Re: [Wikimediauk-l] TLS review of Jack Lynch, You Could Look It Up
The Thonemann article turns out to be public (about a third of TLS articles are): http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/encyclopedic-knowledge/ I rather enjoyed this - "Given the manner of its compilation, the accursed thing really is a whole lot more reliable than it has any right to be. Like many university lecturers, I used to warn my own students off using Wikipedia (as pointless an injunction as telling them not to use Google, or not to leave their essay to the last minute). I finally gave up doing so about three years ago, after reading a paper by an expert on South Asian coinage in which the author described the Wikipedia entry on the Indo-Greek Kingdom (c.200 BC–AD 10) as the most reliable overview of Indo-Greek history to be found anywhere – quite true, though not necessarily as much of a compliment to Wikipedia as you might think." Andrew. On 26 May 2016 at 11:56, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Enjoyable two-page review today in the Times Literary Supplement by Peter > Thonemann, flagged on the front page as "The triumph of Wikipedia?" > > Lynch's book You Could Look It Up has the subtitle "The reference shelf from > ancient Babylon", and WP is duly mentioned in the review at length, with > Rich Farmbrough getting a namecheck. > > Thonemann is at Wadham College, Oxford, and gives good quotes: e.g. > "Wiki-editors are, in my experience, an exceptionally friendly and helpful > bunch". > > Charles > > > ___ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day tomorrow
The "German focus" is no doubt partly down to better metadata in Wikidata, but also ties into something I spotted years ago - proportionally more notable people in dewiki died in 1945 than in enwiki. http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2010/demographics-in-wikipedia/ Making the reasonable assumption that demographic skews in dewiki represent a German bias, it's easy to see why - the entire country was variously in a state of war, occupation, starvation and/or general upheaval that year, so you'd expect a higher mortality rate compared to most other places, even leaving aside the effect of "war deaths" per se. I haven't rerun this with Wikidata data (where we can use nationality rather than language-of-article) but suspect you'd see a similar thing. Next year (2017, for 1946 deaths) should be somewhat more balanced. Andrew. On 31 December 2015 at 11:17, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > On 31 December 2015 at 08:12 geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Partial list of works that will hit the public domain at midnight tonight > can be found at: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_public_domain > > That said this will have a fairly limited impact on wikipedia due to issues > with US copyright laws. > > Thanks. The impact on Commons and Wikisource is typically more noticeable. > > Some thoughts. > > I was looking around on Wikidata: generating lists of creators of works with > death dates in a given year, and associated with a given country, is a > natural task for it. From a Wikisource point of view, authors who write in a > given language is relevant, and there was a game created a couple of months > ago to fill in the corresponding data - seems not to be online right now, > though. > > My first pass at authors dying in 1945 yielded 103, as opposed to the 72 or > so in the enWP page you give. (Those are mostly writing in German, which is > probably more to do with attention paid to the "occupation" field than > anything else.) > > This business was discussed earlier in the year: the old thread at > > http://wikimediauk-l.wikimedia.narkive.com/4nyiV2zt/wikidata-training-session > > contains contributions from Andrew Gray, in particular a query using > subclasses of "author" which is certainly a good idea. But artists are also > relevant. > > A heavyweight SPARQL query that factored in the various copyright > jurisdictions would be a project I'd like to see done, of course. [1] is a > bare bones "humans who died in 1945" query, which should bring up about > 10,000 hits. > > Charles > > [1] > https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flast_time%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%09%09%09SELECT%20%3Fitem%20(MAX(%3Ftime0)%20AS%20%3Flast_time)%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%09%09%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%09%09%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20%20%09%09%09FILTER%20(%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%221945-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%221945-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20)%20.%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%20(%3Flast_time) > > > _______ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Gender Balance (MySociety)
Hi Richard, I've been talking to EveryPolitician about this. Matching to Wikidata will pose something of a challenge but we're on it :-) A. On 5 October 2015 at 12:58, Richard Symonds <richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone else seen the email from MySociety about the Gender Balance game > they've created? See > https://www.mysociety.org/2015/07/30/introducing-gender-balance-the-game-that-sorts-the-women-from-the-boys/ > for more about it. > > It appears they also have a database which we may be free to upload to > Wikidata... > > Richard Symonds > Wikimedia UK > 0207 065 0992 > > 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 > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Spam] 2016 in public domain
There's 2087 entries on Wikidata for people who died in 1945 and have an occupation which is some kind of 'creator' (though due to a quirk of the Wikidata hierarchy, that seems to include scientists + engineers) http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html?q=between%5B570%2C1945-01-01%2C1945-12-31%5D%20and%20claim%5B106%3A(tree%5B2500638%5D%5B%5D%5B279%5D)%5D For authors + subclasses thereof it's a more manageable 636: http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html?q=between%5B570%2C1945-01-01%2C1945-12-31%5D%20and%20claim%5B106%3A%28tree%5B482980%5D%5B%5D%5B279%5D%29%5D No major British names leap out from a quick skim through. Andrew. On 7 August 2015 at 22:12, leu...@fabiant.eu leu...@fabiant.eu wrote: Hi all, Last year there was 2015 in public domain and now we have 2016 in public domain . . . but it only has one entry. I would be interested to know if anyone else is interested in working on this and perhaps organising something for Public Domain Day, or perhaps an event later in January when people have recovered from the holiday. Personally I am particularly interested in the work of the encyclopedist Otto Neurath. all the best Fabina aka Leutha ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Reducing the copyright term for (some) unpublished works
Hi all, Some initial thoughts at https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2039_consultation - comments appreciated. Andrew. On 7 November 2014 at 17:58, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Hi all, The government is currently consulting on reducing the copyright term in some unpublished material - this is the 2039 problem that a number of institutions have been raising in recent weeks, where unpublished works can be in copyright until 2039 despite being potentially several centuries old. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reducing-the-duration-of-copyright-in-certain-unpublished-works This seems like something where WMUK should submit a response (we have a pretty clear interest in rationalising the regulations here). Deadline is a month away so we've got some time to think about it. I'm happy to draft up some notes for us to send in if no-one else is putting something together - have we been looking at this already? Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] ToS; DR Meetup, London, Wednesday
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[Wikimediauk-l] Reducing the copyright term for (some) unpublished works
Hi all, The government is currently consulting on reducing the copyright term in some unpublished material - this is the 2039 problem that a number of institutions have been raising in recent weeks, where unpublished works can be in copyright until 2039 despite being potentially several centuries old. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reducing-the-duration-of-copyright-in-certain-unpublished-works This seems like something where WMUK should submit a response (we have a pretty clear interest in rationalising the regulations here). Deadline is a month away so we've got some time to think about it. I'm happy to draft up some notes for us to send in if no-one else is putting something together - have we been looking at this already? Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Magna Carta
I'm not so sure. The article is 7000 words long, with densely-written and relatively technical content, and needs a comprehensive overhaul - it's the sort of thing that rewards work by one or two people with a good overview and a few days reading, rather than fifty people with small contributions. Inviting people to contribute to something with very little entry-level potential seems likely to just end in frustration for all concerned. Trying a call to action seems a good idea, but probably better for something else... A. On 5 November 2014 13:58, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hello everyone, I really like Ed's point that this is a good PR opportunity. If anyone is interested in putting together some details and a potential media pitch that would be excellent! Thank you, Stevie On 5 November 2014 12:11, Jonathan Cardy jonathan.ca...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Dear Rod, We did indeed have a resident at the British Library, and some ongoing discussions and events with them, including an event last Friday. At the moment we are focussed on some large image releases and a major tagging exercise to identify old maps which will then be loaded on Commons. But it would be worth thinking of further projects, though at least for this month I'd like to focus what we are doing with BL on certain mass uploads. Do people think that Magna Carta would be a good subject for a Wiki wednesday session - bringing few editors together on a Wednesday evening in our office in London? Regards Jonathan Cardy GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives Museums) Organiser Wikimedia UK 020 7065 0921 (I'm normally in the office Tuesday's, Wednesdays and Fridays - Emails on Mondays and Thursdays wont usually be seen till the next day) 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. Press Enter to send your message. On 5 November 2014 11:04, Rod Ward rodw...@plus.net wrote: Hi all, An article in this weeks observer (see http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/01/magna-carta-800-celebrates-anniversary ) points out that it will be the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta next year (15 June 2015) and suggests there will be various TV and radio programmes (and books etc) to coincide with the significant date. I note this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta ) regularly gets 150,000+ page views per month and this is likely to increase. It was listed as a Good Article back in the early days but was delisted in 2006 and has gone downhill since then. It is also listed on the Vital Articles for Society and Social Sciences. A few of us are trying to get it to at least GA or even FA standard before the anniversary – any help would be appreciated. The specific reason for this email is that I think WikimediaUK had some sort of relationship (possibly a wikimedian in residence or similar) with the British Library years ago. For that or other sources does anyone have a contact within the appropriate department (possibly manuscripts curator or similar) of the BL who would be willing to help advise on the development of this important article? Rod ___ 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 -- 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 -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Magna Carta
