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

[Magnus Manske]

This might 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 <
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme.
>
> Can anyone help out?
>
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] George Blake

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There is also
https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/1399

On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 6:54 PM Charles Matthews <
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> 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 Writers Who Are
> More or Less Forgotten. Which would bear watching, therefore. I found a
> couple of issues, now fixed, with
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel_in_Scotland
>
> which also might be more or less forgotten as an article.
>
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Any photographers near Southampton?

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While you're there... ;-)

https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/#lat=50.9096=-1.40519=17=mixnmatch,wikidata_image,wikidata_no_image


On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 3:07 AM geni  wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 22:28, Harry Mitchell  wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there anyone with a camera or decent smartphone within easy reach of
> Southampton? I'd really appreciate some photos of the cenotaph in Watts
> Park (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_Cenotaph). 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 what exactly do you want?
>
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Historic Prisons database

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I am importing the list here:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/1505

Should be done in a few minutes...

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 4:31 PM John Levin  wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> A heads up that there is a new database of historic (c19th) English
> prisons:
> https://www.prisonhistory.org/
> This is a pretty canonical database - I can't think of anything like it
> for any other place or period - with a wealth of detail, and much fine
> supporting material.
> Have been adding links to it on historic prisons pages, but obviously
> can be used to create and enhance entries.
>
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open-licensed images of UK MPs are coming!

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Made a list of MPs on Wikidata without images, and (possible) image matches:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/MP_image_candidates

Requires some manual weeding though. Mix'n'match not really good for the
job.

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 4:01 PM Fæ  wrote:

> 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 loaded locally to the English Wikipedia by other people.
> Where local versions are being used in articles, I recommend these are
> swapped to Commons, to encourage articles in other languages to use
> them. At some point I guess the portrait photos will be sucked into
> Wikidata, which may enable auto-illustrated infoboxes... ;-)
>
> Thanks,
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> On 27 July 2017 at 15:50, Andy Mabbett  wrote:
> > On 21 July 2017 at 19:36, Andy Mabbett 
> wrote:
> >
> >> the Parliamentary Digital Service announce and preview their
> >> forthcoming release of a set of portrait photographs of 620 of the 650
> >> UK MPs. Pictures of Peers and Parliamentary staff (and hopefully the
> >> missing MPs) are also planned.
> >
> > Most (probably all?) of the pics are now in:
> >
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Official_United_Kingdom_Parliamentary_photographs_2017
> >
> > (Thanks, Fae!)
> >
> > Please help to add these to the relevant Wikidata items, along with
> > the categories that are currently being created, and to Wikipedias in
> > your various languages
> >
> > There are four images for each MP. I suggest that the "crop 2" format
> > is most suitable; and please use those with names beginning "Official
> > portrait of " as other, duplicate, versions are liable to be deleted.
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Odd? Peter Tatchell aritcle.

[Magnus Manske]

Purged, OK now.

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 9:13 AM geni  wrote:

> Template vandalism on.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Official_URL
>
> If you are still getting issues purge the page.
>
> On 26 July 2017 at 08:59, Gordon Joly  wrote:
> >
> > I click on links at...
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tatchell
> >
> > and I get some odd behaviour?
> >
> > Can anybody confirm this?
> >
> > And fix it?
> >
> > Gordo
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Odd? Peter Tatchell aritcle.

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Confirmed. JS XSS thing?

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 8:59 AM Gordon Joly  wrote:

>
> I click on links at...
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tatchell
>
> and I get some odd behaviour?
>
> Can anybody confirm this?
>
> And fix it?
>
> Gordo
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

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Could be my find-a-grave tool?
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/recent_deaths.html

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:52 PM Richard Nevell <
richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

> Would that be "Passing On "?
>
> On 21 February 2017 at 15:23, Andy Mabbett 
> wrote:
>
> At the WMUK education summit yesterday somebody - I regret that I don't
> recall who - mentioned a tool that scrapes a US newspaper for obituaries,
> and matches them to Wikipedia articles (or highlights missing Wikipedia
> articles).
>
> It was suggested that we might have a UK equivalent.
>
> On checking, I see that the Guardian have an RSS feed for their obituaries:
>
>   https://www.theguardian.com/tone/obituaries/rss
>
> Is anyone interested in working on such a tool (or adapting the US one)?
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Mass image uploads expert

