[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Is anyone else an admin on this list?

u say, it would be great to >> get an additional volunteer from the community. >> >> Cheers >> Lucy >> >> >> On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 at 13:21, David Gerard wrote: >> >>> >>> I can't actually see the list of admins in Postorious and I&#

[Wikimediauk-l] Is anyone else an admin on this list?

I can't actually see the list of admins in Postorious and I'm wondering if it's just me left as active. We probably need at least three, ideally one from WMUK. (This is the WM-in-UK list, not the WMUK list, but that way it's at least part of one person's job!) Action needed is basically clearing a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Introducing Natasha Iles

Hello and good evening! On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 16:10, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote: > > Dear all > > I'm very pleased to introduce you all to Natasha Iles, who joined Wikimedia > UK on Monday as our new Head of Development and Communications. Natasha will > be heading up a new team, including Katie

[Wikimediauk-l] Womanthology would like to run something on Wikipedia's efforts to fix the gender gap in our editing and coverage

Got a call on Friday from Fiona Tatton from Womanthology. She was interested in talking to someone who's worked on improving representation of women in Wikipedia, and editing Wikipedia. Coverage is basically talking to individuals about what they do. I'm pretty sure this'll be a positive for our

[Wikimediauk-l] large attachments may delay your message

If your message is over 40KB, it gets held in the mod queue. I get a queue message daily and sometimes remember to look at it. I've raised the limit to 100BK - but if possible, please use a link instead of an inline image! - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] "Native name" in Infobox?

You see a lot of this, where someone from a given ethnic origin has a "native" version of their name put on their article even if there's no citable evidence they've ever used it. Do we have a cite for this? First port of call would be the refs, second the talk page. On 31 July 2017 at 23:03, Rich

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Firefox doesn't like cert for https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk

Firefox, but this time I had no problems >> with the certificate. I'm running Firefox for Mac 53.0.3 on MacOS Sierra. >> >> Michael >> >>> David Gerard <mailto:dger...@gmail.com> >>> 15 June 2017 at 10:28 am >>> Just renewed my WMU

[Wikimediauk-l] WMUK member confirmation sent to spam by GMail

Apparently it was sent to spam because it doesn't meet GMail's "Bulk Sender Guidelines": https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en-GB#authentication tl;dr they want you using SPF, DMARC and DKIM. (The message headers say spf=neutral, which I expect means nobody's set it up.) These are v

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Firefox doesn't like cert for https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk

June 2017 at 12:04, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: > Hi > > Please open a ticket for that and explain exactly what goes wrong. I'll > have a look this WE. > > Emmanuel > > On 15.06.2017 12:52, David Gerard wrote: >> Update to Firefox 54 (just hit the Ubuntu repos today

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Firefox doesn't like cert for https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk

rtificate. I'm running Firefox for Mac 53.0.3 on MacOS Sierra. > > Michael > > David Gerard > 15 June 2017 at 10:28 am > Just renewed my WMUK membership, and Firefox balked at the SSL > certificate. The cert doesn't expire until 2019, but Firefox 54 doesn't

[Wikimediauk-l] Firefox doesn't like cert for https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk

Just renewed my WMUK membership, and Firefox balked at the SSL certificate. The cert doesn't expire until 2019, but Firefox 54 doesn't like it. Oddly, Chromium 58 is fine with it. Can anyone see what's wrong, which CA Firefox doesn't like any more etc? - d. _

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

\o/ On 14 June 2017 at 08:12, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Breaking news: Official parliamentary photos of (new?) MPs, being > taken today, will be under Creative Commons Unported Attribution 3.0 > licence. > > Only five years after I wrote: > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/politician-open-licensed-pict

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Designs for T shirts

btw - messages in this thread are getting held in the admin queue because the T-shirt images are 370KB. (Usual limit is 40KB.) So if you send an image, it's likely to be stuck until I get to it the next morning. (Admin alerts go out at 8am, I get to them some time or other.) - d.

