Hi all,
Many thanks to everyone that voted. :-) The winners were:
1) MonmouthpediA
2) World War 1 editathon
3) Wikipedian in Residence at the British Library
Thanks,
Mike
On 8 Jun 2012, at 18:03, Michael Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've set up a page on the wiki for voting, at:
> http://uk.wikim
On 08/06/12 15:01, James Forrester wrote:
I continue to claim that I'm not. However, my duty to impartiality
points to the Mandy Rice-Davies interjection. ;-P
And of course, I was there: you were not!
:-)
Gordo
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Hi all,
I've set up a page on the wiki for voting, at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_coolest_projects
Please visit that page and vote. :-) I've tried to include everything that's
been mentioned in this thread, but please add anything I've missed (and short
descriptions of each project also
And an image of you on that chair will haunt me for the whole weekend.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:01 PM, James Forrester wrote:
> On Thursday, June 7, 2012, Gordon Joly wrote:
>
>> On 07/06/12 10:42, Roger Bamkin wrote:
>>
>>
>> *Wikimeets* - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as
On Thursday, June 7, 2012, Gordon Joly wrote:
> On 07/06/12 10:42, Roger Bamkin wrote:
>
>
> *Wikimeets* - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as well)
>
>
>
> It will not be the same without James F
>
> BTW, have we decided if he is a spy? And for which side?
>
> :-)
>
I con
On 8 June 2012 14:07, Richard Symonds wrote:
> We'll also only have about an hour for all the chapters to do this in!
Yeah, but none of the other chapters have done anything cool, have they?
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We'll also only have about an hour for all the chapters to do this in!
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On 8 June 2012 14:05, Charles Matthews wrote:
> O
On 8 June 2012 12:34, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Do we want to just tell people the exciting stuff,
> or do we want to take this opportunity to explain to them how
> important the less exciting stuff is?
Nah. Explaining why the uncool stuff is really cool atfer all is
pretty much assuming people won
On 8 June 2012 10:15, Tom Morris wrote:
> At risk of sounding trollish, unappreciative or rude, can I suggest that in
> talking about the successes of Wikimedia UK, less focus should be given on
> the meta-charity stuff, important though it is, but on the thing which the
> charity's existence h
+1
Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK
On Jun 8, 2012 10:16 AM, "Tom Morris" wrote:
> At risk of sounding trollish, unappreciative or rude, can I suggest that
> in talking about the successes of Wikimedia UK, less focus should be given
> on the meta-charity stuff, important though it is, but on the th
At risk of sounding trollish, unappreciative or rude, can I suggest that in
talking about the successes of Wikimedia UK, less focus should be given on the
meta-charity stuff, important though it is, but on the thing which the
charity's existence has enabled. There's plenty of it: GLAM outreach,
I think we should use this opportunity to talk about projects that have an
impact, not internal things like charity status or direct debits (both
things I'm very proud of, but they are things which enable us to do things,
not ends in themselves).
Personally I'd add the World War I editathon to the
On 07/06/12 10:42, Roger Bamkin wrote:
*Wikimeets* - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as well)
It will not be the same without James F
BTW, have we decided if he is a spy? And for which side?
:-)
Gordo
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>From an administrative point of view, I'd like to hold off on talking about
direct debits until we get a proper hold on the impact they're having. At
present, we're still very much in the experimental stage. We're also in the
middle of the fundraiser agreement discussions with the WMF, and althoug
On 7 June 2012 16:33, Michael Peel wrote:
> Bear in mind that the request here is for the 3 coolest projects, and that
> the audience is going to be Wikimania attendees (i.e. mostly Wikimedians),
> presumably with the hope of getting them to do similar projects in their
> countries. So as cool
On 7 June 2012 16:02, Roger Bamkin wrote:
> agree with WSC - the direct debit was the fundraising coup and it was
> Chris's "over achievement". £1m was the plan - collecting half of next years
> was just showing off
I agree. Direct Debits were the big thing I was disappointed not to
achieve durin
Bear in mind that the request here is for the 3 coolest projects, and that the
audience is going to be Wikimania attendees (i.e. mostly Wikimedians),
presumably with the hope of getting them to do similar projects in their
countries. So as cool as things like direct debits are, I don't think the
agree with WSC - the direct debit was the fundraising coup and it was
Chris's "over achievement". £1m was the plan - collecting half of next
years was just showing off
On 7 June 2012 15:58, WereSpielChequers wrote:
> OK we shouldn't trumpet Gift Aid until we have our first big fat cheque
> from
OK we shouldn't trumpet Gift Aid until we have our first big fat cheque
from HMRC.
But it is worth mentioning Direct debits. That may sound dry, but the UK
chapter has a significant longterm income stream whilst the rest of the
movement still depends on the annual fundraiser.
WSC
On 7 June 2012
apter has been feeding attendees.
>
>
> Harry
>
> --
> *From:* Roger Bamkin
> *To:* UK Wikimedia mailing list
> *Sent:* Thursday, 7 June 2012, 10:58
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
>
> It was quite a big story Jo
d, and the only cost to the
chapter has been feeding attendees.
Harry
From: Roger Bamkin
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list
Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012, 10:58
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects
It was quite a big story Jon throu
It was quite a big story Jon throughout the world.
Voting - whether real or imaginary it is important. The "coolest project"
has to have some popular appeal I would say. Do we think WMDE are cool
because they have 20 staff? ... or because they have launched the first new
Wiki project for years? De
Is there voting?!
The black out was only the EN version so not sure how big a story it was.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Roger Bamkin wrote:
> @Andrew - some reasons why
>
> @Jon. Well you'll get quite a bit of push back from the French/German's et
> al on 3 if not phrased well. They were a
@Andrew - some reasons why
@Jon. Well you'll get quite a bit of push back from the French/German's et
al on 3 if not phrased well. They were awake too during the blackout.
Adding in *multi-lingual challenges* is a good idea if you want the popular
vote. Anastasis Lvova from Russian wrote 200 arti
On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds wrote:
> All,
>
> We've had an email through from one of the Wikimania organisers, and thought
> it best to ask you folks for input:
>
> Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011
> and Wikimania 2012?
Monmouthpedia, charitable
Have just received the HMRC registration forms so about to make first Gift
Aid claim.
For my three..
Monmouth - volunteers and innovation
Opening an office with staff (this is BIG in wiki terms and other chapters
want to follow)
Leading the movement during the Black-out for eight hours while Sa
Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we were already a charity).
Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money reclaimed under
the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to mention.
WSC
On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds
On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds wrote:
> Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011
> and Wikimania 2012?
Monmouthpedia, of course but also, separately, the spread of QRpedia
around the world.
Becoming a charity for #3?
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
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Monmouthpedia is obviously very cool. We could put "opening an office"
- it's not necessarily cool (although the people in it are, of
course!) and I'm not sure it's what they mean by project (so nought
out of two - not bad!), but it is quite a big deal. There are several
cool smaller projects that
All,
We've had an email through from one of the Wikimania organisers, and
thought it best to ask you folks for input:
*Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011
and Wikimania 2012?*
"Those of you who were at Wikimania 2011 in Haifa, may know about the
> "Wikimedia
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