Wikimediauk-l April 2012

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UCL Lunch Hour Lectures on Tour - "Virtual Visitors: Why Would Anyone Want To Visit The Virtual British Museum Collections Online?"
by Andy Mabbett 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

Another event which may interest those of you close on London: On 24 April 2012 15:43, Washington, Samuel <s.washington(a)ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > Thursday 14 June > VIRTUAL VISITORS: WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO VISIT THE VIRTUAL BRITISH MUSEUM COLLECTIONS ONLINE? > Dr Melissa Terras (UCL Centre for Digital Humanities) > > Launched in October 2007, the British Museum provides virtual access to objects and collections via an online database, and by the end of 2009 nearly 2 million records had been made available. However, why would anyone want to view a collection online rather than in person, and what would they use it for? This Lunch Hour Lecture, by Dr Terras, Deputy Director of UCL's Centre for Digital Humanities, will discuss what is known about the use of this virtual online resource, and if indeed it is even used. This talk will also present analysis undertaken by UCL's Centre for Digital Humanities in conjunction with Claire Ross and Vera Motyckova and colleagues at the British Museum. > > For venue and additional information please visit: > http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/june_2012/virtual_vis… > > -- > > Sam Washington > Digital Resources Manager > UCL Museums & Collections > > Room 224, Wilkins Building > University College London > Gower Street > London WC1E 6BT > > Tel: 0207 679 2354 | x32354 > > **************************************************************** > 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/ > **************************************************************** -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Discussing risk in Wikimedia UK
by Jon Davies 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

Following the bard meeting at the weekend we have st up a age where our idcussion on risk can be continued in the community http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMUK_risk_discussion Please contribute. -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. 07976 935 986 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd 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. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

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Ob Comments about our Chief Exec
by Gordon Joly 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

I am very concerned that postings to this list appear to be specific to the business of WMUK, a charity registered in England and Wales. The set of members of this email list and the set of members of the charity are distinct. I am a member of both. Regards, Gordo

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WMUK and the Wikimedia Chapters Association
by Thomas Dalton 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

WMDE have just had a general assembly and ratified the decision to join the Wikimedia Chapters Association. Is WMUK planning on asking members about it? I'm not aware of anything that would require member involvement - it can be done by a simple board resolution - but I was just curious what the plan was.

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Fwd: Museums Showoff is coming to London on Wednesday night
by Andy Mabbett 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Note QRpedia slot: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rosie Clarke <Rosie(a)culture24.org.uk> Date: 23 April 2012 17:26 Subject: Museums Showoff is coming to London on Wednesday night To: MCG(a)jiscmail.ac.uk Dear All, This Wednesday evening (25th April) I'm one of an enthusiastic bunch of museum people who'll be talking about our latest projects and discoveries at "Museums Showoff <http://wp.me/p1LEfs-7e> ", in the Camden Head pub on Camden High Street. Doors open at 7pm, and admission's free (although the suggested donation is £5, to go to the charity Arts Emergency, http://www.arts-emergency.org <http://www.arts-emergency.org%20> who campaign to make arts and humanities degrees accessible to people from disadvantaged backgrounds.) The speakers will be: Terence Eden on QRpedia Brian Macken on the Irish Natural History Museum, or 'The Dead Zoo' MJ Hibbett from Dinosaur Planet with a rock opera about space dinosaurs Gordon Cummings on the North West Essex Collection Subhadra Das on UCL's Pathology Collections, or, Why Russell Brand Should Never Be Let Near Any Museum Collection; Ever Gemma Angel on the Wellcome Collection's 300 preserved tattooed human skins Me talking about Museums at Night Ayla Lepine on teenagers in the V&A Catherine Walker with handling objects from the Wellcome Collection, including a shrunken head Steve Lloyd on responsive signage at the Science Museum and a robot in the Houses of Parliament Robots, tattoos, shrunken heads and a rock opera about space dinosaurs - how can you resist? If you come along, please do say hello to me! All the best, Rosie Clarke Marketing Coordinator, Culture24 Direct line: 01273 623336 Main office: 01273 623266 Follow: @MuseumsAtNight <http://twitter.com/MuseumsAtNight> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About: www.WeAreCulture24.org.uk <http://www.weareculture24.org.uk/> Supporting the cultural sector to reach audiences online Enjoy: www.culture24.org.uk <http://www.culture24.org.uk/> Your arts & heritage guide online Museums at Night: www.museumsatnight.org.uk <http://www.museumsatnight.org.uk/> Annual festival of arts, culture & heritage 18th-20th May 2012 Culture24 is the official cultural data provider to the BBC **************************************************************** 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/ **************************************************************** -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Wikipedia Day Trips
by Richard Symonds 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Hmm. I've just found the site at http://www.nerdydaytrips.com/ - it essentially lists very Wikipedian places to visit all around the UK. Very useful! Richard Symonds Office & Development Manager Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 07885 764 613 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 the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

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Risk assessment
by Jon Davies 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Following the board meeting at the weekend we have set up a page where our discussion on risk can be continued in the community http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMUK_risk_discussion Please contribute. One obvious risk - typing too quickly! -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. 07976 935 986 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd 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. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

