Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Financial Times unpaywalled

2019-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
actually used it. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK Wiki

2019-02-08 Thread Lester Caine
rpedia.org' ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Med

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK Wiki

2019-02-04 Thread Lester Caine
On 03/02/2019 20:32, Andy Mabbett wrote: I've just been told (in a tweet also addressed to Wikimedia UK) that http://qrpedia.org/ is down (i.e. timing out) again. I'm seeing two A records for qrpedia.org ... not even sure if that works? but they are both pointing to amazon ... -- Lester

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia website AWOL

2018-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
On 16/08/18 12:24, Andy Mabbett wrote: http://monmouthpedia.org is down. No DNS records showing for it! But it is paid up till almost 2022 -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] GDPR?

2018-05-23 Thread Lester Caine
unnecessary messages here going on about it. The majority of sites that have been respectful of peoples interaction have no need to change anything from the existing practices! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Website certificate (again)

2016-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
On 22/09/16 15:11, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 22/09/16 14:10, Lester Caine wrote: >> > When the certificate needs renewing , letsencrypt is >> > worth a look as it's free and can be configured to automatically refresh >> > it's certificates. > > Interesting. >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Website certificate (again)

2016-09-22 Thread Lester Caine
ate needs renewing , letsencrypt is worth a look as it's free and can be configured to automatically refresh it's certificates. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enqui

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] More help please

2015-09-15 Thread Lester Caine
On 15/09/15 09:58, Lester Caine wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Weston-Sub-Edge > > Am now working through the 'proof' that the Weston-Sub-Edge spelling was > on of the mistakes in the Imperial Gazetteer and added a more > authoritative link to the name se

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Smoking is less addictive ;)

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
On 14/09/15 21:58, Michael Peel wrote: >> > On 14 Sep 2015, at 21:43, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: >> > >> > On 14/09/15 21:29, Michael Peel wrote: >>>> >>> I've reworked the Name section and it is making a lot more sense, b

[Wikimediauk-l] Smoking is less addictive ;)

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
I've actually tracked down the source of the name confusion, but not sure if that is 'original research'. So what can I do to clear the warning banner, and make the thing a little tidier? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
as population over time in the other. We have a substantial volume of data available now, and pulling it together so we only manually edit what actually needs editing make sense to me. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Ele

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-14 Thread Lester Caine
d' ... but there is a church ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
still exists? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
On 13/09/15 13:18, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 12/09/15 21:19, Lester Caine wrote: >> > Plan off attack is to make sure all the places locally exist in >> > wikipedia and I sort of got off to a good start, but hit a problem with >> > miss matched names and missing ent

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
of those brick walls that stopped me doing this in the past :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - htt

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
On 12/09/15 21:19, Lester Caine wrote: > I've modified > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Subedge_railway_station to use the > correct name for the period the railway existed OK so how come it's been switched back to the wrong name again? No emails which were requested ... no comme

[Wikimediauk-l] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

2015-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
, but these still only go down to the ward/parish level. There is still no ID for the town/village :( And Scotland and Northern Ireland are separate data sets ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

[Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-12 Thread Lester Caine
material, but basically ... am I on the right line. I'm planning to spiral out, and have a small list of missing village and hamlets to add to wikipedia and I'm cross checking everything against my other lists. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Digitising old 8mm home movies

2015-09-08 Thread Lester Caine
I suggested http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/ might be starting point to find an equivalent in England. Given the projects preserving material of this sort I'm sure there must be something? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=conta

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cross fertilization ...

2015-07-20 Thread Lester Caine
THAT is going to happen any time soon :) But we are finally getting some movement on the long list of mistakes so one lives in hope. One day I may be able to actually add my home town to my profile :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page

[Wikimediauk-l] Cross fertilization ...

2015-07-19 Thread Lester Caine
some action :) ( And I do not have any problem undertaking the work. I've got most of the problem links already documented as part of the 'fix Facebook' campaign ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cross fertilization ...

2015-07-19 Thread Lester Caine
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_London#Administrative_area_and_region -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital