Re: [Wikimediauk-l] How would you like to communicate with WMUK and other Wikimedians?

2016-08-19 Thread John Lubbock
Ahh, thanks Rex. I was going to propose IRC as a 5th option. I wouldn't be averse to trying to use IRC, but I do think that Slack has many of the same functions and is easier for people to join as you don't need a client. I'm currently trying to start an internal staff Slack channel, but we could

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] How would you like to communicate with WMUK and other Wikimedians?

2016-08-19 Thread Rex X
In times gone-by, we used to host "office hours" on the WMUK channel on irc. For anybody not familiar with it, our channel is at irc://freenode/wikimedia-uk For anybody not familiar with irc, it requies a client, like mirc or a browser plugin like chatzilla. It allows large numbers of

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.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK photography contest

2016-08-19 Thread Lucy Crompton-Reid
Great picture! On 19 August 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

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK photography contest

2016-08-19 Thread Gordon Joly
> 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.