[Wikimediauk-l] Wikicred demo hour

Hi folks Just forwarding on an event that may be of interest to anyone looking at issues of news literacy and open knowledge. They're trying to increase geographic diversity (...sadly it'll be 4am in Sydney so no good for me). Best Simon Wikimedians Strengthening Knowledge and News Credibili

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Collating/editing information about the benefits of open knowledge

I think re: the GLAM resources, a lot of the material is about practical issues once the decision to release content has been made. Fabian rightly points out that lots of orgs are sympathetic to the desire to release content openly (or, at least, to have their content more widely used) but have var

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] ? template press release for local press

Hi Rod I had a quick go at editing attached (apologies, I haven't put it on Wiki), to do with as you wish. It'd be good to have a template guidance for things like this, are there resources already(?) or could any volunteers/staff put something together? (For me, I'm really keen to have actionable

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK positions on the proposed harmonization of Freedom of Panorama in Europe

Hi Deryck I wrote one on Sunday (before Honeyball had spoken on e.g. the BBC) http://sjgknight.com/finding-knowledge/2015/06/freedom-of-panorama-savefop/ It could definitely be improved but it might help as a start. Do let me know if any useful links especially re: the issues of ‘NC’ Best

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Deadline for Members' Resolutions

Hi Doug The AGM necessarily has to report to the members on a number of formal company matters, and we want to keep it reasonably short and focused to allow the maximum time for the volunteer strategy part of the day that precedes it. I certainly hope people will want to stay for the AGM – it’s

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action

Hi Gordo I'm not sure it's right to say the panel takes over what was formerly a staff decision making process. The intention of the panel (which reports to the board) is to advise on how WMUK can best engage volunteers. That might include looking at questions around volunteer support, training,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] No State of the Map this year; opportunities in NY & Scotland

Thanks both. As you say, OSM work certainly does fit within our aims and strategy. As we have a board meeting next weekend anyway I’ve added an item to the agenda on resources for SotM. Obviously this is likely to be in the context of broader discussion about our resources and how we select be

[Wikimediauk-l] chief executive recruitment

Dear all Things are moving along with the Chief Executive recruit process - Just a reminder: The deadline for applications is February 23rd. We are continuing to discuss the format of the selection process, one element of which will be a short (likely ~10 minute) presentation. ** *I’d like

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia-l on Googlegroups?

It's likely a spam group, there was a brief discussion about it I think on Wikimedia-l (which I now can't find) Simon -Original Message- From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Joly Sent: 09 January 2015 10:0

[Wikimediauk-l] new book on Wikipedia

Hi all New book on Wikipedia & a review in the Times Higher (no paywall): http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/wikipedia-and-the-politics-of-op enness-by-nathaniel-tkacz/2017640.article including a short interview/bio-sketch with the author. Might be of interest. Cheers Simon __

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggesting tasks for people with free time

I just added that Andy :-) Along with some other bits (wikidata game, etc.) – hope that’s the intention, certainly like the idea of having bits of easy to step into editing somewhere. Simon From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] O

[Wikimediauk-l] FW: Request re editathons

Hi all Andrew (cc’d) from the Australian chapter is looking for some advice on editathons, identifying/engaging partner organisations, getting participants, practical things, etc. with some potential ideas around library work and/or some themed events with a view to develop activities in Austra

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Expired security certificate

Would temporarily redirecting past the new homepage to wiki be a good idea? Sent from my huawei with fat thumbs On 1 Sep 2014 08:13, "Thomas Morton" wrote: > I’ve disabled Forced SSL on the home-page. However, because it’s wordpress > :( it is trying to load assets over https still; and I am not

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] New overlaying website is live

Debugging issue A redirect has been created (I assume a .htaccess one). The old links were of the form: https://wiki.wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Engine_room This is directing to: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wiki/Engine_room Rather than: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Engine_room Thanks Simon -Or

[Wikimediauk-l] Google consultation on right to be forgotten

This may be of interest to some individuals, and/or Wikimedia UK might want to make representations. Deadline August 11th (ish). Simon Message: 1 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:39:00 +0200 From: Ren? K?nig To: Subject: [re-search] Google asks for comments concerning the "right to be for

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] A bit of wiki help needed

made (including history). We tried moving the content of the first theme to the bottom of the page but it just looks confusing. Thank you, Stevie On 21 July 2014 11:14, Simon Knight wrote: What do you want to do with it Stevie? You can use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export to e

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] A bit of wiki help needed

What do you want to do with it Stevie? You can use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export to export pages including their edit histories. Might depend what you want to do though, a simple page move might also be fine? Simon From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [ma

[Wikimediauk-l] MozFest

Dear all Just to let you know, the MozFest proposals form is now live at http://2014.mozillafestival.org/propose/ for October 24-26. I was considering putting in a proposal for something around "Open Impact", thinking about open data, charities, and measuring impact (open to suggestions/suppo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] DNA Digest editathon on 29 May

Grant application here https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_grants/Genetics_data_edit-a-thon Cheers Simon -Original Message- From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Fæ Sent: 07 May 2014 20:34 To: UK Wikimedia maili

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Rating Wikimedia content (was Our next, strategy plan-Paid editing)

on talk pages. Edward Saperia Chief Coordinator Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org> email <mailto:e...@wikimanialondon.org> • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Gr

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Rating Wikimedia content (was Our next, strategy plan-Paid editing)

I think we’d want to distinguish between: · Quality – taken from diff-features (i.e. Writing, but possibly including Sources), and · Significance – taken from Traffic, Edit History, and Discussion The latter might be used to give a weighting to the high-significance ratings

