Wikimediauk-l August 2012

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Event at the British Library, 10 September
by Andrew Gray 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

Hi all, This is to let you know about a couple of events at the British Library; on the 10th of September, we'll be hosting a workshop and exhibition tour. As with the original editathon back in January 2011, it should provide a good opportunity to meet curators, talk about possible collaborations, etc. If all goes to plan, we'll also have a group of newly released digital collections to work on, ready for sorting and uploading - details TBC. My work as Wikipedian in Residence has been heavily built around the training program in the last couple of months, and I'm hoping to be able to put more emphasis into content work from now on. If there's things you'd like me to try and work on later in the residency, or if you just want to chat about what's been done so far, please come along! In the evening, there is a tour arranged of the Writing Britain exhibition - this will start at 6.30 and be led by two of the curators organising the exhibition. Hopefully, it should be suitable for anyone working during the day and not able to make the afternoon session. I know it's a little unusual to hold an event on a weekday rather than a weekend, but this was the only day we could bring everything together! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/September_2012 Later in the week, in the morning of Thursday 13th, John Byrne has arranged a tour of the British Museum's ''Writing Shakespeare'' exhibition - signup details below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/2012 Please let me know if you've any questions, and hope to see you there! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

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Mozilla teams up with Wikimedia UK for an Editathon - 18 August, London
by Daria Cybulska 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

Dear All, Mozilla UK has been supportive to Wikimedia UK and since they opened their Mozilla Spaces venue, they were keen that we use it needed for events. What we realised is that some of the articles relating to Mozilla, Firefox etc. in Wikipedia are not quite of the high standard they could be. And so we thought it would be a neighbourly thing to do to have a "*Mozilla-related Editahton*" - the aim would be to turn a list of about 15 Mozilla-related articles into content perhaps worthy of being a Good Article. The sprint will be on Saturday *18 August, starting at 12PM at the Mozilla offices (London WC2N 4AZ)*. Lunch and snacks will be provided, as will Mozilla people who can be consulted regarding good sources for information. Do come along and help our our free culture colleagues :-) For more info and to sign up please visit http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Editathon You can also email me with 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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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Status of this list and its archives
by Andrew Turvey 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Andrew Turvey" <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com> Date: 16 Aug 2012 13:56 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Status of this list and its archives To: "HJ Mitchell" <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com> Likewise I think this is a good decision. A truly public mailing list is a valuable thing in many ways, just like a wiki history tab. For instance it will let people years in the future understand the background to decisions made by the chapter today, even after the people have moved on and forgotten. We already have cases on 'linkrot' where chapter minutes or other wikipages are linking to mailing list archives that no longer work. This decision will make that less likely in the future. Andrew Turvey > > On 15 Aug 2012 22:53, "HJ Mitchell" <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com> wrote: > > It is disingenuous to suggest that, in posting to a *public* mailing list, the risk that your post... > ________________________________ > From: Fae <faenwp(a)gmail.com> > To: James Forrester <jdforrester... > > > Thanks James. In light of this I'll unsubscribe from this list until such a time as the risks for n... > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediauk-l@w...

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Welcome page for newbies
by Stevie Benton 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

Hello everyone, I hope you're enjoying your Thursday. Katherine and I were speaking today about how it may be useful to have a page on the UK wiki for people new to Wikimedia UK, either as interested parties, donors, members or just casual browsers. To this end, I've created a page for us to discuss what would be useful and to knock around some ideas. It's here - http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Draft_/_Welcome_page Once there's some stuff up there, I'll put things together in a more coherent form and we can come up with the page. Do let me know if you have any questions, and thanks in advance for any help! Stevie -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton 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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Gender gap article in the Indie
by Charles Matthews 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/what-has-…

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HMRC releases 'free pictures'
by Richard Symonds 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