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

I can tell you it didn't get stuck in the admin queue or I would have let it through ... I don't *think* the Mailman system is set up to reject mail before it even hits the admin queue, but I could be wrong ... On 5 May 2017 at 14:32, wrote: > Hi all, > > This is the email I sent on Tuesday, whi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Problems with list

No idea what this could be ... John, please email me separately with what address you're using, etc. On 3 May 2017 at 17:27, wrote: > 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 whi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l list run by ????

Run by WMF, so up to them. Have a conversation about migrating from GNU Mailman 2.1 to GNU Mailman 3.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52864 Official support for upgrade from existing Mailman 2.1 lists to Mailman 3 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130554 - d. On 26 April 2017 at 16:31,

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

On 23 April 2017 at 04:41, geni wrote: > On 21 April 2017 at 18:17, David Gerard wrote: >> How are we with getting good free images of MPs? > Poorly. MPs should be out and about a bit more in the next few weeks > but I always feel a but iffy bringing serious camera gear to Q&a

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

How are we with getting good free images of MPs? Or at least of candidates. We have some terrible snapshots of UK politicians ... anyone who's a party member who could talk to their party about getting good photos, or freeing up original photos? (The Open Government Licence is Commons-suitable and

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK press corps - do we have editors on hand?

n Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Charles Matthews < >> charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 11 February 2017 at 00:45 David Gerard wrote: >> >> I suspect we need to build up the UK press corps again. The call comes >> maybe every 1-2

[Wikimediauk-l] UK press corps - do we have editors on hand?

I suspect we need to build up the UK press corps again. The call comes maybe every 1-2 years, but when it happens we need people. So if you see an email come by, you can *SPRING* into action and represent editors on the BBC ... Last night's Newsnight didnt happen, because the Daily Mail bottled it

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

t; Which leaves the question of "why blacklist the Daily Mail not even worse > sources?" If anyone can suggest an answer to that which would keep a journo > happy I'd be interested to hear it ;) > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:47 PM, David Gerard wrote: > >>

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

falsehoods brought up in the RFC, recite in a calm voice while smiling On 9 February 2017 at 15:45, David Gerard wrote: > That is literally what the task is, yes :-) > > On 9 February 2017 at 15:41, Chris Keating > wrote: > >> Hmmm, trying to turn an interview from "zomg

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

ences" sounds tricky. ;) > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:51 PM, David Gerard wrote: > >> Usual line is "editorial decision, I'll forward your details to some >> editors" then email here ;-D >> >> so er, editors? >> >> On 9 Februar

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

know? > > The office has had a flood of emails and phone calls which we've been > fielding as best as we can. I'm hoping that when San Francisco wakes up and > comes online they will send me their statement on the issue, which would > help to deal with enquiries. > >

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

BBC Newsnight want a Wikipedia editor who can talk about this, for tonight. I can't, can anyone else? Email me and I'll forward you the email. - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/w

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Camera donation

*psst* someone should say "yes please thank you very much sir" 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 Mark III > (~42K shutter actuations)? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Intro / British statutes

Obvious first thought: how to coordinate this with what http://www.bailii.org/ does? - d. On 3 January 2017 at 14:44, John Levin wrote: > Dear list, > > As this is my first post to this list, an intro to start: > I am a student at Sussex, but live in London, writing a PhD on the history > of im

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Moving on

On 30 November 2015 at 13:44, Stevie Benton wrote: > Thanks everyone for your kind words. I think my subscription to this list has > only just activated but I've seen the other replies on the list archive > pages. I really appreciate your messages and I look forward to working with > you all a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Moving on

On 30 November 2015 at 13:00, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote: >however it was agreed with Stevie that he > would be the one to let everyone know. To be fair, as comms guy it was literally his job :-) - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikime

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Vale Telsa Gwynne

m. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia > movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who > operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). > > Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over > Wikipedia nor responsibility

