I would oppose any support from Wikimedia UK for targeted use of the Wikipedia main page to increase the visibility of projects like Gibraltarpedia.
Beyond that, I believe it would also be extremely unwise for WMUK to offer such support.
Andreas
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:41 PM, HJ Mitchell hjmitchell@ymail.com wrote:
I don't want to set the cat among the pigeons, but does this mean that WMUK can now support GibraltarpediA?
I perfectly understand that things are a bit more complicated when it comes to money and formal agreements, but after the wonderful success in Monmouth, it would be a shame if the excellent work going on in Gibraltar continued to be overshadowed by the controversies about conflicts of interest and ownership of QRpedia. I think WMUK could do quite a bit to be seen to be supportive, and I think recognition of the project from formal entities within the movement (such as chapters) can go a long way towards changing the "default narrative" (to pinch Stevie's phrase).
All that said, I'm very pleased to see that this has finally been resolved and (it seems) with a minimum of acrimony. Hopefully all those involved will be happy with what they have contributed to the Wikimedia movement and will continue their involvement with it for a long time to come.
Harry Mitchell http://enwp.org/User:HJ Phone: 024 7698 0977 Skype: harry_j_mitchell
*From:* John Byrne john@bodkinprints.co.uk *To:* wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Monday, 11 February 2013, 16:37 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia
What we had is best described as "a delay in agreeing terms for the donation" or similar.
John On 11/02/2013 14:03, wikimediauk-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:21:39 +0000 From: Stevie Benton <
stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk> To: UK Wikimedia mailing list < wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia Message-ID: <CACti2rKAKugc3dnTC1k+xj+ L8Dv9UGbiJyBUBFhS-gOuDtLUew@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" This is something I'm liaising on with the WMF. The original copy was put together jointly between WMF and WMUK and I'm keen that any revisions are accepted by both sides. I'm hopeful that we can get this fixed today. Thanks, Stevie On 9 February 2013 20:40, Andy Mabbett < andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
On 9 February 2013 17:10, Chris Keating<chris.keating@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
The intellectual property in QRpedia and the qrpedia.org and
qrwp.org
domains will be transferred to Wikimedia UK
It would be a good idea to update <
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/02/questions-and-answers-related-to-the-go...
ASAP (which I appreciate might mean Monday)
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing
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