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Richard Farmbrough | 1 Jun 17:06
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Re: Membership

Gordon Joly wrote:
> At 22:12 +0100 27/5/07, Robert Leverington wrote:
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>> I am interested in becoming a member of the Wikimedia UK chapter, I am
>> unable to find any information regarding becoming a member (except the
>> discussion regarding the cost). Also is there any age limit to
>> becoming a member? Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Robert[hl] [[User:Lcarsdata]]
>> http://roberthl.wikitest.co.uk/
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> Although I am no longer a part of the discussion (I am not a Director 
> of the company) I believe that there was some discussion about full 
> membership of the charity (and hence legal liabilities) and an 
> associate membership. Some charities (in England and Wales) have 
> members, and some do not, in legal terms.
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> My feeling is that there should be both full members and associate members.
>
> Gordo
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>   
Hmm sounds complicated...  I am a trustee of a charity, but luckily we 
are not a "members" charity, so we have only our personal liabilities to 
worry about.
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Gordon Joly | 3 Jun 22:15
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Re: Membership

At 16:06 +0100 1/6/07, Richard Farmbrough wrote:
>Gordon Joly wrote:
>>  At 22:12 +0100 27/5/07, Robert Leverington wrote:
>>  
>>>  I am interested in becoming a member of the Wikimedia UK chapter, I am
>>>  unable to find any information regarding becoming a member (except the
>>>  discussion regarding the cost). Also is there any age limit to
>>>  becoming a member? Thanks.
>>>
>>>  --
>>>  Robert[hl] [[User:Lcarsdata]]
>>>  http://roberthl.wikitest.co.uk/
>>>    
>>
>>
>>
>>  Although I am no longer a part of the discussion (I am not a Director
>>  of the company) I believe that there was some discussion about full
>>  membership of the charity (and hence legal liabilities) and an
>>  associate membership. Some charities (in England and Wales) have
>>  members, and some do not, in legal terms.
>>
>>  My feeling is that there should be both full members and associate members.
>>
>>  Gordo
>>
>>  
>Hmm sounds complicated...  I am a trustee of a charity, but luckily we
>are not a "members" charity, so we have only our personal liabilities to
>worry about.
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Gordon Joly | 4 Jun 22:40
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Your Archives.


FYI,

New wiki for the National Archives (using Mediawiki).

http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

     * MediaWiki: 1.8.2
     * PHP: 5.2.0 (isapi)
     * MySQL: 5.0.27-community-nt

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Angela | 5 Jun 01:50
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Wiki Wednesday June 6th

Just a reminder - Wiki Wednesday will be held at Conchango in London
this Wednesday. It's a fun event with lots of 5 minute wiki-related
talks.

Details are at <http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london_wikiwed_6_june_2007>

Hope to see you there. :)

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Gordon Joly | 5 Jun 09:02
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Re: Wiki Wednesday June 6th

At 00:50 +0100 5/6/07, Angela wrote:
>Just a reminder - Wiki Wednesday will be held at Conchango in London
>this Wednesday. It's a fun event with lots of 5 minute wiki-related
>talks.
>
>Details are at 
><http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london_wikiwed_6_june_2007>
>
>Hope to see you there. :)
>
>Angela
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Close by the Royal Oak....

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Royal_Oak_bootstrap_meet.jpg

:-)

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Theresa Knott | 5 Jun 14:16
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Re: Wiki Wednesday June 6th

On 6/5/07, Angela <beesley <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hope to see you there. :)

I will try to make it.

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Gordon Joly | 5 Jun 15:54
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Re: Wiki Wednesday June 6th

At 13:16 +0100 5/6/07, Theresa Knott wrote:
>On 6/5/07, Angela <beesley <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  Hope to see you there. :)
>
>I will try to make it.
>
>Theresa

In case anybody is in the area early, a few wiki types (like me!) 
will be in the Royal Oak from about 5pm.

Address: 44, Tabard St, London, SE1 4JU
Phone: 020 7357 7173

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London wikiwed 6 June 2007

The next London meet-up will be Wednesday 6th June 2007

Venue and logistics:

Many thanks to Julian R. Harris and Conchango, who will be providing 
the venue and refreshments.

We aim for people to arrive around 18:15 for a 19:00 formal start. 
The venue will be Conchango's offices, just South of Southwark Bridge 
in the centre of London. Further details available here soon.
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David Gerard | 6 Jun 16:40
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quick chat with Tameside Reporter

Call from a local paper, the Tameside Reporter, about edits to an
article about a local council member and about a motorway bypass:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Oldham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longdendale_Bypass

The article about the councillor has been locked (by Doc glasgow)
since late April. The bypass article is being heavily edited.

Key soundbites:

* It's an encyclopedia, not investigative journalism.
* With biographies of living people, we have to really consider what's
important to put in them. We don't want a hatchet job or just praise.
If they died tomorrow, what would be important enough to put in their
biography? That sort of thing.
* Living biographies are about 90% of our biographies, which are 35%
of the one and a half milliion articles." (Numbers from a quick count
by Danny a while ago; may be completely wrong now.)
* Contentious current issues are difficult. We don't want to be an
activist platform or an anti-activist platform.
* It's a live working draft of an encyclopedia, not so much a finished
product. Always check the history tab when looking at an article.

So if we ever see the article, I've given him lots to go on :-)

Does anyone on this list live in the area, and would you be able to
get hold of a copy? Should be appearing soonish.

- d.
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Andrew Gray | 6 Jun 16:49
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Andrew Gray <shimgray <at> gmail.com>

Re: quick chat with Tameside Reporter

On 06/06/07, David Gerard <dgerard <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> * With biographies of living people, we have to really consider what's
> important to put in them. We don't want a hatchet job or just praise.
> If they died tomorrow, what would be important enough to put in their
> biography? That sort of thing.

I like to think that what we aim for *is* an obituary, basically. If
they fell under a bus tomorrow, we'd have to add a quick paragraph,
change it into the past tense, and otherwise it's done.

That perspective, in turn, informs what you're aiming to put in.

> * Living biographies are about 90% of our biographies, which are 35%
> of the one and a half milliion articles." (Numbers from a quick count
> by Danny a while ago; may be completely wrong now.)

I got just shy of 400,000 biogs the other day - even allowing for a
lot of undercounting, it's still probably under half a million. Don't
have a "living" proportion...

One point eight mil articles, now.

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geni | 6 Jun 18:25
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Re: quick chat with Tameside Reporter

On 6/6/07, David Gerard <dgerard <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Call from a local paper, the Tameside Reporter, about edits to an
> article about a local council member and about a motorway bypass:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Oldham
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longdendale_Bypass
>
> The article about the councillor has been locked (by Doc glasgow)
> since late April. The bypass article is being heavily edited.
>
> Key soundbites:
>
> * It's an encyclopedia, not investigative journalism.
> * With biographies of living people, we have to really consider what's
> important to put in them. We don't want a hatchet job or just praise.
> If they died tomorrow, what would be important enough to put in their
> biography? That sort of thing.
> * Living biographies are about 90% of our biographies, which are 35%
> of the one and a half milliion articles." (Numbers from a quick count
> by Danny a while ago; may be completely wrong now.)
> * Contentious current issues are difficult. We don't want to be an
> activist platform or an anti-activist platform.
> * It's a live working draft of an encyclopedia, not so much a finished
> product. Always check the history tab when looking at an article.
>
> So if we ever see the article, I've given him lots to go on :-)
>

You didn't ask for a free pic?
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