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

2018-12-01 Thread Jonathan Cardy

More radically, you could move the UK wiki to be a project on Meta.

This would end much of your costs for maintaining the wiki, other than any 
domain names which you could point there. But more importantly it would include 
you into Single User Login and cross wiki notifications. So if you pinged 
someone in a discussion they would know about it next time they were on 
Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons. It would also help lower the barriers against 
involving that rather large group of Wikimedians who are in the UK but who have 
had little or no contact with the chapter.

I can’t think of anything we have ever gained from having our own independent 
Wiki as opposed to a project on Meta, unless you count independence and 
seperation from the rest of the movement as a positive.

Jonathan

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I support Andy's proposal. Some consolidation of communications formats is a 
very good thing from my point of view. We have so many it's hard to keep track 
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 16:39, Andy Mabbett 
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>  Engine Room

> water cooler

I suggest re-merging those pages. The level of traffic is not high and
the benefits of splitting them were never clear.

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[Wikimediauk-l] GLAM/MILHIST volunteer role

2017-10-19 Thread Jonathan Cardy

I've just heard that the Imperial War Museum is advertising for a volunteer 
trustee with a job spec that seems to me to be very well suited for a 
Wikimedian with a MILHIST enthusiasm. If that is you the application is at  
https://publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/appointment/imperial-war-museums-media-trustee-legalestates-trustee/

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] House of Commons editathon

2016-11-15 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Already sold out ten minutes after your email, very impressive response from 
this list.

Regards

Jonathan 


> On 15 Nov 2016, at 11:41, Stuart Prior  wrote:
> 
> Hello all, 
> 
> Just a reminder that we have this event coming up this weekend.
> It will include a short tour and should be a great opportunity to look at the 
> ways Wikimedia can work with UK Parliament information and data.
> 
> https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/house-of-commons-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-28857659035
> 
> Hope to see you there.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> S
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Mass image uploads expert

2016-10-14 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Fæ would be my first suggestion for a mass upload if he is available and the 
collection is suitable. But reading through that link I'm not sure we can use 
that collection. Apparently it was started forty years ago by a curator who 
invited people to bring in historic photos and lend them to the museum to make 
a copy.

I'm sure that's fine for the Museum to use. But I wouldn't care to argue on 
Commons that this constitutes a CC-BY-SA 3 licence for all those images. 
Hopefully there will be a subset which can be dated early enough to argue PD. 
Maybe there are some where the rights owner can be traced, but I'd suspect 
there will be a lot of photographers from an era where some will have died long 
enough ago to make it difficult to trace the heirs, and others may even still 
be with us. At some point in the future no doubt we can import the lot, 
provided a digital copy is still extant.

Another reason why the movement needs a sealed repository from which stuff can 
be migrated when it is out of copyright.

Depending on the age range of the images and the quality of the metadata there 
could be a useful proportion that would be safe to upload. It all depends on 
the ratio of "my grandfather died in 1880 and left us this collection" to "my 
grandfather died in 1980 and left us this collection".

WSC

> On 14 Oct 2016, at 08:18,   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] UK photography contest

2016-08-19 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Thanks Gordo,

We also have buildings that are scarcely visible now and are best photographed 
after the leaves have fallen.

November to July makes sense to me, it also means if the contest takes off 
there is plenty of time to geocode more articles without images so Rich's list 
picks them up.

Regards

WSC


> On 19 Aug 2016, at 12:04, Gordon Joly  wrote:
> 
> 
>> By the end of November you are down to a little over 8 hours of
>> daylight, the sun will be rather low for a good portion of that, and the
>> weather will be, well, British. In which case another time of year would
>> be preferable.
> 
> Good month for fog? Also December.
> 
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bow_Locks_in_fog.jpg
> 
> Bow Locks.
> 
> Gordo
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK photography contest

2016-08-18 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Thanks Richard,

The original idea was to reuse this list for a photography competition, it has 
already been used for some image finding exercises. That said last I looked 
about a third had an image already on commons if you searched. I'll clarify 
that prizes are for significant effort such as taking a photograph or creating 
a map.

I thought WMUK would be interested because of your objective about addressing 
content gaps, and I was hoping for some publicity such as an email to WLM2014 
participants. But no problem if WMUK don't want to be involved.

Good point about photography and weather, summer 2017 probably does make more 
sense.

Regards

WSC


> On 18 Aug 2016, at 16:43, Richard Nevell  
> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> That's quite an impressive set of articles needing illustrations, I hadn't 
> realised there would be so many. How many are there exactly? There's 
> certainly scope for some kind of initiative to whittle them down.
> 
> As WMUK is mentioned on the project page I thought it might be worth 
> providing a viewpoint on it. If we were to support it, by providing prizes 
> for example, the contest would need to tie into the charity's strategic 
> framework. In which case the contest might need more development.
> 
> It's not clear whether people are being asked to upload their own photographs 
> or add images already on Commons, or whether both approaches would be 
> allowed. Since the goal is to reduce the number of articles without pictures, 
> there is the WDFIST tool which can search for images in use through Wikidata 
> and FIST which can search for images on the likes of Flickr and Geograph. 
> Magnus Manske has left a few links on the talk page to help shorten the list.
> 
> The ease of judging depends on how many entries there are. If this gained 
> momentum it might be possible to end up with thousands of images in which 
> case there would need to be a way to share the judging load.
> 
> If people are being asked to take their own photos, October and November are 
> not the best months for photography. By the end of November you are down to a 
> little over 8 hours of daylight, the sun will be rather low for a good 
> portion of that, and the weather will be, well, British. In which case 
> another time of year would be preferable. That would also allow some clear 
> water between Wiki Loves Monuments UK and another kind of photography contest.
> 
> If this was to take place around May or June it would allow more time for 
> planning and getting some easy wins with the Free Image Search Tools. This 
> might also open up the possibility of piggy backing Wiki Loves Earth if there 
> is a large proportion of natural sites left.
> 
> Richard
> 
>> On 18 August 2016 at 09:29, WereSpielChequers  
>> wrote:
>> 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 the next three weeks and launch at the next 
>> London Meetup https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/110
>> 
>> Apologies to any non Londoners who object to a London event planning 
>> anything for the whole of the UK, but only the first draft emerged from the 
>> meetup and things are yet changeable.
>> 
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[Wikimediauk-l] Invitation from the National Maritime Museum

2015-03-20 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear All,


We have an invitation for you from the National Maritime Museum in
Greenwich. They are hosting an editathon on Wednesday the 15th April
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/National_Maritime_Museum_April_2015
and would like to have some experienced Wikipedians join them.

The main focus of the editathon will be the board of Longitude - the
eighteenth century scientific endeavour to find accurate ways to navigate
the world.

Our hosts are supplying lunch and experts.

We do hope a number of you can join us.

Regards

Jonathan Cardy
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Invitation from the National Maritime Museum

2015-03-20 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Good spot Gordo,

Now fixed:

Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 10:00-17:00

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On 20 March 2015 at 11:06, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:

 On 20/03/15 10:57, Jonathan Cardy wrote:
 
  We have an invitation for you from the National Maritime Museum in
  Greenwich. They are hosting an editathon on Wednesday the 15th April
  
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/National_Maritime_Museum_April_2015
 
  and would like to have some experienced Wikipedians join them.


 When?: Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 10:00-1?:00

 Typo on the website?

