[Wikimediauk-l] Draft best practice guidelines for PRs working with Wikipedia

2012-05-14 Thread Stevie Benton
Hello everyone, This email is a follow-up from a presentation given at our AGM by Neville Hobson and Philip Sheldrake on Wikipedia and the PR industry. As you probably know, Steve Virgin has been working behind the scenes to improve how PRs work with Wikipedia. One of the outcomes is a set of

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014 organising committee

2012-05-14 Thread HJ Mitchell
As some of the members of this list will be aware, there was a meeting yesterday morning of parties interested in a UK bid for Wikimania 2012. The minutes of the meeting are available at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014/Planning_meeting_1/Notes for those who are interested. As a res

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election and resolution results

2012-05-14 Thread Stevie Benton
Will try and come up with something, although given that pretty much all of the talks were recorded might be better to link to these and just use text to bring them all together. Any thoughts? Stevie On 14/05/2012 14:26, Richard Symonds wrote: We'll see if we can write something up (Stevie?)

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election and resolution results

2012-05-14 Thread Stevie Benton
I shot some video footage of the presentations and talks which I'll make available on the wiki / Commons at some point soon. Probably won't be today though. On 14/05/2012 14:08, Thomas Morton wrote: Also, is there a place on the wiki for people to do a write up of events on Saturday?

[Wikimediauk-l] Database issues...

2012-05-14 Thread Richard Symonds
All, I want to apologise for the tardiness in getting individual emails out to members about the results of the AGM. This is because our database is hosted on a virtual server shared with several other sites: at present, the load on the server is very high because of what the other sites are doing

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election and resolution results

2012-05-14 Thread Richard Symonds
We'll see if we can write something up (Stevie?) Also, anyone who took pictures: please add them to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_UK_2012 ! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election and resolution results

2012-05-14 Thread Jon Davies
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_reflections_of_the_2012_Conference Comment and reflect away! On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: > Also, is there a place on the wiki for people to do a write up of >> events on Saturday? There will be official minutes of the AGM but I'm

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election and resolution results

2012-05-14 Thread Thomas Morton
> > Also, is there a place on the wiki for people to do a write up of > events on Saturday? There will be official minutes of the AGM but I'm > thinking more of something to give people a sense of the day - more > colourful than minutes - for those who were unable to attend. Or > perhaps someone ca

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election and resolution results

2012-05-14 Thread Bod Notbod
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:50 PM, James Farrar wrote: > Therefore Christopher Keating, Michael Peel, Ashley Van Haeften, Joscelyn > Upendran,John Byrne, Roger Bamkin and Doug Taylor have been duly elected to > serve as Directors of Wikimedia UK. Which sent me scurrying back to read all the statem