Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Debating issues

2012-09-28 Thread WereSpielChequers
I think it would be a mistake to start this on the UK Wiki. We have been more focussed on GLAM than some parts of the world, but this is an issue that people from across the movement are interested in. So if we start an RFC it belongs on meta, rather than with one chapter or language. I'm tempted

[Wikimediauk-l] Debating issues

2012-09-27 Thread Jon Davies
I have had two email conversations this morning about hot and often perennial issues around editing, ethics etc. It strikes me that there is an appetite for having some osrt of debates, perhaps streamed, where people came together to debate hot issues, Any thoughts. -- *Jon Davies - Chief

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Debating issues

2012-09-27 Thread rexx
Set up an UK office hours on IRC like the Foundation does. By the way, did you ever read Asimov's Foundation? They thought they were writing an encyclopedia as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_%28novel%29#The_Encyclopedists -- Doug On 27 September 2012 14:11, Jon Davies

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Debating issues

2012-09-27 Thread Roger Bamkin
Obviously be interested in this debate. I think another possibility is to use a UK wiki talk page as a basis for the talk. One problem is agenda as WSC notes its very easy to have 4 parallel threads which just prevent any resolution or understanding of more than one thread. I'd be up for Jon's