[Wikimediauk-l] WikiConference 2013 Speakers

2013-01-15 Thread Thomas Morton
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

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: RAI Archaeology Journal now online at ADS

2013-01-15 Thread Andy Mabbett
FYI: Note cross-posting, and their terms of use/ copyright claim -- Forwarded message -- From: Katie Green stuart.jeff...@york.ac.uk Date: Jan 15, 2013 9:11 AM Subject: RAI Archaeology Journal now online at ADS To: ads-...@jiscmail.ac.uk Apologies for cross posting The

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WikiConference 2013 Speakers

2013-01-15 Thread Joe Filceolaire
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

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WikiConference 2013 Speakers

2013-01-15 Thread Thomas Morton
8 June (with a further day on 9 June for cultural outreach). http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2013 Tom 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,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikivoyage launched today by the Wikimedia Foundation

2013-01-15 Thread Gordon Joly
On 15/01/13 16:12, Stevie Benton wrote: I thought you might like to know that the Wikimedia Foundation has today officially launched Wikivoyage, the free worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit. It's the 12th official Wikimedia project and it's fittingly been launched on Wikipedia's 12th

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikivoyage launched today by the Wikimedia Foundation

2013-01-15 Thread Gordon Joly
On 15/01/13 17:30, Gordon Joly wrote: On 15/01/13 16:12, Stevie Benton wrote: I thought you might like to know that the Wikimedia Foundation has today officially launched Wikivoyage, the free worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit. It's the 12th official Wikimedia project and it's

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikivoyage launched today by the Wikimedia Foundation

2013-01-15 Thread David Gerard
On 15 January 2013 17:36, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: http://wikitravel.org/ Makes me feel a bit sick travel sickness. http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangeslimit=500 - about 15 hours. Spam, spam, chips, spam, spam ... admin duties being done by

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WikiConference 2013 Speakers

2013-01-15 Thread Lodewijk
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

[Wikimediauk-l] Recent Changes on the UK wiki

2013-01-15 Thread Richard Symonds
All, If you check recent changes, I was a bit *too *'bold' on the UK wiki tonight - testing out AWB to see if it'll be of use in correcting mispellings, tagging uncategorised pages, keeping track of board actions etc. Unfortunately, I edited some historical pages too without realising, so I've

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Recent Changes on the UK wiki

2013-01-15 Thread Thomas Dalton
Have we also learned an important lesson about the importance of bot flags? On 15 January 2013 23:55, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: All, If you check recent changes, I was a bit too 'bold' on the UK wiki tonight - testing out AWB to see if it'll be of use in

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Recent Changes on the UK wiki

2013-01-15 Thread Richard Symonds
Semi automated! But point taken :-) On Jan 16, 2013 12:06 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Have we also learned an important lesson about the importance of bot flags? On 15 January 2013 23:55, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: All, If you check

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Recent Changes on the UK wiki

2013-01-15 Thread Katie Chan
On 15/01/2013 23:55, Richard Symonds wrote: All, If you check recent changes, I was a bit /too /'bold' on the UK wiki tonight - testing out AWB to see if it'll be of use in correcting mispellings, tagging uncategorised pages, keeping track of board actions etc. Unfortunately, I edited some