Hi Rod, That was indeed me... we did do a bit of work with the BL MSS department (the great work was done before I came, though - John Byrne and his work on the Cuthbert Gospel). I think I could probably persuade someone to do a review and feedback, especially if we've done a chunk of the reworking before then. Someone looked at the MC article some years ago with a view to reworking it - there's some detailed notes in Archive 2 which seem to be the discussion I remember. There appears to be a lot of tension between MC as historic event/artifact, MC as legal history, and MC as living law, all of which are dealt with in the article but may not sit comfortably against each other. A. On 5 November 2014 11:04, Rod Ward rodw...@plus.net wrote: Hi all, An article in this weeks observer (see http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/01/magna-carta-800-celebrates-anniversary ) points out that it will be the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta next year (15 June 2015) and suggests there will be various TV and radio programmes (and books etc) to coincide with the significant date. I note this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta ) regularly gets 150,000+ page views per month and this is likely to increase. It was listed as a Good Article back in the early days but was delisted in 2006 and has gone downhill since then. It is also listed on the Vital Articles for Society and Social Sciences. A few of us are trying to get it to at least GA or even FA standard before the anniversary – any help would be appreciated. The specific reason for this email is that I think WikimediaUK had some sort of relationship (possibly a wikimedian in residence or similar) with the British Library years ago. For that or other sources does anyone have a contact within the appropriate department (possibly manuscripts curator or similar) of the BL who would be willing to help advise on the development of this important article? Rod ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Free journal access through The Wikipedia Library: new pilots
...in most areas, at least. Thirteen out of 194 public library services don't subscribe to the ODNB: Aberdeen Central Library Bridgend Library and Information Service Caerphilly Libraries Carmarthen Library Conwy County Borough Council East Sussex Libraries Inverclyde Libraries Isle of Anglesey Library Service Neath Port Talbot Libraries North Tyneside Libraries Rotherham Libraries South Lanarkshire Libraries South Tyneside Libraries http://global.oup.com/fdscontent/academic/xls/online_products/Online%20Oxford%20resources%20in%20UKPL.xls - though note that in some cases, you may be able to get access via a neighbouring area if you're registered there. Andrew. On 29 April 2014 12:13, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 28 April 2014 18:16, Richard Nevell richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: In case you've missed it, here's your chance to access Oxford University Press and Royal Society sources. I've found the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography particularly useful in the past. The ODNB is fantastically useful for UK and British Empire history; worth remarking in the UK context that here all you need for free access is a library card (not everyone knows that, it seems). Charles ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Advocacy Advisors] EU copyright consultation deadline has beenextended
In my infinite competence, I apparently missed that section entirely. Apologies :-) A. On 4 February 2014 15:26, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: I changed the schedule yesterday morning- where are you looking? https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=European_Commission_copyright_consultationdiff=prevoldid=7334381 Luis On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Quick query - given the extensions, have we filed the WMF submission yet or are we holding off for further comments through February? Not clear from the meta page... A. On 31 January 2014 23:25, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote: Thanks for the update. Not sure how terrific I find that news, personally, given that I have spent around 20 hours over the last two days working to meet the original deadline! Best regards Michael Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK On 31 Jan 2014, at 23:10, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: That's terrific to hear! As an update on my end, I've done up to question 71, so this gives us a little more time to review and flesh those out. [For what it is worth, Michael, looking at the page here shows: From 05.12.2013 to 05.03.2014 (deadline extended). ] Luis ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Amazon Tax avoidance
The average time it takes me to redeem an Amazon voucher is under a month. I can say from experience I hang on to John Lewis vouchers for a lot longer before needing to buy a cushion ;) I agree with that Amazon vouchers are potentially problematic, but they're also a lot more useful than many other options due to sheer ubiquity, and I think people appreciate the sense that they can be used for books don't require offline use. It's a trade-off... A. On 27 Nov 2013 14:39, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 November 2013 14:18, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: To be fair, I will be moving away from Amazon for day-to-day purchases after watching Panorama last night... it's not really feasible to move away from Amazon vouchers, but I will definitely look into how we might be able to. I have always been against giving Amazon vouchers. If you have to use vouchers, then employee-owned organizations like John-Lewis are always going to be a more ethical purchase. The TV programme was entertainment, not an analysis. Amazon did not get an opportunity to respond. In particular having been a quality manager for factory floor production, using basic statistical process control for optimizing batch pick time is not in the least bit unreasonable. Bizarrely worker break times were not mentioned (nobody works a 10 hour shift without multiple reasonable breaks), neither was the very fair process for allocating and rewarding night-work shifts. I don't know why anyone would pick stock in areas where the light were out, this was plainly a stupid thing to do, and the floor manager at the time should have asked staff to not do that and defer those jobs until the electrician had fixed those problems. It may be worth asking Amazon for a direct statement about how they respond to the criticism (from a single contract employee and from haphazardly self-selected ex-employees, that the programme was almost entirely based on). Fae -- fae...@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Grade II buildings (was english heritage)
It's on the Wikidata roadmap, it's just not there yet. No need for a second development project :-) Phase 1 was interwikis, Phase 2 was being able to pull data out and display it in infoboxes etc, Phase 3 is being able to generate lists for a specific property or combination of properties. In an ideal world, we'd have [[List of listed buildings in Newtown, Loamshire]] with some general text and then a function asking Wikidata for a table with one line per entity, displaying these properties, and including every entity with status:listed_building and location:Newtown_Loamshire A. On 13 October 2013 19:26, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Being able to use WD-generated lists will be a very different ballpark, but as that software doesn't really exist yet... ;-) Is this something for the list of Wikimedia-related tech tools someone ought to build really? ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Alastair McCapra's conflict of loyalties between CIPR and WMUK
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[Wikimediauk-l] 'Illustrating Wikipedia brochure' - your thoughts?
One trivial note (not affecting the actual text) - remember 3D and 2D will be a lot more easily understood than 3d and 2d, which parse as third, second. Looking at the document ... is there a reason the numbers aren't flush with the lines they refer to? It seems a little odd to have. 1. Do step 1. 2. Do the next step rather than 1. Do step 1. 2. Do the next step. Other small issues: * There are some weird linebreaks on p11. * We switch between Non-commercial (p12) and Non-Commercial (p10) * Can we add links under the three CC licenses listed on p10? They're relatively human-readable - eg creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Andrew. On Tuesday, 17 September 2013, Stevie Benton wrote: Thanks Jonathan. Before I go through the awkward job of tinkering with the InDesign file, what do other people think about the revision? Thank you, Stevie On 17 September 2013 12:47, Jonathan Cardy jonathan.ca...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Thanks all, *Possible revised wording with examples from the borderline and less repetition. * * UK Freedom of panorama* Under UK law, you can photograph, upload and share with the world a photo of any 3d artifact such as a building or sculpture that is permanently publicly displayed in the UK, even if the object is still under copyright. But you need to check four things: 1 Is it permanently on display? Temporary exhibits such as on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar square are not included, but the Angel of the North is. 2 When you took the photograph were you somewhere normally open to the public? Inside a pub or museum is fine, where you work or were a guest probably isn't. 3 Was it 3d not 2d? Buildings and sculpture are 3d, graffiti, paintings and signs are 2d. So a photograph of stained glass illuminated by light shining through it is 3d, but the same stained glass window reflecting your flash at night is 2d and might still be under copyright. 4 Did you take the photo in the UK? Most other countries have stricter rules. Regards Jonathan Cardy GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives Museums) Organiser/ Trefnydd GLAM (Galeriau, Llyfrgelloedd, Archifdai a llawer Mwy!) Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0990 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. Press Enter to send your message. On 17 September 2013 11:43, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: Thanks again everyone for all of your input. As there is still some correspondence going around the booklet I'm going to leave it open for comments until 12pm tomorrow. At that point, I plan to close the discussion and prepare a final proof before sending to the printers and uploading to Commons. Thank you, Stevie On 17 September 2013 10:40, Edward Hands edwar...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Martin for your kind words. Harry's edit a -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] 'Illustrating Wikipedia brochure' - your thoughts?
One trivial note (not affecting the actual text) - remember 3D and 2D will be a lot more easily understood than 3d and 2d, which parse as third, second. Looking at the document ... is there a reason the numbers aren't flush with the lines they refer to? It seems a little odd to have. 1. Do step 1. 2. Do the next step rather than 1. Do step 1. 2. Do the next step. Other small issues: * There are some weird linebreaks on p11. * We switch between Non-commercial (p12) and Non-Commercial (p10) * Can we add links under the three CC licenses listed on p10? They're relatively human-readable - eg creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Andrew. On Tuesday, 17 September 2013, Stevie Benton wrote: Thanks Jonathan. Before I go through the awkward job of tinkering with the InDesign file, what do other people think about the revision? Thank you, Stevie On 17 September 2013 12:47, Jonathan Cardy jonathan.ca...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Thanks all, *Possible revised wording with examples from the borderline and less repetition. * * UK Freedom of panorama* Under UK law, you can photograph, upload and share with the world a photo of any 3d artifact such as a building or sculpture that is permanently publicly displayed in the UK, even if the object is still under copyright. But you need to check four things: 1 Is it permanently on display? Temporary exhibits such as on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar square are not included, but the Angel of the North is. 2 When you took the photograph were you somewhere normally open to the public? Inside a pub or museum is fine, where you work or were a guest probably isn't. 3 Was it 3d not 2d? Buildings and sculpture are 3d, graffiti, paintings and signs are 2d. So a photograph of stained glass illuminated by light shining through it is 3d, but the same stained glass window reflecting your flash at night is 2d and might still be under copyright. 4 Did you take the photo in the UK? Most other countries have stricter rules. Regards Jonathan Cardy GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives Museums) Organiser/ Trefnydd GLAM (Galeriau, Llyfrgelloedd, Archifdai a llawer Mwy!) Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0990 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. Press Enter to send your message. On 17 September 2013 11:43, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: Thanks again everyone for all of your input. As there is still some correspondence going around the booklet I'm going to leave it open for comments until 12pm tomorrow. At that point, I plan to close the discussion and prepare a final proof before sending to the printers and uploading to Commons. Thank you, Stevie On 17 September 2013 10:40, Edward Hands edwar...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Martin for your kind words. Harry's edit a -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 'Illustrating Wikipedia brochure' - your thoughts?
