We *are* WMCY and WM Scotland. Now let's giddy up and get on with the nice stuff! On Jul 9, 2012 5:10 PM, "Roger Bamkin" <victuall...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess so .... although WMCY is a possibility for the future > > On 9 July 2012 21:29, Deryck Chan <deryckc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Do you mean WPCY rather than WMCY? >> On Jul 9, 2012 11:06 AM, "Roger Bamkin" <victuall...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Robin Owain and I met Leighton Andrews (today) who is the Education >>> Minister for Wales. The meeting arose out of the work that we are doing in >>> Wales. This means Monmouthpedia and the Welsh Wicipedia (yes its spelt with >>> a c). The meeting lasted less than 45 minutes but we covered >>> >>> >>> - Who we are? About WMUK, WMCY, Monmouthpedia. We noted especially >>> that WMCY is the leading web site in Welsh. >>> - Welsh phone. There is no phone that will switch truly into Welsh. >>> We had already tried getting his officials to ask and Google had said >>> "maybe". Leighton agreed to ask personally. >>> - Welsh encyclopedia. There is a bilingual Welsh and English >>> encyclopedia that was published in the last few years. Leighton said he >>> would see if the copyright could be released to grow WMCY. >>> - Could Wales be the leading nation for information freedom? >>> Leighton said he would challenge his fellow ministers with this question. >>> - The minister said that he was supportive of the idea that >>> information should be made commercially available freely. ie CC BY SA >>> - He would ask the Heritage minister about what could be done to >>> free more data. >>> - Note: There is an experiment currently in progress to release 150 >>> images from multiple sources to Wikimedia Commons. The objective is to >>> find >>> out why thousands more images could not be freely released. This is a >>> WMUK >>> (And Monmouthshire County Council) inspired initiative. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Roger Bamkin and Robin Owain >>> 01332 702993 >>> 0758 2020815 >>> Google+:Victuallers >>> Skype:Victuallers1 >>> Flickr:Victuallers2 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > > > -- > Roger Bamkin > 01332 702993 > 0758 2020815 > Google+:Victuallers > Skype:Victuallers1 > Flickr:Victuallers2 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >
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