[Wikimediauk-l] Last call for submissions for the Newsletter

2017-08-25 Thread John Lubbock
as at SLIC, Upcoming Events, and the Parliamentary Digital Service content release. It would be great to hear from anyone who has an interesting project ongoing that they would like to tell others about. The deadline for this is next Tuesday. John Lu

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 video

2017-08-25 Thread John Lubbock
erwise > people like me will zone out in the first second rather than watching the > video! > > You have nevertheless extracted one (1) like and share from me :-) > > On 23 Aug 2017 12:37, "John Lubbock" > wrote: > >> Hi all, we've just published a pr

[Wikimediauk-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 video

2017-08-23 Thread John Lubbock
e difference is between Wikipedia, the WMF and us as a chapter. Obviously as we don't have money for advertising, we rely on our (fantastic, intelligent, unaffected by flattery) community to get the word out, so I'd be incredibly grateful if those of you on social media can help share o

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania, Wikidata event in London, August newsletter update

2017-08-14 Thread John Lubbock
nd tell me your ideas. Wiki Loves Monuments is starting at the beginning of September, so we are hoping to do some significant coverage of the competition this year and produce some great photos which can compete for the global awards. Why not get in touch and tell us if you are taking part and wh

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Copyfraud redux: Waldemar Januszczak criticises BM & Tate

2017-08-08 Thread John Lubbock
Hi Andy, I replied to your tweet from our account - it's @wikimediauk, not @WMUK! On 4 August 2017 at 17:17, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Sorry, I misread that. > > Valentine Low wrote in the Times; Januszczak supported on Twitter > > On 4 August 2017 at 22:15, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > Waldemar Januszc

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editathon: London, 13 October 2017

2017-08-01 Thread John Lubbock
Let me know what it's about so I can pencil it into our events list. On 31 July 2017 at 14:05, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Just a heads-up that I'm organising a daytme editathon in London on > Friiday, 13 October 2017. > > I hope those of you who aren't superstitious will be able to make it. > > Detai

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Give a lightning talk at this Saturday's AGM and meet up!

2017-07-17 Thread John Lubbock
I'm also happy to help with the writing too, as I think I mentioned to Harry on Saturday. I'm always happy to help any of our community who have an idea for a blogpost to edit and publish it. John On 17 July 2017 at 17:22, John Lubbock wrote: > If you would both like to write up

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Give a lightning talk at this Saturday's AGM and meet up!

2017-07-17 Thread John Lubbock
If you would both like to write up Harry's work on war memorials for the blog, we'd be happy to publish it. John On 17 July 2017 at 16:49, Katherine Bavage wrote: > Afternoon, > > Harry how did the lightning talk go? Well I hope! Still keen to see some > of this written up and on the WMUK blog

[Wikimediauk-l] Afropunk Festival London, July 22-23

2017-07-12 Thread John Lubbock
mmons)? Let me know. John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

[Wikimediauk-l] New videos of WMUK events

2017-06-30 Thread John Lubbock
Hi all, I just wanted to direct your attention to two new videos of recent Wikipedia workshops that took place in London: Imperial College London schools workshop At the London Cinema Museum Please feel free to share th

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge Wikidata talks, this Thursday and next

2017-06-26 Thread John Lubbock
Would you like me to make you a poster for this event and share it on our social media, Charles? On 26 June 2017 at 10:39, Charles Matthews wrote: > http://moore.libraries.cam.ac.uk/news/wiki-teaching- > sessions-22-june-6-july-2017 for the announcement of my third talk in the > series, on 6 Jul

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election Debrief

2017-06-15 Thread John Lubbock
Edward H, can you possibly provide a summary of what was updated? Can we see all the new MPs pages in a category somewhere? On 15 June 2017 at 12:12, Edward Saperia wrote: > If anyone would like to come along and talk about how Wikipedia was > updated around the election, Newspeak House is holdi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Official parliamentary photos of MPs to be open licensed

