AGM SPEAKERS
We are pleased to share the details of our four speakers who will be leading the discussions from 2pm to 3pm on the future plans of Wikimedia UK. They are:
Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation
The Open Knowledge Foundation is one of the UK's leading non-profit organisations promoting free content. OKF run an annual Open Knowledge Conference in London which bring together different groups working in the UK on open content. Rufus Pollock is a co-founder of OKF who has been a director since 2004.
Jo Seddon, Oxford Wikimania
Jo Seddon has been one of the leaders of the Oxford bid for Wikimania 2010 - the main annual conference for Wikimedia enthusiasts the world over. We will know soon whether or not we have won the bid: if we have, Jo will be talking about the ways the chapter can support Wikimania and what we can expect in the next 18 months. Otherwise, we will be looking into how we can use our experience with the bid to put on our own UK conference.
Steve Bowbrick, BBC
Steve Bowbrick is the editor of the BBC Radio 4 Blog and Wikipedia enthusiast. He will be talking about how the chapter can collaborate with BBC staff. Areas of discussion include making the BBC archives more freely available, encouraging the BBC to re-use Wikipedia content and encouraging BBC staff to get involved with editing Wikipedia.
At a time when the German Wikimedia chapter has just announced their second major free-content release deal - releasing 250,000 images from a Photo Museum[1] - the potential of this relationship with our new chapter is very exciting.
[1] For more information on this see http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/03/31/over-250k-new-images-join-the-wikimedi…
Duncan Harris, Wikipedia for Schools
Wikipedia for Schools is a long-standing project, based in the UK, re-using Wikipedia content. The project creates child-friendly material organised around the National Curriculum which teachers can use in their lessons. We are very fortunate to have this project based here in the UK and look forward to working together in the coming years. More details of the project are shown at [1]
[1] http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/wikipedia-for-schools.h…
Each speaker will be talking for around ten minutes and then we will have 20 minutes at the end for a general roundtable discussion on the subjects discussed and the future activities of the chapter.
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AGM AGENDA
The full details of the Agenda are given below:
1pm: Welcome, refreshments and informal discussions
1:00pm: Arrival, refreshments, meet & greet and an opportunity for informal discussions and people to join the chapter if they haven't already
1:30pm: Introduction by the secretary, Andrew Turvey, and the Chair, Kwan Ting Chan.
1:35pm: Opportunity for further informal discussions
2pm: Discussions led by our invited speakers and the Board
The Chair, Kwan Ting Chan, will introduce each speaker who will talk for around ten minutes. After the four speakers, there will be twenty minutes roundtable discussion.
3pm: Formal business of the meeting, including hustings and election of the new Board
3:00pm: Coffee break
3:15pm: Hustings
Chaired by Kwan Ting Chan, each of the eight candidates for the Board will have an opportunity to give a brief speech for no more than two minutes. The floor will then be opened to allow members to question the candidates for the remainder of the time.
Copies of candidate statements, the candidate Q&As and ballot papers will be available throughout the meeting and members will be able to vote until the close of the hustings.
3:45pm: Resolutions
Chaired by Kwan Ting Chan, each of the seven Resolutions will be taken in turn. Resolutions 1-6a will be proposed by Andrew Turvey, Secretary, and Resolution 7 will be proposed by Tom Dalton. The proposer may make a short statement of up to 1 minute (2 minutes for resolutions 6a and 7 which are contested). The chair will invite any member present if they want to speak against the resolution or propose an amendment and will give them the same time as the proposers.
Voting will be by a show of hands, taking care to distinguish between members and non-members and not to double count proxy votes already received. If the vote is close to the required majority (75% for the Special Resolutions and 50% for all others) then a roll call will be taken by the tellers.
4:15pm: Announcement of the election results
Following the resolutions, the tellers will announce the results of the Board election.
The Annual General Meeting will then close, but people are welcome to stay around after for refreshments and informal discussions.
4:30pm - 6:30pm: The first meeting of the new Board will start immediately after the AGM.
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Is there any way we can opt-out of this for uk.wikimedia.org?
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We're planning to do a brief Board report (perhaps 1 or 2 pages) to
the AGM summarising the acheivements of the initial Board.
