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

Re: "It is certainly strange to me that some cultural organisations pursue image licensing as a loss making venture that also borders on copyfraud..." I'm hoping that museums will still want to spend money on digitising their content. But we need to be realistic, if they can't subsidise that by

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

Hi Charrles, I've had a look at the Geograph site https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=181239399 and we don't seem to have anything more there. But always worth checking when you are looking for UK photos as we have a lot of images there that have not yet been uploaded onto Commons. Jonathan

[Wikimediauk-l] Meetups are back in real life, but the online option continues.

HI, last Sunday was my first London meetup for a while, and it was good to see so many people, including several I'd not had a chance to speak to since before lockdown. Next month the second Sunday is on the 14th, and unless there is a dramatic resurgence of COVID, we'll be at the Oak again.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Picture request: Urbanora House, Wardour Street, London

Hi Andy, I have searched the geograph and uploaded some "recent" ones of Wardour street from there that weren't migrated from commons a decade ago. The best I can do for you is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Vegas_American_Pool,_Wardour_Street_(geograph_2094904).jpg but for someone

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

Wow, that's a real game changer. Well done to all concerned. Jonathan On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 20:37, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 13:40, Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > > > The National Lottery Heritage Fund has today announced a significant > policy change, > > with a new

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

Andy makes some important points. We know that even if editors in the UK respect what the British Museum is doing and don't upload those images to Commons or Wikipedia; where they are public domain images under US law, it is just a matter of time before someone in the movement, anywhere in the

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

Dear John, If WMUK no longer has a technology budget you might want to consider asking if another chapter would be willing to support QRpedia. It is only because it started in the UK that it was hosted by the UK chapter, it is actually a global resource. Jonathan On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 13:04,

[Wikimediauk-l] Monthly skill share in London

Dear John, I'd be happy to see the chapter bring back these sort of events. Thinking of a few lessons from when we last did them, coffee, soft drinks and some sort of snacks are important - remember that many attendees will be coming straight from work. We also used to designate a pub for the end

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Womanthology would like to run something on Wikipedia's efforts to fix the gender gap in our editing and coverage

I was one of the helpers at Alice's women in red event at Imperial last week. I'll drop her a note. I'm sure she and I suspect the lady from Imperial would be happy to talk to Womanthology. Regards WereSpielChequers On 11 Mar 2018, at 14:49, Richard Nevell <richard.a.j.nev...@gmail.com>

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

OK sold. I've just booked and will be there at least for Harry's talk. On 13 July 2017 at 09:31, Harry Mitchell wrote: > There isn't even an *un*written version yet. It's been a long time since I > stood up and spoke to a room full of Wikimedians. Also, I didn't think >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election Edit-a-thon

Much is down to the operator, but better cameras can take better pictures, especially in Low light conditions. If you take David Gerard's advice and introduce yourself as from Wikipedia , any political party with an ounce of commonsense will usher you to the front and give you a position where

[Wikimediauk-l] Cinema Museum event on the 18th June

Dear All, I'm delighted to be able to announce that we are back at the Cinema Museum in Lambeth, London for an editathon on the 18th June. For the moment this is just a holding notice, we are first going to promote this to their mailing list, but trainers and film buffs will definitely be

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Daily Mail again

Re "why blacklist the Daily Mail not even worse sources? The Daily Mail is a very long way from being the first source deprecated by the Wikipedia community, it isn't even in the most deprecated category of sources, that would be ones that go into the spamfilter and are automatically rejected.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] London meetup.

a different location for both: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/116 March the 12th https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/117 and April 9th As usual all wikimedians welcome, new, ancient or resurfacing. Regards Jonathan/WereSpielChequers On 13 February 2017 at 19:09, Andy

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC Newsnight want to do Daily Mail vs WP:RS tonight - editor on hand?

For those who want some background, this is the RFC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Daily_Mail_RfC and this is also relevant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Daily_Mail_RfC bccing someone who might not be on this list

[Wikimediauk-l] London 115 - 12th Feb

Dear All, Our 115th meetup in London is coming up on the 12th Feb. More details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/115 As usual we will try to be opposite the main doors with at least one laptop with a Wiki logo. I'm guessing the conversation will range from the recent run of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wiki Commons walking tour

Hi John, It has been a while since we did a WikiTakes event in the UK, Wiki takes Chester may be the most recent, be good to have another one Magnus has now produced a nifty tool that shows heat maps of articles without images, so the chapter could do a Wiki takes event targeted at a a place

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

Since the BBC is encouraging people to create unsourced articles on living people there is a high possibility they will turn up at either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BLP_articles_proposed_for_deletion or even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion I've

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] East London Meetup?

