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Michael Bimmler

12 Jan 2009 12 Jan '09

2:24 p.m.

Dear all, I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER). Copies of the resolution will be posted on wikimediafoundation.org in the next days, in case you need something like a signed version of it (for the bank?), you would need to get in touch with Patti Melton (pmelton at wikimedia dot org) at the Foundation office. My sincere congratulations and all the best -- if I can be of any help, both now as ChapCom member and from October onwards as UK resident, I'll be glad to. I am very impressed by the amount of work that the board and all other volunteers have already done by now and I'm sure that, with this final roadblock removed, there is nothing to stop the chapter now! Yours, Michael -- Michael Bimmler mbimmler(a)gmail.com

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Al Tally

12 Jan 12 Jan

2:38 p.m.

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Congratulations! Well done everyone! -- Alex (User:Majorly)

David Gerard

2:39 p.m.

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2009/1/12 Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com>om>:

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I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revokes the recognition of Wikimedia UK v1 (WER).

*champagne* - d.

Gordon Joly

6:45 p.m.

At 14:39 +0000 12/1/09, David Gerard wrote:

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2009/1/12 Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com>om>:

*champagne* - d.

Fizz! Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.joly(a)pobox.com///

Michael Peel

3:25 p.m.

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Michael, Great. :-) Now we can start on the interesting stuff... Thanks for letting us know. Mike Peel On 12 Jan 2009, at 14:24, Michael Bimmler wrote:

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Tom Holden

3:37 p.m.

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Woop thanks. I'll e-mail Patti. Tom 2009/1/12 Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net>et>:

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Michael, Great. :-) Now we can start on the interesting stuff... Thanks for letting us know. Mike Peel On 12 Jan 2009, at 14:24, Michael Bimmler wrote:

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geni

3:44 p.m.

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2009/1/12 Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net>et>:

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Michael, Great. :-) Now we can start on the interesting stuff... Thanks for letting us know. Mike Peel

So time for me to put together that list of all the national collections that may be of interest to us. -- geni

Paul Williams

4:01 p.m.

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Congratulations, everyone! -- -- Paul "skenmy" Williams -- paul(a)skenmy.com

Thomas Dalton

6:40 p.m.

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*cheers* Congratulations to all of us, and thank you to the boards of both Wikimedia UK (I enjoyed typing that and it actually being true finally!) and the foundaion for getting us to this stage!

Sam Korn

8:14 p.m.

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Mickey Conn

9:02 p.m.

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It's fantastic to hear the news we've all been waiting for. So much to do! There's plenty which can be updated now; the board meeting could provide a usual place to discuss what other online information needs updating. Mickey On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Sam Korn <smoddy(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Excellent news! Pages such as [[meta:Wikimedia chapters]] and [[wmf:Local chapters]] really need updating in the light of this. Sam -- Sam PGP public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/public_key _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l

Thomas Dalton

9:54 p.m.

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2009/1/12 Mickey Conn <mickey.conn(a)gmail.com>om>:

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David Gerard

10 p.m.

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2009/1/12 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>:

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There's a bug filed asking for space on the WMF servers. Note that this is in no way mandatory - other chapters have servers hosted in all sorts of places. Typically the US, which is of course *the* place for cheap noncontroversial hosting :-) - d.

Thomas Dalton

10:19 p.m.

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2009/1/12 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:

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2009/1/12 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>:

There's a bug filed asking for space on the WMF servers.

Excellent!

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Note that this is in no way mandatory - other chapters have servers hosted in all sorts of places. Typically the US, which is of course *the* place for cheap noncontroversial hosting :-)

Sure, but the WMF servers seems to best place to get started. Maybe once the chapter is a little more established it might be worth looking into other options, but a simple wiki on the WMF servers will do perfectly well for now.

Michael Peel

10:28 p.m.

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Note that this is in no way mandatory - other chapters have servers hosted in all sorts of places. Typically the US, which is of course *the* place for cheap noncontroversial hosting :-)

I agree with Tom here - the WMF servers are the best place for now. Perhaps after we've been going for a while, we'll be able to buy toolservers etc., which would then be the obvious place for hosting the website. But the WMF is the best place for an incubator site for the fledgling-WMUK-that-just-got-some-wings. Mike

Al Tally

10:02 p.m.

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

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2009/1/12 Mickey Conn <mickey.conn(a)gmail.com>om>:

Shouldn't be too difficult. The Wikimedia UK site does not appear to be a wiki curiously enough, so it may be easier to start the relevant pages from scratch. There's also a ton of stuff on Meta-wiki that can be imported. -- Alex (User:Majorly)

Thomas Dalton

10:18 p.m.

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There is very little on the old WMUK site that is about the new chapter. Most of the stuff that needs to be transferred to a new site is the stuff on meta, the old site just needs to be redirected.

Tom Holden

10:03 p.m.

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Already requested. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16996 T 2009/1/12 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>:

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2009/1/12 Mickey Conn <mickey.conn(a)gmail.com>om>:

Now we are an official chapter, we should be able to get our own site on WMF servers - we'll have a lot to do transferring things over to that site. The current site, wikimedia.org.uk, will need to be redirected as well. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l

Ross Gardler

13 Jan 13 Jan

11:33 a.m.

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Dear all, I am very happy to be able to confirm to you that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board has passed its resolution of approval for Wikimedia UK v2 (Wiki UK Limited), which at the same time revoke

Well done to the Wikimedia UK v2 team. (I may be quiet, but I am monitoring and will assist as when I can) Ross

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Al Tally
David Gerard
geni
Gordon Joly
Michael Bimmler
Michael Peel
Mickey Conn
Paul Williams
Ross Gardler
Sam Korn
Thomas Dalton
Tom Holden