As David Cameron's such a fan, should we sent him a membership form! :)
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Well, in relative terms, anyway:
http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2009/04/The_age_of_austerity_spee...
"Our government spends nearly £400 million a year on advertising to reach sixty million people while Wikipedia, one of the largest websites in the world, spends about one per cent of that to reach 280 million people."
Not sure if his figures are accurate, but it's intriguing.
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"Our government spends nearly £400 million a year on advertising to reach sixty million people while Wikipedia, one of the largest websites in the world, spends about one per cent of that to reach 280 million people."
Not sure if his figures are accurate, but it's intriguing.
It is, of course, entirely inaccurate to say we spend around £4m on advertising ... we spend, as near as makes no difference, zero ;-P
AlisonW
Heh! :-)
2009/4/27 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
As David Cameron's such a fan, should we sent him a membership form! :)
----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "James Farrar" james.farrar@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, 26 April, 2009 19:45:50 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia
Well, in relative terms, anyway:
http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2009/04/The_age_of_austerity_spee...
"Our government spends nearly £400 million a year on advertising to reach sixty million people while Wikipedia, one of the largest websites in the world, spends about one per cent of that to reach 280 million people."
Not sure if his figures are accurate, but it's intriguing.
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2009/4/27 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
As David Cameron's such a fan, should we sent him a membership form! :)
And Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg, of course ;-)
Keeping resolutely nonpartisan is important, of course.
- d.
At 14:40 +0100 27/4/09, David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/27 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
As David Cameron's such a fan, should we sent him a membership form! :)
And Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg, of course ;-)
Keeping resolutely nonpartisan is important, of course.
- d.
Impartial? Then why not ask Seetha Kumar?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/seetha_kumar/
Gordo
2009/4/27 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/4/27 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
As David Cameron's such a fan, should we sent him a membership form! :)
And Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg, of course ;-)
Keeping resolutely nonpartisan is important, of course.
When they praise Wikipedia in a speech :-)
If we have any members who are secretly Tory members, they would be the best way to go about it - a cheeky letter to DC saying something like "I heard your praise for Wikipedia in your speech; would you be interested in in joining this organisation which supports its aims in the UK?" might almost work! ;-)
By the way, David, I noticed yesterday that your name was not on the list ;-)
2009/4/27 James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com:
By the way, David, I noticed yesterday that your name was not on the list ;-)
*cough* I must get around to actually joining WMUKv2 ;-p
- d.
2009/4/27 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/4/27 James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com:
By the way, David, I noticed yesterday that your name was not on the list ;-)
*cough* I must get around to actually joining WMUKv2 ;-p
We had a few people finally get around to it about an hour before we started voting on things yesterday. One person joined about 30 seconds before! You're not alone in being slow. (And I thought I was bad!) Go and do it now - no time like the present!
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
One person joined about 30 seconds before!
Out of interest: Did this person then pay the fee in cash before being approved as a member?
michael
Yes i believe so :)
From: mbimmler@gmail.com Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:24:09 -0700 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
One person joined about 30 seconds before!
Out of interest: Did this person then pay the fee in cash before being approved as a member?
michael
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On 27 Apr 2009, at 22:24, Michael Bimmler wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
One person joined about 30 seconds before!
Out of interest: Did this person then pay the fee in cash before being approved as a member?
Yes.
Mike
2009/4/27 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
On 27 Apr 2009, at 22:24, Michael Bimmler wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
One person joined about 30 seconds before!
Out of interest: Did this person then pay the fee in cash before being approved as a member?
Yes.
That approval must have been the shortest board meeting ever at about 1 second (beating the board meeting an hour or so earlier that lasted about 30 seconds). Has anyone written up minutes for that meeting? Technically, it is required.
Of course!
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-04-26a
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2009/4/27 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
On 27 Apr 2009, at 22:24, Michael Bimmler wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
One person joined about 30 seconds before!
Out of interest: Did this person then pay the fee in cash before being approved as a member?
Yes.
That approval must have been the shortest board meeting ever at about 1 second (beating the board meeting an hour or so earlier that lasted about 30 seconds). Has anyone written up minutes for that meeting? Technically, it is required.
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2009/4/27 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
Of course!
Those minutes are rather misleading... firstly, did you actually adjourn until 4pm or was the 4pm meeting impromptu (if the former, then I must salute your prescience)? Secondly, minutes are usually done in chronological order rather than categorised as those have been. Seeing as minutes of board meetings are a legal requirement, you really should do them properly.
The board has a policy that it will only accept members once payment has cleared. This means if they pay by cheque, they are approved subject to clearing and only get a vote from when it clears.
All the four members who signed up at the AGM paid in cash, so they were approved immediately.
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
One person joined about 30 seconds before!
Out of interest: Did this person then pay the fee in cash before being approved as a member?
michael
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