[Wikimediauk-l] Re: "Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees—at last"

The copyright point came up at a recent training event I attended. It is good that there is now solid UK case law to support our way. For the technical obstructions sometimes put in place of downloading, I suppose it would take statute law to shift those. Charles > On 29/12/2023 21:19 GMT

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Stained glass window image sought

i=181239399 and we don't seem to have > anything more there. But always worth checking when you are looking for UK > photos as we have a lot of images there that have not yet been uploaded onto > Commons. > > > Jonathan > > > On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 09:52, Charles

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Stained glass window image sought

help to find specific people to ask (who took the most pictures on > Commons within 5km around Newcastle-under-Lyme): > https://w.wiki/6gzB > > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:28 AM Charles Matthews > mailto:charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>> > wrote: > > > >

[Wikimediauk-l] Stained glass window image sought

I'm currently drafting an article on William Francis Gordon of Lichfield. He gave the east window to Porthill church, and an interior view would be good. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Porthill is as much as Commons has about the church, near

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Wikidata 10th Birthday

I'm working on a birthday present. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML-ULyARpU4 is an interesting, top-down survey of Wikidata at Ten, including an academic at King's College London. (Lengthy discussions.) Charles > On 20/10/2022 21:32 Lewis Cawte wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > Just

[Wikimediauk-l] photoLondon site

I was particularly glad to come across https://www.photolondon.org.uk/ today, because its information on old London photographers is very useful in researching images. I was wondering where it had got to. There is more at

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: UK Newspapers: 1 Million become free-to-view (registration required)

> On 09 August 2021 at 20:33 Berrely wrote: > Excited to be uploading some PD newspaper covers to Commons... (hopefully > we can get BNA back on The Wikipedia Library eventually as well). > Well indeed. I had BNA access via the Wikipedia Library once, and very useful it was. The

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK awarded funding by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

> On 18 March 2021 at 14:52 Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > >There will be a focus on heritage which is underrepresented on Wikimedia, and >we may narrow this focus down further to specific groups. Would be good to have the interface with the cultural sector reconsidered. The GLAM concept

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [MoveCom] New online learning courses on Building Partnerships and Identifying and Addressing Harassment

> On 16 December 2020 at 09:51 Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > > > The Wikimedia Foundation is launching WikiLearn (Online Learning Pilot) > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/WikiLearn and > volunteers from anywhere in the world are welcome to apply. See the email >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Tom Lehrer is PD'ing his music and lyrics

> > On 20 October 2020 at 23:16 Owen Blacker wrote: > https://tomlehrersongs.com/ > > > > > I, Tom Lehrer, and the Tom Lehrer Trust 2000, hereby grant the > following permission: > > > > All the lyrics on this website, whether published or unpublished, > > copyrighted

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Change in licence requirement for National Lottery Heritage Fund projects

> On 16 September 2020 at 13:40 Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > Dear all > > The National Lottery Heritage Fund has today announced a significant > policy change > https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/stories/advice-understanding-our-licence-requirement > , with a new requirement for grant

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum, copyright and public domain images

> On 26 August 2020 at 13:22 Andy Mabbett wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 20:45, Stella Wisdom wrote: > > > organisational change is not always easy, or quick! > > That's a fair point - but it's also worth bearing in mind that the BM > had a Wikimedian in Residence in 2010, and the BL

[Wikimediauk-l] Charles Rogers and Plymouth Museum

I have just finished an article about Charles Rogers, an 18th-century art collector: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rogers_(collector) If anyone has or can get a photograph relevant to his collection, in the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, that would be a great addition.

[Wikimediauk-l] Covid-19 articles and licensing

While we're on the topic of restrictive licensing, I have some comments to make about Covid-19 literature, and what to do about it.In the familiar good news, bad news pattern, major medical publishers are allowing pandemic-related articles to be read online, even though their copyright status

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Change of Chair at Wikimedia UK

Welcome, Nick, to the Chair. Josie, you will be missed. Charles___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Help with Wikipedia’s coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic

> On 09 April 2020 at 18:00 Richard Nevell > wrote: > > > If anybody needs familiarity with the sourcing standards for medical > articles, take a look at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine) > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK office closure (COVID-19)