2017-06-14 Thread John Lubbock
Is there a citation for this yet? Andy, would you like to write something for our blog about this? On 14 June 2017 at 14:15, John Lubbock wrote: > Great. Thanks for telling us. > > On 14 June 2017 at 10:23, Richard Nevell > wrote: > >> Excellent news >> >>

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Official parliamentary photos of MPs to be open licensed

2017-06-14 Thread John Lubbock
Great. Thanks for telling us. On 14 June 2017 at 10:23, Richard Nevell wrote: > Excellent news > > On 14 June 2017 at 08:59, David Gerard wrote: > >> \o/ >> >> On 14 June 2017 at 08:12, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> >>> Breaking news: Official parliamentary photos of (new?) MPs, being >>> taken today

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pride 2017

2017-06-08 Thread John Lubbock
Yes, your 5D certainly does. The other one just about. On 8 June 2017 at 17:51, geni wrote: > On 7 June 2017 at 16:40, John Lubbock > wrote: > > Hello mailing list. Last year we had a lot of fun taking photos at the > Pride > > march in London. This year it's on Sa

[Wikimediauk-l] Pride 2017

2017-06-07 Thread John Lubbock
vents you would like to get press accreditation to go to, get in contact and let me know and I can ask for you. John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/ma

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

2017-06-05 Thread John Lubbock
to add to and improve it! > > Edward > > > > On 1 June 2017 at 18:11, John Lubbock > wrote: > >> Hey all, here's the event page on Facebook. Please let me know if you're >> coming by listing your attendance. >> >> https://www.facebook.com/events

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK at Byline Festival on 2nd June

2017-06-03 Thread John Lubbock
Thanks for the feedback. I think I will definitely try to do a presentation which can be used as a generic talk about our work. I guess it's the first time we've done that and it was the festival's first year so my expectations were suitably low. I'll see if we can get food/drink in the budget for

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

2017-06-01 Thread John Lubbock
Hey all, here's the event page on Facebook. Please let me know if you're coming by listing your attendance. https://www.facebook.com/events/1419398211460956 John On 1 June 2017 at 16:10, John Lubbock wrote: > I'm about to make an event for the election night editathon. Can

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

2017-06-01 Thread John Lubbock
I'm about to make an event for the election night editathon. Can anyone who wants to help run it please let me know? Ed H, did you say you would be happy to be the main organiser? On 5 May 2017 at 16:29, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 05/05/17 11:56, John Lubbock wrote: > > Oh yeah, if

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election Edit-a-thon

2017-06-01 Thread John Lubbock
Right, so who's interested in this election night editathon then? I've said I'll run it and we're a week away. Who's in? On 26 April 2017 at 20:16, John Lubbock wrote: > What about Saturday 27th or Sunday 28th? Just trying to gauge interest. > > On 26 Apr 2

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Designs for T shirts

2017-06-01 Thread John Lubbock
: > On 1 June 2017 at 10:55, John Lubbock > wrote: > > > I do wonder how much it would cost extra to make personalised ones. :) > > I'd wear one with P31 = Q15136093 > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Designs for T shirts

2017-06-01 Thread John Lubbock
I do wonder how much it would cost extra to make personalised ones. :) On 1 June 2017 at 10:34, Richard Nevell wrote: > Ceci n'est pas une Wikidata query > > On 31 May 2017 at 20:45, John Lubbock > wrote: > >> Q131151 is a T shirt. Q5 is a human. We can make it say

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Designs for T shirts

2017-05-31 Thread John Lubbock
Q131151 is a T shirt. Q5 is a human. We can make it say instance of T shirt if you like. I think human is mildly more amusing but am happy to oblige if the community prefers it to say it's a T shirt. On 31 May 2017 at 20:06, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 31 May 2017 at 16:54, Julie Workman wrote: >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Designs for T shirts

