Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pictures of politicians
On 4 February 2011 11:45, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Do we have a programme to get photos of every MP? Standard templates, etc? I need to ask mine, [[Stella Creasy]], for one ... I think someone mooted a letter-writing campaign a while back, but I don't know if anything ever got off the ground. There is probably some parliamentary system for standard portraits; maybe we could see if they could be convinced to release the end product? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Advice on approaching schools and churches about photography for Commons
On 4 February 2011 11:13, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote: Care should be taken, however, not to give the school/church/etc. the impression that you are representing the chapter or acting in any kind of official capacity (unless the chapter does actually give you some kind of official position or ask you to represent it). On the other side of the planet, for WM Hong Kong we're fine with any paid-up member to go out in the name of us unless we told them not to. I think it's overly conservative to preemptively prevent a member of your organisation to go out and do things as a member of Wikimedia UK... The problem is that we could be legally responsible for what someone does while representing us. They can say that they are a member, that's a simple fact, but we need to maintain some degree of control over what is done in our name. (The same is probably true in HK - you should be careful.) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Helping with museum signs
I told a mate of mine, Terence Eden, a mobile technologist who writes frequently on his blog about how to do QR codes properly, about this thread. He's put up a post on his blog with some advice that could help Wikimedia do QR codes properly. http://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=3586 His previous entries on how companies do QR codes wrong are worth reading through: http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/tag/qr-codes/ -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ Please don't print this e-mail out unless you want a hard copy of it. If you do, go ahead. I won't stop you. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 - Europe?
Hello all, I know there has been some discussion about a Wiki Loves Monuments in the UK, but I have heard little back after that. I think there is definitely a lot of potential in the UK for setting up a project like this, and hope that it would be possible to find the volunteers to run this in the coming time. Who can take the lead on this in the UK? Please see http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2011-January/01.html for my email and offer to join a brainstorm session if there would be need/advantage for that. If that would help, I am more than happy to join you guys somewhere reachable in a conversation on how to make this happen. I got the suggestion the coming up London Meetup might be helpful. Are there many interested people from outside London? Would Wikimedia UK be able and willing to set up a meeting there and to reimburse for example some travel costs for those outside London to join the meeting? Just shooting some suggestions here, I'm sure you can come up with better :) Do remind please that to make this work, you really have to give this a start in February, or it will be very hard to have the lists and systems in place in time. I look forward to your positive and constructive replies! Lodewijk Gelauff 2010/12/15 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: Forwarding with permission of the sender. I'm very eager to see the UK and Ireland participate in this if possible, but from my experience of running Britain Loves Wikipedia I'm very aware that this needs a team of people running it rather than just one person. So: is anyone interested in leading/helping with this project? Thanks, Mike Begin forwarded message: From: Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org Date: 14 December 2010 20:20:15 GMT To: Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription) interna...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 - Europe? Reply-To: Local Chapters, board and officers coordination \(closed subscription\) interna...@lists.wikimedia.org Summary of this email (sorry for long text): We did Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) 2010 in the Netherlands, we would like to do Wiki Loves Monuments again in 2011, but now in Europe. This is only possible when many chapters participate, therefore this e-mail. To be clear: this event will only happen on a European level if there is sufficient chapter participation to combine efforts. Please feel free to forward to whomever you find appropriate. You might have heard before about Wiki Loves Monuments 2010 in the Netherlands. It was a highly successful photo scavenger hunt with 12.500 submissions and over 250 participants[0]. We recently completed a post mortem of this event with a more extensive description and analysis [1]. However, there are still many monuments in the Netherlands which can be photographed, so we are considering another run for next year - but then in a European context. Below we will explain a bit how we got where we are, what we have in mind, and what you could expect. So how did this all start? At the Dutch Wikipedia we have the windmill project. One of the main goals was to get an article with an image for every windmill in the Netherlands. Lists were created of windmills per province and statistics were made on a regular basis to track progress. This approach worked very well and made it possible to tackle a big problem; All the windmills have an article now. Some volunteers, in cooperation with the chapter, managed to get a dataset of all Rijksmonumenten (Dutch national monuments - 60.000 buildings/objects with some historical or cultural relevance) from the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Dutch national heritage organisation, RCE). This marked the birth of the Rijksmonumenten project. The project uses the lessons learned in the windmill project. The data from the RCE was converted into lists by location and put on the Dutch Wikipedia. The community started improving the lists by adding missing information or adding photo's. In June 2009 Wikimedia Nederland ran Wiki Loves Art /NL [2] : A photo scavenger hunt in more than 40 museums. Also quite successful (5.400 photos), but much more work intensive because you need to keep contacts with all the museums and usually museums are further away from people's homes than the nearest monuments. For 2010 we were looking for a nice topic for a photo competition. The Rijksmonumenten project was running very well so we decided to organize Wiki Loves Monuments to give this Wikipedia project a boost. So, what would a European WLM most likely look like? Let me give you an idea of what we are thinking of, changes are open for debate of course. Trying to incorporate the main lessons from last year in the Netherlands into a European model, we think it might work best if Wiki Loves Monuments is organized on a national level primarily, but with cooperations, shared resources and international prizes
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Helping with museum signs