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[Wikimediauk-l] You are invited to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich

2015-03-09 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear all,

Wikimedia UK and the National Maritime Museum would like to invite you to
an editathon in Greenwich on the 15th April re the Board of Longitude. Our
partners at the NMM are supplying lunch and several experts on the subject
who want to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the search for longitude.

Experienced Wikipedia editors would be very welcome.

The registration page is at
https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=185reset=1 the
project page which includes articles we hope to work on is here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/National_Maritime_Museum_April_2015,
There is also a talkpage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Meetups/UK/National_Maritime_Museum_April_2015
which gives opportunities to ask questions to some experts from the museum.

Lunch will be provided by our partners the National Maritime Museum.

The National Maritime Museum is the world's largest maritime museum,
filled with inspirational stories of exploration and endeavour at sea and
packed to the gunwales with intriguing objects and fascinating galleries.

The Board of Longitude were the administrators of a prize for the
development of accurate ways to determine longitude, and thereby the
sponsors of some major scientific and exploratory discoveries that had an
important impact on world history.

Regards

Jonathan Cardy
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 114, Issue 12

2015-01-14 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Works for me.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia-l on Googlegroups?

2015-01-09 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Gordo, that is a good clue as to how seriously one should take that group.
Flag it as spam or complain to Google that someone signed you up to a fake
google group.
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 When did this happen (last few days?)?

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[Wikimediauk-l] Free E-books available for editors (donation from Pelican books)

2015-01-06 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Happy New Year everyone,

I hope Santa was generous and has given you enough reference materials for
the foreseeable future, but if anyone is interested, we have the following
free books available for experienced Wikipedians who could make use of them
in your editing.

*Greek and Roman Political Ideas
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780141976150 (2014)*
by Melissa Lane

*The Domesticated Brain
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780141974866 (2014)*
by Bruce Hood

*Economics: The User's Guide
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780718197032 (2014)*
by Ha-Joon Chang

*The Russian Revolution
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780141043678 (2014)*
by Orlando Figes

*Human Evolution http://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780141975313
(2014)*
by Robin Dunbar


Details including how to apply at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pelican_Books

Regards

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[Wikimediauk-l] Part time WIR at the Bodleian

2014-12-19 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear All,

The Bodleian Libraries and Wikimedia UK are delighted to announce that we
will be supporting a part time Wikimedian in Residence at the Bodleian
library in Oxford. The post provides the opportunity to work with some of
the world’s richest collections to improve content on Wikipedia and its
sister projects and to share with the world the resources held in the
Bodleian Libraries. More details including how to apply at
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about-us/jobs#vacancy-115944 bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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[Wikimediauk-l] Pelican E-books available for editors

2014-11-27 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear all,

Wikimedia UK is delighted to announce that Pelican Books, the reference
book sister to Penguin Books, has given us 50 E-books to distribute to
Wikipedia editors.

Details including how to apply at
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[Wikimediauk-l] You are invited to a 'behind the scenes' tour of the Victorian railway works in Eastleigh

2014-11-21 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear all,

Would you like to go on a 'behind the scenes' tour of the Victorian railway
works in Eastleigh, Hampshire?

We have just heard from Marek69 that the attendees at this Sunday's meetup
in Eastleigh https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/English_South_Coast_1will
have the opportunity of a free tour of the Eastleigh Railway works.

Photography allowed except for certain exhibits. We already have a category
on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eastleigh_Works.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Magna Carta

2014-11-14 Thread Jonathan Cardy

OK, after talking to Stevie and having previously talked to some others I
have created this page on the UK wiki:

https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Anniversary_articles

Feel free to expand and in particular to add any that you are interested in
working on.

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On 14 November 2014 14:34, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk
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Hello everyone,

Thanks for all the comments on this so far.

Given some of the feedback I think a call to action on one significant
article is perhaps not going to attract too much attention. But what I
think could work is a new year kind of story in which Wikimedia UK
releases its top 50 targets for improvement on Wikipedia. It's the kind
of listicle that is quite popular these days. Last year we put out a press
release on the 20 most searched for terms on Wikipedia and that got quite a
lot of traction.

If others think this could work (or we could reduce the number to 20, or
25, or whatever) then I'll create a page on the UK wiki where we can post
suggestions for articles that might be relevant in 2015 (such as Magna
Carta, of course) and work from there.

Thanks again for all of your comments.

Stevie

On 7 November 2014 21:44, Rod Ward rodw...@plus.net wrote:

Thanks for the videos – have just included one in the article.

Working on the linked pages would also be useful – both the
abbots/bishops/barons (NB not “signatories”) and the settings
(improvements to Runnymede have already been requested) and some of the
legal revisions along with later effects or interpretation. Lots of the
bulleted lists of “clauses in one charter but not another” also need to be
tackled (and referenced).Any further help appreciated.Rod

*From:* wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Richard
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*Sent:* 07 November 2014 19:50
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*Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Magna Carta

There will be less demanding work, for example the signatories articles
maybe could do with work. I just linked to [[Abbott of Peterborough]],
only a few of those abbots have any biographical details - VCH will supply
plenty of useful information, typically more on the latter abbots.

On 7 November 2014 00:11, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:

I have uploaded a few presentations and talks on video which would
cheer up Magna Carta articles, some are quite 'non-academic friendly'
for readers who might be daunted by a long encyclopaedia article
(videos play back without having to leave a Wikipedia article). They
are currently in
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Magna_Carta but will
probably be moved to a sub-category in a while. The lectures might be
helpful for those thinking of improving articles and are looking for a
quick guide to issues and interpretations.

Of particular interest are a video from the British Library

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Four_surviving_Magna_Carta_to_be_brought_together_for_the_first_time_in_history.webm

and a friendly one from Parliament

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magna_Carta_and_the_Emergence_of_Parliament.webm
.

These are uploaded thanks to a YouTube download/upload script I put
together for a WikiprojectMed request. If there are others on YouTube
you find with a CC-BY licence, drop me a link by email and I'll get
around to taking a look. Unfortunately handling video remains a
challenge for contributors, so I think my uploads are the first videos
on Commons for this topic.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Magna Carta

2014-11-05 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear Rod,

We did indeed have a resident at the British Library, and some ongoing
discussions and events with them, including an event last Friday. At the
moment we are focussed on some large image releases and a major tagging
exercise to identify old maps which will then be loaded on Commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection/map_tag_campaign

But it would be worth thinking of further projects, though at least for
this month I'd like to focus what we are doing with BL on certain mass
uploads.

Do people think that Magna Carta would be a good subject for a Wiki
wednesday session - bringing few editors together on a Wednesday evening
in our office in London?

Regards

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection/map_tag_campaign

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On 5 November 2014 11:04, Rod Ward rodw...@plus.net wrote:

Hi all,

An article in this weeks observer (see
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/01/magna-carta-800-celebrates-anniversary
) points out that it will be the 800th anniversary of the signing of the
Magna Carta next year (15 June 2015) and suggests there will be various TV
and radio programmes (and books etc) to coincide with the significant date.
I note this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta )
regularly gets 150,000+ page views per month and this is likely to
increase. It was listed as a Good Article back in the early days but was
delisted in 2006 and has gone downhill since then. It is also listed on the
Vital Articles for Society and Social Sciences. A few of us are trying to
get it to at least GA or even FA standard before the anniversary – any help
would be appreciated.

