Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

There's very little I can say that would add to Doug's articulate and well-thought-out post, but I welcome Andreas' more substantive post as a step towards a rational, mature discussion about these projects. I think such a discussion has been needed for a while, but hasn't been possible until no

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

On 12 February 2013 16:31, Tom Morris wrote: > Let's be fair here, it's not just Andreas' concerns. It's not just a concern > for self-styled Wikipedia critics. Lots and lots of people thought that > Gibraltarpedia was problematic, myself included.* Indeed, I had a phone call from an old frien

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

On Tuesday, 12 February 2013 at 17:06, rexx wrote: > > Please feel free to tell us how you'd handle a future request for a new > wiki-town. Even better, there's going to be a call for new trustees, both > elected and coopted in the near future. WMUK could certainly do with having > the benefit

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

Well Tom, you have to remember that I write here as old Rexx, the dinosaur, wikimedian volunteer. I don't speak for the WMUK Board, and I sometimes wonder if I have to put a disclaimer on everything I write as a result. Would you prefer that? It sounds like just the sort of bureaucracy that will en

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

On Tuesday, 12 February 2013 at 15:56, rexx wrote: > For example, Monmouthpedia generated many new articles in multiple languages > as well as new photographs; the volunteers' efforts have helped vitalise the > Welsh Wikipedia; the contacts made are leading to a shift in attitude of the > Welsh

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

My usual optimism can sometimes lead to disappointment, but I think I'd rather have it that way. Projects like Monmouthpedia and Gibraltarpedia have a huge potential for doing good work, and they need the community to support and engage with them to make sure they deliver that good work. I am plea

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

Hi all - thanks for the interest! We've finally secured a room, after an awful lot of phoning around and juggling of bookings - we'll be working with the images on Monday 18th March, at the BL Conference Centre (which some of you may remember from GLAMcamp, or from one of my public workshops). I h

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

Sometimes I wonder what happened, David. I recall you describing one of my posts to Foundation-l as the "post of the year" a couple of years ago: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/216365#216365 What I am opposed to is poor content, BLP violations, or Wikipedia being abused for

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

Thomas, I don't think there is much wrong with projects like Monmouthpedia and Gibraltarpedia at all. When I first heard about Monmouthpedia, I thought it was a great project. Problems arose from – 1. the conflation of roles within the chapter, 2. the projects' being plainly described as tourism

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

I use www.photoscape.org, which I picked from the reviews online a couple of years ago. It's free, easy to use, & allows full cropping and rotating, & simple versions of editing for colour, contrast & all that stuff. However the cropping is very far from lossless, and reduces file size well be

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

For Windows users, IrfanView (freeware) allows batch rotation and cropping (to specific sizes; it doesn't do edge detection, though I will raise a feature request). It's also useful for manual cropping, resizing, format conversion, etc. being small and lightweight. On 12 February 2013 14:01, Andre

[Wikimediauk-l] Volunteer equipment

The charity has a budget of £2,000 to purchase equipment to be used by volunteers. There are some suggestions already, and people are invited to take a look and add their own. The page is at here

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

On 12 February 2013 13:59, Michael Peel wrote: > Install Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) on the visitor laptops and take them > along? GIMP is indeed on all the visitor laptops (at least on the Ubuntu side). I'll leave the Windows side up to Richard :-) (We should probably document this on-wiki some

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

Install Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) on the visitor laptops and take them along? Thanks, Mike On 12 Feb 2013, at 13:52, Richard Nevell wrote: > My laptop doesn't have image editing software, otherwise I'd bring it, but if > there will be laptops available I'd be interested in helping out. > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

My laptop doesn't have image editing software, otherwise I'd bring it, but if there will be laptops available I'd be interested in helping out. Richard Nevell On 12 February 2013 10:53, Andrew Gray wrote: > Very nice! I will have a play, but it looks like that's more oriented > towards reorient

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

On 12 February 2013 12:42, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 11 February 2013 17:52, Andreas Kolbe wrote: >> I would oppose any support from Wikimedia UK for targeted use of the >> Wikipedia main page to increase the visibility of projects like >> Gibraltarpedia. > What do you count as "projects like G

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

On 11 February 2013 17:52, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > I would oppose any support from Wikimedia UK for targeted use of the > Wikipedia main page to increase the visibility of projects like > Gibraltarpedia. What do you count as "projects like Gibraltarpedia"? Are you opposed to the entire concept of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

I would oppose any support from Wikimedia UK for targeted use of the Wikipedia main page to increase the visibility of projects like Gibraltarpedia. Beyond that, I believe it would also be extremely unwise for WMUK to offer such support. Andreas On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:41 PM, HJ Mitchell wrot

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Governance review

Thanks, Stevie. Andreas On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Stevie Benton < stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Just a couple of things here to tidy up from my side. Apologies for my > lack of communication over the weekend but as it was my anniversary and > working may ha

[Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 2 March

The next Cambridge meetup will be on Saturday 2 March. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/17 As usual we will start at 3 pm, upstairs in CB2 cybercaff (more of a brasserie these days, in fact), on Norfolk Street, and all are very welcome. Charles ___

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Andrew Gray wrote: > Very nice! I will have a play, but it looks like that's more oriented > towards reorienting than cropping... > Yes; well, it seems to only want to crop black borders from around the edges. But in any case, reorientation alone is going to save

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

Very nice! I will have a play, but it looks like that's more oriented towards reorienting than cropping... (I feel like there *ought* to be some kind of monstrous seventeen-clause command line script I can write to do this sort of thing, but no luck so far) - Andrew. On 11 February 2013 20:06, H

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

Fabulous! On 11 February 2013 20:06, Harry Burt wrote: > Has anyone tried using unpaper [1] on a sample of images? I could do -- > all you really need is a Unix-based OS and some command-line savvy - but > I'm a little tied up just at the moment. > > Harry > > -- > Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Victorian-era Dictionary of National Biography digitised on Wikisource

On 11 February 2013 20:24, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 11 February 2013 18:25, Charles Matthews > wrote: > >> WP:WP DNB, the WikiProject devoted to quarrying out the >> good stuff from the DNB, > > Excellent job. > > Is there a template for linking from Wikipedia articles to the > corresponding DNB