> On 17 March 2020 at 14:38 Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > > We are also keen to explore ways in which we can support editors and > readers during this period. Some of our ideas at this point include: > > * Exploring the potential for online editing events specifically >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 21 March

This event has had to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic: it is hoped it will now take place in June. All those who signed up will receive a mail, or user talk message, with further details. Charles > On 28 February 2020 at 10:50 Charles Matthews >

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 21 March

This meetup will take place in the Microsoft Research Lab near Cambridge station: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/43 Please note the fine print about getting past the front door: this seems to be industry-standard, judging by our previous event hosted by Amazon. This time we

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 42, 14 December

A reminder for Saturday: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/42 While I can't promise the election won't be mentioned, I believe we'll have other things on the agenda. Charles___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] November 27 tagging incident

> On 10 December 2019 at 03:06 geni wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 10:32, Charles Matthews > wrote: > > > > That ANI report makes it clear enough that this was a spree resolved by > > blocking an IP address. Nothing is said there about any actual de

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] November 27 tagging incident

> On 09 December 2019 at 11:47 Fæ wrote: > That the press has picked up on this story, could be seen as an > opportunity to embrace the criticism and to do more to make the > environment less hostile for committed contributors like Jess. From Jess:

[Wikimediauk-l] November 27 tagging incident

A notability tagging incident on English Wikipedia some ten days ago is receiving ongoing media attention. It would be a good idea to get the facts straight.The rather curt onwiki discussion is

[Wikimediauk-l] Mobile health units

As part of a Wikidata project, I have created https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mobile_health_units These units are many and varied, and would be an interesting thing to document with a photo, wherever you go. Charles___ Wikimedia UK

[Wikimediauk-l] George Blake

Last week, on its chatty back page, the Times Literary Supplement commented that the Scottish novelist George Blake (1893–1961) didn't have a Wikipedia article. Well, he does now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Blake_(novelist) The comment came in an announcement of a new "series" on

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Order of Industrial Heroism recipients

> On 16 May 2019 at 15:57 Andy Mabbett wrote: > > I have created a list at: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recipients_of_the_Order_of_Industrial_Heroism > > and would be grateful for help in checking and disambiguating many of > the blue links. Thanks, Andy. From a small

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] SPARQL workshop at Cambridge 41 - 12 May

Reminder of this event on Sunday. Charles > On 24 April 2019 at 11:27 Charles Matthews > wrote: > > > I'll be running an introductory workshop on SPARQL queries and their > applications at the next Cambridge meetup, on 12 May: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/

[Wikimediauk-l] SPARQL workshop at Cambridge 41 - 12 May

I'll be running an introductory workshop on SPARQL queries and their applications at the next Cambridge meetup, on 12 May: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/41 Apologies for the clash with the London meetup: I'll not make a habit of this. This will be a largely Wikidata-oriented

[Wikimediauk-l] Festival event 23 March

A reminder of the workshop in this year's Cambridge Science Festival, on 23 March. https://www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk/events/sciencesource-workshop-how-do-scientific-discoveries-become-clinical-medicine is the official page. And

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK Wiki

> On 04 March 2019 at 20:41 Andy Mabbett wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 12:28, Thomas Morton > wrote: > > > Jo and I are looking at this and trying to sort it out. Its taking a bit > > of time to fully > > debug and resolve this - but we are hopeful to share progress soon. > >

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 3 March, Festival event 23 March

> On 31 January 2019 at 11:34 Charles Matthews > wrote: > > > Another in the series of meetups in the Makespace community workshop in > central Cambridge, this time on a Sunday: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/40 > Reminder of this e

[Wikimediauk-l] LSHTM workshop Tuesday - places available

I'm giving a workshop on the state of my WiR work on Tuesday at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 10 to 1 pm. This is an internal event there, but I have learned just now that there are places available. The title is "Wikidata and ScienceSource: open critical bibliography for

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 3 March

Another in the series of meetups in the Makespace community workshop in central Cambridge, this time on a Sunday: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/40 The initial workshop will be on the software being developed for the ScienceSource project. From 3 pm it will be a normal

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

> On 08 January 2019 at 09:53 John Lubbock > wrote: > Please ask us. > Here's a thought I last expressed 20 years ago, to the chair of a voluntary organisation experiencing disaffection: when things get a bit better, people complain more. That was in private, and I have no reason to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 15 December

