Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK Business Cards

2012-06-21 Thread HJ Mitchell
It hasn't been common practice thus far, but that's more due to risk aversion on the part of the WMUK board than anything culturally to do with the country. I'll spare you all my opinions on that subject; suffice to say I'm pleased to see it changing. Very much a step in the right direction.   -

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] May be of interest

2012-06-21 Thread Deryck Chan
We should certainly make sure they all know we have an English-language regular wikimeet in London. However, we should also encourage them to keep their German-language meetup as a separate regular event, rather than absorbing them completely. Deryck On Jun 21, 2012 5:45 PM, "Richard Symonds" wrot

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK Business Cards

2012-06-21 Thread Deryck Chan
Am thrilled to see that WMUK is recognising its non-board member-volunteers in a tangible way! (I've got business cards from WMHK for a while now and some of you have seen them - for a long time I thought giving regular volunteers official business cards isn't common practice in this country... ma

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Request: GLAM speaker at LGBTI ALMS // The Future of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Histories

2012-06-21 Thread Fae
On 21 June 2012 17:22, HJ Mitchell wrote: > Is the conference in English? Yes. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] May be of interest

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Symonds
Would it be worth trying to convince them to come along to the London Wikimeets that we have? Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk On 21 June 2012 17:05, Were

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK Business Cards

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Symonds
All, I'm currently organising business cards for interested (and active!) volunteers. If you're interested, please let me know *privately (off-list) *within the next day or two. I need to get these cards sorted out ASAP - if you're interested I'll need your username, your phone number (if you want

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Request: GLAM speaker at LGBTI ALMS // The Future of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Histories

2012-06-21 Thread HJ Mitchell
Is the conference in English?     Harry Mitchell http://enwp.org/User:HJ Phone: 024 7698 0977 Skype: harry_j_mitchell From: Fae To: WMUK-L Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012, 17:12 Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Request: GLAM speaker at LGBTI ALMS // The Future of

[Wikimediauk-l] Request: GLAM speaker at LGBTI ALMS // The Future of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Histories

2012-06-21 Thread Fae
The international gay and lesbian archives, museum, and library conference (LGBTI ALMS 2012) will be taking place 1-3 August in Amsterdam. The organizer has been looking to invite a speaker for the conference from our community. She's interested in Wikipedia, but also issues of crowdsourcing and op

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] May be of interest

2012-06-21 Thread WereSpielChequers
Waithamai is a German editor who has been to a few of our events, Gustavf is active on DE wiki. So I'd assume that this was a DE Wikipedia German language meeting in London. WSC On 21 June 2012 10:21, Jon Davies wrote: > Saw reference to this in the WMDE annual report. > > Nice/schön > > Anyone

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] New Volunteer Contributor

2012-06-21 Thread fabian
Hi Martin, WMUK is currently developing a variety of resources to provide both a Virtual Learning Environment and face-to-face training sessions. However both of these are still in their infancy at the moment. It would be helpful to know whether you already have some experience editing Mediawikis

[Wikimediauk-l] New Volunteer Contributor

2012-06-21 Thread Martin Mujyanama
Hi I wish to develop page articles-Wikipedia: .Genocide Justice-Rwanda. -Gacaca Court Justice -National Courts system on Genocide -International Justice on Genocide Request: -induction training on WMUK processing system -Peer Reviewer on research&planning

[Wikimediauk-l] May be of interest

2012-06-21 Thread Jon Davies
Saw reference to this in the WMDE annual report. Nice/schön Anyone know about it? First Meeting The first official Wikipedia: London meeting took place on 6 August 2011 by 20 clock in the Old Ale Emporium (405 Green Lanes, London, N4 1EU; information) instead. Have participated Gustavf, Stefan