Wikimedia UK's coolest projects - Wikimediauk-l

Thomas Dalton

6 Jun 6 Jun

4:46 p.m.

Monmouthpedia is obviously very cool. We could put "opening an office" - it's not necessarily cool (although the people in it are, of course!) and I'm not sure it's what they mean by project (so nought out of two - not bad!), but it is quite a big deal. There are several cool smaller projects that we could put as a third thing - one of those editathon/backstage-type events, maybe. On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

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All, We've had an email through from one of the Wikimania organisers, and thought it best to ask you folks for input: Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011 and Wikimania 2012?

"Those of you who were at Wikimania 2011 in Haifa, may know about the "Wikimedia Chapters" session which Lodewijk presented there. A presentation of about an hour with short introductions of the wide spectrum of activities performed by the Wikimedia Chapters in the past year. To get inspiration, or to just get an image of what is happening all over the world. Last year Lodewijk asked every chapter in advance what their three coolest projects were, and this resulted in an amazing collection of projects which were presented at Wikimania with very short introductions. This year, something similar will happen: every chapter will fill out a form listing their three best projects. You can share nice meetups that took place in your country, collaboration with cultural instututions (including collaboration attempts), educational programs, presentations and conferences or anything that we, as a chapter, spent time on."

What should we put down as the chapter's three coolest projects this year? 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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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WereSpielChequers

7 Jun 7 Jun

8:38 a.m.

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 <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

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On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)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 wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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Roger Bamkin

9:42 a.m.

@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.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

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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 < werespielchequers(a)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 <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)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 wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

_______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)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. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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Roger Bamkin

9:58 a.m.

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.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

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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 <victuallers(a)gmail.com>wrote;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.davies(a)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 < werespielchequers(a)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 <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds < > richard.symonds(a)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 > wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)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. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)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 wikimediauk-l(a)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. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)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

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Richard Symonds

10:57 a.m.

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 <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com> wrote:

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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 <victuallers(a)gmail.com> *To:* UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)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.davies(a)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 <victuallers(a)gmail.com>wrote;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.davies(a)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 < werespielchequers(a)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 <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)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 wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)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. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)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 wikimediauk-l(a)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. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)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 wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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Chris Keating

8 Jun 8 Jun

7:05 a.m.

I think we should use this opportunity to talk about projects that have an impact, not internal things like charity status or direct debits (both things I'm very proud of, but they are things which enable us to do things, not ends in themselves). Personally I'd add the World War I editathon to the list - as it'll be the first time we've got half-a-dozen academics in a room sharing their knowledge on subjects to help people improve Wikipedia - however, we are only allowed 3 things and could probably thing of about 20 ideas if we tried ;-) Chris

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Jon Davies

2:06 p.m.

And an image of you on that chair will haunt me for the whole weekend. On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:01 PM, James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

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On Thursday, June 7, 2012, Gordon Joly wrote:

On 07/06/12 10:42, Roger Bamkin wrote: *Wikimeets* - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as well) It will not be the same without James F.... BTW, have we decided if he is a spy? And for which side? :-)

I continue to claim that I'm not. However, my duty to impartiality points to the Mandy Rice-Davies interjection. ;-P J. -- James D. Forrester jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)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. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

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WereSpielChequers

7 Jun 7 Jun

2:58 p.m.

OK we shouldn't trumpet Gift Aid until we have our first big fat cheque from HMRC. But it is worth mentioning Direct debits. That may sound dry, but the UK chapter has a significant longterm income stream whilst the rest of the movement still depends on the annual fundraiser. WSC On 7 June 2012 09:45, Jon Davies <jon.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

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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 < werespielchequers(a)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 <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)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 wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

_______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)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. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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Michael Peel

3:33 p.m.

Bear in mind that the request here is for the 3 coolest projects, and that the audience is going to be Wikimania attendees (i.e. mostly Wikimedians), presumably with the hope of getting them to do similar projects in their countries. So as cool as things like direct debits are, I don't think they'll particularly enthuse a room full of Wikimedians to do something similar elsewhere... (but I could well be wrong). Thanks, Mike P.S. does anyone 'lead the movement'? ;-) I think Jon meant 'Leading the public relations during ...' On 7 Jun 2012, at 16:02, Roger Bamkin wrote:

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agree with WSC - the direct debit was the fundraising coup and it was Chris's "over achievement". £1m was the plan - collecting half of next years was just showing off On 7 June 2012 15:58, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote: OK we shouldn't trumpet Gift Aid until we have our first big fat cheque from HMRC. But it is worth mentioning Direct debits. That may sound dry, but the UK chapter has a significant longterm income stream whilst the rest of the movement still depends on the annual fundraiser. WSC On 7 June 2012 09:45, Jon Davies <jon.davies(a)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 <werespielchequers(a)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 <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)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 wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)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. Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)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 wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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Thomas Dalton

3:59 p.m.

