Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK at Byline Festival on 2nd June

2017-05-26 Thread geni
On 26 May 2017 at 10:10, John Lubbock <john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Well, I'm sure you don't have to be 100% sober. :) Do you want me to put you > down for a ticket Geni? Yes please. There appear to be people there we need better photos o

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK at Byline Festival on 2nd June

2017-05-25 Thread geni
from anywhere between Southampton and one of the emptier bits of East Sussex. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pride 2017

2017-06-08 Thread geni
e is interested in attending. You > should have a professional quality camera. If there are any other events you > would like to get press accreditation to go to, get in contact and let me > know and I can ask for you. > Do the cameras WMUK have for loan count as prof

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK univeristies and open content

2017-06-15 Thread geni
the WMF to do it or seeing if one of the people we pay at WMUK has time to do it for UK based projects (obviously this is slightly dependent on what the legal bods say). -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.o

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK at Byline Festival on 2nd June

2017-06-10 Thread geni
irst year so my expectations > were suitably low. Pics have been uploaded (mostly photos of people we needed images of): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Byline_Festival_(2017) -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@w

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Ordnance Survey 1st series 1:10, 560 - a complete mid 19th century map of Britain

2017-12-18 Thread geni
tag. The images are not faithful photographic reproductions since someone (well The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) has been pretty brutal with the levels. Not original enough to qualify for copyright mind. Just wish I could get access to the raw scans. -- geni _

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 25 November

2017-11-18 Thread geni
Eh my interest is more in creating .STL files to create objects than be rotated in the browser than 3D printing. On 12 November 2017 at 20:05, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > On 12 November 2017 at 19:48 geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 25 November

2017-11-12 Thread geni
now something about .STL files"? (although I'll be there either way since I want to go to duxford). -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Celtic Knot 2018. July 5 - 6th. BOOK NOW

2018-06-07 Thread geni
gt; > Jason > On a related note the Royal Pier, Aberystwyth could do with some better pics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Pier,_Aberystwyth And we don't have an article on the Aberystwyth mint. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Signing off for now

2018-01-26 Thread geni
eryone on the mailing list, and please make sure WMUK stays a > primarily tea-drinking office as I never got the taste for coffee. > > Regards, > Richard Nevell But we do things with castles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_castles_in_Engl

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Equipment

2018-02-03 Thread geni
wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Equipment_Loan_Procedure#Multimedia needs updating. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] The Wiki Loves Monuments UK website is now live

2018-08-02 Thread geni
n you try to cover all of them. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

[Wikimediauk-l] Great Dorset Steam Fair Friday 24 august lifts from Southampton

2018-04-04 Thread geni
for some examples: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Great_Dorset_Steam_Fair_(2016) We are also still looking for a first class image of a Traction engine to lead the Traction engine article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traction_engine -- geni

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Any photographers near Southampton?

2019-01-04 Thread geni
I know the weather is > not good for photography but I'm not too worried about quality - I just need > a few shots from each angle to aid with writing a description. > > Thanks, > Images can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Southampton_Cenota

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Any editors in Chemistry?

2018-12-12 Thread geni
so I may be able to help but its not an area where I edit very much. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Any photographers near Southampton?

2018-12-20 Thread geni
I know the weather is > not good for photography but I'm not too worried about quality - I just need > a few shots from each angle to aid with writing a description. > > Thanks, > > Harry Mitchell Probably can't do it until after christmas but

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Any photographers near Southampton?

2018-12-23 Thread geni
y filled some time. > > -- Lewis Cawte > I belive WMUK still has camera gear for loan. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Any photographers near Southampton?

2018-12-21 Thread geni
wikipedia articles in and around southampton mostly have pics. Exceptions are things like Southampton Power Station which suffer an unfortunate case of not existing since 1977. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wik

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Recent changes and watchlists on the UK wiki are still broken

2019-01-08 Thread geni
edians are quite happy editing on their own and have a fairly limited desire to get involved with other wikimedians through meatspace. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Encouraging GLAMs to use free Commons images

2019-01-04 Thread geni
s with the Wikimedia communities giving rise to > concerns of bad publicity and reputational risk if they get it ‘wrong’. > > More effort is needed from all of us to tackle those barriers. > > Michael > And in this case most of the images we do have are US

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Strategy Meeting on Wednesday 30th January

2019-01-29 Thread geni
to anyone's attendance. > So is this actualy happening? Its not listed at: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page and my email to ka...@wikimedia.org.uk didn't get a responce -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lis

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Events

2019-04-12 Thread geni
anybody wants to come with us to Conway Hall before > going to the meetup, please let me know. > > I'd be interested. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedian in Residence at Coventry University

2019-06-07 Thread geni
as interesting enough -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

