Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Other Events - hackathon

(resending this due to mailing list subscription quirks) This is something I'd like to attend. I run bots, have a Toolserver account and have submitted patches to the main MediaWiki codebase. Only problem for me may be the timing (I have exams). But that can be sorted later. Regards, Harry

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Other Events - hackathon

This is something I'd like to attend. I run bots, have a Toolserver account and have submitted patches to the main MediaWiki codebase. Only problem for me may be the timing (I have exams). But that can be sorted later. Regards, Harry (User:Jarry1250) On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Lewis

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] two-letter UK domains: any use?

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: It's not even as if wp is that closely associated with Wikipedia. Online you have worldpress. Within the UK you have two police forces and that widening participation program. Isn't that a good thing? Get some resale value? Maybe

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity outreach favour

Hey Chris. I'm happy to help if I can? Regards, Harry (user:Jarry1250) On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: If you don't find any luck here, OTRS are good at this kind of thing. On 12 August 2011 17:39, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Question: When and how often should WM-UK give grants for digitization projects?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: snip Further, experience at Wikisource suggests that proofreading is the bottleneck, rather than scanning. /snip Other items in this interesting discussion notwithstanding, does anyone know the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] A proposal... MediaWiki Hackathon

Per previous, I am still interested in this, though I would probably attend for a day (no overnight), but we'll see. No point getting a large place though, if it's still such a short list. Even a packed 20-seater would be better than an empty 80-seater, I guess. But on the upside, it can still

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [cultural-partners] Info: Edinburgh wikimeet on Saturday 1st October

In the meantime, we could do with some comments or advice on our teeshirt design. These will be used at our Wikimeet and we will probably arrange a print run next week, so there is time for an alternative design to be considered if anyone wants to have a crack at it. See Brian's current

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] A little wiki hacking

Sorry to ask such a tangential question, but what is WMUK's position on non-English wikis that might be suitable for a Scottish audience (e.g. Scots)? Will it seek to actively promote interest in them? -- Harry (User:Jarry1250) On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Brian McNeil

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UKs microgrants scheme

Incidentally, I believe this was fixed by The Land [1]. -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=454578016oldid=454347327 On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com wrote: Just seen a watchlist notice advertising Wikimedia UKs

[Wikimediauk-l] Membership renewal / Brighton hackathon

Hey all, it's vaguely that time of year again when I feel like I ought to be coughing up membership dues. Will a reminder be sent out at the correct time automatically or is there some other process I should be following? (I've been a member for two years; it didn't remind me last year but I

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Research banner

Obviously getting way off topic, but if you want a detailed analysis of the motivations and surprising findings of these games, they are the four classics of game theory: the dictator game, the ultimatum game, the public (goods) game, and the trust game. The researchers know what they're doing

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia

Seconded - that's fantastic news! Also, I might as well put it on record that I am more than happy to help with any bot programming that might be of use during these sort of initiatives. (I was reminded by the idea of scoring, having spent this morning updating the WikiCup bot to a 2012

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editor retention

Does anyone know how the idea that we might limit article creation to autoconfirmed users whilst directing non-autoconfirmed users to a special holding area (AfC or similar) evolved once the Foundation refused to endorse it as stated? -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:10 PM

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Laptop recommendations?

It might (I haven't scrutinised the exact criteria) also qualify for funding from Google as part of their Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project [1]. GSoC is targetted at university students who want to program during their summer holidays and typically provides stipends of ~$5000 to support this.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] SOPA/PROTECT Blackout

What is the official UK call to action here? Emailing the embassy? Or could you create a Number10-esque petition? Or did I miss something else entirely? -- Harry (User:Jarry1250) On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: Nicely put. Luckily we are all

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] SOPA/PROTECT Blackout

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:31 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_State_for_Trade ? Visa, Mastercard, PayPal - all US companies. SOPA can switch British businesses off like a light. - d. That might be a bit much to ask for. On the other hand, I

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] SOPA/PROTECT Blackout

I note that there is a petition with 280 signatures available at: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/26143 It seems to be fairly strongly (but not badly IMHO) worded, so therefore worthy of our support if we can get geolocation going. -- Harry (User:Jarry1250) On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] SOPA/PROTECT Blackout

Cool. Then I suggest someone with access to that list put it up [1]. -- Harry (User:Jarry1250) [1] https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/new On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 January 2012 13:16, Harry Burt harryab...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] SOPA/PROTECT Blackout

Just to say that I asked on IRC and there is no technical issue with having a UK-only petition appeal appear on the page, if we can get a petition up and potentially get as much consensus for it as we can in the meantime. -- Harry (User:Jarry1250) On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Alison M.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] SOPA/PROTECT Blackout

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi all, Personal opinion: The best place to discuss UK-specific text, including for the proposed petition, would be on-wiki at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Proposed_Messages since

