[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Wikimedia UK recruiting for a new Chair of Trustees

That's really helpful Chris. So glad that we've all moved on and forgotten about events that happened so long ago that my grandparents, uncle, niece, and three relatives that did not have proper funerals last year were alive back then. I guess there's more important things for us volunteers to

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Wikimedia UK recruiting for a new Chair of Trustees

On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 21:01, Chris Keating wrote: >> >> Just to note that "Co-opted directors are not lesser, inferior, or less >> capable than elected board members or hold any less of a mandate, nor should >> they be perceived to be" is an opinion rather than fact. > > > Not really. It's a

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Wikimedia UK recruiting for a new Chair of Trustees

members or hold any less of a mandate, nor should they be perceived > to be. > > There are plenty of formal mechanisms through which the membership can > express its opinion if it so desires and it would be foolish to make > assumptions about the member body's perceptions. > > On Tue, May 25, 2021

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Wikimedia UK recruiting for a new Chair of Trustees

rs to > think about applying, if you meet the criteria. Please don't be put off by > the open recruitment process as I know that the panel, and other members of > the board, highly value community experience. > > Best wishes > Lucy > > > On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 18:14, Fæ wrote

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Wikimedia UK recruiting for a new Chair of Trustees

t; > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 6:14 PM Fæ wrote: > >> Could you confirm this is the first time that the Chair of Wikimedia UK >> has been externally recruited rather than the role filled after being >> elected by the charity members as a trustee? >> >> Has th

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Wikimedia UK recruiting for a new Chair of Trustees

Could you confirm this is the first time that the Chair of Wikimedia UK has been externally recruited rather than the role filled after being elected by the charity members as a trustee? Has the process for searching for "role" trustees and electing them changed, and the charity's articles been

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia Foundation survey for contributors/members

The Affiliate Membership survey has been subject to objection by members of the WMLGBT+ user group in a meeting this week with WMF T The information about gender is potentially highly identifying. It is unclear in the WMF privacy statement in which circumstances the WMF would release information

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

Dear Lucy, It's just over 3 months ago that your offer to talk with the British Museum about claiming copyright over public domain images, and consequently charging academics and other reusers large fees to use images which should be free to the public. Has there been any progress and what came

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Thanks WSC, Though our recent experience in UK chapter AGMs is that they neither have hustings nor honestly welcomed "debates" for a few years now. As this year's AGM will be a yet to be detailed virtual event, it's even more unlikely that sufficient of the 500{{cn}} registered members will take

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 177, Issue 8

Public domain for 2D works applies for old 2D artefacts, like manuscripts or flat decorated objects. The examples I've seen include objects like 15th C. drawings, which the claim of "copyright of the Trustees" may be safely ignored as there is no new creativity in the likely automated scans being

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

There were some great references to Wikipedia in this video too * https://twitter.com/i/status/1248214342618628096 Being certified is a classic. Fae On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, 23:15 Rex X, wrote: > For anybody doubting the value of our Covid-19 coverage, take a look at > > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Parliamentary constituencies

Isn't the 'official' data via https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/products/election-maps ... which presumably means it's a copyright headache. Fae On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 14:23, Lewis Cawte wrote: > > I'm sure I can casually chip away at some (when I get bored of working on >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] November 27 tagging incident

Thanks for the sources Charles. Having previously chatted with Jess during an LGBT+ event about the Wikipedia "experience", it is entirely fair and factual to say that the environment is hostile. When running and planning newbie events, we have to be honest about how deeply unpleasant things are

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia: Ongoing issues

As I understood it when we were signing off the organizational strategy, we set up a separate legal entity to manage/own QRpedia so that WMUK would not have to be responsible. Considering the significant number of non-Wikimedia GLAM organizations that have invested in this QR technology on the

[Wikimediauk-l] AGM voting

Could someone confirm if there is going to be any member voting on anything this year? As a member I was expecting there to be some information about proxy voting, presumably the board does not expect everyone to travel to Bristol to use their vote. So far, there has been no information sent out.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pride London photographers

s partying and posing for photographs, and that happens everywhere. :-) Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 18:08, Raya Sharbain wrote: > > Hi Fae, any chance I could also sign up as a photographer? > > في الجمعة، ١٤ حزي

