Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 142, Issue 3

Re: CC licenses for PhD theses (Richard Nevell)> On 02 May 2017 at 13:00 wikimediauk-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:> > > Send Wikimediauk-l mailing list submissions to> wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit> https://lists.wikimedia.o

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses (John Byrne)

; imagine trying to find something using Commons search. John Byrne ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum (John Byrne)

The BM still in effect operates a "don't ask, don't tell" policy on photography - see [http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/2011-11-14%20Visitor%20Regulations%20FINAL.pdf section 8.1] here: "8.1 Except where indicated by notices, you are permitted to use hand-held cameras (including mobile phones) wit

[Wikimediauk-l] UK chapter membership numbers

As I recall, the "successful membership drive" consisted in offering donors to convert some of their donation into a chapter sub. I doubt anyone knows who most of them are, and I doubt a high proportion know much about the movement or the chapter, beyond the experience of a reader.  Some of course

[Wikimediauk-l] UK chapter membership numbers (John Byrne)

..."Today's Topics: 1. Re: UK chapter membership numbers (Charles Matthews) 2. UK chapter membership numbers (John Byrne) 3. Re: UK chapter membership numbers (Katie Chan) 4. Re: UK chapter membership numbers (Richard Nevell)Message: 1Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:25:51 +0100 (BST)From: Charle

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

reach the person managing the list at wikimediauk-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.orgWhen replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specificthan "Re: Contents of Wikimediauk-l digest..."Today's Topics: 1. Re: UK chapter membership numbers (John Byrne) (John Lubbock) 2. Re: UK chapter

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

("An HTML attachment was scrubbed”). So there are two options: change to using plain text format for the emails you send to the list, or change to receive individual messages rather than the digest.Thanks,Mike On 10 Apr 2018, at 15:05, John Byrne < j...@bodkinprints.co.uk> wrote:Once agai

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 153, Issue 11 Mike Peel

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 177, Issue 8

So can we put them on Commons?  Or use them from a Wikipedia file? John On 29 April 2020 at 13:00 wikimediauk-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Send Wikimediauk-l mailing list submissions to wikimed

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Jo Pugh

People who want to make on-wiki comments should do so at his user talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mr_impossible#So_sad   John Byrne/Johnbod On 28/02/2023 11:09 GMT wikimediauk-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

Yes, many of us are aware of the issues with Geograph, above all WSC. I agree the categorization side of it has been the real Achilles heel, and in my experience the problem is often worse than WSC suggests. When I filled up the Commons category for Wimbledon Common, http://commons.wikimedia.

[Wikimediauk-l] "Shakespeare: staging the world" - British Museum exhibition

The British Museum have kindly agreed a free group tour round their exhibition, which opens soon. It will be in September, at 9 a.m on a Thursday. Please express an interest, and any preference for the 6th, 13th or 27th, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/2012#Shakespeare:_st

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 83, Issue 36

form of credit/CPE points etc for our sessions in partnership with them. John Byrne/Johnbod ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

[Wikimediauk-l] Gordon's query

What the WMF does for us is, among other things: allow us to use their trademarks, provide the servers & technical support that run the projects, develop and support MediaWiki, provide research and some support in specialized areas, and fund development of the movement globally. That is why w

[Wikimediauk-l] Reminder: workshop and exhibition tour at the British Library on 10 September, and an exhibition tour at the British Museum on 13 September.

Please sign up at: workshop (1 pm) and exhibition tour (6.30 pm) at the British Library on 10 September, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/September_2012 for the exhibition Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Joint statement with the Foundation

ents just announced, only donations made via WMUK's own site will be eligible for Gift Aid, and donations made off the project banners won't be. John Byrne (WMUK Hon. Treasurer) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Annual accounts

e filing in 2010 is still thrown at us in a highly distorted way by WMF. John Byrne ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK October report - contributions wanted

I absolutely agree with Harry and Andreas that the newsletter should reach beyond the chapter & list communities to the much larger group of UK-based editors and readers. And donors, though they are supposed to be getting their own version. We should always bear this in mind, and encourage c

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

On 23/11/2012 10:16, wikimediauk-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Dear all, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research based in*Oxford* has contacted Wikimedia UK with a request to have a introductory Wikipedia training run for them on Thursday* 6 December*, 10am-4pm, London. After Doug Taylor's

[Wikimediauk-l] WMUK Finance Action Plan 2012/13 and Finance Policy revision 2012

lk:Finance Policy revision 2012 . And there are a couple of bits not yet worded up - help welcome! Thanks to Jon, Richard & the board for their help, As Treasurer, John Byrne ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail

