It's become apparent that it would be useful to have a place on-wiki to list all the potential partners that Wikimedia UK could end up working with, whether it's on outreach, or inviting to participate in conferences or funding or developing as part of its mission.
I've put up a page on the chapter wiki:
https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Potential_partners
If you know of organisations, groups and others who broadly support the free culture/open source kind of principles that Wikimedia UK supports, or could be vaguely interested in working with Wikimedia UK or individual volunteers associated with WMUK, please add them.
Having such a list will be quite useful in trying to work out groups we can talk to who might want to participate in, sponsor, or attend events like Wikimania if the London bid for 2014 is successful.
I've been rather bold, and done this without any chapter approval or anything. If there's a problem with the semi-legalish warning at the beginning, I'm sure the office or the board can work out what to do. ;-)
Yours,
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Tom Morris
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http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_Five_Year_Plan
Version six now available for comment on the associated discussion page.
Our board will be discussing this at a special meeting during Wikimania DC
so comments over the next week please.
Thanks for all your hard work,
Diolch am eich help,
Jon
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Dear Jon Davies,
This Wednesday (4th July), the European Parliament resoundingly voted
against ACTA!
*The vote was 478 against, 39 in favour, with 165 abstentions.*
This victory was thanks to *your continued pressure* which helped ensure
that at every step of the way Europe’s representatives voted to reject the
provisions within ACTA. We know that MEPs have been inundated with emails
and calls from people who, just like you, have fought tirelessly in the
defence of democratic freedoms.
Your persistence has paid off: *MEPs have listened and stood up for
democracy* – some of them doing so quite literally in a moment of post-vote
triumph, holding placards reading ‘*Hello Democracy, Goodbye ACTA*.’
Unwilling to let ACTA die, Commissioner Karel de Gucht announced that,
regardless of the Parliament's rejection, the European Commission would
wait for the ECJ's decision on the treaty's compatibility with fundamental
rights and freedoms, before considering what to do next. This attempt to
delay this issue further and pull the wool over our eyes will fail so long
as the *Open Rights Group and activists like you remain vigilant*.
With more threats on the horizon like the “Snooper's Charter” now is the
time to help ORG continue to* defend democracy and digital rights by
joining today*!
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/join
*Join today, and we can keep winning!
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/join*
Thank you once again for your efforts against ACTA.
Jim Killock
Executive Director
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Hello everyone,
Thought you might like to know that our new Fundraiser, Katherine Bavage,
appears in Third Sector this week :)
Here's a link to the article -
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/1139029/Neil-Henderson-joins-Barnardos/?D…
Thanks,
Stevie
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Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation
(who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal
control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Draft Communications Bill
> On 01/07/12 21:58, Tom Morris wrote:
> > I'm not a lawyer. I may email the Foundation legal people and see if they care.
> And what of the UK based pressure groups? Do they care?
Why, yes. Yes, they do. Open Rights Group and 38 Degrees are both
vehemently opposed to the Draft (Daft?) Communications Data Bill.
Most, if not all, ISPs are opposed to it too. They've been partially
bought off by the government promising to fund the development of the
black boxes which will track your every online move. That's,
effectively, a blank cheque for whichever grasping and incompetent IT
firm buys the biggest lunches.
To be honest, I find the number of people seemingly adopting the
shortsighted "If you've nothing to hide" attitude on this list
concerning.
Brian McNeil
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I am sure this will be of interest:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Summer_intern
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All,
When receiving payments from the chapter, you'll now note that the payment
reference contains a number - (31) or (15) or the like. This is a number
that helps me and you reconcile what that payment is for, and which expense
claim it belongs to. We keep all the receipts in the office and on the
office wiki. If you don't know why we paid you, or what the payment covers,
let me know that number and I'll track it down.
You may also see something like (31+) or (15+). This shows me and you that
the payment is for that reference number, *as well as something else - *the
something else, I couldn't fit in for some reason.
Terribly boring, but useful to some of you.
Richard
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Dear stakeholder,
We're writing to let you know about a Government policy statement on
modernising copyright published today, Monday 02 July 2012.
The document sets out Government policy on modernising copyright licensing
in light of the recent copyright consultation. The Government intends to
legislate through the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill currently
before Parliament to:
- allow schemes to be introduced for the commercial and non-commercial use
of 'orphan' copyright works and voluntary extended collective licensing of
copyright works, subject to a number of important safeguards, and
- to create a backstop power to require collecting societies to adopt codes
of conduct based on minimum standards.
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill currently going through
Parliament, provides such an opportunity and the Government plans to lay
amendments to introduce these measures in the Committee Stage of the Bill.
Once the necessary legislation is in place, there will be further
consideration of the details of all these measures, generally through
consultation, before the final schemes are laid before Parliament for
approval.
Policy decisions on other issues covered by the consultation - including
the Government's plans to modernise copyright through changes to the UK's
copyright exceptions and the proposed copyright notices scheme - will be
set out in a subsequent document later this year. Announcements on other
work undertaken in response to the Hargreaves Review will be made
separately.
On a separate issue not covered by the policy statement, the Government
will take a power in the Bill to implement into UK law EU Directive
2011/77/EU on the term of protection for sound recordings, which was agreed
in Brussels in late 2011.
The policy statement document is accessible on the Intellectual Property
Office website: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/hargreaves.htm
Copyright Consultation Team
Intellectual Property Office
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> From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
> On 2 July 2012 13:02, <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> > To be honest, I find the number of people seemingly adopting the
> > shortsighted "If you've nothing to hide" attitude on this list
> > concerning.
>
> Who's made that argument?
Please read more carefully; "seemingly adopting" is not accusing anyone
of making that argument, but of adopting such a stance with regards to
the discussion.
I assume you responded so rapidly, and curtly, because you felt the
remark applied to yourself.
Brian McNeil
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