Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum Collaboration

2011-07-31 Thread Charles Matthews
On 31/07/2011 15:26, Chris Keating wrote: On 30/07/2011 16:18, Chris Keating wrote: > I'm very pleased to say that our long-planned collaboration with the > National Maritime Museum is now happening. > > They have released a lot of info from their internal research on Roy

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum Collaboration

2011-07-31 Thread Chris Keating
> On 30/07/2011 16:18, Chris Keating wrote: > > I'm very pleased to say that our long-planned collaboration with the > > National Maritime Museum is now happening. > > > > They have released a lot of info from their internal research on Royal > > Navy warships on their website: > > > http://www.nmm

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum Collaboration

2011-07-31 Thread Charles Matthews
On 30/07/2011 16:18, Chris Keating wrote: > I'm very pleased to say that our long-planned collaboration with the > National Maritime Museum is now happening. > > They have released a lot of info from their internal research on Royal > Navy warships on their website: > http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researc

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum Collaboration

2011-07-31 Thread Chris Keating
> > > > Good point. I don't suppose you know how many of them are British > > *war*ships? > > Caw. You're hard to please. > > Here are a few > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/StateLibQld_royal_navy > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/StateLibQld_British > > Brilli

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum Collaboration

2011-07-31 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Chris Keating wrote: > > > Good point. I don't suppose you know how many of them are British > *war*ships? Caw. You're hard to please. Here are a few http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/StateLibQld_royal_navy http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Speci

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum Collaboration

2011-07-31 Thread Chris Keating
> > > > Fantastic. Has someone notified the WP Ships project? Yes. :-) > The State > Library of Queensland collaboration resulted in 5000 images of ships > being uploaded to Commons, and a lot of these are UK ships. Good point. I don't suppose you know how many of them are British *war*shi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum Collaboration

2011-07-30 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Chris Keating wrote: > I'm very pleased to say that our long-planned collaboration with the > National Maritime Museum is now happening. > They have released a lot of info from their internal research on Royal Navy > warships on their website: > http://www.nmm.ac.u

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum Collaboration

2011-07-30 Thread Michael Peel
I suspect that, if we end up in the situation where we've improved a given article as much as possible given the extra information they're providing (and particularly if we go a step further than this and incorporate sources that they haven't encountered or haven't managed to utilise), and if a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum Collaboration

2011-07-30 Thread Chris Keating
I can ask - particularly if there is a way to phrase the request in the context of this project. On Saturday, July 30, 2011, geni wrote: > On 30 July 2011 16:18, Chris Keating wrote: >> I'm very pleased to say that our long-planned collaboration with the >> National Maritime Museum is now happen

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum Collaboration

2011-07-30 Thread geni
On 30 July 2011 16:18, Chris Keating wrote: > I'm very pleased to say that our long-planned collaboration with the > National Maritime Museum is now happening. > They have released a lot of info from their internal research on Royal Navy > warships on their website: > http://www.nmm.ac.uk/research

[Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum Collaboration

2011-07-30 Thread Chris Keating
I'm very pleased to say that our long-planned collaboration with the National Maritime Museum is now happening. They have released a lot of info from their internal research on Royal Navy warships on their website: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/research-areas-and-projects/warship-histories/ (it

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum collaboration

2011-02-26 Thread Deryck Chan
text", as we're >> definitely not talking about user-compiled info, and hopefully it does very >> much meet the goals of Wikisource. >> >> Is there anyone here who is involved with Wikisource who can offer an >> opinion? >> >> Chris >> >>

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum collaboration

2011-02-26 Thread Thomas Morton
goals of Wikisource. > > Is there anyone here who is involved with Wikisource who can offer an > opinion? > > Chris > > > Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:47:45 +0000 > > > From: werespielchequ...@gmail.com > > To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum collaboration

2011-02-26 Thread Chris Keating
00 > From: werespielchequ...@gmail.com > To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum collaboration > > Perhaps it would be appropriate to load their material to WikiSource > rather than directly to Wikipedia > http://en.wikisource.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum collaboration

2011-02-26 Thread WereSpielChequers
Perhaps it would be appropriate to load their material to WikiSource rather than directly to Wikipedia http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page Then we can cite it in Wikipedia, or if the license is compatible and they have an article where we don't we could even import bits into Wikipedia. Some h

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum collaboration

2011-02-26 Thread Alex Stinson
> > Deryck - yes, it would be bizarre if Wikipedia told the National Maritime > Museum their work wasn't up to our standards. However, because it's unusual > to get information of this nature and in this format, I'm keen to establish > a consensus at the outset rather than risk an argument about it

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum collaboration

2011-02-26 Thread Chris Keating
this nature and in this format, I'm keen to establish a consensus at the outset rather than risk an argument about it later. Chris > Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:55:14 + > From: werespielchequ...@gmail.com > To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Nation

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum collaboration

2011-02-26 Thread WereSpielChequers
We have a London meetup in a fortnight, is it possible we could discuss this there? WSC On 26 February 2011 11:43, Roger Bamkin wrote: > Brilliant news - not only does it tell us about the ships but also about the > many notable brits on the ships > > Well done in anticipation > > On 26 February

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum collaboration

2011-02-26 Thread Deryck Chan
Amazing news. I'm also amused by how pedantic we are in discussing whether it's a reliable source. Deryck On 26 February 2011 11:43, Roger Bamkin wrote: > Brilliant news - not only does it tell us about the ships but also about > the many notable brits on the ships > > Well done in anticipation

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum collaboration

2011-02-26 Thread Roger Bamkin
Brilliant news - not only does it tell us about the ships but also about the many notable brits on the ships Well done in anticipation On 26 February 2011 09:27, Chris Keating wrote: > It looks very likely that the National Maritime Museum are going to release > a significant amount if informati

[Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum collaboration

2011-02-26 Thread Chris Keating
It looks very likely that the National Maritime Museum are going to release a significant amount if information gleaned from their archives under CC-BY-SA so we can make use of it. This would include information on the service history of some 20,000-odd Royal Navy warships. More information on