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] SOPA/PROTECT Blackout

and a little publicity anyhow. -- Harry (User:Jarry1250) On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: On 17 January 2012 12:51, Harry Burt harryab...@gmail.com wrote: I note that there is a petition with 280 signatures available at: http

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] SOPA/PROTECT Blackout

Okay, so http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/27728 is now available, the product of the earlier conversations on this list and onwiki. Thoughts on linking to it in a completely voluntary manner from the blackout notice? Time is of the essence, rather. -- Harry On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] SOPA/PROTECT Blackout

Or numerous other methods to avoid the blackout. I believe the same FA is going to run for 48 hours. -- Harry (User:Jarry1250) On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Alison M. Wheeler wikime...@alisonwheeler.com wrote: From: Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com I am told that if you disable

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] The new British standard for copyright infringement...

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:24 PM, James Forrester ja...@jdforrester.orgwrote: On 25 January 2012 19:18, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: ...photos that somehow look similar:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] The new British standard for copyright infringement...

That might actually be licensed, though. -- Harry On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk wrote: I wonder if http://www.popartuk.com/**photography/london/red-bus-on-**

[Wikimediauk-l] Thanks-Gift-Aid page

Hey all. Perhaps it would be worth some clarifying the Thanks-Gift-Aid page to the extent that (with the exception of email address) all fields are necessary for the purpose of claiming GiftAid, and/or that the information provided will only be used for that purpose and then destroyed (or

[Wikimediauk-l] Microgrant application submitted

Hey all. I just submitted a microgrant application [1]. I'm not sure how I'm suppose to publicise that fact though, so I thought I'd post here. Apologies if I would have been better off posting elsewhere; I don't know how many people actively monitor the category itself. Thanks, Harry

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] A few requests!

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Good afternoon everyone! I have a couple of things that I'm begging your assistance with: I hope you folks can help. 1. [...] 2. We've had a couple of contacts from local political parties trying

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Openness - copyright policy

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Policy Please read, contemplate, discuss and amend! Chris I do wonder if there's a conflation here of publication and licensing. For example, it is not clear to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Openness - copyright policy

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: I've raised similar points on the talk page. Would you mind adding your comments there? I think that's probably the better venue for this discussion. Of course. Had the discussion page not been a redlink at the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Copyright of pictures from 1870

Incidentally, since I don't think anyone mentioned it, it's my understanding that you can't get UK publication rights if you first published it in the U.S., only U.S. publication rights. [1] So that is the best thing to look into regarding publication rights. I think the assumption of copyright

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Role accounts

is probably why no page goes into detail on the copyright matter. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] One technical question

the following doesn't work? Press F11 to open the Styles and Formatting window. Click the Paragraph Styles icon. Right-click on Default and choose Modify. On the Font tab, set the required typeface and size. Click OK to save, then save the template. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] What is in a name?

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:45 AM, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: despite it not having the same 'brand' recognition as the movement's flagship project. SOFIXIT :P No seriously, that's probably the answer, longterm. -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250

[Wikimediauk-l] Oxford Wikimedians

to message me offlist in either case.) It might also be useful in future to know if there are any active Wikimedians currently studying at Oxford Brookes. Thanks, Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Oxford Wikimedians

. Regards, Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] New Laptops for events

downloading Ubuntu three times over. I did the same only last week, no problems whatsoever. -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http

[Wikimediauk-l] Falklands

monuments are also on a British list to allow islanders the choice. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotices.

Hi Gorgo, What does http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org report for you? The database is usually pretty accurate. Harry -- Harry Burt On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: On 15/10/12 13:28, Craig Franklin wrote: Geonotices are only as good as the database

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotices.

(Location-wise, I mean. No need to publish your IP if you don't want to.) Harry On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Harry Burt harryab...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gorgo, What does http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org report for you? The database is usually pretty accurate. Harry -- Harry Burt

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Mobile uk.wikimedia.org still failing

The assignment feature is rarely used on Wikimedia's bugzilla installation per se, in fairness. But yes, no developer seems to have taken a keen interest in it yet. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Thank you

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Verifying membership applications - Suggestions and comments

? Legal issues aside, surely (ii) but not (i) is the easiest by quite a margin. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Katherine Bavage katherine.bav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi All, At the board meeting on Saturday a valid point was made that currently

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Verifying membership applications - Suggestions and comments

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Katherine Bavage katherine.bav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hey Harry, I'm not sure if ii) *is* easier. Compare the work of verifying members before every AGM and EGM or merely at the point of joining. We don't really have formal check on membership at the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Verifying membership applications - Suggestions and comments

, and hence the scale of the efficiency. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] FYI: BBC Your paintings artist list

People working with YourPaintings might also find the {{Artwork}} generator at [1] of use. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) [1] https://toolserver.org/~jarry/yourpaintings/ On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote: On 3 January 2013 10:37, Andy Mabbett

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

Has anyone tried using unpaper [1] on a sample of images? I could do -- all you really need is a Unix-based OS and some command-line savvy - but I'm a little tied up just at the moment. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) [1] http://unpaper.berlios.de

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

alone is going to save volunteers a lot of time; and there are good GUIs for batch cropping IIRC once you've taken out the need for reorientation. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Anyone interested in Lua and PIzza one day?