The specific reason for this email is that I think WikimediaUK had some
sort of relationship (possibly a wikimedian in residence or similar) with
the British Library years ago. For that or other sources does anyone have a
contact within the appropriate department (possibly manuscripts curator or
similar) of the BL who would be willing to help advise on the development
of this important article?

Rod

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[Wikimediauk-l] Calling for current and future xml users who would like to help GLAMs upload media to Commons

2014-10-22 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear all,

In order to use the GLAM wiki toolset and do mass uploads of media from
institutions such as museums we need their metadata to be in an appropriate
xml format.

So we are looking for volunteers who know or would be willing to learn xml
and are interested in helping museums do mass uploads to Commons.

A good understanding of the Commons category structure is also useful as
the idea is to format the xml in such a way as to enable the migration of
metadata.

If you'd like to get involved we'd like to hear from you whether or not you
already know xml as if there is sufficient interest we can organise an xml
training session.

Regards

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] FW: Request re editathons

2014-10-20 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Hi Andrew,

A good start is to read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon

Once you've read that I'm happy to Skype sometime and talk you through the
process.

Regards


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On 20 October 2014 11:26, Simon Knight sjgkni...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all

 Andrew (cc’d) from the Australian chapter is looking for some advice on
 editathons, identifying/engaging partner organisations, getting
 participants, practical things, etc. with some potential ideas around
 library work and/or some themed events with a view to develop activities in
 Australia.



 I know loads of people on this list have expertise in the area, if anyone
 had specific advice (or/and places to look for it) I’m sure it’d be
 appreciated!



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[Wikimediauk-l] You are invited to a Ballet editathon at the Royal Opera House (Oct 25th)

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear all,

Wikimedia UK and the Royal Opera House would like to invite you to an
editathon on Saturday the 25th October.

We are catering for all levels of wiki experience to newbies, so this
should also be a good opportunity to bring a ballet loving friend or just
someone you know who might be interested in learning how to edit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ballet/October_2014_editathon

Be nice to see you there.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Quirky Wikipedia articles

2014-10-09 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Stevie,

Anything truly quirky should make it to the mainpage on April Fools day,
check out this page for the history of what has been there for the last ten
years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:April_Fool%27s_Main_Page

My own favourite is Heavy Metal Ulmlaut, but the museum of bad Art is also
quite quirky.

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On 9 October 2014 15:05, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:

Hello everyone.

As a part of a project that we're developing to participate in the Science
Museum Lates event in November, I'm looking for a selection of quirky
Wikipedia articles - think Buffalo buffalo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
(etc)
and Toilet paper orientation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation, those that are
odd but still have some academic or scientific merit. Participants in the
session will be selecting some of their favourite lines from unusual
Wikipedia articles and putting them together to create found poetry. I'm
looking for some of the quirkier articles that might be fun for this, so if
you have any suggestions please do let me know!

Thank you,

Stevie

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Meetup Venues

2014-10-01 Thread Jonathan Cardy

If we are willing to pay a modest amount there are lots of venues that we
can have quite cheaply. But aside from not spending money, the advantage to
my mind of large pubs on their quiet days is that not having to arrange
anything with the venue means a lot less work for the event organiser.

Three other things I would add to Fabian's list, disability access, them
not minding if we stay on for several hours, sometimes with only one or two
people nursing beers, and separate bills or pay as you order. The pub we
use in London fits that criteria pretty well, though four minutes walk from
Holborn tube isn't the best connected place in London. My experience of
cafes is that they are less likely to tolerate a large group that is long
past the point of spending money, I also don't fancy trying to work out a
bill at the end, much better to have people purchase from the bar as they
order - different cafes seem to have differing systems for this and the one
Charles uses in Cambridge is great.


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On 30 September 2014 12:41, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

 How about Sure Start Centres - often empty at the weekend. I used to run
 them and if a trusted outside organisation offered to do some training for
 the parents it mught be a good contra deal.  Depends on making a
 relationship with the local manager.
 Or a local secondary school where again the students could be invited
 along.

 On 30 September 2014 11:37, Fabian Tompsett 
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 I think we need to look at the sort of things we want out of a venue:

- Not too noisy
- Decent food/drink, but not too expensive
- Spacious rather than cramped (particularly important for people
with children)
- Ideally, a children's play area attached
- Near railway station for people out of town and with parking not to
far away for those who still drive cars.

 Perhaps there are some other points that could be added.I am not sure
 about public Wifi asI am getting increasingly nervous about security issues
 as regards this. However, perhaps we can organise Wikimifis for the
 occasion.

 all the best
 all the best

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[Wikimediauk-l] A toy museum in a witch finder's house.......

2014-09-02 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear Wikimedians,

You are invited to a backstage pass and editathon in the Grade I Listed
splendour of Judges' Lodgings, Lancaster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Judges%27_Lodgings/event

Come and see Gillow furniture, Fine Art and a toy museum in a witch
finder's house.

As Judges' Lodgings is a grade I listed building and cameras are allowed,
we are also counting this as a Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 event as well as a
GLAM one.

Saturday 20th September.

Nearest station Lancaster.

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[Wikimediauk-l] London Editathon Saturday 31st

2014-05-25 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Hi,

Sorry for the short notice, but I've just learned of a London Editathon
next 
Saturdayhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/Wadewitz_memorialthat
some people here might want to join in on.

It is part of the Wadewitz memorial programme worldwide.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photographers needed for photography at the Tank Museum in Dorset

2014-04-27 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Thanks Geni, Would you mind adding those suggestions to the
wishlisthttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Tank_Museum_2014#Requested_photographson
wiki, this mailing list is much better at making suggestions for
photos
that could be taken at that museum, and the mailing I did to Wiki Loves
Monuments participants has been more fruitful at recruiting photographers
who are going to go there. Including one who has assured me he will work
from that list.

I now have a number of requests to make of that museum covering everything
from lighting and moving the tanks around to having a ROV fly round in
their building. But as I have several photographers who have now taken a
third of the tickets, I think it would be best to wait until we can point
to some photos in use before I ask for what I suspect would be out of hours
access.

.

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On 26 April 2014 20:39, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:

 Long email is long.


  While expanding commons is a worthy goal the museum is likely to want
 pics that make it into Wikipedia articles. The main challenge with
 photographing vehicles tends to be their size. Getting even lighting over
 an object that big is tricky (and tanks tend to be large even for
 vehicles). Studio set-ups use a bunch of big lights. Wikipedians tend to
 use outdoor shots (the soft light of dawn/ evening or light overcast during
 the day generally produces he best results).


  Indoors lighting tends to be worse with point sources resulting in
 uneven illumination. The shear size of vehicles means you can't generally
 light the whole things from an onboard flash. There is a significant
 falloff at a greater distance. Better results can be obtained with off
 camera flashes but this requires multiple people and someone experienced
 with off camera flash. Still it might be worth seeing if a team can be put
 together. We must have someone who knows their way around flash photography.


  In terms of what can usefully be photographed offer the following list.
 In addition photos of details (suspension, cupolas weapon mounts) as well
 as interiors are often lacking.


