Mailing lists tend to be a social anti-pattern.
I prefer wikis. http://microformats.org/wiki/wiki-better-than-email
Less mailing list activity should be something we welcome rather than
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To be honest, I tend to think that life's too short for movement
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Too true.
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hundred slides—and one or two of them were personal
(in the case of my grandfather's photos, there might be a few showing my
grandmother and/or my mother), can those be exempted from being uploaded
or licensed for Commons?
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job of making
this stuff clear. (It'd help also if Flickr let accredited UK Gov
agencies apply OGL on images.)
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it a look over, possibly at
the weekend.
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- Original message -
From: Thomas Morton [1]morton.tho...@googlemail.com
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list [2]wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia stats broken?
Date: Thu, 2
with the privacy policy. Is the code of the current version up
(either on a WMF server or somewhere like Github)?
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- Original message -
From: Thomas Morton [1]morton.tho...@googlemail.com
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list [2]wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
I'm currently doing Python all day long at work. It'd be a bit of a busman's
holiday.
So, maybe. ;)
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On 25 September 2013 at 14:07:01, Fæ (fae...@gmail.com) wrote:
Ping Re:
https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Python_and_Wikimedia_bots_workshop_Oct_2013
Pinging
fundraising shows that OpenStreetMap is perhaps experiencing the
same kind of organisational growing up process as Wikimedia has...
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whether they are actually trying to do this and how well they are doing.
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On Thursday, 11 April 2013 at 17:21, Richard Symonds wrote:
All,
Just another quick email to remind you that email proxies for the 2013 EGM
must be received by 15:30 British Summer Time (UTC+1) tomorrow, Friday 12th
April 2013.
You can also vote
My previous email was meant to go to Richard, not to the whole list. Whoops.
The secrecy of my ballot destroyed by my incompetence.
#fail as the kids say.
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to get some people along from London Lua: now we actually
have a language that doesn't suck too much to do template stuff with,
we might be able to get programmers to join the community to help do
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the Gibraltarpedia affair. Which is a
shame.
* See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:GLAM/GibraltarpediA
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On Saturday, 9 February 2013 at 20:08, Andy Mabbett wrote:
On 9 February 2013 18:39, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org
(mailto:t...@tommorris.org) wrote:
Now this has been transferred to Wikimedia UK, would it be possible to
remove the access logging on QRpedia to ensure it complies with both
that Wikidata might ease the Wikimedia community in to trying the
very tasty Semantic Web Kool-Aid®.
VIAF was a first, initial stab towards richly linking Wikipedia together with
other linked data on the web. Hopefully it won't be the last.
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*.wikimedia.org sites.
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A military history-based Wikipedian in Residence position? I'm sure Wikipedia's
most highly-organised WikiProject will dispatch a whole platoon.
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, please sign up on Lanyrd:
http://lanyrd.com/2012/cowboy-london/
Or sign up on the OpenStreetMap wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_OPC2012
Hopefully in a day or so, there'll be a full announcement with venue details
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of the event, the skills people learn improving
the US map will be applicable to improving the map for their local area in the
UK.
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exactly
members participate. I'd love to know whether, say, the rough breakdown of the
membership who edit different projects. It might be useful so we can support
projects that aren't either English Wikipedia or Commons.
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governments etc.) on Meta. That
way the Foundation and Chapters and so on can just steal those rather than make
up their own.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Survey_best_practices
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Yep, I've been reading ONS reports (aren't my Friday evenings fun?). Good
survey questions can be written that are understandable and aren't politically
correct. All we have to do is steal what is already being done by people who
have thought about it properly.
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On Sunday, 14 October 2012 at 09:47, fab...@unpopular.org.uk wrote:
Tom,
Please re-read the statement.
The board:
a) acknowledges mistakes have been made
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_were_made
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology
Just sayin'. ;-)
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of the OpenStreetMap community couldn't
find their way to the nominated pub each month.
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of psychic powers is not one of them.