Tom, * Update at Derby* Terence's blog looks very useful. If anyone is in travelling distance of Derby main museum then there are now some demo QR codes in their geology and natural history section. Comments welcomed. Bravely they agreed to just do it. Help from Fae and JamesB enabled us to laminate some codes and get them mounted. Assuming we clear out teething problems then wikipedians can write an article on (say) a Joseph Wright Painting and have it available on Wikipedia but they can also have that article available to the museums customers. This will supplement the existing labels. The demo session should allow the museum to find out what size works and whether low-light or being behing glass hinders readability. Anyone got real experience of minimum size to allow 99% of phones to be able to scan it? Wikipedia issues so far - We could do with a tool that allows a lot of Wikipedia articles to be droppin and it then creates nice A4 pages of QRCodes that are annotated with the url and the articles title. It is possible to use scissors and a laminator for a dozen labels but museums will need 100s. - Language is an issue. Its never occured to me, but its odd that I log on to wikipedia using the en: main page. I deally I should just log in to wikipedia.org and my computer tells the site that I normally use English to view articles. - Most museum staff are not equipped with smart phones to demonstrate how this works to visitors This looks like it will be a feature of our collaboration with Derby Museums. Do sign up if you have helped or hope to attend in April. Oh and there are pictures on Flickr I'll move them to commons cheers Victuallers On 4 February 2011 12:36, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: I told a mate of mine, Terence Eden, a mobile technologist who writes frequently on his blog about how to do QR codes properly, about this thread. He's put up a post on his blog with some advice that could help Wikimedia do QR codes properly. http://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=3586 His previous entries on how companies do QR codes wrong are worth reading through: http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/tag/qr-codes/ -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ Please don't print this e-mail out unless you want a hard copy of it. If you do, go ahead. I won't stop you. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Roger Bamkin (aka Victuallers) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Helping with museum signs
I'm thoroughly impressed that we went from my vague mention of QR codes to a live public exhibition within 3 days. Victuallers, you deserve a great big Making things happen barn star. Cheers, Fæ -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Helping with museum signs
+1! Got any pictures of the installation processes or labels in-situ? This deserves a mention in the Signpost and if you could also add it to the this month in GLAM report for Feb that's being compiled here http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter Agreed with Roger too, if we could generate labels that not only show the QRcode but also the article title, and maybe something like read about me on Wikipedia... to give some context. Roger, would you mind giving a report of what you've achieved to the cultural-partners mailing list and requesting assistance to bring this to v.2? -Liam Wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata On 05/02/2011, at 10:06, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thoroughly impressed that we went from my vague mention of QR codes to a live public exhibition within 3 days. Victuallers, you deserve a great big Making things happen barn star. Cheers, Fæ -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Helping with museum signs
Hi Liam, pleased to see that others agree on you being a fine fellow. Congratulations. There are some pics in this category which show the cutting out, the mounting, some example locations of the codes and a lady using her phone to access stuff about geology. I'm going to be busy this weekend on other wiki stuff - are there any budding journalists reading this? I can write some stuff but I may not have time to polish it. Getting to v.2 sounds fun cheers Roger On 5 February 2011 23:32, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: +1! Got any pictures of the installation processes or labels in-situ? This deserves a mention in the Signpost and if you could also add it to the this month in GLAM report for Feb that's being compiled here http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter Agreed with Roger too, if we could generate labels that not only show the QRcode but also the article title, and maybe something like read about me on Wikipedia... to give some context. Roger, would you mind giving a report of what you've achieved to the cultural-partners mailing list and requesting assistance to bring this to v.2? -Liam Wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata On 05/02/2011, at 10:06, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thoroughly impressed that we went from my vague mention of QR codes to a live public exhibition within 3 days. Victuallers, you deserve a great big Making things happen barn star. Cheers, Fæ -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Roger Bamkin (aka Victuallers) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Helping with museum signs
Opps the pictures are in [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Quick_Response_Codes here] although they are mixed up with other QR stuff... Victuallers On 5 February 2011 23:32, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: +1! Got any pictures of the installation processes or labels in-situ? This deserves a mention in the Signpost and if you could also add it to the this month in GLAM report for Feb that's being compiled here http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter Agreed with Roger too, if we could generate labels that not only show the QRcode but also the article title, and maybe something like read about me on Wikipedia... to give some context. Roger, would you mind giving a report of what you've achieved to the cultural-partners mailing list and requesting assistance to bring this to v.2? -Liam Wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata On 05/02/2011, at 10:06, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thoroughly impressed that we went from my vague mention of QR codes to a live public exhibition within 3 days. Victuallers, you deserve a great big Making things happen barn star. Cheers, Fæ -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Roger Bamkin (aka Victuallers) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Helping with museum signs
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:57 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 February 2011 12:36, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: I told a mate of mine, Terence Eden, a mobile technologist who writes frequently on his blog about how to do QR codes properly, about this thread. He's put up a post on his blog with some advice that could help Wikimedia do QR codes properly. http://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=3586 Well 1 and 4 are doable 5 could be done but not in a very user friendly manner (have each QR code coming in by a unique redirect) Maybe propose a QR space that displays the mobile friendly list of the interwiki links of the corresponding page? That would be easy to count use, and you could also solve 2 (sortof). You could even shorten articles names by using some sort of Serial number only in that space. Alex (not a developer, so don't know if that makes sense). ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