  ==Need pics==


  Mark IX tank

 Tetrarch -not easy to get a good pic of since it appears to be surrounded
 by stuff

 Vickers 6-Ton Tank

 Excelsior tank

 Valentine Archer

 T14 Heavy Tank


  ==Improvable with a tripod==


  Little Willie-seriously dark though current image has an exposure of ¼
 seconds

 Mark II female

 TOGII


  ==Improvable through other methods==


  Light tank Mk IIA -Might be better with a slightly greater depth of field

 Tortoise heavy assault tank-Some clever HDR or off camera flash use is
 needed to deal with the rather messy lighting

 Black Prince-slightly wider field of view (the area behind the tank is
 much brighter than the tank itself which may complicate things).

 Valiant tank- needs a wider field of view. Area around tank is also pretty
 dark.

 Vickers A1E1 Independent-Some clever HDR or off camera flash use is needed
 to deal with the rather messy lighting

 FV4401 Contentious-Needs a wider field of view although

 Covenanter tank-Photo could be taken at a better angle. Some clever HDR or
 off camera flash use is needed to deal with the rather messy lighting

 FV 4005-Photo could be taken at a better angle in better weather

 Mark VIII- pic needed that shows the whole tank

 Rolls-Royce Armoured Car-Possible some HDR work. The thing has gloss paint
 that complicates things.

 Peerless Armoured Car- Looks like it could use some serious fill flash.

 Conqueror tank- slightly wider field of view. Lighting is going to be a
 pain since there appears to be a window behind it so the thing is strongly
 backlit. You would almost want a large ring flash (something like the
 AlienBees ABR800). Tricky

 Fiat M13/40- slightly wider crop


 On 23 April 2014 19:14, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:

 I just had a flick through some images in that category, and there is
 quite a lot that I reckon I'd be able to improve on with my D90 and a
 tripod. If only I had a spare day to go and take photos of tanks :)


 On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 5:48 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:

 Tog 1 they don't. The only Cavalier tank I'm aware of is one in rather
 poor condition on the isle of weight. They've got

[Wikimediauk-l] Photographers needed for photography at the Tank Museum in Dorset

2014-04-23 Thread Jonathan Cardy

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
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here fancies taking photographs of tanks, send me your snail mail address
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photographers needed for photography at the Tank Museum in Dorset

2014-04-23 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Thanks Magnus and Richard, I have added your suggestions to the
wishlisthttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Tank_Museum_2014#Requested_photographs,
if anyone else has further suggestions please post them there. though it
might be worth checking if the museum has such a vehicle on display.

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On 23 April 2014 16:50, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:

 Such as:

- Tiger 131 (which could be notable by itself)
- Rotatrailer
- the Sherman Crab
- the FV4211 (first vehicle fitted with Chobham armour)

 All a bit niche but very interesting to those of us who are interested in
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 On 23 April 2014 16:35, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:

 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


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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photographers needed for photography at the Tank Museum in Dorset

2014-04-23 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Hi Geni,

No, but non-members may find a membership leaflet sneaked into the envelope
with their ticket:)

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On 23 April 2014 17:02, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:

 Is this members only?


 On 23 April 2014 15:48, Jonathan Cardy jonathan.ca...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:

 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
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Rating Wikimedia content (was Our next strategy plan-Paid editing)

2014-04-17 Thread Jonathan Cardy

For media files there are two things we already have, size of the file and
who created it.

Filesize doesn't guarantee quality, but there must be a size below which we
just have a blurry thumbnail.

Assessing the possible quality of images by looking at how many other
quality images have come from the same user is likely to be helpful.
Another image by someone who has had multiple featured pictures should be a
positive on any rating system.

We now have hundreds of thousands of images that are categorised as being
of various important objects such as listed buildings in the UK.

Other variables we could consider include the camera used, again a good
camera with the settings mucked up is likely to take a worse photograph
than a cheap camera in the hands of someone who knows how to coax the bet
out of it.


Several other things may or may not be possible, though if there isn't
already open sourced software that can do it it could be expensive to
create it: Technology exists out there that can compare different human
faces, so it should be possible to write software that classifies images as
blurred, washed out or poorly lit. Also we could have software that
identifies near duplicates and in some fashion threads similar images
behind the best one.


The AFT was always vulnerable to just creating extra work for the community
and diverting people from possibly improving articles to asking others to
fix them. But software could be written that encouraged rather than
undermined the SoFixIt culture of our heyday. If we had an app that invited
people to check Is this still the best image to illustrate this Wikipedia
article? Then we could feed it with articles where we believed we had more
images on commons than we were using, or where the same image had been used
for several years, or the image used was small or otherwise suspect, or
indeed where we didn't have an image. Leutha and I ran a couple of sessions
a year or so back showing donors how to add images to articles, and we
found that  even people who were quite hesitant about editing were very
confident deciding which of several images could be used to illustrate an
article, even if they had never been to the village or river in question.
As well as improving articles and acting as a much needed new entrypoint
for editors, this could give us another metric on media quality - one of x
images considered but not used to illustrate the article on that subject
or indeed image z was replaced in article x by image y which should
usually mean that image y is higher quality than image z.


Some sort of weighted score that combines the above could be what we need,
though of course many of the criteria are subjective and scores could drop
over time as better media files are uploaded.




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On 16 April 2014 19:53, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.comwrote:

 On 16 April 2014 19:28, Simon Knight sjgkni...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks Dan, to be clear, the proposal is not to develop another manual
 rating system (such as the AFT or the project rating systems), it's to
 develop some automated quality assessments. Those might include some manual
 elements as inputs particularly for any machine learning approach, but
 generating new methods there is not the aim of the project.




 There's the old DREWS acronym from How Wikipedia Works. to which I'd now
 add T for traffic. In other words there are six factors that an experienced
 human would use to analyse quality, looking in particular for warning signs.

 D = Discussion: crunch the talk page (20 archives = controversial, while
 no comments indicates possible neglect)
 R = WikiProject rating, FWIW, if there is one.
 E = Edit history. A single editor, or essentially only one editor with
 tweaking, is a warning sign. (Though not if it is me, obviously)
 W = Writing. This would take some sort of text analysis. Work to do here.
 Includes detection of non-standard format, which would suggest neglect by
 experienced editors.
 S = Sources. Count footnotes and so on.
 T = Traffic. Pages at 100 hits per month are not getting many eyeballs.
 Warning sign. Very high traffic is another issue.

 Seems to me that there is enough to bite on, here.

 Charles

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Interested in a potential hook-up with a sci-fi film festival?

2014-03-20 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Hi Joe, sounds like a grant
applicationhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_grantswould be
worth making

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On 20 March 2014 18:49, Joe Filceolaire filceola...@gmail.com wrote:

 I posted that page on the wikimania wiki so it is independent of your
 contact.

 The August SciFi conference at ExCel is Loncon3 - the World Science
 Fiction convention. It is the weekend after Wikimania. It is very well
 attended by authors so would be a good place to gather voice intros and
 even interviews.


- It will have an exhibition hall with dealers tables, art exhibition,
poster displays. Do we want a table there for our voice intro booth?
- It will have a large program of panels on all kinds of stuff SF fans
are interested in. Do we have a photographer interested in hanging out in
the Green room taking pics of panel members?
- It will have the Hugo award ceremony (If you buy membership you get
to vote and you get a copy of most of the nominated works included in your
membership).
- It will have a multimedia stream and a music stream and a lot of
hanging out in bars discussing stuff till late.


 Is WMUK interested in participating? Is WMUK interested in paying for
 memberships for volunteers who would be willing to man a booth? Loncon3 is
 starting to finalise their arrangements so we need to decide what we are
 interested in doing.

