[Wikimediauk-l] Wikibooks Group Opportunity

2018-07-19 Thread Hannah Evans
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to share with you all an opportunity to join the* first Wikibooks Group/Club, *which will entail with several meetups from August- December 2018. The primary aim of the group will be to form a team to help support UCL's new Wikimedia in the Classroom course starting in

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Historic Prisons database

2018-07-19 Thread Richard Nevell
That's a fascinating resource. As I'm sure everyone on this list knows, castles are always relevant. So one thing that occurs to me is that in some instances buildings will have been converted into prisons (eg: Lancaster Castle). It might be worth creating separate Wikidata items where that is

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Historic Prisons database

2018-07-19 Thread Michael Peel
> On 18 Jul 2018, at 22:26, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On 18 July 2018 at 16:44, Magnus Manske wrote: > >>> A heads up that there is a new database of historic (c19th) >>> English prisons: > >> I am importing the list here: >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/1505 > > Is anyone