Dear all,
I am pleased to announce that Wikimedia UK has reached an agreement with
Roger Bamkin and Terence Eden regarding the ownership of QRpedia.
The intellectual property in QRpedia and the qrpedia.org and
qrwp.orgdomains will be transferred to Wikimedia UK, which will
maintain and
support the development of the QRpedia platform for the future. Roger and
Terence will act as honorary advisors to Wikimedia UK in this, as well as
retaining their moral rights of attribution, but will not receive any
financial consideration for this.
I am very pleased we have reached an agreement. I look forward to Wikimedia
UK working to support QRpedia's future development. This includes defining
our future involvement with the MonmouthpediA and GibraltarpediA projects.
A fuller statement will follow.
Regards,
Chris Keating
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Chris Keating
Chair, Wikimedia UK
@chriskeating
chris.keating(a)wikimedia.org.uk
Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Charitable Company
registered in England and Wales. Registered Company No. 6741827. Registered
Charity No.1144513.
Registered Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street,
London EC2A 4LT
Dear all,
I'd like to draw to your attention this joint statement with the Foundation
which I have just, with the authority of the Board, posted on our blog
regarding the management of conflicts of interests and this year's
fundraiser.
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/09/joint-statement-from-wikimedia-foundat…
Regards,
Chris Keating
Chair, Wikimedia UK
My role as as Wikipedian in Residence at Staffordshire Archives and
Heritage Service comes to an end next week (though I shall continue an
informal relationship with them as a volunteer). As that ends, I shall
become part time Wikipedian In Residence at Queen Street Textile Mill
Museum, Burnley <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Street_Mill> for a
few weeks.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
People on this list may be interested in this event so hope there's no
objection to my cross-posting.
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Date: Feb 28, 2013 12:09 PM
Subject: Introducing ORGCon North!
To: <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com>
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Dear Andrew Turvey,
*You are invited to **ORGCon North 2013, *our new digital rights conference!
[image: ORG Con North logo]
ORGCon North 2013 <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/2013/org-con-north>
*Headline speaker: **John Buckman *
Saturday 13 April
11.00am – 5.30pm
Friends Meeting House 6 Mount Street Manchester M2 5NS
Tickets: £11.00; Paying supporters: £6.00
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*What’s happening?*
ORG are coming North this year!
<http://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/2013/org-con-north>We are bringing
an ORG flavoured digital rights conference to Manchester on Saturday April
13th.
The event is packed with exciting speakers, panel debates and workshops.
John Buckman, chairman of the board at Electronic Frontier Foundation and
founder of the record label Magantune is giving the keynote speech on
challenges that ORG will be facing in the coming year.
Key ORG issues, such as Section 127 and freedom of speech, the
Communications Data Bill, privacy and copyright will all be discussed by
experts, see our provisional programme for more details.
<http://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/2013/org-con-north>
We'll be running an “unconference track” with room for any attendees, panel
guests or ORG staff to give a talk or start a pop-up debate on something
you care about.
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Hello everyone,
Wikimedia UK is looking for people to join our Board of Trustees. We've
published a blog post today with more details of how to get involved.
Do take a look here for the details <http://bit.ly/WhCdNb> and get in touch
with Richard Nevell, our Office Support Assistant, for more information on
020 7065 0990 or drop him a line at richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk
We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
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Stevie Benton
Communications Organiser
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
@StevieBenton
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and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513.
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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.*
Hi!
Great that you have such a tool in the UK! If anyone would like to organise the Wiki Loves Public Art photo contest in the UK next year, perhaps it would be possible to ask for datasets regarding artworks placed in the public space?
I just wanted to put it out there! :)
Cheers,
John
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> Just wanted to draw attention of UK Wikimedians and free culture types to data.gov.uk's Request a dataset page.
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> http://data.gov.uk/node/add/data-request
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> If there is some government data (public data, not the NHS records of your favourite celebrities, obviously) that you think should be released and can make a plausible case for how it could help improve free culture projects, you can request it at the above page.
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> I've just put in a request for GIS data from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), which could be imported into OpenStreetMap, and used to create historic maps for Wikipedia and Commons.
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> Government policy regarding open data seems to be currently that they want to release as much as possible, but they are putting a priority on releasing stuff that is of economic and social value. Economic value in this case might mean something like making smartphone apps available that visualize government data in useful ways (the economic value coming from people being prepared to pay for the apps, or their being more likely to buy things or use services based on the information displayed in those apps). But the social value is important too: we as individual Wikimedians can give government examples of positive use cases for this kind of data.
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> (It'd also be nice if governments could start seeing us crazy Creative Commons free culture people less as radical anarchistic nutjobs telling the government that they are wrong about everything and show that we actually want to preserve our shared historical and cultural materials and data...)
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Just wanted to draw attention of UK Wikimedians and free culture types to data.gov.uk's Request a dataset page.
http://data.gov.uk/node/add/data-request
If there is some government data (public data, not the NHS records of your favourite celebrities, obviously) that you think should be released and can make a plausible case for how it could help improve free culture projects, you can request it at the above page.
I've just put in a request for GIS data from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), which could be imported into OpenStreetMap, and used to create historic maps for Wikipedia and Commons.
Government policy regarding open data seems to be currently that they want to release as much as possible, but they are putting a priority on releasing stuff that is of economic and social value. Economic value in this case might mean something like making smartphone apps available that visualize government data in useful ways (the economic value coming from people being prepared to pay for the apps, or their being more likely to buy things or use services based on the information displayed in those apps). But the social value is important too: we as individual Wikimedians can give government examples of positive use cases for this kind of data.
(It'd also be nice if governments could start seeing us crazy Creative Commons free culture people less as radical anarchistic nutjobs telling the government that they are wrong about everything and show that we actually want to preserve our shared historical and cultural materials and data...)
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Hello everyone,
I'm happy to let you know that Greyham Dawes has been co-opted to the
Wikimedia UK Board of Trustees. Greyham has also been appointed Treasurer.
You can find full details, and some information about Greyham, on our blog
here<http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/02/greyham-dawes-joins-the-wikimedia-uk-b…>
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Thanks and regards,
Stevie
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Stevie Benton
Communications Organiser
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
@StevieBenton
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. 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.*
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia UK has some travel grants to offer for Amsterdam Hackathon 2013.
Full details can be seen on our blog - http://bit.ly/WPTV7p
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
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Stevie Benton
Communications Organiser
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
@StevieBenton
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. 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.*
Hello everyone,
This is a gentle reminder that the Wikimedia UK office will be hosting an
IRC Office Hours chat tomorrow from 1730 GMT. Everyone is welcome. Some of
the staff (and hopefully Trustees) of Wikimedia UK will be on hand to
answer any questions you might have about recent activity.
For full details, and information on how to join the chat, please visit
this page on our wiki <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours>.
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
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Stevie Benton
Communications Organiser
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
@StevieBenton
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. 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.*