Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Licensing resolution
Another goalpost is moving... Moving in a direction that I would say is of benefit to Wikimedia and its users. AGK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Late attendance addition!
Shame about the date. I'm in London from the 10th, and doubt I can move the start date forward at this late stage. Wish I'd have known about this meet-up sooner! AGK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Big news - Lord Lester has officially tabled a libel reform bill
On 27 May 2010 19:48, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: On the surface, it looks reasonable for Wikimedia (meaning the WMF primarily, but also WMUK if we ever assist with hosting), as we'd fall straight under 9.1a as a facilitator and hence would clearly not be liable. I have to admit to not being familiar with the details of existing law on this, but presumably it's a lot more unclear. The probability that this specific bill will go anywhere past a second reading is quite small. But IIRC the new government intends this term to review defamation law in England (I presume separately from Lord Lester's efforts), so this is far from a lost cause—and with the ferocity of the libelreform.org campaign, I can't see it ever becoming so. Today is certainly a good time to be part of the free culture movement. AGK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Functionaries-en] Edward Buckner/Peter Damian Wikimedia UK
Peter, The additional issues with Buckner, who routinely tries to uncover the identity of Wikipedians who are in high-profile roles, mean it is quite appropriate to ban him from these events. Nobody said he was a security risk, but it is the case that he has caused stress among many editors for no other reason than that he can. A subset of these editors have resigned because of Buckner/Damian. He should not be welcome at WMUK events because of his behaviour, period. It astounds me that you don't acknowledge the ongoing issues with this man's actions. Anthony Sent from my iPhone On 9 Jan 2012, at 23:34, pet...@cix.compulink.co.uk (Peter Cohen) wrote: In-Reply-To: 003b01cccecb$72bcf1d0$5836d570$@wikimedia.org.uk Excuse me but is the board really saying that Dr Buckner is a security risk? That makes him sound like an axe murderer or something. I can understand your saying that you might not want him to take advantage of events you organise if he is actively gunning for your organisation. But as far as I know that is only metaphorical violence. Maybe there is something I don't know but this sounds like a panic measure in reaction to his threat of going to the Charity Commission and to my letter of this morning to the Joint Committee about problems I perceive in the evidence submitted to it. Peter Cohen All, Several respected members of the Wikimedia community - and several members of our charity - have approached us voicing their concerns about Edward Buckner, an ex-Wikipedia user who was banned from the project for harassing volunteers on and off Wikipedia. Given his past and present conduct, which includes harassment and publishing personal details of Wikimedians, we do not feel that we can guarantee the security of our volunteers if he is permitted to attend our events. To that end, Wikimedia UK have banned Dr Buckner (known on Wikipedia as User:Peter Damian) from attending any Chapter-run events (not including the London meetups) until further notice. Dr Buckner is, of course, still welcome to communicate with the charity through email and post, and this ban is subject to review in future if circumstances change. For the Wikimedia UK Board of Trustees, Richard Symonds Office Development Manager Wikimedia UK -- Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Our Registered Charity No. is 1144513. The Registered Office is 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. Wikimedia UK is the local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Functionaries-en mailing list functionaries...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/functionaries-en ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Functionaries-en] Edward Buckner/Peter Damian Wikimedia UK
To be clear, by security I presume the meaning was the identity of Wikimedians. By attending these events, Damian can see and photograph pseudonymous individuals. Not, really, that the specific wording matters one jot. A. Sent from my iPhone On 9 Jan 2012, at 23:34, pet...@cix.compulink.co.uk (Peter Cohen) wrote: In-Reply-To: 003b01cccecb$72bcf1d0$5836d570$@wikimedia.org.uk Excuse me but is the board really saying that Dr Buckner is a security risk? That makes him sound like an axe murderer or something. I can understand your saying that you might not want him to take advantage of events you organise if he is actively gunning for your organisation. But as far as I know that is only metaphorical violence. Maybe there is something I don't know but this sounds like a panic measure in reaction to his threat of going to the Charity Commission and to my letter of this morning to the Joint Committee about problems I perceive in the evidence submitted to it. Peter Cohen All, Several respected members of the Wikimedia community - and several members of our charity - have approached us voicing their concerns about Edward Buckner, an ex-Wikipedia user who was banned from the project for harassing volunteers on and off Wikipedia. Given his past and present conduct, which includes harassment and publishing personal details of Wikimedians, we do not feel that we can guarantee the security of our volunteers if he is permitted to attend our events. To that end, Wikimedia UK have banned Dr Buckner (known on Wikipedia as User:Peter Damian) from attending any Chapter-run events (not including the London meetups) until further notice. Dr Buckner is, of course, still welcome to communicate with the charity through email and post, and this ban is subject to review in future if circumstances change. For the Wikimedia UK Board of Trustees, Richard Symonds Office Development Manager Wikimedia UK -- Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Our Registered Charity No. is 1144513. The Registered Office is 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. Wikimedia UK is the local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Functionaries-en mailing list functionaries...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/functionaries-en ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Fwd: [80c] Fw: disposal of classical vinyl records
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? -- Anthony (AGK) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to become a U.K. government adviser on open government. - Slashdot