The Angel of the North is an excellent example of visible, well-photographed, modern public art. Plus it's a good excuse to include a picture of it :-) A. On Saturday, 14 September 2013, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 14 September 2013 16:29, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.comjavascript:; wrote: An example might be useful in illustrating the point for novices; Nelson's Column comes to mind... Nelson's Column would be out of copyright anyway. Perhaps a more contemporary example, such as the Angel of the North? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org javascript:; http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Momvent: Policy Topics and Priorities Questionnaire
Relevant to this list. A. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov dimitar.parvanov.dimit...@gmail.com Date: 2 September 2013 10:19 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Momvent: Policy Topics and Priorities Questionnaire To: Advocacy Advisory Group for WMF LCA advocacy_advis...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org tl;dr Help us decide which policy issues are important to Wikimedia by filling out a questionnaire [1] Hello everybody, Wikimania and most people's summer holidays are over, in Brussels bureaucrats are slowly retunring to work and it is time for us to step up our activity. This being said, there is not monitoring report of August, instead, please help us get as many Wikimedians as possible to fill out our survey! We as a community are an active and prominent part of the internet. Still, we can't deal with each and every issue it comes across. We are trying to build up a structure [2] that lets us monitor policy procedures with future impact on our work and are hoping to articulate our needs and wishes. It is therefore crucial to us to know what as many people people within our movmement think and which topics they deem important. In short: Which policy issues should be on our priority list? The survey [1] takes less than 10 minutes (I personally nailed a 6:34) and will help us immensely with our strategy planning. It is intended to also define the questions in a survey we are planning to send out to political parties ahead of the European Parliament elections 2014. Thanks for the help and have a great autumn! Dimi [1] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vSrFiYCAN-RPXdikdkkHmT_ZzWPdD5DcDpMye9uAiHM/viewform [2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Job Offer: Technical Position for WLM 2013
Possibly of interest to some. Please circulate... Andrew. -- Forwarded message -- From: Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in Date: 23 July 2013 19:28 Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Job Offer: Technical Position for WLM 2013 To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear WLMers, We at the Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 international coordination team are looking forward to hire a contractor to take care of the maintenance of the infrastructure behind Wiki Loves Monuments, and everything that is needed to run smoothly the contest. Yes, this will be a paid contract and we would expect the person to work for us for three months from August up-to October. We are looking for a candidate of either gender with the following skills: Python — at an experienced level; MySQL —at an experienced level; PHP — at an experienced level; CSS/JS/HTML at a basic level; Be a quick learner: need to learn basic MediaWiki code; Among the tasks the contractor will need to perform you have: running “Erfgoedbot” and adding countries to the monuments’ database. They will need to write PHP–based tools (statistics) using data from a MySQL database. The contractor, when selected, will be working for the Wiki Loves Monuments international coordination team. He will sign a contract with Wikimedia Nederlands, the fiscal sponsor of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 international project. If you are interested, please forward your resume and your portfolio to cristian.conso...@wikimedia.it. The deadline to send applications is 29 July 2013. The Wiki Loves Monuments international team consists of volunteers and so, it might take time from our side to review your applications, but we will make sure it doesn’t takes more than a week. Regards, Karthik Nadar and Cristian Consonni, On behalf of the WLM international team. ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Two events in London - Royal Opera House British Library, 22 and 29 June
Hi all, A quick reminder/notification (as appropriate!) about two upcoming events in London this month: * Royal Opera House editathon, 22 June * WWI workshop, British Library, 29 June The Royal Opera House event will be focusing on the ballets of Sir Frederick Ashton, one of the UK's most prominent choreographers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ballet/Royal_Opera_House_editathon The British Library event will be a chance to use some of the newly digitised (and not yet online) Europeana WWI material to help build articles, or to work on any other projects that might be of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/British_Library/WWI Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested! Thanks, - Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] JISC training program - one week to apply!
Hi all, A quick reminder that the JISC call for tenders closes in one week, at 12 noon on Wednesday 22nd: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2013/04/wikimedia.aspx They're looking for someone to organise and run a (funded) nine-month training and support program for academic programmes interested in engaging with Wikipedia; it's structured as a request for tenders rather than a recruitment process, allowing groups or partnerships to bid for it, but they are happy to take bids from individuals as well. Jisc invites tenders for an individual or organisation to be the Jisc ‘Wikimedia Ambassador' and run a nine month training and coordination project for the use of Wikimedia tools and techniques for educational purposes. The purpose of the training is to disseminate skills and knowledge leading to improved coverage and accuracy of articles relating to information produced by Jisc funded programmes presented on Wikimedia projects. The purpose of the coordination project is to promote open knowledge and to increase the uptake and use of Wikimedia tools for the dissemination of academic knowledge and content. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Elections 2013
Should anyone be considering standing... -- Forwarded message -- From: *Risker* Date: Thursday, 2 May 2013 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Elections 2013 To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year, elections are being held for the following roles: - Board of Trustees The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/Board_elections/2013 . - Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Framework_for_the_Creation_and_Initial_Operation_of_the_FDC makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia funds to eligible entities. There are two positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/FDC_elections/2013 . - Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/FDC_Ombudsperson_elections/2013 . The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 24 to 23:59 UTC May 17. More information on this election can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013. Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump, or to translate it and distribute it on other Wikimedia movement mailing lists. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections AT wikimedia.org On behalf of the Election Committee, Risker ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Spam] Re: Nice piece from another country.
500m for all projects in all languages. Wikipedia-specific is probably smaller. The 365m figure is from the Wikipedia article lead, though ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia A. On 24 April 2013 13:42, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com wrote: Also, It estimates that is has about 365 million readers worldwide. I thought we just crossed the 500 million mark for unique visitors? Sent from my iPhone --- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone On 24 Apr 2013, at 12:50, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: I believe so, if Stevie has time: he's currently in San Francisco so is trying to get all the time he can with the WMF staff. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 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. On 24 April 2013 12:43, Harry Burt harryab...@gmail.com wrote: Seems well-informed. Is there any intention to ask for Wikipedian to be changed to Wikipedian-in-Residence in the prose if not the headline? I always thought the latter had quite a nice ring to it myself. Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22264118 -- Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies 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). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedian in Residence, National Library of Scotland
Hi all, Just as my work at the British Library is coming to an end, I'm delighted to be able to tell people about a new Wikimedian in Residence post at the National Library of Scotland - I've helped work to set this up, and I think there's a real potential for doing amazing things here. The NLS is a great institution, with some really innovative and forward-thinking work, and as well as the obvious strengths in Scottish history and culture they have major map collections and one of the most interesting publishing archives in the UK. Lots of scope for interesting projects here. It's full-time, for four months, though this may possibly be negotiable to a longer period at part time - it's worth asking. The job is paid and formally employed by the Library, funded jointly by the Library and by Wikimedia UK. http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/04/1533/ has further details and a link to the NLS recruitment site. Please circulate this widely! Thanks, -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedian in Residence, National Library of Scotland
Hi all, Both the Scots and the Scots Gaelic Wikipedias are now notified - I had been meaning to get around to this earlier today but it had slipped due to some other work, along with notifiying the en.wp Edinburgh project. NLS are definitely aware of the possibilities of working with the gd.wp community; I've brought it up at some of the meetings I've had with them in the past, and they were interested - they do have an active organisational plan to do more to support Gaelic, and it's easy to see how working with WP could fit in there. (The plan is interesting reading, incidentally: http://www.nls.uk/about-us/corporate-documents#gaelic ). I'm hoping to have a chat with our contact there sometime in the near future, and I'll remind them about it :-) - Andrew. On 22 April 2013 23:43, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I'm sure folks will forward the news to other lists that they subscribe to. Here's some background reading: http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/11/were-looking-for-wikipedians-in-residence/ http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_in_Residence_draft_job_description http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2013_Activity_Plan#GLAM_Wikipedians_in_Residence http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/uk/1/1e/DC_staff_report_to_the_board_Feb_2013.pdf - and the documents that Daria links to. I'm not aware of any feedback from the community on the part of the 2013 Activity Plan that deals with the WiR programme. It would be wonderful if we had a Scots Gaelic speaker involved in our activities in Scotland. Sadly only around 60,000 people now speak Gàidhlig and most appear to be in the Islands. While I'd like to think that we could find a bilingual WiR to work in Edinburgh, I wonder what the chances realistically are of finding one? It's certainly worth asking the question, though. -- Rexx On 22 April 2013 22:29, i...@cymruwales.com i...@cymruwales.com wrote: Hi Andrew 1. Can you send me a link to the wiki community discussions regarding this post please. 2. I note that you have only informed the en wiki community of this news; don't you think that Uicipeid Gàidhlig (and Scotts) should have been told at the same time? 3. I note that the job spec requirements include: communicate in English clearly to a wide variety of audiences and have excellent presentation skills Surely, the ability to speak Gàidhlig would be an advantage to this post and should have been mentioned? Best regards Robin On 22 April 2013 at 12:02 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Hi all, Just as my work at the British Library is coming to an end, I'm delighted to be able to tell people about a new Wikimedian in Residence post at the National Library of Scotland - I've helped work to set this up, and I think there's a real potential for doing amazing things here. The NLS is a great institution, with some really innovative and forward-thinking work, and as well as the obvious strengths in Scottish history and culture they have major map collections and one of the most interesting publishing archives in the UK. Lots of scope for interesting projects here. It's full-time, for four months, though this may possibly be negotiable to a longer period at part time - it's worth asking. The job is paid and formally employed by the Library, funded jointly by the Library and by Wikimedia UK. http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/04/1533/ has further details and a link to the NLS recruitment site. Please circulate this widely! Thanks, -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Privacy Policy - please comment and edit
Is the hosting switch actually going ahead? I know we'd been discussing this, but I'd lost track of who was going to make the decision... Andrew. (still not convinced it's a good idea, for various reasons) On Friday, 12 April 2013, Katie Chan wrote: On 12/04/2013 00:44, Thehelpfulone wrote: This policy describes what happens to personal information obtained through the websites hosted at uk.wikimedia.org http://uk.wikimedia.org and wikimedia.org.uk http://wikimedia.org.uk. This policy will be updated periodically. - WMUK wiki is currently on the Foundation's servers so is subject to the Foundation's privacy policy - not this one if I understand correctly? Doesn't mean it can't be subject to both. And there are currently plans for WMUK wiki hosting to be moved away from WMF servers. KTC -- Katie Chan Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the author is associated with or employed by. Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine __**_ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-lhttp://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Another voting reminder
So it is! I plead, um, ignorance of the conference schedule as an excuse... - Andrew. On 11 April 2013 18:53, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: Unless I've missed something; the EGM is Saturday, Richard has noted the proxy deadline for tomorrow. Tom On 11 April 2013 18:50, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: On 11 April 2013 17:54, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Presumably thats for people wanting to use you as a proxy. There's no deadline for proxies in general, right? The proxy can just turn up with the letter of authorisation, I think. According to the schedule, ballot papers are distributed at 3.30, so announcing you have additional proxy votes *after* that point might prove awkward and would certainly delay things a bit, which for such a short EGM is a problem. http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/EGM_2013 -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] EGM resolution regarding the change in board structure - alternatives
The quorum figure includes proxy votes not present. I doubt WMUK can absolutely assure people of quoracy, given it's dependent on whether those same people turn up! Andrew. On Wednesday, 10 April 2013, Gordon Joly wrote: I believe that quorum is about 30 people, but there are only 20 names on the list here: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/**EGM_2013http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/EGM_2013 Given the importance of this agenda, can WMUK assure members that meeting will indeed be quorate? Or is the sign up list not representative? Gordo __**_ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-lhttp://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs
Spotted this. The rights issues around the material would no doubt be interesting, but this might be something where we could offer some funding to offset the costs of digitisation/storage, and look to get a tranche of the material onto Commons. Thoughts? Andrew. -- Forwarded message -- From: Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com Date: 5 April 2013 10:54 Subject: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs To: talk...@openstreetmap.org Folks, Sheffield University has some surplus aerial imagery that could be available to us if we wish to have it. Its described as a considerable collection (amounting to around 6 filling cabinets) of UK (mostly England, and mainly northern England) black white 9 x 9 photographic prints, dating from around WWII to the early 1980s. There are a few index sheets, many of the boxed sets are labelled. I've asked for some more details so that we might consider storage requirements (They are currently temporarily stored in a garage but need to be in a dry low humidity room really) and should get some photos of what it all looks like in the next few days. In the meantime two questions for UK OSMers: 1. Do you think this is a resource that we should go for and build upon as a sub-project within OSM? 2. How should we best deal with physical storage until such time as items can be digitised. The question about what to do with documents (same applies to all the map sheets I have) after digitising can be left till a later date. I'm less worried about scanning and managing the files now as I have sufficient scanning equipment to cover most bases and disk space attached to an OSM sever doesn't appear to be an issue. We would need to come up with tools and methods of turning them into a seamless mosaic but I'm sure given the task there's a workable solution for that too. All thoughts, suggestions and offers welcome. Cheers Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list talk...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Anyone interested in Lua and PIzza one day?
