Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update
> > 20. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129702 -- Complete etwiki edit > > quality campaign > > 21. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157580 -- Deploy Romanian > > translations for Wiki labels > > 22. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157842 -- Prod deployment of ORES > > 23. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160279 -- Deploy ores in prod > > (Mid-March) > > 24. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157858 -- mwoauth is broken > > 25. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157983 -- Reduce the number of > > revisions that can be requested in one batch > > 26. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157623 -- Investigate failed ORES > > deployment > > 27. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157721 -- Investigate default > JSON > > minification behavior in production > > 28. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157723 -- ORES swagger is > > hard-coded > > for wmflabs > > 29. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152585 -- rcshow=oresreview is > slow > > 30. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158862 -- Fix message in > > Special:Contributions > > 31. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158899 -- Add notice about Dexbot > > overwriting manual changes to our tracking table. > > 32. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159055 -- Add a notice to > > ores-wmflabs-deploy about "experimental" nature > > 33. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160192 -- Fix testing issues in > > finnish language assets > > 34. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160258 -- Fix minor styling > issues > > with OOJS-UI in wikilabels > > > > Sincerely, > > Aaron from the Scoring Platform team > > ___ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Richard Nevell Project Coordinator Wikimedia UK - sign up to our newsletter <http://eepurl.com/cnYOw5> +44 (0) 20 7065 0921 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-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Volunteer Support Workshop - correction
And there aren't many pictures of the interior... If anyone's interested one of our cameras https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canon_EOS_M_pack.jpg will be available On 18 July 2014 16:20, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: For those interested in such things, the building is Wiki Loves Monuments-eligible, and has an article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley's_Chapel. 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.* 2014-07-18 15:58 GMT+01:00 Dirk Franke dirk.fra...@wikimedia.de: Dear list readers, and hopefully the last Pre-Wikimania Volunteer Support Meetup Correction mail. There is a room change. The workshop will happen at Wesley's Chapel and Leysian Mission 49 City Road London EC1Y 1AU https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pre-conference:_Volunteer_Support Thanks again for Wikimedia UK being attentive and acting so quickly. Best, Dirk Am 18. Juli 2014 14:00 schrieb Dirk Franke dirk.fra...@wikimedia.de: Dear list readers, I apologize for the inconvience, but have to make a small correcton. The Volunteer Support Workshop will happen on Thursday, August 7(!) https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pre-conference:_Volunteer_Support not the day before as previously stated. Best wishes, Dirk -- Dirk Franke Team Communitys Volunteer Support Dept. Fon +49 30 219158260 E-Mail: dirk.fra...@wikimedia.de denis.bart...@wikimedia.de -- Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei! Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. -- Dirk Franke Team Communitys Volunteer Support Dept. Fon +49 30 219158260 E-Mail: dirk.fra...@wikimedia.de denis.bart...@wikimedia.de -- Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei! Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Richard Nevell Assistant Office Manager Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0753 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-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia UK monthly report, February 2014
Hi everyone, Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1st to 28th February 2014. If you want to keep up with the chapter's activities as they happen, please subscribe to our blog https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/, join a UK mailing list, and/or follow us on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/wikimediauk. If you have any questions or comments, please drop us a line on this report's talk pagehttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Talk:Reports/2014/February . If you prefer to see the report on wiki, you can do so here - https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Reports/2014/February Regards, Richard Nevell Program activities Community Project grants outcome 12,126 images have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons using the Macmini that was approved and purchased under the Wikimedia Commons Geograph and Avionics batch upload projects support granthttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Macrogrants/Wikimedia_Commons_Geograph_and_Avionics_batch_upload_projects_support . Wikimania Over a hundred submissions have been made for Wikimania and more are expected by the deadline of the 31st March 2014. click here to submit a proposal for a talk https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions GLAM