Hi There
My name is Horatio Rodriguez, I currently live in the Scotland, UK.
I have been watching a television documentary on the wikimedia foundation, & on there it states that apart from 10 people everyone else is a volunteer, that consists of maintaining and editing posts on wikipedia & various other task¹s.
I am currently not working but have been in a 1st Line Incident Support Management role, and have an NQ in engineering & Computing Technology & a HNC in Engineering & Computing.
I am really interested in the work that the wikimedia foundation provides and would like to ask if there would be a possibility to volunteer and help out in any way.
I appreciate you time for looking over this.
Kind Regards
Horatio Rodriguez
I am really interested in the work that the wikimedia foundation provides and would like to ask if there would be a possibility to volunteer and help out in any way.
Just sign up on a project of your choice and start editing articles! All help is welcome. (You don't even need to sign up, you can do a lot of things anonymously.) There is an "edit this page" link at the top of every page, just click it and you can change anything, you don't need special permission or anything (well, you do for a tiny minority of pages, but don't worry about those).
You may find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial useful.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
I am really interested in the work that the wikimedia foundation provides and would like to ask if there would be a possibility to volunteer and
help
out in any way.
Just sign up on a project of your choice and start editing articles! All help is welcome. (You don't even need to sign up, you can do a lot of things anonymously.) There is an "edit this page" link at the top of every page, just click it and you can change anything, you don't need special permission or anything (well, you do for a tiny minority of pages, but don't worry about those).
You may find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial useful.
I'm speaking up here, because I directed the original poster to this list via OTRS in the first place. I already gave him tips on Wikipedia participation via OTRS and told him how to contact Cary in order to do direct WMF volunteer work. I directed him here for information on volunteering in the UK / with Wikimedia UK, especially since as far as I know, Wikimedia UK does not yet have many volunteers in Scotland and perhaps, a local point of contact could be useful in Scotland as well?
Michael
2008/10/12 Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com
I directed him here for information on volunteering in the UK / with Wikimedia UK, especially since as far as I know, Wikimedia UK does not yet have many volunteers in Scotland and perhaps, a local point of contact could be useful in Scotland as well?
Michael
-- Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com
Well... no one apart from our chair :-)
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 23:33 +0100, Al Tally wrote:
Well... no one apart from our chair :-)
If you're talking about me, I'm not actually in Scotland at this moment in time, though I'm looking to be back there soon enough.
KTC
I'm speaking up here, because I directed the original poster to this list via OTRS in the first place. I already gave him tips on Wikipedia participation via OTRS and told him how to contact Cary in order to do direct WMF volunteer work. I directed him here for information on volunteering in the UK / with Wikimedia UK, especially since as far as I know, Wikimedia UK does not yet have many volunteers in Scotland and perhaps, a local point of contact could be useful in Scotland as well?
Wikimedia UK is just getting going, so there's not a great deal going on beyond setup. If people want to use their initiative and come up with things to do, great, but it's going to be a few months at least until they can help out with existing projects (unless they want to help out with the setup, in which case, monitor this list and speak up if you have any opinions on the matters being discussed).
wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org