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

I think it's important to recognise the shift in emphasis that has occurred since the foundation of Wikimedia UK. It was, of course, created as a non-profit company and only later gained charity status. This is perhaps obvious in the way the the articles reflect the earlier - dare I say

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia's Twentieth Birthday

It seems to be sold out. How did we manage to sell out a virtual event? -- Rexx > On 05 January 2021 at 17:11 Katie Crampton > wrote: > > Hi all > > Hope you had a good break, and happy new year to you all! > > As many of you will know, Wikipedia turns twenty on the 15th

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Brian McNeil

We seem to be living in a time of sad news. I only met Brian on a handful of occasions, but he immediately made an impression on me as real character and a Wikimedian passionate about Wikinews. The projects will sorely miss him. -- Doug > On 28 July 2020 at 11:17 Stevie Benton wrote: > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Virtual meetups

For what it's worth, we have a dedicated IRC channel on Freenode #wikimedia-uk but it's usually very quiet with only about a dozen regulars. -- Rexx > On 08 May 2020 at 03:51 Richard Symonds wrote: > > Maybe. > > But IRC is all but useless to most people - much too technical and

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

website had > the copyright claim removed, so it's unfortunate that this > announcement is effectively walking back that progress for open > knowledge and instead promotes the use of "noncommercial" which very > much hampers public value and reuse, including scaring off many &

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

I'm pretty sure CC BY-NC-SA is not compatible with the licences on Commons. They could be uploaded and used on en-wiki with a fair use rationale, the same as any other non-free image. -- Rexx > On 29 April 2020 at 13:30 John Byrne wrote: > > So can we put them on Commons? Or use them

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

For anybody doubting the value of our Covid-19 coverage, take a look at https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-why-wikipedia-is-immune-to-coronavirus-1.8751147 Haaretz is a well-respected Israeli newspaper with a fairly liberal outlook; the article itself is hugely complimentary

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Skillshare #2 - AutoWikiBrowser

I've added you to the list, John. Cheers -- Doug > On 17 April 2019 at 16:57 John Lubbock wrote: > > Hi all, > > We will be holding our second Skillshare event at the WMUK office on > Tusesday May 7th from 18:00 to 21:00 or thereabouts. You can find event pages > on Meta >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK Wiki

Thanks Lucy, for your positive response to the issues raised recently. On the technology front, I'm sure I'm not speaking out of turn when I say that I'd like to see something like the old Technology Committee revived to give volunteers a defined channel for communication with the Board and

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Events coming up

Is anything happening outside of London? -- A. Provincial > On 23 October 2018 at 18:56 John Lubbock > wrote: > > Hi all, I've been quite busy organising some upcoming events. We have a > presentation and a short editathon this weekend at Mozfest, an editathon at > Newspeak House, and

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wiki-Medicine] WPMed Foundation to become a thematic organization: Your support is needed!

I hope you don't think this is too off-topic, but Wiki Project Med is applying to become a Thematic Organisation, the subject-specific equivalent of a Chapter, but based on a thematic area, rather than a geographic one. WPMEDF has been in existence for 6 years, and has cooperated with WMUK

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Mozfest session proposal

A couple of obvious topics could be: (1) Web Literacy - the ability to contribute to Wikimedia projects is a high-level transferable skill worth promoting. Remember that the skills required to contribute to Wikipedia, for example, include researching and collating sources, summarising,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK 2018 AGM

For anybody going to the AGM by rail, Virgin Trains have just released the advance tickets. The event starts around 10:30 and finishes around 16:15 if you need to work out times to book seats or advance tickets. Cheers -- Rexx > On 05 June 2018 at 15:37 Katie Crampton > wrote: > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Birmingham event this Sunday

It went very well, thanks, Kat. One of the new editors was on Main Page yesterday with a DYK for the article he created. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Kokolia Hopefully, we'll collaborate with ICON again in the near future. Cheers -- Rexx > On 07 June 2018 at 17:25 Katherine

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK 2018 AGM

Just a quick heads-up for anyone travelling in by rail. Network Rail hasn't published the latest updates, so there won't be any Advance rail tickets available for 14 July for another week or so. It's probably worth checking regularly. -- Rexx > On 31 May 2018 at 11:46 Katie Crampton >

[Wikimediauk-l] Event Coordinators

Following changes which now disallow article creation by unconfirmed editors, a successful RfC was held to establish a new permission, "Event Coordinator". Details are at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Event_coordinator This permission will be very useful for all of our volunteers

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia language conference

Hi Jason, Do you have an outline programme yet? It may be that I can only make one of the two days, and in that case, it would help to have an idea of which day would be most interesting for me. Cheers -- Doug > On 30 April 2018 at 09:37 Jason Evans wrote: > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK chapter membership numbers (John Byrne)

I'm also willing to listen to criticism of the chapter, and I promise I'll do my best to address any issues that I can, as long as it does not fall directly within the operational remit of the staff. I don't share the concern about the jump in membership. All the reports I have seen indicate

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] The #Vote100 Wikipedia editathon NEEDS YOU - We've moved!