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This, perhaps?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/GLAMpipe

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:18 AM  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I have just spotted an announcement of a historic photograph digitisation
> project by the friends of the Somerset Life Museum Research Group (see
> https://somersetrurallifemuseum.org.uk/2016/10/13/digitisation-project/ )
> aiming to digitise 15,000 images.
>
>
>
> I have made an initial contact asking about licencing and sharing and
> mentioned “mass uploads” but I know very little about this. I believe there
> have been some people who have done this for/with other GLAMS and/or
> developed tools to handle this. Who would be the best person to put them in
> touch with if they come back to me and they are willing to release under a
> suitable licence?
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Museums in Wikidata

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Alternative:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/#lat=52.475554001893876=-1.8907213211059573=14=wikidata_image,wikidata_no_image_filter=%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ33506

By default, this shows just the museums on Wikidata; green ones have an
image, red ones have not.
The data updates as you move the map around, or search for a new location.
Might be more intuitive than the query service.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 9:59 PM Andy Mabbett 
wrote:

> I noticed earlier today that most of the museums in Birmingham were
> not showing on this query (they are now!):
>
>
> https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ33506%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ2256%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22sq%2Csr%2Cen%22%20%7D%20.%0A%7D
>
> This was because they were not shown in Wikidata as a museum (or
> subclass thereof); some were simply marked as "manor house",
> "factory", "water mill", etc. Or it was because they had no "located
> in the administrative territorial entity"(P131) property.
>
> You might like to check your local museums, or those you've worked with.
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Lists of public art in UK counties and cities

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Hi Andy,

if each of these artworks had a Wikidata item, lists could be generated as
a by-product, in addition to all the possible queries etc.

Putting data into templates to show on Wikipedia pages is neither
vegetable, animal, or mineral. The worst solution to store this data, IMHO,
in 2015.

Cheers,
Magnus


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 We need more articles listing public art in United Kingdom counties,
 cities or towns.

 I've written a blog post about how to compile them:

http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/public-art-wikipedia/

 and would be grateful if you would all assist, and ask others to do so.

 Once a page is created, adding a row should be something a novice an
 easily do. More experienced Wikipedians can help with tidying up
 formatting, adding references, and so on. As well as adding artworks
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Lists of public art in UK counties and cities

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This can be part of the same initiative. I've started an auto-generated
list for the place I am currently staying:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_art_in_Sylt



On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:23 PM Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:

 This is already attracting new editors to Wikipedia. Show me the
 initiative which is bringing them into Wikidata similarly.



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  Hi Andy,
 
  if each of these artworks had a Wikidata item, lists could be generated
 as a
  by-product, in addition to all the possible queries etc.
 
  Putting data into templates to show on Wikipedia pages is neither
 vegetable,
  animal, or mineral. The worst solution to store this data, IMHO, in 2015.
 
  Cheers,
  Magnus
 
 
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  wrote:
 
  We need more articles listing public art in United Kingdom counties,
  cities or towns.
 
  I've written a blog post about how to compile them:
 
 http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/public-art-wikipedia/
 
  and would be grateful if you would all assist, and ask others to do so.
 
  Once a page is created, adding a row should be something a novice an
  easily do. More experienced Wikipedians can help with tidying up
  formatting, adding references, and so on. As well as adding artworks
  known to you, of course!
 
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] visual Editor is now worth using in outreach editathons

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Getting the data in place and on Wikidata was a massive job, but all of
that is still in place. If we don't update the dataset, or declare The
Community (TM) to be in charge of updating the data on Wikidata, we can
still use the tools from 2014.