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pride London photographers

anning > on taking photographs. Do you know anything about the application process for > photographer access at that event? Or is anyone else planning on attending to > take pictures? > > Best, Josie > > > On 14 Jun 2019, at 13:11, Fæ wrote: > > > > A

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pride London photographers

make an exception. Thanks, Fae On Thu, 30 May 2019 at 16:43, Fæ wrote: > > Training of stewards has started for Pride (6 July) and I was > wondering if WMUK will register a list of photographers for passes > again this year? Media info is at > https://prideinlondon.o

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

Like any such service the network blocking will be contracted out. No doubt NYCC use a standard database and their filter might also be using keyword filtering. There ought to be exceptions for the Wikipedia domain, which appears to be missing, but even then there may be additional keyword

[Wikimediauk-l] Pride London photographers

Training of stewards has started for Pride (6 July) and I was wondering if WMUK will register a list of photographers for passes again this year? Media info is at https://prideinlondon.org/media-centre. As there are 580 organizations and several centers to the event, getting varied coverage in

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

ulations_2002 Thanks, Fae > On 22 Jan 2019, at 15:16, Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > > Hi Fae and all > > Yes indeed, happy to publish the draft on meta. > > I see what you mean about the disclaimer...pretty sure it's just what I > inherited but will certainly review.

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

Hi Lucy, For as long as the Chapter has created strategic plans, these have been published and developed on-wiki, with all the normal benefits of being open for consultation. In the light of issues with the local chapter wiki, and the fact that funding related reports are already published on

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

Seems negative Harry. This is surely the outcome that everyone expected when the WMUK board was professionalised by going from volunteer led, to appointing trustees without even minimal Wikimedia project experience. Add to this a significant reduction in transparency and reducing elections, while

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

Finally got around to visiting the Ashurbanipal exhibition at the British Museum.[1] The exhibition is near first class.[2] If you are in London, treat yourself. The use of light projection to help illustrate the ancient friezes was smart, and done in a way that still let you examine the original

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

On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 13:31, Charles Matthews wrote: > > > 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 > >

[Wikimediauk-l] People's Vote march 20th October

If you were at the march yesterday and took photographs, or have friends who took photographs, remember to share them on Wikimedia Commons. The category to use is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:People%27s_Vote_March,_20_October_2018 The press and newspapers are full of stock

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK 2018 AGM

Last minute forgetfulness - I think that attendees were supposed to print out something for voting. Checking Eventbrite, there are no tickets, just registration, so nothing to print there, and searching my email I cannot find any prompt like this. Was there a need to print something? PS I'm

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pride in London

to retweet this invite to upload photos: https://twitter.com/Faewik/status/1015928844312772608 Thanks, Fae On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 at 14:43, Fæ wrote: > > A nudge for your calendar, Pride in London is going to be on Saturday > 7th July. Just a month away if you want to plan a big day out in

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK 2018 AGM

I would like to schedule a question for the AGM about membership numbers and I note the deadline of this Friday. However with https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Membership/Numbers frozen as of October 2017, it appears that this information about the performance of the charity is no longer being

[Wikimediauk-l] Pride in London

A nudge for your calendar, Pride in London is going to be on Saturday 7th July. Just a month away if you want to plan a big day out in London! The parade itself is for registered groups, but is a lot of fun to watch and makes a great photography subject. If you want to officially take photographs

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] GDPR?

Thanks Mike, I had the same email today, it is useful to see the relevant links. The apparent ability to keep almost any data about (effectively) anyone interacting with the charity whether virtually or at events, for three years after the person was known to the charity, seems an excessive way

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK chapter membership numbers

successful membership drive. > > Regards, > Richard Nevell > > > On 9 Apr 2018 21:34, "Fæ" <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > > During the last UK Chapter AGM, it was asked why the membership > numbers had radically changed, there was no specific answer to the > quest

[Wikimediauk-l] UK chapter membership numbers

During the last UK Chapter AGM, it was asked why the membership numbers had radically changed, there was no specific answer to the question. Was any analysis done on this afterwards? When reviewing membership it seems likely that the charity's trustees would have been concerned at these figures so