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Rating Wikimedia content (was Our next strategy plan-Paid editing)

tents. Press Enter to send your message. On 16 April 2014 19:53, Charles Matthews wrote: On 16 April 2014 19:28, Simon Knight wrote: Thanks Dan, to be clear, the proposal is not to develop another manual rating system (such as the AFT or the project rating systems), it's to develop

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Rating Wikimedia content (was Our next strategy plan-Paid editing)

Thanks Dan, to be clear, the proposal is not to develop another manual rating system (such as the AFT or the project rating systems), it’s to develop some automated quality assessments. Those might include some manual elements as inputs particularly for any machine learning approach, but generat

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Have your say on Wikimedia UK's strategy

our say on Wikimedia UK's strategy On 4 February 2014 11:32, Stevie Benton wrote: ... > You may also be interested in a related blog post by Simon > Knight<http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/2014/02/wikimedia-uk-strate > gy-consultation/>, one of the WMUK trustees who has b

[Wikimediauk-l] Glasgow workshop - OER for digital literacy Feb 12th

Anyone in Scotland able to go to this? Looks very interesting https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/copilot-comes-to-scotland-tickets-10257050113 (via Martin Hawksey): This workshop will give a practical introduction to OER for teaching information literacy. Though a mixture of presentation, group wor

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: open-humanities Digest, Vol 40, Issue 16

-- Forwarded message -- From: Date: 25 Jan 2014 12:00 Subject: open-humanities Digest, Vol 40, Issue 16 To: Cc: Send open-humanities mailing list submissions to open-humanit...@lists.okfn.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists

[Wikimediauk-l] Open Data Challenge Series: Education meet-up

This may be of interest to some people. It’d be nice to see open data being used around open educationmay be a good opportunity to meet people and chat to Nesta/ODI people, copying details from URL below http://theodi.org/meetups/education-open-data-meet-up Open Data Challenge Series: Edu

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Gov + CC = a marriage of convenience?

Thanks for this Tom, as far as I can see your statement (which I think is what I understood to be the case previously) slightly conflicts with the sentence ref'd by '8' here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Open_Government_Licence#Applicability at least, in tone. You're saying Crown

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Gov + CC = a marriage of convenience?

Robin as Mike says (/as far as I can see) Cadw is by default OGL as per http://cadw.wales.gov.uk/copyright/?skip=1 &lang=en unless it says otherwise (e.g. it’s identified as third party). That means for example all the images at this section

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Amazon Tax avoidance

Yes that thought had crossed my mind too, I had a quick look for alternatives, the difficulty is finding somewhere with the same broad (product) appeal. Waterstones, WHSmith? Simon -Original Message- From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.w

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Going Google Roadshow Manchester - 4th December

Hi Dan I'm inclined to agree with Mike, in this instance it looks like it'll just be an advertising pitch for their cloud solutions, no indication of networking or promotion opportunity from the blurb. Of course it's your choice to go(!) and it is free, but if you're going as a Wikimedian I can't

[Wikimediauk-l] Communicate OER visitor

Hi all Bit short notice, but if anyone is around on Friday afternoon and fancies meeting Sara Frank Bistow to talk OER & Wikipedia I'll be meeting her at around 3pm. We'll either meet around the office (/pop in if anyone in the office wants to say hi?) or around Bloomsbury I think. Sara is an

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Alastair McCapra's conflict of loyalties between CIPR and WMUK

I appear not to be able to edit the Water cooler at the moment (is this an artefact of the transfer?) That should be fixed asap... Fae as you're soliciting for further comment I'll just note the reason I haven’t commented further on the cooler is that I don't think it's productive at the mome

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open access and open education

k also spoke at Wikimania this year). So the conference is a chance to influence people and to take part in discussions that affect a lot of what we want to do. Cheers, On 19 September 2013 22:11, Simon Knight wrote: I'm sure I'll blog about it if I attend.I make no promises on quali

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open access and open education

I'm sure I'll blog about it if I attend.I make no promises on quality though J Might be informative to the list to see Martin's comments on OER13 http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/04/open-educational-resources-some-reflect ions-on-oer-13/ I was actually looking to see if there was a paper too

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open access and open education

Related event that might be of interest to anyone in London (I'm considering going): The Role of Open Access and OERs within Distance Education Tuesday 15 October 2013, 12.30-2.00pm (lunch provided) The Court Room, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU This first CDE lunchtime seminar of the academic y

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

And those posts are here http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Water_cooler#QRpedia_update (just to give a direct link) Simon From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jon Davies Sent: 11 September 2013 09:26 To: UK Wikimedia mailin

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership recruitment

] On Behalf Of Gordon Joly Sent: 28 June 2013 09:28 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership recruitment On 28/06/13 16:23, Simon Knight wrote: I basically agree with Katherine, Gordo I’m not sure what benefits you think members should get? Why are you a me

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership recruitment

I basically agree with Katherine, Gordo I'm not sure what benefits you think members should get? Why are you a member? I like the way the page is a sort of a positioning statement regarding what it means for you to - a little description of why people might choose to be a member v. a volunteer

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 5 year plan

http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Towards_a_five_year_plan_2013-18 Click 'discussion' From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Kelleher Sent: 01 May 2013 15:53 To: UK Wikimedia mailing list Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] EGM resolution regarding the change in board structure - alternatives

I'd bet some proxy people (myself included) haven't signed up there... Best Simon -Original Message- From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Joly Sent: 10 April 2013 08:27 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org