Hi everyone,
Just wanted to inform/remind people that we're still having some virtual UK
meetups on Zoom. The next one is this Wednesday (the 15th) in the evening,
you can sign up and find the link here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/UK_virtual/7
These are purely informal affairs: come a
Hi all,
Just to remind people that we're still holding a virtual "London" wiki
meetup on the second Sunday of every month. Of course being virtual means
that geography is no constraint, so do join us from wherever you are. This
is a purely social affair: come along to chat about what you've been d
The virtual meetups we've had so far on Zoom have been pretty successful.
There's another one happening on Sunday 14 June (nominally the "London"
meetup, but open to all)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/155
Peter
On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 19:40, geni wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 2020 at
We will be holding the regular "London" meetup this Sunday 10 May on Zoom,
anyone is free to join. Details and signup at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/154
It looks like there is also interest in holding another virtual meetup on
Saturday 16 May:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe
Thank you Richard for the huge amount you've done for Wikimedia UK and the
movement. Congratulations on the new role, I'm sure you'll do a great job!
Best wishes to you and Fiona, and I hope to see you around on- and off-line.
Peter / the wub
On 4 August 2016 at 22:47, Harry Mitchell wrote:
> R
It appears that the security certificate for wikimedia.org.uk expired
yesterday. Is someone from the chapter looking into this?
Thanks,
Peter
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Happy New Year!
I've just added a few more to
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Anniversary_articles. If like me one of your
resolutions this year is to edit more articles, there's plenty of
inspiration there, from Magna Carta to the BT Tower.
Peter
On 14 November 2014 at 15:39, Jonathan Cardy <
jon
I think a CentralNotice would be too broad for this, but it's certainly a
good candidate for a geolocated watchlist notice.
Peter
On 29 May 2014 15:21, Edward Saperia wrote:
> Seems pretty damn relevant and important to the people logging on from the
> UK, if you ask me!
>
> *Edward Saperia*
>
On 14 November 2013 14:14, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> Over the last few months, I've been in discussion with the BBC about
> open licensing some of their content. As an experement, they've agreed
> to open licence a selection of audio "snippets" of notable people
> talking, from certain of their radio
I didn't know such a thing existed. Very handy!
It took me a few minutes to figure out how to use it on Google Calendar.
For anyone else similarly struggling: click the down arrow next to "Other
calendars" in the sidebar, then select Add by URL.
Peter
On 28 October 2013 15:58, Harry Burt wrote
Congratulations to all the winners! And a big thank you to all the chapter
staff and the volunteers who made our first year in WLM go so well!
On 30 Oct 2013 10:18, "Michael Maggs" wrote:
> We are please to announce the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the
> UK.The first three prizes were
On 2 October 2013 16:29, wrote:
> Quoting Chris Keating :
>
> well done everyone! I see the UK ended up the 5th-biggest country in terms
>> of the number of contributors, and 8th in terms of total photos uploaded.
>> Not bad for a first attempt!
>>
>
> I only got out taking photos one afternoon,
Ditto. It's something I definitely want to learn more about, and having a
group event sounds fun.
Pete / the wub
On 15 March 2013 05:14, Richard Farmbrough wrote:
> How many people would we get for this? I'd come right now, not having
> got to grips with Lua yet.
>
>
> __
The detailed breakdowns (quite large pages):
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdownHuge.htm#United%20Kingdom
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerCountryBreakdownHuge.htm#United%20Kingdom
About 0.6% of both views and edits
Although afaik Wiki Loves Monuments has mainly focused on getting
photographs, I agree there's a great oppportunity for improving
related articles and lists too. For example compare the lovely
illustrated list of Grade I buildings in Greater Manchester [1] with
the far more barebones list for Merse
How cool! Congratulations!
Pete / the wub
On 10 January 2013 08:31, Doug Weller wrote:
> Good work Andy.
> Doug
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Deryck Chan wrote:
>>
>> Well done!
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2013 8:46 AM, "Andy Mabbett" wrote:
>>>
>>> ...if you can find it ;-)
>>>
>>> I've accept
If an admin could stick the following in
https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css, that should do the
trick.
#footer-places-mobileview { display: none; }
Glad this is finally solved!
Pete / the wub
On 29 October 2012 22:24, rexx wrote:
> Yes - they've simply suppressed the redirecti
I had a go at one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:UK_quick_links
Please add any links you think are missing!
It only includes a few of the largest/most active WikiProjects so as
not to overwhelm the template, but I did also give the full list at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UK_W
Hmmm, they took the time to look at them all for potentially
defamatory material, but didn't bother to filter/mark all the
completely empty forms sent back (mainly from universities, colleges,
and local councils it seems). How annoying.
Some interesting stuff all the same. I for one never realised
s also a "single-sign
> on" issue for which I have a new clue today; and we can hash out
> "training for trainers" and implications.
>
> It would be good to have anyone who finds the general area interesting
> contributing. There was a big emphasis at Wikimania on
This sounds good, and I'd be happy to help out. Will be at Wikimania
as well, but most weekends after that should be okay for me.
Peter
On 26 June 2012 14:52, Charles Matthews wrote:
>
>
> On 26 June 2012 13:32, Andrew Gray wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm certainly interested, dates permitting. I'll proba
Excellent news! Welcome Katherine, look forward to meeting you at some point :)
Pete / the wub
On 8 June 2012 13:22, Jon Davies wrote:
> We are very pleased to announce that we have appointed a fundraiser.
