Wikimediauk-l April 2011

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Info: Press interest in Wikipedia articles for 'super-injunction celebrities'
by Fae 21 May '11

21 May '11

This story has run in several newspapers today (Thursday) and shows that Wikipedia has processes that can protect articles (which most of the public would be unaware of) and that prompt action is taken when verifiability or legal issues are outstanding. * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/8479272/Wikipedia-users-nam… * http://www.metro.co.uk/news/862006-wikipedia-names-super-injunction-celebri… * http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381487/Wikipedia-names-4-UK-celebr… * http://www.techdigest.tv/2011/04/superinjunction.html I would be interested to know if any other members have opinions on how well the press interest was handled by WM-UK and whether we would have been better off saying more, less or putting our case more fully on the WM-UK blog http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk ? Thanks, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae

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Other Events
by Lewis Cawte 17 May '11

17 May '11

Hi, I'm not a member of Wikimedia UK (because I can never find the money when I think about joining), but I've noticed a lot of the events are university things or museum stuff, I was wondering, are there any other types of events, for example, I know the Dutch/German chapters run or host the occasional Hack-a-Thon or meetups at other coding related events. Do we do anything other than the GLAM or whatever it is? -- Lewis Cawte 14 year old Wikimedia, LAMP server owner and follower of MediaWiki development.

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London Wikipedia Academy, podcast feature
by Charles Matthews 01 May '11

01 May '11

There is a short feature by Harriet Vickers, who was there on 13 April, now available from http://poddelusion.co.uk/blog/ as episode 81 (i.e. a week ago, not their Royal wedding special). Sadly for the rest of you, it's an interview with me, rather than related directly to the talks. 34 minutes or so in, as it says. Charles

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Any views on our outreach materials?
by Chris Keating 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

You might have seen the "Welcome to Wikipedia" booklet (top item on here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf/) WMUK is planning to get some more of these printed as they're very useful at events. Before we start doing that I just wanted to ask if anyone here has any feedback on it as it stands. If you've been making use of them at universities / GLAMS etc and can think of ways to improve it, please let me know. Or indeed if you think it's great as is please let me know, as we are looking at making some changes before we order some. Also if you have any requests or ideas for others leaflets/flyers/handouts or the like please shout, as there will probably be other things we can usefully produce. And finally, if you have experience using Scribus and might be willing to do some light DTP to help make all of this work, please do drop me a line. :-) I have created a page on the WMUK Wiki here: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Publications - or please feel free to email me. Chris (Board member responsible for dead trees)

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Education] Calling all students: student club IRC
by Michael Peel 24 Apr '11

24 Apr '11

Forwarding in the hope that there are interested students, or people that know interested students, subscribed to this list that might want to follow Imperial's lead here... :-) (Also, in case you haven't spotted the newly-formed Wikimedia education list, you can join it at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education .) Thanks, Mike Begin forwarded message: > From: Jessie Wild <jwild(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: 22 April 2011 22:33:55 GMT+01:00 > To: education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Calling all students: student club IRC > Reply-To: education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Hello! > > If you are a student and want to become more involved with Wikimedia, be > a leader and organizer on your university campus, and interact with a > global network of like-minded students, starting a STUDENT CLUB could be > a great opportunity for you! > > As many of you know, Wikipedia focused university outreach is begin to > take more and more active forms.[1] I was hoping that you would all be > the first to begin the conversations about how students clubs can > effectively become part of the larger Wikimedia movement.[2] > > I would love to schedule a time on IRC for us to get together and > brainstorm ways to move forward with the student movement of > Wikip/media. Specific agenda items, time, and channel can be found on > the talk page: > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_student_clubs. > > Please spread the word! All are welcome – specifically current > university & college students :) > > Jessie > > [1] http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_University_Program > [2] http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_student_clubs > > > > -- > Jessie Wild > Special Projects Manager > Global Development > Wikimedia Foundation > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education

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Election rules review
by James Farrar 23 Apr '11

23 Apr '11

Ladies and gents, Following discussions at the AGM, I have been invited to conduct a review of the election rules. Please make any comments you have at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Election_Rules.

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Hello from the new Board!
by Chris Keating 22 Apr '11

22 Apr '11

As you might know, a new Board was elected last Saturday at the WikiConference in Bristol. The new Board is: Roger Bamkin (Victuallers) - Chair Andrew Turvey (AndrewRT) - Treasurer Michael Peel (Mike Peel) - Secretary Chris Keating (The Land) Martin Poulter (MartinPoulter) Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) Steve Virgin (Steve Virgin) Gemma Griffiths continues as a pro-bono public relations consultant to the Board, while Tom Dalton steps down as Treasurer. I am sure I speak for the whole board when I say we are looking forward to working with the whole community over the coming year. Amongst the aims discussed on Saturday are professionalising the Chapter, achieving charity status, and announcing more exciting outreach projects and partnership - more on these things to come. If there's anything you'd like to discuss please do get in touch. You can reach each of us by email at firstname.surname(a)wikimedia.org.uk . Members are also very welcome to attend Board meetings, which are held alternately by conference calls and online - the provisional schedule is at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings Chris (The Land)

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Survey about WikiConference UK 2011
by Andrew Turvey 22 Apr '11

22 Apr '11

For people who are on this list but didn't register via EventBrite. Apologies to anyone who gets this message twice. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wikimedia UK <contact(a)eventbrite.com> Date: Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:24 AM Subject: Message to attendees of WikiConference UK 2011 To: andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com If you joined us at the WikiConference UK 2011<http://wikiconferenceuk2011.eventbrite.com/>last weekend, we hope you enjoyed it and welcome any feedback about the event. We have created a short survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MKT3Q6N - please take a short time to complete this so we can see what people enjoyed and how we can make it even better next year! Many thanks! *Wikimedia UK*

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TheNextWeb: "Wikimedia UK to Hire Full-Time Staff"
by Martin Poulter 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

Some very positive coverage on technology blog TheNextWeb (a competitor to TechCrunch), which gives a quick overview of what Wikimedia UK has done and is planning to do: http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/04/20/wikimedia-uk-hires-full-time-staff-aims… If you want to encourage coverage like this, then retweet, link and recommend away. Thanks Steve Virgin for putting the author in touch with me. -- 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 Board member of Wikimedia UK: http://uk.wikimedia.org/ "Creating a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge"

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Diversity of the board
by WereSpielChequers 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

Well we have geographic and age related diversity. Llinguistic, ethnic and gender diversity would be nice and I hope the board is keen to reach out to the celtic languages, non-native speakers and so forth. Gender diversity is a problem across almost the whole of Wikimedia. Maybe the board can address this by targeting their expenditure at recruiting in communities that are predominately female. Silver surfers and especially retired teachers and librarians for starters. WSC On 20 April 2011 11:44, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote: > On 19/04/2011 22:43, Chris Keating wrote: > > The new Board is: > Roger Bamkin (Victuallers) - Chair > Andrew Turvey (AndrewRT) - Treasurer > Michael Peel (Mike Peel) - Secretary > Chris Keating (The Land) > Martin Poulter (MartinPoulter) > Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) > Steve Virgin (Steve Virgin) > > Gentlemen, I expect us to be a registered charity by the 2012 AGM!!! > > Gordon > > P.S. Diversity of the board? > > > -- > > Gordon Joly > gordon.joly(a)pobox.com > http://www.joly.org.uk/ > Don't Leave Space To The Professionals! > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >

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