Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monnow Bridge (symbol of Monmouthpedia) is at FAC

An excellent piece of research on a fascinating topic Virus-free. www.avg.com

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

I'd be interested in doing something a week or two after the election when the dust is starting to settle. By that time we should be able to evaluate the results and the new cabinet/ministerial appointments should be known and there'll be updates needed to various Wikipedia articles and probably bi

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

Mailman is part of our protection. > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk "Delivered by Mailman version 2.1.18" but Mailman 2.1.23 is available. Time for an upgrade? Gordo *

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] Wikimediauk-l list run by ????

On 26/04/17 16:47, David Gerard wrote: > 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.wikime

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

Hi all,I would like to make several suggestions:Checkout the General Election 2015 Editathon wikipedia page: the aim was clearly stated: "We will endeavour to ensure that Wikipedia is up to date with the UK General Election results by the morning of 8th May." We had a link up with cy-wiki. There i

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

I would not be able to be in London but may contribute from home as results come in – more likely come online early the following day. I would also agree that this should be onwiki to reach a wider audience. There is already some discussion about when “dissolution” actually occurs (1 minute

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

> As 11 may is the deadline for the delivery of candidate nomination papers, > it would make sense to have any event after this. > As it happens I have organised an event at Newspeak House to do this the following day, if anyone's keen: Crowdsourcing Election Candidates Party, 12th May 2017

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

What about Saturday 27th or Sunday 28th? Just trying to gauge interest. On 26 Apr 2017 13:38, "Harry Mitchell" wrote: > I'd be interested in doing something a week or two after the election when > the dust is starting to settle. By that time we should be able to evaluate > the results and the ne

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

I attended the same event as Fabian, and agree with all his comments. It was a fun night, and we could do even better this time.. We already have 25 MPs not standing again, so that's up to 25 new bios we'll need: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2017#Members_of_Parli

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

> > On the 11th of May, each councils will release a document called a > Statements of Persons Nominated, which details the candidates for the > upcoming election. We need to manually enter this information into a > database so that more useful things can be done with it. Come and help! > https://w

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposed election night editathon

For a flat-file database that's available online to a limited number of people, a spreadsheet is perfectly adequate. It's probably heresy, but Google docs would work. If we want a simple, free-form, flat database that is part of the Wikimedia projects, the Data: namespace on Commons is much easier