Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Request for a volunteer to upload Councillor photos to Commons

Hi all, The files are now at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Politics_of_the_London_Borough_of_Lambeth Anyone interested in improving their categorisation and adding them to articles/Wikidata it

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum, copyright and public domain images

Hi Fae, The reuse seems to be by the British Library, not the British Museum, here. Asking them for £400 seems a bit odd/steep (https://twitter.com/Faewik/status/1293503130987122688). Thanks, Mike > On 12 Aug 2020, at 13:05, Fæ wrote: > > Dear Lucy, > > It's just over 3 months ago that your

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This is a difficult problem to solve. Remember that the WMUK was talking with the British Museum way back in 2009/2010, which led to the first Wikipedian in Residence. That they are now using a CC licence is a good step forward, however I suspect the ’NC’ difficulty is related to the existence o

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's 2019 AGM - agenda, board elections, voting papers & lightning talks

Thanks Michael, that resolves my concern. Thanks, Mike > On 10 Jul 2019, at 20:40, Michael Maggs wrote: > > Hello Mike > > I'll be taking the chair during the election portion of the AGM, and in that > role I'll be responsible for the proxy votes. > > Mic

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's 2019 AGM - agenda, board elections, voting papers & lightning talks

Hi Katie and all, I’ve just noticed that the proxy vote is given by default to the chair of the meeting. However, the WMUK board chair, Josie Fraser, is also standing in the election. It doesn’t seem right for proxy votes to be cast by a person who is standing in the election - is there a way t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK Wiki

It’s a http vs https configuration issue: https://qrpedia.org works http://qrpedia.org does not work. Thanks, Mike > On 5 Feb 2019, at 09:56, John Lubbock wrote: > > Hi all, QRpedia seems to be working for me. The only problem appears to be a > prob

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Historic Prisons database

> On 18 Jul 2018, at 22:26, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On 18 July 2018 at 16:44, Magnus Manske wrote: > >>> A heads up that there is a new database of historic (c19th) >>> English prisons: > >> I am importing the list here: >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/1505 > > Is anyone

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] GDPR?

rt of the Wikimedia UK community and please let us know if you have any questions. The Wikimedia UK team" > On 22 May 2018, at 22:48, Michael Peel wrote: > > I haven’t spotted any emails from WMUK about this yet, are they coming soon > or is everything already OK her

[Wikimediauk-l] GDPR?

I haven’t spotted any emails from WMUK about this yet, are they coming soon or is everything already OK here? Thanks, Mike ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https:/

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

Try wp-admin -> ‘Appearance’ -> ‘Editor’, select ‘Theme Footer' on the right, and edit the info there. Make a backup of the changes, though, as they will be lost if you later update the theme. You might want to consider adding a CC-BY-SA license while you’re there. ;-) For screenshots of the pr

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 153, Issue 7

Hi John, I think you’re sending emails in HTML format, which come through to the list OK as an individual email, but HTML-formatted emails are removed from the digest ("An HTML attachment was scrubbed”). So there are two options: change to using plain text format for the emails you send to the

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru

Forwarding from wikimedia-l, where there’s some discussion happening about this. Presumably WMUK’s consent was obtained first, per the chapter’s agreement? Thanks, Mike > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Kirill Lokshin > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open-licensed images of UK MPs are coming!

Here's a list of MPs with the images that are set on Wikidata, and also their commons categories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/MPs (Using Listeria - so also thanks to Magnus.) Thanks, Mike > On 27 Jul 2017, at 17:01, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On 27 July 2017 at 16:10, Magnus Man

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Odd? Peter Tatchell aritcle.

