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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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

[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] 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] 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

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] 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

[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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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,

[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

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 >

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] 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] 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

[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] 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] 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

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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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>

[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] 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,

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] 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] 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

[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.

[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] 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

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] Video recording at Wikimania for the BBC's Digital Revolution series

...@pobox.com/// ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- WereSpielChequers ___ Wikimedia UK mailing

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania attendees?

I'm here too, though not as likely to be expected to know what the chapter is up to as James is; But in case I'm asked the same questions I'd appreciate being copied in on any answers to James's query. WereSpielChequers PS If Werdna is here as well that means that the London meetup is very

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK government on defamation on the internet

in the article has excess bile? Can we lobby to make sure that we as volunteers are protected in those circumstances providing we are editing in good faith? WereSpielChequers 2009/9/17 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/9/17 Sam Blacketer sam.blacke...@googlemail.com: On Thu, Sep 17

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Celtic languages Internet project

languages that has its own wiki should be able to support a regional working group. WereSpielChequers 2009/9/21 James Hardy wikimedi...@weeb.biz: The Celtic languages - as Casey says, this is a linguistic group with common ancestry, not a single language. There hasn't been a Celtic language per

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] An alternative type of meetup?

didn't catch the name. WereSpielChequers 2009/10/12 Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org: This sounds like something I'd be interested in, although not being based in London it would need arranging a while in advance for me to be able to make it. Chris On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Michael Peel wrote: Hi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Skeleton branches

why we can't cut this cake in several different dimensions, depending on whats relevant to the task in hand. WereSpielChequers 2009/12/6 AndrewRT andrewrtur...@googlemail.com: When we were recognised as a chapter by the Foundation we got permission to use names like Wikimedia Wales, Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Plaques 'open day' tomorrow

be interested in views from those who specialise in copyright matters. WereSpielChequers On 24 September 2010 09:00, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Hi all, Some of you might be interested in an event that Open Plaques (http://openplaques.org/) is organising tomorrow in London

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Wikipedia in the UK mapped

They are better covered with respect to current population, but not with respect to Land area.. I suspect that a couple of phenomena are at play here. One is that many of our articles are about historic sites and they are more evenly spread as many predate the great drift to the towns in the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] A mapping issue of possible more general interest

size. Outward Postcodes (the first half of the Postcode) also vary widely in number of households. Postal Sectors (the first half of the Postcode and the number at the beginning of the second half) are my favourite, the residential ones usually have around 2,000 households WereSpielChequers

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum collaboration

historians might raise an eyebrow if the NMM releases its information on one of our sister projects, but once they get used to the idea I would hope they'd be happy to cite it. WereSpielChequers On 26 February 2011 19:25, Alex Stinson stins...@dukes.jmu.edu wrote: Deryck - yes, it would

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Board elections - London meetup during election period

that between you you maintain that link. Regards WereSpielChequers On 3 April 2011 10:05, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote: WIKI UK LTD (WIKIMEDIA UK) ELECTION OF DIRECTORS STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED At the close of nominations, the following individuals stood validly nominated

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Food Standards Agency expressing interest in academy?

I agree that we should try to keep all partnerships on one page rather than subdivide by themes. I think Partnerships is a more logical name than GLAM or CAGE, the advantage of having them all organised through one page is that we have a chance to coordinate and try to minimise clashes, or at

[Wikimediauk-l] Diversity of the board

Well we have geographic and age related diversity. Llinguistic, ethnic and gender diversity would be nice and I hope the board is keen to reach out to the celtic languages, non-native speakers and so forth. Gender diversity is a problem across almost the whole of Wikimedia. Maybe the board can

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Other Events - meetups

convenient for you maybe there is another city near by? It would be good to try out a meetup in areas of the country we haven't yet run them in. WereSpielChequers On 27 April 2011 17:46, Lewis Cawte lewisca...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I'm not a member of Wikimedia UK (because I can never find

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Other Events - meetups

The current arrangements suit me, but I'm conscious that under 18s and moslems are unlikely to come to a pub. Having a loo that weelchair users can't use doesn't help either. The advantage of a pub is that provided you have a few drinkers such as myself the venue is free, but with the current

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Other Events - meetups

I made an approach to the Bangla pedia people about running an event in London, but not had any interest. I may try another tack, if I find a language where they are interested in a London event I'll post something on the UK wiki. Starting the London meetup in the British Library Cafe and

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Schools projects - evening courses

. But this definitely has legs. We could also make use of a photographers version to explain commons to local photography clubs. WereSpielChequers On 1 June 2011 22:36, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com wrote: Two minor threads: Martin Poulter and I discussed how we could put together a teaching plan so

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Schools projects

I was recently involved in a children's photography competition through another organisation I'm involved in. I think that commons and Wiki loves monuments has a huge opportunity there, as most UK kids now seem to have access to digital cameras and the Internet. It would be great to launch a Wiki

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Request: Help needed from Indian language speakers in London

Hi Fae, I've no qualifications for this other than being a Wikipedian who would like to help this, but I'm available. WSC On 9 June 2011 14:48, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Any Wikipedians fancy helping out with an event sometime during 15-17 July for what is probably a wiki-lounge type

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimeets - best place to organise them online?

