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

2017-07-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 18 July 2017 at 11:55, Katherine Bavage wrote: > *waves goodbye to life for next few months* Sorry. > Can't wait to cross-post to the LSBG mailing list :D Maybe you; they can suggest extra fields, and lists of likely values, such as manufacturer? If so, I can

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

2017-07-18 Thread Katherine Bavage
*waves goodbye to life for next few months* Can't wait to cross-post to the LSBG mailing list :D On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 at 17:43 Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 17 July 2017 at 16:49, Katherine Bavage > wrote: > > > I need to see

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

2017-07-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 17 July 2017 at 16:49, Katherine Bavage wrote: > I need to see what capacity OSM has to tag postboxes https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpost_box Don't forget to specify which royal cypher! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing

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

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

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

2017-07-17 Thread Katherine Bavage
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 - I'm happy to help with writing it up if you like? Also Fae's post reminds me I need to see what capacity OSM has to tag postboxes :D On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 at 13:15 Fæ

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

2017-07-14 Thread
Hi Harry, If you are still thinking about it, it would be neat to cover any experiences you have had in use of the projects for mapping, successful or not. I play around with OSM, and have remained impressed at how nicely the editing tools work there. At the 'meta' level we have a big gap between

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

2017-07-13 Thread Lucy Crompton-Reid
Sounds great Harry - we've signed you up! Cheers, Lucy On 13 July 2017 at 09:31, Harry Mitchell wrote: > There isn't even an *un*written version yet. It's been a long time since I > stood up and spoke to a room full of Wikimedians. Also, I didn't think > anyone else would be

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

2017-07-13 Thread WereSpielChequers
OK sold. I've just booked and will be there at least for Harry's talk. On 13 July 2017 at 09:31, Harry Mitchell wrote: > There isn't even an *un*written version yet. It's been a long time since I > stood up and spoke to a room full of Wikimedians. Also, I didn't think >

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

2017-07-13 Thread Katherine Bavage
Yay - yes please. Might even be worth thinking about putting it in front of http://www.nhmf.org.uk/ in due course. On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 at 09:31 Harry Mitchell wrote: > There isn't even an *un*written version yet. It's been a long time since I > stood up and spoke to a room

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

2017-07-13 Thread Harry Mitchell
There isn't even an *un*written version yet. It's been a long time since I stood up and spoke to a room full of Wikimedians. Also, I didn't think anyone else would be interested! Something to occupy me on the journey tomorrow! ;) Harry Mitchell http://enwp.org/User:HJ +44 (0) 7507 536 971 Skype:

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

2017-07-13 Thread Katherine Bavage
Harry - that sounds really good! If you've got a written version anywhere and it isn't on the WMUK blog can you make that a thing for those of us (like me) who sadly won't make it. I have voted by proxy though :) On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 at 09:23 Harry Mitchell wrote: > I assumed

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

2017-07-13 Thread Harry Mitchell
I assumed all the slots would be taken, but I'd be happy to give a talk if there's space. Let's go with "War Memorials, Wikipedia, and Why You Should Care", just because I appreciate alliteration. (Hi Nicola! If you need more detail, please do email me offlist.) Is there somewhere public we can

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

2017-07-12 Thread Lucy Crompton-Reid
Dear all There are quite a few places left at Saturday's AGM so please sign up *here * if you'd like to come. As well as the AGM, this is a key opportunity to feed into the final cycle of the global Wikimedia movement