As a smaller community, English Wikinews generally struggles to meet
minimum voter participation requirements, sensibly, imposed by the WMF.
One of our other CheckUsers has recently retired due to other
commitments, leading to Tom Morris suggesting he add 'Deerstalker and
Digital
Can WMUK collaborate with WMDE (and others) on this to push it forward?
Obviously a lot of good work has already been done, but perhaps it now needs
some long term commitment and leadership to ensure that what has been done is
made easily accessible, and to work on filling gaps in
After the BBC Speakerthon on Saturday, we'll be retiring, from 5pm, to the
Yorkshire Grey, 46 Langham Street, near Broadcasting House, to relax
and socialise over a beer or two. John Cummings is gong to invite
participants at his London Zoo editathon to join us.
If any of you would also like to
The single biggest problem, Michael, is that when one talks in the
abstract, we end up chasing illusory problems that don't actually have any
impact. It's very difficult to create systems that are always 100%
accessible by all if we start by trying to second-guess what accessibility
problems
Yes, indeed.
Collaborating to get a well advertised clearing centre running would be a very
good first step. But to get over the usual issue that nobody in the community
comes forward to point out where the gaps are (which may not be surprising as
the people we want to contact here are by
On 15 January 2014 11:44, rexx r...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
I'm quite happy to continue giving advice on the issues covered at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility
and I'd like to see it adopted as default on the WMUK Wiki, but I question
the value of
Thanks Andy.
Step One I took earlier this week. Expecting a response any minute now
which I will share.
I am very encouraged by what I hear and know we have a few really capable
people who can identify the issues, work with others and come up with a
sensible plan.
Jon
On 15 January 2014 12:39,
FYI, it's the same on First Hull Trains.
Interestingly, CrossCountry don't block Commons, and they're owned by the same
company as Chiltern (unless that's changed recently?).
As Fae says, East Midlands Trains (when the WiFi works!) don't block Commons,
and East Coast likewise. I've not been on
On the English Wikipedia, Graham Pearce (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Graham87) is unfailingly helpful. He is
an admin who is very familiar with the problems for visually-impaired users
as he has been blind since birth and uses the JAWS screen reader to edit
Wikipedia. I'm sure he won't
FGW might get WiFi by the end of the year. It probably took time to get
steam powered routers.
On 15 Jan 2014 15:40, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote:
FYI, it's the same on First Hull Trains.
Interestingly, CrossCountry don't block Commons, and they're owned by the
same company as
If their concern is bandwidth then I think I can understand a free WiFi
provider blocking Photo Sharing, Visual Search Engines. I would hope that
anyone batch uploading their days photos to Commons would be considerate of
such Free Wifi, but to be honest doubt I would be. As for the issue of
On 15 January 2014 20:13, Jonathan Cardy
jonathan.ca...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
If their concern is bandwidth then I think I can understand a free WiFi
provider blocking Photo Sharing, Visual Search Engines.
They already throttle speed after 10Mb; but they don't seem to block
Flickr, YouTube or
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