> On 26 Jul 2017, at 12:06, Gordon Joly wrote: > > On 26/07/17 09:07, geni wrote: >> Template vandalism on. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Official_URL >> >> If you are still getting issues purge the page. > > Thanks. Now fixed. > > * > > This template is for use in infobo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM

Hi all, My thruppence: 1p: There are things that can be learnt from how WMF board elections are run, and also elections for other UK charities. A clear process that lets members cast votes online ahead of the AGM (instead of / in addition to proxy votes) would be very good. Being able to parti

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK Annual Report and Accounts

That's an excellent turn-around to see. :-) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMUK_membership_over_time.jpg Thanks, Mike > On 15 Jul 2017, at 09:44, Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > > Yes, and today :) > > On 15 July 2017 at 12:39, Gordon Joly > wrote: > On

[Wikimediauk-l] uk.wikimedia.org is no more

It looks like uk.wikimedia.org just got turned off and redirect to wikimedia.org.uk , as per https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170005 . This was long overdue as the last part of moving over to wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/ and I'm just mentioning it in case anyone wonders where it went. (And I was so

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Designs for T shirts

> On 22 May 2017, at 10:25, Gordon Joly wrote: > > On 20/05/17 01:42, John Lubbock wrote: >> . Wikimedia Nederland does one with a the Wikimedia logo as a >> stroopwafel, a Dutch caramel biscuit. > > > Perhaps I should explain a little more about this sweet Dutch snack. > > https://commons.wi

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

I remember looking into CC-licensing my PhD thesis back in 2009-10, and found that it wasn't possible as I had to include a copyright statement in it that included restrictions that weren't compatible with CC licenses (without the copyright statement, I couldn't have submitted it to the universi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK policy updates - consultation

Hi Lucy, I've added a few comments to the google docs - sorry for not quite meeting your deadline. I see that the new volunteers policy removes a key phrase that was often used in WMUK's past: "staff should only do things that volunteers either cannot do or do not want to do". That's OK - perh

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

> On 26 Feb 2017, at 20:14, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On 26 February 2017 at 21:33, Michael Peel wrote: > >> How about something like this: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits > > Wow. Yes, exactly that. Thank you. > > The pr

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

Hi Andy, How about something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits There seem to be some redlinks showing up there! Other sources might be a bit more difficult to incorporate. E.g., the Independent's

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Media enquiry from the BBC re editing/vandalism

It's not the first time this kind of thing has happened: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/03/peking-duk-fan-infiltrates-backstage-by-fooling-security-guard-with-wikipedia-edit

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

Back in the day (a few years ago) there was a UK tech mailing list. Sadly it became disused. Things were also posted on the WMUK wiki - again, sadly, those pages are now disused. They were nice while they lasted. Thanks, Mike > On 17 Jan 2017, at 13:34, Fæ wrote: > > I'm still trying to under

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

An interesting question that could do with a speedy response (and maybe a copyright release email from the BBC to OTRS) has been posted at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:100_Women_(BBC)#Is_it_not_a_copyright_violation_to_publish_this_list.3F Thanks, Mike > On 8 Dec 2016, at 11:37, Lucy Crom

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

It's possible to follow the edits through the hashtag, at: http://tools.wmflabs.org/hashtags/search/100Womenwiki Maybe help interact with the new users there? There are already a few problematic usernames being used... (e.g., User:BBC100) T

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Could Wikimedia UK keep an eye on which museums are going to close and give us the heads up?

It's worth noting that there have been Wikimedia events at several of these museums in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Queen_Street_Mill_Museum/event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Q

[Wikimediauk-l] WMUK office move - alternative locations?

Hi all, From recent-ish WMUK board minutes [1], it looks like WMUK has to move offices in the near future. I hope that this is being seen as an opportunity for WMUK, and the fact that the minutes indicate that other fellow-traveller organisations are being approached with regards options is ver

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

> On 22 Jul 2016, at 10:54, geni wrote: > > > > On 21 July 2016 at 23:53, Katie Chan > wrote: > > > It's not so much the need for a bigger one, but rather another one. There's > currently one for the 3 cameras that can use it. Personally, there's events I > can ce

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimeet survey results

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce the results of the wikimeet survey that ran late last year. The summary and full details are now on Meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/UK_Wikimeet_survey_2015 The key results from the survey that should affect future wikimeets are: - Organising wikimeets in

