All,
Jon Davies, our Chief Executive, has prepared a report into potential
locations for our first office. The report is attached to this email in .doc
format, and has also been placed on the WMUK wiki at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office - we'd appreciate your views and
comments, either on the talk page, or this list.
Kind regards,
Richard Symonds
Office Administrator
Wikimedia UK
Just seen a watchlist notice advertising "Wikimedia UK"s microgrants
scheme" -- perhaps someone can fix the double quote that is used
instead of an apostrophe.
Andrew
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Hi all,
The September WMUK report is nearly complete at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September
If anything's been missed out, or could be expanded upon, then it would be great if you could make use of the 'edit' button and lend a hand. :-) We'll be sending out the finalised report in a few days time.
Thanks,
Mike
Greetings all,
Been some things floating around about this already, but I'm proud to announce Brighton Wikimedia Hackathon.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Brighton_Hackathon_2011
MediaWiki developers are going to meet in Brighton on the South East coast of the United Kingdom to hack anything to do with Wikimedia projects (mediawiki, toolserver, pywikipedia and various other things.) I've been putting this together for a while, with a lot of help from Roan, Reedy, Sumana and various others, and the date has now been confirmed for the 19th and 20th of November 2011 (unfortunatly, it clashes with WikiConference India). If you're intending to come, please add your name here, just so we can start getting an idea of how many people are coming:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Brighton_Hackathon_2011#Attendees
I'll be adding more details as they become available, as well as a registration form.
-- Lewis Cawte
I've just updated the Wiki with some details about this Autumn's fundraiser,
which is just a few short weeks away...
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2011_Fundraiser
In particular there are 5 ways YOU can help. (YES, ALL OF YOU)
1. We still need more British Wikimedia stories, please give us yours here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dF9MNkx5dGsxc…
2. There is a "Thankyou page" that donors see once their payment has gone
through. At the moment, it's extremely rudimentary. Please help improve it!
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Thanks
3/4: I'd be really interested in hearing from web developers and copywriters
who are interested in getting involved in the fundraiser. If you think this
might be you, please drop me an email.
5. Come along to the EGM - or if you know you can't make it, *submit a proxy
authority* - so that we have a quorate meeting and can stay on track to
become a registered charity before the start of the fundraiser.
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/EGM_2011
Many thanks,
Chris
Hi,
Philipe (WMF head of reader relations) recently reverted a :en
geonotice added by Deryck Chan. This appears to run counter to the
previous position held by the WMF that they leave the decisions to the
Wikipedia community and would not interfere (presumably unless there
was a legal issue).
Raising on this email list in consideration of previous debate on this
topic when the chapter wanted to use a geonotice to encourage
applications from our Wikimedia UK community for the WMUK CEO position
and as most people will not follow WP:GN.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Geonotice#WMF_veto_of_geonotices
Cheers,
Fae
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Hi,
I had assumed that the box to switch off the current banner "Please
share your Wikipedia story" would switch off the banner. Though the
banner hides itself when I click the box, everytime I open a new tab
or reopen the browser it re-appears. I don't understand why the banner
has a switch-off box clearly on it if it does not work.
I don't mind reading banners when they are freshly placed, but I
thought the button existed so you could say "thanks, got the message
now". Does anyone know if this is the functionality that was required,
effectively spamming any active user (i.e. likely to create multiple
tabs and open and close their browser) throughout the fundraising
period with no option but to have the banner resurrecting itself after
you have de-selected it?
Cheers,
Fae
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Hi all,
The government have a consultation going on at the moment about the
future of the Public Data Corporation. The PDC is responsible for
commercially valuable public data including Ordnance Survey, Land
Registry and Met Office data. While the government is releasing a lot
of data under the Open Government License (which is compatible with
Wikimedia's content as it basically boils down to government-branded
CC BY). In fact, we have added OGL photos to Commons and some of them
are now in use on enwiki.
But the data controlled by the PDC could potentially be of use to
Wikimedians: the Ordnance Survey and Met Office data could be used to
produce better, more detailed maps of Britain and those images can be
reused by projects like Wikipedia (to illustrate place names),
Wikinews (for original research stories), Commons,
Wikibooks/Wikiversity (for geography textbooks/tutorials etc.).
Being able to merge government-produced data that we have funded the
creation of (through taxation) with volunteer produced content
(through Wikimedia, Open Street Map, free and open source software)
could dramatically help our mission of supporting the spread of free
and open knowledge. The Dutch government recently agreed to release a
lot of their geographical information for free, and it'd be great if
the UK could too.
Is there any interest in putting together a response to the
government's consultation on the Public Data Corporation basically
saying we're firmly in favour of the government releasing as much as
they possibly can under free licenses. We could do this either as
Wikimedia UK or, if that isn't kosher with the charity application, as
"Wikimedians in the UK" or something. ;-)
Yours,
--
Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>
I think we should, and the Charity Commission should not be an issue
here. Much more vigorous lobbying & campaigning on specific issues are
perfectly ok for charities, so long as they are in pursuance of their
charitable objects, which must themselves not be just political. The
CC guidance on political matters here
<http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/publications/cc9.aspx#2> is pretty
clear, & this is an area Jon Davies has experience of. In this case
it is clearly in line with all versions of WMUK's Objects.
John
Hi,
Please find a request from Itzel Polin (GLAM Mexico) who would like to
find UK e-volunteers to help with better articles in different
languages for the British and European artists involved.
Anyone who might help out, please contact Itzel as below.
PS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Internacional_Cervantino may
be useful background.
Cheers,
Fae
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itzel polin <iplitzel(a)yahoo.com.mx>
Created: 09/20/2011 01:04:36
Subject: Cooperation for the "Festival Cervantino in Mexico" with
British and European artists
México, September 19, 2011
Hi! My name is Itzel Polin, I am part of the project GLAM Mexico and
I am also a student
at the University ITESM CCM, I write you because in Mexico on October
there will be a
festival with the name "Festival Cervantino" it's a festival where a
lot of artists from
different countries will present their shows and works of art such as
UK, we will do some articles
for the artists, we are very interested to do some of the British and
European artists,
but we need information of the artists in English to translate it and
write the articles,
so that's why we thought Wikimedia UK could help us, in return we
can advertise
Wikimedia UK in the radio program where I work and also mention the
help of Wikimedia UK
in the different articles of GLAM Mexico we will do, ¿what do you think?
Thanks for all,
Itzel Polin
Radio Red AM programa "Zona Verde"
Sección Educación Ambiental
iplitzel(a)yahoo.com.mx