Wikimediauk-l October 2012

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Chief Executive's appraisal
by Chris Keating 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Dear all, As Jon Davies has been in post for a little over a year, we're coming up to his annual performance appraisal. In line with HR good practice, all our staff have this kind of review, and they're an important opportunity for reflection and learning. As we prepare for Jon's review, I would like to invite anyone who feels they have comments to make, whether congratulatory, critical or both, to get in touch - I'm keen to get views from people who have worked with Jon over the last year, not just the current Board. Comments should be made with reference to the Chief Executive job description (1) and should be emailed to myself and John Byrne before 9 November. John and I will read and consolidate all the feedback prior to the review meeting. If you have any questions or would like more details of the process, please do get in touch. Many thanks, Chris (1) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/uk/b/b0/Chief_Executive_Application_P… -- Chris Keating Chair, Wikimedia UK @chriskeating chris.keating(a)wikimedia.org.uk Wikimedia UK is a Charitable Company registered in England and Wales. Registered Company No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT

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Plea fr comments on WikiConference 2013 venue
by HJ Mitchell 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

Hi folks. If you have an opinion on whether WikiConference UK 2013 should be held in Lincoln or Manchester, please comment at https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_UK_2013/Venue by Friday 9 November. Thanks, Harry Mitchell http://enwp.org/User:HJ Phone: 024 7698 0977 Skype: harry_j_mitchell

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ENGAGE 2012: Responding to Change
by Paul Wilkinson 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

*Nervously raises his head above the parapet....* I have done some work with Andy regarding the Institution of Civil Engineers and we are aiming to develop this further. I am also involved as a consultant with the Association of Engineering Doctorates, so the ENGAGE 2012 public engagement with research project appeals. I have contacted ENGAGE. I am also a PR person and a Wikipedian (user "Paul W" - since 2003). I introduced myself to David Gerrard at a CIPR/Wikipedia event during London Social Media Week and he encouraged me to make myself known..... *Ducks down below parapet again* Paul On 26 October 2012 17:24, <wikimediauk-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send Wikimediauk-l mailing list submissions to > wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikimediauk-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikimediauk-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimediauk-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fwd: ENGAGE 2012: Responding to Change (Andy Mabbett) > 2. UK Wikipedians in Residence (Richard Symonds) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:21:07 +0100 > From: Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> > To: "wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" > <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: ENGAGE 2012: Responding to Change > Message-ID: > <CABiXOEkU54FJ_ZfnGPpc3o0ox= > h6RzvEo3XTzM-T0Ebpokha6w(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Of interest to those if you in or best Bristol, perhaps? > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Helen Graham" <H.Graham(a)leeds.ac.uk> > Date: Oct 26, 2012 4:09 PM > Subject: ENGAGE 2012: Responding to Change > To: <MCG(a)jiscmail.ac.uk> > > Forwarded on behalf of the National Coordinating Centre for Public > Engagement (NCCPE) > > ENGAGE 2012: Responding to Change > > The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement is hosting a number > of specialist workshops targeted at anyone passionate about the role of > public engagement including: community groups, schools, festivals, museums > and galleries, voluntary sector and charities wanting to develop more > effective engagement work in partnership with the HE sector. > > The workshops take place at 09.30 on Wednesday 5th December in three > central Bristol locations. There are a limited number of FREE PLACES > available to organisations that partner universities. > > > ? MSHED ? The People?s Museum: Exploring the challenges and > opportunities of museums and universities working together in the city, > illustrated by the story of the M-Shed. > > ? Public Engagement with Health: Exploring how engagement has been > embedded into research practice, and what we can learn from this important > field. > > ? Creative Partnerships: Exploring the experience of working with > universities and on the strategies, techniques and approaches that > university partners have deployed to develop successful partnerships. > For more information about the workshops and speakers: > http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/events/engage-2012-specialist-workshops > > To register for these workshops: > https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/nccpe/engage2012specialistworkshop > > Why are we organising these events? > > The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) works with > universities to help enhance the social and public value of their research > and teaching. Since 2008 we have been working with universities, policy > makers and funders to embed a culture of public engagement in the work that > universities do. However, much of the engagement activity universities do > is in partnership with other organisations, which have strong links and > networks in the community. These include schools, festivals, museums and > galleries, and voluntary sector organisations and charities. These > specialist workshops form an important part of our third national > conference Engage 2012. To find out more about the conference and our work > log on to our website: http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/. For specific > details about Engage 2012 follow this link< > > http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/engage-2012-respon… > >. > > **************************************************************** > website: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ukmcg > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/museumscomputergroup > [un]subscribe: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ > **************************************************************** >

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UK Wikipedians in Residence
by Richard Symonds 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

Dear Wikimedians, The UK GLAM working group is now ready to find UK institutions willing to work with us by creating Wikipedian in Residence posts. Our budget is limited, and must be used by January 31st, but there is enormous scope to be flexible. These could be day a week, limited term posts, based at home - or full time positions at an institution, like the British Library post. We will of course be pleased to see applications from institutions with whom we have already begun a positive relationship - but note that the applications have to be from the institutions, rather than individual volunteers. Time is very short - our own fault - so we need bids, on the attached form, in by 5pm on November 15th to daria.cybulska(a)wikimedia.org.uk. She will be convening a panel to make the decisions that will be recommended to the board, hopefully at the meeting of November 17/18. Please feel free to spread this around the various lists (and externally if you can). Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. 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.*

