Andrew, yes I am interested and intend to be there. I must mention the press release about Derby Museum which as you know consumed a bit of effort. Derby Museums released it locally but as far as I can see it was never released by Wikimedia. Was this a board decision? best regards Roger 01332 702993 On 21 January 2011 00:24, Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com> wrote: From our blog, http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/: Could you lead Wikimedia UK to success? Next year is set to be another big year of growth for Wikimedia UK: we have just raised over £500,000 in the Wikimedia Annual Fundraiser. Most of this money will support the technical side of Wikimedia through donations to the Foundation and the Toolserver. However, we also plan to use the funds to recruit four more members of staff. These staff will mean we can scale up our activities, enable more activity by volunteers and professionalise the chapter. Our own developer, events organiser, a full time office manager and a chapter manager pulling everything together will no doubt transform Wikimedia UK. However, a key factor in our success will still be the board, which will continue to lead the chapter and be made up of unpaid volunteers. It will continue to be elected by our members, ordinary Wikimedians who support our mission and want to make Wikipedia and free knowledge even more successful. Can you help lead the chapter to success in 2011 by standing for election as a board member? If so, you’re warmly invited to join us on Saturday 5th February from 5pm where you can find out more about what is involved in being a board member and have an opportunity to ask any questions and meet other interested people. This “board interest day” will take place in central London (venue to be confirmed). If you are interested please drop me a line to chair @ wikimedia.org.uk to reserve your place. You can also give me a ring on 07403 216 991 if you would like to discuss further. Look forward to hearing from you! Andrew Turvey Chair, Wikimedia UK _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Roger Bamkin (aka Victuallers) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Mike What about Roger writing a brief blog post & we slip it quickly onto the facebook site as well? Steve -----Original Message----- From: wikimediauk-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael Peel Sent: 24 January 2011 22:13 To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Could you lead Wikimedia UK to success? Hi Roger, I look forward to seeing you at the meeting. With the Derby museums press release: there was no board decision to not send this out. I think it just got overlooked in the general madness and busy-ness surrounding the 10th birthday. I'm following up with Gemma about this, and it will hopefully go out in the near future. Sorry about that. Thanks, Mike On 23 Jan 2011, at 10:45, Roger Bamkin wrote: consumed a bit of effort. Derby Museums released it locally but as far as I can see it was never released by Wikimedia. Was this a board decision? wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

A Holding email Doug, I had seen your previous email and seen it as an opportuntity to put together a really good description. This reply is not my best effort but it is quick. Basically the idea is to choose a museum outside London and see if wikimedia can focus the same amount of attention that we did on the British Museum last year. I was very involved with that collaboration which I saw as inspiring and very successful and it created over 100 new articles from FA down to Start. However the British Museum was big, famous and impressive when we arrived and although we created over 100 articles the overall effect on the museum itself was difficult to measure - ie it was still big, famous and impressive. Although I do not want to downplay the effect the work had on opinions and regard for wikimedia within the GLAM sector and the BM itself. It did convince me that a well organised project can inspire wikipedians and the people we come in contact with. I'm not sure of your knowledge of the BM work but there were two events to start with... ie a backstage pass and a challenge day. We have agreed with Derby museum that they will support these two events. This is not intended to be a regional event, but a national event focussed on one particular museum (per chance Derby). Its my hope that this model can be rolled forward to other museums with each meeting being a model of good/bad practise for the next. (At present there are only a couple of other museums on the "interested" list.... but if we don't build it then they might not come) The project exists as a press release <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/First_GLAMWIKI_outside_Capital>, and as a GLAM project <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Derby>. I would strongly encourage those who are interested to sign up <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Derby/Participants> to receive info and to keep it on your watch list. The challenge day is intended to particularly appeal to linguists (either by heritage (Polish, Urdu et al) or talent (Etruscan, latin etc)). Jimmy Wales has welcomed the proposal as has the board of Wikimedia UK. Currently I'm trying to get pictures available on commons so that wikipedians have these available ready for the first event. (A mini Britain loves Wikipedia pre push would be great as articles to my mind are inspired by pictures - I'm trying to intrigue Geograph-ers and Flickr-ers to contribute early to commons <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Derby_Museum_and_Art_Gallery>.) I see below Steve Virgin's proposal. I will make this into a blog post over the weekend. I thought it best to post this holding note so you did not feel the project was not listening to your enquiries cheers Roger On 28 January 2011 14:52, Doug Weller &lt;dougweller(a)gmail.com <mailto:dougweller@gmail.com>> wrote: Still trying to find out what the deal is with Derby Museum, which gather is not involved in Britain Loves Wikipedia competition, right? Doug On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:37 PM, steve virgin &lt;steve(a)mediafocusuk.com <mailto:steve@mediafocusuk.com>> wrote: onto the <mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org> <mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org>] On Behalf Of Michael Peel <mailto:wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org> decision to not madness and Gemma about about that. you know as far as I decision? &lt;andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com <mailto:andrewrturvey@googlemail.com>> UK: we chapter Wikimedia volunteers. knowledge join us on about what ask any (venue to chair @ place. You can also give me a ring on -- Doug Weller http://www.ramtops.co.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Roger Bamkin (aka Victuallers) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

A Holding email Doug, I had seen your previous email and seen it as an opportuntity to put together a really good description. This reply is not my best effort but it is quick. Basically the idea is to choose a museum outside London and see if wikimedia can focus the same amount of attention that we did on the British Museum last year. I was very involved with that collaboration which I saw as inspiring and very successful and it created over 100 new articles from FA down to Start. However the British Museum was big, famous and impressive when we arrived and although we created over 100 articles the overall effect on the museum itself was difficult to measure - ie it was still big, famous and impressive. Although I do not want to downplay the effect the work had on opinions and regard for wikimedia within  the GLAM sector and the BM itself. It did convince me that a well organised project can inspire wikipedians and the people we come in contact with. I'm not sure of your knowledge of the BM work but there were two events to start with... ie a backstage pass and a challenge day. We have agreed with Derby museum that they will support these two events. This is not intended to be a regional event, but a national event focussed on one particular museum (per chance Derby). Its my hope that this model can be rolled forward to other museums with each meeting being a model of good/bad practise for the next. (At present there are only a couple of other museums on the "interested" list.... but if we don't build it then they might not come) The project exists as a press release, and as a GLAM project. I would strongly encourage those who are interested to sign up to receive info and to keep it on your watch list. The challenge day is intended to particularly appeal to linguists (either by heritage (Polish, Urdu et al) or talent (Etruscan, latin etc)). Jimmy Wales has welcomed the proposal as has the board of Wikimedia UK. Currently I'm trying to get pictures available on commons so that wikipedians have these available ready for the first event. (A mini Britain loves Wikipedia pre push would be great as articles to my mind are inspired by pictures - I'm trying to intrigue Geograph-ers and Flickr-ers to contribute early to commons.) I see below Steve Virgin's proposal. I will make this into a blog post over the weekend. I thought it best to post this holding note so you did not feel the project was not listening to your enquiries cheers Roger On 28 January 2011 14:52, Doug Weller &lt;dougweller(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- Roger Bamkin (aka Victuallers) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org