activities We currently have Wikipedians in Residence in Yorkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/YMT/4th_Month_Report, Scotland and at the Royal Society Editathons On the 1st of February Art and Feminism meetups were held in both Londonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London/ArtAndFeminism_2014 and Dundeehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism_2014#Wikipedia:Meetup.2FArtAndFeminism.23Dundee:_Duncan_of_Jordanstone_College_of_Art_and_Design as part of the global Art + Feminism 2014 eventhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism; the Dundee meetup has inspired an additional editathon on Scottish Women in Contemporary Arthttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Scottish_Women_in_Contemporary_Art_Wikifest_and_Editathon,_Dundee_2014 to be held 13 March at the University of Dundee. Fæ https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/User:F%C3%A6 lead a Cornwall GLAMs workshop https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cornwall_GLAMs_workshop at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, which was attended by a number of museums in Cornwall. Martin Poulter https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/User:MartinPoulter ran a Wellcome Library editathon https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wellcome_Library_editathon on the 26th February. Preparations are advancing for Wikimania with a London Libraries pagehttps://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/London/Libraries listing specialist libraries in London that Wikimanians can visit. Image Releases Education and expert outreach As a result of the York Museums Trust WIR the W.A. Ismay Studio Ceramic Collectionhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:W.A._Ismay_Studio_Ceramic_Collection was loaded to Commons. Discussions continue with various partners for the first mass uploads with the new mass upload tool Expert outreach Ally Crockford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ACrockford spoke at the Edinburgh City Libraries' Edge Conference 2014 on 28 February about the Wikimedian in Residence programme at the National Library of Scotland and the value of GLAMWiki collaborations more broadly. Conference delegates consisted of Information Professionals from across the UK, as well as from the US and Europe. Education activities *Please see respective links for each of these activities for futher details.* - On Saturday 1 February 2014 Toni Sant and Katherine Bavage led the training for the TaPRA Wikipedia Workshop at the VA Reading Room in Londonhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/TaPRA_Wikipedia_Workshop_February_2014 . - On Tuesday 5 February 2014 Charles Matthews supported Luke Surl with a training session at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. - A number of volunteer trainers led by Chris McKennahttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/User:Thryduulf delivered a series of events called Wikipedia Takes UCLhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_Takes_UCL between 17-20 February 2014. - Students at University of Hull in Scarborough participated in a WWI editathonhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/University_of_Hull_at_Scarborough_2014 as part of their use of Wikipedia in the classroom. - Magnus Manske spoke about Wikidata to the Cambridge University Wikipedia Societyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Cambridge_University_Wikipedia_Society on Thursday 27 February 2014. Wikimedia Ambassador at Jisc Dr Martin Poulter continues as Wikimedia Ambassador with Jisc. See his 6th report covering February 2014https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Jisc_Ambassador/Summary_18_March_2014 . Future of Education at Wikimania 2014 Preliminary planning for a fringe/hack event ahead of Wikimania (21-22 June) is ongoing. WMUK is participating in this through Stuart Prior and Toni Sant but other UK-based Wikimedians are also involved.Details herehttps
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Wikimedia UK monthly report, January 2014
Hi everyone, Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1st to 31st January 2014. If you want to keep up with the chapter's activities as they happen, please subscribe to our blog https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/, join a UK mailing list, and/or follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/wikimediauk. If you have any questions or comments, please drop us a line on this report's talk pagehttps://wikimedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Talk:Reports/2014/Januaryaction=editsection=new . If you prefer to see the report on wiki, you can do so here - https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Reports/2014/January Regards, Richard Nevell Program activities Community Project grants outcome GLAM activities The previously approved macrogrant applicationhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Macrogrants/Wikimedia_Commons_Geograph_and_Avionics_batch_upload_projects_support for a Macmini to support commons:User:Faebothttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot activities have been supplied, with images uploading on Wikimedia Commons started to take place. Editathons *BBC* Andy Mabbett led a very successful event at the BBC uploading sound fileshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:BBC_voice_samples . London Zoo John Cummings led an editathon at London Zoo addressing the gender gap by creating articles on Women in Zoology. Royal