2017-05-31 Thread John Lubbock
B_biases%2C_designed_by_John_Manoogian_III_%28jm3%29.png> . On 31 May 2017 at 13:35, Richard Farmbrough wrote: > Like the white one! > > On 31 May 2017 09:37, "John Lubbock" > wrote: > >> Hi all. Here are some more designs which I've made to try to respond to >> some of t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Digitisation Grant fund

2017-05-30 Thread John Lubbock
Thanks for that Andy. On 30 May 2017 at 13:44, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Possibly of interest for some of the GLAMs you may be working with. > > It would be good if we could persuade the funders to include > mandatory, or at least recommended, open access as a stipulation for > future awards. > > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK at Byline Festival on 2nd June

2017-05-26 Thread John Lubbock
Well, I'm sure you don't have to be 100% sober. :) Do you want me to put you down for a ticket Geni? On 26 May 2017 at 01:03, geni wrote: > On 25 May 2017 at 11:27, John Lubbock > wrote: > > Sure thing Gordo. Any other takers? > > > > Need a couple of da

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK at Byline Festival on 2nd June

2017-05-25 Thread John Lubbock
Sure thing Gordo. Any other takers? On 25 May 2017 at 11:25, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 24/05/17 14:52, John Lubbock wrote: > > The festival is held at Pippingford Park in Sussex > > <http://www.bylinefestival.com/directions>, 1 hour from central London > > by tr

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK at Byline Festival on 2nd June

2017-05-24 Thread John Lubbock
ou would like us to sign you up for a free ticket, please reply to this message and tell us your name or email me on john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk. All the best, John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikim

[Wikimediauk-l] Photos for biographical articles needed

2017-05-22 Thread John Lubbock
ael_J._Mauboussin> - Michael Saunders <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Saunders_(economist)> - Nicola Horlick <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Horlick> If anyone is able to take any of these, let me know. Grants for travel expenses and equipment are available. John Lubbock

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

2017-05-05 Thread John Lubbock
bmail> >> Virus-free. >> www.avast.com >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> >> <#m_1758620507944339050_m_2786474287761100871_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >> >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

2017-05-04 Thread John Lubbock
are both due to be attending the next London meet-up, on > Sunday 14 May, so we could discuss it all then. > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/118 > > best wishes > Edward (Edwardx) > > On 4 May 2017 at 11:28, John Lubbock > wrote: > >> Ok, so we hav

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

2017-05-04 Thread John Lubbock
ce=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > <#m_6280963607162983960_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > On 1 May 2017 at 14:01, John Lubbock > wrote: > >> Has there been any decision about whether we will do an event on the >> evening of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses

2017-05-02 Thread John Lubbock
raphs"). > > It would also be useful to have some phraseology so that people who own > the copyright of someone who has died can release their material under > a Creative Commons license. I feel this would make a significant impact in > covering the gap between photos in particular t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses

2017-05-02 Thread John Lubbock
Hi Fabian. Do you not think that this time consuming process of asking authors individually could be substantially reduced by getting universities to understand the benefits of Open Licenses and having them give their students the option of publishing on CC licenses. Then the only work we would hav

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses

2017-05-01 Thread John Lubbock
Any chance you could help me write something for the newsletter? On Mon, 1 May 2017 at 14:34, Deryck Chan wrote: > Thanks John for the idea. I'm in a good position to participate on a > personal basis if something like this goes live. > > I'm a PhD student at Cambridge University and I'm partial

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses

2017-05-01 Thread John Lubbock
Sussex may be doing something similar too. > > University OA scientific publishing is another kettle of fish altogether, > and far more advanced than for us poor hums students. > > Best, > > John > > On 01/05/2017 14:25, John Lubbock wrote: > >> Hi John, thanks for posting about

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses

2017-05-01 Thread John Lubbock
Hi John, thanks for posting about this. We have our May newsletter coming up soon. I wonder if you would be interested in writing a short summary of the current state of university Open Access publishing which we could include in it? It can be as short as you like. John Lubbock Communications

