[Wikimediauk-l] "Graves in 19,000 English churchyards to be mapped online"

2021-08-31 Thread Andy Mabbett
ealogy research websites." It is to be hoped that NLHF's new requirement, that the results of what they fund be released under open licence, will apply, and that no exemption to that has been granted. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://

[Wikimediauk-l] UK Newspapers: 1 Million become free-to-view (registration required)

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Mabbett
twitter.com/BL_newsroom/status/1424730642512809993 -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: IT Development Updates

2021-11-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 09:38, Mike Peel wrote: > (would be really nice if WMUK did a WMDE and hosted the technical > development of a Wikimedia project!). Isn't that QRpedia? Has anything (technical or otherwise) been done with that, lately? Is anything planned? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsont

[Wikimediauk-l] A Culture of Copyright: A scoping study

2022-03-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
-tanner.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-revolution-starts-here-open-access.html -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https

[Wikimediauk-l] False copyright claims in Historic England's "Aerial Photograph EXplorer"

2022-03-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
m#Crown_copyright [3] Example: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/record/raf_540_78_sffo_0003 -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.o

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: False copyright claims in Historic England's "Aerial Photograph EXplorer"

2022-03-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
uiring about the issue, so they can rectify it. Thank you. I didn't know that, but now that I have tried it, it results in the download of a blank black image. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing https://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing lis

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: False copyright claims in Historic England's "Aerial Photograph EXplorer"

2022-03-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
currently in contact with Historic England but will get in touch with >them > about this issue. Thank you. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/m

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: False copyright claims in Historic England's "Aerial Photograph EXplorer"

2022-03-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 at 12:44, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 at 12:19, Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > > > I saw that you had asked them about this on Twitter Andy, but assume you > > didn't get a response? > > None. They have now replied, insisting

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: False copyright claims in Historic England's "Aerial Photograph EXplorer"

2022-04-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
It seems that, without announcement, Historic England have now dropped the claim that copyright-expired pre-June 1957 RAF images are still in copyright, from their Aerial Photo Explorer. They still prevent users from downloading them. On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 at 11:30, Andy Mabbett wrote

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: English Wikipedia deletion of Howard Stableford article

2022-01-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
the deleting admin to restore the article "so that it can be improved, or sent to AfD if anyone feels strongly enough". -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: False copyright claims in Historic England's "Aerial Photograph EXplorer"

2022-04-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 at 12:44, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I have an ongoing FoI request, but they seem reluctant to provide the > requested information there, also. They have refused my FoI request, and refused to conduct an internal review, so I have now referred the matter to the ICO's

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Fwd: Bristol / Hanover Wiki Meetup, Saturday 19th September

2023-08-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
Martin didn't say which year... -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk On Tue, 15 Aug 2023, 00:15 Rod Ward, wrote: > Martin, > I am confused. Sat 19th Sept? My Calder says 19 Sept is a Tuesday. > Rod > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 12 Aug 2023, at

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: UK online safety bill - other unintended victims?

2023-05-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
are thousands; examples might inucde ** https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/ ** https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/ ** https://community.hmrc.gov.uk/customerforums/ (!) -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK

[Wikimediauk-l] "Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees—at last"

2023-12-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
/2023/12/29/court-of-appeal-ruling-will-prevent-uk-museums-from-charging-reproduction-feesat-last -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: "Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees—at last"

2024-01-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 at 09:39, Deryck Chan wrote: > > I'm slightly confused by the article. It refers to THJ vs Sheridan (2023) > but that ruling was about software-generated graphs and said nothing > about reproducing out-of-copyright content? It doesn't need to. It clarifies the conditions under

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: "Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees—at last"

2024-01-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
sponse to FoI requests. Conversely, there is no hard evidence of any institution making a significant profit from such licensing, much less then investing it in digitisation. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailin

[Wikimediauk-l] QR code feature added to Wikimedia projects, but not QRpedia

2024-01-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
Community Wishlist Survey. With no mention of QRpedia. While we're on the topic, can we have an update about QRpedia, please? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia

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