[Wikimediauk-l] Nice piece from another country.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22264118 -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered

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Jon, As James F. once helpfully pointed out, you're also meant to run Wikimedia Scotland! Deryck On 24 April 2013 12:29, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22264118 -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169

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Seems well-informed. Is there any intention to ask for Wikipedian to be changed to Wikipedian-in-Residence in the prose if not the headline? I always thought the latter had quite a nice ring to it myself. Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Jon Davies

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I believe so, if Stevie has time: he's currently in San Francisco so is trying to get all the time he can with the WMF staff. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity

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Also, It estimates that is has about 365 million readers worldwide. I thought we just crossed the 500 million mark for unique visitors? Sent from my iPhone --- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone On 24 Apr 2013, at 12:50, Richard Symonds

[Wikimediauk-l] Language Policy

Hi all Everyone so far has agreed that the ability to Speak Gaelic would be desirable (rather than undesirable !) Can we therefore amend the advert to this effect? Secondly, Ive created a draft Welsh Language Policy for your comments here:

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500m for all projects in all languages. Wikipedia-specific is probably smaller. The 365m figure is from the Wikipedia article lead, though ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia A. On 24 April 2013 13:42, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com wrote: Also, It estimates that is has

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From some parts of the world English is a minority language and the Académie française try and pretend it is On 24 April 2013 13:43, i...@cymruwales.com i...@cymruwales.com wrote: ** Hi all Everyone so far has agreed that the ability to Speak Gaelic would be desirable (rather than

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On 24 April 2013 13:43, i...@cymruwales.com i...@cymruwales.com wrote: ** Hi all Everyone so far has agreed that the ability to Speak Gaelic would be desirable (rather than undesirable !) Can we therefore amend the advert to this effect? Nope. The ability to read abbreviated medieval

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I think that these are sensible ideas from Robin. The draft policy is a bit complex, and may not all be doable for an organisation of our size, but language diversity is a laudable goal, and something we should work towards. Speaking from a purely financial point of view, it's a wonderful thing

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Hello all, I've requested a couple of amends to the article to reflect the above. Hopefully these will be picked up soon. Thanks, Stevie On 24 April 2013 05:45, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: 500m for all projects in all languages. Wikipedia-specific is probably smaller.

[Wikimediauk-l] Deadline for talk submissions for WikiConference UK 2013

Hi all, This is just a quick note to let you know that we have set a date of Sunday 21 May as a deadline for talk submissions. If you want to give a talk, please get your proposal in before then. We would also welcome comments on all the proposed talks. To submit a talk or comment on the

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Personally, I think the Beeb are owed some Kudos - compared to most news articles to do with WMUK, it's remarkably accurate   Harry Mitchell http://enwp.org/User:HJ Phone: 024 7698 0977 Skype: harry_j_mitchell From: Stevie Benton

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Hello again, I've had a response from the BBC and they have fixed those two things now. Thanks, Stevie On 24 April 2013 12:13, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: Personally, I think the Beeb are owed some Kudos - compared to most news articles to do with WMUK, it's remarkably accurate

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On 24/04/2013 22:05, Stevie Benton wrote: Hello again, I've had a response from the BBC and they have fixed those two things now. 24 April 2013 Last updated at 01:46 Don't appear to have been changed over here. KTC -- Katie Chan Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely

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It's changed for me :-) On Apr 24, 2013 10:17 PM, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: On 24/04/2013 22:05, Stevie Benton wrote: Hello again, I've had a response from the BBC and they have fixed those two things now. 24 April 2013 Last updated at 01:46 Don't appear to have been changed

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Don't worry about the time. The content has been updated :) (may need a hard refresh) Thanks, Stevie On 24 April 2013 14:17, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: On 24/04/2013 22:05, Stevie Benton wrote: Hello again, I've had a response from the BBC and they have fixed those two things

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Jon I think that your choice of words for the title of this email / thread was not only very appropriate but alsoexceedinglytimely! Diversity is the spice of life! 10 / 10 It sent out an important message and I must