[Wikimediauk-l] Vale Telsa Gwynne

Welsh Wikimedian, very active several years ago. https://www.gnome.org/news/2015/11/in-memory-of-telsa-gwynne/ - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wiki

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] blog.wikimedia.org.uk SSL cert not working in Firefox Ubuntu (works in Chromium)

Still broken here for me ... On 9 October 2015 at 21:22, Richard Grafen wrote: > Is now working fine for me with no warning message in Ubuntu Firefox 41.0.1. > Temporary glitch? > > Richard > grafen > > On 9 October 2015 at 20:17, David Gerard wrote: >&g

[Wikimediauk-l] blog.wikimedia.org.uk SSL cert not working in Firefox Ubuntu (works in Chromium)

So I went to https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2015/07/welcoming-lucy-crompton-reid-as-new-ceo-of-wikimedia-uk/ and Firefox 41.0.1 complains about the SSL cert: blog.wikimedia.org.uk uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. The se

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

Owen Blacker's blog post on Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/freedom-of-panorama-is-under-attack-6cc5353b4f65 The Times headline is *superlative*. If only the Times wasn't paywalled ... On 24 June 2015 at 13:45, Richard Nevell wrote: > I think Stevie Benton is working on a letter to MEPs. As

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

It's a long-running banned troll making trouble. On 9 January 2015 at 10:04, Gordon Joly wrote: > > > wikimedi...@googlegroups.com > > When did this happen (last few days?)? > > Why? I thought the policy was to use Mailman inside the wikimedia.org > domain (see below) for all mail lists! > > Gord

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] new book on Wikipedia

Newslines' self-publicisng comments have reached the point of being flagkilled as spam on Hacker News, fwiw. On 3 January 2015 at 11:18, leu...@fabiant.eu wrote: > > Hi all, > > Thanks to Simon for the link. I noticed a comment by Mark Devlin, founder of > Newslines. I started writing a response,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Quirky Wikipedia articles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles On 9 October 2014 15:05, Stevie Benton wrote: > Hello everyone. > > As a part of a project that we're developing to participate in the Science > Museum Lates event in November, I'm looking for a selection of quirky > Wikipedia articles - th

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimeets in the papers - worth publicising?

I noticed this: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge-host-Wikipedia-website-8216-Wikimeet/story-22945215-detail/story.html Just a short local press story noting there's a wikimeet happening. It strikes me that wikimeets in general might be worth sending press releases about. Get interested m

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: New member signups at Wikimania

A pile of people blushingly renewed ... including me. RESOLVED: that WMUK get better at nagging us! On 13 August 2014 21:42, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Whoops. I sent this to the wrong list... > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Andy Mabbett > Date: 13 August 2014 11:13 > Subject: Ne

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM

I suspect taking renewals and back dues at the door will be well worth while ... - d. On 07/08/2014, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 07/08/14 14:05, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> A notice about your membership status has been automatically included at >> the bottom of every newsletter sent out by WMUK in the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Effective censorship of Wikipedia by Google

We don't know yet for sure what the disappeared page is. I would advise caution before spreading it across the Net and back. Remember that Wikipedia is *big and scary* to people outside it. It's quite possible this is something that really doesn't belong in a BLP, but the subject doesn't quite kno

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Unsuccessful candidates in UK elections

On 30 July 2014 11:16, Harry Burt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Andy Mabbett > wrote: >> I have just created: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unsuccessful_candidates_in_United_Kingdom_elections >> Please help to populate, and eventually subdivide, it. Andy Mabbett > Are y

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Moderation guideline

You're on moderation because you have (a) moderated your posting behaviour here, where you are on moderation (b) continued to post in this manner elsewhere, where you are not on moderation. This strongly suggests that moderation is the only thing keeping your posting behaviour acceptable. Remembe

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Birmingham City Council meeting videos now open licensed