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

There was an old system for WMUK press releases at: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Press_releases but I don't think that's been used for a number of years now. There might be something there that could be salvaged. Thanks, Mike > On 21 Feb 2016, at

[Wikimediauk-l] Next meetups in the North-West: Manchester 23 Jan, Liverpool 27 Feb

Hi all, There are two wikimeets planned in the north-west this month and next, namely: Manchester: Saturday 23 January https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Manchester/32 Liverpool: Saturday 27 February https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Liverpool/18 Please come along if you're in the area

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Reminder about the PARTY tomorrow!

Hi Lucy, I hope the party goes well. :-) Sadly, it's cost-prohibitive to attend an evening event in London from the north of the UK, perhaps next time it could be an afternoon event, or held at a more central location, instead? Thanks, Mike > On 15 Jan 2016, at 11:35, Lucy Crompton-Reid > wr

[Wikimediauk-l] international Libre Graphics Meeting 2016, London

Hi all, This might be of interest to people in London, or active with graphics software: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2016/call-for-participation/ "The eleventh annual international Libre Graphics Meeting 2016 will take place Fri

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia IE] Bylaws Consultation-2 weeks left

Hi all, Wikimedia Ireland are currently working on writing their bylaws - see below. Although Irish law is, of course, different from UK law, I'm forwarding this in case anyone here has the time and interest to have a look through and give them some helpful suggestions. Thanks, Mike > Begin f

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Get Online Week

Hi Fabian/Leutha, It would need some sort of working group arrangement, whether that's a wikiproject or otherwise. The crucial factors are identifying who is interested in helping with this type of project, and making sure that the relevant stakeholders from the other charities/groups are also

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK website certificate

I no longer get the warning message when I try to access wikimedia.org.uk - so it looks like it's fixed! Well done Tom! Thanks, Mike > On 16 Oct 2015, at 13:54, Thomas Morton wrote: > > Thanks John. > > SO I think I might have nailed it... anyone care to independently test? > > Tom > > On F

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Get Online Week

Hi all, It's worth remembering that editathons weren't originally intended to recruit new editors - they were aimed at bringing together experienced editors with knowledgable people (e.g. museum creators) to improve Wikipedia articles using the knowledge of both groups. The change to focus on n

[Wikimediauk-l] Get Online Week

Hi all, I've just discovered that this week is 'Get Online Week', see: http://getonlineweek.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Online_Week It's too late for this week, but for next year perhaps we should think about offering some sort of 'intro to Wikipedia' courses? Probably more 'how to re

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] New Chief Executive starts today

> On 9 Oct 2015, at 15:57, Gordon Joly wrote: > > On 09/10/15 15:56, Gordon Joly wrote: >> That's probably a job for User:A.N.Other ... (editing Apples and Pears >> article)... > > OOPS. Don't trust me to edit anything! > > "Apples and Snakes" To avoid potential future problems: Lucy, please

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimeet survey

Hi all, I'll be closing the survey shortly, so if you want to fill it in but haven't yet, then please do so today! Thanks, Mike > On 20 Sep 2015, at 18:32, Michael Peel wrote: > > Hi all, > > The survey is now live at: > https://www.surveymo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimeet survey

ngs? > Kind regards > D'Arcy > > On 20 September 2015 at 17:32, Michael Peel <mailto:em...@mikepeel.net>> wrote: > Hi all, > > The survey is now live at: > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JJMNVVD > <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JJMNVVD> > Please fill it

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimeet survey

Hi all, The survey is now live at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JJMNVVD Please fill it in! Thanks, Mike___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Smoking is less addictive ;)

Hi Lester, I've made a few formatting tweaks, and removed the warning banner, you can see the changes at: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weston-Sub-Edge&type=revision&diff=681033688&oldid=681031791 The bullet point list / references that you've added to the name section should be fo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimeet survey

