Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Kings Cross event
I helped out with this event today, pretty interesting afternoon it made too, Central St. Martin's being a new creative space and the gallery there giving a free display of end-of-year works by students. The event was paper based with lots of the public discussing the history and community of King's Cross Central and the coordinators gathering all suggestions and cut pasting the huge wall printout as the day went on. Rebecca Ross was coordinating the event and is on the faculty of CSM, specialising in urban history and communications. She has my email and I have offered to help with the staging/review/release of updates to the Wikipedia article, this will probably take a week or two. I took some photos and there were some photographers with the larger stage of the event, so hopefully those will make their way to Commons later. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Editathon_in_King%27s_Cross_Central. I took a little time out to interview Rebecca, and I am thinking of shaping this up into a Signpost article, along the lines of how an independent event like this can empower communities to change the way Wikipedia might represent their local area, including members of the public who do not want to edit Wikipedia for various reasons. Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Kings Cross event
On 21 June 2014 22:47, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: I helped out with this event today, pretty interesting afternoon it made too, Central St. Martin's being a new creative space and the gallery there giving a free display of end-of-year works by students. The event was paper based with lots of the public discussing the history and community of King's Cross Central and the coordinators gathering all suggestions and cut pasting the huge wall printout as the day went on. Rebecca Ross was coordinating the event and is on the faculty of CSM, specialising in urban history and communications. She has my email and I have offered to help with the staging/review/release of updates to the Wikipedia article, this will probably take a week or two. I took some photos and there were some photographers with the larger stage of the event, so hopefully those will make their way to Commons later. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Editathon_in_King%27s_Cross_Central . I took a little time out to interview Rebecca, and I am thinking of shaping this up into a Signpost article, along the lines of how an independent event like this can empower communities to change the way Wikipedia might represent their local area, including members of the public who do not want to edit Wikipedia for various reasons. You may well be onto something there. A new flavour going back to the roots of the editathon - a meetup with an editing theme - but a gathering with a different kind of activism. Charles ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Kings Cross event
Editing from a bobsleigh could be an interesting test of our mobile Wifi On 18 June 2014 16:21, Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Charles Matthews wrote: I think you have just invented the sledgathon, aka wreckshop ... A sledgeathon just gives me the mental image of trying to edit Wikipedia while hurting down an icy track in a bobsleigh. I'm not certain this would be successfull. Chris Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org www.sucs.org/~cmckenna The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart Antoine de Saint Exupery ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Kings Cross event
It has the potential to go down hill rapidly On 20 June 2014 11:06, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Editing from a bobsleigh could be an interesting test of our mobile Wifi On 18 June 2014 16:21, Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Charles Matthews wrote: I think you have just invented the sledgathon, aka wreckshop ... A sledgeathon just gives me the mental image of trying to edit Wikipedia while hurting down an icy track in a bobsleigh. I'm not certain this would be successfull. Chris Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org www.sucs.org/~cmckenna The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart Antoine de Saint Exupery ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- Richard Nevell Assistant Office Manager Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0753 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Kings Cross event
Yeah, a very slippery slope. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 20 June 2014 11:16, Richard Nevell richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: It has the potential to go down hill rapidly On 20 June 2014 11:06, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Editing from a bobsleigh could be an interesting test of our mobile Wifi On 18 June 2014 16:21, Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Charles Matthews wrote: I think you have just invented the sledgathon, aka wreckshop ... A sledgeathon just gives me the mental image of trying to edit Wikipedia while hurting down an icy track in a bobsleigh. I'm not certain this would be successfull. Chris Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org www.sucs.org/~cmckenna The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart Antoine de Saint Exupery ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- Richard Nevell Assistant Office Manager Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0753 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Kings Cross event
Be serious people, snow joking matter. On 20 June 2014 12:23, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote: Icy what you did there. On 20 Jun 2014 11:19, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Yeah, a very slippery slope. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. On 20 June 2014 11:16, Richard Nevell richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: It has the potential to go down hill rapidly On 20 June 2014 11:06, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Editing from a bobsleigh could be an interesting test of our mobile Wifi On 18 June 2014 16:21, Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Charles Matthews wrote: I think you have just invented the sledgathon, aka wreckshop ... A sledgeathon just gives me the mental image of trying to edit Wikipedia while hurting down an icy track in a bobsleigh. I'm not certain this would be successfull. Chris Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org www.sucs.org/~cmckenna The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart Antoine de Saint Exupery ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- Richard Nevell Assistant Office Manager Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0753 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- Chris McKenna Wikimania 2014 Support Wikimedia UK chris.mcke...@wikimedia.org.uk tel: +44 (0) 20 7065 0990 Wikimedia UK is a Charitable Company registered in England and Wales. Registered Company No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Kings Cross event
On 16 June 2014 18:29, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: This event: http://kingscrossenvironment.com/2014/06/16/authoring-kings-cross/ sounds, er interesting: Who will author the future of King’s Cross? You are invited to join us for an in-person and on-location collaborative update to Wikipedia’s entry for King’s Cross Central. It looks like it could be a fun discussion about sources and what an encyclopaedia is for. I rather like the idea of a slightly edgy editathon. I've put it in the diary, I might be available, it's on my bus route. :-) Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Kings Cross event
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Charles Matthews wrote: I think you have just invented the sledgathon, aka wreckshop ... A sledgeathon just gives me the mental image of trying to edit Wikipedia while hurting down an icy track in a bobsleigh. I'm not certain this would be successfull. Chris Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org www.sucs.org/~cmckenna The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart Antoine de Saint Exupery ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Kings Cross event
On 18 June 2014 16:21, Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Charles Matthews wrote: I think you have just invented the sledgathon, aka wreckshop ... A sledgeathon just gives me the mental image of trying to edit Wikipedia while hurting down an icy track in a bobsleigh. I'm not certain this would be successfull. Mindtobogganling. OTOH trying to edit when being heckled by people trying to put you off your stroke does sound vaguely familiar. Charles ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Kings Cross event
Really interesting Andy - well spotted. Would be great if some of the community were there to help. On 16 June 2014 18:29, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: This event: http://kingscrossenvironment.com/2014/06/16/authoring-kings-cross/ sounds, er interesting: Who will author the future of King’s Cross? You are invited to join us for an in-person and on-location collaborative update to Wikipedia’s entry for King’s Cross Central. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