 Yours

 Joe


 On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Michael Peel 
 michael.p...@manchester.ac.uk wrote:


 On 19 Mar 2014, at 16:01, Richard Symonds 
 richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

  Perhaps something to be taken offlist with those interested, so we
 don't break any confidences?

 Or keep things on-list/on-wiki for transparency?

 I'd be potentially interested in helping do something here.

 With the August SciFi conference in London - I know one of the organising
 committee for that, and previously put them in touch with Ed/James/Saad to
 see if anything could be done. I'm not sure whether the page on the
 Wikimania wiki is related to that contact, or if it's an independent
 activity. If it is separate, then I'd be happy to provide another
 introduction here...

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Interested in a potential hook-up with a sci-fi film festival?

2014-03-19 Thread Jonathan Cardy

We have a page for this
onhttps://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_Worldcon_in_London._August_14_to_18,_2014the
Wikimania website, I suggest people who are interested go there and
flesh that page out. The 14th to 18th August is very much part of the
fringe of Wikimania and there will be some Wikimanians still in London,
especially if there are SF fans coming.

The final planning of this would be an interesting topic for a 30 minute
slot https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissionsat Wikimania,
both for interested parties to meet each other, finalise plans for the con
and perhaps for other editors to add to the wishlist of recordings images
or just sit in on the planning of such an event.

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I've expressed my interest too off-list - this is really close to my house
so it'd be lovely to attend.

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On 19 March 2014 12:37, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:

On 19 March 2014 11:02, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
If anyone is interested in meeting with the convention / festival
organiser
do let me know and we'll see if we can set something up.

Yes; interested in this generally, and from a voice-intro persepctive.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Rights in church bell ringing

2014-03-19 Thread Jonathan Cardy

In some ways professionals are easier because they will have thought about
IP issues and have a contract which means you negotiate with their manager
rather than them individually. But on the downside they usually expect to
be paid.

I know that some bell ringers do get appearance fees, I used to have a mate
who did it as a side line.

There is also the issue of the composers rights, though of course some bell
ringing will involve tunes that are long out of copyright.



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On 19 March 2014 14:52, Harry Burt harryab...@gmail.com wrote:

 Amateur orchestras, in particular (unless there are professional church
 bell ringers?).

 Harry
  On 19 Mar 2014 14:50, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk
 wrote:

 I'm clearly no expert on copyright but I wonder if the rights issue would
 be the same as an orchestra. Would you need to get approval from each
 musician in an orchestra to use a recording of their performance?

 Stevie


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 I've raised a question on Commons, about performers; ruiights in
 reoding of church bells:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Church_bells

 I'm no expert, but AIUI, the UK style of bell ringing is different
 from that elsewhere in the world. I hope our ability to upload
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] GLAM toolset training

2014-03-19 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Hi Andy,

Yes there will be training. We already have some talks submitted for
Wikimania, but I am hoping to get something sooner.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chiltern Trains Wi-Fi blocks Wikimedia Commons

2014-01-15 Thread Jonathan Cardy

If their concern is bandwidth then I think I can understand a free WiFi
provider blocking Photo Sharing, Visual Search Engines. I would hope that
anyone batch uploading their days photos to Commons would be considerate of
such Free Wifi, but to be honest doubt I would be. As for the issue of
photos on your laptop in a public space such as a train, I've often sat on
a train cropping, naming and reviewing photographs before uploading them
later, people do sometimes look and occasionally comment. But I figure
nobody will be offended at photographs of steam trains and Georgian
antiquities.

Love the idea of steam powered routers though.


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On 14 January 2014 21:34, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 14 January 2014 20:53, Sarah Noble sa...@sarahlicity.co.uk wrote:
 ...
  What's the reason for blocking Grindr anyway, Fae? And would they also
  block, say, okcupid?

 For all I know they might block any adult-ish dating-type site, I can
 only speak from the gay perspective. Considering that Grindr is
 actually quite good at taking down any image of a potentially NSFW
 nature, including naughty words, it's actually less risky than
 browsing Commons. :-D

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[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: QRpedia stats broken?

2014-01-03 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Thanks Erik,

I'll forward that to our tec list.

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Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia stats broken?
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http://qrpedia.org/stats.php seems broken right now, could someone take a
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[Wikimediauk-l] Art Nouveau in London

2013-11-29 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Apologies to those far from London or who have already spotted this on
their watchlists.

But we are running an Art Nouveau editathon next
Wednesdayhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Symbolism_and_Art_Nouveau/London_Editathonafternoon
and you are all invited.

Regards

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[Wikimediauk-l] Skill share - Photography training session 10th December

2013-11-29 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear all,

As part of our skill share program, Wikimedia UK is delighted to invite you
to a photography training
sessionhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/December_2013_Photography_Workshopon
the tenth December in London.

Unfortunately numbers are limited, so please book
promptlyhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/December_2013_Photography_Workshop

Regards

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Amazon Tax avoidance

2013-11-27 Thread Jonathan Cardy

If we give people a choice then they might well choose Amazon vouchers, but
we can move immediately from promoting prizes as Amazon vouchers to
promoting them as gift vouchers. From my Direct Marketing days when I was
involved in running quite a few  prize draws the major reason why people
would use a known brand for a prize was to make the existence of the prize
more credible. I would hope that we can assume that any prize draw which we
run is credible.

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On 27 November 2013 14:18, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk
 wrote:

 To be fair, I will be moving away from Amazon for day-to-day purchases
 after watching Panorama last night... it's not really feasible to move away
 from Amazon vouchers, but I will definitely look into how we might be able
 to.

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 On 21 November 2013 18:13, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:

 Good point Jonathan, that is the same approach we use internationally.
 Also, even if you do amazon, there are internationally multiple branches.

 Lodewijk


 2013/11/21 Jonathan Cardy jonathan.ca...@wikimedia.org.uk

 If the prize is a book token or equivalent to a certain value then you
 can sort out the practicalities such as Amazon v Waterstones with the
 winner. Naming the company at this stage is giving them publicity that we
 don't need to give.

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 On 21 November 2013 09:36, Richard Nevell 
 richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

 The winners won't necessarily be from the UK, so something like
 Waterstones and WHSmith might not appeal to everyone.

 Fabian, do you have any suggestions?


 On 21 November 2013 09:12, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:

 Co-op bank? :(


 On 21 November 2013 09:07, Simon Knight sjgkni...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes that thought had crossed my mind too, I had a quick look for
 alternatives, the difficulty is finding somewhere with the same broad
 (product) appeal.  Waterstones, WHSmith?
 Simon

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 Hi all,

  Can I go ahead and announce that WMUK will provide a Kobo and two
  Amazon vouchers? (About Â£70 worth of prizes in total.)

 Has the Amazon Tax avoidance been sorted Out?

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20560359

 I am not sure that WMUK would want to be seen endorsing Amazon if
 this is not the case?

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Downloading a category from commons

2013-10-16 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Hi Harry,

There are a couple of reciprocal image donations where we are getting or
hoping to get sets of images and I want to send them the equivalent part
of the Commons collection.

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On 16 October 2013 14:23, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote:

I'm curious, why do you want to do this?

Harry Mitchell
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Dear all,

We need to do a couple of batch extracts from Wikimedia Commons including
a copy of the Wiki takes Chester photos. Is there anyone who could do
this for us or show us how?

