Dear all,
I am pleased to announce that Wikimedia UK has reached an agreement with
Roger Bamkin and Terence Eden regarding the ownership of QRpedia.
The intellectual property in QRpedia and the qrpedia.org and
qrwp.orgdomains will be transferred to Wikimedia UK, which will
maintain and
support the development of the QRpedia platform for the future. Roger and
Terence will act as honorary advisors to Wikimedia UK in this, as well as
retaining their moral rights of attribution, but will not receive any
financial consideration for this.
I am very pleased we have reached an agreement. I look forward to Wikimedia
UK working to support QRpedia's future development. This includes defining
our future involvement with the MonmouthpediA and GibraltarpediA projects.
A fuller statement will follow.
Regards,
Chris Keating
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Dear all,
I'd like to draw to your attention this joint statement with the Foundation
which I have just, with the authority of the Board, posted on our blog
regarding the management of conflicts of interests and this year's
fundraiser.
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/09/joint-statement-from-wikimedia-foundat…
Regards,
Chris Keating
Chair, Wikimedia UK
Should we have a Lua love-in for UK geeks sometime led by someone who
understands this?
Could be a jolly day?
Jon
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Interesting....
Dear Jon,
Today Google launched the Global Impact Challenge. Over the past few months
ACEVO has been working very closely with Google and think that this
game-changing award will celebrate the innovative work happening within the
sector. So we are inviting charities and voluntary organisations to
showcase how they would use technology to transform the lives of their
beneficiaries. The top four entries of the competition will each receive
£500,000 and support to help their project become a reality. A team at
Google will announce 10 finalists in mid-May and the public will be invited
to vote and donate to their favourite project.
The prestigious panel judging the finalists will be inventor of the
Internet Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Mogul Sir Richard Branson and founder and CEO
of Forster Communications Jilly Forster. It’s thrilling to know how similar
Google and ACEVO’s approach is in celebrating innovation - I feel that this
is the start of a great corporate friendship.
Applications opened today so apply here
www.g.co/impactchallenge<http://www.acevo.org.uk/page.redir?target=http%3a%2f%2fwww.globalimpactchal…>for
your chance win.
Best wishes and good luck,
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Hello everyone,
This is a last call for content for the Wikimedia UK monthly report for
February 2013. If you've any news or content you'd like to share in the
report please do so here<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2013/February>.
I'm going to publish the report on Thursday.
Thank you,
Stevie
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Hi all,
I've had a lot of interest (during workshops, etc) about the potential of
Wikidata, both from librarians and from researchers; there's a general
sense that it'll be very interesting, but no-one's quite sure what they'll
be able to do with it :-)
We'll be having a Wikidata session at GLAM-Wiki, but of course not everyone
is happy to come along to a short session on a Friday afternoon as part of
a larger conference. To get around this, I've organised an introductory
workshop at the BL on 26th April, 2-5pm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:GLAM/BL/Wikidata
All welcome - my targeted audience is librarians & digital-humanities
types, but if you're a Wikimedian who's interested in figuring out what's
going on with the new project, please do come along!
Conversely, if you're comfortable using/understanding Wikidata, and you'd
like to come along and help me *give* the workshop, please do let me know
:-). I'm reasonably comfortable with talking about it, but I'm aware there
are some gaps...
Thanks,
- Andrew.
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From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 27 March 2013 22:00
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement *please read*
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Hello Wikimedia community members,
This is not an easy e-mail to write, and it’s been a very hard
decision to make. But I’m writing to tell you that I’m planning to
leave my position as the Executive Director of the Wikimedia
Foundation.
My departure isn’t imminent -- the Board and I anticipate it’ll take
at least six months to recruit my successor, and I’ll be fully engaged
as Executive Director all through the recruitment process and until we
have a new person in place. We’re expecting that’ll take about six
months or so, and so this note is not goodbye -- not yet.
Making the decision to leave hasn’t been easy, but it comes down to two
things.
First, the movement and the Wikimedia Foundation are in a strong place
now. When I joined, the Foundation was tiny and not yet able to
reliably support the projects. Today it's healthy, thriving, and a
competent partner to the global network of Wikimedia volunteers. If
that wasn’t the case, I wouldn’t feel okay to leave. In that sense, my
leaving is a vote of confidence in our Board and executive team and
staff --- I know they will ably steer the Foundation through the years
ahead, and I’m confident the Board will appoint a strong successor to
me.
And I feel that although we’re in good shape, with a promising future,
the same isn’t true for the internet itself. (This is thing number
two.) Increasingly, I’m finding myself uncomfortable about how the
internet’s developing, who’s influencing its development, and who is
not. Last year we at Wikimedia raised an alarm about SOPA/PIPA, and
now CISPA is back. Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands
of industry groups and governments, and we’re --increasingly, I
think-- seeing important decisions made by unaccountable
non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile
walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based internet to one
that’s consumption-based. There are many organizations and individuals
advocating for the public interest online -- what’s good for ordinary
people -- but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they
are. I want that to change. And that’s what I want to do next.
I’ve always aimed to make the biggest contribution I can to the
general public good. Today, this is pulling me towards a new and
different role, one very much aligned with Wikimedia values and
informed by my experiences here, and with the purpose of amplifying
the voices of people advocating for the free and open internet. I
don’t know exactly what this will look like -- I might write a book,
or start a non-profit, or work in partnership with something that
already exists. Either way, I feel strongly that this is what I need
to do.
I feel an increasing sense of urgency around this. That said, I also
feel a strong sense of responsibility (and love!) for the Wikimedia
movement, and so I’ve agreed with the Board that I’ll stay on as
Executive Director until we have my successor in place. That’ll take
some time -- likely, at least six months.
Until then, nothing changes. The Wikimedia Foundation has lots of work
to do, and you can expect me to focus fully on it until we have a new
Executive Director in place.
I have many people to thank, but I’m not going to do it now --
there’ll be time for that later. For now, I’ll just say I love working
with you all, I’m proud of everything the Wikimedia movement is
accomplishing, and I’m looking forward to our next six months
together.
Jan-Bart’s going to write a note in a couple of minutes with
information about the transition process. We’ll be hosting office
hours this weekend as well, so anybody with questions can ask them
here or turn up to talk with us on IRC.
Thanks,
Sue
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Hello all - There is now a
page<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Towards_a_five_year_plan_2013-18>on
the wiki where you can start fleshing out what you want to see us
doing
over the next five years.
Plunge in, or take a while to have a look at the feedback from the event on
Saturday and the situational review; there are links at the bottom of the
page and very interesting they are too.
The timetable is quite tight if we are to have something substantial to
discuss at the AGM so don't hesitate to get going.
Have a good Easter,
Jon
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All,
Just to let you know that tomorrow's event will be livestreamed (audio
only) at
http://www.awdio.com/wikimedia-uk/d63ffffe-the-future-of-wikimedia-uk_35945…
.
All the best,
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
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