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Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Announcement two finalists for Wikimania 2013
by Thomas Dalton 22 Apr '12

22 Apr '12

Congratulations to the London bid team for making the short list! Commiserations to the Bristol bid team - I'm sure your hard work won't be in vain, there will be other opportunities to make use of all the contacts and relationships you've built up. Now that were is only one UK bid in the running, can we expect to see more support from WMUK? I'm sure the London team would benefit from Daria's help with fine tuning anything that the jury might be concerned about. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> Date: 22 April 2012 20:34 Subject: [Wikimania-l] Announcement two finalists for Wikimania 2013 To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, it is my pleasure to announce that the jury has been able to come up with an intermediate result - and I would like to share with you the fact that two finalist bids have been selected. All bids have been examined and discussed at three public IRC meetings and several private conversations, and we have come to the conclusion that we will now focus our attention on the two bids with in our opinion the highest potential: Hong Kong and London (in alphabetical order). We were blessed this year with a strong field of bids, and I would like to extend our sincere thanks to the bidding teams of Bristol, Naples and Surakarta for their extensive and well worked out bids - but also the effort they put into answering our extensive enquiries. I think all three bids had very good qualities and their strong points and with work could make a wonderful and very competing bid in a future year. This decision has been made based on the primary evaluation of the bid quality, with a special focus to suitability of the Venue, Accommodation and the reliability and viability of the local team (did we have the feeling they were up for the task). We will not be sharing an extensive reasoning at this point for each bid - but I think we can give feedback after the final decision about the winning bid has been made, in private communication. So what is next? The two candidates will be reviewed more extensively, we will assess the risks and whether they will actually be able to live up to the promises more thoroughly. We may be needing a few days extra compared to the original timeline, but hopefully not too much. With kind regards, for the Wikimania 2013 jury, Lodewijk Gelauff _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l

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Commons video released by the Shire Hall, Monmouth
by Richard Symonds 22 Apr '12

22 Apr '12

All, I went to Monmouth this weekend, and John Cummings shared something with me - a video that the Shire Hall, Monmouth, have released under CC-BY-SA. The video is at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dramatisation_of_the_trial_of_the_Ch… It's a high quality professional dramatisation of the trial of the Chartists at the Shire Hall. It's truly some of the best stuff on Commons, very professional, and I urge you all to watch it (and share it!) All the best, Richard Symonds Office & Development Manager Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 07885 764 613 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 the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 81, Issue 41
by Edward Saperia 22 Apr '12

22 Apr '12

Thank you very much Thomas! And likewise, commiserations to the Bristol bid team. I've already emailed Daria to arrange a meeting :) If anyone wishes to get involved with our final bid preparations or to start looking at ways they can volunteer if London should be chosen, please get in touch: edsaperia(a)gmail.com Ed Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:54:11 +0100 > From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> > To: wikimediauk-l <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Announcement two finalists > for Wikimania 2013 > Message-ID: > <CALTQcceojwWzmJZHjS8JoHXtQG2PN1G6=1yV6F97nTrdQDr+WA(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Congratulations to the London bid team for making the short list! > Commiserations to the Bristol bid team - I'm sure your hard work won't > be in vain, there will be other opportunities to make use of all the > contacts and relationships you've built up. > > Now that were is only one UK bid in the running, can we expect to see > more support from WMUK? I'm sure the London team would benefit from > Daria's help with fine tuning anything that the jury might be > concerned about. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> > Date: 22 April 2012 20:34 > Subject: [Wikimania-l] Announcement two finalists for Wikimania 2013 > To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" > <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Dear all, > > it is my pleasure to announce that the jury has been able to come up > with?an intermediate result - and I would like to share with you the > fact that?two finalist bids have been selected. All bids have been > examined and?discussed at three public IRC meetings and several > private conversations,?and we?have come to the conclusion that we will > now focus our attention on the two?bids with in our opinion the > highest potential: Hong Kong and London (in?alphabetical order). > > We were blessed this year with a strong field of bids, and I would > like to?extend our sincere thanks to the bidding teams of Bristol, > Naples and?Surakarta for their extensive and well worked out bids - > but also the?effort they put into answering our extensive enquiries. I > think all three?bids had very good qualities and their strong points > and with work could?make a wonderful and very competing bid in a > future year. > > This decision has been made based on the primary evaluation of the bid > quality, with a special focus to suitability of the Venue, > Accommodation?and the reliability and viability of the local team (did > we have the?feeling they were up for the task). We will not be sharing > an extensive?reasoning at this point for each bid - but I think we can > give feedback?after the final decision about the winning bid has been > made, in private?communication. > > So what is next? The two candidates will be reviewed more extensively, > we?will assess the risks and whether they will actually be able to > live up to?the promises more thoroughly. We may be needing a few days > extra compared?to the original timeline, but hopefully not too much. > > With kind regards, for the Wikimania 2013 jury, > > Lodewijk Gelauff > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >

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