Wikimediauk-l June 2012

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Fwd: [OSGeo-UK] FOSS4G is coming to Nottingham!
by Gordon Joly 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

FYI, No website for 2013 as yet, but see... http://2012.foss4g.org/ http://foss4g.org/ Context: 1) Open Source, Open Knowledge, Open Data. 2) A major international conference comes to the UK. Gordo -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [OSGeo-UK] FOSS4G is coming to Nottingham! Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:32:58 +0100 From: Jo Cook <jocook(a)astuntechnology.com> To: uk(a)lists.osgeo.org uk(a)lists.osgeo.org <uk(a)lists.osgeo.org> Dear All, As you may have heard, FOSS4G will be coming to Nottingham in 2013! Our heartfelt thanks to anyone who helped with the bidding process, particularly those people that wrote a letter of support for the bid. Keep listening for further announcements and news as organisation progresses! Thanks again Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> ***************************************** Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149.

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Developer post
by Jon Davies 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

I am pleased to announce that we are recruiting for a Developer. Details are available on the UK wiki. http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_job_description#About_Wikimedia_UK Please email me for an application form. Jon Davies P.S. Please feel free to share this with sympathetic organisations and friends! -- *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. 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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Draft Communications Bill
by Tom Morris 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Does Wikimedia UK have any intention of participating in the discussions around the Draft Communications Bill? The bill, if passed, would make it such that the Secretary of State may make an order to "ensure that communications data is available to be obtained from telecommunications providers by relevant public authorities" (§1 (1)(a)). The bill sets out a system for how such a system would operate, which we'll get to in a second, but let's just see whether or not Wikipedia, Wikimedia or anyone related to our projects/movement/etc. is affected. Telecommunications providers are, according to §28 of the draft bill, those who operate a "telecommunications system", which they define as "a system (including the apparatus comprised in it) that exists (whether wholly or partly in the United Kingdom or elsewhere)"—so, that means anywhere since it either wholly or partly exists either in the United Kingdom or it doesn't–"for the purpose of facilitating the transmission of communications by any means involving the use of electrical or electro-magnetic energy". Unless we plan to request the Foundation switch over to servers that run on clockwork and carrier pigeons rather than electricity (if we did, they'd probably still count as a 'postal system' and still be regulated by the act), I think we're pretty much covered. Does Wikimedia UK operate a telecommunications system in this manner? I'm not sure. It might do. I'm not a lawyer. What would happen if the Secretary of State were to send a letter to Wikimedia UK demanding that WMUK, as a provider of a telecommunications system, install a device in the office of the Secretary of State's choosing? Richard has higher permissions on English Wikipedia, meaning that the Secretary of State could have access to CheckUser data, which would most probably count as "traffic data" under the terms of the draft bill: that is, data which "identifies, or purports to identify, any person, apparatus or location to or from which the communications is or may be transmitted". How about if someone who operates a number of, uh, "telecommunications services" - i.e. scripts running on Toolserver - were served with a similar notice and asked to install a backdoor to Toolserver which the Secretary of State were to use to gain access to material on the Toolserver? (Okay, there's nothing *that* juicy on there.) Same for OTRS, same for the third-party services which Brian McNeil operates for the Wikinews community (wikinewsie.org), same for any Wikimedian with a computer (hey, it's an electrical/electro-magnetic device that facilitates communication: that can mean anything from a telephone exchange to an individual smartphone or a stereo speaker). This seems like an extremely broad and non-specific bill: do we have any idea how it might affect Wikimedia and Wikimedians? -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/>

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Process for WMUK's 2013 annual plan?
by Thomas Dalton 01 Jul '12

01 Jul '12

Is there a plan in place for how WMUK is going to put together its 2013 annual plan? We need to start work on it very soon. I see on the agenda for this weekend's meeting that there is an item for discussing the five year plan (I'm glad that hasn't completely stalled), but given the delays with it I don't see that being finalised in time to base the 2013 plan on it. There is also an item for "Draft budget against fundraising target and meeting the 5 year plan." but I'm not sure what that means. I think the natural place to start putting together an annual plan, especially in the absence of a long-term plan to base it on, is with a public call for ideas. If Sue's recommended timeline for the FDC [1] gets adopted (and I expect it will), then WMUK will need to submit its plan on 1 October. That's only 3 months away, so I suggest that call for ideas go out ASAP. 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Master_timeline