I think that multichannel marketing is the answer here. Watchlisting and Geonotices may be our most effective way of communictaing these events, but its important to use other channels as well such as the UK mailing list. Also I sometimes drop a note on the talkpage of UK or London based editors

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Why is UK not part of Wiki loves monuments?

for prizes etc. Regards WereSpielChequers On 7 July 2011 09:41, Rod Ward rodw...@plus.net wrote: Hi all, Because of my tangential involvement with WikiProject:Historic Sites I spotted a note about a Europe wide contest “Wiki loves Monuments” (see http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/ ). The UK

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Why is UK not part of Wiki loves monuments?

Having looked at some of the entries I would just like to point out that the data seems to be stored by local authority rather than postal geography - which is possibly why one of the sites I previously looked at was riddled with errors. WSC On 13 July 2011 12:06, Charles Matthews

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation Help for WikiConference India

in the future. But if you have any specific requests please do let us know, probably the best place to post a request for photography is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_London Bye for now, hope some of us will meet some of you in Haifa! WereSpielChequers On 20 July 2011 14

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum Bronze Age collaboration

I'm free this Thursday until 4, and I have at least been on a couple of digs, though not I admit Bronze age ones. WSC On 25 July 2011 03:15, John Byrne j...@bodkinprints.co.uk wrote: This will be announced with a bit more fanfare, and detail, shortly, but already has a page at

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - was Some statistics about Wikimania 2011

WereSpielChequers On 25 July 2011 14:22, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: On 24/07/2011 16:11, Christopher Cooper wrote:   In the longer-term, the chapter would benefit greatly if the UK hosted the conference, of which it has not yet done so. Ah, yes, that old chestnut Gordo -- Gordon

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - was Some statistics about Wikimania 2011

Re: Just one question; why 2014? 2013 isn't bid until the end of this year, if I am reading it correctly, so we still have a decent amount of time to put together a bid for that...? No rush of course, just wondering on the reason :) There are a several reasons why I would prefer that we did

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] hosting it in the UK - Wikimania 2014 The UK team

If the first step is working out a rough budget. Step zero is establishing whether we have a team of people wanting to make this happen, then logically step minus one is creating a signup page http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_bid for all those enthusiasts to sign up at. So having done step

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] A proposal... MediaWiki Hackathon

As Brighton is rather close to London can I suggest that we try and avoid having this clash with the London meetup? That still leaves you the 1st, 3rd and 4th weekends of the month. WSC On 19 August 2011 09:59, Lewis Cawte lewisca...@googlemail.com wrote: ** On 19/08/11 09:28, Lewis Cawte

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] A proposal... MediaWiki Hackathon

I've put it in the meta meetup template http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AMeetup_listaction=historysubmitdiff=2845220oldid=2843061 But I suggest not doing any geonotices until you have booked at a venue and put it on the meetup page. WSC On 26 August 2011 10:41, Thomas

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggestions for Merchandise

I'm not convinced that Postcards are that big an opportunity, unlike Xmas cards there isn't a tradition of buying charity ones. I'm sure we could do an awesome pack of seasonal greetings cards and there is a well developed infrastructure around that for us to get into. Where there may well be a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggestions for Merchandise

area of expertise) fairly soon. Harry -- *From:* WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com *To:* wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 14:04 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggestions for Merchandise I'm not convinced

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggestions for Merchandise

Payroll giving is easy to set up, just very difficult to recruit for, and difficult to measure which recruitment methods worked. There has to be an intermediary who takes money from employers and distributes it to the charities that the employees have nominated. Last time I looked there were only

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] We are now accepting Direct Debits

Monthly and quarterly are nice to haves, but presumably most members will want to do an annual payment for their annual renewal? WereSpielChequers On 16 September 2011 23:05, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: We're working on finding an easy way to give donors the choice

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] We are now accepting Direct Debits

be true that a monthly direct debit is only worth two years worth of that amount, but an annual one is in the longterm worth many times more. As for donors v members, do we have plans to offer membership to donors? WereSpielChequers (who still supports four organisations through annual direct

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [GLAM] Soldiers' letters

If the QR code is for use on mobile phones then we may not want much more than a stub either. What is the maximum article size that would work on the typical modern phone? WereSpielChequers On 25 October 2011 23:32, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote: That's the sort of feedback