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

As far as I could see this story lacked any facts, not even one tangible example of attempted manipulation. I'd appreciate a link if I misunderstood the press coverage. It might be a good use of resources to just keep saying "please provide an example" before responding to what is probably itself

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

On 18 December 2017 at 09:05, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 December 2017 at 13:59, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> All the maps can be found in sub-directories by county from Cornwall >> to Orkney at >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:O

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

, anyone with feedback on whether this would be reasonable use of a small WMF personal grant is welcome to comment. Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae On 27 September 2017 at 22:37, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 September 2017 at 13:01, And

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Museum fees for images

On 6 November 2017 at 13:25, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > On 6 November 2017 at 11:01, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Volunteers interested in GLAM may be interested to read the letter to >> The Times today from an extensive list of highly res

[Wikimediauk-l] Museum fees for images

Volunteers interested in GLAM may be interested to read the letter to The Times today from an extensive list of highly respected academics and museum directors, lobbying against arbitrary image fees charged by UK national museums and their doubtful claims of copyright.[1][2] Quote: "Fees are also

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Videos on You Tube --> CC

This is a slight tangent from YouTube, but it is unfair to say "no progress". As per Rex, when the encoding is assessed as open* then there is plenty of interest to ensure Wikimedia Commons accepts the new standards. More generally there was a big discussion on Commons (2 years ago I think) about

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

On 23 September 2017 at 13:01, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > On 23 September 2017 at 12:03, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In addition to the first series of 1:10,560 maps, the Ordnance Survey >> 1:2500 first series is being uploaded &

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

In addition to the first series of 1:10,560 maps, the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 first series is being uploaded and has already reached "L" in the alphabet, so Cardiff, Coventry, Edinburgh and London are all available. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ordnance_Survey_1st_series_1:2500

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

weeks ago that I had > been in touch with the Director at Tullie House Museum, who thinks the > copyright notice may be a mistake on their part - however he needed to check > with the curator responsible who was on holiday at the time. I suspect the > curator will be back now so this is a t

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

Ping :-) It's been over a month, does anyone know if the Tullie House Museum has removed the misleading copyright notices? If there has been no contact yet, I'd be happy to send off a letter as a long term Wikimedia Commons volunteer to the BM and the THM for an official response that I can add

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Imperial War Museum, meetings with Wikimedia UK

ll, my sun hat, but that >> denotes no role other than someone daft enough to wear it indoors, in the >> rain). >> >> I think that those who were around at the time are more than aware of the >> circumstances Richard refers to, and many others besides. >> >> On

[Wikimediauk-l] Imperial War Museum, meetings with Wikimedia UK

institution), > we have to be careful not to go to it as a first option, especially when our > strength in WMUK is our professional connections throughout the third sector > and "GLAM" world. > > On 28 July 2017 at 18:16, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum (John Byrne)

On 28 July 2017 at 17:18, John Byrne wrote: > The BM still in effect operates a "don't ask, don't tell" policy on > photography - see > [http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/2011-11-14%20Visitor%20Regulations%20FINAL.pdf > section 8.1] here: "8.1 Except where indicated by

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

education, not shaming. > > Michael > > On 28 Jul 2017, at 13:11, Richard Nevell <richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk> > wrote: > > Attempting to embarrass the British Museum is misguided and certainly would > not build bridges for future collaboration. > > On 28 J

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

ard Nevell <richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Attempting to embarrass the British Museum is misguided and certainly would > not build bridges for future collaboration. > > On 28 Jul 2017 13:03, "Fæ" <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The Tullie House Mu

[Wikimediauk-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

The Tullie House Museum in Carlisle has a number of objects on loan from the British Museum,[3] and it appears that it is only those objects that have any restrictions on photography. I took photographs of two of these (without any flash), as the restrictions are shockingly obvious cases of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pride 2017

to Commons later. Fae On 17 July 2017 at 18:22, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nudge. If anyone has photos on their camera from last weekend's Pride > in London, don't forget to upload them to Commons and add the 2017 > category. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pride

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open-licensed images of UK MPs are coming!