[Wikimediauk-l] WikiConference 2013 Speakers WLM

WMUK were ready to support WLM last year (I was the speaker at the last AGM) but the main problem was that no one stepped up to run it. To answer Harry's question on how much work is needed, & talked about it with several from the Netherlands & elsewhere, & had meetings about doing it in the UK

[Wikimediauk-l] John Byrne stands down as Treasurer and Trustee of, Wikimedia UK

wikimediauk-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimediauk-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikimediauk-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re:

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

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 all, & of course means the terminally lazy or disor

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership grace period

I'd agree with Wierspiel. Most large member organizations have "natural" anniversaries, to give the membership department something to do all year. If you have one renewal date you only find out once a year if people stop renewing, which makes it much harder to try & do something about it. You

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

What we had is best described as "a delay in agreeing terms for the donation" or similar. John On 11/02/2013 14:03, wikimediauk-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:21:39 + From: Stevie Benton To: UK Wikimedia mailing list Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia M

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia

Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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. Donation

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

I use www.photoscape.org, which I picked from the reviews online a couple of years ago. It's free, easy to use, & allows full cropping and rotating, & simple versions of editing for colour, contrast & all that stuff. However the cropping is very far from lossless, and reduces file size well be

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition, catalogues (1870-1939) digitised and available via the RA website

Thanks, Andy, & good to know. I'd be more impressed if they'd followed the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and put on line all their recent huge glossy exhibition catalogues, up to about 5 years ago. Admittedly these are PDF but the 1050 items already online at http://libmma.contentdm.oc

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia Research newsletter on UK, university lecturers

Apart from the screenshots that all comes out as symbols & letter gobbledegook for me. John On 01/03/2013 18:27, wikimediauk-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: I particularly like the linked booklet at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Evaluating_Wikipedia_article_quality_20

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Draft EGM resolutions

Indeed. We've never had more than 250 members, not all of whom edit, though of course most do. As part of their role the board have to try to judge what the non-member community would like rather than just the members or those posting here & on the WMUK site. And as this list shows (how many m

[Wikimediauk-l] Diversity in Science Edit-a-thon, Royal Society, March 25, 2014

14 Cheers and thanks, John / Johnbod/ User:Wiki at Royal Society John John Byrne, Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society john.by...@royalsociety.org <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diversity-in-science-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-the-royal-society-evening-tickets-10924075203#> -

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Zürich Hackathon scholarships

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 sparingly, and for very good reasons. If individuals attendi

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

Oh dear, I seem to have started this by referring flippantly to the meeting as a "summit" in an email to Ed Saperia about the early-June Barbican event, which I cc'd to Andy as he has signed up on the page for that. The term was entirely my own invention for that email, and not used by anyone b

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

I must say I'm pretty dubious about this approach for articles. I doubt it can detect most of the typical problems with them - for example all-online sources are very often a warning sign, but may not be, or may be inevitable in a topical subject. Most of Charles' factors below relate better t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Free journal access through The, Wikipedia Library: new pilots

On Charles and Andrew's points, Manchester Libraries very kindly allow anyone in the UK to register with them. See http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/200062/libraries/78/join_the_library . The process is a tad odd - if you are asked if you are accessing via Cardiff libraries, say yes - I think

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

Yes it did get very messy. As I remember it, cards were actually printed for some volunteers before it had been approved by the board, and then "recalled". The cost seemed very high, and Wikipediocracy (or was it WR then) took a keen interest. But I think it remains a useful idea, so long as:

[Wikimediauk-l] Royal Society events - editors/helpers needed, June 7th & 13th

-research-fellows-wikipedia-training-tickets-11674467647 - for the early/mid career Research Fellows, not actual FRSs: "Those of you at this year's Induction Day in February will have seen John Byrne, the Royal Society's Wikimedian-in-Residence, talking about the training he planned

[Wikimediauk-l] Tracking or "spy" software; plus training volunteers, Manchester and Cambridge

ts at CRUK institutes in Manchester on Friday 5th December and Cambridge on Friday 12th Dececember? Both are 3 hr sessions 2-5 pm or 1.30-4.30 pm, and it is the last 60-90 minutes where help is especially needed. Again, please email direct, Many thanks, John John Byrne, Wikipedian in Resi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Magna Carta (John Byrne)

ssage-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi Rod, That was indeed me... we did do a bit of work with the BL MSS department (the great work was done before I came, though - John Byrne and his work on the Cuthbert Gospel). I think I could probably persuade someone to do a review and feedb

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 115, Issue 10

Also I think there are fewer "me too" and "That's great, congratulations" -type messages, which on the whole is a good thing I think. I suspect analysis would show just as many topics and substantive comments. John There has certainly been a shift to Facebook in that time and possibly to Tw

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 118, Issue 2 Redundancies at WMUK

On 06/05/2015 13:01, wikimediauk-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: I don't think so Andy. At the teleconference GLAM committee meeting on April 21st WMUK people apologised that they weren't able to talk about this as they had planned. They said to expect an announcement by the end of that we

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Why is UK not part of Wiki loves monuments?

