User:MartinPoulter

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice - American proverb

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I'm one of the Trustees of Wikimedia UK, elected in April 2011. My term ends on the 12th May 2012 and I've chosen not to seek re-election, to leave room for other things in my life. I may well put myself forward again once I've sorted out my work/work/life/work/life balance.

Activity log

Forthcoming

• EduWiki Conference 2012
• Activities with British Psychological Society
• Exeter Wiki Academy: time and location being finalised
• Invitation from a podcast to speak about Wikipedia- date TBC
• Writing guide to Wikimedia Commons for JISC Digital Media (advice site for creators and users of digital media for education)

Recent

• 14 April: working on Annual Report and other Board matters; writing blog post about doctors' use of Wikipedia; first go at blog post about Academic Spring.
• 10 April: writing up education strategy; education section of Annual Report
• 9 April: Bristol Open Geodata Consortium is now a thing. Email about Trainer Training event.
• 27 March: Board meeting (audioconference)
• 17 March: Stall at Association of Humanist Students National Convention, London
• 5 March: Delivered a solo half-day workshop to 12 staff at Science Learning Centre South West
• 29 February: Presented at IDeoGRAMS seminar, University of Leicester, on "Wikipedia: Elitism for the Masses"
• 11 and 12 February: Board meeting, London
• 10 February: Working on education strategy
• 9 February: Meeting a software developer in Bristol about geodata, along with SV.
• 4 February: further work on Trainer training
• 2 February: Organising Geological Society workshop for March.
• Investigating possibility of involvement in Bath Digital Festival, late March.
• 27 January: Training session for Oxford graduate students for the Free Speech Debate project, improving Wikipedia's Freedom of speech article in 13 languages
• 26 January: Board audioconference
• 24 January: Board audioconference
• 22 January: campus ambassador meeting, Imperial College
• 19 January: trip to Oxford to meet Free Speech project participants
• 18 January: interviewed by BBC Radio Wales in the early morning, about enwiki blackout
• 15 January: Delivering training at Bristol Girl Geeks Wikipedia event
• 4-11 January: creating more pages about training: Trainer training, For trainers, Basic Commons training, Improving Wikipedia training, Training preparation email, Evaluation of training, draft observation form, Training, Student societies
• 3 January: Starting to wikify training documents: Basic Wikipedia training. Evening: Board meeting
• 2 January: Day catching up on email + phone meeting with Fae.
• 5 December: Speaking at Social Media Lunch for scholarly societies, hosted by the Institute of Physics in London (15 min talk followed by discussion) Slides: "Wikimedia and public engagement for scientists"
• 1 December: Meeting with British Psychological Society/ History of Psychology Archive/ Wellcome Library in Manchester
• 19/20 November: Board away weekend
• 18 November: speaking at ESRC Research Seminar on "Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights", Leicester University (15 min. talk followed by discussion). Dinner in London in the evening. /Sausages and Scholarship (slides and summary)
• 16 November: Finishing up researcher brochure draft and sharing on-wiki
• 13 November: More work on researcher brochure
• 12 November: Writing up outline proposal for a geodata project focused on Bristol
• 7 November: afternoon in Bristol with Jon Davies and Steve Virgin; internal discussions and meetings with local partners
• 5-6 November: working on brochure for researchers
• 4 November: one-hour meeting with a researcher for a University of Bristol/ University of Cardiff project on crowdsourcing. Explained how Wikimedia projects can benefit arts and humanities researchers
• 3 November: 25 minute interview on BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Radio Somerset on Wikimedia and other topics
• 16 October: Attending EGM_2011 in London
• 11 October: Board meeting
• 11 October: Project wrap-up meetings with ARKive and University of Bristol
• 5 October: Speaking on "Common pitfalls in engaging with Wikipedia" (slides) at Bathcamp, the Innovation Centre, Bath Storify of tweets from the session