/London/112 as usual all are welcome. Jonathan On 25 October 2016 at 13:50, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wasn't expecting to be available, but have now signed up. If it is > anything like the normal London meetups there will be more attendees than

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] East London Meetup?

I wasn't expecting to be available, but have now signed up. If it is anything like the normal London meetups there will be more attendees than signed up. Jonathan On 25 October 2016 at 12:24, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote: > I will be trying to pop in as well, its only a matter of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Mass image uploads expert

Thanks Fae, If this does come off and you have a residue of awkward to categorise ones I might be available to sort them out if you can get them in a separate temporary category. I helped WMIE with Wiki Loves monuments last year and have nearly finshed the English residue of this years Wiki Loves

[Wikimediauk-l] UK photography contest

Dear all, As a result of discussions at last Sunday's London meetup, and to take advantage of a list created by Rich Farmbrough, I have started drafting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_Kingdom/photography_contest_2016 It hath a talkpage. Hopefully we can finalise in

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

And its welcome back to volunteerdom from me too. I was a pleasure to work with you, your new employers have gained more than they might realise. Jonathan On 3 August 2016 at 15:57, Katie Chan wrote: > It was a pleasure working with you Richard. Thank you for all your hard >

[Wikimediauk-l] An invitation to the Oak

Dear all, Yesterday's London meetup had at least fourteen people with three or four new or newish faces. We had four people who'd recently returned from Wikimania at Esino Lario in Italy and they all gave some very positive feedback about the venue, the event and much that happened there. For

[Wikimediauk-l] An invitation to London

f most read Wikipedia articles. Oh and Rich gave me an impromptu lesson on AWB. Next month's meeting is, as always, on the second Sunday of the month - Sunday July the tenth <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/108>. Hope to see some of you there. Jonathan/WereS

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] en.Wikipedia infobox : your help needed

Hi Andy, Are the other parameters the same? Regards Jonathan > On 16 Mar 2016, at 14:50, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > If anyone fancies a job, there are 513 transclusions of: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_UK_feature > > listed at: > > >

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

I agree with the logic of rotating between London and elsewhere. However, if you hold the AGM on the same weekend as the London meetup it would be sensible to hold it in the same city. On 18 March 2016 at 16:28, James Farrar wrote: > Until last year the venue had always

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge Images Workshop 19 March

Geocodes, ah yes, probably guilty there. I read through the thing twice and clicked various links before deciding I was going to have to ask what the connection was between Kinlochleven.jpg and genocide. And yes I agree that the whole thing is a bit too Geocodey and dry - if anyone fancies

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge Images Workshop 19 March

Coming from the opposite end of the scale, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/image_adding is an exercise I've been building up and testing on newbies. It is based on some lists from Rich Farmbrough and some sessions that Fabian and I ran. WSC On 9 March 2016 at 16:03,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Free as in beer

Well they definitely aren't adding either NC or ND, but they might be implying SA with all that sharing is caring stuff. You could ask before migrating to wiki source, my guess is they are choosing CC-BY-SA Regards Jonathan / WereSpielChequers > On 29 Feb 2016, at 15:19, Richard Symo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Finding articles without photographs near your current location.

Thanks Gordo, Andrew, Fabian and Lucy I've now been told of another tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ which can show you articles near places you are planning to visit. So Fabian, wherever your dog decides to take you there are likely opportunities there as well! WereSpielChequers

[Wikimediauk-l] Finding articles without photographs near your current location.

I've just been introduced to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby which lists articles near your current location and from the thumbnail it is fairly obvious whether it has an image or not. Has anyone tried using this in outreach to photographers? WereSpielchequers

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Hello! / University of Edinburgh editathon

WereSpielChequers On 13 February 2016 at 15:35, MCANDREW Ewan <ewan.mcand...@ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > > > Apologies for cross posting! > > > > Just a short email to say hello as the new Wikimedian in Residence at the > University of Edinburgh (January 2016 to J

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Does anybody have a copy of Pevsner's London Volume 2?