Official tool: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wlmuk/ (that one has upload
links for the campaign)

Experimental Wikidata-based tool:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wlmuk/index_wd.html



On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:14 AM Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote:

 There will be no UK contest as far as I know. I've stepped down as
 volunteer WLM organiser this year and no-one else has expressed an
 interest in taking over.  My own view is that with the fairly
 comprehensive listed building coverage we already have in the UK, we
 would do better now to concentrate not on raw numbers but on improving
 photographic quality and on filling in specific gaps. WLM is an
 excellent project but in the UK at least tends to attract large numbers
 of images of the same major landmarks (often in London) and is not an
 ideal way to source high-quality images of lesser-known and regional
 monuments.

 I've had some initial discussions about a possible new approach whereby
 images are requested by Wikipedia editors and are fulfilled by a panel
 of volunteer photographers across the country. Still early stages in
 planning, and a lot of work will be needed to get sufficient high
 quality photographers, probably reaching out to photographic society
 members rather than restricting the talent pool to Wikimedians.

 Michael

 Ed Hand wrote:
  Are we taking part in Wiki Loves Monuments this year?
  No mention of the UK here:
 
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2015/Participating_countries
 
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] ODNB missing women in focus

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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:13 PM Charles Matthews 
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:

 This comes out as pile 188 for PagePile. If you look at the wikitext on my
 page, the data is actually in two columns, Wikidata ID followed by name.
 (This is tabbed data, though the first four or so tabs seemed not to come
 out straight. Doubtless a teething problem.)


FWIW, they are perfectly fine, but because the the first three items IDs
are one digit shorter, the tab display in the browser shifts. You can
make them display on-wiki by wrapping the entire block in pre. I'll throw
in an export to wikitext for get item names soon.
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Authority Control in Welsh Wikipedia

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If it's not used on Welsh Wikipedia, maybe the best thing would be to make
a Wikidata-based one - just add the blank template to people's articles,
and watch it automagically fill with vaules from Wikidata. The last thing
the Wikiverse needs is to add the occasional VIAF entry on Welsh Wikipedia
as wikitext. Not in 2014.

Cheers,
Magnus


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wrote:

 The English (and many other ) Wikipedias use Authority Control;
 identifiers like VIAF, ORCID and several others, which help us to
 disambiguate people with the same name, and to be sure that the
 subject is the same person as that referred to in other sources.

 The main tool for doing this is the template:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control

 I can see no evidence that the template, or Authority Control in
 general, is used on the Welsh Wikipedia (I'm not a Welsh speaker).
 Have I missed somethng? If not, I'd be happy to advise on its
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photographers needed for photography at the Tank Museum in Dorset

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FWIW, the only British tanks on en.wikipedia without an image appear to be:
TOG1
Morris-Martel
Tank, Cruiser, Mk VII Cavalier (A24) ([[Cavalier tank]])

But then, of course, there may be ones that don't have an article yet!

Cheers,
Magnus


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Jonathan Cardy 
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 Dear Wikimedia UK mailing list,

 We have been given some free off peak weekday tickets to the tank museum
 in Dorset.

 I have already Emailed those of our Wiki Loves Monuments participants who
 opted in to further events, so apologies if this is a repeat, but if anyone
 here fancies taking photographs of tanks, send me your snail mail address
 and I will send you a ticket

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

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ImageMagick can mass-crop images, with adjustable tolerance. It can also
deskew (turn to right angle) images:
http://greyproc.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/batch-straighteningdeskewing-and.html


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 On 12 February 2013 14:30, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
  For Windows users, IrfanView (freeware) allows batch rotation and
  cropping (to specific sizes; it doesn't do edge detection, though I
  will raise a feature request). It's also useful for manual cropping,
  resizing, format conversion, etc. being small and lightweight.


 I'm informed that IrfanView auto-crop borders already works, with
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

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I'd be interested too, if it's on a weekend.


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote:

 Hi all,

 As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by
 WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian
 photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata
 is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs
 are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more
 are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking
 forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons.

 Unfortunately, they all look like this:


 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.tif

 and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could
 offer this:


 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.jpg

 Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working
 on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently
 seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set
 up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot
 at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people
 look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for
 interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-)

 We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid
 March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know,
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[Wikimediauk-l] FYI: BBC Your paintings artist list

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Happy new year all!