On 7 June 2012 16:02, Roger Bamkin <victuallers(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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agree with WSC - the direct debit was the fundraising coup and it was Chris's "over achievement". £1m was the plan - collecting half of next years was just showing off

I agree. Direct Debits were the big thing I was disappointed not to achieve during my time on the board, and was very pleased to see Chris succeed where I had failed. The rest of the movement seems to have some difficulty understanding the important of direct debits (I think there are a very British way of giving to charity), but they really are very important. I look forward to the point (which may only be a couple of years away) when our goal in the annual fundraiser has nothing to do with the next year's income, because we already know we'll be getting that, and we're focusing on increasing revenue in the long term.

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Tom Morris

8 Jun 8 Jun

9:15 a.m.

At risk of sounding trollish, unappreciative or rude, can I suggest that in talking about the successes of Wikimedia UK, less focus should be given on the meta-charity stuff, important though it is, but on the thing which the charity's existence has enabled. There's plenty of it: GLAM outreach, other forms of outreach (Monmouth!), the Wikimania bids and so on. Internal governance is important, but think about other charities. The reason anyone gets excited about any charity is the actual work they do rather than the governance stuff they do in order to let them do the actual work. And I say that with the greatest of respect to the people who have put enormous amounts of work into making Wikimedia UK work and doing all that very important and necessary meta-work! ;-) -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/>

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Thomas Dalton

11:34 a.m.

On 8 June 2012 10:15, Tom Morris <tom(a)tommorris.org> wrote:

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At risk of sounding trollish, unappreciative or rude, can I suggest that in talking about the successes of Wikimedia UK, less focus should be given on the meta-charity stuff, important though it is, but on the thing which the charity's existence has enabled. There's plenty of it: GLAM outreach, other forms of outreach (Monmouth!), the Wikimania bids and so on. Internal governance is important, but think about other charities. The reason anyone gets excited about any charity is the actual work they do rather than the governance stuff they do in order to let them do the actual work. And I say that with the greatest of respect to the people who have put enormous amounts of work into making Wikimedia UK work and doing all that very important and necessary meta-work! ;-)

The non-meta stuff is more exciting, but I'd argue it is less important. We've done good stuff over the last year, but it's still just one year. The meta stuff allows us to do even better stuff for many years to come. Do we want to just tell people the exciting stuff, or do we want to take this opportunity to explain to them how important the less exciting stuff is?

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Richard Symonds

1:07 p.m.

We'll also only have about an hour for all the chapters to do this in! 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 8 June 2012 14:05, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>wrote;wrote:

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On 8 June 2012 12:34, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Do we want to just tell people the exciting stuff, or do we want to take this opportunity to explain to them how important the less exciting stuff is?

Nah. Explaining why the uncool stuff is really cool atfer all is pretty much assuming people won't notice the business suit if you are wearing shades. Charles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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Michael Peel

5:03 p.m.

Hi all, I've set up a page on the wiki for voting, at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_coolest_projects Please visit that page and vote. :-) I've tried to include everything that's been mentioned in this thread, but please add anything I've missed (and short descriptions of each project also wouldn't go amiss if someone wants to write them). Thanks, Mike On 8 Jun 2012, at 14:07, Richard Symonds wrote:

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We'll also only have about an hour for all the chapters to do this in! 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 8 June 2012 14:05, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: On 8 June 2012 12:34, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Do we want to just tell people the exciting stuff, or do we want to take this opportunity to explain to them how important the less exciting stuff is?

Nah. Explaining why the uncool stuff is really cool atfer all is pretty much assuming people won't notice the business suit if you are wearing shades. Charles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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Andrew Gray

7 Jun 7 Jun

9:16 a.m.

On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

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All, We've had an email through from one of the Wikimania organisers, and thought it best to ask you folks for input: Short version: What are our three coolest projects between Wikimania 2011 and Wikimania 2012?

Monmouthpedia, charitable status (though we might have to explain in detail quite *why* that one was such an achievement!). Not so sure about the third... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

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