Oh, stop moaning. There's a reason things happen in London: people live and
work there. Things happening in London is not always a grand conspiracy to
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are the
sorts of things that you can't just throw money at to solve. The money
should be there to support the activities of volunteers rather than
having the strange situation of having the money and the staff and the
ideas ready to go and having to scrape around to find volunteers.
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the draft bill. If you've used the Internet for more than half an
hour, you'll see why it's insane.
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by linking to a website that
routinely uses racist, sexist and homophobic descriptions...
It's the old Daily Mail trick: this is awful and terrible and wrong,
and here are 14 high-resolution closeups of it!
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On Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 13:35, Brian McNeil wrote:
Since Wikimedia Australia have managed to secure press access and
credentials for the Paralympic Games, I've been asked if I could run a
Wikinews workshop in London shortly before the Paralympics.
I'm happy to attend and help.
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approval or anything.
If there's a problem with the semi-legalish warning at the beginning, I'm sure
the office or the board can work out what to do. ;-)
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as a strategic intention.
I did think about that, and allies, fellow travellers and many other things
came up, but none quite worked out. If anyone can think of anything better,
there's a move button on-wiki, and I promise I won't object.
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free to all continue to pat me on the head while saying no UK
servers, no problem... even though the point of the bill is that the
servers needn't be in the UK for the government to make it a problem.
Again, read the draft bill. It's insane.
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rather relies on doubt. People ought to
doubt government assurances that all will be fine and see whether what the law
actually says as currently written will go too far.
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This seems like an extremely broad and non-specific bill: do we have
any idea how it might affect Wikimedia and Wikimedians?
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very
badly worded.
Without some informed legal thinking about what exactly the bill is likely to
mean in practice, we probably can't know for sure.
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being a debating society for trolls and other
assorted nutters...
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could call it Wikimedians Love Boozers.
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Just passing this on...
http://www.zerogeography.net/2012/06/we-won-educational-institution-of-year.html
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If you go to http://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/ you can donate… insecurely.
If you go to https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/ you can donate… but you get an
SSL certificate error.
This seems like a problem.
(Whoops, sent this to Wikimedia-L rather than Wikimediauk-L.)
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for the formal name change at the AGM???)? Is there now time to reflect?
'Cos Wikinews and Wiktionary and Wikiquote and Wikibooks and so on exist too!
And, of course, Commons. Provider of high quality educational
materials and/or nude works including Muppets. ;-)
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And I say that with the greatest of respect to the people who have put enormous
amounts of work into making Wikimedia UK work and doing all that very important
and necessary meta-work! ;-)
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to Wikipedia, but knowing what particular subset of paid reference
works my library has access to isn't actually as easy to work out.
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on those kinds
of pages is but, anyone can edit, anyone should be able to edit!
Which is fine, but when we're talking about obscure templates and
redirects, I can't quite see any great loss when they aren't available
for editing by IPs.
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to request permission to respond.
See: https://skitch.com/tommorris/8h9xp/google-docs-error
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Wednesdays.
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outside my house and
uses my wifi to upload his kiddy porn stash, nuclear bomb construction
instructions or the contents of their 'Lady Gaga' CD-RW to Wikileaks,
and I end up in jail, that would suck quite considerably. Hence why
having some guidance from actual lawyers would be quite useful.
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are aware though, through Twitter and email. As are James Forrester
and various other people who grok OGL.
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Given trademark law, I'd say a corporate name like Disney Inc. is
significantly more rigid than a personal name like John Smith. People don't
tend to sue you if you call yourself John Smith quite so much as they do over
using the names of multinational conglomerates...
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* The first rule of the cabal: you do not talk about how there is no cabal.
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views, which means money, which means they can continue commissioning
new work.
With the BBC pages, tying into DBpedia and other linked data sources
makes perfect sense: it means they don't have to maintain a complex
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On Mar 21, 2012 10:00 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 March 2012 09:37, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Property_Office_Consultation
Comments please on this - seems like Tom was spot on.
Looks right to me. Has Tom
of the questions asked irrelevant. N/A or I/We take no position
on this matter. or leaving it blank is just fine.
