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| s2_content = | | s2_content = Wikimedia UK is still soliciting ideas for Initiatives for the chapter to pursue! Our new Initiatives Director, Zeyi He, is looking to develop and take forward as many initiatives as we can - and we need your input and assistance in making as many of them work as possible! The Board is looking at a minimum of 3 completed initiatives before the next AGM - so if you have any ideas, you can either list them on the [[Initiatives/Ideas|Ideas]] page, develop them on the [[Initiatives/Proposals|Proposals]] page, or contact our Initiatives Director at [mailto:initiatives@wikimedia.org.uk initiatives@wikimedia.org.uk]! | ||
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| s3_content = | | s3_content = Wikimedia UK is looking to grow! If you have any ideas on how we can push forward our membership, or perhaps want to work with us to gather new members, please get in touch with [[User:Skenmy|Paul Williams]], our Volunteers Director! He is looking for new and innovative ways we can use the varied connections of our members to reach new parts of the UK that may benefit from our work! | ||
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Revision as of 13:30, 20 June 2009
Summary:
In this month's newsletter:
Initiatives
Wikimedia UK is still soliciting ideas for Initiatives for the chapter to pursue! Our new Initiatives Director, Zeyi He, is looking to develop and take forward as many initiatives as we can - and we need your input and assistance in making as many of them work as possible! The Board is looking at a minimum of 3 completed initiatives before the next AGM - so if you have any ideas, you can either list them on the Ideas page, develop them on the Proposals page, or contact our Initiatives Director at initiatives@wikimedia.org.uk!
Membership Drive
Wikimedia UK is looking to grow! If you have any ideas on how we can push forward our membership, or perhaps want to work with us to gather new members, please get in touch with Paul Williams, our Volunteers Director! He is looking for new and innovative ways we can use the varied connections of our members to reach new parts of the UK that may benefit from our work!
Press Coverage
Several British newspapers covered a Wikipedia Arbitration Committee ruling banning members of Scientology from editing articles on the subject. [1][2][3]
Our chair, Mike Peel, was interviewed for an Australian newspaper after a mother found explicit vandalism on Wikipedia.
Several blogs carried stories about the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee member who resigned after being exposed as a sockpuppet who had previously been de-sysopped and had edited articles where he had a conflict of interest. [4][5][6] This was also covered by The Independent and Daily Mail, who interviewed our Volunteers Director, Paul Williams.
Our application to HMRC has been covered by Charity Finance and ThirdSector, who both quoted our Secretary, Andrew Turvey.
Article in the London Review of Books about Wikipedia
A 5,000 page printed book of Wikipedia's featured articles created by Rob Matthews from Brighton was covered by The Telegraph and The Sun.
Other Chapters' Activities
The Netherlands chapter, Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland, is currently running Wiki Loves Art.
A Wikimedia Conference in Japan is currently being planned, and a the 1st Wiki-Conference New York is scheduled for July 25-26 2009.
Meet-ups
- London 23 - Sunday 12th July @ 13:00 - Penderel's Oak Pub, Holborn WC1