Much as Liam set up glamwiki.org as a handy re-direct
Apologies, of course Mike did the real work of sorting this out, Liam sticks to the hand waiving and dodgy beard. It's a team of super talents ;-)
Cheers, Fae
There seems to be an unspoken underlying assumption in this thread that efforts that can be seem to be directed as appeasing Scottish nationalists would not at the same time upset unionists.
"Wikimedia in Scotland" seems like a fair balance though.
KTC
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:10 +0100, Katie Chan wrote:
There seems to be an unspoken underlying assumption in this thread that efforts that can be seem to be directed as appeasing Scottish nationalists would not at the same time upset unionists.
I'd say that is assuming the "extreme" unionist position; that there is *only* the United Kingdom, or Great Britain. Those holding such a position are in a very, very small minority.
"Wikimedia in Scotland" seems like a fair balance though.
Exactly. Scotland has a well-defined geographic, and cultural, identity. It isn't "appeasing nationalists" to accept reality.
Brian McNeil.
On 16 September 2011 14:13, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:10 +0100, Katie Chan wrote:
There seems to be an unspoken underlying assumption in this thread that efforts that can be seem to be directed as appeasing Scottish nationalists would not at the same time upset unionists.
I'd say that is assuming the "extreme" unionist position; that there is *only* the United Kingdom, or Great Britain. Those holding such a position are in a very, very small minority.
"Wikimedia in Scotland" seems like a fair balance though.
Exactly. Scotland has a well-defined geographic, and cultural, identity. It isn't "appeasing nationalists" to accept reality.
Oh it's worse than that. It's a well-defined geographic, and cultural, identity invented by George IV's PR man. The fact that people have tried to build a nationalist identity around it is vaguely sickening. "Wikimedia Alba" would at least have the advantage of being a somewhat authentic identity. Yes I'm aware that traditionally any civilised lowlander would rather eat their own kidney than have any dealings with those highland bandits but from what I understand that is no longer the case (bloody meddling English).
"Wikimedia Alba" would at least have the advantage of being a somewhat authentic identity. Yes I'm aware that traditionally any civilised lowlander would rather eat their own kidney than have any dealings with those highland bandits but from what I understand that is no longer the case (bloody meddling English). -- geni
Cripes' Ginger; remind this Kentishman to wear two extra strong pairs of pants at the Edinburgh Wikimeet. Maybe we should take along some permanent markers so that highland folks can write in their varied preferred descriptions of their regional identity on their free teeshirt sponsored by WM-UK. ;-)
Fae
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