On 3 June 2014 15:48, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I'm pleased to report that Birmingham City Council have agreed to my > suggestion that they apply an open licence to the videos of their > meetings: >http://www.birmingham.public-i.tv/core/portal/home :-O :-D AMAZING WORK! Please write up a blog

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Non-renewal of Wikimedia UK fundraiser agreement

On 21 May 2014 14:39, rexx wrote: > Taken as a whole, it is clearly part of Sue Gardner's agenda to get rid of > chapters - or at least reduce them to impotence. She has never been able to > accept that chapters can often do jobs better than a centralised WMF. > Despite the hollow words she has u

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal for list moderation

Since I know of 0 cases of this actually happening with your email, I'm pretty sure this is a hypothetical problem. - d. On 16 May 2014 14:19, Fæ wrote: > I would like to propose two simple expectations for moderation of this list: > 1. Where a post is rejected from a regular contributor some

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Tools for identifying Wikimedians at press events, etc

On 15 May 2014 22:00, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 15 May 2014 21:23, Michael Peel wrote: >> My understanding is that this issue can be surmounted by careful wording on >> the cards, but this topic should be carefully considered (probably by the >> board given the history here) before more such ca

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Tools for identifying Wikimedians at press events, etc

On 15 May 2014 11:34, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Reading about the making of videos at Eurovison: > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/10/no-interviews-except-wikipedia-documenting-eurovision-song-contest-commons/ > I was stuck by the positive response to the "Wikiepdia > representative", not le

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Hillsborough page

FWIW, it's not on the actual [[Hillsborough disaster]] page, they removed it unless it turns out to have any relevance or consequence, because it is in fact inane rubbish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hillsborough_disaster#Removal_of_the_section_about_the_government_IP_edits - d.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fw: Fwd: Joseph's interview on Radio 4

On 27 April 2014 21:36, Michael Peel wrote: > I would support Fæ being taken off moderation here, but it was because of Fæ > that I had to stop being a list admin. :-/ That's really what swings me to "no". If he can show consistent non-dramatic behaviour on a once-a-day basis, we'll see. - d

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fw: Fwd: Joseph's interview on Radio 4

On 27 April 2014 12:02, Fæ wrote: > The time and date "Sat Apr 26 11:17:59 UTC 2014" was when I sent the > email, not when it was posted to the list. Could you publish the time > it was published to the list? The mod queue emails the mods every morning at 8am UTC; it's attended to some time aft

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fw: Fwd: Joseph's interview on Radio 4

On 27 April 2014 10:43, HJ Mitchell wrote: > Forwarding on behalf of Fae. Perhaps the list admins could consider allowing > emails like this through. It was let through. Fae wouldn't have seen it himself because gmail is "helpful" like that. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediauk-l/2

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

On 17 April 2014 10:15, Michael Peel wrote: >> Hi Mike, could you repost this for me? Apparently I'm now banned from >> the UK list. Fae is not banned, but is on moderation, per previous discussion on list tone, as he started up again on wikimedia-l. I don't consider immediately starting up jus

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Armenian wiki video

On 13 April 2014 16:04, Theresa Knott wrote: > As someone who reads the list but rarely contributes, may I make a > suggestion? Moderators absolutely should pull people up for using an > inappropriate tone in their emails. However this should be done, in the > first instance, privately. This i

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Armenian wiki video

On 13 April 2014 15:52, Fæ wrote: > I find this > incredibly odd. It seems reasonable to connect this sudden assumption > of bad faith, to my recent posts to Wikimedia-l which raised the issue Fae, speaking as a list mod - your overwhelming bitterness and your default assumption of bad faith w

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Trademark Agreement between Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

On 9 April 2014 09:12, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 08/04/14 22:53, David Gerard wrote: >> Including to *sell* merchandise? > Yup. Probably best to start up a wholly owned subsidiary company of > Wikimedia UK would be best, IMHO, if there was a substantial amount of > trading.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Trademark Agreement between Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