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fundraising testing

, United Kingdom. But it should be possible to translate that into welsh as well. TTFN WereSpielChequers On 15 November 2011 23:23, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com wrote: The issue with en-gb has been fixed. We were waiting for a Welsh translation of Susan's appeal since it was quite

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 3 December

I'm not round that weekend either, but if the GLAM projects include some opportunities for distance participation via skype chats etc then I have some contacts in India and elsewhere who might be interested in joining in. If your contacts like the idea of multilingual collaboration then this could

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fundraiser update - and SMS donations

Hi Chris, if I remember rightly that's about half our annual target - are we halfway or more into the campaign? Re the Direct debits we seem to only be valuing them as one years donations, it might be worth putting a higher notional value n them as the average new direct debit is multi year

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

I'm in, but please not a basement. I have mobile broadband and if I remember to bring it the WiFi will work and it won't be needed. But mobile broadband abhors basements. WSC On 9 December 2011 22:28, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.comwrote: On 9 December 2011 22:14, HJ

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal for plaque marking that Jordanhill station was subject of one-millionth Wikipedia article

Can we ask the UK board to consider offering to fund this? Then make sure we get a photo on Commons WereSpielChequers On 19 December 2011 15:20, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: ** On 19/12/2011 14:48, Richard Symonds wrote: Articles are being deleted and created all the time, so

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia

Richard, They've got a VC and two museums including http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Monmouth_Regimental_Museum which even has an Armoured car outside. WSC On 30 December 2011 18:50, Richard Symonds chasemew...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to spend tonight looking for some MilHist

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fundraiser final figures

Great news, congratulations on getting a million so far plus of course the cheques still in the post. Shame about the GiftAid thing, I was expecting a much higher take up. Mind you if we repeat this next year and get 60% takeup that would be £150k and at least £60k more than this year. WSC On 1

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fundraiser final figures

The WMF would appear to be basing their planning on dollar values without allowing for the idea that year on year currency fluctuations might effect the differential success of chapters. Could someone provide the figures in sterling and ideally the exchange rates that applied at the time of the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Edward Buckner/Peter Damian Wikimedia UK

editors. Regards WereSpielChequers On 10 January 2012 17:16, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: As somebody who has nevwer been an arbitrator, functionary, or board member, and as somebody whose real-life identity is on his userpage for all to see, I thought I'd just chime in that I

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Laptop recommendations?

So far four operating systems have been mentioned, but only one is open source. I would hope that the trustees would first be looking at Open source solutions. As for the hardware, can I suggest that we try to be a little user friendly and get some mice, also a card reader would be cool - that

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Laptop recommendations?

If I'm correct in assuming that the UK chapter has some spare cash at the moment then making AWB and other proven, popular, useful but single OS tools available on more operating systems would be a very useful investment. Community development, quality improvement and uncontentious. WSC On 15

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Making Wikipedia loves monuments work in the UK.

I was in the same discussion as Charles last night, and I'm one of the people who has categorised bits of the Geograph backlog. Currently we have 1.7 million images from the Geograph on Commons, roughly two thirds of the Geograph has been loaded and that bit constitutes two thirds of the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Making Wikipedia loves monuments work in the UK.

. But following on from Charles Matthes point, maybe what we should be doing is outreach to these various cemetery societies and offering them a home on the web for their images. WereSpielChequers ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Broken link

waves On 24 January 2012 18:43, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: On 23 Jan 2012, at 22:16, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 23 January 2012 21:54, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, January 23, 2012, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] For those WP:SHIPS fans among you...

Are they going to allow photography on board? WSC On 26 January 2012 22:17, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: No point - it's being decommissioned. Maybe something we can pull off at HMS Monmouth though, inside the wardroom? Richard Symonds Office Development Manager

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

Yes it will be frustrating if you take a photo only to find there are better one already on Commons. And yes the upload of 1.7 million image from the geograph mean that we have far more images from the UK and Ireland than I suspect anywhere else. But there is an easier solution than trying to

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

Hi Tom, There's only one way to find out. http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Skillshare WSC On 3 February 2012 16:56, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: On 3 February 2012 16:40, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: I think we could speed that up

[Wikimediauk-l] The categorisation backlog

think we'll see the backlog reduce quite noticeably. Regards WereSpielChequers ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fundraising debate (again)

money granted it by WMUK. Regards WereSpielChequers Interesting. I doubt the Charities Commission would like the change to Memorandum and Articles of Association for a WMF Board Member. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] London Bid for Wikimania 2013

I've not been part of either team, though as someone who has been to three Wikimanias I've given some help to both. But then I've read most bids from the last couple of years and made suggestions or copyedits to practically all of them. I'm not convinced that it is good for a chapter to host

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