Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's draft Strategic Framework for 2019 - 2022

. all the best, Leutha aka Fabian On 17 October 2019 at 14:14 Lucy Crompton-Reid < lucy.crompton-r...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: Dear all During 2019 Wikimedia UK ha

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] My return from maternity leave, plus strategy consultation/festive drinks on Thursday 13th December

Christmas and a prosperous new year. Fabian, aka Leutha > On 30 November 2018 at 16:21 Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > > > Dear all > > As I think most of you are aware I have been on maternity leave since the > end of March (with my beautiful baby boy arriving on 5th Apri

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Recent changes and watchlists broken on the WMUK Wiki

I support Chris' variation on Andy's proposal.If there is a problem keeping track of all the channels of communication, I would suggest  creating a page on the Wiki and listing them there so that they can be checked on a weekly basis.all the best,FabianOn 30 November 2018 at 17:47 John Lubbock

[Wikimediauk-l] Hannah Evans

Sorry it should have said Also I understand that Hannah Evans has left. I feel that it would have been better if people on this list had been informed. all the best, Fabian ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Recent changes and watchlists broken on the WMUK Wiki

Hi all,Thanks for that, Lucy.Might I suggest a small improvement which could be achieved for little expense is that you use both this list and the wiki to keep people informed.Please have a look at the Engine Room. It is unfortunate that there has been no reply to Brian Kelly's inquiry about the

[Wikimediauk-l] Running adverts on the WIkimedia UK wiki

Hi all,I was wondering what oversight is given to the Wikimedia Uk wiki following coming across this advert. Whilst this comes across as irrelevant spam, it does leave me wondering to what Wikimedia UK does to ensure that content which might be more troublesome is detected and removed.No doubt

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Event Coordinators

Thanks, this is a very welcome step forward,FabianOn 15 May 2018 at 00:05 Rex X wrote:Following changes which now disallow article creation by unconfirmed editors, a successful RfC was held to establish a new permission, "Event Coordinator". Details are

[Wikimediauk-l] Copyright of the the Wikimedia UK blog!

posted a comment with the query:"Does the copyright tag at the bottom of this page mean that I am assigning copyright of this comment to Wikimedia UK?"Please note if the answer is yes, I am reproducing my comment here under a fair-use rationale.all the b

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Cambridge meetup 25 November

Well, there was a conception  open documents certainly back in the fifties. Check Neils Bohr's concept of an Open World in his Open Letter to the United Nations June 9, 1950.The ideal of an open world, with common knowledge about social conditions and technical enterprises, including military

[Wikimediauk-l] Open News Algorithm Workshop 11-12 November

Hi all,It would be great to see you at the event below.Please check Open News Algorithm Workshop, this coming weekend.Newspeak House133 Bethnal Green Rd, London E2 7DG, UK Saturday 11 November — Sunday 12 November (GMT)For the Wikipedia Introduction please go to , please go to User:Wiki Feed

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM

Hi all,As we are one of these hyper-modern charities which is part of a movement which has literally re-written the fundamentals of information management on a global scale, I do not think it would be immodest of us to explore  approaches to digital democracy in keeping with our game-changing

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK univeristies and open content

Hi all,This reflects my experience with OTRS. I actually sent the exact wording to Chris Knight, so that was not the problem. Nothing happened for 6 weeks until I met someone on OTRS who very kindly did the job in about five minutes.How do we fix this?all the best,Fabianaka LeuthaOn 07 June 2017

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-genealogy] Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a proposal for HRE

Hi all,Just to say I think this a very useful innovation and it would be great to see it as part of the Wikimedia genealogy ; ).I have no experience as a developer, but have been working on historical material across platforms, most recently Wikisource as well as Wikipedia. As mentioned before, I

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

Hi all,This is the email I sent on Tuesday, which as far as I can see never went through the list (apologies if it has, but there is no record on the archive)all the bestFabianaka Leutha-- Original Message -- From: leu...@fabiant.eu To: Lucy Crompton-Reid <lucy.crompto

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses (John Byrne)

Thanks for that point, JohnThe current Wikisource methodology is that files (ideally DejaVu files) are uploaded to Commons, and then the Wikisource software enables an editing window alongside the commons file, page by page.The advantage of the OTRS system is that there is verification of the

[Wikimediauk-l] Problems with list

Hi all,Please see below a message from John which I am forwarding this to the list. It was underneath another email which I received from the list, but which has somehow been scrubbed from the archive. I am also not sure what happened to my response to Lucy.I think there maybe a glitch

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

Hi allThanks to John for his prompt prompt response.Actually my answer is no.I am afraid John's solution does not deal with the wealth of academic material, theses etc which have been produced before such universities start to understand the benefits you mention. As students already have the

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

Hi all,As copyright for a PhD thesis rests with the person who wrote it, it would seem to be a secondary concern to worry over much about various institutional arrangements. The Wikimedia movement has already developed Wikisource, which is a suitable repository for PhD theses, and I would say

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

Hi all,I would like to make several suggestions:Checkout the General Election 2015 Editathon wikipedia page: the aim was clearly stated: "We will endeavour to ensure that Wikipedia is up to date with the UK General Election results by the morning of 8th May." We had a link up with cy-wiki. There

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Feminism and Museums

ess. In fact I believe if we hadn't done this Wikipedia would not have gained its current reputation.I would welcome other peoples views on this. For more information please see the Call for Written submissions.all the bestFabian(aka Leutha) ___ Wikimedia U

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Mass image uploads expert

Hi all,There was some discussion of orphan works in Wikimedia UK when the new legislation was introduced in May 2015. Please check government guidance in this. Unfortunately the new regulations are not very favourable to us. Arguing that creating exact copies created a new copyright would be

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Website certificate (again)

Hi all,I tried using Chrome as an alternative browser but experienced problems with that as well.all the bestFabianaka LeuthaOn 08 October 2016 at 16:21 Gordon Joly wrote:The Qualys SSL checker:https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=wikimedia.org.ukis less than

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Mozfest volunteers

That's great, Lucy.Perhaps you could add your session on the WMUK events page.all the bestFabianaka LeuthaOn 22 September 2016 at 10:54 Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote:Thanks for this Fabian. Hopefully lots of people will sign up to volunteeror attend. I will be

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

Sorry to disappoint you, Rexx, but you just caste 6 votes for twitter!all the bestLeuthaOn 20 August 2016 at 23:03 Rex X wrote:Gosh, I'd didn't realise how difficult preference voting was on twitter. I hadto log on as 6 different IPs to vote for my third preference once,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] I'm moving on!

Yes, another big thank you.It was a pleasure to work with you as a workplace colleague and as a volunteer.all the bestFabianOn 03 August 2016 at 15:32 Richard Symonds wrote:Hello everyone!I've worked for Wikimedia UK since just before we hired our first

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Staff] Pubs.

Hi all,I took the opportunity to visit the Woodman, which had a good range of beers and relaxing ambience.I am sorry to say i will not be able to make the AGM so please accept my apologies.all the bestFabianaka LeuthaOn 07 July 2016 at 15:13 Richard Symonds