Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: UK Deletionists - a request

2009-08-12 Thread Bod Notbod
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Kwan Ting Chan wrote: Yes, I fear the BBC story is going to over simplify the issues in order to keep outsiders interested and to allow them to understand it. If they do find a "passionate Deletionist" then they will have somebody very much on

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Pausing revision of the chapters agreement

2009-08-12 Thread Andrew Turvey
We previously mentioned that the Wikimedia Foundation has started a discussion about concluding a new Chapter Agreement with Wikimedia UK and the other chapters. Unfortunately, the draft agreement that was put forward has generated significant disagreements between the Foundation and chapters

[Wikimediauk-l] Speakers list on Meta

2009-08-12 Thread Michael Peel
Hi all, You may wish to add yourselves to the following page, if you're happy to do presentations about Wikimedia: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_speakers#United_Kingdom (That's in addition to the WMUK page at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Speakers , to which I've added a see also link

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] New Guardian article

2009-08-12 Thread Cormac Lawler
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Tom Holden wrote: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/12/wikipedia-deletionist-inclu > sionist Interesting article - particularly in light of recent comments on this list! Ed Chi's comments are particularly interesting - that newcomers find it inc

[Wikimediauk-l] New Guardian article

2009-08-12 Thread Tom Holden
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/12/wikipedia-deletionist-inclu sionist T ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: UK Deletionists - a request

2009-08-12 Thread Kwan Ting Chan
Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/8/11 David Gerard : 2009/8/11 Thomas Dalton : Yes, I fear the BBC story is going to over simplify the issues in order to keep outsiders interested and to allow them to understand it. If they do find a "passionate Deletionist" then they will have somebody very much on