Mailing lists tend to be a social anti-pattern.
I prefer wikis. http://microformats.org/wiki/wiki-better-than-email
Less mailing list activity should be something we welcome rather than
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> To be honest, I tend to think that life's too short for movement
> politics.
Too true.
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images using WMUK
resources—say, a few hundred slides—and one or two of them were personal
(in the case of my grandfather's photos, there might be a few showing my
grandmother and/or my mother), can those be exempted from being uploaded
or licensed for Commons?
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keeping with the privacy policy. Is the code of the current version up
(either on a WMF server or somewhere like Github)?
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From: Thomas Morton <[1]morton.tho...@googlemail.com>
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ed to defend it on a Wikipedia talk page. The OTRS ticket from the
DCMS lawyers backs up my interpretation, as do people I know who work
for the Cabinet Office. ;-)
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py to give it a look over, possibly at
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To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <[2]wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l]
non-profit that existed precisely
because of OGL/PSI. The government could do a much better job of making
this stuff clear. (It'd help also if Flickr let accredited UK Gov
agencies apply OGL on images.)
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I'm currently doing Python all day long at work. It'd be a bit of a busman's
holiday.
So, maybe. ;)
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Ping Re:
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ent an email to Lambeth Palace asking if they would be willing to
release some images for use on the Wikimedia projects, but I'd be interested to
see if anyone else could think of either good reasons to want, or good ways to
get, images from the Church of England.
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ation fundraising shows that OpenStreetMap is perhaps experiencing the
same kind of organisational growing up process as Wikimedia has...
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job of schools and universities. It'd be nice to know in a non-anecdotal way
whether they are actually trying to do this and how well they are doing.
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My previous email was meant to go to Richard, not to the whole list. Whoops.
The secrecy of my ballot destroyed by my incompetence.
#fail as the kids say.
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On Thursday, 11 April 2013 at 17:21, Richard Symonds wrote:
> All,
>
> Just another quick email to remind you that email proxies for the 2013 EGM
> must be received by 15:30 British Summer Time (UTC+1) tomorrow, Friday 12th
> April 20
d be good to get some people along from London Lua: now we actually
have a language that doesn't suck too much to do template stuff with,
we might be able to get programmers to join the community to help do
template stuff.
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e getting proper unit testing going for modules.
I'm happy to help run this if there's interest and there isn't anyone
better qualified to do so. :)
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that they are wrong about everything and show that we actually want to preserve
our shared historical and cultural materials and data...)
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do with having
> the benefit of your wisdom on the Board, and I'd vote for you.
Serving on committees goes against my religious beliefs, but thanks for the
statement of confidence. ;-)
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review, based on Rexx's email, I'm starting to think that nobody at WMUK has
actually learned anything useful from the Gibraltarpedia affair. Which is a
shame.
* See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:GLAM/GibraltarpediA
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> On 9 February 2013 18:39, Tom Morris (mailto:t...@tommorris.org)> 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 b
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 as a code
checkover.
It may be sensible to run QRpe
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107 of index.php
<https://code.google.com/p/qrwp/source/browse/trunk/index.php>
before redirect to Wikipedia.
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kely at the moment.
I'm hoping that Wikidata might ease the Wikimedia community in to trying the
very tasty Semantic Web Kool-Aid®.
VIAF was a first, initial stab towards richly linking Wikipedia together with
other linked data on the web. Hopefully it won't be the
;s probably also happening for other
*.wikimedia.org sites.
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A military history-based Wikipedian in Residence position? I'm sure Wikipedia's
most highly-organised WikiProject will dispatch a whole platoon.
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dia and Commons too.
If you are in London on Saturday, do pop in, it'll be fun!
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interested, please sign up on Lanyrd:
http://lanyrd.com/2012/cowboy-london/
Or sign up on the OpenStreetMap wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_OPC2012
Hopefully in a day or so, there'll be a full announcement with venue details
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l use the US as the focus of the event, the skills people learn improving
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and aren't "politically
correct". All we have to do is steal what is already being done by people who
have thought about it properly.
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ance (from governments etc.) on Meta. That
way the Foundation and Chapters and so on can just steal those rather than make
up their own.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Survey_best_practices
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how you identify it.)
It might also be useful next time to include a question about how exactly
members participate. I'd love to know whether, say, the rough breakdown of the
membership who edit different projects. It might be useful so we can support
projects that aren&#x
On Sunday, 14 October 2012 at 09:47, fab...@unpopular.org.uk wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Please re-read the statement.
>
> The board:
> a) acknowledges mistakes have been made
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_were_made
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology
Just say
members of the OpenStreetMap community couldn't
find their way to the nominated pub each month.
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t mind being criticised for many things, but
> a lack of psychic powers is not one of them.
