Keeping this all under one topic: Ed Saperia suggests "Does getting shortlisted for Wikimania 2013 count, do you think?". I think it does: we pulled a pretty amazing bid out - one of the reasons it was turned down, we hear, is that it was "too big". Not a bad reason to be turned down.... 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 7 June 2012 11:37, HJ Mitchell <hjmitch...@ymail.com> wrote: > The partnership with the Herbert in Coventry is worthy of this list. It's > arguably the most successful GLAM project in the UK outside London, it's > led to the development of a community of editors in Coventry and the > surrounding area, spawned local meetups which are very well-attended, and > the only cost to the chapter has been feeding attendees. > > > Harry > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Roger Bamkin <victuall...@gmail.com> > *To:* UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > *Sent:* Thursday, 7 June 2012, 10:58 > *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects > > 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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