Great idea IMHO. Plus, it could also be a useful starting point for creating a second not-quite-annual UK-based hackathon. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: Should we have a Lua love-in for UK geeks sometime led

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Funding Opportunity: Google launch the Global Impact Challenge

of time however; it may even require a new web standard. Harry -- Harry Burt / User:Jarry1250 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Nice piece from another country.

Seems well-informed. Is there any intention to ask for Wikipedian to be changed to Wikipedian-in-Residence in the prose if not the headline? I always thought the latter had quite a nice ring to it myself. Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Jon Davies jon.dav

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Student societies 2013 campaign

I emailed the WMF's trademark people just to confirm that naming a society the [NAME] Wiki[mp]edia Society did not require approval. Their response was that it may: a hurdle, if not a large one. Usefully, then, WMUK could seek some clarification in this area, just to keep the burden on volunteers

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Student societies 2013 campaign

Thank you. Which part of the trademark policy covers this? My own reading was from == Things You Can Do, a Summary ==, which does not give any examples related to third parties such as student societies (only second parties, the chapters themselves). Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) On Tue

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 'Illustrating Wikipedia brochure' - your thoughts?

page still needs a URL! :) In general, I think it's great though. Harry -- Harry Burt ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Call for volunteers - Open Government Partnership summit

Hi Stevie, Likewise, I could make the Friday (if one can volunteer for single days at a time). Harry On Oct 10, 2013 1:51 PM, Edward Hands edwar...@gmail.com wrote: Stevie and Katherine Looks like WMUK needs our help at short notice here, so dig deep people! I'd be happy to help out on

[Wikimediauk-l] Idea: blog planet for UK Wikimedians

. Blog planets are not difficult to setup, and would not particularly resource intensive; it's just a question of whether people would appreciate such a thing. Any thoughts? Harry -- Harry Burt User:Jarry1250 [1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_%28software%29 . In practice one would use

[Wikimediauk-l] Calling all British-based bloggers and blog readers

subscriptions into one easy Planet subscription? Best, Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) Wikimedia UK Tech Committee p.s. someone at the office should probably have admin rights in addition to just me! [1] https://planet.wikimedia.org.uk/ ___ Wikimedia UK

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Rights in church bell ringing

Amateur orchestras, in particular (unless there are professional church bell ringers?). Harry On 19 Mar 2014 14:50, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: I'm clearly no expert on copyright but I wonder if the rights issue would be the same as an orchestra. Would you need to get

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Trademark Agreement between Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Is there a digital version available? The scan quality is... not ideal. Harry On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Andy Mabbett pigsotw...@gmail.com wrote: What implications does this have for QRpedia? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk On Apr 8, 2014 4:35 PM, Stevie

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Armenian wiki video

What a fabulous video Jon! Can haz one for the UK? Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Damokos Bence damokos.be...@wikimedia.huwrote: Thanks for sharing this, Jon. Best regards, Bence On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Jon Davies jon.dav

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Hillsborough page

. Looks like a good write up (factually accurate) with some choice quotes from Stevie. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Just for some context, it's been reported in the Liverpool Echo - http

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Unsuccessful candidates in UK elections

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: I have just created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unsuccessful_candidates_in_United_Kingdom_elections Please help to populate, and eventually subdivide, it. Andy Mabbett Are you intending this to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Importing event calendar

I created a version at http://tools.wmflabs.org/wmukevents some time ago (it works for me). I can't remember why we didn't update the links though. Harry On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Tristan Hill tris...@saticed.me.uk wrote: Hi, Unfortunately I use google calendar. I'm trying to add the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Changes to timings of membership approvals

Hello everyone, I am copying here from a post I've just made on the Engine room https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Engine_room#Changes_to_timings_of_membership_approvals : At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on 7th March a decision was made in lieu of a permanent Chief Executive

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimeet survey

they tend to be more lecture theatres in setup than cafés! Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

[Wikimediauk-l] Technology projects / volunteer strategy consultation

/ -- Harry Burt ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Digitising old 8mm home movies

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Gordon Joly wrote: > Alternatively buy a scanner? > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reflecta-Super-8-film-scanner/dp/B00I48MAR6/ > > :-) > Free UK delivery. Bargain! Harry ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] GDPR?

Incidentally if the charity would like some informal advice on its GDPR obligations (offlist) I am happy to assist. Best Harry On Wed, May 23, 2018, 02:48 Michael Peel wrote: > I haven’t spotted any emails from WMUK about this yet, are they coming > soon or is everything