Hi everyone,
Thought I'd drop you a line to let you know that David Gerard, a UK
Wikipedian, is to take part in a webcast debate tomorrow (Wednesday) with
the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. The debate will examine the
relationship between the PR industry and the Wikipedia community and also
touch on the proposed best practice guidelines for PR. These guidelines are
in draft and have been on the WMUK wiki for debate, discussion and editing. Get
involved in the conversation
here<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Draft_best_practice_guidelines_for_PR>
.
The debate will be live from 5pm BST on Wednesday at
http://www.cipr.co.uk/ciprtv/108058/the-wikipedia-debate-will-two-communiti…
and you can submit questions for the panel in advance, either by using the
submission form on the page or on Twitter using the hashtag #CIPRtv
The debate will also be available on demand after the event for those
unable to watch live.
Best wishes,
Stevie
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Stevie Benton
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Wikimedia UK
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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.
Received this morning.
Dear stakeholder,
We're writing to inform you that on Thursday 14 June 2012, the Government
published a summary of the responses it received during its consultation on
Copyright. The Government received 471 responses from interested parties.
The summary document is accessible via the Intellectual Property Office
website, found here:
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/pro-policy/consult/consult-closed/consult-closed-2011…
This document is a summary of what respondents to the Consultation have
said on each of the proposals. It is a purely factual document, and does
not contain any policy decisions or announcements.
Decisions as a result of the consultation will be announced as soon as
possible.
The Government had planned to publish the full set of responses alongside
its summary. However, in the course of reviewing the responses received, it
has become clear that a number of respondents have advanced criticisms of
the activities of others in the sector, and the Government is reviewing the
submissions to establish there is no potentially defamatory material in
anything it may publish. Once these issues are resolved the Government
will publish as many responses as it is able to do without the risk of
legal recourse.
The Government would like to thank you, and all those who took the time to
contribute to the Consultation.
Copyright Consultation Team
Intellectual Property Office
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Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990.
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Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
We will shortly be advertising for our developer post. We will be spreading
the word far and wide, especially within the community, but all suggestions
gratefully received.
So far (outside leads:
Mozilla
Tech hub
Civi-CRM
Google academy
Thanks
Jon
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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.
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One day, I will manage to send an email to the intended recipient, and only the intended recipient!
Until that day comes, I meant to send this to the list!
Harry
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From: HJ Mitchell <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com>
To: Stevie Benton <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, 18 June 2012, 15:25
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] <offlist> Re: Recruiting for the Developer
Oh bollocks.
I stand by the point, that we should look at hiring some sort of community liaison, I just should said it with more tact (or more carefully checked exactly where I was sending it).
I'm going to step away from the keyboard before I succeed in making myself look even more of an imbecile! ;)
Harry
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From: Stevie Benton <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
To: HJ Mitchell <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com>
Sent: Monday, 18 June 2012, 15:20
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] <offlist> Re: Recruiting for the Developer
Hi Harry,
That actually went to the whole list. But a nice email :)
Stevie
On 18 June 2012 15:18, HJ Mitchell <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com> wrote:
Just wanted to say your comment about needing a community liaison was spot on. It's something I've been thinking about for a while, but I don't want to plug it too hard because I'd give serious thought to applying if it ever came up!
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>Harry
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>To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Sent: Monday, 18 June 2012, 14:49
>Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Recruiting for the Developer
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>Looking at the job description I have some concerns that it has been written without the input of someone experienced in hiring individuals for technical or pseudo-technical roles - especially in the current economic climate.
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>You seem to be looking for someone extremely versatile, experienced and independent... on a very entry level salary packet.
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>I was under the impression, from previous discussions, that the developer position was to be contractor-style - or at least remote working in the region ~10 hours a week.
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>As a developer, from the description page, I see the following roles:
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>Four very distinct roles.
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>To pick on one specific issue; expecting this person to work on Mediwiki core, or an extension, is going to be problematic. That's a whole position on its own and you are going to find that ongoing "other work" will make project work of that sort untenable.
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>(speaking as someone who is in much this position at the moment; my project work is on hold pretty much all the time whilst clearing up management issues).
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>I worry that there is not a lot of work described in this job; or at least the responsibilities are bitty and ill-defined. You're risking having someone who will sit for long portions of the day drumming their fingers on the desk. (speaking as someone who was hired to do this once, and quit after 3 months due to boredom). It would be good to define (internally, on the WMUK wiki) the roles this developer will have to fulfill and, from a technical perspective, what we'd like to achieve in, say, the next year.
