On 7 Apr 2014, at 16:21, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On 7 April 2014 16:08, Michael Peel <michael.peel@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On 7 Apr 2014, at 15:12, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
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> > On 7 April 2014 13:11, Roger Bamkin <victuallers@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Bar liam.
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> > Liam was the first WiiR, but not, I understand, in conjunction with WMUK.
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> That depends on what you mean by 'conjunction with'. He was certainly 'liaising with', and it was an achievement that WMUK had an important role in at the time and should at least view as WMUK-supported (WMUK/I introduced Liam to the British Museum when he was in the UK, which started the whole ball rolling).
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> If you can reference that, it can go in
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_residence
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> which might be a better place to sort out the early history - conflict of interest permitting, of course.

Referencing is tricky - the best reference for WMUK's involvement would probably be pages like:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Backstage_Pass
and I'm not sure WMUK's wiki counts as a reliable source. ;-) Some of the history's never been recorded. Either way, I have a COI so couldn't add this - the same as I can't edit the Editathon article to talk about the conception/first ever editathon under that name back in 2011 at the British Library...