Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Minutes
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Andrew Turvey wrote: > - The chapter has decided to set up a blog as a way of communicating with > potential supporters and advertising our activities Great idea; make sure you add it to the aggregators :-) * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia#Requests_for_inclusion * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nickj/open-wikiblogplanet-config.ini Twitter/identi.ca too to announce new blog posts and things like that? :-) I know... one step at a time. ;-) A few chapters have them: @WikimediaDE @WMHK @wmnl @Wikimedia_Fr; http://ping.fm also makes it easy for you guys to manage multiple networks if that's the route you want to go down. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Minutes
Please find copied below the minutes of the meeting held on Tuesday evening. All comments and queries are gratefully received in reply to this message or at the talk page on the wiki. The minutes are also published at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-07-21. The main matters of interest decided at the meeting were: - A draft application to the Charity Commission was discussed and most of it was approved. The sections on our objects and working with children were deferred until 5 August as they required more work. We will be sending an email to this list shortly asking your views on certain details of how we should carry out our objects. - The chapter has decided to set up a blog as a way of communicating with potential supporters and advertising our activities - We agreed in principle to hold a joint conference with the Open Knowledge Foundation next year, which will include our AGM. - The prizes for the Wikipedia Loves Art competition held in February this year will be announced this week Wikimedia UK Board meeting Tuesday 21st July 2009, 8:30pm BST at #wikimedia-uk-board Present: Michael Peel (MP) (Chair); Andrew Turvey (AT) (minutes); Zeyi He (ZH); Steve Virgin (SV); Tom Holden (TH); Joseph Seddon (JS) (part) Apologies: Paul Williams (PW); JS for late arrival Note: At 8:30 only three Board members were present - MP, AT and TH so the meeting could not start as it was inquorate. SV and ZH joined the meeting at 8:42. Minutes of the previous meetings The minutes of the meeting dated 7 July were approved. The following actions were carried forward: 1. PW will finalise the design and organise the printing of business cards for Wikimedia UK officials and interested members. ACTION: PW 2. TD agreed to contact the gazette on behalf of WMUK to solicit a pro-bono lawyer ACTION: TD 3. The cost to attend the Online Information 2009 (1-3 Dec, London) conference is £400/day/person (£400 for the 3 days for registered charities). JS will confirm whether speakers have to pay this fee. In the event that speakers do have to pay the fee, SV will look into getting a slot in a fringe event instead. ACTION: JS; SV 4. AT to submit expenses AGM claim . ACTION: AT 5. PW agreed to draft an email to the WMF formalising the agreement to use Wikimedia Foundation trademarks in members-only merchandising and to look into where we could produce merchandise. ACTION: PW 6. MP agreed to draft templates for the six press scenarios identified at Media relations#Media response . ACTION: MP 7. MP agreed to contact Wikimedia Deutschland to ask them how much revenue they get from their redirect from wikipedia.de. ACTION: MP Matters arising The Board discussed the number of actions that have been left outstanding and the time it takes to complete them. AT has been reminding people of outstanding actions which the Board felt had been helpful. It was agreed that the secretary will issue a reminder a week after the board meeting of all the outstanding actions. ACTION: AT Reports Secretary The Secretary's Report was noted. AT expects to send out the details of the February 2009 Wikipedia Loves Art prizes this week. ACTION: AT Treasurer JS joined the meeting The Treasurer's Report was noted. JS agreed to check with the Open Knowledge Foundation if we can advertise for members on their mailing list. ACTION: JS Chair The Chair's Report was noted. It was agreed that MP and TH would attend the Oxford Symposium from the chapter (AT as a reserve if they are unable to go) The Board agreed in principle to have a blog - MP agreed to install a wordpress blog at http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/blog . It was agreed that any Board member would be able to write an entry, and it can be published 24 hours after it is sent round the board by email if no objections are received back. ACTION: MP Conferences The Conferences report was noted. The Board agreed in principle to holding a joint conference with the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) in 2010. JS will probably be on the main conference organising committee and JS was looking for volunteers to be on the research track programme committee. We expect they will look to use to contribute to the costs, but these details haven't yet been discussed. JS agreed to talk to OKFN re attendence fees so that our members can still attend our AGM free of charge. ZH expressed an interest in being involved. JS will continue to progress this with the OKFN. Corporate relations The Corporate relations report was noted. It was agreed that any future requests received by steve through the corporate ataddress regarding requests to reuse Wikimedia content would be forwarded to info atso that the OTRS managers could deal with it. It was agreed that the Board would support and offer to help the PRCA contact regarding his case study on Wikipedia. MP agreed to work with SV to do mini
