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So can we put them on Commons? Or use them from a Wikipedia file?
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As I recall, the "successful membership drive" consisted in offering donors to convert some of their donation into a chapter sub. I doubt anyone knows who most of them are, and I doubt a high proportion know much about the movement or the chapter, beyond the experience of a reader. Some of
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I don't think so Andy. At the teleconference GLAM committee meeting on April
21st WMUK people apologised that they weren't able to talk about this as they
had planned. They said to expect an announcement by the end of that
Also I think there are fewer me too and That's great,
congratulations -type messages, which on the whole is a good thing I
think. I suspect analysis would show just as many topics and
substantive comments.
John
There has certainly been a shift to Facebook in that time and possibly
to
with the BL MSS
department (the great work was done before I came, though - John Byrne
and his work on the Cuthbert Gospel). I think I could probably
persuade someone to do a review and feedback, especially if we've done
a chunk of the reworking before then.
Someone looked at the MC article some
at CRUK institutes in Manchester on Friday 5th
December and Cambridge on Friday 12th Dececember? Both are 3 hr
sessions 2-5 pm or 1.30-4.30 pm, and it is the last 60-90 minutes where
help is especially needed. Again, please email direct,
Many thanks,
John
John Byrne, Wikipedian in Residence
Yes it did get very messy. As I remember it, cards were actually printed
for some volunteers before it had been approved by the board, and then
recalled. The cost seemed very high, and Wikipediocracy (or was it WR
then) took a keen interest. But I think it remains a useful idea, so
long as:
On Charles and Andrew's points, Manchester Libraries very kindly allow
anyone in the UK to register with them. See
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/200062/libraries/78/join_the_library
. The process is a tad odd - if you are asked if you are accessing via
Cardiff libraries, say yes - I think
I must say I'm pretty dubious about this approach for articles. I doubt
it can detect most of the typical problems with them - for example
all-online sources are
very often a warning sign, but may not be, or may be inevitable in a
topical subject. Most of Charles' factors below relate better
Oh dear, I seem to have started this by referring flippantly to the
meeting as a summit in an email to Ed Saperia about the early-June
Barbican event, which I cc'd to Andy as he has signed up on the page for
that. The term was entirely my own invention for that email, and not
used by anyone
I agree with others that when a scholarship/grant is made involving
non-trivial travel and living expenses such as air fares and hotels, the
recipients should be identified, if only by username. Exceptions to this
should be made very sparingly, and for very good reasons. If
individuals
and thanks,
John / Johnbod/ User:Wiki at Royal Society John
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Indeed. We've never had more than 250 members, not all of whom edit,
though of course most do. As part of their role the board have to try
to judge what the non-member community would like rather than just the
members or those posting here on the WMUK site. And as this list shows
(how many
Apart from the screenshots that all comes out as symbols letter
gobbledegook for me.
John
On 01/03/2013 18:27, wikimediauk-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
I particularly like the linked booklet at
Thanks, Andy, good to know. I'd be more impressed if they'd followed
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and put on line all their
recent huge glossy exhibition catalogues, up to about 5 years ago.
Admittedly these are PDF but the 1050 items already online at
I use www.photoscape.org, which I picked from the reviews online a
couple of years ago. It's free, easy to use, allows full cropping and
rotating, simple versions of editing for colour, contrast all that
stuff. However the cropping is very far from lossless, and reduces file
size well
What we had is best described as a delay in agreeing terms for the
donation or similar.
John
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What we had is best described as a delay in agreeing terms
I'd agree with Wierspiel. Most large member organizations have natural
anniversaries, to give the membership department something to do all
year. If you have one renewal date you only find out once a year if
people stop renewing, which makes it much harder to try do something
about it. You
I'd agree with the comments so far, and I'm really glad to see things
are happening in this area. We really need to move as far as possible to
direct debits, encourage new members to go straight onto them. That
vastly reduces the hassle for all, of course means the terminally lazy
or
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: John Byrne stands down as Treasurer and Trustee
WMUK were ready to support WLM last year (I was the speaker at the last AGM) but the main
problem was that no one stepped up to run it. To answer Harry's question on how much work
is needed, talked about it with several from the Netherlands elsewhere,
had meetings about doing it in the UK,
Policy revision 2012 . And there are a couple of bits not yet worded up
- help welcome!
