Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Backstage Pass, Black Country Living Musuem, 18 Feb
I did put a Geonotice up, FWIW. It does clash with the Wiki Loves Monuments meeting, which is unfortunate. Harry From: geni geni...@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012, 12:21 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Backstage Pass, Black Country Living Musuem, 18 Feb On 7 February 2012 12:19, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Hi folks, I have been provided with some information about a backstage pass event at the Black Country Living Museum, a week on Saturday: http://westmidlandsmdo.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/calling-wiki-editors/ Please note that I am not organising this event, though I shall attend and have been asked to speak at it; any queres should be addressed to the named contact, at the museum. Given the short lead-time, what's the best method of publicising this, on-wiki? Have we got reasonable numbers or is it worth me poking a few people via talk pages? -- geni ___ 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] Backstage Pass, Black Country Living Musuem, 18 Feb
Ive been persuaded to go to this event. I think this will work out well as I'm keen to see a fresh look at WLM which you guys should be able to find. Fae will be there to represent the board and I know James F will also be there. On 17 February 2012 12:31, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: I did put a Geonotice up, FWIW. It does clash with the Wiki Loves Monuments meeting, which is unfortunate. Harry -- *From:* geni geni...@gmail.com *To:* wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Friday, 17 February 2012, 12:21 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Backstage Pass, Black Country Living Musuem, 18 Feb On 7 February 2012 12:19, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Hi folks, I have been provided with some information about a backstage pass event at the Black Country Living Museum, a week on Saturday: http://westmidlandsmdo.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/calling-wiki-editors/ Please note that I am not organising this event, though I shall attend and have been asked to speak at it; any queres should be addressed to the named contact, at the museum. Given the short lead-time, what's the best method of publicising this, on-wiki? Have we got reasonable numbers or is it worth me poking a few people via talk pages? -- geni ___ 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 -- Roger Bamkin Chair WMUK http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Backstage Pass, Black Country Living Musuem, 18 Feb
On 17 February 2012 12:21, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 February 2012 12:19, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Hi folks, I have been provided with some information about a backstage pass event at the Black Country Living Museum, a week on Saturday: http://westmidlandsmdo.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/calling-wiki-editors/ Please note that I am not organising this event, though I shall attend and have been asked to speak at it; any queres should be addressed to the named contact, at the museum. Given the short lead-time, what's the best method of publicising this, on-wiki? Have we got reasonable numbers or is it worth me poking a few people via talk pages? I haven't heard; but then again they haven't cancelled, which they said they would do if bookings were insufficient. Thanks, though. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK staff policies
On 10/02/2012 00:57, Thomas Dalton wrote: On Feb 10, 2012 12:48 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk mailto:a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On Feb 9, 2012 4:14 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com mailto:gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: On 09/02/2012 15:14, Richard Symonds wrote: Hope this makes sense! I have been a volunteer editor at Wikipedia for about since 2004 (25th January 2004 at 23:13 or possibly earlier). Are these volunteers you mention in the same class? No. I started editing in 2003. Newbie My first registered edit was in 2002. Who's the newbie now? ;) I admit it. I was late. sorry. But I have been sending email and on the net (messing around kermit on NSFNET, working on EDXA and YKXA via SERCnet, using Cambridge Phoenix/MVS, which was a virtualiazation on IBM mainframes, Usenet, Spuddy etc etc) since 1980 :-) Gordo -- Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com http://www.joly.org.uk/ Don't Leave Space To The Professionals! ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Backstage Pass, Black Country Living Musuem, 18 Feb
On 17 February 2012 17:58, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com wrote: Ive been persuaded to go to this event. I think this will work out well as I'm keen to see a fresh look at WLM which you guys should be able to find. Fae will be there to represent the board and I know James F will also be there. Much as Roger's wording is very kind, I should just point out that I'm no one special, just another volunteer. :-) J. -- James D. Forrester jdforres...@wikimedia.org | jdforres...@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK staff policies
Or to break it down; it is not a policy *for *volunteers. But a policy for staff interacting with volunteers. Right? Tom On 18 February 2012 00:21, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: The housing association has a volunteer policy, and the application pack was 34 pages in length (I think that has changed). They have a lot of volunteering effort. But there is a real divide between those are official volunteers and those who contribute to the community in different ways. What bugs me is some will get awards, get their picture taken, get invited to special events and others will just on with it. Wikipedia started as a volunteer effort. Wikimedia UK wanted to label some people as volunteers, since those volunteers will take take part (online and offline we assume) at workshops, competitions, hack days, GLAM events etc etc run by the organization. I think I understand, though my brain may be frazzled by spending all of today debating the finer points of Wikimedia movement fundraising. And I empathise, because I've often found myself spending more energy on my spare time commitments (including this one, sometimes) than I do on my day job. But really I think this policy - http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Policy - has the opposite effect to what you're worried about. What it says, in summary, is: * The most important thing to our organisation is the impact of people who are contributing their time voluntarily * Staff exist to support the work of those volunteers (not replace it) * As part of the appraisals or our staff, we're going to talk about not only how they are supporting volunteers, but whether there is anything that they're doing that volunteers can and are willing to do, even if this is a bit less convenient for the staff member concerned. Really, we are going to great lengths to find staff who get it about the Wikimedia movement in general and this in particular. It's probably the biggest single thing we care about when recruiting staff. So I hope this goes some way to addressing your concern. Happy to talk about it at a meetup sometime (and I'm sure other board members would be as well) Chris ___ 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
