Wikimediauk-l September 2010

wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org

20 participants
11 discussions

Question about the addition of BBC content to Wikipedia entries
by Steve Bowbrick 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Hi all, I know we've been here before but this one's a bit more specific and I'd like the group's advice. The producer of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time are wondering if there'd be any value in adding episodes from the In Our Time archive, which is now complete, to relevant Wikipedia entries? There are obviously many direct correspondences so it looks like it might make sense, for example, to add The Aristotle episode to the Aristotle entry, Anarchism to the Anarchism entry and so on. Archive: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/archive/ Should we just allow entry editors to link to In Our Time episodes from citations? or is there a systematic way that this could be done? Could episodes be automatically added to entries where there is a direct metadata correspondence, for instance? Would streaming audio be a useful addition to entries? Or would MP3s be better? Would it be useful if we added the whole In Our Time archive to the commons (I think that one's a bit of a longshot!). Are there any other clever things that In Our Time could be doing to improve entries? Steve -- Blogs at BBC A&Mi http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/5live 07768 257 570 http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.

13 23

Open Government Licence
by Peter Coombe 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

This announcement seems to have slipped under the radar a bit, but (assuming I'm reading it correctly) it's potentially very good news: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/498.htm I'm no expert but it looks basically like a CC-BY license, with a few additions to explicitly spell out moral rights. They're claiming it's interoperable with CC, but I haven't seen anything from Creative Commons themselves on the issue yet. Here's more about where it will be applied: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/government-licens… So it seems like it will apply at least to things previously under Crown copyright and Crown database right by HMSO, with a few exceptions. The exclusion for the other delegated bodies (last bullet) is a major limit, but we can hope that they will follow HMSO's lead. Pete / the wub

1 0

Cuts to museums planned
by David Gerard 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8021780/Quango-cuts-ful… Anything we can do within reason to help our dear friends in the museums? - d.

4 7

Blog post on appointment
by Charles Matthews 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/ now has the announcement of my appointment as part-time Office Manager for the chapter. Charles

2 2

Open Plaques 'open day' tomorrow
by Michael Peel 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

Hi all, Some of you might be interested in an event that Open Plaques (http://openplaques.org/) is organising tomorrow in London, an 'open day' to figure out where their project is going next: http://openplaquesopenday.eventbrite.com/ Sorry for the late notice about this. Mike

3 2

Wikimedia UK in 2013
by Andrew Turvey 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

Earlier this month, the board sat down for our first in-person meeting since the AGM. We talked about our plans and achievements so far this year and wrote down where we wanted the chapter to be in three years' time. Below are the notes we made on the day, which we'd like to share with you. By their nature they are abbreviated. Please let us know any comments or input you have to these, or if you have any queries about what this would mean for the chapter. Regards, Andrew Turvey Chair Wikimedia UK ----- Forwarded Message ----- Wikimedia UK Book Sprint: where do we want to be in 2013? - Fully professionalised chapter - Supporting non-UK chapters with historical links to the UK Projects: - Culture - Education - Academic - Community - Multilingual - Wikipedia Academies / Workshops. Target audiences/locations aimed at getting people involved in editing Wikipedia. Two Wikipedia academies a year? Also workshops (~6 per year?). - Academic/external peer review process of Wikipedia articles? - Content partnerships (led by board members) - Fostering Wikimeets in different cities - Community editing sessions in libraries/museums/universities/schools/etc. (parallel to meetups?) - Yearly UK Wikimedia conference - Fundraising/international meetings - Wikimania??? 5 November 2013: WMUK 5th birthday celebrations Budget FTE staff 2010 £50,000 0.2 2011 £125,000 1.5 (+ events, 0.5 x admin [starting from August with managed office]) 2012 £200,000 3 (+ fundraiser/sponsorship) 2013 £300,000 5 (+ developer, CEO/grants) Other possibilities: media contact. (All amounts are 50% of the total raised - starting to get grants etc. in 2013) Also contractors for tech work etc. Potentially sharing full-time staff with like-minded organisations? Asking Foundation to pay for first year of fundraiser/grants staff member? WMUK Board: aim to diversify it and make it richer in experience - Board Interest meeting on Saturday 12 February. First of an annual event? - Trustee Proposition. Separation of executive decisions from the full Board. - 7 board members (maybe 9 by 2013) - 4 community-elected members, 3 expert seats proposed by the outgoing community-elected members of the Board at the AGM (subject to community approval) - 2012? - Quarterly in-person meetings (in addition to AGM). 2011: also interim online meetings in between in person meetings. - ExecCom for 2011, transitioning to CEO in 2013 (with ExecCom oversight). ExecCom meetings as required. - Community appointments for 2 years (half elected each year) - avoids 'lame duck' period, adds continuity. Institutional memory. 2011. - Advisory Board??? ------------------------------

