Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia logo on University Challenge?
On 4 August 2010 20:44, Hampton Catlin hcat...@wikimedia.org wrote: I apologize to everyone in the group for so blatantly violating the copyright of the BBC. The clip has been removed. I shall notify staff-l of the removal. Next time, I should begin negotiations with the content owners before doing anything entertaining. :-) Hampton, Thomas is right in what he says - but don't fret about it. There's a whole youtube of copyvios out there. ;-) Cormac ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia, Critical Point of View conference in Amsterdam
On 13 March 2010 23:31, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: ... is apparently happening later this month, with participation from a number of people from the UK: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/program/amsterdam-program/ Does anyone know anything about this? Yes, it's a continuation of another conference - 'Wikiwars' or 'CPOV' - which took place in Bangalore in January this year: http://www.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/Wikiwars. I think, if I were to summarise them, I'd say both conferences are about the societal implications of Wikipedia, what it means to participate in Wikipedia, and the limitations of the Wikipedia model in documenting 'the sum of human knowledge'. Yes, it's geared towards academics - hence the language! - so, in this sense, I wouldn't take being critical to equate with being negative. If there's specific jargon that you think I can help with, please shoot. There are a lot of good contributors, some of whom are members of the Wikimedia community, e.g. Joseph Reagle and Stuart Geiger, both of whom have presented at past Wikimanias. Also, Mathieu O'Neil has written a very interesting book about online communities, including a case study of Wikipedia. Personally, I'd love to be going, though I have no money, and even less time. If anyone's interested in going, and WMUK have funds... do it! Cheers, Cormac ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC Content 'n' Commons
Context below - yes, I'm top-posting. Just to point out that, in the consultation form which I've just filled out in an attempt to save BBC 6 Music from the axe [1], there's a box to give comments about access to the BBC archive. I used this to give a brief advocacy for BBC content to be made available under a Creative Commons licence. Two birds, one stone (I live in hope). Cormac [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consultations/departments/bbc/bbc-strategy-review/consultation/consult_view On 26 February 2010 15:26, Tom Holden tom.hol...@economics.ox.ac.uk wrote: Perhaps the same day on which they announced a 50% reduction of the size of their website is not the best time... -Original Message- From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bod Notbod Sent: 26 February 2010 3:22 PM To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC Content 'n' Commons One of you chaps has a contact in the BBC, I believe. I've been thinking about the BBC and some of its news/factual content and whether they might be willing to release some of it under CC-BY-SA and therefore appropriate to embed in Wikipedia. Obviously a lot of content needs to remain under restrictive licenses; a lot of output (most of it, I would guess) is produced by independent companies and one can't expect the Beeb to start renegotiating with them. But it strikes me that they produce a lot of in-house stuff that simply won't have much resale/repeat value and for which I don't think (but I am willing to be challenged on this) they would need to worry about royalties and rights. There's also the argument that due to the unique way the BBC is funded some of their content *should* be more available to the public and to release some content (content of little to no future value) under a more sharing-friendly licence would be the right thing to do. I intend to look and listen to BBC content more carefully to pick out which specific programmes are independently produced and which are in-house, so I'll be vague in what I'm going to say next, not mentioning specific programme titles: They produce a lot of output that relates to specific political issues, they have interviews with public figures, they cover science topics and produce other content that would be educational. So I'm wondering if our BBC insider could maybe use his contact to propose CC-BY-SA licensing for some content and see what their reaction is. Perhaps before that's done though it would be well to have a list of, say, five illustrative examples of what we'd be talking about. I foresee a slight problem in doing this; the BBC puts content online but it is usually available for a relatively short period, so if we wanted to *link* to these examples the content might be gone by the time our contact is approached. I'm not sure what a good solution to that problem is. It may just be a case of noting very carefully the date of transmission, programme title, channel and the 'timestamp'(?) of any individual segment we're inspired by. In summary, I propose: 1. That we, over the next seven days, all take note of programmes that are not specifically credited as being produced by independent companies. 2. Consider whether what we've watched/listened to would be good for Wikimedia projects and report likely candidates to this thread. Having done that: 3. Think about how we can present a case to the BBC for some CC-BY-SA licensing. I'm just imagining some really great stuff being made available to Commons and, once it's there, all the amazing things volunteers can do with it. What do you chaps think? User:Bodnotbod (en:wp) ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] School project
