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? Definately the latter in my view - and they are using people from around the world.
On 7 June 2012 10:49, Jon Davies <jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > 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 <victuall...@gmail.com>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 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 articles. This idea >> was used in Russia, Spain, USA, Netherlands etc etc. We have a map of world >> showing where QRpedia is used and its pretty global. >> >> Getting *registered charity status* was the hard thing to do *the fund >> raiser* was brilliant because we had this. Our Wikimedian of the year, >> John Byrne, took leading role with Steve Virgin. We extended the law to do >> this! We ran an EGM. >> >> *Monmouth*. First agreement between a public body and WMF and WMUK. >> First wiki-town. £1m benefit. Most of the articles were not in English. We >> did first WMUK work in Wales and befriended the Welsh wicipedia. We now can >> claim to support two Wikipedias. We have 6 PhD students studying what was >> done! Steve Virgin crowd sourced P.R, Show them the animation!. >> >> *WIR at the British Library*. A decent wage and externally funded. Thats >> a long way from the first ones where WIR's funded the work themselves in >> previous year. >> >> *GLAM in general* - Lots of events, Coventry, GLAMcamp, Amsterdam, >> QRpedia hit the news #2 WMUK media story, This Week in GLAM, the idea was >> used for Wiki loves Monuments photo exhibitions, ARKive >> >> *Staff and Office*. Andrew Turvey took leading role here driving it >> through to make sure we have 5 staff and a spare desk. I know this is >> covetted and was hard for us as volunteers to do, but not sure it will >> attract popular votes. >> >> *Green for reporting*. We were the only chapter! >> >> *Wikimeets* - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as >> well) >> >> >> On 7 June 2012 09:45, Jon Davies <jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> 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 San >>> Francisco was asleep. >>> >>> Jon >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:38 AM, WereSpielChequers < >>> werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> 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 <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds < >>>>> richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> 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? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Andy Mabbett >>>>> @pigsonthewing >>>>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikimedia UK mailing list >>>>> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >>>>> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >>>>> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimedia UK mailing list >>>> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >>>> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >>>> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. 07976 935 986 >>> tweet @jonatreesdavies >>> >>> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and >>> Wales, Registered No. 6741827. 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