The public catalog foundation has been busy digitising the nation's
art. All those paintings held by government institutions and local
councils. Pretty nice. Their website is here:
http://thepcf.org.uk
and the paintings can be found here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/
Some very nice stuff there.
Unfortunately they claim copyright. My favorite example is this. It's
a Fayum mummy portrait about 1700 years old:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/portrait-of-a-lady-31089
And yet if we open up the meta data:
"Copyright Victoria and Albert Museum / Supplied by The Public
Catalogue Foundation This image is copyrighted."
The artist for this painting
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-launching-of-hms-roya…
died 1873 and yet we open up the meta data and
"Copyright Hampshire County Council Museums Service / Supplied by The
Public Catalogue Foundation . This image is copyrighted."
The rest of the text runs:
The Public Catalogue Foundation is committed to respecting the
intellectual property rights of others. The copyright in paintings and
images reproduced by the Public Catalogue Foundation belong to a
variety of organisations and individuals including the collections
that own the paintings and third party rights holders. Permitted Use
of This Image: This image and data related to the image may be
reproduced for non-commercial research and private study purposes. For
ALL other uses other than those outlined above, including commercial
uses, users should contact, in the first instance, the contributing
collection using the contact information provided on the Your
Paintings website. Where the underlying painting is in copyright,
further permissions will also be needed. Protection of Image
Copyright: This image is protected with a secure invisible digital
watermark that allows the Public Catalogue Foundation to identify
unauthorized use of the image. Further Information: Any queries should
be addressed to copyrightofficer(a)thepcf.org.uk
Lovey. We could just ignore this and let the Americans take care of
matters but it might be smarter to stage an intervention before we get
NPG mark 2.
--
geni
Dear all,
There is a brief write-up of the Board's two-day-long face-to-face meeting
last weekend, up on our blog: http://bit.ly/jTHRLi
Key highlights are;
- we're going ahead with advertising for two staff, a Chapter Manager and an
Office Manager
- we've committed ourselves to participating in the 2011 Wikimedia
Fundraiser
- we did a lot of useful work that's necessary for the development of a
long-term strategy - we'll share this with you guys shortly (we're waiting
for the notes to be typed up!)
There will be more details on all of this soon, but we thought it was best
to share what we have now rather than wait.
Regards,
Chris
Hi all,
I've just noticed that Nominet have made two-letter UK domains available for release:
http://www.nominet.org.uk/registrants/aboutdomainnames/reserved/releaselist/
This includes wp.co.uk/wp.org.uk/etc. - does anyone think these would be useful for Wikipedia somehow?
(The deadline for applying is apparently in just under a week's time.)
Thanks,
Mike
In the Summer of 2011, Wikimedia UK and ARKive <http://www.arkive.org/> are
colloborating on a project to improve Wikipedia's coverage of threatened
species. This will involve recruiting a fixed-period in-residence role that
we are calling Wikipedia Outreach Ambassador. This will be a volunteer, with
access to desk space at ARKive's offices in Bristol and with travel and
subsistence supported by Wikimedia UK. Their role will require both on-wiki
activity and involving the wider community through online and offline
events. If you can attend meetings in Bristol, and are interested in both
wildlife and free knowledge, please visit the project page for further
details:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/ARKive_project <
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/ARKive_project>
Apologies to those of you who've seen this multiple times,
--
Dr Martin L Poulter ICT Manager, The Economics Network
Based at the ILRT, University of Bristol: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
The full experience: http://infobomb.org/
Wikipedia contributor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter
Board member of Wikimedia UK: http://uk.wikimedia.org/
"Creating a world in which every single human being can freely share
in the sum of all knowledge"
Hi,
Any Wikipedians fancy helping out with an event sometime during 15-17 July
for what is probably a wiki-lounge type affair with potential for a
Wikimedia presentation aimed at curators and a possible behind-the-scenes
with a curator? This would be co-editing and a bit of coaching with museum
professionals and ensuring that a few Indian cultural articles are produced
in, for example, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Marathi.
I'm only starting to discuss the details, so now would be a good time to
help shape the day. Depending on how well this goes, this might provide a
case study for a much larger Indian languages and culture related public
event later in the year.
