Dear all,
I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER).
Copies of the resolution will be posted on wikimediafoundation.org in the next days, in case you need something like a signed version of it (for the bank?), you would need to get in touch with Patti Melton (pmelton at wikimedia dot org) at the Foundation office.
My sincere congratulations and all the best -- if I can be of any help, both now as ChapCom member and from October onwards as UK resident, I'll be glad to. I am very impressed by the amount of work that the board and all other volunteers have already done by now and I'm sure that, with this final roadblock removed, there is nothing to stop the chapter now!
Yours,
Michael
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER).
Copies of the resolution will be posted on wikimediafoundation.org in the next days, in case you need something like a signed version of it (for the bank?), you would need to get in touch with Patti Melton (pmelton at wikimedia dot org) at the Foundation office.
My sincere congratulations and all the best -- if I can be of any help, both now as ChapCom member and from October onwards as UK resident, I'll be glad to. I am very impressed by the amount of work that the board and all other volunteers have already done by now and I'm sure that, with this final roadblock removed, there is nothing to stop the chapter now!
Yours,
Michael
Congratulations! Well done everyone!
2009/1/12 Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com:
I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER).
*champagne*
- d.
At 14:39 +0000 12/1/09, David Gerard wrote:
2009/1/12 Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com:
I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER).
*champagne*
- d.
Fizz!
Gordo
Michael,
Great. :-) Now we can start on the interesting stuff...
Thanks for letting us know.
Mike Peel
On 12 Jan 2009, at 14:24, Michael Bimmler wrote:
Dear all,
I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER).
Copies of the resolution will be posted on wikimediafoundation.org in the next days, in case you need something like a signed version of it (for the bank?), you would need to get in touch with Patti Melton (pmelton at wikimedia dot org) at the Foundation office.
My sincere congratulations and all the best -- if I can be of any help, both now as ChapCom member and from October onwards as UK resident, I'll be glad to. I am very impressed by the amount of work that the board and all other volunteers have already done by now and I'm sure that, with this final roadblock removed, there is nothing to stop the chapter now!
Yours,
Michael
-- Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
Woop thanks. I'll e-mail Patti.
Tom
2009/1/12 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
Michael,
Great. :-) Now we can start on the interesting stuff...
Thanks for letting us know.
Mike Peel
On 12 Jan 2009, at 14:24, Michael Bimmler wrote:
Dear all,
I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER).
Copies of the resolution will be posted on wikimediafoundation.org in the next days, in case you need something like a signed version of it (for the bank?), you would need to get in touch with Patti Melton (pmelton at wikimedia dot org) at the Foundation office.
My sincere congratulations and all the best -- if I can be of any help, both now as ChapCom member and from October onwards as UK resident, I'll be glad to. I am very impressed by the amount of work that the board and all other volunteers have already done by now and I'm sure that, with this final roadblock removed, there is nothing to stop the chapter now!
Yours,
Michael
-- Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
2009/1/12 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
Michael,
Great. :-) Now we can start on the interesting stuff...
Thanks for letting us know.
Mike Peel
So time for me to put together that list of all the national collections that may be of interest to us.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER).
Congratulations, everyone!
*cheers*
Congratulations to all of us, and thank you to the boards of both Wikimedia UK (I enjoyed typing that and it actually being true finally!) and the foundaion for getting us to this stage!
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER).
Excellent news!
Pages such as [[meta:Wikimedia chapters]] and [[wmf:Local chapters]] really need updating in the light of this.
Sam
It's fantastic to hear the news we've all been waiting for.
So much to do! There's plenty which can be updated now; the board meeting could provide a usual place to discuss what other online information needs updating.
Mickey
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER).
Excellent news!
Pages such as [[meta:Wikimedia chapters]] and [[wmf:Local chapters]] really need updating in the light of this.
Sam
-- Sam PGP public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/public_key
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
2009/1/12 Mickey Conn mickey.conn@gmail.com:
It's fantastic to hear the news we've all been waiting for.
So much to do! There's plenty which can be updated now; the board meeting could provide a usual place to discuss what other online information needs updating.
Now we are an official chapter, we should be able to get our own site on WMF servers - we'll have a lot to do transferring things over to that site. The current site, wikimedia.org.uk, will need to be redirected as well.
2009/1/12 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
Now we are an official chapter, we should be able to get our own site on WMF servers - we'll have a lot to do transferring things over to that site. The current site, wikimedia.org.uk, will need to be redirected as well.
There's a bug filed asking for space on the WMF servers.
Note that this is in no way mandatory - other chapters have servers hosted in all sorts of places. Typically the US, which is of course *the* place for cheap noncontroversial hosting :-)
- d.
2009/1/12 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/1/12 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
Now we are an official chapter, we should be able to get our own site on WMF servers - we'll have a lot to do transferring things over to that site. The current site, wikimedia.org.uk, will need to be redirected as well.
There's a bug filed asking for space on the WMF servers.
Excellent!
Note that this is in no way mandatory - other chapters have servers hosted in all sorts of places. Typically the US, which is of course *the* place for cheap noncontroversial hosting :-)
Sure, but the WMF servers seems to best place to get started. Maybe once the chapter is a little more established it might be worth looking into other options, but a simple wiki on the WMF servers will do perfectly well for now.
Note that this is in no way mandatory - other chapters have servers hosted in all sorts of places. Typically the US, which is of course *the* place for cheap noncontroversial hosting :-)
Sure, but the WMF servers seems to best place to get started. Maybe once the chapter is a little more established it might be worth looking into other options, but a simple wiki on the WMF servers will do perfectly well for now.
I agree with Tom here - the WMF servers are the best place for now. Perhaps after we've been going for a while, we'll be able to buy toolservers etc., which would then be the obvious place for hosting the website. But the WMF is the best place for an incubator site for the fledgling-WMUK-that-just-got-some-wings.
Mike
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
2009/1/12 Mickey Conn mickey.conn@gmail.com:
It's fantastic to hear the news we've all been waiting for.
So much to do! There's plenty which can be updated now; the board meeting could provide a usual place to discuss what other online information needs updating.
Now we are an official chapter, we should be able to get our own site on WMF servers - we'll have a lot to do transferring things over to that site. The current site, wikimedia.org.uk, will need to be redirected as well.
Shouldn't be too difficult. The Wikimedia UK site does not appear to be a wiki curiously enough, so it may be easier to start the relevant pages from scratch. There's also a ton of stuff on Meta-wiki that can be imported.
Shouldn't be too difficult. The Wikimedia UK site does not appear to be a wiki curiously enough, so it may be easier to start the relevant pages from scratch. There's also a ton of stuff on Meta-wiki that can be imported.
There is very little on the old WMUK site that is about the new chapter. Most of the stuff that needs to be transferred to a new site is the stuff on meta, the old site just needs to be redirected.
Already requested.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16996
T
2009/1/12 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/1/12 Mickey Conn mickey.conn@gmail.com:
It's fantastic to hear the news we've all been waiting for.
So much to do! There's plenty which can be updated now; the board meeting could provide a usual place to discuss what other online information needs updating.
Now we are an official chapter, we should be able to get our own site on WMF servers - we'll have a lot to do transferring things over to that site. The current site, wikimedia.org.uk, will need to be redirected as well.
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
In message 353e9f360901120624g66671354i8ee01ac5eae65cce@mail.gmail.com wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org writes:
Dear all,
I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revoke
Well done to the Wikimedia UK v2 team.
(I may be quiet, but I am monitoring and will assist as when I can)
Ross
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