Society John Byrne started his residence at the Royal Society with several training sessions for Royal Society staff, and internal meetings with various departments. More details of past and future activity at User:Wiki at Royal Society John https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wiki_at_Royal_Society_John and his January Reporthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wiki_at_Royal_Society_John/January_14_Report Scotland Ally Crockford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ACrockford ran an Anybody but Burns editathonhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Anybody_but_Burns_editathon at the National Library of Scotlandhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/National_Library_of_Scotland, supported by the Scottish Poetry Libraryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Poetry_Library, to remind people that Scotland has more than one great poet. The results have been posted on the events page, and we are happy to report that despite the miserable weather, we had thirteen participants who created five new articles and improved twelve more. *York* Pat Hadley our Wikipedian in Residence at York Museums trust reports that Andy Woods, curator of numismatics has provided 110 images of 54 coins from the Middleham Hoardhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Coins_from_the_Middleham_Hoard. Now they are uploaded Pat hopes to work with user:Wehwalthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Wehwalt and user:Johnbod https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/User:Johnbod to create an article on the hoard itself through AFChttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Middleham_Hoard and use the coins to illustrate further articles. Pat has made contact with WikiProjects, Archaeologyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Archaeology#Middleham_Hoard, and Yorkshirehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Yorkshire#Middleham_Hoard . Image Releases The Wellcome trust announced the release of 100,000 images under an open licence http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/page/News.html Education and expert outreach Coleg Cymraeg advertises for a Wikipedian in residence This is one of the first full time Wikimedians in Residence world-wide who will be employed by a university. 2014 Activity Planning January has been a time of intensive activity planning, with 6 or 7 events taking place during the months of February and March. See 2014 Activity Plan for University and Education Outreachhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2014_Activity_Plan/University_and_Education_Outreach Scholarship for EduWiki in Serbia Wikimedia Serbia is organising a two-day event in March called EduWiki following on the model established by WMUK. Brian Kelly is attending this event in Belgrade, through a WMUK schoarship organised in January. Details herehttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_Serbia_EduWiki_Conference_2014_Scholarship . Wikimedia Ambassador at Jisc Dr Martin Poulter continues as Wikimedia Ambassador with Jisc. See his 5th report covering January 2014https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Jisc_Ambassador/Summary_4_February_2014 . Future of Education at Wikimania 2014 Preliminary planning for a fringe/hack event ahead of Wikimania (21-22 June) is underway. WMUK is participating in this through Stuart Prior and Toni Sant but other UK-based Wikimedians are also involved.Details herehttps://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fringe/Future_of_Education_Hack . EduWiki Conference 2014 Preliminary planning for EduWiki 2014 has started. See plans for EduWiki 2014 https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2014_Activity_Plan/EduWiki. Technology Other activities Swansea Library hosted a successful Hackathon, the first
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.
Wikimedia UK offer microgrants and macrogrants. Microgrants are for sums between £5 and £250, while macrogrants are for £250 to £2,000. To be eligible, the applicant has to be a member of Wikimedia UK; this can either be individual membership, or organisational. You can read more at https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants Richard On 1 September 2013 14:58, Jean-Frédéric jeanfrederic.w...@gmail.comwrote: Hi folks, While watching the current changes to Wikimedia France microgrants program implemented, I was curious to know which Wikimedia entities had similar funding programs for individuals - how they worked, how we could learn form each other. Since apparently there was no Meta page for that(tm) (yet!) I went ahead and drafted https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jean-Frédéric/Funding_programs I dug my information out of my email archives and FDC proposal forms, so I could totally have missed some programs - please add the ones you know about! Of course, it would be more useful to have more detailed information on every program. Together with Caroline Pierre-Selim we threw some ideas on what we thought was interesting to know about the programs, but that's still very alpha - please add more ideas! Looking forward to your thoughts about this! Cheers, -- Jean-Frédéric Wikimédia France ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Richard Nevell Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0753 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-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] State of the Map 2013 - OSM conference in Birmingham, England.