2009/11/12 zeyi zeyi...@googlemail.com Hi, all, According to the school project we set up, (check here if you need more information http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Schools_project), I have discussed the possibility with the head of sixth forum, she suggested two things. one is we need some documents to prove that Wikipedia and relevant projects have affected school age students on some way, which will give more sense to committee who can accept us to host the workshop on schools. Second, we need more detail proposal to explain our school project and the content of workshop. I can complete the proposal with cooperating to others. However, I am wondering that any one has resource about how Wikipedia and relevant projects influence school students? anything is helpful, reports, survey, blog and academic articles? Hi Zeyi, There is quite little empirical work that I know of relating to the effect of Wikipedia on children/teenagers. (There is more on potential effects, general wiki (ie non-WP) literature, etc.) One paper that comes to mind is Forte Bruckman [1] - though the sample here was undergraduate students. The authors have written another chapter on 'Human-Computer Interaction for kids' - I'm not sure whether it deals with Wikipedia specifically - you could get in touch with the authors [2], or I could do so (I know one of them) and report back. Let me know which you'd prefer. A good, recent paper is Harouni [3], which discusses high school students' critical research skills in using Wikipedia. Another you might be interested in is the write-up of a project to improve articles on Latin American Literature, which had a lot of input from Wikipedians [4] - though again, it's about graduate students. Cormac [1] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~aforte/ForteBruckmanFromWikipedia.pdf [2] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~aforte/index.html ; http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruckman/ [3] http://www.hepg.org/her/abstract/742 [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jbmurray/Madness ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon
Discussion on foundation-l... -- Forwarded message -- From: Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:42 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon To: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everybody; This is to say that I have written a piece on this topic at : http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#uk.wikimedia.org_is_Wikimedia_Ukraine,_isn't_it_ ? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Source Schools conference, Nottingham, Monday 20th July
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm pleased to share with everyone that I've managed to get myself in as a speaker in the Open Source Schools unconference in Nottingham next Monday 20th July. Although it's primarily focused on open source software, they have agreed to extend it to talking about open source content as well. I'll be leading a session from 2:05 - 2:35 on the subject of using Wikipedia in Schools Well done, Andrew. :-) From my speaking experience*, audiences vary in their knowledge of, and attitudes to, Wikipedia. You'll probably need to cover some of the basics - i.e. how it works - but balance this with an educator's perspective: what good is Wikipedia for my students, or for me; why should they or I use it; how would they know if it's reliable or not? The angle that I usually stress is that Wikipedia's transparent and participative nature has profound implications for the construction of knowledge, and becoming critical - educators trying to promote critical thinking have a valuable resource in Wikipedia to show students how knowledge is always contestable (and is contested!). (Some more at: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Inside_Wikipedia.) And for those who just want the (unvandalised) facts, you could mention flagged revisions as a mechanism for ameliorating vandalism, and promoting reliability - as well as the fact that dealing with vandalism is an extraordinary, distributed effort, often using pretty sophisticated tools, as well as basic ones like recent changes, history, watchlists, diffs, rollback (ie 'how it works'). Also, don't forget Wikipedia's sister projects - Wikibooks and Wikiversity being the most obviously relevant ones. Teachers can write their own textbooks or materials, or adapt those of others - the practice of teaching has always involved sharing ideas amongst teachers. And students can give feedback on resources, edit them directly, or create their own resources that facilitate their learning processes, or simply document how they learnt. One thing that educators often feel strange about is that someone else could edit *their* educational resources - you can mention the ability to 'fork' into derivative works, rather than necessarily edit the same resource. These are cultural issues, and quite complex - but it's worth at least helping people recognise the opportunities, as opposed to the threats of free culture. This is a growing educational agenda now - taking the initiative of 'open source' towards developing 'open educational resources' (OER) - and Graham Attwell, who I've met, will no doubt be plugging this. And yes, as Thomas points out, there are school-friendly Wikipedia resources - and that we're always looking for ways of improving/extending/refocusing them, and always appreciate help. ;-) All the best, Cormac * Yup, will put my details on the wmuk speaker page now. :-) ___ 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