I think in fact all the points mentioned in Charles' and Lodovik's were messages were before the GLAM task force, in at least some form, when we discussed the matter. The term and concept of a "National Monument" does not exist as such in the UK, as opposed to other countries, in itself somet

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] FW: Fundraising agreement / draft letter

> This obviously needs review as we will go over budget here > > > > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Burchfield [mailto:jonathanburchfi...@stoneking.co.uk] > Sent: 18 July 2011 18:34 > To: 'John Byrne' > Cc: steve virgin; Michael Peel; Chris Ke

[Wikimediauk-l] British Museum Bronze Age collaboration

This will be announced with a bit more fanfare, and detail, shortly, but already has a page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Bronze_Age. We have had a drop-out from our initial meeting (otherwise Fae & myself) at the BM this Thursday lunchtime. We have a possible back-up, but

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedians needed to help with traing on Thursday afternoon

the class, or just help round the group, as you like. All help greatly appreciated, John Byrne/ Johnbod ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedians needed to help with traing on Thursday afternoon

Yes, it is indeed Thursday 8th. Sorry for any confusion. I now have two volunteers off this list - thanks very much! - leaving one space still. Please email me if you are interested. John On 03/09/2011 22:34, John Byrne wrote: > This Thursday there will be the first Wikipedia train

[Wikimediauk-l] Call for help: WM-UK Charity application, evidence of public, benefit

To answer Lodewijk's question it is all the Wikimedia projects, and not WMUK's activities, that we need to show public benefit from (without saying too much, anyone who finds this puzzling might start here ). There is also a special page set up on t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Call for help: WM-UK Charity application, evidence of, public benefit

Please note that though the link Katie just supplied with the CC's guidance on "The Advancement of Education for the Public Benefit" is relevant to the theoretical issue, we are not actually now applying under that heading but under one of general public utility, so it is the general guidance

[Wikimediauk-l] A little help with video clips

We would like to use a couple of clips from the Jimmy Wales Bristol speech in January in our next submission to the CC, but that the whole thing is a) too long at 1hr 20 mins& b) talks about some things we don't want to go into, such as gender imbalance, Wikia etc. There is a 6 min version, on

[Wikimediauk-l] British Museum "Behind the Scenes" event on Ice Age Art, all day October 13th

Announcing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Ice_Age_Event_-_October_13,_2011 This is a full-day event to encourage participation in our project to improve coverage of Ice Age art aka the Art of the Upper Paleolithic on

[Wikimediauk-l] Should WMUK respond to the Public Data Corporation consultation?

I think we should, and the Charity Commission should not be an issue here. Much more vigorous lobbying & campaigning on specific issues are perfectly ok for charities, so long as they are in pursuance of their charitable objects, which must themselves not be just political. The CC guidance

[Wikimediauk-l] Re Sunday's EGM

WSC said: I can understand the need for wiggle room in the next few months in order to achieve charitable status. But I would suggest following this up at the next AGM with a resolution that restricted subsequent changes to a General meeting. WSC There is no need for this. As explained on the EGM

[Wikimediauk-l] British Library exhibition "Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination; Tour 17 Jan

*Tuesday, January 17th, 6 p.m.* We plan to have a tour of the exhibition for about an hour, guided by Joanna Fronska, one of the curators for the exhibition, followed by a brief session to discuss who can do what, before moving to a pub around 7.30. For a nice change, an event that working stif

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fundraiser final figures

Congratulations on a superb result! Actually my recollection on looking at typical figures released by other charities is that even 60% Gift Aid sign-up is pretty good - remember not everyone can sign up. But usually the higher the donation the more likely they are to sign up. The direct deb

[Wikimediauk-l] Making Wikipedia loves monuments work in the UK.

I made it clear in the conversations on the 17th that I saw no sign of the WMUK Board wanting to dominate or set the agenda for UK WLM; like the rest of us they are hoping a champion will emerge. I've posted the following at the discussion page