I’m not the best person to talk to about this - I’m cc’ing wikimediauk-l so that the people that are will see this.
Thanks,
Mike
> On 24 Oct 2014, at 12:11, vassia atanassova <vassia.atanassova(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Fae
> Hope that Doug and Mike will be able and willing to lend us a helping hand :)
> Vassia
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com <mailto:faewik@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi Vassia,
>
> I'm copying in Doug and Mike as they have an interest in governing
> QRpedia development and they may not watch this list.
>
> Cheers,
> Fae
>
> On 22 October 2014 19:33, vassia atanassova <vassia.atanassova(a)gmail.com <mailto:vassia.atanassova@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Hello, all! :)
> >
> > I am Vassia / User:Spiritia from the Bulgarian Wikipedia, and some of you
> > have probably heard of our WMF-funded project with Sofia Zoo to place
> > QRcodes and contents from Wikimedia on the information boards of all
> > exhibited animals.
> >
> > After Wikimania-London, where I met Roger Bamkin and we spoke about QRpedia
> > and the possibilities for statistics of its usage, I tried to contact him
> > recently, but got no response. (Roger, hope you're well!) Anyway, I guess
> > someone else may also be of help.
> >
> > My colleagues from the Sofia Zoo are very interested to have some (or any!)
> > statistics about the performance of our zoo-located QR codes.
> >
> > There is a particular occasion for this request. There will be a European
> > zoo conference in March 2015, and they would like to report their experience
> > with Wikimedia, but back it up with some hard data.
> >
> > The articles covered with QRpedia codes along this project are listed here:
> > http://bit.ly/1r3eKwl <http://bit.ly/1r3eKwl>
> >
> > Please, anyone who is able and willing to help, contact me and tell me what
> > other information may be needed to complete the research (or instruct us how
> > to do it by ourselves?)
> >
> > Thank you very much in advance!
> >
> > Vassia / Spiritia
> >
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Dear Wikimedia UK mailing list,
We have been given some free off peak weekday tickets to the tank museum in
Dorset.
I have already Emailed those of our Wiki Loves Monuments participants who
opted in to further events, so apologies if this is a repeat, but if anyone
here fancies taking photographs of tanks, send me your snail mail address
and I will send you a ticket
Regards
Jonathan Cardy
GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) Organiser/Trefnydd
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Llyfrgelloedd, Archifdai a llawer Mwy!)
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Hello everyone,
Something that we've spoken about before is creating a list of suggested
jobs for people with varying amounts of time. It's about offering ways for
people to help our open knowledge mission in as little as a couple of
minutes, right the way through to having a couple of hours or days to
spare. With some help, I've added some early suggestions to the volunteer
jobs <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_jobs> page, so you can see
what I mean. Any and all suggestions welcome please!
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
PS have a good weekend :)
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Hi all
The UK government yesterday announced new rules on access to orphan works. You can see details here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-opens-access-to-91-million-orphan-wor…
Although the headline is “UK opens access to 91 million orphan works”, the reality is a little more prosaic. The new rules allow the UK Intellectual Property Office to grant users a licence to use an orphan work on payment of a fee and on the provision of evidence that a ‘diligent search’ has been undertaken to find the copyright owner.
The rule allowing re-use after diligent search has been part of copyright law in the UK for many years. The primary purpose of the new licences seems to be to provide greater certainty to re-users that the searches they have undertaken are sufficiently extensive to guarantee legal protection should the copyright owner come forward.
Searches have to be exceptionally comprehensive before the Intellectual Property Office will certify them as ‘diligent’:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/orphan-works-diligent-search-gui…
This may help a few GLAMs who have high-profile orphan images in their collections that they would like to use on their websites, but a real solution to the orphan works problem must await a more radical approach that goes beyond both this and the existing EU Orphan Works Directive.
Michael
It would be good if WMUK could put in a presence at this event:
http://logancij.com/marketplace/
"The 2014 Logan Symposium brings together key figures in the fight against
invasive surveillance and secrecy.
Organized by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and generously funded
by The Reva and David Logan Foundation, this year’s inaugural event
features leading journalists and hacktivists. They form a natural alliance
committed to a world free of authoritarian invasions of individual privacy
and free speech.
Seeking common ground, journalists offer hacktivists a social and political
context, as well as expertise in evidence-based storytelling. Hacktivists,
expert in accessing, exposing and protecting critical evidence-based
material, bring their own set of formidable skills.
Joined by artists, lawyers, and whistleblowers, these communities will
offer each other, and the general public, charged, highly informed debate.
Now that the Snowden disclosures have sunk in, it’s time for uncensored
talk about the chilling Big Brother world in which we live."
*Edward Saperia*
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Hello all
The day after tomorrow, October 29, is the monthly free Science Museum
Late. We've mentioned that WMUK is running some slots during the November
26 Late. This week is our chance to see the event in full flow, 5000 happy
people "drinking and thinking" (theme: food and drink), and imagine how
that will transfer to next month (theme: the Information Age).
Staff, volunteers, and probably at least one board member will be going
along this Wednesday. If you are within reach, please join us! We'll be
leaving from the office at 6pm, and meeting others at the queue-less group
entrance of the Science Museum at 6:30. We'd especially welcome people who
want to volunteer for the November Late - there's lots of scope to get
involved.
Full info here
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Science_Museum_Late#Site_visit>. Friends
welcome - over 18s only.
Cheers
Roberta
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Hello everyone,
Recently there has been a great deal of conversation about storytelling within
the Wikimedia movement. This is a message that's coming clearly over from
the Wikimedia Foundation and is also being picked up by the Wikimedia UK
board.
We have a good opportunity to capture some compelling stories at the
Science Museum Late event on 26 November. With the variety of events taking
place being delivered by WMUK volunteers and staff, as well as a
significant audience, there are many ways we can create video and
photographic resources for us to use in future communications.
In order to make the most of this chance it will require some planning and
some thought as to what we would like to record and what we plan to use
these materials for.
I envisage us gathering lots of footage that we can use for different
materials. Firstly, a collection of views on Wikipedia could be recorded
with event attendees. These would act as a supplement to the survey that
will be conducted during the event.
Other footage would be of some of the sessions themselves, and interviews
with some of the staff and volunteers, as well as colleagues form the
Science Museum.
Does anyone have any other particular thoughts?
In order to complete these tasks, we will need some volunteers. We'd all
love for you to be involved so drop me a note if you're interested!
Stevie
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Dear all,
In order to use the GLAM wiki toolset and do mass uploads of media from
institutions such as museums we need their metadata to be in an appropriate
xml format.
So we are looking for volunteers who know or would be willing to learn xml
and are interested in helping museums do mass uploads to Commons.
A good understanding of the Commons category structure is also useful as
the idea is to format the xml in such a way as to enable the migration of
metadata.
If you'd like to get involved we'd like to hear from you whether or not you
already know xml as if there is sufficient interest we can organise an xml
training session.
Regards
Jonathan Cardy
GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) Organiser
Wikimedia UK
020 7065 0921
(I'm normally in the office Tuesday's, Wednesdays and Fridays - Emails on
Mondays and Thursdays wont usually be seen till the next day)
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