> Katherine Bavage will be starting at WMUK on July 2nd.
> She has a professional backgrou
Any templates used widely enough that changes to them might cause
performance issues are ''already'' protected as a matter of routine.
Note there's currently a discussion on protecting the entire Template
namespace and/or creating a template-editor user right. The former is
getting shot down in fl
Yeah, that's a great site. Brainchild of Ben Goldacre if I remember rightly.
Pete / the wub
On 23 April 2012 17:07, Richard Symonds
wrote:
> Hmm. I've just found the site at http://www.nerdydaytrips.com/ - it
> essentially lists very Wikipedian places to visit all around the UK. Very
> useful!
The issue with en-gb has been fixed.
We were waiting for a Welsh translation of Susan's appeal since it was
quite a late addition to the line-up. It's in place now:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/L11_1114_WMUK_Susan/GB/cy
Peter
(WMF Fundraiser Production Coordinator)
On 14 November 2011 1
Interesting stat of the day: The second most visited Wikipedia in the
UK is Polish.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdownHuge.htm
The non-English 'local' languages don't even register in that
breakdown, being less than 0.1% of pageviews. Of course this
This announcement seems to have slipped under the radar a bit, but
(assuming I'm reading it correctly) it's potentially very good news:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/498.htm
I'm no expert but it looks basically like a CC-BY license, with a few
additions to explicitly spell out moral righ
greasemonkey script to convert wikimarkup on non-wiki sites to
> appropriate formatting. That'd be cool.
> >
> > --- On Sun, 12/7/09, Peter Coombe wrote:
> >
> >> From: Peter Coombe
> >> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Foundation-l] "sue and be da
But even if FOI is deemed to apply to photographs of artwork, they could
release the files and still maintain their claim of copyright
http://www.dca.gov.uk/foi/yourRights/index.htm#receive
They could also claim commercial interest (IMO reasonably) as a reason not
to comply with such a FOI request
2009/7/2 Andrew Turvey :
> I'm very happy to share the fantastic news that our application for a £5,000
> grant from the Wikimedia Foundation has been approved in full.
>
> More details of our bid are given at
> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Bid
>
> This grant will be a great help in kic
Good find, I added my name too. But see the comment left by John
Sheridan -
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/unlocking-service/CommentView/guid/bc8d9078-135a-4a75-98c9-9c9e0cb92bef#commentstart
It looks like some company called Dods owns the copyright on those photos.
Pete / the wub
2009/5/20 Chris Down
2009/4/27 Gordon Joly :
> At 14:50 +0100 27/4/09, David Gerard wrote:
>>2009/4/27 Thomas Dalton :
>>
>>> Maybe, but does anyone read The Register other than for BOFH and case
>>> studies on bad journalism?
>>
>>
>>The hardware reviews are nice if a bit press-releasy ...
>>
>>- d.
>
>
> http://www
And it's in. Good old Andrew Orlowski.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/27/wikipedia_charity_not/
Pete / the wub
2009/4/27 Andrew Turvey :
> I can't see anything (yet) at http://www.theregister.co.uk/
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Gordon Joly"
> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.
2009/4/13 joseph seddon :
> When is the close for scholarships?
The 30th April also. [1]
Pete / the wub
[1] http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships#Timeline
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2009/4/13 Casey Brown :
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Peter Coombe
> wrote:
>> Is anyone planning on attending Wikimania 2009 in Buenos Aires?
>
> Quite a few people,
> <http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees>. Make sure you
> guys add yourself t
2009/4/13 Cary Bass :
> Peter:
>
> Please be sure you submit your discussion in the next 24 hours as the
> submission deadline is upon us.
>
> Cary
>
Thanks Cary, but from [1] it appears that open space discussions (what
I was planning for) have a later deadline of the 30th. I hope this is
correct
Is anyone planning on attending Wikimania 2009 in Buenos Aires? I will
be if I can get a scholarship [1], and was also thinking someone
should talk about WMUK. So I was planning to submit an "open space
discussion" [2] about the chapter, which would be a chance to talk
about some of the things we'v
2009/2/24 Tom Holden :
> I just phoned the co-op, and I’ve been told that our application has been
> accepted, and that they’ll have a sort code and account number for us on
> Thursday.
>
Hooray! I'm looking forward to seeing some money disappear from my
account and into yours, and it's not often
2009/2/20 David Gerard :
> 2009/2/20 David Gerard :
>> 2009/2/20 David Gerard :
>
>>> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,100097,39616171,00.htm
>
>> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/20/1439246
>
>
> Oh, and is anyone in Cambridge looking for work?
>
> http://jobs.cambridge-news.co.u
2009/2/4 Sam Korn :
> 2009/2/4 private musings :
>> I may be reading this completely wrong - but is this some odd subdomain of
>> uk.wikipedia.org? Dunno what's going on really, but if anyone's russian (or
>> whatever language this is in fact!) is better than mine - maybe let me know
>> ;-)
>>
>> c
Hi all,
Given the success of the first Cambridge meetup in October, it's about
time we had another one. The provisional date is Saturday 28th
February, and you can see more information and discuss onwiki at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge_2 - I hope to
see a few of you there
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