I'll be brief: last year, the BBC put a lot of digitised paintings online:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/

For the GLAM list (cultural-partners), I made a list of artist links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Your_Paintings

Charles suggested it might be of interest to this list.

Cheers,
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedian in Residence at Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service

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Hi Andy,

I see you try to list new article candidates. To find the most wanted
missing articles from all existing articles in the Stafford category
tree, try:

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?depth=10categories=Staffordshow_redlinks=1show_redlinks_only=1article_redlinks_only=1tusc=%7B%22user%22%3A%22Magnus+Manske%22%2C%22pass%22%3A%22KMnO4%22%2C%22language%22%3A%22commons%22%2C%22project%22%3A%22wikimedia%22%2C%22logged_in%22%3Atrue%7Ddoit=1

Cheers,
Magnus


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 [Note cross-posting]

 I started work as 'Wikipedian in Residence' at Staffordshire Archives
 and Heritage Service this week. This is a short term, pilot project.

 I've created project pages at:

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/SAHS

 and:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/SAHS

 (the latter has more content).


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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge coffee morning this Saturday

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On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
 On 17 July 2012 15:09, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com 
 wrote:
 As previously mentioned to the list, I want to do some meetup-lite
 events connected with training; and the first will consist of my being
 at the CB2 cybercaff in Cambridge from 10 am to 1 pm this Saturday 21
 July. This is the same venue as the normal meetups but I'm relying on
 word-of-mouth this time - please pass on the news to anyone who might
 be interested in the area (WM training, distance education being the
 particular new focus).

 Can't make it, I'm afraid - I'll be in Edinburgh. Hope it goes well...

Me neither, invited to a wedding.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Training semi-meetups in Cambridge?

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I could do most July weekends, depending of the precise meaning of
morning though ;-)

Magnus


On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Peter Coombe
thewub.w...@googlemail.com wrote:
 This sounds good, and I'd be happy to help out. Will be at Wikimania
 as well, but most weekends after that should be okay for me.

 Peter


 On 26 June 2012 14:52, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com 
 wrote:


 On 26 June 2012 13:32, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:


 I'm certainly interested, dates permitting. I'll probably be around
 14th/15th July - ie, the weekend of Wikimania, so if anyone is left in
 the country then...

  Not me - I'll be there in DC. Probably 21 July would be the earliest.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Nice link

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Someone should tell them about that GFDL note, though...

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
 Was chasing up something I had heard on the radio this morning and came to
 this BBC link - nice link to us

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/284382df-ae6d-4631-999a-ce6204f29c45

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 tweet @jonatreesdavies

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 Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] The categorisation backlog

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Don't forget:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=11

Magnus


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:40 AM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
 In case anyone on this list isn't aware of it, we have a very large
 categorisation backlog on Commons. The Geograph load of UK images alone
 includes hundreds of thousands of uncategorised images, and as many only
 categorised by bot.

 However there are some recently improved tools out there that people may not
 be aware of, so I thought I'd email the United Kingdom and Commons lists to
 make sure everyone knew about the changes. The UK mailing list is relevant
 because we have a very large part of the Common categorisation backlog, and
 it has come up as a problem for our Wiki loves monuments plan.

 There have been two major enhancements to Catalot in the last few weeks.

 It now has an autoprompt/complete feature similar to Hotcat to make it much
 easier to add categories, and crucially for our Geograph backlog, it is now
 possible to use  Cata a lot on uncategorised Geograph images such as in the
 categories in
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Geograph_British_Isles_project_needing_categories_by_grid_square
 (Ok you have to copy rather than move as you are replacing a template with a
 category rather than moving from one category to another).

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot


 The other big change is that Rillke has written some code to change the way
 that Hotcat works, so that if you open an a Geograph image that needs its
 categories checked you can confirm the categories eiter with one click or by
 using Hotcat to ad or remove a category. Previously Hotcat would remove the
 Geograph uncategorised template but not the partially categorised template,
 so if bots  had added some categories you couldn't remove the cats need
 review template other than by editing. The Rillke's js code can be accessed
 by installing importScript('User:Rillke/checkCat.js');

 Details at
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:HJ_Mitchell#Check-categories-autoremoval_when_categorizing_with_HotCat

 I've been using it, it works well and is many times quicker than confirming
 categories manually. If everyone who is active on Commons installs it I
 think we'll see the backlog reduce quite noticeably.

