[Wikimediauk-l] WW1 Family History Roadshows event, Preston 1 March

2012-02-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
Anyone in or near Preston? @EuropeanaEU just tweeted: Calling all journalists. Want to hear about our WW1 Family History Roadshows? Conf: March 1 10.30am Museum of Lancashire Preston #europeana -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Fwd: [80c] Fw: disposal of classical vinyl records

2012-02-26 Thread Gordon Joly
Any interest for Wikimedians? Gordo -- Forwarded message -- From: Butler, Pamelapamela.but...@camden.gov.uk Date: 23 February 2012 15:23 Subject: disposal of classical vinyl records To: lis-pub-l...@jiscmail.ac.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Fwd: [80c] Fw: disposal of classical vinyl records

2012-02-26 Thread Anthony (AGK)
On 26 February 2012 20:28, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: Any interest for Wikimedians? Gordo It's difficult to pass up an opportunity such as this, and I wonder why there was no interest from the other bodies. What is the cost: shipping only, or are they trying to make a sale? --

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Fwd: [80c] Fw: disposal of classical vinyl records

2012-02-26 Thread geni
On 26 February 2012 20:28, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: Any interest for Wikimedians? Gordo Probably not. Vinyl means to recent to be public domain. Wax cylinders would be of more interest. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Fwd: [80c] Fw: disposal of classical vinyl records

2012-02-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
On Feb 26, 2012 11:07 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 February 2012 20:28, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: Any interest for Wikimedians? Gordo Probably not. Vinyl means to recent to be public domain. Wax cylinders would be of more interest. We could think more long

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Fwd: [80c] Fw: disposal of classical vinyl records

2012-02-26 Thread geni
On 26 February 2012 23:21, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: We could think more long term and start building up a collection of things to digitise and make available once their copyright expires. What copyright term are we talking about for something like this? 50 years? Or would

[Wikimediauk-l] The categorisation backlog

2012-02-26 Thread WereSpielChequers
In case anyone on this list isn't aware of it, we have a very large categorisation backlog on Commons. The Geograph load of UK images alone includes hundreds of thousands of uncategorised images, and as many only categorised by bot. However there are some recently improved tools out there that