On 8 April 2014 22:42, Michael Maggs wrote: > Nothing very profound. It simply provides the legal framework via which the > WMF allows WMUK to use its trademarks, including the puzzle globe logo. > WMUK is allowed to use any of the WMF marks to advance its aims, including > on merchandise and pub

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK Facebook page

On 14 March 2014 19:31, Michael Peel wrote: > On 14 Mar 2014, at 19:19, David Gerard wrote: >> https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK >> For your amusement. > Not sure I get the amusement here? I mean, just that it exists and is there! > BTW, if you want a trip down hist

[Wikimediauk-l] WMUK Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK For your amusement. - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Allegation of thefts at London wikimeets

On 14 March 2014 15:39, Fæ wrote: > On 14 March 2014 11:17, Katie Chan wrote: >> I can confirm that no Wikimedia UK equipment has gone missing. All of >> Wikimedia UK's laptops and cameras are either currently with the office, or >> based in Wales as part of the 'Living Paths!' project. > I see

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

On 15 February 2014 21:40, Richard Symonds wrote: > I did some work on this last year when reworking our digitisation plans. If > you can wait till monday I'll drop an email about it to the list? Ooh, excellent! (Not that this should stop us all bloviating in any manner, of course ...) - d.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

On 15 February 2014 20:56, Michael Peel wrote: > On 15 Feb 2014, at 20:43, David Gerard wrote: >> Hmm. Do we have any vague ideas on numbers? >> * How often do we get a reasonable chance at a cache of unscanned negatives? >> * How many smaller museums or archives would h

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

On 15 February 2014 20:24, Michael Peel wrote: > Perhaps it would be worth WMUK thinking about purchasing such equipment, > either to be made available in the office (which would then require travel > costs, or postal costs and volunteer time in the office to scan posted > material in), or to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

On 15 February 2014 19:52, geni wrote: > On 15 February 2014 15:23, David Gerard wrote: >> On 15 February 2014 15:09, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> > Change of plan: Thank you, but I've been offered the use of one of >> > these: >> > http://imaging.nikon.com

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

On 15 February 2014 15:09, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Change of plan: Thank you, but I've been offered the use of one of these: > http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/scanner/scoolscan_4000/ > by a friend who lives locally. Oh you lucky bugger. That's the level of archival-quality piece of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

On 14 February 2014 17:00, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 14 February 2014 16:16, Katie Chan wrote: >> we have the Ion Film2SD Pro as shown on >> . >> Let me know if you want to borrow it. > I'd love to please. Would it be possible to have

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Changes to the Wikimedia UK homepage

On 24 January 2014 17:57, Andy Mabbett wrote: > As you can see from the following... >> ___ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > ...th

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Speakerthon update

On 18 January 2014 11:29, Andy Mabbett wrote: > The "Speakerthon" event is in progress at New Broadcasting House in London: >https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BBC_voice_project > We've already added sound files to the (English) Wikipedia articles on > Tim Berners-Lee, Agnetha Fältsko

[Wikimediauk-l] Fun with the British Library images in Ruby

http://keefcode.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/british-library-commons-images/ - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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

On 18 November 2013 20:29, Jon Davies wrote: > Anyone interested? > https://plus.google.com/u/0/115668950429167517685/posts/JcPQuXzXTgU/115668950429167517685 They really brazenly don't give a fuck about the safety of anyone not in the Silicon Valley startup brogrammer demographic, and this is i

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Announcing three new WMUK trustees

On 17 November 2013 12:10, Michael Maggs wrote: > Wikimedia UK is pleased to be able to announce today the appointment to the > board of three new trustees: Joseph Seddon, Simon Knight and Padmini Ray > Murray. > Joseph is a highly experienced Wikimedian who will be well known to many in > both t

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

On 3 October 2013 16:22, wrote: > When did Wikipediocracy become a member of Wikimedia UK, and able to dictate > how the charity operates? A casual inspection suggests it's just a front for > malcontents to feed their grievances, or manipulation, into The Signpost - > in it's distinctive "Yellow