A Lutyens I would guess. Regards Jonathan Cardy > On 2 Jan 2016, at 17:42, - - wrote: > > I'd imagine the many different editions of that book have different > paginations. You'd better check between you what building you are after. > > > > Johnbod > >> On 02

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Get Online Week

Dear Mike, I think the target group is significant here. My suspicion is that editing Wikipedia is not an entry level computer task. I have twice trained non computer users at editathons I was helping at, on one occasion I spent an inordinate amount of time teaching someone how to use a mouse. My

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WikimediaUKblue mobile internet device

I've sent what I remember being the password offlist, can I suggest any other serious guesses go off list until Chris indicates on list that he has it working. On 8 September 2015 at 20:02, Chris McKenna wrote: > Hello all > > I'm currently borrowing the white mifi mobile

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

We have quite a few UK public sculptures on commons, especially as a result of the geograph import. Would it be possible to use a program to start such lists on Wikipedia based on categories on commons? You could exclude anything in subcategories under museum or church if you want to narrow

[Wikimediauk-l] You are invited to the Royal Opera House

Hi, we are holding an outreach type editathon at the Royal Opera House on the 5/6th September and have some places for experienced Wikipedians. Would you like to join us? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/Royal_Opera_House_September_2015 Regards Jonathan

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photo contests (was visual Editor is now worth using in outreach editathons)

my best to photograph the requested locations if they don't already have available photographs. Thanks, Mike On 12 Aug 2015, at 16:32, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: I have been going through the not particularly useful category Wikipedia requested photographs

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photo contests (was visual Editor is now worth using in outreach editathons)

/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2015/Participating_countries best wsihes Edward On 10 August 2015 at 16:43, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: I have now used the visual editor for more than a hundred edits since the speed up. I agree that the classic editor is generally

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] visual Editor is now worth using in outreach editathons

I have now used the visual editor for more than a hundred edits since the speed up. I agree that the classic editor is generally faster and I suspect that will be especially true for anyone editing large articles as V/E's still lacks section editing. I like the way V/E supports infobox

[Wikimediauk-l] visual Editor is now worth using in outreach editathons

a friend's old PC and V/E does now work, though it is still a little slower than the classic editor. Regards Jonathan / WereSpielChequers ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Exeter workshop this Weds 15th July

Hi Rod, Sorry I am not around on Wednesday, but happy to give some remote support before then. One limitation you will probably hit is the number of Accounts that can be created on one IP address in one day. You can reduce that risk by having multiple IPs, by asking attendees to create an

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

Whilst I agree and gave exactly that advice yesterday to someone who then wrote a review of an article on a talkpage explaining where her publication contradicted it, another editor promptly responded with the suggestion that of course she didn't have a COI and she should amend the article

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] List participation

There has certainly been a shift to Facebook in that time and possibly to Twitter and maybe the specialist sublists like tech and I think education. I'm not sure I approve of all of that both for open source reasons and because it excludes the pseudonymous amongst us. But it has certainly

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] New member signups at Wikimania

Hi Andy, I don't know the total, and we may not have finalised things yet as we are still recruiting from people who got involved at Wikimania and are now working out how to stay involved. The two I have personally signed up were both immediately after Wikimania. I assume you are interested in

[Wikimediauk-l] Editathon 2pm 12th August

Dear all, You are invited to an Editathon at the Zoological Society of London on Tuesday afternoon next week. https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/ZSL_London_Zoo_Library_editathon_12_August_2014 regards Jonathan Cardy Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK

[Wikimediauk-l] Know how to manipulate an Xml database? Want to learn how the new mass upload tool works

sessions that cover issues such as Copyright. Click here to register https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_upload_training Regards Jonathan Cardy aka WereSpielChequers ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] Bring your old broken laptops to Wikimania!

Hi Harry, I have an old netbook (the one I took to Wikimania Buenos Aires) which has stopped picking up WiFi and a fairly new Samsung Chromebook with a dodgy mousepad. Does your computer repairer have some guidelines as to how old kit can be before it ceases to be worth fixing? and if it is to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 3D file formats.