> On 11 November 2018 at 13:56 Charles Matthews > wrote: > > > The next Cambridge meetup will be on 15 December: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/39 > The meetup in Makespace, 16 Mill Lane, on Saturday will be preceded by a ScienceS

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Recent changes and watchlists broken on the WMUK Wiki

> On 01 December 2018 at 09:30 Jonathan Cardy > wrote: > > More radically, you could move the UK wiki to be a project on Meta. > > > I can’t think of anything we have ever gained from having our own > independent Wiki as opposed to a project on Meta, unless you count >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Recent changes and watchlists broken on the WMUK Wiki

> On 30 November 2018 at 15:42 leu...@fabiant.eu wrote: > > > Please have a look at the Engine Room > https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Engine_room . It is unfortunate that there has > been no reply to Brian Kelly's inquiry about the VLE made back in August. > "Sorry, the website

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Recent changes and watchlists broken on the WMUK Wiki

> On 30 November 2018 at 14:01 Fæ wrote: > Now would be a good time for the WMUK board to review whether having > its own wiki is worth the on-going investment in scarce volunteer time > or employee time. Not so much. There has been an issue for five years, IMX, and a "review" that concluded

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Recent changes and watchlists broken on the WMUK Wiki

> Trust me nobody is more frustrated about it all than me. > The whole "three wise monkeys" approach by WMUK to its wiki has been going on for years, and is quite unacceptable. Charles ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 15 December

The next Cambridge meetup will be on 15 December: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/39 It will follow our current pattern, of a traditional meetup as social occasion, from 3 pm, in the Makespace community workshop, preceded by a two-hour ContentMine workshop. This time the

[Wikimediauk-l] Reminder: Cambridge Wikidata Workshop on Saturday

The programme at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ContentMine/Cambridge_Wikidata_Workshop has filled put, and there will be something about images as well in the afternoon. If you intend to come, please sign up: we do need to order lunch.

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge Wikidata Workshop 20 October

This is an early event for the Wikidata 6th birthday celebrations, going on around the world: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ContentMine/Cambridge_Wikidata_Workshop The venue is where a number of recent meetups have been held. The programme has largely pulled together now, but you

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge workshop and meetup 29 September

> On 05 September 2018 at 14:33 Charles Matthews > wrote: > > See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/38 for the signup > page. We're back in central Cambridge at 16 Mill Lane, in the Makespace > community workshop. Jo Brook who is the ScienceSource

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge workshop and meetup 29 September

The next Cambridge meetup will be on 29 September, with the usual meetup social occasion 3 pm to 6 pm, with optional pub visit afterwards. There will be a workshop 1 pm to 3 pm beforehand, on the ScienceSource project: see John Lubbock's blogpost

[Wikimediauk-l] ScienceSource launches its focus list

I'm back working at ContentMine, as Wikimedian in Residence , on the ScienceSource project, which is the sequel to WikiFactMine. We started in June, and yesterday launched our first participatory subproject. (The ScienceSource wiki is coming along, but will not be active for a little while

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 29 April

:13 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> > wrote: > > > For the next Cambridge meetup, on Sunday 29 April, we are taking up an > opportunity to be in Amazon's new research place, just opposite Cambridge > station. (This is not their Castle park centre.) That

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK chapter membership numbers

> On 10 April 2018 at 11:41 Fæ wrote: > > It appears that the jump in numbers was a one-off event, there has > been no continued growth since whatever happened. I don't know what happened. I did correspond with the office about a prompt to renew. One could simulate such a

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 29 April

For the next Cambridge meetup, on Sunday 29 April, we are taking up an opportunity to be in Amazon's new research place, just opposite Cambridge station. (This is not their Castle park centre.) That means it is ticket-only. The event page is at

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge Science Festival editathon 15 March

> On 21 February 2018 at 11:03 Charles Matthews > <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > By the way, the Cambridge Science Festival is in mid-March: > > https://www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk/ > > The programme PDF mentions an editatho

[Wikimediauk-l] CULIB article, forthcoming Cambridge events

The Cambridge University Library Bulletin has published an article of mine: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/CULIB/current_issue.htm It is a retrospective on my Wikimedian in Residence period last year. For more recent information on ContentMine, see the grant proposal at