Hi all, Thanks for your comments! And sorry for the delay in moving this forward. I think it's now pretty much finalised, so if anyone has any last comments please let me know. The latest version is at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Wikimeet_survey#Survey In response to a couple

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photo contests (was visual Editor is now worth using in outreach editathons)

With WLM: I was hoping that this would take place again this year, particularly since it's been so successful in the past. Perhaps it could focus on quality photos rather than quantity if we have reasonably comprehensive coverage of listed structures now? Or perhaps we could think of a new topic

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikidata training

> On 3 Aug 2015, at 16:31, Stevie Benton wrote: > > We can host this at Wikimedia UK to keep costs down. That's not the only way to keep costs down - please also think about looking for donated venues outside of London! A more central location might mean that more volunteers can attend more e

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] ODNB missing women in focus

Hi Richard, Your list seems to have some technical problems: most of the entries seem to have many red crosses next to them (for no apparent reason), and the rest seem to blindly link to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough/ODNB_entry

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteer Strategy Day, 25th July.

Hi Stuart & all, The AGM has always previously been open to non-members: it's proven to be a good way to get new members from amongst the attendees of the surrounding event, and there's always been a (running) board meeting prior to the elections so that new members could be approved [1]. How c

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

> On 19 Jun 2015, at 21:48, Chris Keating wrote: > > > > I don't need to travel to London to have somebody read "Report by XYZ" to > > me. YMMV. > > There is of course the volunteer strategy day prior to the AGM. It's scheduled to take place on the same day as the AGM? > And there will be e

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

> On 19 Jun 2015, at 16:12, rexx wrote: > > The deadline for members' resolutions for this year's AGM is just a week away > on 26 June. > > See https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/planning > So the cal

[Wikimediauk-l] Moderation of Fae

(Forwarding from wikimedia-l: Fæ intended to send it to this list. His resent email is in the moderation queue...) > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Fæ > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation of Fae > Date: 24 May 2015 13:59:34 BST > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Restructure and CEO appointment update

> The staff page [2] will be updated to reflect the new staffing over the next > two weeks. > [2] https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Staff The page seems to be in the process of being updated, see: https://wikimedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Staff&diff=65842&oldid=63946 It sounds like Katherine Bavag

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimeet survey

Hi all, tl;dr summary: I'm planning to run a survey about wikimeets in the near future. Do you have any comments/suggestions on the draft? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Wikimeet_survey At a recent meetup, a Wikipedian who was new to wikimeets pointed out that the event

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Restructure and CEO appointment update

The new structure looks good, but it's missing details. Compare it with the current structure at: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Template:Staff_hierarchy In particular, what does 'Project Coordinator' mean in terms of the established types

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Apethorpe Hall

English Heritage is apparently running guided tours this summer: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/apethorpe-palace/ It's a bit too far for me to get to as a solo day-trip (it's a ~250-mile round-trip fr

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [[Category:Media missing infobox template]]

Richard's right. See: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/07/cleaning-up-file-metadata-for-humans-and-robots/ and links therein for more info. Thanks, Mike > On 7 Dec 2014, at 13:42, Richard Symonds > wrot

[Wikimediauk-l] "Cornelia Parker to create huge Wikipedia-inspired replication of Magna Carta at British Library"

This is very cool: http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/craft/art508130-cornelia-parker-to-create-huge-wikipedia-inspired-replication-of-magna-carta-at-british-library

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Reducing the copyright term for (some) unpublished works

Thanks Andrew - that’s a good start. :-) I’ve added some of my suggested answers to some of the questions. I’ve cc’d commons-l who I’m sure will be able to suggest better answers that I can… Thanks, Mike > On 23 Nov 2014, at 23:14, Andrew Gray wrote: > > Hi all, > > Some initial thoughts at

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Launch of Open Government Licence 3.0