Indeed, we shouldn't be answering sections of the consultation unless they have
direct bearing on the mission and running of the Wikimedia projects.
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I'm just doing some tweaking too. ;-)
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did a funny article back in 2010 on
Parliamentarians editing Wikipedia.
http://www.tomscott.com/wikiparliament/
It's like the Indie story but with better jokes.
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On 9 March 2012 15:52, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote:
What I read: There's a Wikimedia Commons picture on page 3! Anyone takers
on Commons for the challenge? ;)
Commons *is* Page 3 for the 'Nude Girls With Muppets' generation.
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they are equal, there is equality, not equalities.
(Don't mind me, I'm working on the Grumpiness and Pedantics Policy.)
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On 3 February 2012 16:40, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
I think we could speed that up by a wiki skills event somewhat as Tom Morris
detailed, but maybe more one to one sessions. I've taught people hotcat and
catalot using my netbook in various meetups in pubs and pizza
if they are
a bit half-baked or not well thought out. If the event actually
happens, we'd obviously have to determine a schedule.
https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_skill_swap
Is anyone interested in this? What steps would we have to go through
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about deletionists.
They (we?) are very scary.
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%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C_%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C
How cool is that? ;-)
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On 17 January 2012 11:09, Harry Burt harryab...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the official UK call to action here?
Emailing the embassy? Or could you create a Number10-esque petition?
1. Find an American friend.
2. Shout at them until they write to their congressman/senator.
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And those of you who are entering panic mode about not being able to
edit the wiki for 24 hours, why not take it as an opportunity to try
editing one of the sister projects? It's looking like the sister
projects are going to remain online.
Come write something for Wikinews! ;-)
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, we *so* need to get Huggle and AWB ported to Mac/Linux. ;-)
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On 15 January 2012 01:27, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 January 2012 01:20, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
Also, we *so* need to get Huggle and AWB ported to Mac/Linux. ;-)
Unlikely, unless you have something that autoconverts .NET to Java or
something for graphical
of
collaboration.
Anybody interested in getting involved in this, preferably someone
based in the north east.
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, but it is an
important point. :-)
I dunno. Wikiquote is pretty cool: it's like other quote sites but with some
actual rudimentary accuracy checking. ;-)
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I'm not sure of the details, given that the things we have been using
on Wikimedia Commons have been photographs and there aren't really
database rights issues to consider...
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knowledge.
Basically: language is a component part of the sum of all human knowledge,
not just a means of expressing that knowledge.
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:20, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
Do we need a Wikipedia page where such requests can be gathered?
Meta provides what you want:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests
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. If it gets better results, we
could follow a similar pattern for Wales and avoid appearing to push
UK in every document (or teeshirt).
Reductio ad absurdum:
Unless it says Wikimedia East Sussex, I'm not interested! ;-)
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for Wikimania sponsorship. Could someone on the board let us
know what that money is being spent on?
I've been given sponsorship by the chapter and am really looking forward to it!
Will be covering it for Signpost and there'll be tweets, blog posts
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the Science Online conference in September in London.
In addition people may want to attend the event to represent Wikimedia UK. [2]
[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/07/20/joining-forces-with-open-science/
[2] http://solo11.eventbrite.com/
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events: because in-breeding isn't healthy.
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Okay, I've created a page to basically be collaborations/outreach for
everything other than GLAM
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Institutional_outreach
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universities talk of having CDs full of images, that sounds like
a potential outreach opportunity. Universities should be able to learn
procedures for posting on Commons, avoiding copyvios and so on. Plus
reuse on WP is an obvious educational benefit for such images.
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on how companies do QR codes wrong are worth
reading through:
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/tag/qr-codes/
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or Commons or just on a page on the UK
chapter wiki). As with GLAM, I think people in education and in rural
churches (etc.) could potentially be motivated to contribute to
Wikipedia
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which uses the webcam on your laptop:
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(Beware Mac users: AIR == Flash, it completely eats your CPU.)
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