Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Distance learning project

2012-06-14 Thread Gordon Joly
On 13/06/12 18:05, Charles Matthews wrote: On 13 June 2012 17:51, Gordon Jolygordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: On 13/06/12 16:02, Thomas Dalton wrote: This sounds like a fantastic project. Thank you Charles for agreeing to lead it and thank you WMUK for agreeing to support it. What is the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Distance learning project

2012-06-14 Thread Charles Matthews
On 14 June 2012 07:41, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: On 13/06/12 18:05, Charles Matthews wrote: On 13 June 2012 17:51, Gordon Jolygordon.j...@pobox.com  wrote: On 13/06/12 16:02, Thomas Dalton wrote: This sounds like a fantastic project. Thank you Charles for agreeing to lead it

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Distance learning project

2012-06-14 Thread Charles Matthews
On 14 June 2012 08:31, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: On 14/06/12 08:28, Charles Matthews wrote: I question the assumption that money is likely to be the limiting factor in building the online community: I think some things money can't buy is a really good general explanation of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Distance learning project

2012-06-14 Thread Gordon Joly
On 14/06/12 08:39, Charles Matthews wrote: I'd like to say that I'm not currently thinking of the VLE project as a vehicle for accreditation. Fine. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Distance learning project

2012-06-14 Thread Jon Davies
Train the Trainers Budget is actually 20K. The bulk is for the weekend training sessions then some for setting up the Virtual Learning Environment, some for organising sessions requested by external organisations and the change goes for paying travel, accommodation (hostel OR hotel!) etc. Our

[Wikimediauk-l] Academic training workshops

2012-06-14 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi all, As many of you know, as part of my work at the British Library I'll be organizing a series of training workshops on behalf of AHRC for postgraduates and academics, at various institutions around the country. These are mostly half-day sessions, giving training to specialists who are

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Academic training workshops

2012-06-14 Thread Daria Cybulska
Hi Andrew, We have a brand new fleet of soon to be accredited Wikimedia Trainers that have attended the training workshop on 9-10 June, and I am sure that they would love to apply their skills helping you to run the sessions. I am happy to share the list of these attendees with you. Best wishes,

[Wikimediauk-l] donate.wikimedia.org.uk has an SSL error

2012-06-14 Thread Tom Morris
If you go to http://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/ you can donate… insecurely. If you go to https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/ you can donate… but you get an SSL certificate error. This seems like a problem. (Whoops, sent this to Wikimedia-L rather than Wikimediauk-L.) -- Tom Morris

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] donate.wikimedia.org.uk has an SSL error

2012-06-14 Thread Thomas Morton
Yeh I raised this a few weeks ago; and I recall someone else did then. It's due to misconfigured SSL on the server (setting up a server the handle multiple SSL certificates can be a pain). I'm not sure what the status of it being fixed is; but I did offer advice back then on how to go about it.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 83, Issue 36

2012-06-14 Thread John Byrne
On 14/06/2012 13:00, wikimediauk-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Re: Distance learning project I agree this has been a good discussion, I hear excellent reports about the event. But at the same time I notice there were only 10 (?) attendees, which I think highlights what is actually our

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 83, Issue 36

2012-06-14 Thread Charles Matthews
On 15 June 2012 00:57, John Byrne j...@bodkinprints.co.uk wrote: I agree that accreditation is something we should not worry about for the moment at least, until we have had some practice.  But in the future we may well find ourselves in situations where other bodies want to give some form of