[Wikimediauk-l] Open data job opportunity

https://mysociety.workable.com/jobs/654698 went past on Twitter. Charles___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Possible news story about Wikipedia tomorrow

> On 17 January 2018 at 13:24 Harry Mitchell wrote: > > Would it be worth Wikimedia UK's while to put out a blog post talking > about quality control processes (ad-hoc as they are) on Wikipedia? Not so much > as a direct reply - both because these articles look like

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] New Wales-related properties in Wikidata

Sigh. To the old-school eye this is a {{sofixit}}. The conventional wisdom, which is that no more need be said, holds good. Charles___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 25 November

> > On 29 November 2017 at 09:15 Gordon Joly wrote: > > > On 12/11/17 19:48, geni wrote: > > Does maker space mean "someone who might know something about .STL > > files"? (although I'll be there either way since I want to go to > > duxford). >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 25 November

Reminder about tomorrow's event. The introduction from 1 pm will be an occasion for me to try out a new approach, under the title "Twenty Things to Know and Do when editing Wikipedia". Charles > On 02 November 2017 at 21:12 Charles Matthews > <charles.r.matth...@

[Wikimediauk-l] UCL database

A letter https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/22/historians-working-towards-a-full-imperial-reckoning-for-britain in today's Guardian comments on the role of the database at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ "uncovering Britain’s imperial past". In a headline sense, I agree. I did some work on

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 25 November

> > On 12 November 2017 at 19:48 geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10 November 2017 at 19:33, Charles Matthews > <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > > There is a joke "free as in carbon paper" in

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 25 November

> On 10 November 2017 at 17:59 leu...@fabiant.eu wrote: > > > Well, there was a conception open documents certainly back in the > fifties. Check Neils Bohr's concept of an Open World in his Open Letter to > the United Nations http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Deterrence/BohrUN.shtml >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 25 November

> > On 10 November 2017 at 09:28 Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On 02/11/17 21:12, Charles Matthews wrote: > > The meetup has a conventional wiki page > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/36 >

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 25 November

The meetup has a conventional wiki page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/36 and also an Eventbrite page (has been shown to bring in people we don't otherwise see): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-wikimedia-meetup-tickets-39510025550?ref=estw Let me hasten to say that

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] GLAM/MILHIST volunteer role

> > On 20 October 2017 at 10:29 Chris Keating > wrote: > > > Hmmm - sadly I don't think writing Wikipedia articles is what they > have in mind when they say they want "significant experience working > at an influential level in the media, whether

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia training 28 September at the Fitzwilliam Museum

I'm leading a straightforward and gentle Wikipedia editing session in Cambridge next week: https://tinyurl.com/yc5jr6aw The page rather implies a specialist audience, but that doesn't reflect what the content be. Tickets remain: come along if this would suit you, or recommend it to friends in

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK Office Move

> On 16 August 2017 at 15:41 Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > > Dear all > > As many of you will be aware Wikimedia UK has been looking for new office > space as our current building, Development House, has been sold by our > landlords and is being

[Wikimediauk-l] Meetup 3 September - workshop

The Cambridge meetup on 3 September https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/35 will be preceded by a software workshop starting at 1 pm. More details will be given on the page, in due course. This innovation will not affect the usual largely social occasion starting at 3 pm.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

> > On 28 July 2017 at 13:24 Andy Mabbett wrote: > > > On 28 July 2017 at 13:11, Richard Nevell > wrote: > > Attempting to embarrass the British Museum is misguided and certainly > > would > > not build

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 3 September

The next Cambridge meetup will be on Sunday 3 September: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/35 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-wikimedia-contentmine-meetup-tickets-36220149442 As for last time, which was as large a group as we've had, we'll be in Makespace, Mill Lane,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge Wikidata talks, this Thursday and next

> On 26 June 2017 at 12:03 John Lubbock wrote: > > Would you like me to make you a poster for this event and share it on our > social media, Charles? > > Yes, any publicity channels you can use would be helpful.