Yes, the whole collection of current MPs has been uploaded as of this afternoon. I noticed that some current MPs have no photograph released so far, such as Dame Rosie Winterton. If someone pings me, I can run an update very easily, so long as the site does not change its layout. A few were

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pride 2017

festival events and the all night clubbing that the city is famous for and could share some shots afterwards that help capture the scene for prosperity. :-) http://www.northern-pride.com/event/parade Thanks, Fae On 9 July 2017 at 00:21, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > The 2017 Pride in London

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM

de fit for the 21st century, these improvements to the charity's engagement with the community and a hike in meaningful governance are achievable and realistic long before the 2018 AGM gets booked in our diaries. Thanks, Fae > -- > Rexx > > >> On 16 July 2017 at 14:33 Fæ <fae...@

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM

; Nicola (as teller) read out the total number all of the valid votes, which > were 57 (30 of them proxy votes submitted before the meeting). Cheers, Lucy > > On 16 July 2017 at 11:13, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> A small request for the pending minutes of the AGM;

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM

A small request for the pending minutes of the AGM; during the meeting there was a count of hands of voting members, presumably to comply with the Articles of Association with regard to the legally required quorum. The final count was not read out, so I will be interested to read that specific

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK Annual Report and Accounts

As I was at the AGM, I put the question of the 250% jump in membership to the two trustees in the room standing for election. Both were caught out, as neither had been informed about membership numbers and none of the reports to the AGM mentioned membership increases. It seems odd that there is

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK Annual Report and Accounts

Having read through the report, I can see no direct statement of membership numbers apart from an income from membership fees, which does not break down individuals from organizations. Could someone point me to where the membership statistics are on the WMUK site? I recall this page of stats

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Give a lightning talk at this Saturday's AGM and meet up!

Hi Harry, If you are still thinking about it, it would be neat to cover any experiences you have had in use of the projects for mapping, successful or not. I play around with OSM, and have remained impressed at how nicely the editing tools work there. At the 'meta' level we have a big gap between

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pride 2017

The 2017 Pride in London category has been set up. If anyone has photos from today please drop them in! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pride_in_London_2017 I managed to photo some of the groups as they were assembling by getting friendly with a steward, though in theory a pass was

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pride 2017

I'll be going, this will be my 28th successive year at London Pride. It's been strange going from a time when there seemed to be as many police as us marchers to when you can hardly see any police. I have a Samsung NX500 (3/4 size DSLR) but only a 50mm lens, never feeling rich enough to fork out

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK 2017 AGM - Agenda, Registration and Lightning Talks

On 22 June 2017 at 13:31, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote: > Dear all > > > The formal notice of Wikimedia UK's 2017 Annual General Meeting was sent to > members by email earlier today, on behalf of the board of trustees. If you > are a member and don't receive the

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

Hi Leutha, It's a mystery to me why when there is no need for secrecy, anyone would want to hide a public statement of copyright in a private database, which is run under arcane confidentiality agreements with the WMF (which is why many volunteers left) and cannot be verified independently. If

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

com> wrote: > > On 22 April 2017 at 13:54 Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> 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

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

Thanks Harry. Interesting to check through the images. One of my uploads is still on the page :-) The Geograph shot of the Warkworth gate is surprising to see, I would have thought someone would have uploaded a better quality version from the same angle by now. It's a bit sad to remember that

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

rticipate. > > John > > On 17 January 2017 at 15:34, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm still trying to understand why UK-based Wikimedia developer >> discussions have to be on a closed forum. >> >> As an example, with global discussions ar

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

I'm still trying to understand why UK-based Wikimedia developer discussions have to be on a closed forum. As an example, with global discussions around issues or changes on Phabricator, a key benefit is that it is easy to link to these discussions and information on-wiki so that anyone can review

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

Fortunately nobody is suggesting deletion :-) However there is a good learning point for future projects, in that on any start of a project the question of copyright needs to be taken on, to ensure all possible tees are crossed and ies dotted so that volunteers can avoid getting bogged down in

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

See [1], in short if a list can be created by repeatable analysis of data, then it's not copyrightable, otherwise, by definition, it must have subjective creativity and so is copyrightable. The 100 women list is not independently repeatable, so to be published on Wikipedia without future risk of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Mass image uploads expert

eems flexible to an extent. > > On 14 October 2016 at 09:15, Jonathan Cardy <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Fæ would be my first suggestion for a mass upload if he is available and > the collection is suitable. But reading through that link I'm not sure we > ca

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Mass image uploads expert

ions early, rather than have multiple deletion requests to manage downstream. Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae On 14 October 2016 at 09:15, Jonathan Cardy <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fæ would be my first suggestion for a mass upload

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] How would you like to communicate with WMUK and other Wikimedians?