Thanks Geni, would you be OK with that being copied to a discussion page on commons or meta? Regards Jonathan Cardy On 17 Jul 2014, at 20:14, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: I can't remember who asked about this at the London meetup but options are: .X3D seems to be trying to become

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Kings Cross event

Editing from a bobsleigh could be an interesting test of our mobile Wifi On 18 June 2014 16:21, Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Charles Matthews wrote: I think you have just invented the sledgathon, aka wreckshop ... A sledgeathon just gives me the mental

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] West Midlands Police Museum editathon

Great news Andy, how limited are the numbers? On 10 February 2014 15:21, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: It's in Spark Hill, which is well-known for, ah, police related incidents. Andy: I for one would love to attend - I will see if I'm free. Richard Symonds

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Tomorrow: 31 October

Hi Dan, No not hiding from you, you are top of the list of volunteers we were hoping would help us by moving sacks of Yorkshire tea, beanbags and our fine collection of pot plants from one side of the building to the other. On 30 October 2013 16:49, Deskana djgw...@gmail.com wrote: You're

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [WMUK Office] More Wiki Takes … events in September for WLM ?

OK Michael, I've started http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizing_a_Wiki_takes_event - this links to the commons one, but has some specific stuff for the UK such as our ability to supply mobile WiFi for events. On 27 August 2013 16:59, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote: Jonathon That

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wlm2013-l] Lists of UK listed buildings

Nice work, but as the WLM images will be going onto Coommons you also need a column for the relevant commons category, otherwise how are you going to correctly categorise the uploaded images? Jonathan On 19 June 2013 19:41, Katie Chan katie.c...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: No, splitting it into

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Funding Opportunity: Google launch the Global Impact Challenge

Making the English Wikipedia more accessible to non-English speakers is a worthy objective and something which we could easily make a big difference to. Currently the main route for non-English speakers to access EN wiki is via Google translate and similar online translation services. If Google

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WMUK Office] Fwd: Wikipedia source for BBC

And there was I thinking that the 50s and 60s were the nearly contemporary area where Wikipedia was at its weakest. Not old enough to be taught in the schools or new enough to be known to the technoscenti. Clearly those gaps are getting filled in. WSC On 25 March 2013 10:28, Michael Peel

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Anyone interested in Lua and PIzza one day?

the basement might be crowded! Andrew. On 15 March 2013 15:13, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: May 11th would be the day before the May London meetup, that might be convenient for some people. WSC On 15 March 2013 12:42, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Anyone interested in Lua and PIzza one day?

May 11th would be the day before the May London meetup, that might be convenient for some people. WSC On 15 March 2013 12:42, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hey why not? I think there is interest in this so we should think how and where we should advertise it. Obviously on

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership grace period

Hi Jess, First of Jan is an awkward time of year - people are most likely to get into debt over Xmas so I'd be cautious about trying to harmonise all our renewals at that time of year. If you have a bunch of regular AGM attenders who pay their memberships in cash then it is obviously easiest to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Where are we with QRpedia?

My understanding was that QRpedia was used to generate the codes, but the codes on the plaques use qrwp.org. which has been publicly offered to the movement. I agree that we should not be promoting the use of QR codes unless we are reasonably confident that the site they link to is maintained by

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Polish becomes England's second language

I can see a case for Wikimedia or Wikimedia Poland doing something about that. But I would advise against a UK based organisation trying to involve itself in the Republic, especially on such a contentious issue as the second language of Ireland. WSC On 30 January 2013 15:54, Deryck Chan

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] state of qrpedia

less generous than some might like. WSC On 20 January 2013 21:58, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 20 January 2013 20:07, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Would I be correct in understanding that you are intending to retain the QRpedia website and presumably

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fw: WikiConference 2013 Speakers

it. WSC On 16 January 2013 16:55, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: Huge dents have been made in the Geograph backlog since last year, thanks mainly to changes in HotCat and Cat-a-lot on Commons and the dedication of WereSpielChequers and others. Geograph is fantastic, but it has

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fw: WikiConference 2013 Speakers

Thanks Roger, Both Geograph and Wiki Loves Monuments have established that people like photography contests, and they are willing to take images and release them under open licenses. I'd also add that enough of the images are good that it is worth sifting through the many that aren't. Geograph