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>The salary is most concerning though; you're looking for experience and versatility - two major technical skills (sysadmin and developer) plus management experience/skill - at a basic entry level rate. I think you will struggle to find competent applicants.
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>I'd fit, fairly well, this job description (and I think am pretty good at it) - and any London based job under £35K would struggle to tempt me. Under £30K is not even worth considering. (n.b. I'm not saying this because I'd plan to apply if you raised the salary :)). You;fe
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>What I recommend is hiring a more general community liaison (we need this anyway IMO), with experience in technical projects. They can do most of the PM style work. Then contract out specific projects (yes, including MW extension writing) as and when needed. Keep a contractor on retainer for sysadmin and internal dev work (~10 hours a week etc.).
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>Particularly as you have numerous skilled dev/sysadmin contractors within the community who will likely offer discounted rates. Building on the WMF model; with a competent project manager most of the dev/sysadmin work could be community driven. I've already offered to pitch in, but there is no public project to achieve this that I know of.
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>If we have a budget of £30K to go into development this is not enough to hire a full time developer/sysadmin/manager. It's enough to contract the work and to begin to build a volunteer centric development department.
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>Mike wrote an excellent starter to this here: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_Developer_budget The current job description seems to be the opposite of many of those (good) proposals (although I know Mike also wrote the job description). If we take the list of upcoming requirements from that page there are even bigger images; it talks about a robust backup strategy - which is quite a specific set of experience. Even worse is the security review stuff - no dev/sysadmin you hire for £25K will be capable of a robust security review.
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>As always; just my 2p :)
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>Tom
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>(sorry to be over-critical, but I am in a rush today so this is first draft sent :))
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>On 18 June 2012 13:41, Jon Davies <jon.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
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>We will shortly be advertising for our developer post. We will be spreading the word far and wide, especially within the community, but all suggestions gratefully received.
>>So far (outside leads:
>>Mozilla
>>Tech hub
>>Civi-CRM
>>Google academy
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>>Thanks
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>>Jon
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>>tweet @jonatreesdavies
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>>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.
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>>Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
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Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.
I have been asked to be project leader for Wikimedia UK's distance
learning project. Early days.
Let me try to clarify what all this is about. It is a subproject of
the training effort, which already has the actual training and
outreach calendar events, and the Training for Trainers (TfT) strand.
It is another piece in the jigsaw. The desired outcome is an online
community with a virtual learning environment (VLE) that is hosting
and developing teaching modules that will effectively teach Wikimedia
topics (in English, as of the moment).
So far the distance learning project (VLE project for short) has three
subprojects I want to announce:
(1) Content (i.e. topic policy and content scavenger hunt)
To start with there will be a defined scope, divided into two unequal
sections: Core and Outreach. For example at the first TfT workshop
last weekend there were four presentations: on talk page etiquette,
dispute resolution, GLAM and Wikipedia in Education. Of these the
first two are Core and the second two Outreach. The main thrust of the
project will be to get to the point where anyone can learn all the
Core topics in decent teaching modules that are designed to common
educational principles and standards. But Outreach is not going to be
off-topic.
This is an area where anyone can help right now. All content will be
CC-by-SA. Initially existing CC-by-SA text can be used to seed
modules. E.g. the whole Help: namespace on enWP: I'm talking to Peter
Coombe (User:The wub) about this, who is on a WMF fellowship working
over that material.
What I really need help with is with (a) FAQ-like material (what
people tend to ask us about) and its subset (b) standard OTRS queries.
There are lists of OTRS standard answers, I know. Please write to me
offlist with suggestions: "how to start an article" and "how to reuse
material" are typical. This is pretty basic to make sure the VLE
teaches what people want to learn.
(2) Moodle. Free-source course management system. When there is
something to discuss, moodle.org would be the place. If you have
Moodle expertise and would like to be involved, please let me know
offlist.
(3) Community. The acronym MBWL (i.e. Moodle-based but wiki-like). and
hashtag #wikimodule now exist: that was the easy part.
You will be glad to know that there are some policies too. There will
be "modules" and "good modules" and "featured modules". MBWL:GOOD says
that only good modules go public, and that pure lesson plans, or pure
distance learning modules without IRL notes, don't qualify as good. It
also says the procedure of grading an article good and so publishing
it will be under the control of the whole account-holding community,
and will be a box-ticking exercise. MBWL:FM states that grading a
module featured will be a threaded review process under the control of
the account holders who are also accredited via WMUK and TfT (this is
where things start to interlock). The rationale for this policy states
that the VFL regards debates on how people learn as off-topic there.