On 5 April 2013 15:19, Katie Chan katie.c...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi all, This has been arranged for Sunday 19 May. For those interested, please sign up on https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua_on_Wikimedia! Hurrah! Looking forward to it. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Royal Opera House editathon - 22 June
Hi all, Working with the Royal Opera House, we've organized an editathon to take place on Saturday 22 June, provisionally include some form of behind-the-scenes tour as well (though we're still looking into the details). The goal for the day is to focus on improving coverage of the works of Sir Frederick Ashton - one of the UK's foremost choreographers and a founding figure of the Royal Ballet. More details are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ballet/Royal_Opera_House_editathon If you're interested, please do sign up and keep the date free! I'll send around another reminder closer to the time. Thanks, -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK EGM Saturday 18th April.
On 3 April 2013 22:32, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: On 03/04/2013 21:43, Gordon Joly wrote: Was the EGM announced here, or to members via CiviCRM? Members entitled to vote should have received an email notice of EGM individually. As a member, I received an email from fundrais...@wikimedia.org.uk on 20 March with the subject Katie - please vote in our Extraordinary General Meeting. FWIW, I got a renewal reminder on 15/3, renewed the same day, but didn't get an email about the EGM on the 20th. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Wikidata workshop
Hi all, I've had a lot of interest (during workshops, etc) about the potential of Wikidata, both from librarians and from researchers; there's a general sense that it'll be very interesting, but no-one's quite sure what they'll be able to do with it :-) We'll be having a Wikidata session at GLAM-Wiki, but of course not everyone is happy to come along to a short session on a Friday afternoon as part of a larger conference. To get around this, I've organised an introductory workshop at the BL on 26th April, 2-5pm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:GLAM/BL/Wikidata All welcome - my targeted audience is librarians digital-humanities types, but if you're a Wikimedian who's interested in figuring out what's going on with the new project, please do come along! Conversely, if you're comfortable using/understanding Wikidata, and you'd like to come along and help me *give* the workshop, please do let me know :-). I'm reasonably comfortable with talking about it, but I'm aware there are some gaps... Thanks, - Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikidata workshop
On 28 March 2013 09:34, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:GLAM/BL/Wikidata All welcome - my targeted audience is librarians digital-humanities types, but if you're a Wikimedian who's interested in figuring out what's going on with the new project, please do come along! PS: no ticketing etc. required, but if you're intending to come please do let me know so I can arrange coffee check we're not overflowing the room! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Anyone interested in Lua and PIzza one day?
May 11th is a board meeting, so the basement might be crowded! Andrew. On 15 March 2013 15:13, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: May 11th would be the day before the May London meetup, that might be convenient for some people. WSC On 15 March 2013 12:42, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hey why not? I think there is interest in this so we should think how and where we should advertise it. Obviously on the UK Wiki. Not a huge fuss to do - someone to open the office on a Saturday? Skype or whatever and lots of pizza. Tom's offer is kind. Can you suggest a date? On 15 March 2013 12:18, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: I thought you said luau and pizza... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luau Silly me, Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies 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). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!
Very nice! I will have a play, but it looks like that's more oriented towards reorienting than cropping... (I feel like there *ought* to be some kind of monstrous seventeen-clause command line script I can write to do this sort of thing, but no luck so far) - Andrew. On 11 February 2013 20:06, Harry Burt harryab...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried using unpaper [1] on a sample of images? I could do -- all you really need is a Unix-based OS and some command-line savvy - but I'm a little tied up just at the moment. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) [1] http://unpaper.berlios.de/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!
On 12 February 2013 13:59, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Install Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) on the visitor laptops and take them along? GIMP is indeed on all the visitor laptops (at least on the Ubuntu side). I'll leave the Windows side up to Richard :-) (We should probably document this on-wiki somewhere...) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!
Hi all - thanks for the interest! We've finally secured a room, after an awful lot of phoning around and juggling of bookings - we'll be working with the images on Monday 18th March, at the BL Conference Centre (which some of you may remember from GLAMcamp, or from one of my public workshops). I haven't set up times etc yet, but we have the room all day - there's a public wireless network, and I'll arrange coffee and sandwiches. If you are still interested in coming along on the 18th, please drop me an email to say so, and I'll start pulling names together :-) - Andrew. On 11 February 2013 17:19, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Hi all, As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons. Unfortunately, they all look like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.tif and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could offer this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.jpg Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-) We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!
Hi all, As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons. Unfortunately, they all look like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.tif and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could offer this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.jpg Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-) We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership grace period
On 7 February 2013 17:22, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 February 2013 17:01, Katherine Bavage katherine.bav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: So - I'm not advocating FOR a reduction in limiting the grace period to a shorter time span (say, three months) but rather seeking your thoughts on whether that would be a good or a bad idea and why, much like I did when asking about verifying the identity of members applying for membership. Candid responses welcome. I'm thinking you should nag us more. *cough* I suspect I am one of said members. Where do I go to give you my money again? Yeah, I'm with David - active members in grace are mostly just forgetful :-). As there are virtually no things for which being a member is essential other than voting, it's very easy to not get around to it... Is it possible to set up recurring membership dues as a direct debit? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fw: WikiConference 2013 Speakers
On 20 January 2013 19:16, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Where the Geograph outscores WLM is that they aren't time limited, some of their photographers have uploaded images from decades ago, and they cover the same object in different seasons. I think that makes them more compatible with Wikipedia, September foliage can hide some of the features we want to photograph, winter snow can highlight earthworks and other archaeology, past events are best illustrated with old photos, and waterfalls in particular are much better illustrated with minigalleries showing winter spate next to summer trickles. Isn't WLM also non-time-limited? They have to be *submitted* to the contest (and Commons) in a specific month, but older images are still acceptable - see for example the Israeli winner, which was taken in the winter of 1992. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/29/wiki-loves-monuments-2012-the-israeli-finalists/ -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WikiConference 2013 Speakers
As I recall, the objections were in part that we have most of this material already on Commons (via Geograph), but badly organised. I don't know if that's changed, or if we've got a better idea of what's out there... - Andrew. On 16 January 2013 16:45, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: Well we have a list of Grade I listed buildings in every county. I'm sure it would be easy enough to have a bot do the same for Grade II* and Scheduled Ancient Monuments, and that gives us a ready-made target list. How much more organisation is needed, beyond creating the necessary project pages on the relevant wikis and getting the word out? Harry Mitchell http://enwp.org/User:HJ Phone: 024 7698 0977 Skype: harry_j_mitchell From: Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2013, 16:31 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WikiConference 2013 Speakers Excellent suggestions, thanks, I will look into it. A WLM speaker would be great... last year it was mentioned, but only as a plea for someone to step forward and organise the UK effort. I looked into what it would take but it seems a larger job than I'd have time for given my other committements - is there noone from the GLAM side of things who can take it on?? Tom On 15 January 2013 21:11, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: If the UK would be participating in Wiki Loves Monuments this year, would that be an angle to search a keynote? (national or European) I doubt someone from the international team would qualify as a ''keynote'' (maybe regular though?) but someone from Heritage England or even one of the European umbrella organizations (Europa Nostra, Europeana) could do something? Just a thought, Lodewijk 2013/1/15 Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk AGM 8th of June with more activities on the 9th. On 15 January 2013 11:21, Joe Filceolaire filceola...@gmail.com wrote: date? On Jan 15, 2013 11:19 AM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: Morning Everyone, As you might know, the 2013 conference will be in Lincoln, organised by the Conference Committee with support from the office. With the venue chosen, we now need to figure out an exciting programme. A lot of this is in the planning stage and we will be releasing more information later, however one of the first thing we need to do is figure out some keynote speakers. Later in the year we will be calling for papers and speakers from within the community, right now we are focusing on finding one or two big names who have something relevant to say. As this is your concert we need to know who you want to hear from! It could be anyone; from celerities, to politicians, to activists. We're looking for intriguing suggestions, people with a unique perspective. Some initial suggestions have been made, please please do suggest further ideas here on the mailing list, by emailing myself or posting on this page: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2013/Speakers Regards, Tom ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies 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). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fw: WikiConference 2013 Speakers
On 16 January 2013 20:38, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: I remember the discussion (though I didn't remember the mention of the EH list). I suppose we could try asking them nicely to give us the list in a more useful format, but even if we could import just the name of the building, it would be a start. I had a chat with Richard (N) about this today and we concluded it was probably worth asking again to see what was available and/or if they'd be interested in being involved in some way - WLM was an astounding success last year and getting involved for the UK might catch their attention ;-) Incidentally, has anyone run across this site? http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/site/about They seem to be using the same EH/etc data sources, but have assembled it into something usable. The same guy has produced http://www.ancientmonuments.info/site/about/ as well. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WikiConference 2013 Speakers WLM
On 16 January 2013 17:39, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: John - you are in the office tomorrow - let's draw up a plan as to what needs to happen and make it one of the first tasks of the new GLAM organiser. Would this be too late? They will probably not be around before the start of April (assuming a month notice/moving/etc), and the reference plan has WLM well along by then: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Timeline That said, it would certainly be an interesting project to get them off the ground with! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [WMUK Office] Volunteer Declarations of Interest.
On 7 December 2012 17:33, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: What we can't have is a situation where someone on (say) a GLAM Committee is helping make decisions about where Wikimedia UK is seeking to appoint Wikimedians in Residence, or what their contract should say, and then applying for one of those Wikimedian in Residence posts. I hope this makes sense. That seems more in line with what was initially posted: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Draft_volunteer_Conflict_of_Interest_Policy - while Jon's comment seems to suggest that even if you have no decision-making ability, you'd be best to keep quiet on the whole thing Just In Case, which is a bit more restrictive. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] a Creative Commons staff visiting London
I am delighted by the vote of confidence, but I don't think I can fairly
call the BL small by any use of the word ;-) I haven't seen our current
exhibition yet (only opened yesterday, and I was out of town) but I don't
think it has a significant digital component, unlike the previous one.
