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: 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.

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)


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

Didn't make it
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

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