The extract would be expected to fit on a memory stick, and we would
supply the memory stick. Needless to say the extract needs to comply with
reuse
policyhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#Downloadingso
some metadata will also need extraction.

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[Wikimediauk-l] Downloading a category from commons

2013-10-15 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear all,

We need to do a couple of batch extracts from Wikimedia Commons including a
copy of the Wiki takes Chester photos. Is there anyone who could do this
for us or show us how?

The extract would be expected to fit on a memory stick, and we would supply
the memory stick. Needless to say the extract needs to comply with reuse
policyhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#Downloadingso
some metadata will also need extraction.

Regards


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[Wikimediauk-l] Digital Sustainability for Historians - event in London where it would be nice to have a scholar present with a Wikimedia theme to their offering

2013-09-17 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Would anyone on this list be interested in applying for this event? They
are offering a £350 honorarium, and if any Wikimedian wins I will be happy
to give what support I can.

I think that points 1, 4 and 5 would be ones where Wikimedia can be the
solution or at least a large part of it.

Point 2 is something we should steer away from and point 3 is something we
can indirectly address - sharing images on Wikimedia commons, and using a
Wikimedia Commons category as your master category for related images means
that you don't have the cost of maintaining a website and web presence in
the future.

Regards

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From: Mia mia.ri...@gmail.com
Date: 15 September 2013 12:09
Subject: Applications open for Five Solutions: Digital Sustainability for
Historians
To: m...@jiscmail.ac.uk


Please excuse the cross-post, but digital sustainability is critical
for museums and archaeology and I suspect each list has people with
valuable contributions to make...

Cheers, Mia

Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:21:40 +0100
From: Adam Crymble adam.crym...@gmail.com
Subject: cfp: sustainability for history


Applications open for Five Solutions: Digital Sustainability for Historians
Five Solutions to What?

 Historical scholarship is increasingly digital; and yet we do not have an
agreed form of best practices for ensuring that digital scholarship
lasts. *Five Solutions* is looking for five scholars able to outline a
solution to the
issues of sustainability now facing historians. This one day workshop asks
participants to give a 15  http://www.blogger.com/null minute presentation
outlining practical solutions to one of five challenges, with the resources
and expertise of an ordinary working historian in mind.  These
presentations will form the basis for a one day workshop on practical
strategies for digital sustainability.  The presentations can be based on
your own experience and ideas, or can be taken on as a research project. We
will work with all participants to ensure that the final presentations are
both technically workable and illustrated with the most appropriate
datasets.

 Accepted participants will each receive a *£350 honorarium.**

 The Five Themes

 The following five themes are designed to get you started, but if you have
other ideas, we’d love to hear about it. Each theme should be approached
with the ordinary working historian in mind.

 1. Preserving research data for the future
 2. Curating an enduring professional online persona
 3. Paying project costs after the money runs out
 4. Capturing and documenting the expertise of temporary staff
 5. Strategies for working together on larger projects

 Who Should Apply?

 We’re looking for people with passion. Scholars old or young, university
students of any level, librarians, archivists, developers, designers,
system administrators, or anyone who considers themselves a historian at
heart. No specific qualifications or prior experience required - just an
interest in helping academia find solutions to organizational and
technological challenges facing the sustainability of our digital projects.

 What do I have to do?

 Figure out a solution, of course! Once you’ve come up with your solution,
you’ll share your work in two ways:

 1. A 15-minute presentation of your solution at a one-day conference
in London, UK on the *28th of November 2013 *at the Institute of Historical
Research.

 2. A 1500-2000 word peer-reviewed tutorial outlining your solution to
be published in the *spring of 2014* in the *Programming Historian 2 *and
distributed as part of ‘IHR Digital’.

 All tutorials will be peer-reviewed and released under a Creative Commons
CC-BY license. Participants will have the full support of an editor at
the *Programming
Historian 2* who will provide guidance for writing an effective, practical
tutorial.

 Evidence of previous work with technical writing or a willingness to
learn, as well as a strong command of the English language are a bonus.

 How do I apply?

 By *8 October 2013* send a two-page C.V. and a brief email to
adam.crym...@kcl.ac.uk (subject line: Five Solutions) addressing the
following questions:

 1. What theme would you like to tackle? (Use one

[Wikimediauk-l] 26th October Python session in London

2013-09-11 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear all,

Fae is running a Python coding training session in London on the 26th
Octoberhttps://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Python_and_Wikimedia_bots_workshop_Oct_2013
.

Please sign up if interested


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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Can we nudge the Church of England for free images?

2013-09-03 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Having done a little bit of work on the image lists for WLM and quite a bit
of categorisation on commons I would add that in some counties they have
the majority of the grade I listed buildings.

So we should talk to the people who manage their physical estate, perhaps
after Wiki Loves Monuments.

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On 29 August 2013 08:26, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:

 I'm just getting ready to write an article for Wikinews about the
 Archbishop of Canterbury, and I realised we do not have a free image of him.

 Does the chapter or any volunteers have any contacts at the Church of
 England? I expect they have a sizeable collection of interesting images
 that could help illustrate both historical articles, biographies (of
 bishops and archbishops etc.), articles about places, and things like
 Wikinews articles covering current-day issues in the church (like women
 bishops, the church's attitude to lesbian and gay people etc.)

 I've just sent an email to Lambeth Palace asking if they would be willing
 to release some images for use on the Wikimedia projects, but I'd be
 interested to see if anyone else could think of either good reasons to
 want, or good ways to get, images from the Church of England.

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[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Wikimedian in Residence at YMT

2013-09-03 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear All,

Wikimedia UK is pleased to announce a WIR role at York Museums Trust, and
would like to to see applicants for this from within the community. Page
down for the email announcing the role and details as to how one can apply.

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Date: 3 September 2013 12:22
Subject: Wikimedian in Residence at YMT
To: m...@jiscmail.ac.uk


   http://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk

We have just advertised the post of Wikimedian in Residence at York
Museums Trust. An application pack can be requested here:
http://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/Page/Vacancies.aspx

If you know of anyone who may be interested in this post then
please pass this email on.



This 6-month, part-time post is part of a major partnership with
Wikimedia UK, which you can read about in a blog post here:
http://www.ymtblog.org.uk/2013/08/26/ymt-partnership-with-wikimedia-uk-launched-with-first-upload-to-the-commons/



This is an exciting time for us and will see us testing social
engagement online, crowdsourcing, asset release and licensing shake-up. The
post has been made possible thanks to a generous grant from Wikimedia UK.

FULL JOB AD:

Wikimedian in Residence
Temporary 6 month post
14.48 hours per week (2 days)
£23,400 per annum, pro rata

York Museums Trust's (YMT) Digital Team is embarking on a major
partnership project with Wikimedia UK to help improve online access to our
extensive collections and disseminate information about our collections,
buildings and gardens to the widest possible audience

As part of a sixth-month project, we will be taking our Tempest
Anderson collection and using it as the cornerstone of a major public
engagement programme to create, develop and deliver content on an
internationally acclaimed and globally used platform.

Do you have the skills and experience to provide access to our
digitised collections online, introduce new and simplified licensing for
digital assets and develop a rolling programme of digital volunteering with
Wikipedia and Wikimedia UK ?

We want to work with someone who has a proven track record of
editing Wikipedia and using the encyclopedia's sister sites, an
understanding of Wikimedia policies and best practices, and experience of
delivering training and achieving key learning outcomes.