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Possible project--Animal locomotion

2017-05-01 Thread John Lubbock
Yeah, this is not a bad idea. I'm just not sure how much takeup there would be. If we got no engagement, it could be a bit of a failure. I am myself not entirely sure how I would take slow motion shots of animals in motion. For example, say I wanted to film a mouse scurrying around, how would I get

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

2017-05-01 Thread John Lubbock
Has there been any decision about whether we will do an event on the evening of the election, before or after? I've been away but if you guys have decided on something, we can start organising. John On 29 April 2017 at 08:28, geni wrote: > > > On 28 April 2017 at 15:13, Harry Mitchell wrote: >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

2017-04-27 Thread John Lubbock
Is the feeling that the community would rather do an election night event than one on the 26/27th? I'm happy to facilitate either and I'm sure we could use Newspeak House. On 27 Apr 2017 1:08 p.m., "Chris Keating" wrote: > > For a flat-file database that's available online to a limited number of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election Edit-a-thon

2017-04-26 Thread John Lubbock
here's a risk of losing momentum before there are any > significant edits needed. > > Harry Mitchell > http://enwp.org/User:HJ > +44 (0) 7507 536 971 <+44%207507%20536971> > Skype: harry_j_mitchell > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:57 PM, John Lubbock < > john.lu

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election Edit-a-thon

2017-04-25 Thread John Lubbock
Do we have anyone offering to be a trainer on this yet? We're not far away from the 7th, so if we are going to organise I need someone to volunteer for this pretty soon. On 24 April 2017 at 12:55, John Lubbock wrote: > I've tweeted from the WMUK account encouraging people to t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election Edit-a-thon

2017-04-24 Thread John Lubbock
I've tweeted from the WMUK account encouraging people to take photos of candidates. On 24 April 2017 at 11:12, WereSpielChequers wrote: > Much is down to the operator, but better cameras can take better pictures, > especially in Low light conditions. > > If you take David Gerard's advice and int

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

2017-04-24 Thread John Lubbock
I think we should do one before. I suggested Sunday 7th May, and Ed has said we can use Newspeak House. So we need a trainer now. Anyone keen? John On 24 April 2017 at 08:33, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 21/04/17 18:15, John Lubbock wrote: > > What about if we simply did a politics themed

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

2017-04-21 Thread John Lubbock
What about if we simply did a politics themed editathon after the election when the results had come in and we had something to work with? On 21 April 2017 at 16:30, Ed Hand wrote: > Thinking back to the editathon we ran at the time of the last election, > there was quite a long wait until much

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election Edit-a-thon

2017-04-21 Thread John Lubbock
ail • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> > • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 > 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG > > On 21 April 2017 at 16:53, John Lubbock > wrote: > >> Ok, Ed, could you suggest possible dates that we might use N

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election Edit-a-thon

2017-04-21 Thread John Lubbock
com> > email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> > • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 > 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG > > On 21 April 2017 at 16:07, John Lubbock > wrote: > >> I'm not sure about that Ed. I've enc

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election Edit-a-thon

2017-04-21 Thread John Lubbock
I'm not sure about that Ed. I've encountered this issue before and the notability criteria for politicians is quite clear that they have to be elected to merit a page, I believe. I would assume the same applies for Wikidata? On 21 April 2017 at 14:32, Edward Saperia wrote: > For their own pages,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Camera donation

2017-03-16 Thread John Lubbock
Thanks very much Geni. If it's ok with you, I'll tweet/facebook your blog to let the community know we have a new piece of equipment. All the best, John Lubbock On 16 March 2017 at 02:39, geni wrote: > On 1 February 2017 at 20:44, geni wrote: > > Tried i...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Leekfrith Torcs