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Fwd: ENGAGE 2012: Responding to Change
by Andy Mabbett 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Of interest to those if you in or best Bristol, perhaps? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Helen Graham" <H.Graham(a)leeds.ac.uk> Date: Oct 26, 2012 4:09 PM Subject: ENGAGE 2012: Responding to Change To: <MCG(a)jiscmail.ac.uk> Forwarded on behalf of the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) ENGAGE 2012: Responding to Change The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement is hosting a number of specialist workshops targeted at anyone passionate about the role of public engagement including: community groups, schools, festivals, museums and galleries, voluntary sector and charities wanting to develop more effective engagement work in partnership with the HE sector. The workshops take place at 09.30 on Wednesday 5th December in three central Bristol locations. There are a limited number of FREE PLACES available to organisations that partner universities. · MSHED – The People’s Museum: Exploring the challenges and opportunities of museums and universities working together in the city, illustrated by the story of the M-Shed. · Public Engagement with Health: Exploring how engagement has been embedded into research practice, and what we can learn from this important field. · Creative Partnerships: Exploring the experience of working with universities and on the strategies, techniques and approaches that university partners have deployed to develop successful partnerships. For more information about the workshops and speakers: http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/events/engage-2012-specialist-workshops To register for these workshops: https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/nccpe/engage2012specialistworkshop Why are we organising these events? The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) works with universities to help enhance the social and public value of their research and teaching. Since 2008 we have been working with universities, policy makers and funders to embed a culture of public engagement in the work that universities do. However, much of the engagement activity universities do is in partnership with other organisations, which have strong links and networks in the community. These include schools, festivals, museums and galleries, and voluntary sector organisations and charities. These specialist workshops form an important part of our third national conference Engage 2012. To find out more about the conference and our work log on to our website: http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/. For specific details about Engage 2012 follow this link< http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/engage-2012-respon… >. **************************************************************** website: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ukmcg Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/museumscomputergroup [un]subscribe: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ ****************************************************************

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Blog: The story of Ada Lovelace, the Royal Society and Wikimedia UK
by Daria Cybulska 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hello everyone, We've just published a blog post that summarises the story of Ada Lovelace Day editathon (19/10/2012), an event I have been working on with volunteers for a couple of months. You can see the post at http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/10/the-story-of-ada-lovelace-the-royal-so… Thanks and regards, Daria -- Daria Cybulska - Events Organiser, Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0994 +44 7803 505 170 -- Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. 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.*

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Gazette of board decisions on Monmouth, Gibraltar at QR.
by Jon Davies 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Dear all, I earlier today published a list of the decisions that had been made regarding theses areas as recorded on the public wiki. It has been brought to my attention that there are significant gaps e.g. Mention of the evolution of Qr codes in the Derby project which could make this digest misleading. However all the information is up there on the wiki. Apologies for any confusion this may have caused. It was done with good intentions in order to assist an understanding of what happened. Jon Davies. -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. 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). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

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Digest of board decisions regarding Monmouth, Gibraltar and QR codes
by Jon Davies 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Latat1Ri4n4RwhGM2-smUVLvaHxkYuvRd6kPDW… A community member suggested I share this link with you. I thought it would be a useful idea to highlight exactly what happened in WMUK board and exec meetings regarding the issues around MonmouthpediA, GiibraltarpediA and QR codes so had this analysis made. If anyone spots ommisions please let Richard Symonds know. (I am on hols from Friday lunchtime) All this is of course available on the minutes on the wiki but it may be helpful. Jon P.S. Yes I know it is a google doc. I am evil and will be punished in wikihell. -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. 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). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Missing mobile entries in DNS
by David Gerard 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

I pinged wikitech-l. Well, it's in ops' queue, and they've been pinged recently! - d. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arthur Richards <arichards(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 24 October 2012 20:57 Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing mobile entries in DNS To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> This issue is still waiting on movement from the operations to be resolved. There are a few facets to the problem that we've been trying to resolve simultaneously: 1) A while back we pushed out changes to the code that handles automatic redirection of mobile devices to mobile versions of the projects that sent anyone trying to access *.wikimedia.org who met the redirect rules to *. m.wikimedia.org (except for commons, bits, office, and donate). We did this thinking we had a definitive list of *.wikimedia.org domains and all had corresponding .m domains. This was an error. Before making further changes to the regular expression that handles the redirection, the mobile team was asked by ops to make some changes to the C code to make it easier to update the rules (instead of relying on a hard-coded regex in the c code itself, load a config file containing redirect rules). Max has made the requested changes, the changes have undergone a security review, but we are still waiting for ops to merge and deploy the changes ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27035/). Max is working on updating the redirect rules, pending the approval of the aforementioned changes. 2) We've requested that a uk.m.wikimedia.org subdomain be created in the interim to alleviate the problem and simultaneously requested that all wikimedia.org subdomains have a .m subdomain created as well. The RT ticket with the request was filed Oct 5 ( https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3661), but has yet to be remarked or acted upon. The ops team is certainly *very* busy, but hopefully we will see movement on these soon. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:30 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38799 > > Is there anyone who can look into this? It was raised on wikimediauk-l > again. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Foundation appoints independent reviewer
by Stevie Benton 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hello everyone, Just a quick note to let you know that Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation have announced today the appointment of the Compass Partnership to produce the review and report on the governance of Wikimedia UK. Full details of the appointment, along with the Terms of Reference of the review, are available on our blog at http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/10/wikimedia-uk-and-wikimedia-foundation-… As ever, please do feel free to leave your comments. Thanks and regards, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. 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.

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