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge Wikidata talks, this Thursday and next

http://moore.libraries.cam.ac.uk/news/wiki-teaching-sessions-22-june-6-july-2017 for the announcement of my third talk in the series, on 6 July. Still time to sign up for this Thursday's, which a Wikidata introduction. Next Thursday's will explain in particular ContentMine's recent work on tools

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Firefox doesn't like cert for https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk

> > On 25 June 2017 at 09:18 David Gerard wrote: > > > > > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=donate.wikimedia.org.uk > is as broken as ever and clearly shows the incomplete cert chain > issue. > > I'm not going to mess around with yet

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Anyone in a position to photograph the towers that appear to have flammable cladding

> > On 23 June 2017 at 21:16 geni wrote: > > > Since they are likely to change appearance soon if they haven't > already. > Photos of work in progress to remove cladding would be really good, clearly. National documentation.

[Wikimediauk-l] Introduction to Wikidata Thursday, 29 June, 2017, Cambridge Moore Library

There are still places left for my talk on Thursday in Cambridge: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-reliability-of-wikipediaand-what-you-can-do-to-help-tickets-35340835390 The following week, same time same place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-wikidata-tickets-35340980825

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia training 22 June in Cambridge

I'll be leading a Wikipedia training session in Cambridge 1 pm to 4.30 on Thursday 22 June. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-reliability-of-wikipediaand-what-you-can-do-to-help-tickets-35340835390 Tickets are limited – some remain today. Please note that the handson session requires you to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 3 June

> On 04 May 2017 at 11:24 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> > wrote: > > > I have been, for a couple of weeks now, Wikimedian in Residence at > ContentMine Ltd., based in Cambridge. The next Cambridge meetup will be a > joint event with

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Old Bailey Online links

> > On 06 May 2017 at 11:17 John Levin wrote: > > > > And just found that there is a template for OB trials: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Old_Bailey > But not found it used anywhere. > Yes, that's a decent template including the Old

[Wikimediauk-l] The Good Fight episode 6

Anyone else watch "The Good Fight",[1] the sequel to "The Good Wife" which I didn't get drawn into? The first series is showing on More 4, and episode 6, “Social Media and Its Discontents” which I saw earlier this week, was certainly one to get me shouting at the television. An absurd plot, but

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 3 June

I have been, for a couple of weeks now, Wikimedian in Residence at ContentMine Ltd., based in Cambridge. The next Cambridge meetup will be a joint event with ContentMine: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/34 The venue is an unusual community workshop, and some people may enjoy the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses

> On 02 May 2017 at 14:13 Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > > > It's definitely a problem if it takes such a long time for an OTRS to be > resolved. I'm not criticising anyone actually involved in this as a volunteer > but as you say, it suggests a lack of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monnow Bridge (symbol of Monmouthpedia) is at FAC

> > On 22 April 2017 at 14:17 Fæ wrote: > > > Thanks Charles. > > Though I am aware of all the projects you list, I don't see any as > being especially related to the UK, and it was those UK events we used > to drive for ourselves that I was thinking of.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monnow Bridge (symbol of Monmouthpedia) is at FAC

> > On 22 April 2017 at 13:54 Fæ wrote: > > > It would be nice to see the same level of innovation and excitement > > again > within our social group of active Wikimedians. > That a bit "où sont les neiges d'antan?" Roger Bamkin and the Women in Red project

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia Commons question

> > On 23 March 2017 at 15:08 Steve Bowbrick wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Very occasional post from a long-time subscriber here! > > I run social media for the BBC's speech and classical radio stations and > for some of the BBC's classical brands

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK policy updates - consultation

> On 02 March 2017 at 00:11 Michael Peel wrote: > > Hi Lucy, > > I've added a few comments to the google docs - sorry for not quite meeting > your deadline. > > I see that the new volunteers policy removes a key phrase that was often > used in WMUK's past:

[Wikimediauk-l] Newnham College edit-a-thon 8 March

I'm happy to announce that Newnham College will be marking International Women's Day, 8 March, this year with a Wikipedia editing event: http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/event/wikipedia-edit-thon-mark-international-womens-day-2017-2/ Everyone is welcome to come, and write on Wikipedia, in a woman's

[Wikimediauk-l] A web literacy text

In the current context, https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/chapter/wikipedia/ from https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/ would seem to be of interest. That's a whole chapter, by the way. It's a couple of years since I was writing in this area. And, if anything, "web literacy" has moved further

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK press corps - do we have editors on hand?