Thanks to Jon, Richard the board for their help,
As Treasurer, John Byrne
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Dear all,
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research based in*Oxford* has contacted
Wikimedia UK with a request to have a introductory Wikipedia training run
for them on Thursday* 6 December*, 10am-4pm, London. After Doug Taylor's
I absolutely agree with Harry and Andreas that the newsletter should
reach beyond the chapter list communities to the much larger group of
UK-based editors and readers. And donors, though they are supposed to
be getting their own version. We should always bear this in mind, and
encourage
in 2010 is still thrown at us in a highly distorted way by WMF.
John Byrne
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donations made via WMUK's own site will be eligible for Gift Aid, and
donations made off the project banners won't be.
John Byrne (WMUK Hon. Treasurer)
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Please sign up at:
workshop (1 pm) and exhibition tour (6.30 pm) at the British Library on
10 September,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/September_2012 for the
exhibition Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/writingbritain/index.html
What the WMF does for us is, among other things: allow us to use their
trademarks, provide the servers technical support that run the
projects, develop and support MediaWiki, provide research and some
support in specialized areas, and fund development of the movement
globally. That is why
/CPE points etc for our sessions in partnership with
them.
John Byrne/Johnbod
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The British Museum have kindly agreed a free group tour round their
exhibition, which opens soon. It will be in September, at 9 a.m on a
Thursday. Please express an interest, and any preference for the 6th,
13th or 27th, at
Yes, many of us are aware of the issues with Geograph, above all WSC.
I agree the categorization side of it has been the real Achilles heel,
and in my experience the problem is often worse than WSC suggests. When
I filled up the Commons category for Wimbledon Common,
I made it clear in the conversations on the 17th that I saw no sign of
the WMUK Board wanting to dominate or set the agenda for UK WLM; like
the rest of us they are hoping a champion will emerge.
I've posted the following at the discussion page
*Tuesday, January 17th, 6 p.m.* We plan to have a tour of the exhibition
for about an hour, guided by Joanna Fronska, one of the curators for the
exhibition, followed by a brief session to discuss who can do what,
before moving to a pub around 7.30. For a nice change, an event that
working
We would like to use a couple of clips from the Jimmy Wales Bristol speech in
January in our next submission to the CC, but that the whole thing is a) too
long at 1hr 20 mins b) talks about some things we don't want to go into, such
as gender imbalance, Wikia etc.
There is a 6 min version, on
Please note that though the link Katie just supplied with the CC's
guidance on The Advancement of Education for the Public Benefit is
relevant to the theoretical issue, we are not actually now applying
under that heading but under one of general public utility, so it is the
general guidance
To answer Lodewijk's question it is all the Wikimedia projects, and not
WMUK's activities, that we need to show public benefit from (without
saying too much, anyone who finds this puzzling might start here
http://www.btinternet.com/%7Eakme/shaw.html). There is also a special
page set up on
Yes, it is indeed Thursday 8th. Sorry for any confusion. I now have two
volunteers off this list - thanks very much! - leaving one space still.
Please email me if you are interested.
John
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This Thursday there will be the first Wikipedia training session
help round the
group, as you like.
All help greatly appreciated,
John Byrne/ Johnbod
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This will be announced with a bit more fanfare, and detail, shortly, but
already has a page at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Bronze_Age. We have had
a drop-out from our initial meeting (otherwise Fae myself) at the BM
this Thursday lunchtime. We have a possible back-up, but
review as we will go over budget here
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I think in fact all the points mentioned in Charles' and Lodovik's were
messages were before the GLAM task force, in at least some form, when we
discussed the matter. The term and concept of a National Monument
does not exist as such in the UK, as opposed to other countries, in
itself
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