Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal to Strike off

2011-01-20 Thread Roger Bamkin
Well Done On 20 January 2011 23:42, Andrew Turvey wrote: > Dear All, > > I promised everyone I would keep you informed on this list about > progress with our accounts. As you may have heard, we filed our > accounts last week and I can confirm that Companies House are showing > these accounts on >

[Wikimediauk-l] Could you lead Wikimedia UK to success?

2011-01-20 Thread Andrew Turvey
>From our blog, http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/: Could you lead Wikimedia UK to success? Next year is set to be another big year of growth for Wikimedia UK: we have just raised over £500,000 in the Wikimedia Annual Fundraiser. Most of this money will support the technical side of Wikimedia through

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal to Strike off

2011-01-20 Thread Andrew Turvey
Dear All, I promised everyone I would keep you informed on this list about progress with our accounts. As you may have heard, we filed our accounts last week and I can confirm that Companies House are showing these accounts on their website and the proceedings for striking off the company has been

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Ideas for local engagement

2011-01-20 Thread steve virgin
Roger We have approached the Bristol Museum (about a year ago) in an attempt to get them involved in Britain Loves Wikipedia. Although there was goodwill and interest, there was a lack of commitment at the top and this led nowhere back then. All of the museums FIVE of them, are owned by the Cit

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Ideas for local engagement

2011-01-20 Thread Roger Bamkin
Martin, Looks good. (Flattered to see you included the bit about the increased traffic on A History of the World in 100 Objects.) and the large increase in traffic. As you note the museums have the suff but we have the 400,000,000 visitors per month. Mike Peel took a photo at the BM amnd 3.8 millio

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Ideas for local engagement

2011-01-20 Thread Fae
There is a general table at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI/Events which was the result of collecting contacts after the London GLAM-WIKI and I would see no harm in extending it or using it as a model. This is a bit passive as a way of managing follow-ups but the default approach (rather tha

[Wikimediauk-l] Ideas for local engagement

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Poulter
Hi all, we had a small meetup in Bristol after Jimmy's talk, where we discussed potential partners such as museums, libraries and societies and how we can make use of meetings with them. I've written up some ideas here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Bristol/Local