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open House 10th of December

Given it's still September,please remind us closer to the date :-) On 20 September 2013 13:47, Jon Davies wrote: > For your diaries: > > We will be repeating last year's successful (NOT A CHRISTMAS PARTY) Open > House for the community and friends at our offices on Tuesday December 10th > from 4

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: New display on Higgs boson at the National Museum of Scotland

On 25 September 2013 11:16, David Gerard wrote: > On 25 September 2013 11:11, Richard Symonds > wrote: >> Perhaps we can get someone to take a photo of the Higgs Boson for Commons? >> Surely not that hard, right? > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CMS_Higgs-event.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: New display on Higgs boson at the National Museum of Scotland

On 25 September 2013 11:11, Richard Symonds wrote: > Perhaps we can get someone to take a photo of the Higgs Boson for Commons? > Surely not that hard, right? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CMS_Higgs-event.jpg - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailin

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Tony Benn, and Wiki-literature

On 15 August 2013 12:02, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I must confess I have mixed feelings about use of video for this. > While it is generally a richer media, a "talking head" adds little > over a still image and audio. The files are larger and one of my aims > with the project was to have something li

[Wikimediauk-l] wikimediauk-l messages ending up in Gmail spam?

I've been seeing a lot of WMUK messages ending up in GMail spam of late. Anyone else seeing this? (Assuming this message doesn't ahahahaha do the same.) Any idea what's causing this? - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Today on the Guardian Blog "Should university students use Wikipedia?"

On 13 May 2013 14:07, Chris Keating wrote: > Clicking a few links I see there is also a piece about Wikidata including an > invitation for anyone who knows something about it to get in touch. I > imagine we do? :-) > http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/apr/26/wikidata-launch Denny Vran

[Wikimediauk-l] Anyone available for BBC TV *this afternoon*?

I am totally not free this afternoon, but if someone else is (presumably in London, maybe they could do Salford or anywhere else they have a camera, I dunno), then email me and I'll forward you the guy's email with contact details. "We’re looking at the 20th anniversary that the technology for the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedian in Residence, National Library of Scotland

On 23 April 2013 08:32, geni wrote: > On 23 April 2013 08:23, David Gerard wrote: >> The number of Welsh speakers who don't speak perfectly good English >> also approaches zero, but I don't see that they're likely to go along >> with this approach either.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedian in Residence, National Library of Scotland

On 23 April 2013 08:17, geni wrote: > In practice the number of Scots Gaelic speakers appears to be falling rather > fast and it isn't our job to counter that. The number of Scots Gaelic > speakers who don't speak english or the lowland scots dialect of english is > also nill so english should su

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedian in Residence, National Library of Scotland

On 23 April 2013 00:31, i...@cymruwales.com wrote: > My second point here is that all language Wikis in Scotland should have been > told at the same time. Surely, WMUK can understand the importance of this? This isn't a WMUK initiative, is it? Nothing in the original message said "WMUK". > I

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Converting PDF to DJVU - help please!

If anyone in the office has an Ubuntu box, pdf2djvu is just what it says it is ... or email me and I'll run it through it for you. - d. On 19 March 2013 12:05, Stevie Benton wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I wonder if there's anyone able to help me please. I'm trying to convert a > .pdf file to a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014 in London.

On 19 March 2013 09:52, Charles Matthews wrote: > On 19 March 2013 09:39, David Gerard wrote: >> On 19 March 2013 08:40, James Farrar wrote: >>> Perhaps I'm being particularly dumb this early in the morning, but I >>> can't actually see why these semantics

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014 in London.

On 19 March 2013 08:40, James Farrar wrote: > Perhaps I'm being particularly dumb this early in the morning, but I > can't actually see why these semantics matter - certainly compared > with, for example, delivering a high-quality bid. They don't. This thread is mostly hair-splitting for the sa

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2014 in London.