 Regards

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Categorization project? (was: Making Wikipedia loves monuments work in the UK.)

[Magnus Manske]

I know this will probably make things worse, but if all our
(read:relevant for UK monuments) images had a geolocation, we could
just see on a map what we have, and thus what we lack.

Now all we need is an easy way to add locations to files...

Magnus


On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com wrote:
 UK Wikimedians are not entirely indifferent to proper subcategorisation of
 photos (outdoor or in) on a vaguely monumental theme - lol

 Well that was a useful push at the linits of what is possible as I knew you
 thought that the rules were flexible. I'm feeling on this thread that we
 need to know why we are gathering more pics when we have so many.

 One appeal in WLM was to see the blip of new users on commons that WLM
 delivered. I only offer the categorisation project because that is where we
 have a large backlog. I know the category model is tricky but surely its a
 problem we cannot allow newbies to ignore? Otherwise our categorisation
 problems gets worse.

  We are saying that we should ask people to take pictures of things that we
 don't have pictures of . but we have no idea which things we don't have
 pictures of.

 What would you say were the main benefits of WLM. to the UK given that we do
 have thousands and thousands of photos that are uncategorised?

 On 30 January 2012 14:59, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:

 Hi Roger,

 I feel sorry for you that you have the feeling that you went out for
 nothing. However, you did surely add to the wealth - having multiple photos
 of something is also worth something.

 A categorization project sounds great, but should probably not be called
 'wiki loves monuments' to avoid confusion. It is also much less useful to
 new users, the main target group of Wiki Loves Monuments. We shouldn't
 bother them with Commons' horrible categorization structure - they should
 just identify what is on their photo, and we can (automagically) take it
 from there thanks to the (to be built) database.

 If you want to motivate people from our communities to categorize
 pictures, that would be a nice project in its own right. Perhaps it would be
 nice to do *before* wiki loves monuments - so that both get maximum effect?

 Lodewijk

 No dia 30 de Janeiro de 2012 15:29, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com
 escreveu:

 Anecdotal story: My wife decided to take me outside for a trip and asked
 where I wanted to go. I'd recently seen a tool by Magnus Mankse called Shoot
 me which lists out all the wiki articles geo tagged near you that lacked
 pics. So I quickly  went

 http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wikishootme/index.html

 and that listed out half a dozen useful places near me that lacked pics.
 We went out  took the pics and when I went to load them I found out that
 all these pictures already existed . they were uncategorised, but there.
 I think I loaded some *new* pix but I'm not sure I added much to the
 wealth.

 So if our objective is to supply everything to everyone (paraphrase our
 vision), then first we need a copy of everything. It could be that we
 already have a copy of nearly everything if we could just sort out what we
 had and what we lacked. However the chances of running a successful UK
 categorisation project is low. or is it?

 Do you know I just typed the last sentence  and realised that that is
 what we want. We want a categorisation project. What we know will appeal is
 a successful photography project. Hmmm

 UK WIKI LOVES MONUMENTS - wacky proposal

 Prize goes to the best five media files in a complete
 Wiki-Commons-Category

 Entrants will ensure that they use a valid commons category for a
 village, road, type of monuments etc. They will populate that category with
 as many photos and videos and sounds as possible. They are invited to add
 their own pictures, viideo and sounds but also to collect as many freely
 sourced files they can find from other sources too.

 Judges will look at wikimedia commons pages, wikipedia, wikisource etc
 pages that use or could use these resources. They will choose the winning
 category and the five media files that best illustrate its reason for
 winning. This is a beauty competition that is is not just based on the
 quality of the media but also the quantity, meta data and completeness of
 the chosen category.

 So thats an idea for what might work Please feel free to ignore, delete
 or modify


 On 30 January 2012 11:46, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:



 I may have missed the point.. but doesn't this article need
 expanding urgently? I feel these types of articles should be expanded
 routinely (Grade I listed buildings).

