Re: [Wikimediauk-l] List participation
On 27/02/15 12:23, Tom Morris wrote: Less mailing list activity should be something we welcome rather than worry about. I am old school. I started nattering on the net in 1980, so old habits die hard (Usenet, Spuddy, WSMR, etc). Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] List participation
It would be something to welcome if that activity had moved elsewhere, but as far as I can tell activity on the wiki is in decline as well. Not to worry, though - as long as we're meeting our meaningless KPIs I'm sure the FDC won't notice. Oh wait... Well, it's a good job we had that get-together last weekend so that the board could (pretend to) listen to the community's thoughts. Oh, wait... Well it's a good job WMUK has independent revenue streams. Oh, wait... Well, it's a good job we've still got those 200-odd volunteers from last year's Wikimania, they should help us tick some boxes for our KPIs. Oh wait... Never mind, though. As long as the board keep their heads in the sand it'll all be all right. Harry Mitchellhttp://enwp.org/User:HJ Phone: +44 (0) 7507 536971 Skype: harry_j_mitchell From: Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, 6 March 2015, 10:09 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] List participation On 06/03/15 10:01, Gordon Joly wrote: On 27/02/15 12:23, Tom Morris wrote: Less mailing list activity should be something we welcome rather than worry about. I am old school. I started nattering on the net in 1980, so old habits die hard (Usenet, Spuddy, WSMR, etc). Gordo The wiki works better than email for content (examples, issues, brainstorms etc.) for numerous reasons. Brainstorms? I rest my case. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
[Wikimediauk-l] Call for proposals: Wikipedia Science Conference (deadline 8 May)
Hello everyone, Wikimedia UK and Wellcome Trust http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ are delighted to welcome session proposals for the Wikipedia Science Conference – the first of its kind – taking place in London on the 2nd and 3rd of September. The two-day conference reflects the growing interest in Wikipedia and its sister projects as a platform not just for communicating science but for scientific research and publishing. Last year, a clinical review paper authored on Wikipedia was published in a peer-reviewed academic journal. Meanwhile, scientists and Wikipedians are using papers, data, and figures to improve Wikipedia and related projects such as Wikidata . Using these free, open platforms, scientific content is benefiting both from increased impact and an increased opportunity for checking and review. This in turn is a benefit of open-access publication models which make the outputs of research free for anyone to reuse and repurpose. The two keynote speakers are Dr Peter Murray-Rust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Murray-Rust of the University of Cambridge and Dame Wendy Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Hall of the University of Southampton. Professor Hall was a founding director of the Web Science Research Initiative and is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Association for Computing Machinery, previously leading the ACM and the British Computer Society. Dr Murray-Rust, a chemist, campaigns for open sharing of scientific publications and data. He leads the Content Mine project to extract data from published papers and has called Wikidata “the future of science data.” The rest of the programme will consist of invited speakers, sessions suggested through this call, and an “unconference” block in which participants create their own sessions on the day. The conference is arranged by Wikimedia UK and will be hosted by the Wellcome Trust at its premises on Euston Road in London. The Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in health by supporting the brightest minds. You can learn more about the conference, and submit your proposal, here https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_Science_Conference Thank you, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] List participation
On 06/03/15 10:01, Gordon Joly wrote: On 27/02/15 12:23, Tom Morris wrote: Less mailing list activity should be something we welcome rather than worry about. I am old school. I started nattering on the net in 1980, so old habits die hard (Usenet, Spuddy, WSMR, etc). Gordo The wiki works better than email for content (examples, issues, brainstorms etc.) for numerous reasons. Brainstorms? I rest my case. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] List participation
What are your most important KPIs? Rupert On Mar 6, 2015 12:08 PM, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: It would be something to welcome if that activity had moved elsewhere, but as far as I can tell activity on the wiki is in decline as well. Not to worry, though - as long as we're meeting our meaningless KPIs I'm sure the FDC won't notice. Oh wait... Well, it's a good job we had that get-together last weekend so that the board could (pretend to) listen to the community's thoughts. Oh, wait... Well it's a good job WMUK has independent revenue streams. Oh, wait... Well, it's a good job we've still got those 200-odd volunteers from last year's Wikimania, they should help us tick some boxes for our KPIs. Oh wait... Never mind, though. As long as the board keep their heads in the sand it'll all be all right. Harry Mitchell http://enwp.org/User:HJ Phone: +44 (0) 7507 536971 Skype: harry_j_mitchell From: Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, 6 March 2015, 10:09 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] List participation On 06/03/15 10:01, Gordon Joly wrote: On 27/02/15 12:23, Tom Morris wrote: Less mailing list activity should be something we welcome rather than worry about. I am old school. I started nattering on the net in 1980, so old habits die hard (Usenet, Spuddy, WSMR, etc). Gordo The wiki works better than email for content (examples, issues, brainstorms etc.) for numerous reasons. Brainstorms? I rest my case. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
