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Hi all, it was great to talk to some of you yesterday at the London meetup,
and especially the discussion around trying to better organise those
Wikimedians who are also software developers. I think we all agree that
some of the tools people have created to edit and improve Wikipedia,
Commons etc are really useful, but that they aren't very accessible or user
friendly. I think we could make a useful impact if we could organise
developers to put their heads together to work on improving and extending
the vast array of tools that exist already. To this end, I've started a
Slack channel for Wikimedia developers to discuss how we might move forward
with the idea. If you would like to be added to the channel to discuss with
other Wikimedia developers how to take the idea forward and share what you
might already be working on, please reply with your interest and let me
know your email address so I can send you an invite to the channel,
wikidevsuk.slack.com .
All the best,
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
Hello all,
Just a reminder that Wiki Loves Monuments is around the corner, andn
coincidently we are looking for input on volunteer equipment. (Specifically
photography and AV equipment)
Here is a list of current equipment we have:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Equipment_Loan_Procedure#Multimedia
We’d ideally strive for some kind of balance between quality and quantity,
but are not averse to a big ticket item if it will facilitate a specific
piece of work.
But ideas suggested to me by volunteers and other Wikimedians so far have
been:
More lapel microphones (to record panel events etc)
Shoulder rig
Video light box.
Filters.
Extra batteries and memory cards.
A bigger telephoto lens
A handy audio recorder
A camera drone
A selfie stick
We have a budget of £1000. If as part of the suggestions, people could also
look at prices and possible good value vendors, that would be helpful
too. Please
reply all here, or alternatively, with suggestions on the wiki.
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Talk:Equipment_Loan_Procedure> Looking to
firm up decisions over the next couple of weeks.
Thanks
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Dear all
Over the next month I'll be writing a piece for a new MuseumsEtc.
publication, *Feminism and Museums: Intervention, Disruption and Change.* The
title of my chapter will be 'Closing the Gender Gap on Wikimedia' and the
focus will be on the work of Wikimedia UK and the wider global movement to
develop responses to the exclusion or misrepresentation of women and their
creative works. I hope to be able to draw on case studies of good practice
across the movement, showcasing partnership projects with museums or the
wider cultural sector including galleries, archives and libraries,
including those where the gender gap is compounded by geographic,
linguistic and racial bias.
I'd love to hear about any projects you've been involved with or are aware
of, however big or small, that might fit within the broad remit of
feminism, culture and open knowledge. I would like the piece to be as
inclusive and intersectional as possible so if you have examples of work
with or about particularly marginalised groups, such as (but not confined
to) transgender women, do let me know. I have contacted Art+Feminism, Women
in Red, the Executive Directors mailing list and UK-based Wikimedians in
Residence about this separately but again, feel free to suggest people I
should be talking to.
With thanks in advance, and all best wishes
Lucy
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Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent
non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility
for its contents.*
Dear All,
Our 115th meetup in London is coming up on the 12th Feb. More details at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/115
As usual we will try to be opposite the main doors with at least one laptop
with a Wiki logo.
I'm guessing the conversation will range from the recent run of RFAs on EN
wiki to the trending topics on Wikipedia and the submissions for this years
Wikimania.
Hope to see you there
WSC
Dear all
I'm in the process of reviewing and updating Wikimedia UK's board level
policies and as agreed at the last board meeting, this will involve
community consultation prior to amended policies being reviewed and agreed
by the trustees.
The first two policies that I have reviewed are the Safeguarding Policy
(formerly Child Protection) and the Diversity and Equalities Policy. I
think the easiest way to view my suggested changes against the original
policy is in a google doc, which I have shared below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R2WdCy2uILnmWXmzhfrEbgId862b6Ick5mfjdeG…https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eIGcVTxhyeo1_sH0eOWqYJBgkiRzKLKNdU9Lc31…
Please feel free to add comments directly to the document (ideally) or in
an email to me, by Friday 3rd February.
Many thanks
Lucy
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Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT.
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.*
Dear list,
As this is my first post to this list, an intro to start:
I am a student at Sussex, but live in London, writing a PhD on the
history of imprisonment for debt.
I've been doing minor edits and correction on wikipedia for about 4
years, and attended wikimania at the Barbican a few years back. My user
page is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Technolalia
My Phd has involved a lot of digging around for historic statutes, and
this has led to a side project, and one that I hope will work with
Wikipedia. In short, I have OCRd around 80 volumes of various editions
of the Statutes At Large and the Public General Statutes. They cover the
period from Magna Carta, up to 1875 (after which digitized volumes are
scarce). I believe they contain a more or less complete set of public
acts from about 1765 to 1875. Although it is obviously alphanumeric soup
at the moment, I am working on automatic correction of the more obvious
errors, and on producing decent metadata.
My aims are to make finding legislation easier, to make it easier to
examine, both by eye and by machine, and to produce reliable metadata
from and for it. My immediate priority is to extract the tables of
contents from the collections, and build a reliable list of acts with
regnal codes and full titles (correctly spelled).
My site for this project:
http://statutes.org.uk
and my github repo:
https://github.com/Anterotesis/statutes
Wikipedia has many useful lists of statutes, some entries on particular
acts, & in wikicommons a few of the texts. I very much want my work to
contribute to wikipedia and improve this aspect of it. I've been talking
with Andrew Gray, mainly with regard to Wikidata, but such is the size
of the task I think more hands will be needed. & of course I don't want
to start making great changes without consultation.
As empire spread English common law around the world, there are many
international aspects to this as well, not least the number of British
statutes concerned with other countries. To this end I've been
collecting sources of Anglophone common law, eg for Barbados:
http://statutes.org.uk/site/collections/international/barbados-law/
& Jamaica:
http://statutes.org.uk/site/collections/international/jamaican-law/
And also OCR'd a set of volumes of Irish statutes to 1800:
https://github.com/Anterotesis/statutes/tree/master/Ireland
(Raw OCR, no auto correction carried out)
I'd very much like to see wikipedia develop this legal history as well,
but for my part I have enough to do with the British acts.
I hope this is of interest to you,
John
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Hello all, I wanted to gauge if there was interest in the idea of doing a
Commons uploading walking tour in London at some point. I've started to go
on my lunch break to places near the Wikimedia UK offices to take photos to
illustrate Wikidata items and WP articles which don't have photos. You can
see here
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/#lat=51.52186839072881&lng=-0.0784707…>
on
WikiShootMe that there are more green items (with photos) near the office
on Leonard Street, but that there are still some areas (Bunhill cemetery to
the West, Arnold Circus to the East) which have a lot of places without
photos (in red).
So I wonder if any Wikimedians would be interested in doing a walking tour
of either of these places with me to add photos to Commons. It doesn't have
to be these locations, and you're welcome to suggest other places with lots
of red items that need photos. I will be taking some photos most lunchtimes
during work days, so if anyone is free then, let me know. Alternatively we
could arrange a specific outing on a weekend or in the evening to take
photos in a specific place. We can use WMUK camera equipment if anyone
needs to borrow a camera.
Please let me know here or by email (john.lubbock(a)wikimedia.org.uk) if
you'd be interested in doing something like this.
All the best,
John Lubbock