Police caution for Wikipedia vandalism

In today's Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/beefeaters-accused-of- 
bullying-first-woman-warder-1813308.html

"It is understood that one person has received a police caution for  
defacing Miss Cameron's entry on online encyclopaedia Wikipedia."

Mike

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Re: Police caution for Wikipedia vandalism

2009/11/2 Michael Peel <email <at> mikepeel.net>:
> In today's Independent:
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/beefeaters-accused-of-
> bullying-first-woman-warder-1813308.html
>
> "It is understood that one person has received a police caution for
> defacing Miss Cameron's entry on online encyclopaedia Wikipedia."

Now, that's interesting. It doesn't specify what offence the caution
was for, although it seems from context that it was for harassment. In
the vast majority of cases defacing BLPs aren't part of a campaign of
harassment, but it is still good to see that the police to recognise
that people are still subject to law when they edit Wikipedia (no-one
would ever actually say otherwise, of course, but their actions may
suggest otherwise).

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Fwd: Like museums? Wikipedia? Beer?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ridge Mia <Mia.Ridge <at> SCIENCEMUSEUM.ORG.UK>
> Date: 5 November 2009 18:31:52 GMT
> To: MCG <at> JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Like museums? Wikipedia? Beer?
> Reply-To: Museums Computer Group <MCG <at> JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>
> Or any two of the three above?  Then come and have a drink with  
> friendly
> like-minded people on Tuesday evening!
>
> Liam Wyatt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Witty_lama) is in town,
> and I thought it'd a good excuse for a drink with museum types.  Liam
> convened the Australian GLAM-Wiki conference
> (http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/GLAM) and brings an interesting
> perspective to on-going debates on the relationship between Wikipedia
> and museums.
>
> We're meeting at The Reliance, 336 Old Street, EC1V 9DR, next Tuesday
> November 10 from 7pm.
>
> cheers, Mia
>
>
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School project

Hi, all,

According to the school project we set up, (check here if you need
more information
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Schools_project), I have
discussed the possibility with the head of sixth forum, she suggested
two things. one is we need some documents to prove that "Wikipedia and
relevant projects have affected school age students on some way",
which will give more sense to committee who can accept us to host the
workshop on schools. Second, we need more detail proposal to explain
our school project and the content of workshop.

I can complete the proposal with cooperating to others. However, I am
wondering that any one has resource about how Wikipedia and relevant
projects influence school students? anything is helpful, reports,
survey, blog and academic articles?

best,

Zeyi

Initiative director
Wikimedia UK

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Re: School project

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:44 +0000, zeyi wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> According to the school project we set up, (check here if you need
> more information
> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Schools_project), I have
> discussed the possibility with the head of sixth forum, she suggested
> two things. one is we need some documents to prove that "Wikipedia and
> relevant projects have affected school age students on some way",
> which will give more sense to committee who can accept us to host the
> workshop on schools. Second, we need more detail proposal to explain
> our school project and the content of workshop.
> 
> I can complete the proposal with cooperating to others. However, I am
> wondering that any one has resource about how Wikipedia and relevant
> projects influence school students? anything is helpful, reports,
> survey, blog and academic articles?

Cormac can give you the "more dry" academic stuff; that might depend on
the audience.

The more populist stuff is Wikipedia for schools[1], the announcement of
the 08/09 version[2]. Wikinews coverage of the 08/09 version being
released[3].

I can probably dig up contact addresses for Andrew and Mary from
*somewhere* in my address book.

[1]
http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/wikipedia-for-schools.htm
[2]
http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/2008-wikipedia-for-schools.htm
[3]
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/2008-09_Wikipedia_for_Schools_goes_online

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Wiki Loves Art at the V&A - photos now on Commons

Hi all,

Thanks to Kaldari, the photos from the Wiki Loves Art event at the  
Victoria and Albert Museum last February are now (finally) online!  
You can find them at:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ 
Category:Wikipedia_Loves_Art_at_the_Victoria_and_Albert_Museum

Please help categorize them and add them to articles - the more these  
images are used, the stronger our argument to museums in the future  
to get them to participate in this sort of event, so we can get even  
more photos etc...

Planning for the Britain Loves Wikipedia event next February is  
ongoing; we have several museums involved already, and a number of  
others that are interested. Please help develop the event on the wiki:
	http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia

Thanks,
Mike

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Next board meeting: Tue 19 November

Hi all,

The next board meeting will be on Tuesday 19 November 2009,  
8.30-10.30pm BST. The first hour will be by Skype, the second hour  
will be held on IRC in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on  
irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more  
than welcome to attend the IRC session. If you don't have an IRC  
client, then you can connect using http://webchat.freenode.net/ .

The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-11-17/Agenda

Board members + Tango: please post whether you can attend, and your  
reports, to the agenda page. Regretfully, I won't be able to attend  
this meeting, as I'm away and my laptop is broken.

Thanks,
Mike Peel

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Re: [WMUK Board] Next board meeting: Tue 17 November

That should have been the 17th, not the 19th... oops. 

Mike

On 14 Nov 2009, at 19:16, Michael Peel wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The next board meeting will be on Tuesday 19 November 2009,  
> 8.30-10.30pm BST. The first hour will be by Skype, the second hour  
> will be held on IRC in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on  
> irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is  
> more than welcome to attend the IRC session. If you don't have an  
> IRC client, then you can connect using http://webchat.freenode.net/ .
>
> The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-11-17/ 
> Agenda
>
> Board members + Tango: please post whether you can attend, and your  
> reports, to the agenda page. Regretfully, I won't be able to attend  
> this meeting, as I'm away and my laptop is broken.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Peel
>
>
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Re: Fwd: David Terrar invited you to the event "London Wiki Wednesday - October"...

At 22:29 +0100 11/10/09, Gordon Joly wrote:
>At 21:31 +0100 6/10/09, David Gerard wrote:
>>Just received on Facebook. This is TOMORROW. I probably won't be
>>there, but I suspect some of you would like to be.
>>
>>Date: Wednesday, 07 October 2009
>>Time: 18:45 - 22:00
>>Location:	NYK Line
>>Street: 17th Floor, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker Str
>>Town/City: London, United Kingdom
>>
>>http://www.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london_wikiwed_7_october_2009
>>
>>http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163534578912
>>
>>They still need someone to bring/pay for beer and wine!
>>
>  >- d.
>
>
>We had free beer. We had talks. But no pizza....
>
>Plans for November and December (first Wednesday of the month).
>
>Not January, and then in February 2010.
>
>Gordo

Venue sought for December event - any offers? London Wiki Wednesday 
is on 2nd December, normally at 6:15 pm for a 7:00 pm formal start, 
with a series of 5 minute presentations after a longer introductory 
talk.

http://www.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london

http://londonwikiwed.ning.com/

Gordo

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