But most importantly, the right candidate will have a commitment to
open knowledge, transparent working practices and a passion for the arts,
history and science.

Want to know more...?

For further information or to request an application pack:
1) Email rachel.w...@ymt.org.uk. Your completed application form
can then be returned as an attachment, saving time and postage.

2) Phone 01904 697954. If phoning outside of office hours you will
get through to the voicemail service. Please leave your name, what position
you are applying for, your email address, phone number and postal address
and you will be contacted back.

Dates to bear in mind...

Closing date for applications is Sunday 15 September 2013 at 5pm.

Interviews will take place in York on Thursday 26 September 2013.

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

2013-08-27 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Hi Harry,

Do you think you could write a checklist/guide for organising such events?
That might make it more attractive for others to do this, and maybe prompt
some volunteers.

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On 23 August 2013 12:58, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote:

 I'm happy to help with logistics if anybody is interested but put off by
 lack of time or experience.

 Also, registration for Chester is still open, please see
 http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Takes_Chester.

 Thanks,

 Harry Mitchell
 http://enwp.org/User:HJ
 Phone: 024 7698 0977
 Skype: harry_j_mitchell

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 in September for WLM ?

 It would certainly be nice to have another one to bookend the competition.
 I approached User:Hassocks... to see if he was interested in organising one
 in Sussex, but he's away for most of September.

 Somewhere outside London might be nice, ideally urban and historic so that
 there are enough listed buildings clustered in one place. And of course a
 volunteer.

 We could perhaps ask Rod Ward, but his neck of the woods is pretty well
 covered and he's put in a lot of hard work getting the lists into shape.
 Clem Rutter is based in Rochester, but I don't know if he has experience of
 organising events. Mark MacDonald is based at Lancaster University. Perhaps
 we could ask if he could get students involved in a Wiki Takes... event?


 On 23 August 2013 12:42, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote:

 Harry Mitchell is running a Wiki Takes Chester event on 7th September. (
 http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Takes_Chester)

 Is anyone able to run another local event in September that could pull
 people in to the Wiki Loves Monuments competition?

 Michael

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

2013-08-27 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Thanks Lodewijk,

Yes that's what I was looking for.

Jonathan

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On 27 August 2013 12:38, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:

 Hi Jonathan,

 to avoid duplication, could you take a look at
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Organizing_a_Wiki_takes
  and
 see if that is what you're looking for? If you're missing something,
 perhaps that could be improved, and other countries could use that as well.

 Thanks!

 Lodewijk


 2013/8/27 Jonathan Cardy jonathan.ca...@wikimedia.org.uk

 Hi Harry,

 Do you think you could write a checklist/guide for organising such
 events? That might make it more attractive for others to do this, and maybe
 prompt some volunteers.

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 On 23 August 2013 12:58, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote:

 I'm happy to help with logistics if anybody is interested but put off by
 lack of time or experience.

 Also, registration for Chester is still open, please see
 http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Takes_Chester.

 Thanks,

 Harry Mitchell
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 in September for WLM ?

 It would certainly be nice to have another one to bookend the
 competition. I approached User:Hassocks... to see if he was interested in
 organising one in Sussex, but he's away for most of September.

 Somewhere outside London might be nice, ideally urban and historic so
 that there are enough listed buildings clustered in one place. And of
 course a volunteer.

 We could perhaps ask Rod Ward, but his neck of the woods is pretty well
 covered and he's put in a lot of hard work getting the lists into shape.
 Clem Rutter is based in Rochester, but I don't know if he has experience of
 organising events. Mark MacDonald is based at Lancaster University. Perhaps
 we could ask if he could get students involved in a Wiki Takes... event?


 On 23 August 2013 12:42, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote:

 Harry Mitchell is running a Wiki Takes Chester event on 7th September. (
 http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Takes_Chester)

 Is anyone able to run another local event in September that could pull
 people in to the Wiki Loves Monuments competition?

 Michael

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014: On journalism

2013-08-20 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Brian,

The obvious opportunity would be to take the fringe to the fringe. Every
Wikimania needs some events for the day after Wikimania, why not make one
option be to spend a few days at the fringe? I started the category
fringe http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fringeon
the wikimania 2014 and am planning to do a free London museum trip for the
day after Wikimania. But we will need several options for Wikimanaians for
the 11th Aug onwards and it would be lovely if one could be the Edinburgh
fringe.

Regards

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On 20 August 2013 07:22, brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:

We're looking a year ahead, so we should have plenty of time to sort
things out. But, the UK has some particularly-talented Wikinewsies (I'm
looking at Iain Macdonald, Tom Morris and Paul Williams in particular).

It would be short-sighted, in the extreme, not to ask the UK-resident
Wikinewsies to get involved. Given the direction I've seen Paul heading off
in (to Wikinews' great loss) I suspect he would make a great 'Head of
Broadcasting' for next year's Wikimania; and, with Wikimedia UK's support,
could help make sure Wikimania 2014 is the 'most-online' annual conference
to-date. [All sessions webcast live, all recordings thereof online faster
than the BBC does with iPlayer.]

The major snag for me, a Wikinewsie in Edinburgh, is it looks-like
Wikimania 2014 clashes with the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. (I already
have interest from a local community Radio station, which might lead to
free use of high-end gear, and a few other things in-the-works).

But, anyone who is planning to travel to the UK for Wikimania should bear
that in-mind!

If you want to come up to The Athens of The North, post-conference, start
looking at those accommodation bookings right now. Otherwise, you'll be
camping somewhere in the vicinity of Arthur's Seat.

Regardless, and no-matter how hard Wikimedia UK tries to promote their
London Wikimania, I can promise you us lot up in Scotland will keep
knocking you off the front page when it comes to headlines in the press.
Does anyone else have some 'creative ideas' about Wikimania 2014 having a
'token presence' in Edinburgh? (The Fringe venue I want to 'hijack' is
close-enough to the Edinburgh Uni CS facilities I was hacking - 25 years
ago - that, we could run an armoured fibre straight into JANET).

It's simply too-good an opportunity to miss. And, where I strongly agree
with the broad-criticisms Jimmy made of mainstream media in his HK keynote,
I know that the news division of the WMF (i.e. Wikinews) could wipe the
floor with the Mainstream on the independence debate.

Brian.

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[Wikimediauk-l] GLAM Committee

2013-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear all,

I'd like to revive the UK GLAM committee, much like the Education committee
the GLAM committee will be an opportunity for for volunteers to get more
involved in our GLAM program. I'm hoping that committee members will
include those willing to take part in interviewing potential Wikipedians in
Residence, taking part in editathons and maybe even writing them up as
blogs.

If any of that sounds interesting then please drop me an email.


Regards


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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Where should the Wikimedia UK Board meet over the coming year?

2013-07-15 Thread Jonathan Cardy

York would be good. We have an editathon there on the 19th
October.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Railways/National_Railway_Museum_editathon

We also have Autumn events in Glasgow and Manchester. More details on

the events page. http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events For 2014 if you can
pencil in dates I can try and get edtathons on those dates.

Regards

Jonathan
On 15 Jul 2013 09:08, Toni Sant toni.s...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

There's also an established Wikipedia Students' Society at Cambridge that
we're
supporting, and which will hopefully be getting new leadership for the next
academic year. I'm sure they'd appreciate meeting board members on their
home turf.

