Wikipedia:Meetup/London 3

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

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

in order of sitting around the tables and writing their name in James F.'s notebook (which bears no resemblance to actual arrival time)

• David Gerard
• Arkady Rose
• Theo
• SGBailey
• Warofdreams
• snoyes
• Angela
• Eloquence
• Thryduulf
• rbrwr
• Acb
• Nile Hef
• nsh
• MykReeve
• James F.
• sannse
• Morwen
• VampWillow

The below expressed interest, but didn't manage to make it.

• Charles Matthews
• Enchanter
• OwenBlacker
• JFW
• Lumos3
• Oldak Quill
• San de Berg
• Susvolans
• Nick04
• Kaihsu
• Dan100
• Camembert
• Dbiv
• Harel, a guest from Hebrew wikipedia
• IulianU
• EAi

The below sent their regrets.

• Jimbo (too expensive to stop off on his journey home this time round)
• Theresa Knott
• Xed - I would only go to meet the luverly Theresa. XED.talk 13:03, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Noisy - Family event, I'm afraid.
• Rje (work commitments)
• User:Solipsist I was hoping to be able to make it, but I've got various things coming up next weekend and a trip down to London isn't part of the picture at the moment. -- Solipsist 00:29, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Brookie
• G-Man - Sorry cant afford the train tickets, I'm skint at the moment. Maybe next time (hopefully outside London). Good luck to you all.
• max rspct - Sorry .. I've bailed out..not coming. I have missed 2 coaches already. - max rspct 13:15, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC) (ran after and missed coaches- then too late...)
• JFW | T@lk - next time please a Sunday evening.

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

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

• Wikipedia meetups in 2005
• Wikipedia meetups in London