WikiConference UK 2012

The Science Museum, London

The Wikimedia UK Annual Conference 2012 will be held on May 12 in the Directors' Suite at the Science Museum in London. The conference will incorporate both presentations and talks about Wikipedia/Wikimedia, as well as Wikimedia UK's Annual General Meeting. It should be free to attend, and lots of fun.

It is one half of a London Wiki weekend, the second half being our 57th London meetup.

WikiConference UK 2012 - In a nutshell When: Saturday 12th May 2012, 09:30-17:30 Where: Science Museum, London, England. See the museum's "getting here" page. Cost: Free to attend. Keynote Speaker: TBA Other talks: See below Hashtag: #wmuk Calendar: Download as an ics file to add to your calendar. Wikimedia Commons category: Category:WikiConference UK 2012

Agenda

Saturday 12th

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Time	Event
09.30	Gathering for tea and biscuits
09.50	Welcome
10.00	Talks about Wikimedia	Talks about open content projects	Skillshare
12:00	UK Wikimedian of the Year 2012
12.30	Lunch break - light lunch provided
13.30	Wikimedia UK AGM
15.00	Talks about Wikimedia	Talks about open content projects	Wikimania 2013
17.00	Close of meeting.
17.30	New Board has first meeting.	Retiring to a nearby pub.	Curry/Pizza

Wikimedia UK AGM

• 13.30: Election Hustings and Voting
• 14.00: Approval of minutes: 2011 AGM and 2011 EGM
• 14.05: Board Report for 2010-2011
• 14.20: Resolutions
• 14.45: Discussion over the voting process (led by James Farrar)
• 14.55: Announcement of the election results

Talks about Wikimedia

Intended to be focused on content - e.g. WikiProjects.

• State of the GLAM (Speedy overview of the year and compère - Fæ et al)
  • BL - TBA?
  • TNA - Leutha?, Jo Pugh?
  • BM - Johnbod?
  • DMAAG/Wright Challenge - Roger Bamkin?
  • HAGAM - Rock drum, Harry Mitchell
  • NMM - Chris Keating?
  • MonmouthpediA - John Cummings?
  • ARKive - Andy Mabbet?
• Microformats - Andy Mabbett (could be Skillshare)

• The future of the chapters, the evolution of the movement structure, is really one of the biggest things to affect our movement governance maybe since before the chapters were formed and prehaps the biggest change since the creation of the foundation itself - Seddon

Talks about open content projects

Intended to be focused on 'meta' discussion - e.g. what the chapter can do.

• Domesday - Anna Powell Smith
• Europeana and GLAM - David Haskiya
• Creative Commons - Joscelyn
• See discussion

Skillshare

In this session, attendees will have the chance to share their Wikimedia-related skills with other participants, along the lines of Wikimedia skill swap.

Wikimania 2013

The UK has two of the five bid cities for Wikimania 2013, and by the time of the AGM we should know whether Wikimania 2013 will be held in London, Bristol or abroad. So this slot is reserved for the successful UK Wikimania bid team to discuss their bid and the opportunities for other UK Wikimedians to get involved. Alternatively if 2013 goes to Hong Kong, Naples or Surakarta this slot is an opportunity for those involved in the bids to discuss the jury's decision and start thinking about 2014.

Metadata

Wikimedia UK Annual Conference 2012 2012-05-12T09.30:00+01:00 2012-05-12T15:00:00+01:00 Directors' Suite, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD (51.4975,-0.174722) http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2012

Sunday 13th

• AM Possible early start to the London meetup, Or alternatively if there are people staying the weekend, we could do a Sunday morning museum trip or photo session.
• 13:00 Normal London Meetup at 1pm in the Penderel's Oak.

Attendees

Are you interested in coming? Please sign up now, and we'll remind you closer to the time. It's important that we know how many to plan for, so that we can make sure there's enough seats to go around!

If you're likely to need assistance covering your travel costs to the conference, please mention that / let us know otherwise. It's unlikely that we'll have the funds to cover costs for everyone.

• Seven board members
• --Filceolaire 13:22, 29 January 2012 (UTC) Can cover my own costs to London. Can help with organising.
• Jon Davies WMUK 14:33, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
• Yes, I hope to come along this year. I should be able to cover my travel costs for London. CT Cooper · talk 12:31, 31 January 2012 (UTC) I should be able to make both days, but if it will be difficult for me to deal with two days worth of train tickets or over night accommodation, so I might need some assistance after all. CT Cooper · talk 13:53, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
• Count me in :) --ErrantX 12:24, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
• Jukesie 12:41, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
• WereSpielChequers 12:48, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
• Miyagawa 12:51, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
• Dougweller 14:22, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
• Haidee Bell
• Assistance with travel costs would be appreciated. Harry Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:55, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
• Harry Wood 15:23, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
• Anna Powell-Smith
• David Haskiya
• James Knight - No travel costs required
• Richard Symonds 15:34, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
• User:Senra Looking for lift from Cambridge to London or a contribution to travel costs --Senra 17:38, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
• Steve Bowbrick
• Michael Corbett - Saturday only.
• LoopZilla
• LondonStatto 00:38, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
• The wub 23:19, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
• Andy Mabbett - Saturday only. Happy to speak (on microformats as suggested above; or my GLAM activities, or... ), or help on the day.
• Mrjohncummings (talk) 17:49, 27 February 2012 (UTC) happy to talk about Monmouthpedia if wanted, maybe just Saturday, not sure yet.
• Likely. It happens to be the lovely weekend between my exams and summer term projects! Deryck Chan (talk) 21:09, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
• RexxS (talk) 15:05, 1 March 2012 (UTC) - I'll investigate whether driving and parking is possible; if so I would be able to give lifts from the West Midlands. Happy to talk about accessibility issues.
• Johnbod (talk) 13:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
• Daria Cybulska (talk) 09:47, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
• Leutha (talk) 11:32, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
• Dsvyas (talk) 00:59, 17 March 2012 (UTC) - Can do both days.