> On 13 February 2017 at 17:45 David Gerard wrote: > > yeah ... despite the Salford move there isn't a lot of this sort of BBC > content actually produced there, is there? > > BBC Breakfast. For those early-breaking North Korea stories that need nuanced discussion of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK press corps - do we have editors on hand?

> On 11 February 2017 at 00:45 David Gerard wrote: > > I suspect we need to build up the UK press corps again. The call comes > maybe every 1-2 years, but when it happens we need people. So if you see an > email come by, you can *SPRING* into action and represent editors

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] What Volunteer Equipment should we buy?

> > On 09 February 2017 at 11:49 Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On 09/02/17 11:16, Charles Matthews wrote: > >> > > I imagine, rather less than the administrative cost of running a > > membership organisatio

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] What Volunteer Equipment should we buy?

> > On 09 February 2017 at 10:51 Gordon Joly wrote: > > > On 08/02/17 17:01, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote: > > The newsletter goes to paying members but also a much wider group of > > subscribers. > > > So what are we paying for? > > :-) > > I

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Digitisaton of East India Company/ India Office records

> On 08 February 2017 at 13:57 John Lubbock > wrote: > > If you have ideas Charles, I'm very happy to hear them. I just don't know > what our connections with the Indian diaspora in the UK are right now and > whether they'd be interested in doing something on

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Digitisaton of East India Company/ India Office records

> On 08 February 2017 at 12:46 John Lubbock > wrote: > > There's quite a lot of interest in this subject also because of the BBC > series Taboo, which paints the East India Company in a pretty bad light that > is quite believable given what is known about them

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Digitisaton of East India Company/ India Office records

> > On 08 February 2017 at 08:57 Gordon Joly wrote: > > > On 06/02/17 13:36, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote: > > > > Some of you may be aware that 2017 is the UK - India Year of Culture. I > > guess this resource may relate to that, or it could be a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikidata property proposals for the 'Visions of Britain' database

> > On 04 February 2017 at 13:51 Andy Mabbett > wrote: > > > I have also now proposed a property for the British History Online's > Victoria County History pages : > > > >

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 18 February

The next Cambridge meetup will be on Saturday 18 February, once more at the Ibis Hotel on the station forecourt, by popular demand: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/33 Charles___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

> > On 17 January 2017 at 20:11 Gordon Joly wrote: > > > > > Funny how my question about open source alternatives was not answered in > Slack, but has prompted several responses in this email list > > Ha-ha or peculiar? The old chestnut that WMUK

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Intro / British statutes

> > On 11 January 2017 at 14:41 John Levin wrote: > > > On 11/01/2017 13:27, David Gerard wrote: > > Obvious first thought: how to coordinate this with what > > http://www.bailii.org/ does? > > > > > > Contacting BAILII is on my list of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Intro / British statutes

> > On 03 January 2017 at 14:44 John Levin wrote: > > > > My user page is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Technolalia > Hello John - we actually exchanged mails a few years ago > > > My Phd has involved a lot of digging around for historic

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Mass image uploads expert

> > On 15 October 2016 at 14:08 Fæ wrote: > >If there's an area of copyright that interests you, it can really help Commons to follow the copyright noticeboard [3] and participate in some deletion request discussions. Asking questions and testing your own understanding

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 5 November

The next Cambridge meetup will be in a new venue, the Ibis Hotel just by the station: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/32 Not just new for us, after eight years of meeting in CB2: so new that the Google street view is just hoardings and cranes. Be assured that the building is

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK office move - alternative locations?

> > On 14 August 2016 at 11:03 Gordon Joly wrote: > > > On 13/08/16 20:30, Michael Peel wrote: > > > > I'd like to ask: are options outside of London being considered? > > > > Also, would WMUK be able to provide an update on the office move to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chilcot Report uses OGL

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:The_Report_of_the_Iraq_Inquiry_-_Executive_Summary.pdf is work in progress. Charles___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chilcot Report uses OGL

> > On 12 July 2016 at 15:03 Andy Mabbett wrote: > > Neither am I; I asked whether [...] > WP:DTS. Charles___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

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