Hi all,
This is to let you know about a couple of events at the British
Library; on the 10th of September, we'll be hosting a workshop and
exhibition tour.
As with the original editathon back in January 2011, it should provide
a good opportunity to meet curators, talk about possible
collaborations, etc. If all goes to plan, we'll also have a group of
newly released digital collections to work on, ready for sorting and
uploading - details TBC. My work as Wikipedian in Residence has been
heavily built around the training program in the last couple of
months, and I'm hoping to be able to put more emphasis into content
work from now on. If there's things you'd like me to try and work on
later in the residency, or if you just want to chat about what's been
done so far, please come along!
In the evening, there is a tour arranged of the Writing Britain
exhibition - this will start at 6.30 and be led by two of the curators
organising the exhibition. Hopefully, it should be suitable for anyone
working during the day and not able to make the afternoon session. I
know it's a little unusual to hold an event on a weekday rather than a
weekend, but this was the only day we could bring everything together!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/September_2012
Later in the week, in the morning of Thursday 13th, John Byrne has
arranged a tour of the British Museum's ''Writing Shakespeare''
exhibition - signup details below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/2012
Please let me know if you've any questions, and hope to see you there!
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
Dear All,
Mozilla UK has been supportive to Wikimedia UK and since they opened their
Mozilla Spaces venue, they were keen that we use it needed for events. What
we realised is that some of the articles relating to Mozilla, Firefox etc.
in Wikipedia are not quite of the high standard they could be. And so we
thought it would be a neighbourly thing to do to have a "*Mozilla-related
Editahton*" - the aim would be to turn a list of about 15 Mozilla-related
articles into content perhaps worthy of being a Good Article.
The sprint will be on Saturday *18 August, starting at 12PM at the Mozilla
offices (London WC2N 4AZ)*. Lunch and snacks will be provided, as will
Mozilla people who can be consulted regarding good sources for information.
Do come along and help our our free culture colleagues :-)
For more info and to sign up please visit
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Editathon
You can also email me with any questions.
Many thanks,
Daria
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From: "Andrew Turvey" <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com>
Date: 16 Aug 2012 13:56
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Status of this list and its archives
To: "HJ Mitchell" <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com>
Likewise I think this is a good decision. A truly public mailing list is a
valuable thing in many ways, just like a wiki history tab. For instance it
will let people years in the future understand the background to decisions
made by the chapter today, even after the people have moved on and
forgotten.
We already have cases on 'linkrot' where chapter minutes or other wikipages
are linking to mailing list archives that no longer work. This decision
will make that less likely in the future.
Andrew Turvey
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Hello everyone,
I hope you're enjoying your Thursday.
Katherine and I were speaking today about how it may be useful to have a
page on the UK wiki for people new to Wikimedia UK, either as interested
parties, donors, members or just casual browsers. To this end, I've created
a page for us to discuss what would be useful and to knock around some
ideas. It's here - http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Draft_/_Welcome_page
Once there's some stuff up there, I'll put things together in a more
coherent form and we can come up with the page.
Do let me know if you have any questions, and thanks in advance for any
help!
Stevie
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Communications Organiser
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
@StevieBenton
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Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
movement. The Wikimedia projects 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.
HMRC has released a list, at http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmrcgovuk, of
the top 20 or so people who are wanted for (but possibly not guilty of) tax
evasion. In total, they owe around £700m.
The interesting thing is that all the photos that they have released are
CC-BY-2.0! Looks like the various parts of the government are slowly
becoming more open - even the taxman!
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
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All,
Over the past few months a number of individuals have asked for some,
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failure to communicate to the list what was happening. On behalf of
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As a public mailing list, there is no reasonable expectation of
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Anyone who thinks otherwise is misleading themselves and those to whom
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flag them to certain individuals as containing information that is
worth ferreting out from the many other archives that are not under
our control in any way.
Indeed, deleting e-mails is problematic in a number of ways:
* it hides the institutional knowledge that the mailing list's archives contain;
* it gives an utterly false sense of security to people concerned
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* it turns an open forum into one where users are unsure about what to
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* it is difficult and resource-expensive to achieve, and risks
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We will not agree to keeping the lists pseudo-private, or to the
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The sign-up page for this mailing list[0] is not as clear as it could
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Hi all,
I posted a month or two ago asking for volunteers to help with some
training workshops I was running at Birkbeck. Thanks again to the four
who replied - the day went well and we got really positive feedback
from the attendees.
I've three more arranged in London, and one in Oxford:
* 3rd September (British Library)
* 24th September (British Library)
* 8th October (University of Oxford)
* 12th October (British Library)
The three BL events are a mixture of those being advertised to AHRC
researchers and postgraduates (see
<http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/Wikipedia-courses-for-AH…>),
with another intended for readers (ie users) at the British Library.
The Oxford event is run by the university for its own postgraduates.
They'll all be afternoon sessions running for three or four hours; a
general introduction to Wikipedia and Q&A session, followed by a short
practical session with the sandbox, a coffee break, and then time to
do some "live" editing with experienced users around to lend a hand.
If you'd be interested in helping train people at one or more of these
sessions, please get in touch! They're fairly informal events, really
quite enjoyable, and the more Wikipedians we have the better...
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
I'd like to be able to link to:
http://maketheshift.uservoice.com/forums/168487-ideas-submission/suggestion…
from project and talk pages on en.WP, but the site is blacklisted, I
know there's a whitelist-request page, but my experience is that that
can take many months, and the event is next month.
Can an admin assist in expediting the whitelisting, please?
Oh and anyone who wants to can sign up and express support *hint*.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk