Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

2016-12-08 Thread Gordon Joly
On 08/12/16 17:32, Michael Peel wrote: > An interesting question that could do with a speedy response (and maybe > a copyright release email from the BBC to OTRS) has been posted at: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:100_Women_(BBC)#Is_it_not_a_copyright_violation_to_publish_this_list.3F >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

2016-12-08 Thread Lucy Crompton-Reid
Dear all In the next few days I will be emailing more formal thanks to lots of people involved in the events within the UK and further afield, but I've just arrived home and before I open the wine I wanted to say how grateful I am for so many people's time, energy, expertise and good humour today

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

2016-12-08 Thread Sara Thomas
The Glasgow editors were similarly bright and very happy to be able to contribute - a brilliant day, all round. Art+Feminism is similar in lots of ways... Sara From: Wikimediauk-l on behalf of Roger Bamkin

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

2016-12-08 Thread Roger Bamkin
The editors in London who had editor support did very well. We trained lots of very bright people. I know that we've had dozens in other languages and we had newbies in London creating two good articles. A link to the detail might have been a catch all but we no have a bare Edit button above every

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

2016-12-08 Thread Michael Peel
An interesting question that could do with a speedy response (and maybe a copyright release email from the BBC to OTRS) has been posted at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:100_Women_(BBC)#Is_it_not_a_copyright_violation_to_publish_this_list.3F Thanks, Mike > On 8 Dec 2016, at 11:37, Lucy

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

2016-12-08 Thread Gordon Joly
On 08/12/16 13:37, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote: > > At the training events we are of course reinforcing the need for > appropriate secondary sources, and lots of preparation work has been > done by Roger and other Women in Red editors, Stuart Prior at Wikimedia > UK and BBC staff to create lists of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

2016-12-08 Thread Gordon Joly
On 08/12/16 12:56, WereSpielChequers wrote: > > I'm wondering whether it might be worth doing an article rescue > editathon as part of the next feminism event - Or any other themed event? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

2016-12-08 Thread Lucy Crompton-Reid
Thanks Jonathan, that's a great idea! At the training events we are of course reinforcing the need for appropriate secondary sources, and lots of preparation work has been done by Roger and other Women in Red editors, Stuart Prior at Wikimedia UK and BBC staff to create lists of women to be added

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

2016-12-08 Thread WereSpielChequers
Since the BBC is encouraging people to create unsourced articles on living people there is a high possibility they will turn up at either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BLP_articles_proposed_for_deletion or even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion I've

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

2016-12-08 Thread Gordon Joly
On 08/12/16 12:01, Sara Thomas wrote: > > As is my custom, I'll be placing the {{new user article}} template on > the talk pages of any articles created by new users today. Which then expands to ** This is an article recently created by a new user.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

2016-12-08 Thread Lucy Crompton-Reid
Fantastic, thanks Sara! Lucy On 8 December 2016 at 12:01, Sara Thomas wrote: > Hello all! > > On my way from a wiki session in Edinburgh to the BBC session in Glasgow, > where m'colleague Ewan is already guiding that team. I provided a training > session a week or so ago in