Definitely agree on visiting TNA at Kew, but note that Jo is now in York a
lot of the time.
Zeyi - do you know when your friend is going to be around?
- Andrew.
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Zeyi,
From my perspective, the best person to visit would be Andrew Gray at the
British Library. He's the official Wikipedian in Residence there and is,
frankly, excellent. He might have time for coffee and a chat - likewise,
your engineer friend could visit the UK Chapter office in central London,
next to Old Street station, and have a chat with the staff.
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over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
On 8 November 2012 13:37, Roger Bamkin
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Hi Zeyi,
if she or he lands at Heathrow then go to the museum at the National
Archives which is very close. They were the first to use QRpedia in London
I think and they have worked with WMUK releasing images as well as hosting
hack days. and they have a self appointed wiki in residense (Jo Pugh).
They have also talked about releasing other works to wikisource.
I'd be pleased to help if needed and we have other examples outside
London.
Roger
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Dear All,
I have a friend who has been the software engineer in IBM and IT
marketing in Nortel and Cisco, and worked really close with Japanese
Wikimedia chapter. He is interesting on how small museum/gallery improve
their accessment and through digital technology and planning to visit some
in his london visit.
Any suggestion or recommedation? thanks.
Zeyi
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[Wikimediauk-l] Editathon at Oxford, 26th October
Hi all, If you're a student or staff at the University of Oxford, you might like to know that they're organizing an editathon at the Radcliffe Science Library on 26th October. Building on the Royal Society event tomorrow, it's focusing on women in science: http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/ENGR If you've any questions, please let me know and I'll pass them on to the organisers. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Ada Lovelace Day organised by Wikimedia UK - 19 October 2012, London
Hi all. Just to let you know that the Royal Society have shuffled some rooms around and found a lot more tickets for the evening panel session, so if you're in London on Friday evening, please do come along! http://royalsociety.eventbrite.com/ to book. - Andrew. On 17 September 2012 16:49, Daria Cybulska daria.cybul...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Dear all, It's Ada Lovelace Day on 16 October and it's most suitable for Wikimedia UK to get involved. The day exists to celebrate the contributions of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. As you may know, Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer, due to her work on Charles Babbage's analytical engine. As such, she's someone we can very much hold up as a role model. Wikimedia UK is organising a Women in Science themed editing event for Ada Lovelace Day on Friday 19 October 2012 and would like to invite you to attend! We have organised a group 'Edit-a-thon' to improve Wikipedia articles about women in science, held at the Royal Society's library, London, 2:30-6pm. We had a very high response from the academic community, and we filled many more spaces than expected! However, there are still a couple of places free for people who would like to help train new contributors - please get in touch if you are interested. There will also be opportunities to get involved online, which we will publish at our Wikimedia UK event's page (see below). Following the Edit-a-thon there will be an panel discussion with Uta Frith from the Royal Society and other female scientists on women in science (the focus will be much broader than just the representation of the topic on Wikipedia). The panel discussion will take place from 6:30pm - 8:00pm, and you are most welcome to attend - there are still free places available, so please feel free to register here http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/wikipedia-workshop/ Wikimedia UK also has a page for the event, which you can see here http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace_Day_2012 Hope to see many of you there. Best, Daria -- Daria Cybulska - Events Organiser, Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0994 +44 7803 505 170 -- 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: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotices.
On 16 October 2012 10:21, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: While we're on the topic: could someone add in the Cambridge meetup to the current notice? Charles Done. (Still not sure if we should have this one national-level notice, or if we should try much more targeted ones - London area, Cambridge area, Manchester area, etc. Hmm.) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Support service (was:Social enterprise)
On 3 October 2012 13:20, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: This is the sort of discussion that should be had on-wiki, just to arrive at some clarity about the fundamental issues. I have raised the topic on Jimbo's talk page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Replacing_OTRS_with_a_commercial_consultancy_service Is anyone actually suggesting replacing OTRS? I saw Tom's proposal above as an adjunct to it (which I'm not wild on either, but it's at least defensible) Replacing it would certainly be a step too far... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Dunhuang Project - Silk Road editing week
Hi all, I'm currently working on fixing up some of the details for an event we have running later in October with the International Dunhuang Project, an international group working with a large collection of manuscripts and artefacts from the eastern end of the Silk Road. http://idp.bl.uk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Dunhuang_Project The aim is to work on content related to the broad context of Central Asian/Silk Road history and archaeology, using the resources and expertise of the group to develop articles on topics such as: * major archaeological sites in the region * history of the regions and periods covered * key archaeologists, explorers, and scholars * related ancient languages, art, and culture A number of IDP staff in the BL are commited to working on this over several days, and we're also making arrangements for some groups of postgraduate students in related fields to get involved. It'll run over four days at the British Library in London - 23rd to 26th October - and Wikimedians who'd like to get involved are welcome to come on any of the days. It will be inside the staff areas at the library, so we *will* be able to have reference books available, which has often been a problem in the past with these events! If you're interested, please get in touch or sign up on the wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/IDP - and please do forward this to anyone else who might be interested. IDP is a multinational group, and we're keen to make sure some of this extends beyond the English Wikipedia. Hope to see some of you there! -- - Andrew Gray Wikipedian in Residence, British Library andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Forthcoming unconferences: MuseumCamp, BarCampNFP, LibCamp
On 30 September 2012 21:11, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Do we have anyone attending LibraryCamp (LibCamp) in Birmingham: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3931870330 on Saturday 13 October? I was going, but I'm going to Wikimedia CCE instead. For some reason I'd missed this until now - not completely sure if I can reasonably make it to Birmingham for 9am, but I've put in for a waitlist ticket. One of my colleagues from the BL is going, though! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Cutting back the 2013 plan
On 28 September 2012 18:40, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Training is something the chapter is already involved in and should therefore ensure is done well, since it reflects on the chapter. Having individuals contacting potential trainees directly appears unprofessional and leads to an inefficient and inconsistent response. I don't think it's producing bad results, but perhaps I'm biased. I've been spending the past six months doing *exactly this*; contacting organisations directly, usually through personal contacts, arranging training, and (with the invaluable help of volunteers) delivering it. I have kept the chapter informed, but the sessions are pretty much independent of the ongoing WMUK training events, though they provide support (laptops, printed sheets, etc). I do not believe the chapter are in any way unhappy with this arrangement; they've had plenty of opportunity to say if they are! It's certainly more efficient than asking the chapter to do it - you yourself have argued on this very mailing list that they are overworked, and trying to do too much. To demand it be centralised is to give them yet more work to do, on top of the existing load. It also introduces extra inefficiencies - they won't be going through the same direct connections, which makes the offer of a workshop less likely to be accepted, and it's much easier to arrange a session when the person delivering it is also the person negotiating it. Yes, random people emailing random contacts offering training is bad. But if we trust the person to deliver the training professionally, and we are willing to send them out there to represent the community in doing so, I can't imagine any reason we wouldn't trust them to reach out and organise the sessions as well. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Cutting back the 2013 plan
Training led and run by volunteers has very little to do with the objections to the plan, which is about allocation of Chapter resources, focus, and staff time. I don't see why we're running these two objections together. - Andrew. On Friday, 28 September 2012, Thomas Dalton wrote: I'll say again, the issue here is the plan in aggregate. Specific examples aren't really important - there is plenty of room for reasonable people to come to different conclusions on a specific budget item. What we should be able to agree on though, is that this plan, when considered as a whole, is problematic. On Sep 28, 2012 10:44 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: On 28 September 2012 18:40, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Training is something the chapter is already involved in and should therefore ensure is done well, since it reflects on the chapter. Having individuals contacting potential trainees directly appears unprofessional and leads to an inefficient and inconsistent response. I don't think it's producing bad results, but perhaps I'm biased. I've been spending the past six months doing *exactly this*; contacting organisations directly, usually through personal contacts, arranging training, and (with the invaluable help of volunteers) delivering it. I have kept the chapter informed, but the sessions are pretty much independent of the ongoing WMUK training events, though they provide support (laptops, printed sheets, etc). I do not believe the chapter are in any way unhappy with this arrangement; they've had plenty of opportunity to say if they are! It's certainly more efficient than asking the chapter to do it - you yourself have argued on this very mailing list that they are overworked, and trying to do too much. To demand it be centralised is to give them yet more work to do, on top of the existing load. It also introduces extra inefficiencies - they won't be going through the same direct connections, which makes the offer of a workshop less likely to be accepted, and it's much easier to arrange a session when the person delivering it is also the person negotiating it. Yes, random people emailing random contacts offering training is bad. But if we trust the person to deliver the training professionally, and we are willing to send them out there to represent the community in doing so, I can't imagine any reason we wouldn't trust them to reach out and organise the sessions as well. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] FDC members
Possibly of interest - one of the members is Mike Peel. - Andrew. -- Forwarded message -- From: *Patricio Lorente* Date: Sunday, 16 September 2012 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] FDC members To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org. Dear friends: I just posted the initial composition of the Funds Dissemination Committee in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/2012_FDC_members as resolved today by the Board of Trustees. The resolution will be published as soon as possible. I would like to thank all the nominees, on behalf of the Board of Trustees. Many committed and valuable wikimedians nominated themselves to serve in this Committe. For those who were not appointed, we will ask you to help us in other ways. For those who were appointed, welcome aboard! Best, Patricio. -- Patricio Lorente Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar Identi.ca // Twitter: @patriciolorente ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Context A2 scanner for sale
Predominantly maps, I would assume. However, it'd be better to write the
plan first and then see what equipment we need to beg/borrow/steal, rather
than the other way around...
- Andrew.
On Tuesday, 4 September 2012, Thomas Dalton wrote:
What would we actually scan on it? When we've discussed digitisation
equipment before, I think it has usually been in relation to one of those
scanners for books. Are there many flat works larger than A3 that we are
likely to want to digitise?
On Sep 4, 2012 3:20 PM, Andy Mabbett
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This may be of interest.
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From: Emma Cavalier ecaval...@npg.org.uk javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
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Date: 4 September 2012 15:09
Subject: Context A2 scanner for sale
To: m...@jiscmail.ac.uk javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'm...@jiscmail.ac.uk');
The National Portrait Gallery have recently installed a brand new
photographic studio and no longer have use for their Contex CopyMate18 A2
scanner.
Rather than send the still working scanner for disposal we'd like to
invite
offers from institutions who might be able to make use of it. Recommended
use would be digitising newspapers or other large documents. Monochrome
photographs required quite a bit of post-scanning processing in Photoshop
although full colour photographs were quite successful. The scanner did
not
replace our A4 or A3 scanning equipment but was purchased to allow us to
digitise works larger than A3.