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice
2009/7/22 Andrew Turvey : > What's your timescale for the fundraising geonotice? My proposed fundraising drive runs from August 9th for two weeks. I don't know if the geonotice would be up the whole time, though. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Image Restorations
Heya Guys, At AGM2009 I mentioned to a few people about image restorations that are done by a group of wikimedians. I have created a page that showcases some of the best restorations. This might be useful to use when talking to GLAM's. Link is: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Restoration_examples Comments, thoughts and ideas welcomed. Seddon _ Share your memories online with anyone you want. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice
What's your timescale for the fundraising geonotice? This is what I'm unsure of. If people are publishing notices for every monthly meetup, we may be ok to have both. - "Thomas Dalton" wrote: > From: "Thomas Dalton" > To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Sent: Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 00:30:19 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice > > 2009/7/22 Andrew Turvey : > > Following a discussion after the Board, someone suggested putting up a > > "geonotice" on Wikipedia watchlists to advertise the chapter's activities. > > > > Looking through the archive they seem quite happy to publish even monthly > > meetups, so I'd like to suggest that we do one now, along the lines of: > > > > "Wikimedia UK are currently recruiting volunteers for three new > > [[wmuk:Initiatives|initiatives]]. Please help us support open knowledge in > > the UK" > > > > (too long I know - suggestions gratefully received) > > > > Is it worth putting in a request like this? > > As I said on IRC, hold off on that. We can't bombard people with too > many notices, so we need to wait and work out what we want to say. I'm > investigating the possibility of using geonotices for a fundraising > drive, so let me finish that before you start carrying out conflicting > plans. > > ___ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice
Indeed - it's up to them whether they publish it or not. We're just asking like any other editors - they're free to say no. - "Casey Brown" wrote: > From: "Casey Brown" > To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Sent: Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 00:47:33 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Andrew > Turvey wrote: > > Is it worth putting in a request like this? > > > > Just make sure that you *request it* so that enwp doesn't get into one > of its moods and is like "omg, a chapter thinks they have a say on > wiki, heads will roll". Having a paper trail that you followed > protocol/filed a request is a good thing. :-) > > That being said, seems like a good idea to me. > > -- > Casey Brown > Cbrown1023 > > ___ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [ORG-discuss] Gallery photos petition now approved
-- Forwarded message -- From: Graham Cobb Date: 2009/7/22 Subject: [ORG-discuss] Gallery photos petition now approved To: Open Rights Group open discussion list My petition to the PM about galleries and museums making photos available under CC has been approved. Feel free to sign up and/or to let other people know! Your petition has been approved by the Number 10 web team, and is now available on the Number 10 website at the following address: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/artphotos/ Your petition reads: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to require all museums and art galleries receiving public funds to release all photographs they commision of their objects into the public domain or under a Creative Commons licence. The National Portrait Gallery has recently taken legal action against the Wikimedia Foundation for hosting photographs of their paintings even though the paintings are no longer under copyright. It is unreasonable that any publicly owned or funded museum should restrict the public from having access to photographs of their objects. These bodies receive public funding to promote public understanding of and familiarity with art and history, not to restrict it. Any museum or gallery which takes public funds should be required to release to the public all photographs it commissions of all objects in its collection, whether still under copyright or not. This would include photos taken for curatorial reasons, publicity, web sites, as well as those taken for creating souvenirs, postcards, calendars, etc. The original photographs should be made available at full resolution. The photographs should either be released into the public domain or under a Creative Commons licence allowing public use of the material. Thanks for submitting your petition. -- the ePetitions team - End forwarded message - ___ ORG-discuss mailing list org-disc...@lists.openrightsgroup.org http://lists.openrightsgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/org-discuss ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon
Discussion on foundation-l... -- Forwarded message -- From: Teofilo Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:42 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon To: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everybody; This is to say that I have written a piece on this topic at : http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#uk.wikimedia.org_is_Wikimedia_Ukraine,_isn't_it_ ? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
