Wikimediauk-l April 2012

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Second draft of 5 year plan
by Jon Davies 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Thanks for all the comments so far - really energising. Here is a second draft into which I have tried to incorporate your comments. This is an all encompassing plan which will in its implementation need to be prioritised of course. http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Draft_2012_Five_Year_Plan Please add your comments to the dicussion page. Jon. -- 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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11 Apr '12

I'm really pleased to announce that our first World War I - themed Editathon will be held on June 16th. We're running this event in partnership with JISC, the UK Government's expert body on digital technologies for education and research. It will be a great opportunity to work closely with experts on military history from academia to improve Wikipedia articles on this really important topic, and I hope it will be a really successful start to Wikimedia UK's World War I Centenary outreach work. I'd encourage anyone with an interest in World War I and military history in general to sign up, and please spread the word to anyone you know who's interested in the subject! Find out more, and sign up, here: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_War_I/World_War_I_Editathon Many thanks, Chris (User:The Land)

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Interesting possibilty for WIkimedians?
by Jon Davies 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

The Heritage Lottery Fund has launched a new £1m small grants programme for local history projects. Grants from 3 to 10K. All our stories http://www.hlf.org.uk/HowToApply/programmes/Pages/Allourstories.aspx Programme priorities You can request funding for the following types of activity to explore and learn about heritage: Visits to places like historic buildings, landscapes, parks, burial grounds, museums, archaeological sites or industrial heritage sites like railways. Using collections like archives, libraries and museums, including collections held by people in the community. Talking to people who know about heritage or holding workshops, talks and sessions exploring peoples memories. Recording things like peoples memories or local wildlife; scanning old photographs and documents; archaeological digs or surveying historic buildings. -- 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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Wikimedia UK AGm - last call for nominations
by Richard Symonds 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Dear All, This email is from the Tellers of the 2012 Wikimedia UK AGM. We are writing to inform you that the deadline for candidate nominations and proposed resolutions is 5.00pm, 12 April 2012. This means that if you wish to stand as a candidate for the 2012-13 WMUK board, you must send an email, by 5.00pm tomorrow, to tellers(a)wikimedia.org.uk stating: a statement that you would like to nominate yourself to serve as a director and trustee of Wikimedia UK and that you fulfill the legal criteria for appointment your full name any previous names date of birth business occupation the names of any other UK companies which you have been director of in the last five years At a later date, we will be asking for a 300-word plain text nomination statement from each candidate, but this does not need to be in by tomorrow. Please contact tellers(a)wikimedia.org.uk in confidence if you have any questions about standing for the Board. If your question is about Wikimedia UK in general, please contact richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk or info(a)wikimedia.org.uk. For Wikimedia UK, James Farrar& Richard Symonds Tellers Wikimedia UK -- Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Charitable Company Registered in England and Wales, No: 6741827. Charity No:1144513 Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. Wikimedia UK is the local 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.

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Access to Archives vs. Wikimedia Commons.
by Gordon Joly 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

> > Maybe an issue for your (our) next Wikimeet? > > > > Also - "Wikimedia Commons" vs "Archives for All" - where should you > lodge copies of your data? > > > > Gordo > > > > Not discussed in London last weekend! I just wanted to note that although some of us are fanatical about Wikimedia, there are other soap brands that wash just as white, if not whiter. We had a discussion about this (a little) at the training event on Friday 30th at The Geological Society. I recall that I made the case for considering alternatives to Wikimedia Commons, as did at least one participant. Access to Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/ ARCHON Directory http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/default.htm Gordo

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List archives
by Thomas Dalton 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

I've just noticed the list archives for this list (accessible via the link in the footer) are restricted to subscribers only (although there is no restriction on who can subscribe). Is that intentional and, if so, why?

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National Maritime Museum archive
by Chris Keating 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

I was talking earlier to the National Maritime Museum about organising an editathon. They wanted to see what use we thought we could make of the material in the archive collection, and whether Wikipedians would be up for coming and making use of it. I am anticipating that this could prove very popular, but if any of you are naval/maritime/biography/astronomy editors, it would be really handy to have some specific examples of things we might do to build the case for this event taking place. (And to answer the most obvious question, we're currently discussing how much latitude we'd have to digitise things there and then.) Their archive catalogue is available here: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/archive.html#!asearch - obviously we would have access to the museum and its library as well. Regards, Chris

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Livetweeting the Battle of Arras (1917)
by Chris Keating 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Just a note for the World War I buffs amongst you - there's quite an interesting plan by Oxford University to crowdsource a livetweet of the Battle of Arras. More info here: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/?p=253 I'm planning to take part and other Wikimedians would be very welcome. You might notice that the organisers have taken a licensing approach of putting the eventual resource they are creating from this initiative under CC-BY-NC, but nevertheless encouraging participants to digitise their own materials and put them on Commons. So that's 50% right ;-) Chris

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Fwd: [Internal-l] Fwd: Volunteers Wanted: Funds Dissemination Process Advisory Group
by James Forrester 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Please see the below if of interest to you UK-based Wikimedians. J. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 9 April 2012 20:10 Subject: [Internal-l] Fwd: Volunteers Wanted: Funds Dissemination Process Advisory Group To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cross-posting: Please forward this to other community and chapter lists as appropriate. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:08 PM Subject: Volunteers Wanted: Funds Dissemination Process Advisory Group To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, Following up on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board resolution on Funds Dissemination[1], we are launching work on the design of the Funds Dissemination Committee[2] To help in the design and implementation work ahead, we are creating an Advisory Group which will begin work very soon. Information on the nomination process for the formation of the Advisory Group is available on meta [3] and we would encourage interested candidates who meet the criteria to consider applying. Please also pass this information on to people in the wider community. [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Funds_Dissemination_Committee [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_G… Best, Barry -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Internal-l mailing list Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l -- James D. Forrester jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]

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Train the Trainers: call for trainers to be trained
by Martin Poulter 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

(Starting a new thread separate from Chris's, to make clear that this is a call to Wikimedia UK volunteers). Hi all, I've put up an explanation about our plans for a trainer-training event: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Train_the_Trainers_event If you deliver training for Wikimedia UK, or are interested in doing so in future, please read the above page *and sign up* for the forthcoming weekend event. We haven't a specific date set yet: we'll have a date and programme by the end of this month, so it would be good to have a list of attendees by then as well. If you're already an experienced trainer, please don't ignore this: we need your expertise, and this is a way to get your skills officially recognised. Thanks, -- Dr Martin L Poulter Board member/ Trustee, Wikimedia UK http://uk.wikimedia.org/ Wikipedia contributor http://enwp.org/User:MartinPoulter Musician http://myspace.com/comapilot Person http://infobomb.org/

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