2017-03-03 Thread John Lubbock
Thanks for this Andy. I'll tweet about the article. If there are newsworthy articles that have been started by Wikimedians in the UK, please let us know so we can tell people about them. John On 28 February 2017 at 23:21, Andy Mabbett wrote: > You may have seen the unveiling of the 'Leekfrith T

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] WikiFactMine Project is Advertising for a Wikimedian in Residence

2017-02-16 Thread John Lubbock
Have posted about this on Facebook/Twitter. Thanks for reminding me. If anybody feels there's something that we should be posting about from our social media accounts, please do get in touch and let me know what it is. John On 16 February 2017 at 05:55, WereSpielChequers wrote: > Dear all, > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC Newsnight want to do Daily Mail vs WP:RS tonight - editor on hand?

2017-02-10 Thread John Lubbock
The irony is that the Mail fails to understand that they are in line with Wikipedia's own policy, which states that it does not use other Wikipedia pages as a source: ‘Wikipedia articles (and Wikipedia mirrors) are not reliable sources for any purpose (except as sources on themselves per WP:SELFSO

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Digitisaton of East India Company/ India Office records

2017-02-10 Thread John Lubbock
Hello WhereDevilsDare! I would love to discuss this with you and any other Wikimedians in the UK who might be interested. Regards, John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK On 9 February 2017 at 04:17, Where Devels Dare wrote: > I am an inactive volunteer (at present and been

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] What Volunteer Equipment should we buy?

2017-02-08 Thread John Lubbock
Hi Gordon, I'm trying to ensure the newsletter is quarterly this year. I'm happy to take suggestions from the mailing list about projects that we could be covering for future editions. John On 8 February 2017 at 09:17, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 08/02/17 00:51, geni wrote: > > For those that didn'

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Digitisaton of East India Company/ India Office records

2017-02-08 Thread John Lubbock
e welcome to propose ideas and to suggest people we might work with. I'm all ears. :) John On 8 February 2017 at 13:52, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > On 08 February 2017 at 12:46 John Lubbock > wrote: > > There's quite a lot of intere

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Digitisaton of East India Company/ India Office records

2017-02-08 Thread John Lubbock
media projects, but I don't think it would be an appropriate project for trying to work with the Indian Wikimedia chapter or with the Indian diaspora here. I do think we should look at how we could do that in future with subject matter which is less contentious though. John Lubbock On 8 Fe

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Camera donation

2017-02-02 Thread John Lubbock
it I would also certainly mention your donation. Thanks again, John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK On 1 February 2017 at 20:44, geni wrote: > Tried i...@wikimedia.org.uk. I didn't get a reply. > > Would wikimedia UK be interested in me donating my old Canon EOS 5D

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Feminism and Museums

2017-01-31 Thread John Lubbock
I'd be more than happy to help draft this. On 31 January 2017 at 14:07, Lucy Crompton-Reid < lucy.crompton-r...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Thanks for this Fabian. Whilst individual responses would be great I'm > also happy to draft/co-ordinate a response from Wikimedia UK.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 18 February

2017-01-19 Thread John Lubbock
I'll Tweet/Facebook this too Charles. Please let me know if there's anything I can do in future to promote your events. John On 19 January 2017 at 20:21, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > The next Cambridge meetup will be on Saturday 18 February, once more at > the Ibi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

2017-01-17 Thread John Lubbock
reference rather than held in closed archives. > > Fae > > On 17 January 2017 at 14:51, John Lubbock > wrote: > > The other thing is that we have already started using Slack in the office > > for chat, and I have another slack channel for the Kurdish Wikipedia > > P

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

2017-01-17 Thread John Lubbock
> channel fosters. > > As far as I know, for this type of work, Slack is the go to for most devs. > The Foundation use it without issue. > > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 at 12:24 Gordon Joly wrote: > >> On 17/01/17 00:38, John Lubbock wrote: >> > It costs a lot of money