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmondsworth_Barn

 In the news currently because English Heritage have just bought it.

 Perhaps it should look more like this...

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Mill

 And, yes, I will edit the article - REAL SOON NOW.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Categorization project? (was: Making Wikipedia loves monuments work in the UK.)

[Magnus Manske]

Also, there's a tool for that [1]...

Magnus

[1] http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/fist.php

Pre-filled for Grade I listed buildings in London :
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/fist.php?doit=1language=enproject=wikipediadata=Grade+I+listed+buildings+in+Londondatatype=categoriesparams%5Bcatdepth%5D=0params%5Brandom%5D=50params%5Bstartat%5D=params%5Bll_max%5D=5params%5Bcommons_max%5D=5params%5Bflickr_max%5D=5params%5Binclude_flickr_id%5D=1params%5Bpicasa_max%5D=5params%5Bwts_max%5D=5params%5Bgimp_max%5D=5params%5Besp_max%5D=5params%5Bab_max%5D=5params%5Bgeograph_max%5D=5params%5Bgeograph_max_de%5D=5params%5Bgeograph_max_channel-islands%5D=5params%5Bfreemages_max%5D=5params%5Bforarticles%5D=noimageparams%5Blessthan_images%5D=3params%5Bskip_no_candidate%5D=1params%5Buse_article_as_file_name%5D=1params%5Buse_article_as_description%5D=1params%5Bdefault_thumbnail_size%5D=params%5Bjpeg%5D=1params%5Bpng%5D=1params%5Bgif%5D=1params%5Bsvg%5D=1params%5Bogg%5D=1params%5Boutput_format%5D=out_htmlparams%5Bmin_width%5D=80params%5Bmin_height%5D=80sources%5Blanguagelinks%5D=1sources%5Bcommons%5D=1sources%5Bflickr%5D=1sources%5Bgeograph%5D=1


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 Hi Roger,

 I feel sorry for you that you have the feeling that you went out for
 nothing. However, you did surely add to the wealth - having multiple photos
 of something is also worth something.

 A categorization project sounds great, but should probably not be called
 'wiki loves monuments' to avoid confusion. It is also much less useful to
 new users, the main target group of Wiki Loves Monuments. We shouldn't
 bother them with Commons' horrible categorization structure - they should
 just identify what is on their photo, and we can (automagically) take it
 from there thanks to the (to be built) database.

 If you want to motivate people from our communities to categorize pictures,
 that would be a nice project in its own right. Perhaps it would be nice to
 do *before* wiki loves monuments - so that both get maximum effect?

 Lodewijk

 No dia 30 de Janeiro de 2012 15:29, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com
 escreveu:

 Anecdotal story: My wife decided to take me outside for a trip and asked
 where I wanted to go. I'd recently seen a tool by Magnus Mankse called Shoot
 me which lists out all the wiki articles geo tagged near you that lacked
 pics. So I quickly  went

 http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wikishootme/index.html

 and that listed out half a dozen useful places near me that lacked pics.
 We went out  took the pics and when I went to load them I found out that
 all these pictures already existed . they were uncategorised, but there.
 I think I loaded some *new* pix but I'm not sure I added much to the
 wealth.

 So if our objective is to supply everything to everyone (paraphrase our
 vision), then first we need a copy of everything. It could be that we
 already have a copy of nearly everything if we could just sort out what we
 had and what we lacked. However the chances of running a successful UK
 categorisation project is low. or is it?

 Do you know I just typed the last sentence  and realised that that is what
 we want. We want a categorisation project. What we know will appeal is a
 successful photography project. Hmmm

 UK WIKI LOVES MONUMENTS - wacky proposal

 Prize goes to the best five media files in a complete
 Wiki-Commons-Category

 Entrants will ensure that they use a valid commons category for a village,
 road, type of monuments etc. They will populate that category with as many
 photos and videos and sounds as possible. They are invited to add their own
 pictures, viideo and sounds but also to collect as many freely sourced files
 they can find from other sources too.