[Wikimediauk-l] north yorkshire county council appears to be filtering our trangender article

2019-06-12 Thread geni
Not the best of sources but perhaps something we should look into: https://www.reddit.com/r/traaanns/comments/bzpizg/my_school_doesnt_block_tp_hentai_but_blocks/ -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https

[Wikimediauk-l] Anyone near Bolton with a video camera on Sunday or Monday or

2019-05-04 Thread geni
-centre_engine has its own article. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Call for lightning talks for Wikimedia UK's 2019 AGM

2019-07-04 Thread geni
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 16:18, Karla Marte wrote: > > If you have not signed up to the AGM yet you can do so here: > https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2019_AGM > > Best, > > Karla Marte Is it correct that registration has n

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Call for lightning talks for Wikimedia UK's 2019 AGM

2019-06-27 Thread geni
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 16:18, Karla Marte wrote: > > Hi all, > > We would like to invite you to submit a lightning talk for our upcoming AGM. So are we looking at a length of 5 mins here or less? -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing lis

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-12-11 Thread geni
tech groups on occasions like that, but I wanted to >>>>> let the mailing list know and ask people to tell me if they would be >>>>> theoretically interested in participating. >>>>> >>>>> All the best, >>>>> >>>&

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-12-11 Thread geni
er Wikipedia nor responsibility > for its contents.* > > > On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 19:11, geni wrote: > >> Event aparently sold out. >> >> On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 11:47, John Lubbock >> wrote: >> >>> We've got The Guardian now also wanting t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] November 27 tagging incident

2019-12-09 Thread geni
ally deleted > on grounds of lack of notability. > Not on this occasion no. The IP has no deleted edits and in any case they were throwing up notability tags not prods or AFDs. Previously some of Jess Wade's articles have been deleted. -- geni ___ Wi

[Wikimediauk-l] V museum of childhood closing May 11 for 2 years

2020-02-29 Thread geni
don't appear to have any photos from it at all (although I have plans). -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

[Wikimediauk-l] Doncaster Musuem and Art Gallery closing on friday

2020-01-13 Thread geni
While most of the exhibits are apparently being moved elsewhere (waterdale) some are not and we have exactly one photo of the interior: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Doncaster_Museum_and_Art_Gallery So if anyone is in the area we could do with some more. -- geni

[Wikimediauk-l] Does anyone have any way of visiting the royal society st some point?

2020-03-27 Thread geni
hanging from the roof of their Atrium. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Virtual meetups

2020-05-08 Thread geni
eople would insist I > did to talk to them - but I'd never be able to talk to new users on it - > they'd usually use email (or I'd phone them). Most professions have never > heard of IRC or slack. > For those that want a more mainsteam solution discord appears to b

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Virtual meetups

2020-05-08 Thread geni
On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 19:38, geni wrote: > For those that want a more mainsteam solution discord appears to be > the most active: That should have included a link to : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Discord -- geni ___ Wikime

[Wikimediauk-l] British Stammering Association/stamma

2020-10-18 Thread geni
right" The edits were made by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stamma_BSA_1 and are fairly harmles. Might be an idea for wikimedia UK to reach out to try and help things stay harmless (and who knows we might actualy find something to work together on).

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Help needed for website images

2021-05-24 Thread geni
Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, > London SE1 0NZ > <https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ=gmail=g> > . > ___ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikime

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: "Graves in 19,000 English churchyards to be mapped online"

2021-08-31 Thread geni
been granted. > > -- Usefulness will heavily depend on resolution. There are various listed monuments in churchyards but STL files require a decent resolution to be useful (Mad Jack Fuller pyramid is perhaps an exception). -- geni ___

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Issues with IT infrastructure

2021-11-18 Thread geni
t, Lucy > > 4 weeks; Still reads version 1.31.0. Which presumably means you also missed the 16 security and maintenance patches on this version. I understand that you might prefer a gentle nudge but this is very much the point where you fix it now or admit you can't maintain it

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Issues with IT infrastructure

2021-11-27 Thread geni
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 at 22:26, Lucy Crompton-Reid < lucy.crompton-r...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Hi Geni (and all) > > We have moved to 1.35.4 (the latest LTS version) this evening. > > Cool. Looks good. -- geni ___ Wiki

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Feedback invited on Wikimedia UK's draft strategy for the next three years

2021-12-02 Thread geni
>. > > Is this meant to be throwing me at a really slow wiki at https://wmuk-wiki-dev.wikimedia.org.uk ? -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

[Wikimediauk-l] request for anyone visting the museum of london before it closes for 3 years

2022-11-22 Thread geni
Could someone get a photo of this bowl? It should be in the plague section: https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/284099.html -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

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