• 29 September: Meeting At-Bristol staff (with SV)
• 15 September: Wiki Wildlife Bristol
• 12 September: Board audioconference re CE recruitment and Charity application
• 11 September: London Wikimeet and meeting Chief Executive candidates
• 8 September: Meeting with ARKive about Wiki Wildlife Bristol
• 1 September: Institute of Physics Workshop
• 27-28 August: Board meeting
• 18 August: Wikimedia Girl Geek Dinner
• 3 August: another round of edits to Physics World article
• 2 August: meeting ARKive about collaboration project, then lunchtime meeting about media opportunities
• 1 August: meeting Centre for Public Engagement at University of Bristol
• 25 July: Board meeting
• 20 July: Meeting with contact from Arts & Humanities Research Council
• 19 July: edits to press release about Bristol placements
• Weekly from 19 July: Meetings with Sam Knight (University of Bristol Outreach Ambassador)
• 17 July: Finishing & submitting first draft of Physics World article
• 15 July: First attempt at feature article for Physics World
• 7-10 July: attending Wikipedia in Higher Education Summit
• 4 July: Bristol Wiki Academy 2
• 3 July: Filing expenses for self and others, adding blog post to blog, preparing for workshop tomorrow.
• 1 July: Medical Research Council Workshop in London and subsequent write-up
• 28 June: Preparing for MRC Workshop + Meeting with Pigsonthewing and ARKive
• 25 June: Writing blog post about Wikipedia and librarianship
• 23 June: Preparing press release for Medical Research Council Workshop
• 23 June: Preparing 2 slides for pre-sessional Bristol students on use & evaluation of Wikipedia
• 22 June: Interviews for University of Bristol Outreach Ambassador
• 21 June: Presented at meeting of Subject Librarians at the University of Bristol
• 18 June: Attended Campus Ambassador training at Imperial College, London
• 15 June: With Steve Virgin, met with teachers in a local school
• 11/12 June: Board strategy day (Saturday), meeting and Birmingham Wikimeet (Sunday)
• 8 June: Got University of Bristol to put up news item about Ambassador post.
• 6 June: Phone meeting with BPS contact
• 3 June: Worked with Phil Barker of JISC CETIS to create "Wikimedia Commons for UKOER resources", a guide for projects releasing open educational resources in UK Higher Education
• 2 June: WMUK Blog post, Six unorthodox ways to use Wikipedia
• 2 June: Meeting with SETSquared
• 2 June: Phone meeting about BOB lectures
• Contributed to Reports/2011/May
• 19 May: With Steve Virgin, met with University of Bristol partner to design Wikimedia Outreach Ambassador post.
• 11 May: Presented at the Open Educational Resources conference 2011 on "Wikipedia and Higher Education: Beat them or Join them?" (slides PDF)
• 9 May: Audioconference with Institute of Physics
• 30 April: Online meeting about Ambassador programme
• 29 April: Online meeting about application for charitable status
• 28 April: With Steve Virgin, met with a potential partner organisation to write and present a Memorandum of Understanding
• 20 April: Met with Watershed Media Centre about content sharing
• 19 April: Interviewed by TheNextWeb, published the next day as "Wikimedia UK to Hire Full-Time Staff, Aims to Increase Content Quality on Wikipedia"
• 16 April: Presented on /Psychology on Wikipedia 2011 at Annual Conference 2011. Joined board.
• 5 April: Presented at plenary session of Scottish Economics Society on "Bringing remix culture to Economics." Made positive mentions of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimedia community.
• March: Designed promotional image for Annual Conference 2011.
• 31 March: Interviewed by The Times about Cancer Research UK Workshop. Published on 4 April on page 14.
• 28 March: One of the Wikipedia guides at Cancer Research UK Workshop
• 19 March: Co-hosted and co-organised Bristol Wiki Academy 1 at the University of Bristol. Five minute interview in the morning for BBC Radio Bristol
• 14 March: Met with a manager of an image archive to discuss possible content partnership
• 23 February: Attended Digital Humanities workshop at University of Bristol to meet archivists.
• 31 January: Brief presentation at Cancer Research UK Workshop

Past

• Other meetings with local partners, in conjunction with Steve V.

/Education