 Judges will look at wikimedia commons pages, wikipedia, wikisource etc
 pages that use or could use these resources. They will choose the winning
 category and the five media files that best illustrate its reason for
 winning. This is a beauty competition that is is not just based on the
 quality of the media but also the quantity, meta data and completeness of
 the chosen category.

 So thats an idea for what might work Please feel free to ignore, delete or
 modify


 On 30 January 2012 11:46, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:



 I may have missed the point.. but doesn't this article need expanding
 urgently? I feel these types of articles should be expanded routinely (Grade
 I listed buildings).

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmondsworth_Barn

 In the news currently because English Heritage have just bought it.

 Perhaps it should look more like this...

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Mill

 And, yes, I will edit the article - REAL SOON NOW.

 Gordo




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

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...photos that somehow look similar:

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/photographers_face_copyright_threat_after_shock_ruling__news_311191.html

The servers are safe (well, relatively speaking) in the U.S., but
should people in the UK be concerned when uploading images?


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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:


 On 31 October 2011 12:37, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes we are coming up to January 1st when things go public domain in
 the UK. I understand there will be a bit of a party. Fireworks and
 suchlike.

 My list of works that go PD is a bit short at the moment and mostly
 focused on the your paintings thing but I hope to expand it a bit
 before the new year:


 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geni/1941_deaths


 There is/was a basic Magnus Manske tool that searched interwiki to find
 authors who met the (death year)+X criterion for the first time in 2012 or
 whenever, according to jurisdiction.

That would be:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/PDator.php

Not sure if it's still working, especially with the current poor state
of the toolserver (I know, help is on the way...)

Magnus

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cuts to museums planned

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On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:40 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8021780/Quango-cuts-full-list-of-bodies-under-review.html

 Anything we can do within reason to help our dear friends in the museums?

Maybe a little macabre, but for museums that ate going to be closed,
how about giving each a going away party on location, including:
* taking pictures of objects before they vanish in some storage never
to see the light of day again
* giving museum employees a Wikipedia introduction (talks and/or
practical editing)
* creating/expanding articles related to the museum's topics/objects,
or at least making a high-profile wanted topics list

My aim here is not to plunder the poor museums, but to show them (and
us) that not all is lost, and there are other people and places (like
Wikipedia) to keep the topics alive.

Magnus

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Blog post on appointment

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On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
  http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/ now has the announcement of my
 appointment as part-time Office Manager for the chapter.

Congrats!

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 29 May

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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
 Another Cambridge meetup:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge_7

 In line with past outreach efforts, I'll be trying to get a Cambridge
 contact from the Open Knowledge Conference there, as well as usual suspects.

I can't make it, unless a volcanic ash clod prevents me from leaving
the country...

Magnus

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[Wikimediauk-l] Related places tool

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Hi all,

just toolspamming my latest...

I read the announcement for Britain Loves Wikipedia, was sad to find
no museum in or immediately around my place participates, and tried to
look for the nearest one. Harder than it sounds, if you're not very
familiar with British geography.

So I wrote a tool to show all related places.

First, you need a wikipedia page that links to all the objects you are
potentially interested in. I quickly made [1].
Then, go to my new tool [2] and enter that location there. Click on the button.
Then, you get a link to a google maps page (shortened at [3]).

Which is when I realized there is potential for more. Wanna see places
important to The Beatles? Go [4]!

Enjoy!

Magnus

P.S.: I couldn't quickly figure out how to do the same for
openstreetmaps. If anyone could point me to that...

P.P.S.: Yes, using backlinks are an option as well. Is there interest in that?

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/BLW
[2] http://toolserver.org/~magnus/related_places.php
[3] http://tinyurl.com/ycncg2f
[4] http://tinyurl.com/y92rgo2

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia ordered by judge to break confidentiality of contributor

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On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
 While the Telegraph may possibly be correct that this is the first
 time for a British court to make such an order, I doubt this is the
 first instance of that clause being invoked.

Yes, but the Telegraph is a British newspaper, so all other instances
are not noteworthy by default :-)

Cheers,
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