I would oppose any support from Wikimedia UK for targeted use of the Wikipedia main page to increase the visibility of projects like Gibraltarpedia.
Beyond that, I believe it would also be extremely unwise for WMUK to offer such support. Andreas On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:41 PM, HJ Mitchell <hjmitch...@ymail.com> wrote: > I don't want to set the cat among the pigeons, but does this mean that > WMUK can now support GibraltarpediA? > > I perfectly understand that things are a bit more complicated when it > comes to money and formal agreements, but after the wonderful success in > Monmouth, it would be a shame if the excellent work going on in Gibraltar > continued to be overshadowed by the controversies about conflicts of > interest and ownership of QRpedia. I think WMUK could do quite a bit to be > seen to be supportive, and I think recognition of the project from formal > entities within the movement (such as chapters) can go a long way towards > changing the "default narrative" (to pinch Stevie's phrase). > > All that said, I'm very pleased to see that this has finally been resolved > and (it seems) with a minimum of acrimony. Hopefully all those involved > will be happy with what they have contributed to the Wikimedia movement and > will continue their involvement with it for a long time to come. > > Harry Mitchell > http://enwp.org/User:HJ > Phone: 024 7698 0977 > Skype: harry_j_mitchell > > ------------------------------ > *From:* John Byrne <j...@bodkinprints.co.uk> > *To:* wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org > *Sent:* Monday, 11 February 2013, 16:37 > *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia > > What we had is best described as "a delay in agreeing terms for the > donation" or similar. > > John > On 11/02/2013 14:03, wikimediauk-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:21:39 +0000 From: Stevie Benton < > stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk> To: UK Wikimedia mailing list < > wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia > Message-ID: <CACti2rKAKugc3dnTC1k+xj+ > l8dv9ugbijybubfhs-goudtl...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" This is something I'm liaising on with the WMF. The > original copy was put together jointly between WMF and WMUK and I'm keen > that any revisions are accepted by both sides. I'm hopeful that we can get > this fixed today. Thanks, Stevie On 9 February 2013 20:40, Andy Mabbett < > a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > >> >On 9 February 2013 17:10, Chris Keating<chris.keat...@wikimedia.org.uk > > > >> >wrote: > >>> > >The intellectual property in QRpedia and the qrpedia.org and > qrwp.org > >>> > >domains will be transferred to Wikimedia UK > >> > > >> >It would be a good idea to update > >> >< > >> > > http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/02/questions-and-answers-related-to-the-governance-review/ > >>> > > > >> >ASAP (which I appreciate might mean Monday) > >> > > >> >-- > >> >Andy Mabbett > >> >@pigsonthewing > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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