Hi, for those who don't know, the Geograph is a photography contest and
site that operates across the UK and Ireland and has a compatible license
to ours. So close to 1.8 million of their images have been imported into
Commons and are a major part of the reason why Commons has such good
coverage of English churches, fields and minor roads. But we stopped mass
importing their images some time ago due to the difficulty of categorising
them, and there are now a million un copied images including all or almost
all their hi-definition ones.
The Geograph has just become a registered charity much like us. So I
thought I'd check out what their attitude was to our copying and using
their images.
It turns out that they aren't aware that the migration has stalled, as
their site still claims that all their images get migrated to Commons
http://www.geograph.org.uk/faq3.php?q=wikipedia
I think there is a big opportunity for the chapter here, perhaps we could
approach them and suggest changing their upload software to dual use? So
Geograph users have the option of posting their images directly on Commons
provided they add categories.
I suspect there would be some software implications, but if so it might be
a useful use of a UK grant.
WereSpielChequers
Don't know if anyone has mentioned this on this list yet:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Train_the_Trainers_Tender
"Wikimedia UK is seeking individuals or organisations that can deliver a
'Training the Trainers' programme.
The aim will be to train active Wikipedians and educators to deliver
consistent and high quality training to a range of audiences throughout the
UK. These audiences will include volunteers hoping to edit for the first
time or curators at museums seeking to refine their technique (or visa
versa!)."
If you know anyone who can help, please do pass the message on.
This is one of Martin's projects, and I'd like to say a big thank you to
him for taking this from an aspiration to something we're actually going to
do. :-)
Regards,
Chris
On the UK Web Focus blog, written by Simon Bains from John Rylands Library in Manchester, including talking about the 'Wikilounge' that Fiona ran at the library, and the plans for a future pilot project that we're currently talking about:
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/guest-post-librarians-meet-wikip…
Thanks,
Mike
Probably impossible but can anyone take this table and convert it back
into something editable - open office by preference.
:(
http://uk.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:FiveYearPlanFirstdraft.odt-2…
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Roger, Fae and I attended the Chapters conference over the last three
days and between us covered most of the sessions and, I hope, offered
a supportive and positive impression of the UK chapter.
There were lots of debates with the fundraising issues to the
forefront. With luck we can all move on. Mostly people were meeting to
discus and share ways of making our community stronger and more
effective and the chance to meet everyone was fantastic.
The UK delegation acted as presenters, rapporteurs and enthusiasts.
Everything is being put up bit by bit and the discussions around what
the Chapters Association/Council will do were really imaginative.
Am happy to answer any specific questions.
And one important thing to say - well done Wikimedia Deutschland who
did all the organisation and did it well.
Jon
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Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited.
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and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513
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London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom.
Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990.
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non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor
responsibility for its contents.
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Those of you not on Foundation-l might be interested to see this post from
Ting, the chair of the Foundation board, which has some important
implications for the development of Wikimedia UK in future.
Regards,
Chris
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Date: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:42 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012
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Dear members of the community,
After having discussed the final aspects of this today I would like to
announce the following three resolutions
1) Board of Trustees Voting Transparency: http://wikimediafoundation.**
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2) Funds Dissemination Committee: http://wikimediafoundation.**
org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_**Committee<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee>
For those of you who are currently in Berlin, we will have a 2 hour window
tomorrow to discuss this together, we invite you to send questions for this
session to Harel Cain (<harel.cain(a)gmail.com <mailto:harel.cain@gmail.com>>*
*) He will be moderating tomorrow's session which will be similar to the
Q&A session we had in Paris.
We are currently working on a Question and Answer document which we will
publish as soon as possible.
Although the decision has now been made, we have a large number of
challenges ahead of us and I hope that we as a movement will come together
to make the Funds Dissemination Committee a success by working with us to
come up with answers tot the questions that we still have and helping to
make it work!
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"WMUK may not take on a task that volunteer could do". or "WMUK may not
take on a task that volunteer is willing and able to do as a volunteer?"
Hopefully the tasks being done by our staff are ones that volunteers could
do, but nobody is volunteering to bank cheques and so forth.
This may seem like a subtle difference, but you wouldn't want a
professional staff that preferred to employ people to do things that they
didn't think the mere volunteers were capable of. Not that I'm accusing
anyone in WMUK of falling into that trap.
WSC
On 1 April 2012 11:50, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> On 01/04/2012 02:20, Anthony (AGK) wrote:
>
>> Should WMUK not be involved in developing a Wikimania bid? (I don't
>> follow WM governance very closely, and may misunderstand that aspect
>> of the Chapter's purpose.)
>>
>> Job demarcation. WMUK may not take on a task that volunteer could do.
>
>
> Gordo
>
> --
>
> Gordon Joly
> gordon.joly(a)pobox.com
> http://www.joly.org.uk/
> Don't Leave Space To The Professionals!
>
>
Howdy y'all,
Would anyone be interested in helping out with our bid to hold Wikimania in
London in 2013?
We've got a couple of weeks to refine the bid page, and there's lots of
little areas that need attention... a fuller description of the venue, more
accommodation options, more information on travel in London, a section on
GLAM in London, things like that, and I'd be very grateful for any time you
might be able to put towards it. We have all the main things in place for
the conference, just a question of writing it all up now!
Here's the bid as it stands:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids/London
Here's some suggestions for things to do here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2013_bids/London
Or another good way is to look at how things have been written up in the
competing bids, e.g.:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids/Hong_Kong
If you're interested, feel free to dive straight in or email
me<edsaperia(a)gmail.com>if you'd like to discuss the bid. I should also
be in #wikimania2013
tonight and tomorrow.
Ed