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] state of qrpedia

Hi Roger, thanks for that update. Would I be correct in understanding that you are intending to retain the QRpedia website and presumably brand? If so presumably we will need a new brand for our QR codes and should stop using the term QRpedia except when referring to the site currently used to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Verifying membership applications - Suggestions and comments

The Postcard idea is good, but remember that a postcard isn't in an envelope, so please don't print anything more on it than the minimum needed for us to know which postcards have come back - i.e. a membership number. I would suggest that you also want something in the process to raise an alert

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] PR industry blames 'cumbersome' Wikipedia (Andreas Kolbe)

Dear Andreas, We need to remember that this is a volunteer driven process, and the commodity in short supply is volunteer time not PR professionals time. Encouraging PR people to forum shop by raising the same thing in multiple venues is disrespectful of the community, it also risks damaging

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] PR industry blames 'cumbersome' Wikipedia

I would be tempted to say We hope this is an isolated problem and that most UK PR agencies employ someone who doe not find it cumbersome to send an Email. WSC On 14 November 2012 11:46, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: I think the journalist was more interested in trying to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] An interesting blog from Africa.

We do have a systematic bias that leads us to under-represent Africa, and anywhere else where secondary sources are sparse. But otherwise I believe the blogger is misinformed. Our page views aren't flat, they are growing faster than the average for the Internet. And while the number of new

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] An opportunity

, an indicator of how important we are. On Sep 29, 2012 7:44 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: We have a mailing list of people who donated to WMUK last year. I'm assuming that we are still going to email them and ask for another donation? If so we can hopefully switch some

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK board election process

Re Andrew's request for a clear statement setting out the reasons for the change. The difference between STV and a majoritarian system is that if you have a community where factions have emerged then STV ensures that all significant factions can see someone elected who they approve of. By

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Debating issues

September 2012 16:22, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: I've taken part in some of the IRC office hours. The format works OK if everyone is being positive and just wants to question one person. It isn't so good if either the subject is so complex as to spark debate in various

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Paid editing by Roger Bamkin

I don't have a problem with the UK chapter giving a few how to edit leaflets out to someone who is encouraging people how to edit. But I would appreciate a little clarification re QRpedia. Can someone tell me who owns the http://qrpedia.org domain name? If I'm correct in my understanding of QR

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [WMUK Board] Statement regarding Ashley Van Haeften, Chair of Wikimedia UK

Fox are part of News International aren't they? So a sister company to Page3.com is getting on a high horse re porn and directing people to a homophobic website. Not as bad as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal#Milly_Dowler.27s_voicemail Or the coundown clock

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Freepost Wikipedia

There is bound to be a Postcode for that Freepost address, and if you write to Wikimedia UK at that Postcode then I would be surprised if it was not delivered. WSC On 26 July 2012 14:36, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote: Considering that most organisations simply have a Freepost address

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] The situation with the chair

It is a deeply unfortunate situation. A few months ago if anyone had said to me that Arbcom were capable of some of their recent behaviour then I would have been inclined to defend Arbcom. But I now find myself almost agreeing with David Gerard's assessment of them. To my mind the worst thing

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] The situation with the chair

On 26 July 2012 23:00, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 July 2012 20:01, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.comwrote: It is a deeply unfortunate situation. A few months ago if anyone had said to me that Arbcom were capable of some of their recent behaviour then I would

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Coffee Morning Saturday, was Re: Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 84, Issue 27

Sorry, something has come up and I won't be able to join you this time. But I would like to talk about some training I delivered - if Leutha joins you he can tell you how the first session went. Any chance you can join us at the next London meetup? WSC On 20 July 2012 17:32, Charles Matthews

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Coffee Morning Saturday, was Re: Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 84, Issue 27

Excellent, and glad to see you might join us as well. :) WSC On 20 July 2012 18:51, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.comwrote: On 20 July 2012 18:36, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, something has come up and I won't be able to join you this time

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 84, Issue 27

I'm also potentially available then, though 10 AM in Cambridge is a stretch. Will there be a Skype chat? WSC On 18 July 2012 16:05, fab...@unpopular.org.uk wrote: I welcome this initiative and would be prepared to come up from London on the basis of my travel expenses being paid by Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Russian Wikipedia blackout.