4 3

Membership renewal
by Jarry 1250 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hey all. I originally coughed up my £6 (the then reduced-rate fee) last August, and was approved in the board meeting on 1 September 2010. Why have I not got bailiffs turning up at my door demanding I pay the grand sum of £5 immediately? Or has my membership merely lapsed? I'd prefer to pay by PayPal rather than the cheque I sent previously, if possible. What would be the instructions for doing so? Obviously I want to ensure a continuity of membership. (I can provide my real name if necessary, just not on this list.) Apologies if this has been explained repeatedly elsewhere. Thanks, Jarry1250

3 2

Fwd: London Wikimeet July photos for review
by David Gerard 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Before I put some or all on Commons, please review for any you hate: http://reddragdiva.co.uk/temp/gallery.html If you don't like a photo of you, please email me, not the lists ;-) - d.

1 0

Thanks to all for your In Our Time suggestions
by Steve Bowbrick 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Lots of good ideas - including that old chestnut - "why don't you just give all the all audio to the commons..." (believe me, I've tried. I'll keep going, though!). We're going to take the advice of Andrew Gray and add links to the programme pages to relevant talk pages, suggesting that editors might want to use where relevant. We'll start with a trial of ten programmes - ones with really obvious correspondence to Wikipedia entries - and see if editors pick them up. Radio 4 interactive producer Herakles Koumoullos will be doing this to begin with. I'll get back to you on the "give it all to the commons" thing :-) s -- Blogs at BBC A&Mi http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/5live 07768 257 570 http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.

1 0

Announcing GLAM-WIKI:UK
by Liam Wyatt 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Dear WikimediaUK, Cultural Partnerships & Foundation-l mailing lists, On behalf of Wikimedia UK I am pleased to formally announce the second edition of the GLAM-WIKI conference - this time to be held in London at the British Museum on the 26th and 27th of November. The purpose of this conference is to bring the UK and European GLAM sector [gallery, library, archive & museum] into direct conversation with the Wikimedia community so we can build a better understanding of our common purpose - sharing culture - and how to assist each to best do that. After all, we are here for the same reason, for the same people, in the same medium so we might as well do it together :-) As the British Museum will be generously hosting this event, and today marks the anniversary of the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone (hence today's Feature Article on the English Wikipedia), we thought it would be an auspicious time to declare that registration is now open. The registration price for Wikimedians is £20. You can read all the details at: *http://glamwiki.org* <http://glamwiki.org> and the WM-UK blogpost just published: http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2010/09/announcing-registration-now-open-for-g… Wikimedia France will be hosting edition three of GLAM-WIKI one week later in December at the *Assemblée nationale* in Paris, and Wikimedia Australia hosted edition one last year at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, so we're in good company. Keynote speakers at this conference will be: - Author, activist, blogger and London local *Cory Doctorow<http://craphound.com/> * - Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation *Sue Gardner<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sue_Gardner> * - Director of the Columbia University copyright advisory office *Dr. Kenneth Crews<http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/about/director-and-staff/> * And many other presenters besides! Some are already listed on the conference page and many more will be announced by @wikimediaUK<http://twitter.com/wikimediauk> Wikimedians from the UK and further afield are invited to register for this conference. If you are in contact with professionals in the GLAM sector, please mention this event to them too. Moreover, if you would like to come and moderate a session please write to me directly with your proposed session. If you have any questions you can write to me privately, leave them on the event's talkpage or reply on the mailing list. Sincerely, Liam [[witty lama]] Convener, GLAM-WIKI:UK & Wikipedian in Residence, British Museum wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata

1 0

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

Wikimediauk-l September 2010