On 18 March 2013 23:10, Katie Chan wrote: > In this case, the bid isn't being submitted by volunteers and members of > Wikimedia UK as part of Wikimedia UK. They are doing it as individuals with > the support of Wikimedia UK the organisation. Going with your wording, just > because something is b

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

On 12 February 2013 12:42, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 11 February 2013 17:52, Andreas Kolbe wrote: >> I would oppose any support from Wikimedia UK for targeted use of the >> Wikipedia main page to increase the visibility of projects like >> Gibraltarpedia. > What do you count as "projects like G

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

On 11 February 2013 17:00, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On Feb 11, 2013 4:37 PM, "John Byrne" wrote: >> What we had is best described as "a delay in agreeing terms for the >> donation" or similar. > That's what I'm still not getting. Donations don't have terms... That statement is trivially false,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Governance review

On 11 February 2013 17:29, Charles Matthews wrote: >Let's get > over it - all of it. Will you take my point now, that the important > matter is that the membership sees that the Board will implement the > review? Surely you can do better than the "but X is worse!" fallacy. - d. _

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Governance review

On 11 February 2013 14:01, Andy Mabbett wrote: > It seems to me that "...included a delay in accepting the donation of > the intellectual property of QRpedia..." is more accurate; or perhaps > "..included a dispute among trustees over whether to accept the > donation of the intellectual property

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Governance review

On 9 February 2013 20:56, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 9 February 2013 13:08, Thehelpfulone wrote: >> http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/14428/wikimedia_uk_trustees_have_been_too_involved_to_govern_the_charity > This also refers to an "an intellectual property dispute over > QRPe

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

On 9 February 2013 18:39, Tom Morris wrote: > Now this has been transferred to Wikimedia UK, would it be possible to > remove the access logging on QRpedia to ensure it complies with both the > letter and spirit of the WMF privacy policy. > I am happy to provide a simple patch to this end as well

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

On 9 February 2013 17:41, Thomas Dalton wrote: > This is great news. Well the fuller announcement include an explanation of > why this took so long? It sounds like a very straightforward agreement... You were on the board and don't remember the speed of charities? - d. __

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Governance review

On 9 February 2013 13:08, Thehelpfulone wrote: [not speaking for anyone but myself] > 1) Using the WMF logo instead of Wikimedia UK one (do we allow use of logos > for press purposes?) WMF used to explicitly say on the press page that use of the logos in press articles about Wikimedia sites

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 91, Issue 24

On 8 February 2013 16:56, John Byrne wrote: > I'd agree with the comments so far, and I'm really glad to see things are > happening in this area. We really need to move as far as possible to direct > debits, & encourage new members to go straight onto them. That vastly > reduces the hassle for a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership grace period

On 7 February 2013 17:01, Katherine Bavage wrote: > So - I'm not advocating FOR a reduction in limiting the grace period to a > shorter time span (say, three months) but rather seeking your thoughts on > whether that would be a good or a bad idea and why, much like I did when > asking about verif

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Governance review

On 6 February 2013 16:56, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Speaking just for myself, I was actually enjoying Thomas' posts, rather than > resenting them filling up my inbox. > Yours, on the other hand, I did resent: for its glib pomposity. Considering you are in fact here to troll, that's just fine. -

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Polish becomes England's second language

pire something to happen there too. >> >> >> On 30 January 2013 15:04, David Gerard wrote: >>> >>> >>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/30/polish-becomes-englands-second-language >>> >>> Anything we can do

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Polish becomes England's second language

On 30 January 2013 16:39, Peter Coombe wrote: > Welsh gets 0.4% of all UK edits, putting it in 5th place, but doesn't even > register for number of views (i.e. is less than 0.1%). Maybe we need to do > more to promote its visibility. Definitely. Who here speaks Welsh? Who's on cy:wp? - d. __

[Wikimediauk-l] Polish becomes England's second language

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/30/polish-becomes-englands-second-language Anything we can do to get more UK-resident Poles editing? Do we have any idea of edits to pl:wp from the UK? - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.o

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