This is somewhat sad news; it’s a shame they couldn’t simply adopt a Creative Commons license for their works, even though they say that their new license is compatible with CC-BY-4.0. :-( Thanks, Mike > On 6 Nov 2014, at 21:26, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > Just in: > > http://www.nationalarchi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [GLAM] Statistics for usage of QRpedia codes

I’m not the best person to talk to about this - I’m cc’ing wikimediauk-l so that the people that are will see this. Thanks, Mike > On 24 Oct 2014, at 12:11, vassia atanassova > wrote: > > Thank you, Fae > Hope that Doug and Mike will be able and willing to lend us a helping hand :) > Vassia >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Quirky Wikipedia articles

Hi Stevie, If you haven’t yet seen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles then that would be a good place for participants to start from. Thanks, Mike On 9 Oct 2014, at 15:05, Stevie Benton wrote: > Hello everyone. > > As a part of a project that we're developing to partic

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

This is definitely a great idea, well done. :-) I think the last time that local ads were tried for events was back in 2010 with Britain Loves Wikipedia at the Postal Museum and Archive, which worked really well. Another option is for WMUK to invite local donors to come along to them - I think

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Expired security certificate

On 1 Sep 2014, at 08:39, Thomas Morton wrote: > Not a bad idea. However, I think a decision on that needs to come from staff. > > And, also, Emmanuel might need to look at how to do it because it’s his > config that manages the current site layout and I don’t want to break it :D Sounds like t

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

Hi Stevie, Unsurprisingly, I really don't like it. :-( But more seriously: it breaches WMUK's privacy policy by giving information about visitors to the site directly to Google and Youtube (and also the WMF, but that's less of an issue). It also doesn't link to the privacy policy, though, so m

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM

But the old system we were using on civi worked fine for sending out reminders when membership went into grace? Thanks, Mike > On 7 Aug 2014, at 12:51, Chris McKenna wrote: > > A notice about your membership status has been automatically included at the > bottom of every newsletter sent out b

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM

Most of what was sent out by post isn't on the wiki... Thanks, Mike On 7 Aug 2014, at 08:27, Jon Davies wrote: > And of course everything is on the wiki > > https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2014_Annual_General_Meeting > > > On 7 August 2014 08:24, Chris McKenna wrote: > Have you checked your s

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Shaping our programme 2014-19

On 6 Aug 2014, at 21:15, Charles Matthews wrote: > > On 6 August 2014 20:42, Michael Peel wrote: > Hi Jon, > > I've left some comments on the talk page. [1] > > I found your comment that Wikimedia UK has been inhibited by "An Animal Farm > cult

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Shaping our programme 2014-19

Hi Jon, I've left some comments on the talk page. [1] I found your comment that Wikimedia UK has been inhibited by "An Animal Farm culture of ‘Volunteers good, staff bad" outrageous. That's never been the case, as is clearly demonstrated by the fact that we have staff rather than being an enti

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimania-l] Bring your old broken laptops to Wikimania!

Note that these rules only apply to hand luggage, not to luggage that is checked in and stored in the hold. (as far as I can see, and bearing in mind that IANAL...) Thanks, Mike On 28 Jul 2014, at 19:59, Ellie Young wrote: > > > On Jul 28, 2014, at 11:49 AM, Patricio Lorente > wrote: > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK are looking for a Fundraising Assistant

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 for its contents. > > > On 21 July 2014 10:25, Jon Davies wrote: > Good

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK are looking for a Fundraising Assistant

ly not going to oppose > more volunteer support! > > Harry Mitchell > http://enwp.org/User:HJ > Phone: +44 (0) 7507 536971 > Skype: harry_j_mitchell > From: Michael Peel > To: UK Wikimedia mailing list > Sent: Sunday, 20 July 2014, 0:07 > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l]

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK are looking for a Fundraising Assistant

Hi Richard/WMUK staff, I'm rather puzzled by this. Given that: 1) WMUK cannot raise funds through the Wikimedia annual fundraising campaign any more, which means that the number of donors through that method will not be increasing, and that the apparent alignment of this position with the fund