Oh, stop moaning. There's a reason things happen in London: people live and
work there. Things happening in London is not always a grand conspiracy to
sli
suing are the
sorts of things that you can't just throw money at to solve. The money
should be there to support the activities of volunteers rather than
having the strange situation of having the money and the staff and the
ideas ready to go and having to scrape around to find volunteers.
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read the draft bill. If you've used the Internet for more than half an
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a website that
routinely uses racist, sexist and homophobic descriptions...
It's the old Daily Mail trick: this is awful and terrible and wrong,
and here are 14 high-resolution closeups of it!
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his page might be seen as a strategic intention.
I did think about that, and "allies", "fellow travellers" and many other things
came up, but none quite worked out. If anyone can think of anything better,
there's a move button on-wiki, and I promise I won&#
without any chapter approval or anything.
If there's a problem with the semi-legalish warning at the beginning, I'm sure
the office or the board can work out what to do. ;-)
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doubt government assurances that all will be fine and see whether what the law
actually says as currently written will go too far.
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tation (on
copyright and Hargreaves). ;-)
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ee to all continue to pat me on the head while saying "no UK
servers, no problem"... even though the point of the bill is that the
servers needn't be in the UK for the government to make it a problem.
Again, read the draft bill. It&#
eason I think we should think about it is precisely because it's so very
badly worded.
Without some informed legal thinking about what exactly the bill is likely to
mean in practice, we probably can't know for sure.
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-magnetic
device that facilitates communication: that can mean anything from a
telephone exchange to an individual smartphone or a stereo speaker).
This seems like an extremely broad and non-specific bill: do we have
any idea how it might affect Wikimedia and Wikimedians?
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enjoy. We could call it "Wikimedians Love Boozers".
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Just passing this on...
http://www.zerogeography.net/2012/06/we-won-educational-institution-of-year.html
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If you go to http://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/ you can donate… insecurely.
If you go to https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/ you can donate… but you get an
SSL certificate error.
This seems like a problem.
(Whoops, sent this to Wikimedia-L rather than Wikimediauk-L.)
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reason
> for the formal name change at the AGM???)? Is there now time to reflect?
>
'Cos Wikinews and Wiktionary and Wikiquote and Wikibooks and so on exist too!
And, of course, Commons. Provider of high quality educational
materials and/or nude works including Muppets. ;
against either semi-pp or pending changes on those kinds
of pages is "but, anyone can edit, anyone should be able to edit!"
Which is fine, but when we're talking about obscure templates and
redirects, I can't quite see any great loss when they are
ge for experienced library users: I know
how to get to Wikipedia, but knowing what particular subset of paid reference
works my library has access to isn't actually as easy to work out.
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And I say that with the greatest of respect to the people who have put enormous
amounts of work into making Wikimedia UK work and doing all that very important
and necessary meta-work! ;-)
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See: https://skitch.com/tommorris/8h9xp/google-docs-error
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on tomorrow and Wednesday, and for the next few Wednesdays.
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expanded the article...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Butte,_Montana&diff=493405693&oldid=493234674
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of CC that's not Commons compatible.
The DCMS are aware though, through Twitter and email. As are James Forrester
and various other people who grok OGL.
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I proudly present, those ghastly Olympics mascots, now available on Wikimedia
Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olympic_mascots.jpg
I shall now await being sued by Lord Coe and the LOGOC and/or a massive
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Of course, if some bastard tracks me down, camps outside my house and
uses my wifi to upload his kiddy porn stash, nuclear bomb construction
instructions or the contents of their 'Lady Gaga' CD-RW to Wikileaks,
and I end up in jail, th
fier
> (like 99% of humanity does when it picks a name someone else already
> has or had).
Given trademark law, I'd say a corporate name like "Disney Inc." is
significantly more rigid than a personal name like "John Smith". People don't
tend to sue you if you cal
by our values
and preference for openness.
* The first rule of the cabal: you do not talk about how there is no cabal.
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Beam, go find
your old (or current) school or the schools near where you live and fix up the
sources! Same for any other community institution: libraries, pubs, scout
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as sources. For commercial sites, that means page
views, which means money, which means they can continue commissioning
new work.
With the BBC pages, tying into DBpedia and other linked data sources
makes perfect sense: it means they don't have to maintain a complex
database of topics but jus
asily moveable, let people replicate it and
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On Friday, 23 March 2012 at 22:20, Gordon Joly wrote:
> Or go along to WMUK HQ?
>
> Near Old Street Roundabout
Yep. The existence of Mozilla Spaces isn't an excuse not to go visit the WMUK
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use of edit conflicts. Hope someone else
can fix it up. ;-)
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I'm just doing some tweaking too. ;-)
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on some matter, that
makes some of the questions asked irrelevant. "N/A" or "I/We take no position
on this matter." or leaving it blank is just fine.
