Meetings/2009-09-29/Agenda/Chair's Report

Press

• Emailed The Telegraph regarding their recent article "Roman Polanski's Wikipedia page frozen after 'edit war' over child sex charges", providing some extra information on how Wikipedia works - as a result was quoted in their article. Also see wikipedia:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-09-28/In the news.

Cultural institutes

• Meeting with Tate Online on the 23rd October
• Unconfirmed meeting with the V&A and National Archives on the 15th October
• The Courtauld Gallery is also interested in a meeting with WMUK
• The British Postal Museum & Archive will be participating in Britain Loves Wikimedia

Miscellaneous

• Talked to Robert Perez of Fenton Communications about my perspective of Wikimedia, as part of their work with the Wikimedia Foundation in terms of PR in the future
• Was contacted by http://www.memory4teachers.co.uk asking whether we would be interested in participating in their project; have responded saying that we would be interested in helping them re-use Wikimedia content, but were unable to provide funds.
• The OTRS queue is once more empty