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [GLAM] Wikimedian in Residence 2014 review - update

On 1 Jul 2014, at 22:11, Charles Matthews wrote: > On 1 July 2014 21:57, Michael Peel wrote: > I think this would be more factually accurate: > https://wikimedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Wikimedian_in_Residence_2014_review&diff=58518&oldid=58516 > > Maybe. Isn't

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [GLAM] Wikimedian in Residence 2014 review - update

Please don't make personal attacks. :-( Mike On 1 Jul 2014, at 21:55, James Farrar wrote: > Andy, please don't be a tit. > > On 1 Jul 2014 20:39, "Andy Mabbett" wrote: > On 1 July 2014 20:12, Joe Filceolaire wrote: > > > All of you stop this. > > I note your instructions, and will act acco

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [GLAM] Wikimedian in Residence 2014 review - update

I think this would be more factually accurate: https://wikimedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Wikimedian_in_Residence_2014_review&diff=58518&oldid=58516 As a general comment: please consider including an executive summary along with a review that is this long. It's very difficult to find the key lear

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK soon move to an employee controlled website

On 10 Jun 2014, at 20:16, Dan Garry (Deskana) wrote: > Obviously for the more regular, hardcore WMUK volunteers, the wiki will > remain the primary resource, and if someone wants to become a hardcore > volunteer then they'll need to deal with that. But for other casual > volunteers, having th

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK soon move to an employee controlled website

On 10 Jun 2014, at 17:12, Jon Davies wrote: > We have smartened it up already through the support of UK Wikipedians but it > has its limits. This is the bit I don't understand. What does the current proposal do that *can't* be done on the wiki? Why do we *have* to have these non-editable page

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

I believe she leaves at the end of this month. Thanks, Mike On 21 May 2014, at 16:13, Michael Maggs wrote: > Yes, I think that was probably her very last decision. > > Michael > > On 21 May 2014, at 15:11, David Gerard wrote: > >> On 21 May 2014 14:39, rexx wrote: >> >>> Taken as a whole,

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

On 15 May 2014, at 20:50, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 15 May 2014 12:29, Michael Maggs wrote: > >> Andy, you mentioned that business cards were promised. So far as I can >> recall, nothing along these lines has been brought to the board for at least >> a year. Although I’m aware there were some

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] A charter for our volunteer committees?

Hi all, It's good to see the role of the WMUK committees being focused on - thank you Michael for starting this. However, I think it's a real shame that the committees are becoming much more advisory than they were supposed to be when they were originally envisaged and created just a few years

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Test

Oh, cool, this came straight through. :-) I no longer need to use my work address to send emails to this list - yay. :-) Apologies again for the spam! Thanks, Mike On 8 May 2014, at 21:12, Michael Peel wrote: > This is a test message to see if my email from this address gets through to &g

[Wikimediauk-l] Test

This is a test message to see if my email from this address gets through to the list or not. If it does, then yay my problem with posting to this list is fixed, and please accept my apologies for the spam. If it doesn't, then how did you get hold of this message?! Thanks, Mike _

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Our own dear Johnbod

Jon, I think you're a week behind with reading the signpost, and meant to link to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-04-23/WikiProject_report ... Thanks, Mike On 1 May 2014, at 16:38, Jon Davies wrote: > To the altar—Catholicism > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

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

I think I might have been the person that switched this list from per-email to digest moderator emails - the list was certainly getting quite a bit of spam back when I was a list admin, and I doubt the situation has improved since then. I would support Fæ being taken off moderation here, but it

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

Forwarding per Fæ's request... Begin forwarded message: > From: Fæ > Subject: Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Rating Wikimedia content (was Our > next strategy plan-Paid editing) > Date: 17 April 2014 10:09:14 BST > To: Michael Peel > > Hi Mike, could you repo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Armenian wiki video

On 13 Apr 2014, at 19:32, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 13/04/14 16:16, Fæ wrote: >> With regard to cooling it, I suppose it is hard to stop my experience >> and long term frustration in being unable to follow through or have a >> frank discussion on essential changes the charity needed and still >> n