We are offering the CopyMate 18 scanner, usb power cables, calibration
chart, all the scanner software (original cds and more recent downloads),
third party software and dongle from Colorado (this give us more accurate
colour output than the Contex software), plus electronic copies of
instruction manuals from Contex and basic installation, common errors and
maintenance instructions written in-house). The software is Windows only
and
requires a PC with at least 3GB of RAM. The scanner was purchased in 2006
and used approximately once a week. It was last serviced, including new
lamps in April 2009 and has not been used for the last 4 months.
It measures approximately 130 x 65 x 20 cm and at least two people will be
needed to move it. It will need to be collected from the National Portrait
Gallery's administration building in Central London by the end of
September.
The scanner will be sold as seen, no guarantee is given or implied. It
will
be possible to view the scanner in action at the Gallery at the time of
collection. The contact details of the maintenance company we used for
servicing can be provided and we recommend that the scanner is serviced
after installing it in its final location.
Please email Emma Cavalier if you are interested.
Best regards
Emma Cavalier
Digitisation Manager, National Portrait Gallery
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Context A2 scanner for sale
On 4 September 2012 15:34, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Very interesting indeed! Although quite where we'd put it... This is definitely one of those cases where the amazing awesomeness of it would be let down by the sheer practical implications - this is equivalent to having to buy and maintain an additional staff desk! (I used to share an office with an A3 scanner - it was a beast. An A2 scanner you'd have to build the office around.) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Event at the British Library, 10 September
Hi all, This is to let you know about a couple of events at the British Library; on the 10th of September, we'll be hosting a workshop and exhibition tour. As with the original editathon back in January 2011, it should provide a good opportunity to meet curators, talk about possible collaborations, etc. If all goes to plan, we'll also have a group of newly released digital collections to work on, ready for sorting and uploading - details TBC. My work as Wikipedian in Residence has been heavily built around the training program in the last couple of months, and I'm hoping to be able to put more emphasis into content work from now on. If there's things you'd like me to try and work on later in the residency, or if you just want to chat about what's been done so far, please come along! In the evening, there is a tour arranged of the Writing Britain exhibition - this will start at 6.30 and be led by two of the curators organising the exhibition. Hopefully, it should be suitable for anyone working during the day and not able to make the afternoon session. I know it's a little unusual to hold an event on a weekday rather than a weekend, but this was the only day we could bring everything together! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/September_2012 Later in the week, in the morning of Thursday 13th, John Byrne has arranged a tour of the British Museum's ''Writing Shakespeare'' exhibition - signup details below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/2012 Please let me know if you've any questions, and hope to see you there! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Upcoming training workshops - London
Hi all, I posted a month or two ago asking for volunteers to help with some training workshops I was running at Birkbeck. Thanks again to the four who replied - the day went well and we got really positive feedback from the attendees. I've three more arranged in London, and one in Oxford: * 3rd September (British Library) * 24th September (British Library) * 8th October (University of Oxford) * 12th October (British Library) The three BL events are a mixture of those being advertised to AHRC researchers and postgraduates (see http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/Wikipedia-courses-for-AHRC-awardholders.aspx), with another intended for readers (ie users) at the British Library. The Oxford event is run by the university for its own postgraduates. They'll all be afternoon sessions running for three or four hours; a general introduction to Wikipedia and QA session, followed by a short practical session with the sandbox, a coffee break, and then time to do some live editing with experienced users around to lend a hand. If you'd be interested in helping train people at one or more of these sessions, please get in touch! They're fairly informal events, really quite enjoyable, and the more Wikipedians we have the better... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Training coffee morning 12 August
Hi Charles, I won't be able to make the 12th - it's the first free weekend I've had for a month or so, and I've sworn off going into London! - but I will be around in Cambridge working from home on Friday. Would you be free for a quick coffee sometime in the afternoon? - Andrew. On 6 August 2012 15:45, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: I'm running another coffee morning, i.e. informal discussion session about training issues. This one will precede the London meetup on Sunday 12 August, and will be in the same place, Penderel's Oak pub in Holborn (http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/pubs/penderels-oak/). I'll get a train that will allow me to be there by 11 am. All are welcome, to discuss current and future training. I'll hang around during the meetup. But it does tend to get noisier, which is why it seems worth setting aside a couple of hours before the meetup itself starts. Charles ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [WMUK Board] Statement regarding Ashley Van Haeften, Chair of Wikimedia UK
On 1 August 2012 12:01, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: No effect I can see but Richard who monitors these things is in interviews all day.I get notification of one-off and In fact a few quite generous donations over the last 24 hours which surprised me. (£66.40 in total) These normally happen at the weekend when I suppose people are at home, using wikipedia and then feel generous. This was a bit different. Can't really think there is a link one way or not. Is there a normal last few days of the month pickup? Everyone's just got paid... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 1814-1839 prison execution journal
On 1 August 2012 13:49, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 August 2012 13:29, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: Scanning and promoting the use of the images and text for the public benefit. Then selling the book at either little loss or a likely profit for the charity once we have a lot of public attention on it. Slight amendment after thinking over a cup of tea - I would prefer to see it donated to the British Library (or some another worthy public archive) for the permanent public benefit, rather than resell. This fits better with the Wikimedia UK mission and the receiving institution might even help with archive quality digitization. Much as I would like to say we here at the BL would love you to pay for a new and exciting manuscript, I'm not sure this is the best approach for spending Chapter funds in terms of value returned. Grants for a third party to acquire material is a long way from the sort of thing we've supported before, and while I think you could just about argue it's inside our objectives, I personally have my doubts. (Look at it another way: If an archive had come to us and said we'd like you to fund digitisation of this book, we'd probably say yes at £250, maybe at £500, and start laughing if they said it would cost £5,000.) The best model for cases like this would be to develop a method where we have an agreed partner who'll digitise culturally significant material at a reasonable cost (or a group who can do it in-house, but for material like this that's tricky) and a standing offer to fund it for certain classes of limited-availability material like this. We then approach the auctioneers or booksellers, talk them in to letting us have it for a day to scan it, and let them do as they will after that. One risk here is that the digitisation would lower the marketable value of the final item, but I don't know how we'd quantify this one way or the other. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 1814-1839 prison execution journal
On 1 August 2012 13:05, Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com wrote: Currently on sale for £5,000, and the blog's author pleads: There must surely be an individual or institution who would be willing and able to properly document the contents of Cotton's unique record of Newgate's executions and put the results into the public domain. Wikisource would be the perfect channel for putting the contents of the journal into the public domain, if only we could get scans of the whole book. Note, incidentally, that there must be some interesting overlap between this and Old Bailey Online, which will document many of the trials that preceded the hangings. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18120513-5-person102 - for example, is also covered in Cotton. What's the possibility of WMUK buying the book for £5,000, scanning it to Commons, then selling the book privately or to a dealer to recover most of the money spent? I suspect that we would be unlikely to get more than half that were we to sell it direct to a dealer, and goodness only knows if we were to sell it privately. It's a bit of a gamble with donor funds! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 1814-1839 prison execution journal
On 1 August 2012 14:31, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 August 2012 14:19, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: The best model for cases like this would be to develop a method where we have an agreed partner who'll digitise culturally significant material at a reasonable cost (or a group who can do it in-house, but for material like this that's tricky) and a standing offer to fund it for certain classes of limited-availability material like this. We then approach the auctioneers or booksellers, talk them in to letting us have it for a day to scan it, and let them do as they will after that. We need to develop in-house volunteer expertise, yes. So. What do we need? The Internet Archive would be the best people to talk to about this; they've experience in deploying scanning machines and training individuals to operate them. I don't know how much the hardware costs, but it seems there's one installed at the Natural History Museum: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/library/blog/2012/07/25/bhl-the-vast-library-of-life It might be worth talking to them and asking if we can train a volunteer to use the hardware on an occasional basis, during slack time, to run our own programs. They have the software in place to contribute copies to IA (which ought to be best practice for our digitisation programs anyway), and we can handle the Commons side ourselves; all we need to do then is source the books! I'm happy to contact them and make enquiries about this, unless someone else already has NHM contacts - anyone? *However*, this is the general case for digitisation of normal print works. For manuscript material like this - rare, probably very fragile, and needing careful curation during the scanning process - I'd be really reluctant to let it near a volunteer who didn't have training and experience. For a program like this, outsourcing it is really the best way to go, and it's certainly more likely to be persuasive. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge coffee morning this Saturday
On 17 July 2012 15:09, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: As previously mentioned to the list, I want to do some meetup-lite events connected with training; and the first will consist of my being at the CB2 cybercaff in Cambridge from 10 am to 1 pm this Saturday 21 July. This is the same venue as the normal meetups but I'm relying on word-of-mouth this time - please pass on the news to anyone who might be interested in the area (WM training, distance education being the particular new focus). Can't make it, I'm afraid - I'll be in Edinburgh. Hope it goes well... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edinburgh photography workshop
On the format, a wiki is practical for our users, but not for people new to the system - even if they are comfortable editing, using a complicated table is definitely a deterrent. We actively discourage posting contact details, for obvious reasons, which adds an extra hurdle to confirming - as we need names and contact details, we have to be able to follow up is they don't post them. (unrelatedly, I did sign up, but no email - can someone check if I am in fact registered?) - Andrew. On 11 Jul 2012 15:37, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 July 2012 15:14, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers are run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control over it. What other system would you suggest? happy to hear suggestions! Well the publicly posted list appeared to be working fairly well and allows people to judge if this is an event they want to attend. The most effective way of dealing with privacy related information is not to collect it in the first place and since Mcdonald Road Library is hardly a controlled area there is no real reason to. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Training semi-meetups in Cambridge?
On 26 June 2012 12:54, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: I'm thinking of coffee mornings (Saturdays or Sundays) in Cambridge so people interested in new training stuff can gather painlessly. Don't want calendar events, just face time. I'm in Cambridge, as is Peter Coombe, as is Andrew Gray, and the Wellcome Sanger Group includes Magnus Manske, Darren Logan (Rockpocket) and Alex Bateman. A good start and obviously all would be welcome. I'm certainly interested, dates permitting. I'll probably be around 14th/15th July - ie, the weekend of Wikimania, so if anyone is left in the country then... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] GLAM-WIKI 2012 - registration now open!