HMRC has released a list, at http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmrcgovuk, of the top 20 or so people who are wanted for (but possibly not guilty of) tax evasion. In total, they owe around £700m. The interesting thing is that all the photos that they have released are CC-BY-2.0! Looks like the various parts of the government are slowly becoming more open - even the taxman! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

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Status of this list and its archives
by James Forrester 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

All, Over the past few months a number of individuals have asked for some, many, or all e-mails they have written to be removed from the archives. In general, our answer has been a holding 'no', but the mailing list's archives were nevertheless temporarily hidden from view. This was unsatisfactory in a number of ways, and we regret our failure to communicate to the list what was happening. On behalf of all of the UK Wikimedia mailing list's administrators, I would like to apologise, and explain. As a public mailing list, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy on WikimediaUK-l or any other public Wikimedia-hosted list. Anyone who thinks otherwise is misleading themselves and those to whom they communicate these views. As has been noted before, the act of deletion is very much "blowing up the stable after the horse has bolted": deleting e-mails from the WMF-hosted archives will at best flag them to certain individuals as containing information that is worth ferreting out from the many other archives that are not under our control in any way. Indeed, deleting e-mails is problematic in a number of ways: * it hides the institutional knowledge that the mailing list's archives contain; * it gives an utterly false sense of security to people concerned about their privacy; * it turns an open forum into one where users are unsure about what to expect in terms of repeatability; and * it is difficult and resource-expensive to achieve, and risks breaking the mailing list server for all of the hundreds of WMF-hosted lists. We will not agree to keeping the lists pseudo-private, or to the mass-deletion of content. We understand that this may concern some users, but we cannot wave a magic wand and fix what is broken. If some users find that this means that they are unable or unwilling to continue to contribute to this list, we are saddened, but would note that similar (and often far stronger) privacy issues are involved in other forms of online engagement, such as visiting most commercial websites, using instant messaging or editing Wikipedia. The sign-up page for this mailing list[0] is not as clear as it could be as to the general nature of a mailing list, hailing as it does from the days when this was expected prior knowledge of anyone stumbling over the page. We will adjust it to be more explicit about the instant public dissemination and (in practical terms) irrevocable, distributed, permanent public archiving of all messages sent to a public list; this e-mail is also part of that user education work. For the WikimediaUK-l volunteer mailing list admins, James F. [0] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l -- James D. Forrester jdforrester(a)gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity)

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Upcoming training workshops - London
by Andrew Gray 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

Hi all, I posted a month or two ago asking for volunteers to help with some training workshops I was running at Birkbeck. Thanks again to the four who replied - the day went well and we got really positive feedback from the attendees. I've three more arranged in London, and one in Oxford: * 3rd September (British Library) * 24th September (British Library) * 8th October (University of Oxford) * 12th October (British Library) The three BL events are a mixture of those being advertised to AHRC researchers and postgraduates (see <http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/Wikipedia-courses-for-AH…>), with another intended for readers (ie users) at the British Library. The Oxford event is run by the university for its own postgraduates. They'll all be afternoon sessions running for three or four hours; a general introduction to Wikipedia and Q&A session, followed by a short practical session with the sandbox, a coffee break, and then time to do some "live" editing with experienced users around to lend a hand. If you'd be interested in helping train people at one or more of these sessions, please get in touch! They're fairly informal events, really quite enjoyable, and the more Wikipedians we have the better... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

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I'm giving talk in Hamburg, Thursday 23rd August
by Andy Mabbett 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

Do pop along if you're nearby: http://kultwerkwest.de/content/volunteering-wikimedia-why-work-free-evening… -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Admin help needed to whitelist URL on en.WP
by Andy Mabbett 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

I'd like to be able to link to: http://maketheshift.uservoice.com/forums/168487-ideas-submission/suggestion… from project and talk pages on en.WP, but the site is blacklisted, I know there's a whitelist-request page, but my experience is that that can take many months, and the event is next month. Can an admin assist in expediting the whitelisting, please? Oh and anyone who wants to can sign up and express support *hint*. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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