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29 Jun '12

You may have seen a buzz on social media in the last couple of days, about a new website, 'Britain from the Air': http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/ which features <http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/about-project>: images from the Aerofilms collection... Dating from 1919 to 2006... purchased by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, English Heritage and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales... in 2007. The site-wide copyright statement, on <http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/legalities>, is somewhat ambiguous: The images, information and data featured on this website are subject to Crown Copyright and other Intellectual Property Rights held by the Partners and Individual Contributors as indicated. There are also copyrights relating to the database itself and to the design, structure and code employed in the website. Has anyone found an image on the site with a copyright notice excepting it from the default Crown Copyright? Presumably, the use of Crown Copyright means that we're at liberty to use images that are over 50 years old, like this 1928 shot of Birmingham: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw022585?search=birmingham&ref=10 on Commons and Wikipedia? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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University of Hertfordshire Wikipedia workshop 14 August 2012
by Daria Cybulska 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

Dear all, University of Hertfordshire (Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB) has contacted Wikimedia UK with a request to have a Wikipedia training run for them on Tuesday 14 August, 10am-4pm. There is a group of staff at the University that would like to be introduced into the ways of editing Wikipedia. This will hopefully in the future lead to a further partnership between the University and Wikimedia UK. I have created a simple page with the details: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/University_of_Hertfordshire_Wikipedia_workshop If you would like to run/help run this session, please do sign up on the page or let me know. You can also get in touch if you have any questions. Many thanks Daria -- Daria Cybulska - Events Organiser, Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0994 +44 7803 505 170 -- Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. 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).

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CIPR story in the Indie
by Charles Matthews 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/pr-firms-urged-not-to-edit-… Charles

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Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] Storytelling and Wikimania
by Stevie Benton 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

Hello everyone, Apologies for the cross-posting but thought this might be of interest to anyone attending Wikimania. Please do have a look. Thanks, Stevie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matthew Roth <mroth(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 28 June 2012 00:16 Subject: [Wmfcc-l] Storytelling and Wikimania To: Communications Committee <wmfcc-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, I wanted to point you to a new profile on the Wikimedia Foundation blog, this time with Storyteller Victor Grigas. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/27/the-value-of-telling-wikimedia-stories/ I hope you'll like the background info on Victor, but more importantly I hope you will share with your networks that Victor is trying to interview a bunch of Wikimedians at Wikimania in a couple weeks as part of the Storyteller documentation. Some of the interviews eventually go on to the fundraising banners, but many more stories prove to be important records of the people who make Wikipedia and sister projects possible. We've done several profiles on the WMF blog, for instance, and we plan to continue featuring more. You can reach out to Victor through his user page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas Thanks! Matthew -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* _______________________________________________ Wmfcc-l mailing list Wmfcc-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfcc-l -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 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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50 short videos about Open Education
by Martin Poulter 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Hi all, some of you might be interested in this "Why Open Education matters" video competition. Voting is open to decide which of these 3-minute videos best conveys the advantages of open education. I haven't had a chance to see any yet, so don't know if any explicitly mention Wikimedia. http://whyopenedmatters.org/videos/ -- Dr Martin L Poulter Volunteer, 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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Training semi-meetups in Cambridge?
by Charles Matthews 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

I'm thinking of coffee mornings (Saturdays or Sundays) in Cambridge so people interested in new training stuff can gather painlessly. Don't want calendar events, just face time. I'm in Cambridge, as is Peter Coombe, as is Andrew Gray, and the Wellcome Sanger Group includes Magnus Manske, Darren Logan (Rockpocket) and Alex Bateman. A good start and obviously all would be welcome. Charles

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