PS I have raised a note on the WikiProject India talk page.
Cheers,
Fae
--
http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae
Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags
Hey all,
What is the status of our work with schools/education?
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Schools_project seems to be a
little stagnant, there are references to other School interactions on the
Wiki (including a link to a hidden office page about the educational
budget).
Is any of this still active?
I only ask because I've been approached locally to do some in-school work
relating to Wikipedia and it occurred to me that this is a major area we
could be focusing on.
I've got a decent amount of experience working with children, schools and
educators and it would be great to contribute that on a wider scale.
If none of those projects are particularly active, would anyone be
interested in working on this (including volunteering to go into schools and
youth groups)?
Tom / ErrantX
My Mum is active in her local branch of the University of the third
age, they struck me as a perfect partner for such an evening course.
Especially if the UK chapter were to offer the U3A a grant for hiring
in approved Wikipedians to deliver said course.
But please call it something other than "creating your own wiki page".
Aside from winding up the deletionists, that risks letting people
think they own a page, or that they can create a page about them. Your
hobby/profession/neighbourhood and Wikipedia would be OK, someone else
will I hope come up with something snazzier.
But this definitely has legs.
We could also make use of a photographers version to explain commons
to local photography clubs.
WereSpielChequers
On 1 June 2011 22:36, Roger Bamkin <victuallers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Two minor threads: Martin Poulter and I discussed how we could put together
> a teaching plan so that someone like yourself could organise an enevening
> course in "creating your own wiki page" ... not sure whether Martin made any
> progress. I know he was investigating ... I suspect there are a lot of
> people who would like to put their local history work into Wikipedia ... if
> we just explained it and demo ed it at the same time.
>
> Other thread. I teach secondary ICT. I'm planning to teach intro to Wiki
> editting next week. I have still to find some resources. Any help
> appreciated.
>
> regards
> Roger B
>
> On 1 June 2011 17:34, Alex Stinson <stinsoad(a)dukes.jmu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> There is an education list
>> at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education which appears to
>> be one of the better ways to contact people because not everyone regularly
>> checks outreach wiki (including myself). I invite people to join who want to
>> work with Education and Wikimedia projects, it include a fair number of
>> Campus Ambassadors who are doing innovative stuff at universities as well as
>> a number of other people in various chapters involved in education stuffs,
>> Alex
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Thomas Morton
>> <morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Alex,
>>> Yes a lot of that has been my starting point. FWIW there is a lack of
>>> content for the younger age groups (say 14-16) which is where my current
>>> focus is; the "beginner" guides are more suited (at least in my experience
>>> of teaching) to older students. I'd also like to see some more material on
>>> the goals/ideals of Wikipedia (as that seems a better start point before
>>> leaping into account creation :)).
>>>
>>> Also I noticed that a lot of the focus is on editing or contributing
>>> Wikipedia. I've approached this from a slightly different perspective -
>>> which is that most of the kids I will be talking to aren't interested in
>>> writing (and probably aren't yet capable of doing so) a Wikipedia article.
>>> On the other hand I aim to teach them about using WP as a resource (and the
>>> potential pitfalls) as well as trying to get them to treat it with respect
>>> (i.e. quit the vandalism).
>>> Is there a place on Outreach where discussion of education/teaching
>>> materials is happening?
>>> Tom
>>> On 1 June 2011 17:15, Alex Stinson <stinsoad(a)dukes.jmu.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "High school professors." Yikes! Meant teachers, not professors. I
>>>> thought I fixed that in a second read. Been working with universities for
>>>> too long.
>>>> Tom, that sounds like something that could really use some development
>>>> in the way of documented techniques or presenting the information. You may
>>>> want to check out the stuff on the Wikimedia Foundation bookshelf project
>>>> for materials you can destribute instead of making all of them yourself
>>>> (http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf). We also have been developing
>>>> a fair amount of stuff at the education portal on outreach, though still a
>>>> work in progress (http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education). Alot has
>>>> already been developed in fairly professional ways, it just needs to be
>>>> applied in the class room,
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Thomas Morton
>>>> <morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris,
>>>>> Yes, that was my impression too - I have some ideas/proposals to try
>>>>> and bring into play but didn't want to step on top of an active project that
>>>>> I'd missed :P
>>>>> I'm based in Lincolnshire.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alex,
>>>>> I've been keeping a close eye on the Ambassadors project - it looks
>>>>> like some great work (yet another reason to wish I was a student again :)).