Same here, Roger. Edinburgh is a long way to go. What we need is some events being promoted in our own region, as the Midlands seem to be falling behind these days. I would have thought that all we need is a venue and a bunch of folks interested and we could do our own Women in Red event. There

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

Commons does not allow "normal video file types" because many of them contain proprietary coding. Part of our mission is to encourage the growth of open resources and that includes open software and open standards. Commons takes that seriously and it's important that we do as well. Even if it

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] #4947276 Invoice secondary Notice

On 22 August 2017 at 17:15 Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On 22/08/17 11:54, Rex X wrote: > > It's just as likely that his email address has been "harvested" by automated > > programs scanning publicly available email archives, and Ewan als

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] #4947276 Invoice secondary Notice

There's always a possibility that Ewan's mail client is compromised, of course, so that scanning with a good malware detector is sensible. I usually recommend "Malwarebytes free", but others also do the job. It's just as likely that his email address has been "harvested" by automated programs

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM

You make many sensible points, Fae, thank you. Probably the biggest issue for me is whether members are happy with resolutions being passed with little more than 5% of the membership being present in the room when the voting took place. Of course, the other side of that coin is that the business

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

We should encourage more experienced editors to volunteer for OTRS. It's one of those systems where it's often easy to sort out if you can actually speak to somebody who can deal with it. It's not what you know ... -- Rexx > On 14 June 2017 at 17:05 leu...@fabiant.eu wrote: > > > Hi all, >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 143, Issue 15

Great news - and it only took the lifetime of a parliament to get it done (must be a record). Well done, Andy! -- Rexx > On 14 June 2017 at 14:34 Jon Davies wrote: > > > Fantastic > > > > > Jon Davies > arnottdav...@gmail.com > 07976 935 986 > > Linkedin

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Opportunity to become a Wikimedia UK trainer - Edinburgh 4-5th July

> On 08 June 2017 at 13:34 Gordon Joly wrote: > > > On 07/06/17 15:36, Daria Cybulska wrote: > > The event is open to anyone who can make a credible commitment to > > support Wikimedia UK training in future. > > > I can make incredible commitment! > > :-) > > Gordon

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

For a flat-file database that's available online to a limited number of people, a spreadsheet is perfectly adequate. It's probably heresy, but Google docs would work. If we want a simple, free-form, flat database that is part of the Wikimedia projects, the Data: namespace on Commons is much

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Request for trainer assistance at an LGBT+ editathon next weekend

If you can't find anybody closer, I could make it - it's about 130 miles by car or about 3 hours by train - off-peak return £42. Have you asked Roger Bamkin, as he's much closer? Cheers -- Rexx > On 02 February 2017 at 15:11 Katherine Bavage > wrote: > > > Hi

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

Gosh, I'd didn't realise how difficult preference voting was on twitter. I had to log on as 6 different IPs to vote for my third preference once, my second preference twice, and my first preference three times. -- Rexx > On 20 August 2016 at 20:08 Gordon Joly wrote: >

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

In times gone-by, we used to host "office hours" on the WMUK channel on irc. For anybody not familiar with it, our channel is at irc://freenode/wikimedia-uk For anybody not familiar with irc, it requies a client, like mirc or a browser plugin like chatzilla. It allows large numbers of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] I'm moving on!

Thank you for all your work for WMUK over the last five years, Richard. I'm sure you'll find fresh friendships and new challenges in your new job, but please don't forget your old friends as you go forward. Keep in touch, and all my best wishes to you and Fi. You'll always be "Richard the First"

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

The only thing I can say about microphones is that when I was recording bands in the 1970s, we mostly used Shure SM57s and SM58s. They were expensive but unbelievably rugged. You could use a cheap condenser microphone to mike up a flute or for "filling in", but the SM57s always sounded better when

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

Perhaps if more people did use a public mailing list to point it out, the offenders might be less likely to repeat the behaviour. Just guessing, of course. -- Rexx > On 08 June 2016 at 13:51 Charles Matthews > wrote: > > > > > > > On 08 June 2016 at

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Consultation on new draft strategic framework for Wikimedia UK

Yes, I said that. So what's the answer to the question I asked: how else would you do it? -- Doug > On 12 May 2016 at 22:24 Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On 12/05/16 22:19, Rex X wrote: > > But Gordo, how would you expect the wider volu

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Consultation on new draft strategic framework for Wikimedia UK

be interested in any ideas to increase participation, of course. -- Doug > On 12 May 2016 at 10:18 Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On 11/05/16 23:34, Rex X wrote: > > > > To that end, if you feel that there are specific issues to be mentioned or &

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Consultation on new draft strategic framework for Wikimedia UK

Hi Fae, Thanks for raising those concerns. I do agree that we need to do our best to align WMUK's activitites with our written Articles - and vice-versa if required. If the thrust of volunteers' work starts to diverge from what we had anticipated, then we need to be open to recognising that, and

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM location - please vote!

But there is a precedent for moving the London meetup to the first weekend in July: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/35 -- Rexx > On 19 March 2016 at 09:04 WereSpielChequers > wrote: > > > I agree with the logic of rotating between London and

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Moving on

Thanks for all you've done for WMUK, Stevie. I will miss your cheerful greetings every time I step into the office. I wish you all the best for the future, but hope we'll get a chance to get together some time - in fact, if you do find yourself with a bit of free time, we could make that video of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Create a Wikipedia page for you?

Interestingly, the advertiser, "Nick A" claims credit for both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanna_Bonta => created by User:Worthywords, indeffed on 15 July 2015 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taschen => created by User:Karada, an editor since 2002 (not the 6 years claimed by Nick A)