Andy, about 230 flyers are in the post and on their way to you. Richard On 28 August 2013 14:18, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: 300, please, if not too late - just seen the latest booking stats ;-) -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk On Aug 28, 2013 12:29 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: I will get some in the post to you today Andy. 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 28 August 2013 12:18, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 28 August 2013 11:07, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: I *may* be coming - I haven't decided yet... although I know I have to make up my mind quite soon! It would be lovely to see you; would you like to bring (or otherwise post me) 200 WMUK flyers? (Most attendees will know about Wikipedia WMF, but probably not the chapter). -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Richard Nevell Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0753 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-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMCH resolution about providing a web conferencing system for the Wikimedia Movement
Thank you Manuel, this is precisely the kind of information I was hoping for and will be very useful. I hope you've recovered from the flu! Regards, Richard Nevell On 25 February 2013 12:14, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.chwrote: Hi Fæ and all, Richard already contacted me offlist concerning A/V equipment for conferences, so I thought it makes sense to reply on-list (Richard's in CC) to make this information available broadly. Anyway, I am not claiming that I have the best solution nor the best knowledge on this topic but some experience. Others please add their solutions and experiences. For an inexpensive audio and / or video conference we need components which we can easily connect to a PC and will be recognized by the operating system as simple audio or video inputs, like a webcam and a soundcard. If we stick to these standards we can use any conferencing software we want - be it Skype, Google Hangout or Big Blue Button (which uses simply Flash). == Video == === Webcams === Built-ins are always inferior to USB webcams, especially the angle due to their fixed position on the screen is bad. When buying a USB webcam make sure that it can be used as a standard USB imaging device. Don't buy webcams with a too high resolution! They have small lenses catching only a little light and higher resolutions typically mean darker / noisier images. 720p is good. You can't stream in HD anyway. Logitech C310 and C510 are good models. === Camcorder === Camcorder have much bigger lenses and are much more flexible in their use: ** use a small tripod ** you can set whitebalance, manual focus, shutter... ** optical zoom ** tilting LC-display - turn around so people can see how the camera image looks like ** they can record simultaneously (on tape or SD card) Make sure your camcorder as a DV output (Firewire). Plug it into your computer and you can use the camcorder as a standard imaging device. Again, you don't need HD for a video conference. At least with the bigger lense and sensor or a camcorder it doesn't hurt too much. I use a Panasonic camcorder, a recommendation (and gift) from the Austrian Broadcaster (ORF): Panasonic NV-GS500. This little tripod can be expanded up to 1m but fits perfectly in a small bag and gets through hand-baggage on an airplane: http://www.amazon.de/Cullmann-50008-Stativ-Digi-Pod-long/dp/B000AM4N10 == Audio == === Microphones === Built-in microphones are always inferior. This is true for camcorder mics, notebook mics... For most applications they are also way too far away from the audio source (your mouth). Table / Conference Mics Get extra mics. For a conference get a boundary layer microphone. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZM_%28microphone%29 I got this one: http://www.thomann.de/gb/superlux_e304b.htm Like most professional mics it needs phanton power and comes with a simmetrical connection (XLR). Symmetrical connections are less prone to noise and other negative impact on the cabling. Gooseneck Mics If you need better audio quality then you need to get individual mics for each participant. Goosenecks are best here, especially when you get them with on-off switches, so they participants can switch themselves to avoid disturbances. Bundle, not switchable: http://www.thomann.de/gb/samson_cm_20_p_bundle.htm Mic stand w/ switch: http://www.thomann.de/gb/km_29375.htm === Soundcards === Built-in soundcards don't work for professional audio equipment. They have noise and the line input / mic input jacks don't have the right impedances. Their power supply for condenser mics is mostly incompatible to what we want to use. There are great mixers which have a soundcard integrated. So you can just plug all audio equipment together in your mixer, check the quality via headset, plug it into your computer and get the sound right their on its own audio channels. Just make sure before you buy a mixer that it supports the USB 1.1 standard! USB 2.0 only means that you need special drivers and might end up not having a generic sound interface available in your OS. For only two mics (eg. PZM / boundary layer) I got myself this little sound card. It even has a small VU meter, so you can check the volume without a headset. http://www.thomann.de/gb/alesis_io2_express.htm Big advantage is that this device is USB-powered. No additional cables on you table and no additional source of noise in your audio system! For bigger setups I got me this: http://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer_xenyx_x1832_usb.htm This one also supports 2-track-input so you can do more complicated things like sound routing - this was needed to handle live translation of Sue Gardners visit at Wikimedia Deutschlands General Assembly. I streamed / recorded on two different back planes and switched the input planes between translation and original audio so we had english always on one back plane and german on the other
[Wikimedia-l] WMUK vacancies
Wikimedia UK are now accepting applications for three posts: Volunteer Support Organiser http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Support_Organiser , GLAM Organiser http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Organiser, and Education Organiser http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Organiser. The deadline for all three is 5pm on Friday 8th February 2013. Please pass the details round to to anyone interested. Thanks, Richard Nevell ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Featuring the edit tab in Vector (by making it red)
Given that our editors will always be a fraction of our readership, we want to provide a pleasant reading experience and I don't think a red edit button (at least in the manner proposed) would help with that. Something more discrete such as bolding the word edit may serve to place more emphasis on it. Richard Nevell On 9 January 2013 18:43, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, everybody speaks here about editor retention and how we dont know the reasons for editing decline. What about highlighting the the edit tab some special color (maybe red) like this: http://postimage.org/image/u7060y3bf/ Kozuch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