Indeed, we shouldn't be answering sections of the consultation unless they have
direct bearing on the mission and running
On Mar 21, 2012 10:00 AM, "David Gerard" wrote:
>
> On 21 March 2012 09:37, Jon Davies wrote:
>
> > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Property_Office_Consultation
> > Comments please on this - seems like Tom was spot on.
>
>
> Looks right to me. Has Tom got time this morning to write up s
ink that our interests don't align with,
say, the Open Rights Group, WMUK would just sign on to their
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want to
host rights-cleared work from the UK government that are under
discussion in there.
Any thoughts on responding?
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On 9 March 2012 15:52, Deryck Chan wrote:
>
> What I read: "There's a Wikimedia Commons picture on page 3!" Anyone takers
> on Commons for the challenge? ;)
>
Commons *is* Page 3 for the 'Nude Girls With Muppets' generation.
cle back in 2010 on
Parliamentarians editing Wikipedia.
http://www.tomscott.com/wikiparliament/
It's like the Indie story but with better jokes.
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Wikimedia Commons.
Too much time at the coal face, methinks.
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when they are equal, there is equality, not equalities.
(Don't mind me, I'm working on the Grumpiness and Pedantics Policy.)
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QR code with
their logo in the middle -
http://2d-code.co.uk/images/bbc-logo-in-qr-code.gif
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On 3 February 2012 16:40, WereSpielChequers wrote:
> I think we could speed that up by a wiki skills event somewhat as Tom Morris
> detailed, but maybe more one to one sessions. I've taught people hotcat and
> catalot using my netbook in various meetups in pubs and pizza parlour
on the wiki, even if they are
a bit half-baked or not well thought out. If the event actually
happens, we'd obviously have to determine a schedule.
https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_skill_swap
Is anyone interested in this? What steps would we have to go through
to make this a
nts-local-website
I like that The Guardian are scaring people about deletionists.
They (we?) are very scary.
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%AF_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C_%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C
How cool is that? ;-)
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On 17 January 2012 11:09, Harry Burt wrote:
> What is the official UK call to action here?
>
> Emailing the embassy? Or could you create a Number10-esque petition?
>
1. Find an American friend.
2. Shout at them until they write to their congressman/senator.
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And those of you who are entering panic mode about not being able to
edit the wiki for 24 hours, why not take it as an opportunity to try
editing one of the sister projects? It's looking like the sister
projects are going to remain online.
Come write something for Wikinews! ;-)
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On 15 January 2012 01:27, David Gerard wrote:
> On 15 January 2012 01:20, Tom Morris wrote:
>
>> Also, we *so* need to get Huggle and AWB ported to Mac/Linux. ;-)
>
>
> Unlikely, unless you have something that autoconverts .NET to Java or
> something for graphical appl
, we *so* need to get Huggle and AWB ported to Mac/Linux. ;-)
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ts of
collaboration."
Anybody interested in getting involved in this, preferably someone
based in the north east.
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uggestion last year about making a response to the
government's public consultation on the formation of the Public Data
Corporation.
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erything has to have a Wikipedia angle, but it is an
> important point. :-)
I dunno. Wikiquote is pretty cool: it's like other quote sites but with some
actual rudimentary accuracy checking. ;-)
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 22:55, Brian McNeil wrote:
> A QR code could be placed at a relevant war memorial,
Is that such a good idea?
I like QR codes as much as the next person, but sticking them on war
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Wikipedia could be pulled from more languages than English.
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I'm not sure of the details, given that the things we have been using
on Wikimedia Commons have been photographs and there aren't really
database rights issues to consider...
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they possibly can under free licenses. We could do this either as
Wikimedia UK or, if that isn't kosher with the charity application, as
"Wikimedians in the UK" or something. ;-)
Yours,
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ell people
whether snow is white, but we should also be sharing the more implicit,
linguistic knowledge.
Basically: language is a component part of the "sum of all human knowledge",
not just a means of expressing that knowledge.
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ay end up that they are going to primarily
edit ptwiki or eswiki or ptwikisource, but that's fine. If it seems
like a good opportunity to further the mission of the Wikimedia
movement and it is practical to do it with our funding and whatever.
Anyway, that's my opin
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:20, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> Do we need a Wikipedia page where such requests can be gathered?
Meta provides what you want:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests
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untry specific initiative. If it gets better results, we
> could follow a similar pattern for Wales and avoid appearing to push
> "UK" in every document (or teeshirt).
>
Reductio ad absurdum:
Unless it says "Wikimedia East Sussex",
to see if he's interested in letting us use some space
there. They have hosted BarCamp for 100+ people, but have nice small
rooms and office space for hacking.
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