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

2017-01-16 Thread John Lubbock
It costs a lot of money, as far as I can see (it says Try for Free and then takes you to a page where it asks you to pay $100 a month). Personally I don't think we need to stretch over backwards to always use an open source option for just communications tools. We don't refuse to use Facebook or Tw

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

2017-01-16 Thread John Lubbock
I actually tried to encourage people through here to use IRC a number of months ago but didn't detect much enthusiasm for it. Slack is much easier and more user friendly. On 16 January 2017 at 17:18, Edward Saperia wrote: > The closest equivalent is IRC, I guess. However, it's a barrier to entry

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

2017-01-16 Thread John Lubbock
would like to join the slack channel, just send me you email. John On 16 January 2017 at 10:20, Pat Hadley wrote: > Hi John, > > I'm up for it! p...@pathadley.net > > Cheers, > > P > > On 13 January 2017 at 12:06, John Lubbock > wrote: > >> I'

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

2017-01-13 Thread John Lubbock
e wants to join the channel, please send me your email addresses and I'll add you. John On 12 January 2017 at 17:01, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 14/11/16 13:42, John Lubbock wrote: > > If you would like to be added to the channel to discuss with other > > Wikimedia developers how

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wiki Commons walking tour

2017-01-09 Thread John Lubbock
place, but last years Wiki Loves Monuments had such a London skew that I'd > be surprised if we had many gaps in our coverage of grade I or Grade II* > listed buildings in London. > > Jonathan > > On 9 January 2017 at 12:23, John Lubbock > wrote: > >> Hello

[Wikimediauk-l] Wiki Commons walking tour

2017-01-09 Thread John Lubbock
if anyone needs to borrow a camera. Please let me know here or by email (john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk) if you'd be interested in doing something like this. All the best, John Lubbock ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK regular update - December 2016

2016-12-20 Thread John Lubbock
anise a celebration in London for the Wikimedia community. Check our events page and social media accounts for updates. Other projects We are planning events as part of our Kurdish Wikipedia Project, our Middle Eastern Women project at Queen Mary, as well as a number of events for students a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikidata interviewees

2016-11-22 Thread John Lubbock
They could also look at this video and talk to Ewan McAndrew. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFh9gVUgbuA On 23 November 2016 at 08:14, John Lubbock wrote: > I'm not a regular user of Wikidata, but have done a little and could talk > about how Wikimedia as an organisation would hop

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikidata interviewees

2016-11-22 Thread John Lubbock
I'm not a regular user of Wikidata, but have done a little and could talk about how Wikimedia as an organisation would hope to see it used in future, if you can't find anybody else who is a core user. On 22 November 2016 at 22:39, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I spoke about Wikidata at a conference toda

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] East London Meetup?

2016-10-25 Thread John Lubbock
1:47, "Stevie Benton" wrote: >> >>> Me too. It's also listed on the Mozfest website as a fringe event of >>> the festival. >>> >>> Stevie >>> >>> On 25 Oct 2016 11:32, "John Lubbock" >>> wrote: >>

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] East London Meetup?

2016-10-25 Thread John Lubbock
I was going to try to make it. Anybody else? On 24 October 2016 at 21:07, Gordon Joly wrote: > > > Seems like this will be a null event? > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/East_London/8 > > Gordo > > ___ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Mass image uploads expert

2016-10-15 Thread John Lubbock
Could they not be declared orphan works if there was some due diligence done to establish that the original authors could not be found? Couldn't you argue that the authorisation for making a copy of the originals produced a new copyright which was held by the museum? Presumably if someone's grandfa

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Museums in Wikidata

2016-10-14 Thread John Lubbock
That looks like a really useful tool. Wish I'd known about this when it was national museums day! On Thursday, 13 October 2016, Magnus Manske wrote: > Alternative: > https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/#lat=52.475554001893876&lng=-1. > 8907213211059573&zoom=14&layers=wikidata_image,wikidata_no

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Europeana/ BL wildlife sound editathon, London, 8 October 2016