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: Could Cormac travel to London do you think? Sorry, I should have clarified - I'm based in Manchester, so yes, I could travel to London. I'm a bit low on funds though, so I would probably need reimbursement for the train. :-) Cormac ___ 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
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: [snip] We're looking for a volunteer who is familiar with the workings of Wikipedia and is willing to be interviewed. It was this line which initially put me off - I'm writing my PhD about the implications, and use, of Wikimedia for/on education, but I can't say I'm particularly familiar any more with much of what happens *within Wikipedia*, having been more involved over the last few years in Wikiversity. I'm pretty busy these days, but I could possibly do this if needs be. You can contact me offlist if you like. Cormac ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] wikimania 2010 announcement
-- Forwarded message -- From: phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com Date: 2009/5/7 Subject: [Foundation-l] wikimania 2010 announcement To: wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear Wikimedia, The Wikimania venue selection committee is pleased to announce that we have selected Gdańsk, Poland as the location for Wikimania 2010. The three bids this year each had strong and weak points. The jury had a very difficult time deciding among them, a testament to the quality of the bids. Any of the three would have hosted a fine conference, and we thank the bid teams for their detailed presentations. The jury narrowed the field to Gdańsk and Amsterdam before making the final decision. The most debated criteria were: * Conference venue details * Location accessibility, cost, and budget * Accommodation options and simplicity * Opportunities for outreach * Local teamwork and planning We were impressed by Gdańsk's organized team, roomy venue options, low cost for attendees, creative outing plans, and outreach potential to Eastern Europe. A summary of our bid review is included below. Putting together a great Wikimania bid is a major undertaking, and we are grateful to all the bid teams for doing so with style. With respect and thanks, Phoebe Ayers On behalf of the Wikimania 2010 venue selection committee Voting members: Ting Chen Austin Hair Mohamed Ibrahim Samuel Klein Teemu Leinonen Delphine Ménard Frank Schulenburg Non-voting advisors: Sue Gardner Michael Snow ==Feedback points== * Conference venue The Oxford Town Hall seemed suited to Wikimania, with no major drawbacks. Gdańsk's venue options were flexible and varied. We also appreciated Gdańsk's plans for social space, inside and out, on the island and at the venue. We were intrigued by the Tuschinski theater venue in Amsterdam, and appreciate that the theater's staff has experience organizing conferences, but we were concerned that there were few small rooms and flexible spaces, and no social spaces on site with after-hours access. * Overall accessibility and cost Amsterdam was the most physically accessible bidding city for international attendees, due to being a major travel hub for many airlines. Gdańsk and Oxford were a bit less accessible, Oxford because of the transfer from Heathrow. Amsterdam's budget was high, even with its confirmed sponsorship. Oxford's was lowest, thanks to venue sponsorship, but lacked detail. It also had the highest cost of living and lodging for attendees. Gdańsk's budget was in between but included various services. The extra cost for travel for an attendee to Gdańsk was partly offset by the low cost of living and lodging. * Accommodation Amsterdam's proposal for accommodation was superior in its combination of reasonable price and close location for a single hostel that most attendees could stay in. Gdańsk's hostel options were cheap but scattered. Oxford's dorm options were potentially close but expensive. * Outreach Oxford and Amsterdam were considered to have good inherent options for global press and publicity, but neither proposal offered related details. Gdańsk offered good outreach to and from Eastern Europe, where Wikimedia projects are well known but the communities not as well to all of us, and engaged in the most press work over the course of the bid. * Teamwork and planning The Gdańsk bid excelled in team planning, with a clear breakdown of team member roles and responsibilities in the bid and a separate public planning wiki. Oxford added something similar at the end of the bid period, but the overall bid was a bit less detailed than the others. The Amsterdam team was particularly responsive to questions, with a strong background in planning similar events, but lacked a detailed team organization plan. All teams had fine party plans, and Gdańsk had creative plans for conference activities and environmental issues. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Wikipedians willing to do seminars?
On 12/17/08, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: We did a workshop today and one of the participants was a professor visiting from Manchester, and asked if we had local Wikipedians willing to come to the University and do a workshop on how to contribute to and edit Wikipedia. She has my card and is going to send me an email as to specifics, but I wanted to ask around sooner rather than later to find out who might be available and willing to do this. Sorry I didn't catch this until now, but I'm happy to help, and for you to share my contact details. Cheers, Cormac ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