Precisely, and there is extensive precedent (including in court decisions relating to allegedly inaccurate headlines) for article titles to be generalising if the reality is explained in the body. If we wrote to them, there probably wouldn't be a correction. -- Anthony (AGK) Sent from my iPhone On 13 Mar 2012, at 14:44, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: On 13/03/2012 12:15, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 13 March 2012 12:02, Michael Peelmichael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: On 13 Mar 2012, at 10:35, Gordon Joly wrote: Thanks Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia chief to advise Whitehall on policy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9137339/Jimmy-Wales-Wikipedia-chief-to-advise-Whitehall-on-policy.html Chief? Says who? The Telegraph. ;-) Someone should probably give them a ring and suggest they change chief to founder, since that's what he actually is... (well, co-founder, really, but let's not go there!) To be fair, if you look below the headline at the top, it all says co-founder. KTC -- Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine ___ 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] London Bid for Wikimania 2013
On 1 April 2012 00:38, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote: You make the assumption that the people who had worked on the rejected bid would have shaken that rejection off to give their wholehearted support to the chosen bid. If the deadline for bids has passed then the practical issue is moot, but so far as paid employees of WMUK are concerned I would hope they are above such rivalry. -- Anthony (AGK) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] London Bid for Wikimania 2013
On 1 April 2012 01:11, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Paid employees of WMUK haven't been involved in either bid, that's part of what I'm complaining about. (Richard has been working on the London one in his spare time, but not as a WMUK employee). Should WMUK not be involved in developing a Wikimania bid? (I don't follow WM governance very closely, and may misunderstand that aspect of the Chapter's purpose.) -- Anthony (AGK) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK website help
Hi John If there is an existing instance of MediaWiki, I would be happy to volunteer a few hours to install the extensions you are missing, update to the latest version, and make any other changes I think are within my abilities. I’m not a professional techie but I’ve installed MediaWiki on several occasions and maintain a couple of instances for work. I will pull together a brief of the updates/changes for your approval, if you still need the help. Best regards, Anthony > On Oct 9, 2018, at 12:04, John Lubbock wrote: > > We don't have any technologists on staff. We contract work to someone, but I > believe they are pretty fully occupied with some back end issues at the > moment. > John Lubbock > > Communications Coordinator > > Wikimedia UK > > +44 (0) 203 372 0767 > > > > Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1, > Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ. > > Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open knowledge > movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make > knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia UK? Donate > here. > > The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate > Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit > charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its > contents. > > > >> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 11:56, Lewis Cawte wrote: >> In place of a more useful researched answer (as I'm in a lecture) but does >> the chapter not employ/contract people to manage the websites and IT? >> >> I'm a bit out of touch with chapter things these days, but I'm sure this was >> a thing that the contractors used to handle for staff? >> >> -- Lewis Cawte >> >>> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, 11:35 John Lubbock, >>> wrote: >>> Hi all, this is an email to ask for help and advice on improving the >>> Wikimedia UK websiite. Speaking to RexX recently at an event, I was >>> discussing some of the issues we are having with the UK website recently as >>> a result of it not being updated much. Some other chapters have recently >>> gone down the path of moving away from MediaWiki to make their sites more >>> user friendly, but I don't think we want to do that and I feel sure that >>> with a bit of effort we could make our MediaWiki site look a lot nicer. >>> >>> If you look at the Special:Version page on the WMUK site, you can see all >>> the extensions that are installed currently. It appears we are lacking many >>> that would be useful, and not being a huge MediaWiki person I wonder if >>> anybody could lend a hand with helping to install some. In particular, we >>> cannot display video on the site, because there is no Timed Media Handler >>> extension. We probably also need Template Styles for reactive tables, and >>> there's probably more that would be useful. I would really appreciate if >>> anybody could offer help in installing these and/or advising what other >>> extensions we should install. >>> >>> The website really needs quite a lot of work, but one thing I would really >>> like to be able to do is to automate scraping the image and lead paragraph >>> off blog posts and having it go onto the WMUK main Wiki page. At the moment >>> this needs to be done manually and this is quite annoying. The same goes >>> for the events list on the main Wiki page, which constantly has to be >>> updated and duplicated from the Events page. Again, if anybody knows how >>> this could be achieved, we would be very grateful. >>> >>> One idea I'd like to suggest for doing this is to have a WMUK one day >>> workshop with anybody who is interested to meet up and work with us on >>> improving the site. I would be happy to organise this and arrange it if >>> people would like to attend help us improve the site. If you would be >>> willing to willing to come to London for this kind of event, please let me >>> know so I can get an idea of how many people might come and help out. >>> >>> I hope that Wikimedia UK can also be here to support your Wikimedia work >>> and projects, so please bear in mind that there are always small grants >>> available for expenses to cover members' projects, so please let us know >>> what interesting things you have been doing and if there is any way we can >>> support you. >>> >>> All the best, >>> John Lubbock >>> >>> Communications Coordinator >>> >>> Wikimedia UK >>> >>> +44 (0) 203 372 0767 >>> >>> >>> >>> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and >>> Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1, >>> Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ. >>> >>> Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open knowledge >>> movement. We rely on donations from
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Any law students on this list?
Sorry, Harry. I have the book version printed in 2003 and the case in which you are interested was not decided until 2008. I could not access a more recent print until the library re-opens. Back to the other mailing list members… Anthony/AGK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Any law students on this list?
On 9 May 2020, at 11:05, Harry Mitchell wrote: > Was hoping somebody on the list might have a copy of the fifth edition of > Helen Fenwick on Civil Liberties and Human Rights ISBN 9781317561958. Law > students might have it for a human rights or criminal law module. I have most > of what I need from Google Books but it wouldn't hurt to see if it has > anything else of use. I just don't want to spend £30 on a second-hand copy > for just a few pages. I have it. Messaged you off-list. Anthony/AGK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