They are on-topic in other places, such as a page on uk.wikimedia.org
where anyone can debate the quality definition on the talk page, but
which is edited by trainers who have done the TfT course and so are at
least starting from common ground.
There is an existing education email list that may prove helpful for
detailed thrashing-out.
I shall be available at the WWI Editathon on Saturday if anyone wants
to chat about all this, or let me near a whiteboard.
Charles
On 14/06/2012 13:00, wikimediauk-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> Re: Distance learning project
I agree this has been a good discussion, & I hear excellent reports
about the event. But at the same time I notice there were only 10 (?)
attendees, which I think highlights what is actually our main constraint
at the moment, and probably for some time ahead - a shortage of active
members. All the more reason to prioritize training! In some cases
this was due to the clash with the London meetup, where there was at
least one person who would otherwise have gone & 2 for whom this was a
factor. The date was only given a short time ahead also.
I agree that accreditation is something we should not worry about for
the moment at least, until we have had some practice. But in the future
we may well find ourselves in situations where other bodies want to give
some form of credit/CPE points etc for our sessions in partnership with
them.
John Byrne/Johnbod
Hi all,
As many of you know, as part of my work at the British Library I'll be
organizing a series of training workshops on behalf of AHRC for
postgraduates and academics, at various institutions around the
country. These are mostly half-day sessions, giving training to
specialists who are interested in contributing to Wikipedia or other
Wikimedia projects, or learning more about engaging and collaborating
with the Wikimedia community - I'm modelling them on the past sessions
run by WMUK with, eg, the Institute of Physics.
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Physics_Workshop
If they involve more than a small number of people, I'm quite keen to
have someone else around, since it helps a lot if there's two or three
people available to answer questions, demonstrate things, etc. If
you'd be interested in coming along to one of these sessions and
helping show people the ropes, please let me know and I'll keep you
informed of future dates & locations - I can cover reasonable travel
expenses where needed...
Alternatively, if you have contacts who you think might be interested
in hosting one at their institution, I'd be really interested to hear
about it - part of the trick with setting these up is finding the
right person to approach!
Thanks all,
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
At last, the company (a registered charity) is now called "Wikimedia
UK". The name was changed from "Wiki UK Ltd". A former version of the
project was called "Wiki Educational Resources Ltd" which is a rather
apt name given the current interest in training. This company was
dissolved in 2009. It does not appear to have ever submitted any accounts.
Company No. 05708269
Status: Dissolved 31/03/2009
Date of Incorporation: 14/02/2006
Why choose the name "wikimedia" when the public are in general much more
familiar with the term "wikipedia"? Are we guilty of being to close the
issue and not seeing the wider picture (but that was was given as the
reason for the formal name change at the AGM???)? Is there now time to
reflect?
I know something of the trademark issues, and I know something about the
relationship to the Foundation.
Compare and contrast:-
1) Wikipedia
2) Wikimedia
3) Mediawiki
Gordo
Who has interest in 3D modelling? Fae?
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From: "Leif Isaksen" <leifuss(a)googlemail.com>
Date: Jun 11, 2012 4:13 PM
Subject: [Antiquist] Fwd: Cultural Heritage seminar on Tuesday 31st July -
save the date
To: "Antiquist" <antiquist(a)googlegroups.com>
Likely to be of interest to many antiquistas
Best
L.
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From: Grant Cameron <Grant.Cameron(a)cdg.uk.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:41 PM
Subject: Cultural Heritage seminar on Tuesday 31st July - save the date
To: Leif Isaksen <leifuss(a)googlemail.com>
Dear Leif
As part of the 3D-CoForm exhibition at the University of Brighton, CDG
in-conjunction with the V&A Museum are hosting a seminar to promote
the use of 3D technologies for Cultural Heritage applications.
Seminar title: "3D Scanning & 3D Printing Technologies for Cultural
Heritage"
Date: Tuesday 31st July
Time: 10am-4pm
Location: University of Brighton
Presentations: by CDG
Case Study: by James Stevenson, V&A Museum
For more about the 3D-Coform project please see...
http://www.3d-coform.eu/
Please drop me a note if you would like to attend or would like further
details.
Best regards
Grant Cameron
CDG
Concurrent Design Group
Tel. 01420 88645
www.cdg.uk.com
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