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

Location: [http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/show.shtml/266/Cock/Oxford_Circus The Cock] on 27 Great Portland Street, near Broadcasting House, [http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=529044&y=181412&z=0&ar=Y located] a few dozen metres from Oxford Circus tube station.

Attendance

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

= Made it =

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

= Didn't make it =

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

= Couldn't make it =

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

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

London

London 03