It is being discussed on the Wikimedia list, but what relevance is it to Wikimedia UK? WSC On 10 July 2012 07:11, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: FYI

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Can I get wikimedia-uk to buy a ROV?

I like the idea of a ROV or an underwater camera. Presumably the advantage of an ROV is that it could go deeper? I've no idea about the relative costs and capabilities of such devices, but I was wondering if it had such technology available, would the charity be willing to lend it to underwater

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] CIPR story in the Indie

On 28 June 2012 22:15, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: Anybody can edit Wikipedia that's the mantra! Gordo We have nearly 4 million articles on everything from Aardvaarks to Zoroastrianism. PR people are welcome to edit almost any of them, just not the ones that relate to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] May be of interest

Waithamai is a German editor who has been to a few of our events, Gustavf is active on DE wiki. So I'd assume that this was a DE Wikipedia German language meeting in London. WSC On 21 June 2012 10:21, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Saw reference to this in the WMDE annual

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's coolest projects

Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we were already a charity). Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money reclaimed under the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to mention. WSC On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 6 June

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] OpenDomesday links

Fae, Wouldn't it be more useful to categorise the categories rather than the images? Most of the individual images will be far newer than Domesday, especially those of trees and buildings. Plus the categories are rather fewer in number. WSC On 16 May 2012 16:46, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Post AGM pub

And for the grownups we have [[Real ale|proper beer]] as well. WSC On 10 May 2012 13:41, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: We have Fosters in pubs here too John ;-) /obligatory winding up the Australians Richard Symonds On 10 May 2012 13:39, John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Role accounts

I'm with Thomas Dalton on this. If we allow role accounts then sooner or later we will get edit wars by two different people logged into the same account, disputes about U1 an G7 deletions where one person used an account to create something and another user of the same account then gets upset.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Objects of a charity.

Not quite carte blanche. Surely such charitable purposes does limit them to spending the money on things that would be deemed charitable in UK law. WSC On 29 April 2012 11:20, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: In the course of editing an article today, I came across these Objects.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Role accounts

We shouldn't confuse two overlapping issues here, role accounts and promotional usernames. Neither are allowed in Wikipedia, but the objections are different. As for the comparison between IP accounts and registered accounts, yes there is an anomaly which would matter if the reason for not

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Role accounts

. That is more accountability and transparency than we have for any pseudonymous account. Andreas On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:34 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: We shouldn't confuse two overlapping issues here, role accounts and promotional usernames. Neither are allowed

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Role accounts

15:31, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 April 2012 15:23, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: If PR agency Acme PR were to start to employ a bunch of spin doctors with usernames such as Millie C from Acme PR then it would be obviously promotional

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Role accounts

can be updated as editors shift employment and their COIs change. WSC On 29 April 2012 18:43, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:23 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't dispute that it is transparent, whether that is a positive

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Ob Comments about our Chief Exec

For what its worth, I would prefer that WMUK matters are included to this list rather than have a separate mailing list. In my view the amount of UK specific Wikimedia Email has not yet got to the point where we need to subdivide the list. I'm sure the tellers will only allow members of the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Candidates for 2012 AGM

what the diversity is by editing subject area, but I think that diversity there is important for a WMUK board. Some gender diversity would also be nice, it must be difficult for an all male board to give practical help in reducing our gender imbalance. WereSpielChequers On 16 April 2012 12:28, Fae

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

Re Johnbod's comment about Catalot and uncategorised templates, there have been big improvements to both Hotcat and Catalot this year and the situation is somewhat improved. The problem now are the images that have been bot categorised. But Catalot now removes the uncategorised template if you use

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

Hi Richard, I'm aware of the categorisation issue and have done a few thousand myself. Yes there were problems with the earlier Geograph loads, the bot based categorisation is inadequate and the process has been on hold for a year or two. I'm not sure that the proportion with incorrect Geocodes

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Sign up for our first World War I Editathon

Chris, I would anticipate major international interest in this, will there be opportunities for remote participation? WSC On 11 April 2012 19:33, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: I'm really pleased to announce that our first World War I - themed Editathon will be held on June

[Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

, but if so it might be a useful use of a UK grant. WereSpielChequers ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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