Best wishes,

Toni

On Sunday, July 14, 2013, Roger Bamkin wrote:

Where there are regular wikimeets or major project deliveries during the
year.
On 14 Jul 2013 20:52, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote:

Cambridge?

Michael

On 23 Jun 2013, at 10:53, Chris Keating wrote:

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to ask if you have suggestions on locations for Board
meetings over the coming year!

Since we're a national charity we should avoid having meetings in
London all the time. The AGM was in Lincoln, but prior to that the last
non-London Board meeting was last September in Coventry. We should aim to
meet at least twice outside of London in the coming year. If you have any
suggestions, drop me a line. The criteria are:

* we'd like to go somewhere where there is a Wikimedia-related project
going on that we can learn about / help with in some way (e.g. the Coventry
meeting coincided with Wiki Takes Coventry and also with a project at the
Herbert Museum)
* it needs to be readily accessible by public transport,
* we need a good meeting room available for 2 full days and a hotel
for people to stay in

If you have any ideas let me know!

Thanks,

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[Wikimediauk-l] Do you have some spare time on the 2nd and or 3rd July?

2013-06-25 Thread Jonathan Cardy

The collections trust have very kindly offered us a free stand at their
exhibition on the 2nd/3rd of July 2013. This is a great opportunity for us
to talk to attendees at OpenCulture2013 http://www.openculture2013.org.uk,
hopefully these will be people who are committed to the idea of free
culture, but they may need someone who can tell them what Wikipedia can do
with mass releases of images. Or indeed just show them how to edit an
article or add an image to an article.

We still have a couple of places for volunteers to man the stand,
preference given to people who can talk about Wikimedia commons or wikidata
as well as Wikipedia.

Sign up here http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenCulture2013, or by emailing
me.

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[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Program Evaluation and Design Workshop - Apply to attend! - June 22-23, Budapest

2013-05-14 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear Wikimedia UK members,

Apologies for short notice, but Wikimedia UK would like to fund a volunteer
to go to this event.

If you are available for 22–23 June 2013 and would like a grant from the UK
chapter to attend this then please email me with up to 50 words explaining
why you and the chapter would benefit from this, and where you would be
travelling from.

Regards

Jonathan Cardy
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Date: 8 May 2013 19:29
Subject: [cultural-partners] Program Evaluation and Design Workshop - Apply
to attend! - June 22-23, Budapest
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[please pardon this crossposting]

Hello everyone!

I am pleased to announce the first Program Evaluation and Design Workshop!

   - *When*: 22–23 June 2013
   - *Where*: Budapest, Hungary

The application process is now open. We have only 20 slots available for
this workshop and the application deadline ends on May 17th. This two-day
event will be followed by a pre-conference workshop at Wikimania 2013.
Ideally, applicants would commit to attending both events.

*Why are we offering this workshop?* Over the next couple of years, the
Wikimedia Foundation will be building capacity among program leaders around
evaluation and program design. A better understanding of how to increase
impact through better planning, execution and evaluation of programs 
activities will help us to move a step closer to achieving our mission of
offering a free, high quality encyclopedia to our readers around the world.

*What will take place at this and the following workshops?* Our long-term
goals are:

   1. Participants gain a basic shared understanding of program evaluation
   2. Participants will work collaboratively to map and prioritize
   measurable outcomes, beginning with a focus on the most common program 
   activities
   3. Participants will gain increased fluency in common language of
   evaluation (i.e. goals versus objectives, inputs  outputs versus outcomes
impact)
   4. Participants will learn and practice how to extract and report data
   using the UserMetrics API
   5. Participants will commit to working as a community of evaluation
   leaders who will implement evaluation strategies in their programmatic
   activities and report back at the pre-conference workshop at Wikimania 2013
   6. …and participants will have a lot of fun and enjoy networking with
   other program leaders!

We will publish a detailed agenda for the event in Budapest soon on meta.

*Which programs  activities are we going to focus on?* During the workshop
in Budapest, we will only have a limited amount of time. Therefore, we will
be focusing on the some of the more common programs  activities:

   - *Wikipedia editing workshops* where participants learn how to or
   actively edit (i.e. edit-a-thon, wikiparty, hands-on Wikipedia workshop)
   - *Content donations* through partnerships with GLAMs  related
   organizations
   - *Wiki Takes/Expeditions* where volunteers participate in day/weekend
   events to photograph site specific content
   - *Wiki Loves Monuments* which takes place in September
   - *Education program/classroom editing* where volunteers support
   educators who have students editing Wikipedia in the classroom
   - *Writing competitions* which generally take place online in the form
   of contests, WikiCup, and challenges – often engaging experienced editors
   to improve content.

 *Who should apply?* Community members who play an *active role* in
planning and executing programs  activities as described above in the
Wikimedia community. Your experience and knowledge will make this workshop
a success!

*What about the costs for travel and accommodation?* Hotels, flights and
other transportation costs will be on your chapter; the Wikimedia
Foundation will provide the venue, handouts, breakfasts and light lunches,
and a dinner for all participants on Saturday. If you're not affiliated
with a chapter and cannot afford to attend the event, please send me a
private email – we have a small amount of money set aside for those cases.

Applications are open until May 17. You can apply via this Google
Formhttps://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d

[Wikimediauk-l] GLAM wiki 2013

2013-04-17 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear All,

Much thanks to all of you who helped at or attended last weekend's
conference,  http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2013

We have some sessions recorded and available at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM-WIKI:_UK_2013_presentations

We also have some pictures at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM-WIKI:_UK_2013

Though hopefully more are on the way!

Also if anyone is willing and available to come into the office next
Tuesday or Wednesday to help process feedback forms, please drop me an
email.


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[Wikimediauk-l] Introducing Wikimedia UK's new GLAM organiser

2013-04-05 Thread Jonathan Cardy

Dear Wikimedia UK,

This week I have started work as your GLAM organiser, and for those of you
who haven't followed our WMUK blog
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/03/jonathan-cardy-joins-wikimedia-uk-as-glam-organiser/I
would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself.

Hopefully I will get the opportunity to talk to a lot of you in a week's
time at the GLAM Wiki event. But if you aren't coming to that and you want
to know more about our outreach work involving Galleries, Libraries,
Archives and Museums then please get in touch.


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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM - large number of online participants

2008-12-14 Thread jonathan cardy

Meetings with a large number of online or teleconferencing participants are 
practical, provided those in the aether are receiving but not sending (except 
maybe one at a time - for example Email the chair in advance if you want to 
pose a question and have the chair dial you in when your slot comes up). 

Regards

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 From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM
 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 Date: Sunday, 14 December, 2008, 2:10 PM
 2008/12/1 Michael Shilliday
 mjshilli...@googlemail.com:
  I have never commented here before, but why the need
 for a physical AGM?
   Incorporated companies have been having online AGMs
 for years now.  It may
  be necessary for a small group of people to be sitting
 in a room together,
  but the voting members don't necessarily need to
 be.
  There may be a hugely compelling reason why this is
 necessary, but that's
  just my thoughts,
  MJS
 
 Online meetings of large groups of people aren't
 practical. If we
 wanted members to just vote and that's it, then it
 would be fine, but
 we would like to actually get people involved in discussion
 and
 debate. It's pretty much impossible to maintain order
 in an IRC
 channel with dozens of people talking at once.
 
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