Dear all, I am pleased to announce that registration is now open for the GLAM-WIKI 2012 conference, to be held at the British Library in London on 14th - 16th September 2012. The conference will feature two days of presentations and workshops, with the Friday focused on the work Wikimedia and similar organisations have done in partnership with cultural institutions, presenting case studies and discussing the benefits to both parties. The Saturday will be oriented more towards the practical and technical side, looking at ways to work together and running workshops to share best practice. The third day, Sunday 16th, will be an unconference day, with the focus and agenda determined by the attendees on the day. We are currently taking proposals for talks, workshops and panel sessions, on three broad themes: * Open content in the GLAM sector * Developing sustainable partnerships * New models and future projects The call for papers will close on 23rd July, and the schedule will be announced on 30th July. Registration is now open at: http://glamwiki2012.eventbrite.co.uk/ and accomodation details will be released at a later date when hotel arrangements are confirmed. More details, and the call for papers, are at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2012 If you have any questions, please contact g...@wikimedia.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Academic training workshops
Hi all, As many of you know, as part of my work at the British Library I'll be organizing a series of training workshops on behalf of AHRC for postgraduates and academics, at various institutions around the country. These are mostly half-day sessions, giving training to specialists who are interested in contributing to Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects, or learning more about engaging and collaborating with the Wikimedia community - I'm modelling them on the past sessions run by WMUK with, eg, the Institute of Physics. http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Physics_Workshop If they involve more than a small number of people, I'm quite keen to have someone else around, since it helps a lot if there's two or three people available to answer questions, demonstrate things, etc. If you'd be interested in coming along to one of these sessions and helping show people the ropes, please let me know and I'll keep you informed of future dates locations - I can cover reasonable travel expenses where needed... Alternatively, if you have contacts who you think might be interested in hosting one at their institution, I'd be really interested to hear about it - part of the trick with setting these up is finding the right person to approach! Thanks all, -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Role accounts
On 29 April 2012 13:08, Harry Burt harryab...@gmail.com wrote: In any case, role accounts are in all practical terms regarded merely an accountability issue these days. Which is probably why no page goes into detail on the copyright matter. It also seems quite at odds with the fact that we *do* allow and assist organisations to release content under a free license - just so long as they go through another process. There are practical identification and verification benefits to doing it this way, but it certainly doesn't support any kind of copyright limitation. (I am becoming of the opinion that prohibiting role accounts is a bad idea full stop, but that's another story...) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] [offlist] Re: The British Library is looking for a Wikimedian In Residence (6 months)
[offlist] On 9 February 2012 11:23, Fae f...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Applications close in *2 weeks* so let any friends and folks on your personal networks who might be interested know about this opportunity as soon as possible. You can tweet using the shortcut: http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/?p=778 Interesting indeed! Do you know when they expect the post to start, or is it subject to negotiation? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [offlist] Re: The British Library is looking for a Wikimedian In Residence (6 months)
On 9 February 2012 12:09, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: [offlist] Dear all: I am still outwitted by email. Thankyou for giving me an opportunity to demonstrate this on a slow morning :-) As you were... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] A few requests!
On 8 February 2012 16:34, Harry Burt harryab...@gmail.com wrote: It's worth noting that traditionally PPCs have had difficulty sustaining articles, whereas incumbent MPs are all notable. I suspect the same may be true of L.A. elections. Yes. In early 2010, I reviewed a lot of pages for constituencies to look for articles on PPCs, which tend to be very problematic puff-pieces of limited notability. I think perhaps 75% were fairly irredeemable. In the current case, the best answer is to point toward the notability guidelines for politicians, which I think explicitly state that the community does not think candidates for an office which would otherwise confer notability can be notable simply by virtue of being candidates for it, and to explain that the corrolary of this is that articles on candidates are often deleted, which leads to tears. (Perhaps a bullet-point FAQ on Can I have an article?, with common arguments and problems, is a worthwhile thing to produce for outreach purposes. #15. 'But I wrote a book!') -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia
On 31 December 2011 11:32, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com wrote: So I think the rebellion is named after the Duke of Monmouth - ie tricky to link to [[Monmouth, Wales]] In a slightly convoluted mode, I believe the ship is as well. (At some point in the past few centuries it was decided that he was All Right After All, etc.) Armoured Car, and Ship - Yes we should be able to link the QR codes Monmouth Castle - Go for it! There are lots of ideas on MonmouthpediA pages. Some are people who may be local to you in fame but born in Monmouth. Is there a WP Monmouth[shire]? If not, this may be a good idea to kickstart one - identify relevant articles, start projecttagging, etc. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012
On 31 October 2011 13:45, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: The most prominent British writer to die in 1941 was Virginia Woolf, so no doubt we'll see a spate of reprints by about March. Others include Hugh Walpole (prolific but mostly forgotten), P. C. Wren (Beau Geste), A. G. Macdonell (England, Their England), H. E. Marshall (Our Island Story). Following on from this, I tried skimming some other countries, and got very excited when I noticed Tagore died in 1941, but on examination he's in the public domain already - India is life + 60. Japan, Canada and New Zealand are life + 50, but I don't immediately see any exciting cases who died in 1961; Australia is in the process of transitioning from life + 50 to life + 70, and as a result no-one new will fall into the public domain this year. France is best left aside as discussed above; Germany is life + 70, which means Emanuel Lasker's books on chess will become PD, along with a handful of minor novelists. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012
On 31 October 2011 15:49, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Do we need to avoid them for some special legal reason or just because we don't feel comfortable saying Yay! This brilliant author got shot in the head defending his country 70 years ago so we can now copy his books with paying for them!? If it's the latter, then we can probably word things sufficiently delicately. It's a legal issue, but *only* regarding French authors (at least, I'm not immediately aware of any other countries which do the same thing). As part of a general French law regarding those killed or injured in wartime (and their dependents), authorial copyrights are extended by an additional thirty years in these cases, from seventy years after death to a hundred years after death. (A side-effect of this is that the *first* cases will become PD in a few years - 1 January 2015 for those killed during 1914.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_pour_la_France French law also has an odd caveat for works which were in copyright during the two world wars; the periods of these wars are not counted for calculating expiry dates, thus meaning that some works which were still in copyright in 1939, and would have expired over the next few years, will not do so for a bit longer. Per our article, this only applies for musical works - a court recently annulled it for most works - so we can just omit French composers from our calculations! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_France -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMF veto on geonotices?
On 7 October 2011 13:02, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: I am unclear about the WLL central notice. Is there a discussion somewhere that explains why this notice about a regional GLAM activity would be a central notice rather than a USA specific Wikipedia geonotice? The centralnotice was requested by the same person who set up the geonotice, and I'm guessing it's intended to ensure non-WP projects are notified (Commons and WS are likely interested parties). It's still targeted to the US and Canada only, but now running on multiple projects. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar There's no explicit policy I can see regarding not duplicating notices globally and locally, but it's something I've always understood to be discouraged. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggestions for Merchandise
On 12 September 2011 21:28, Harry Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: I don't know how much use postcards, even Wikimedia postcards, would get, but some of the Commons POTYs would be great for that kind of thing. How we get past look at the pretty picture to upload your own, I'm not sure. In my (relatively limited) experience, it's not the smallest sizes that are left over! ;) What else makes a good platform for advertising Commons? Some mosaic Commons postcards (possibly from WMDE?) were floating around at Wikimania, and were very popular - well, they vanished fast, anyway. In my experience, a lot of people take these to be pretty pictures to put somewhere rather than to use as postcards qua postcards, which is fair enough, but perhaps we could capitalise on this. If they're not actually using the back, we don't need to leave it blank - so why not pre-print it with a message? Some options: a) a quick guide to uploading to Commons, in two or three steps. b) ditto for creating an enwiki (or other project) account. c) a general introduction to free content. d) the story of the image. The latter requires careful research and selection, but is potentially very impressive if we do it right - This picture of a sycamore was taken on June 2008 by Maria, a German Wikipedia editor in Munich. Since then, it's been used to illustrate 48 articles in 36 different language editions of Wikipedia, where it's been seen well over four hundred thousand times. It's used in over a hundred other websites as a stock photograph, and has appeared in a magazine and a children's schoolbook. - and it should be fairly easy to follow that with a message of you can really contribute something worthwhile! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggestions for Merchandise
On 13 September 2011 13:58, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: +1. I very much like this idea! Does anyone know who set that up/who was in charge of that idea? Commons has the PDFs here (which are bizarrely distorted by mediawiki, but there you go): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Commons_Postcard.pdf http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Commons_Postkarte_(sw).pdf You can probably chase down the original details via the author (or just by asking WMDE directly) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggestions for Merchandise
On 12 September 2011 15:41, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: · Merchandise printed with Wikipedia memes such as [citation needed], [edit], or maybe phrases like “Wiki Loves Museums” or “I Write Wikipedia” I have been asked on many occasions why there aren't [citation needed] stickers. (Really, I have. Yes, it worries me too.) I suspect there is a good market here on purely commercial terms... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Question: When and how often should WM-UK give grants for digitization projects?
On 19 August 2011 17:59, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hang on - much as I love the DNB, there is huge amount to know before saying spending money on it would be a good use. There are literally hundreds of Google Books keys for DNB volumes, some of which don't work in the UK but do work in the USA, etc. To quickly follow up, there's also the complicating factor that not all DNB articles are public domain - at least, not outside the US, which isn't an issue for WM proper but is for us! Almost everything in the 1885 publication is *likely* to be PD - unless the contributors were very precocious junior academics - but the DNB included more recent content (supplementary volumes published every ten years or so) and those are a real minefield involving individual author dates. OED do have the metadata to figure this out on a life+70 basis, but it might not be trivial for them. (It's also not clear if the versions published on the ODNB website are themselves the clean versions - they may have been tidied up, etc, which muddies the waters a little.) Do we have a central list of DNB volumes for which WS does not have scans? I'm happy to spend an hour digging through Google Books / OL / etc... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Some statistics about Wikimania 2011
On 25 July 2011 23:37, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tom, The 10K was in the budget and had not been spent at last meeting in Birmingham. It was thought then too late to spend it, but I volunteered for the task. Basically I sent out an email and funded those people who applied and we also funded some who had failed to get foundation funding (two from overseas). If it's any help, I'm willing to put in a retroactive application to help use up some funds ;-) Would it be worthwhile stating in advance - ie, now or fairly soon - the intention of funding some people to go to WM2012, even if the details of what criteria to use aren't yet set out? Then people will at least know something is available and can register an interest in it, and there'll be some impetus to have it get spent. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] two-letter UK domains: any use?