Has anyone got ideas for what they would like it to contain? If so,
please comment here:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Meetings/2009_AGM/Board%27s_Report
Thanks
Andrew
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:46:21 -0700
From: phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com
To: wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimania-l] 2010 update
Dear all,
I know the bidders for Wikimania 2010 are probably very impatient and excited, but unfortunately, I don't think the Wikimania jury is going to come to consensus by tomorrow on which bid should host the conference. We are going over every point of each bid according to these criteria:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Judging_criteria
and there's a lot of information to work through.
Bidders, please congratulate yourselves on all producing strong bids -- there is not an obvious choice :) I'll try to keep everyone updated on the timeline, (which probably should have been changed a long time ago to reflect how much time it takes to talk about the bids).
thanks,
Phoebe (wm jury moderator)
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Is anyone planning on attending Wikimania 2009 in Buenos Aires? I will
be if I can get a scholarship [1], and was also thinking someone
should talk about WMUK. So I was planning to submit an "open space
discussion" [2] about the chapter, which would be a chance to talk
about some of the things we've done (or will have done by then) and
discuss the chapter with the wider community. (The other formats -
presentation and panel - seem overly formal and not as flexible,
moreover I don't think I can prepare the application in time for their
earlier deadline of the 15th!) The deadline for open space discussion
submissions is the 30th April.
So, is anyone planning to attend, and would they be interested in
joining this endeavour? Or has anyone submitted a similar application
that I don't know about?
It would of course also be a great opportunity to learn more about
Wikimania, in preparation for *fingers crossed* 2010
Pete / the wub
[1] - http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
[2] - http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation
Hi Mike,
I got "content liberation" from the Berlin chapters' meeting (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2009/Schedule#Content_liber…). Thinking about it now, I can see why the partner organisations wouldn't be too keen to hear it described as "liberation"! It would be good to have something brief and snappy, though - how about "content access partnerships"? That describes what were doing - partnering with other organisations to increase access to their existing content. Thanks for your re-write.
I certainly agree Main Page needs some work - I've made a start and I'll put my thoughts on the talk page.
Andrew
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From: "Michael Peel" <email(a)mikepeel.net>
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Sent: Thursday, 9 April, 2009 00:03:02 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership drive template
Andrew,
"Content liberation" is a really bad phrase to use -- we're not
liberating it, we're working with institutions to make the content
more widely available. I've rewritten the project outline to try to
make this clearer... (will do more work on this when I'm more awake!)
Unless someone beats me too it, I'll rework the main page at some
point - it really needs to look a lot better than it does now! As a
result, it might be best to have a separate page for "keep in touch".
I'd also comment that anyone can come along to the AGM - they don't
have to be a member - although if they want to participate properly
then they obviously do need to be a member.
Mike
On 8 Apr 2009, at 23:48, AndrewRT wrote:
> I've put together a proposed tempate for sending round everyone who's
> previously expressed an interest in the chapter but hasn't joined up
> yet.
>
> It's at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AndrewRT/
> WMUK#Join_up_template
>
> Please let me know if yu have any suggestions for improvements.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew
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Yes I think we need to ensure provisions for this in all future elections.
Seddon
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Sent: 08 April 2009 09:07
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election of Directors - Candidate statements and ballot paper
James et al.,
Thanks for sorting all of this out. What's the best way for people to
ask questions of the candidates? Should it be done privately, or
should we have a page for this as we did for the last elections?
This is something that was overlooked in the writing of the election
rules... :-(
Mike
On 8 Apr 2009, at 08:09, James Farrar wrote:
> WIKI UK LTD (WIKIMEDIA UK)
> ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
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> This message contains the following information pertaining to the
> election of Directors of Wiki UK Limited (Wikimedia UK):
>
> (1) Statement of Persons Nominated
> (2) Electoral Procedure
> (3) Candidate Statements
> (4) Ballot Paper for absentee voting.
> <cut>
> As ever, any questions about the elections should be directed to
> tellers(a)wikimedia.org.uk.
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I've put together a proposed tempate for sending round everyone who's
previously expressed an interest in the chapter but hasn't joined up
yet.
It's at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AndrewRT/WMUK#Join_up_template
Please let me know if yu have any suggestions for improvements.
Cheers
Andrew