2016-09-02 Thread John Lubbock
Seems to be working again now. I'll add it to our events list. On 1 September 2016 at 21:51, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 1 September 2016 at 16:59, Gordon Joly wrote: > >> http://www.europeanasounds.eu/news/come-on-a-sound-safari- > with-the-british-library-and-wikimedia > > > Error 521 Ray ID: 2d

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Europeana/ BL wildlife sound editathon, London, 8 October 2016

2016-09-01 Thread John Lubbock
Yeah, I can't see it either. Let me know when the website is back up and I'll add it to our events list and publicise it on Twitter/Facebook. On 1 September 2016 at 16:59, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 31/08/16 18:23, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > Clem Rutter and I will be helping to run this event at the B

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

2016-08-23 Thread John Lubbock
o notice a question or comment on IRC, so be prepared for > significantly asynchronous chat and it's worth staying logged in for > days at a time if you expect to have a discussion. > > Thanks, > Fae > > > On 22 August 2016 at 18:04, John Lubbock > wrote: >

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

2016-08-22 Thread John Lubbock
t realise how difficult preference voting was on twitter. I > had > to log on as 6 different IPs to vote for my third preference once, my > second > preference twice, and my first preference three times. > > -- > Rexx > > > > On 20 August 2016 at 20:08 Gordon Joly

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

2016-08-19 Thread John Lubbock
ed old technology now, but may be worth a thought. > > -- > Rexx > > > > On 19 August 2016 at 19:53 John Lubbock > wrote: > > > > > > Hello all, I've been thinking about how WMUK can communicate better with > > our community and let Wikimedians communi

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

2016-08-19 Thread John Lubbock
o your ideas and allow you to ask us questions about our work. We'd like to be as open as the knowledge we promote, so please let us know your views about how we can do that better. Have a great weekend! John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK

[Wikimediauk-l] National Liberal Club editathon, August 24

2016-08-14 Thread John Lubbock
nts/308660879478264/> Wikimedia Event Page <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Liberal_history_editathon> John Lubbock Communications coordinator Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Wikimediauk-l] New video and blogpost

2016-08-09 Thread John Lubbock
dia-contribute-to-increasing-open-access-publishing/> about recent developments in Open Access academic publishing and how Wikimedians can get involved in promoting it. We'd love to have your feedback and would be grateful if you could share either with your networks. John Lubbock Comm

[Wikimediauk-l] 2015-2016 Annual Review

2016-07-08 Thread John Lubbock
d shows what the charity has achieved during the year and where our priorities are taking us. All the best, John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/

[Wikimediauk-l] Pride in London 2016 - see our volunteer's photos

2016-07-04 Thread John Lubbock
London_2016> Thanks! John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] An invitation to London

2016-06-14 Thread John Lubbock
Thanks for this Jonathan, sorry I couldn't be there. I'll see you at the next one. On 14 June 2016 at 11:22, WereSpielChequers wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Last Sunday we had the 107th London meetup with about twenty people > including Alice, our new Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Trust

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] TLS review of Jack Lynch, You Could Look It Up

2016-05-26 Thread John Lubbock
Thanks for this Charles and Andrew, this is exactly the kind of thing that we would like to feature on our social media channels. It's by far one of the most even handed looks at the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia and therefore something that is useful to share to help people understand Wiki

[Wikimediauk-l] FullFact EU Referendum editathon, Saturday 14 May

2016-05-10 Thread John Lubbock
related topics are as accurate as possible. If you care about this important decision, why not come along and support the democratic process by making sure the electorate has the best, most accurate and impartial information to hand when deciding on the future of the UK. All the best, John

[Wikimediauk-l] Shakespeare in London - video and editathon

2016-05-04 Thread John Lubbock
know about this weekend's editathon! John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

[Wikimediauk-l] Hello from John, new staff member at WMUK

2016-04-05 Thread John Lubbock
the most vital and significant achievements of our digital age. All the best, John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

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