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedian-in-Residence summit

On 7 Apr 2014, at 16:21, Charles Matthews wrote: > On 7 April 2014 16:08, Michael Peel wrote: > > On 7 Apr 2014, at 15:12, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > > On 7 April 2014 13:11, Roger Bamkin wrote: > > > >> Bar liam. > > > > Liam was the first Wii

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedian-in-Residence summit

On 7 Apr 2014, at 15:12, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 7 April 2014 13:11, Roger Bamkin wrote: > >> Bar liam. > > Liam was the first WiiR, but not, I understand, in conjunction with WMUK. That depends on what you mean by 'conjunction with'. He was certainly 'liaising with', and it was an achieve

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedian-in-Residence summit

Hi Jon, I'm confused - how can it be a 'small internal meeting' that also includes people that aren't 'internal' to the WMUK office? And why, if it's an internal meeting, did it take place on a weekend necessitating staff to give up their Saturday? Thanks, Mike On 7 Apr 2014, at 09:40, Jon Da

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BritishBlackMusic.com

This strikes me as an excuse rather than a reason. Fæ's questions/points here don't seem to have been answered. :-( Thanks, Mike On 31 Mar 2014, at 08:10, Jon Davies wrote: > Apologies for delay in replying but I have been away. > > As previously stated our relationship as a chapter in this i

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Zürich Hackathon scholarships

On 31 Mar 2014, at 14:46, John Byrne wrote: > I agree with others that when a scholarship/grant is made involving > non-trivial travel and living expenses such as air fares and hotels, the > recipients should be identified, if only by username. Exceptions to this > should be made very sparing

[Wikimediauk-l] Summer student

Hi all, I'm testing the idea of having a summer student here at my university who would contribute to Wikipedia articles on physics/astronomy as a way of learning how to write scientific publications (since there's such a good analogy between the two). A possible issue is that they would get so

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Zürich Hackathon scholarships

Erm, no, it is standard (good) practice! Mike > On 31 Mar 2014, at 12:28, Jon Davies wrote: > > It is not standard practice for a list of attendees to Wikimedia conferences > to be published. It is up to the individuals in question whether they want it > be known publicly that they are attend

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Interested in a potential hook-up with a sci-fi film festival?

Hi Joe, On 20 Mar 2014, at 18:49, Joe Filceolaire wrote: > I posted that page on the wikimania wiki so it is independent of your contact. Thanks. I'm sad to hear that my previous introduction was a waste of time then (however, I've now gotten used to my input being ignored by those organising

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Interested in a potential hook-up with a sci-fi film festival?

On 19 Mar 2014, at 16:01, Richard Symonds wrote: > Perhaps something to be taken offlist with those interested, so we don't > break any confidences? Or keep things on-list/on-wiki for transparency? I'd be potentially interested in helping do something here. With the August SciFi conference

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Invite - Recognising Value and the Sharing Economy

On 18 Mar 2014, at 13:33, Edward Saperia wrote: > I'd be very keen to see a dedicated technical community manager as a paid > role, who would mostly spend their time going to London tech events and > representing the movement. That would be really bad on multiple levels - two obvious ones bei

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK Facebook page

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? BTW, if you want a trip down history lane, have a look at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/5678482133/ Thanks, Mike ___

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Letter to MEPs on copyright

Hi Stevie, Thanks from me also for sharing this. Some points: # The images you are using all appear to be copyright violations - not the best move! Why not attribute the images, or link to where they're available on Commons or elsewhere? For the image not covered by FoP, why not do something l

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Community consultation on WMUK's Wikimedia in Residence programme

On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:37, Michael Peel wrote: > > On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:30, Richard Nevell > wrote: > >> As a chapter we have run the Wikimedian in Residence (WIR) programme since >> May 2012, when Andrew Gray started his residency at the British Library. > >

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