We set up a page in 2011 for coordinating IRC meetings and used to have #wikimedia-uk-board for the community to be able to raise discussion directly with Trustees, so questions could be raised live during our meetings and there could be discussion about chapter affairs away from the main

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proxy votes for the AGM

I would like to vote by proxy but my membership is still pending. What's the resolution for those circumstances, can someone vote on my behalf in person on the day? Thanks, Fae On 7 July 2016 at 10:47, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote: > Dear all, this is just a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] #ListEngland: Heritage England, crowd-sourcing, a missed opportunity

It would make sense to build on the work already done in standardizing NRHP related photographs. The 300,000 archive images of historic American buildings I uploaded were mapped to Commons categories and NRHP numbers. It's a while back, but you can see an example of semi-automated mapping at

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Current partnerships updates. Interested?

On 10 May 2016 at 15:22, Stuart Prior wrote: ... > Palestine Exploration Fund - Fantastic collection, interested in doing some > training for their members, yet to be scheduled. > > Tate Britain - Looking for a trainer for an event on 22nd of May covering > Queer

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Current partnerships updates. Interested?

On 10 May 2016 at 15:22, Stuart Prior wrote: ... > Tate Britain - Looking for a trainer for an event on 22nd of May covering > Queer British Art. ... > Stuart Hi Stuart, Did my off list email on 13 May, offering to help with the Tate event get through to you? I'm

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Collating/editing information about the benefits of open knowledge

On 26 February 2016 at 09:41, Charles Matthews wrote: > On 25 February 2016 at 21:47 Michael Maggs wrote: > > And as a national charity that aspires to lead in this area we really ought > to have something that concisely answers the question

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Should all open knowledge advocacy be paid positions?

rmal than that and whilst I would obviously hope they would > primarily be made up of members of WMUK, I'm not actually sure whether this > would be a specific requirement. I will have to look into this and get back > to you. > > Cheers > Lucy > > > > On 2 December

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 15th Birthday Party on Saturday 16th January from 7.30pm

On 5 January 2016 at 16:44, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote: ... > drinks party from 7.30pm on Saturday 16th January at Newspeak House, Bethnal > Green, to mark the 15th birthday of Wikipedia. This will be a small, ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak I

[Wikimediauk-l] Should all open knowledge advocacy be paid positions?

Hi Lucy, Just a couple of years ago, when the number of employees in the UK was measured between zero or two, unpaid volunteers like me used to go along and sit in on and give views in parliamentary discussions, meet and share ideas with other unpaid volunteer representatives from advocacy groups

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Should all open knowledge advocacy be paid positions?

team needs to focus on meaningful programmes > that have impact! > > Best wishes > Lucy > > > > On 2 December 2015 at 12:23, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Lucy, >> >> Just a couple of years ago, when the number of employees in the UK

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 'Romantic London' - reusing Horwood's 1790's map

Andy, you can find the map on Commons at [1]. It's been a few years since I had a personal, and positive, chat with the British Library copyright/legal management. I would be happy to drop in again for a meeting to chat about how better to handle this project, or others, if they spot me lunch.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Get Online Week

On 13 October 2015 at 15:12, leu...@fabiant.eu wrote: ... > I think there is what we do and what we imagine we do. Although the > propaganda is that editathons are there to develop new editors, in fact they > are very poor at this with somewhere around a 5% success level.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] FAO members of Wikimedia UK...