>>>>> Expanding that into schools is a major project, but one that I think would
>>>>> net us some massive gains long term. I'd be really interested in hearing
>>>>> about your work with the high school professors.
>>>>> In general:
>>>>> I've been interested in education for a while; I'm a scout leader here
>>>>> & my parents have their own business doing educational visits to schools on
>>>>> the topic of astronomy (so I have fairly extensive experience of that sort
>>>>> of "business model"). The reason I have a specific interest now is that I've
>>>>> been approached to look at doing an evening class on computers and the
>>>>> internet at a local secondary school. One of the topics I want to cover is
>>>>> Wikipedia and WP editing.
>>>>> I could put together some teaching material & release it for others to
>>>>> use on an ad-hoc basis, but I think there is loads more we could expand into
>>>>> if WMUK were behind it - stuff like working with the teaching bodies to get
>>>>> WP recognised as a resource, and perhaps even worked into the curriculum (at
>>>>> the very least work with them to provide useful material for
>>>>> teachers/students about Wikipedia). In fact, something like the training
>>>>> events Cancer Research people (but for teachers) would be really interesting
>>>>> to explore.
>>>>> Another off-hand idea; it would be great to try and team up with some
>>>>> of the GLAM institutions to run educational days (i.e. have groups of kids
>>>>> turn up to learn about stuff using local and Wikipedia content, and to get
>>>>> an introduction to Wikipedia).
>>>>> And more; we could use WMUK resources to train up and support Wikipedia
>>>>> volunteers who want to go into the classroom - because teaching kids can be
>>>>> damned hard!
>>>>> There's a lot to focus on, but I think it is one of our most important
>>>>> outreach areas in the UK.
>>>>> Tom
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1 June 2011 16:40, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think it's been hibernating for a while. I haven't heard it
>>>>>> mentioned at all since the new Board took office.
>>>>>> Of course, if someone wants to pick up the ball and run with it, that
>>>>>> would be very welcome. Whereabouts are you, Tom?
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Chris
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Thomas Morton
>>>>>> <morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>>> What is the status of our work with
>>>>>>> schools/education? http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Schools_project seems
>>>>>>> to be a little stagnant, there are references to other School interactions
>>>>>>> on the Wiki (including a link to a hidden office page about the educational
>>>>>>> budget).
>>>>>>> Is any of this still active?
>>>>>>> I only ask because I've been approached locally to do some in-school
>>>>>>> work relating to Wikipedia and it occurred to me that this is a major area
>>>>>>> we could be focusing on.
>>>>>>> I've got a decent amount of experience working with children, schools
>>>>>>> and educators and it would be great to contribute that on a wider scale.
>>>>>>> If none of those projects are particularly active, would anyone be
>>>>>>> interested in working on this (including volunteering to go into schools and
>>>>>>> youth groups)?
>>>>>>> Tom / ErrantX
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>>>>> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
>>>>>>> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
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Hi Lewis,
We also have meetups, in London particularly we have a monthly one.
They are good for a range of informal collaborations including showing
people some gadgets they might not have tried yet (and there is
usually one end of the table reserved for copyright afficionados). If
London isn't convenient for you maybe there is another city near by?
It would be good to try out a meetup in areas of the country we
haven't yet run them in.
WereSpielChequers
On 27 April 2011 17:46, Lewis Cawte <lewiscawte(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not a member of Wikimedia UK (because I can never find the money
> when I think about joining), but I've noticed a lot of the events are
> university things or museum stuff, I was wondering, are there any other
> types of events, for example, I know the Dutch/German chapters run or
> host the occasional Hack-a-Thon or meetups at other coding related
> events. Do we do anything other than the GLAM or whatever it is?
>
> -- Lewis Cawte
> 14 year old Wikimedia, LAMP server owner and follower of MediaWiki
> development.
>
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