On 9 June 2011 12:42, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi all, I've just noticed that Nominet have made two-letter UK domains available for release: http://www.nominet.org.uk/registrants/aboutdomainnames/reserved/releaselist/ This includes wp.co.uk/wp.org.uk/etc. - does anyone think these would be useful for Wikipedia somehow? (The deadline for applying is apparently in just under a week's time.) Yes, applying for our standard two-letter abbreviations - wm, wp, etc - seems a smart idea. Nothing ventured... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Library English and Drama event for Wikip/medians // Saturday 4 June 2011
On 10 May 2011 17:03, Fae f...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Registration for this collaboration event at the British Library has opened today and has yet to be promoted to the general public. Sign up early if you would like to take advantage of full access to the English and Drama unique collections (some of the archives suggested have yet to be officially catalogued) with supporting advice from the UK's leading curators and researchers who are eager to help improve Wikipedia's (and sister projects) depth of coverage. Details at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editathon,_British_Library This sounds very interesting! Are you looking for topic specialists in particular, or...? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pictures of politicians
On 4 February 2011 11:45, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Do we have a programme to get photos of every MP? Standard templates, etc? I need to ask mine, [[Stella Creasy]], for one ... I think someone mooted a letter-writing campaign a while back, but I don't know if anything ever got off the ground. There is probably some parliamentary system for standard portraits; maybe we could see if they could be convinced to release the end product? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 5 Live Investigates on Books LLC, Sunday night 9pm UTC
On 28 January 2011 12:44, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Has anyone been in touch with Amazon on this issue? WMF hasn't been, I believe - though I wouldn't be sorry if we were! - but there have been a number of individual complaints to Amazon made about it, by purchasers, mostly getting brush-offs in response. It's one of those annoying situations where the offending party is compliant with the strict letter of the rules but is nevertheless, and entirely without a doubt, reliant on misleading its customers. (On the other hand, at least their decision to obfuscate their source means we don't end up getting the backlash from this sort of business practice. Swings and roundabouts...) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Question about the addition of BBC content to Wikipedia entries
On 10 September 2010 14:19, Martin Poulter m.l.poul...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Not a TV show, David: a radio programme in which academic experts on the topic are interviewed and have to talk about their research for a lay audience. Usually much better than the typical WP EL and probably among the best links in the world for for further information on the topic: again, depending on the human judgement of article editors. I think the level of usefulness will in large part depend on the subject. A programme on the Pharaoh Akhenaten is likely to be a good external link for that article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mwsly whilst a broad discussion on Africa would be much less directly useful on the article about the continent: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545ld The best approach here might be to try the automatic topic-matching to Wikipedia articles, bur rather than dropping the links into the articles - which would probably lead to at least one person getting very upset and trying to remove them all again, and it'd be messy - link them on the talkpages with a note explaining what /In Our Time/ is, for those editors unfamiliar with it, and asking them to decide if it would be useful either as a further reading style external link, or if it could be used as a source for developing the article itself. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership Fee Cut
On 18 February 2010 15:35, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry if you interpreted my question as being rude. I simply wanted to know what your point was, since you hadn't made it. You had just made some general comments that did not have an obvious conclusion. It was in response to a response to a comment of his; read in that context, it makes perfect sense. Setting a price below a typical cinema ticket isn't really a claim on anyone's respect. ... in the real world money tends to be given to those who show they know the value of it, ergo, asking for less money with the hope of getting more people may actually lead to you receiving even less overall because it may suggest a lack of seriousness or of ambition. I'm not sure I agree with it entirely, but it's a legitimate concern. A few related points which are worth bearing in mind here: * Elasticity. There's plenty of people who'd pay half what they're paying now happily, but would also pay *twice* quite happily. Lowering it to the lower end of that band won't bring in more of the people whose decision to join or not in the first place isn't simply purely monetary - and I don't think it's that unusual a group. Tom says we're planning to email donors asking if they'd become a member at a reduced rate - do we know they wouldn't have become a member at the current rate if asked? * Demographics. Who are we targeting with reduced memberships? Is there a definable group of people who can't pay the higher fee, and if so, is it not being served by the existing two-tier group? * Efficiency. If we can raise a sufficient amount from memberships to cover our predicted operating costs, this is a pretty good thing - it means we can say, clearly and upfront, that all donations received will be spent *entirely* on productive projects, that there's no cut for administration from donated funds. Good fundraising selling point, there. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership Fee Cut
On 18 February 2010 16:16, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: monetary - and I don't think it's that unusual a group. Tom says we're planning to email donors asking if they'd become a member at a reduced rate - do we know they wouldn't have become a member at the current rate if asked? They were already asked, although maybe not very prominently, and most of them didn't join. Comment on the donation form, I guess? Optional stuff on a donation form is usually ignored regardless of the fine print of what it says, and I suspect you'd have had virtually the same takeup if it said £5 or £10 or £15 - of course, this is practically untestable in any useful way. Do we have figures for the distribution of our donors to hand? What proportion gave: a) up to £5 b) £5 to £12 c) £12 or more The proportions here might tell us something interesting about the prospective takeup at any given price point. Relatedly: how many members do we have at £6, and how many at £12? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Telegraph runs story ...
2010/1/2 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: In the end, a story appeared today: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6916596/WB-Yeats-and-Sigmund-Freud-works-posted-on-Wikipedia-as-copyright-expires.html Well done indeed to Mike and Andrew in particular for pushing on past all the obstacles. I like the addition at the end of last year / next year. Something to include for next year's one, I think - having an In the past few years... line gives the opportunity to cram in some extra names the journalist may recognise. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day
2009/12/21 geni geni...@gmail.com: January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11920 The most interesting name I'm aware of this year is Howard Carter who created a lot of paintings and drawings of Egyptian archaeological artifacts. I'm trying to put together more names but I was wounder if it was something a press release could be built around? Sigmund Freud and W. B. Yeats are the two particularly influential authors this year, I believe - neither UK, but both life+70 jurisdictions. Arthur Rackham, Havelock Ellis and Ford Madox Ford are both interesting, though neither is particularly well-known now. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day
2009/12/21 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: Draft, then. What do Howard Carter, discoverer of the tomb of King Tut, author Zane Grey of the cowboy classic Riders of the Purple Sage, and sexologist Havelock Ellis have in common? The answer is that they all died in 1939, meaning that on New Year's Day all their works are free from copyright. I would be careful with using Grey as an example - he's definitely American, and their status is complicated. I'm not sure we can say the copyright status of a randomly chosen Grey work will change in a couple of weeks... If we're going to use a non-British author, I'd go with Yeats. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Celtic languages Internet project
2009/9/20 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: Don't we already have a Celtic language Wikipedia? Looking around, there seems to be a fair number of varieties of Celtic languages [1] , including Gaelic and Welsh. Can anyone clarify this - perhaps they were meaning Manx? The Celtic languages - as Casey says, this is a linguistic group with common ancestry, not a single language. There hasn't been a Celtic language per se for a long, long time :-) In no particular order: * Welsh * Scots Gaelic * Cornish * Manx * Irish * Breton All but one (Breton) are spoken in the UK. All have Wikipedias, mostly of a decent but small size (5000+ pages); Welsh is pretty flourishing. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Foundation-l] sue and be damned FOI to NPG
2009/7/11 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: That said, your approach is most certainly particularly amusing :-D I expect they'd claim these were commercial works and the core of their business or somesuch. I know this is a bit late, but I just wanted to note this point - FOIA is not a perfect tool. You *can't* request something under the Act which is reasonably accessible to the applicant, which is explicitly defined to include things they have to pay for. It may seem an attractive idea, but if they'll sell you a digital copy regardless, then FOI will run into a brick wall at speed. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Using Wiki software in higher Education: Interview request
2009/5/31 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com: We have recently been approached by a company asking for someone to be video interviewed on the subject of how Wikipedia can be used in universities. The company is a spin off from Imperial College in London and is partly public owned and partly privately owned. They are currently preparing courses in new technology, which are expected to be used by over 100 higher education institutions around the world. Sorry, I'm a little confused - is this using Wikipedia in higher education, or using wikis in higher education? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] OPSI Unlocking Request
2009/5/20 Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com: 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. /Dods/ are publishers of Dods' Parliamentary Compaion, the standard reference work on, well, Parliament. I'm guessing that they take these pictures for their book, and license them back to the parliamentary website (etc). -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity application rejected
2009/4/25 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: The law is fine, it's just being misapplied. Writing an encyclopaedia doesn't increase knowledge, it's a tertiary source, all the knowledge is already in existence. It disseminates knowledge, something I consider to be pretty synonymous with education. I think at this point we need a lawyer. I'll look up that case and see if I can find the details, but really we need someone can that combat legal nonsense with more legal nonsense - I can only illegal nonsense! I'm not sure I agree with the CC's decision, but it isn't a particularly quixotic one in the context of existing charity law, and I can see where it came from. Consider, for example, the notes at C4 here: http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/publicbenefit/pbeduc.asp#c However, just giving people information is not necessarily educating them. The key is whether it is provided in such a way (however structured) that it is capable of educating them, rather than just adding to factual information. I think there are ways of interpreting this sort of thing so as to encompass what we do, but it's not unreasonable for them to interpret it differently. Note that there isn't really anything like us in any of the lists of examples! Approaching this from the position that the law is fundamentally being misapplied, and we need to tell them they're Doing It Wrong, is probably just going to set us up for some angry letters both ways, a quick fall, and being filed as vexatious - and the last thing we want is for us to blow the chance fully! A more effective approach would, perhaps, be to closely compare our submission to the regulations, and see if the use of a different perspective on what we plan to do, or a broadening of our aims, would perhaps fit more comfortably with the (slightly odd) letter of the regulations. After all, we have to fit into charity law *as it exists* if we're going to be a charity at all! (...and on which note, hrm. if we're not a charity, what are the practical implications of that? I assume with our small turnover it wouldn't make a *vast* difference, but...) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] wikipedia.org.uk - who is Chris Brooking?
2009/4/8 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: Hi all, I'm trying to find out who owns the UK Wikipedia domains. As best I can tell, wikipedia.org.uk is owned by Chris Brooking, registered via http://www.webconexion.net . Does anyone know who Chris Brooking is and how I can get in contact with him? He posted to this list about this very topic in January 2006 :-) http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediauk-l/2006-January/000236.html -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Statement of Persons Nominated
2009/4/6 James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com: WIKI UK LTD (WIKIMEDIA UK) ELECTION OF DIRECTORS STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED At the close of nominations, the following individuals stood validly nominated for election as Directors of Wiki UK Limited: Thomas Dalton Zeyi He Thomas Holden Michael Peel Joseph Seddon Andrew Turvey Steve Virgin Paul Williams Hurrah, we broke seven! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