Presumably this means paying members of the Wikimedia UK charity were sent an email, not members of the Wikimedia UK email list. On 22 September 2015 at 14:01, Richard Symonds wrote: > Good afternoon! > > This is a quick note to members of Wikimedia UK - if you

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

On 12 Sep 2015 10:09 pm, "Rod Ward" ... > I have asked whether it is possible to extract all of the locations in a county from this list, but, to the best of my knowledge, no one has ever worked out a way to do this. ... This can be done. On Conmons I have used the Ordnance Survey data set to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Lists of public art in UK counties and cities

On 26 August 2015 at 11:09, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote: ... Commons will accept photos of public art provided they do not infringe any copyright. That means in practice that the artwork being photographed must either be old enough to be out of copyright, or (if still in copyright)

[Wikimediauk-l] Sharing a million photographs

A Wikimedia blog post highlighting and celebrating some of my batch upload projects over the last 3 years has been posted at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/10/sharing-a-million-photographs. For Commons to work it's always a collegiate effort. and I know many long term UK based volunteers have

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Deadline for Members' Resolutions

Catching up on this discussion, but reading through the emails on this community list, nobody has referred to the 12 June members advance warning email (marked as done on the chapter wiki[1]). This is different to the notice of AGM which is due to be emailed to all members on 1 July. Did the

[Wikimediauk-l] UK positions on the proposed harmonization of Freedom of Panorama in Europe

For those interested in this proposed EU copyright change, and with access to the BBC IPlayer (it may only work in the UK), I suggest reviewing today's Daily Politics show.[1] The position of the Labour party MEP (Mary Honeyball) is to support new restrictions on Freedom of Panorama (she gives a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimeet survey

After having been discussed with many non-pub suggestions raised in the past few years, I'd really like to see this change. I hope the survey supports that viewpoint. People have many reasons for not wanting to meet in pubs, not just religious. I've been teetotal for the last 15 years, and after

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Moderation of Fae

email was not posted. After a year I have no examples of anything I wrote to this list as a rationale that I can respond to or improve against. It is self evident that list moderation is not working as one would expect. Fae On 24 May 2015 at 14:38, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: It has now been over

[Wikimediauk-l] Moderation of Fae

It has now been over a year that my email address was put on moderation (perhaps someone would like to provide a date, I have not trawled the archives). In the absence of any appeal process, I ask that this is lifted. My most recent email to this list has yet to be posted, it has been waiting for

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Redundancies at WMUK

RF, this only applies to large scale redundancies in larger organizations than WMUK. PS due to moderation, this email may be posted to the list a long time after it posted date. Fae On 7 May 2015 16:22, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk wrote: The need for a consultation period (with

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Advice re wp workshop - COI, BLP ? Paid editing

I have supported many editathons and advised many academics on COI. Most academics are keen to edit openly, using their real identity, some have expressed the view that this is how to behave ethically on the internet. If they are likely to be a long term contributor, I strongly advise them to be

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK update, 24 March 2015

In the draft accounts, it is not possible to discover how much has been spent on staff or admin (such as rent costs for the London offices). It looks like they may have been spread out under programme and project line items. In comparison in the draft budget for the coming year, Admin and

[Wikimediauk-l] List participation

I thought it would be interesting to share a summary I just pulled from the database of how many posts per month the WikimediaUK list had over the last 3 years. In this period the average numbers have declined and now they are at 30% or possibly 20% of what they were in 2012. 289 - Jan 2012 112 -

[Wikimediauk-l] Governance and how WMUK places high value contracts

2014 at 19:24, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice to hear from the board how this was discussed before offering the interim position. After all, in the several interviews I took part in for WMUK staff, pretty much the first basic question was along the lines of 'have you ever edited

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcome ro D'Arcy Myers

It would be nice to hear from the board how this was discussed before offering the interim position. After all, in the several interviews I took part in for WMUK staff, pretty much the first basic question was along the lines of 'have you ever edited Wikipedia?' as a way of assessing what the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcome ro D'Arcy Myers

I see this email was deleted. No explanation given. Fae On 18 Nov 2014 19:24, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice to hear from the board how this was discussed before offering the interim position. After all, in the several interviews I took part in for WMUK staff, pretty much

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Magna Carta

I have uploaded a few presentations and talks on video which would cheer up Magna Carta articles, some are quite 'non-academic friendly' for readers who might be daunted by a long encyclopaedia article (videos play back without having to leave a Wikipedia article). They are currently in

[Wikimediauk-l] LGBT editathon, Bishopsgate Library, London on 18 October

I am delighted to confirm that the first LGBT editathon in the UK will be running on Saturday 18th October at Bishopsgate Library. The library is well known for hosting LGBT archives, including materials for the UK Campaign for Homosexual Equality, a huge collection of early LGBT literature, LGBT

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