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
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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
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
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
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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???
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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
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.
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
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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