Wikipedia:Meetup/London 3

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The third London Wikimeet took place on Saturday the 26th of March 2005 from 14:00 GMT at a pub called "The Cock" just to the North of Oxford Circus and East of Broadcasting House in central London. The main topic of discussion was creating a UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Location

Location: The Cock on 27 Great Portland Street, near Broadcasting House, located a few dozen metres from Oxford Circus tube station.

Attendance

Obviously, if you're not listed, or mis-listed, please correct.

Discussion

Discussion was wide-ranging, and took in (non-comprehensive listing)

• The nature of the Arbitration Committee w.r.t. the community
• What's wrong with Commons
• ... and what to do about it
• Coding suggestions
• ... and admonishmonts for not getting on with coding something but just whining about it
• Wonderous praise of devs
• What the nature of "counties" entails, exactly (in traditional, ceremonial, postal, administrative and imaginary forms), including interactive multi-editor diagrams
• Whether countries that take the definite article should have their article on Wikipedia be named as such
• Call to arms for Wikinews
• Anticipation of various features
• Magnus' sifter code, and how it will help with 1.0
• The sustainability of open editing as the ratio of idiots to enlightened users forever increases
• Ponderances on the ratio of British English- to American English-writing editors, why is has fallen of late, and whether it is likely to fall further or reverse
• Licensing laws in the United Kingdom. Not that we have an article on that. Indeed, discussion included that we do not have an article.
• That Wikimedia.eu is worthwhile registering for, when registering opens (for institutions with trademarks) in a few months' time.
• The need for an additional text entry field in the use of the sysop 'rollback' function for clarity of reasoning

Oh, and:

• Setting up Wikimedia UK

Photographs

I took lots of photos, the best 29 of which are in a gallery at User:Thryduulf/Wikimeets/London3. Thryduulf