Wikimediauk-l September 2013

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Wiki Loves Monuments deadline rapidly approaching
by Harry Burt 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

Hi all, Just a reminder to anyone with photographs of (Grade I / Grade II* / Category A / Grade A / Grade B+) listed buildings hanging around on your hard drives, now is the time to upload them. The easiest way to do this is to find each building's listing on Wikipedia (e.g. [1]), and follow the upload link there. Even if you took the photographs ages ago, they will still qualify for Wiki Loves Monuments, the world's largest photography competition -- assuming you upload them before midnight. Why participate in Wiki Loves Monuments rather than upload them, say, next week? * Your photographs can win prizes * You'll be helping make this year's WLM the largest ever (14,000 more uploads needed!) [2] * You'll help the UK overtake India into 8th place in the country rankings ) 600 uploads needed!) [3] For more general information on WLM, see http://wikilovesmonuments.org/ . All the best, Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grade_B%2B_listed_buildings_in_County… [2] http://www.geobib.fr/mh/stats/ [3] http://wikizabytki.pl/stats/

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Open House 10th of December
by Jon Davies 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

For your diaries: We will be repeating last year's successful (NOT A CHRISTMAS PARTY) Open House for the community and friends at our offices on Tuesday December 10th from 4pm until 8ish Refreshments will be provided but if you can bring a bottle or snack (we still remember Johnbod's smoked salmon last year) and enjoy a chance to chew over the past year and the exciting one to come. Jon -- *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. 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). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

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WMUK Bid for 2014-15
by Jon Davies 28 Sep '13

28 Sep '13

Our application<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2013-2014_round1/WMUK/…>to the FDC (the funding committee of the Wikimedia Foundation) for next year has now been submitted. Thanks to everyone who helped. It is based on the board's agreed budget and contains quite a bit of detail. It is however not carved in stone. We will have a great deal of flexibility within our programmes and we will be asking the community where our emphasis should be as we plan the work for next year. I hope you find it interesting. Have a good weekend and make any comments on the Watercooler. Jon. -- *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. 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). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

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Migration of the UK Wiki on 27th September 2013
by Katherine Bavage 28 Sep '13

28 Sep '13

Dear All, If I could direct your attention to this page on Wikimedia UK's site: https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMUK_wiki_migration It contains the details of the migration, the impact it will have on users of the UK wiki who have user accounts, and how the old wiki will be archived as a read only document. You will also notice a site notice go live for the next two weeks reminding readers to do the following... *The most important things to do in the next two weeks are: * Enable email from other users Download your watch list text before the migration (put in your diary for the day before) *Following the migration you will need to:* Check your email for your new password to a stub account on the migrated site Reimport your watch list data Update your bookmarks in your browser or phone Log any emerging errors on our bugzilla - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org.uk/ The above is only necessary if you currently have a registered user account. If you don't have an account on the UK wiki but follow this list then, why not register?<https://uk.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&re…>Logged in users can interact better with other members of the community around Wikimedia UK business by adding agendas and topic pages to their watch list and staying up to day with chapter business :-) Thanks, *Katherine Bavage * *Fundraising Manager * *Wikimedia UK* +44 20 7065 0752 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.*

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Potential editathon - Breast Cancer Awareness Month
by Stevie Benton 28 Sep '13

28 Sep '13

Hello everyone, I hope you're well. As you may know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I'm currently in discussion with a breast cancer charity about jointly hosting a training and editing session towards the end of October. Please do drop me a line if this is something in which you'd be interested in participating, as a trainer or editor. I'll share more details as they emerge. Thanks and regards, Stevie -- 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.*

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Wikimedia UK monthly report, August 2013
by Stevie Benton 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Hello everyone, This is a reminder that the Wikimedia UK monthly activity report for August 2013 needs to be published soon. If you have any useful content to add to the report, please do so in the next few days. You can find the report at https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2013/August - and it's not too early to add content to September's report if you have anything interesting to report - https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2013/September Thanks and regards, Stevie -- 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.*

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Welsh language Wikipedia update
by Richard Symonds 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

All, Notifications (AKA 'Echo'), will be going live on the Welsh language Wikipedia on 8 October 2013. You can read more about it at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications - it's already live on the English project. Scots, Gàidhlig and other languages are apparently pencilled in for November. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 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.*

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 26th October Python session in London
by Fæ 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Ping Re: https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Python_and_Wikimedia_bots_workshop_Oct_2013 Pinging bot interested folks on this session. We are happy to juggle the date to suit work and school diaries, so please do give feedback on the page if October is no good for you. This session applies to any Wikimedia project, so if you want to create an interesting weekly analysis of Wikipedia articles in multiple languages, fancy creating a super house-keeping bot for the Welsh Wiktionary or want to reliably upload and categorize 100,000 images to Commons without protests from the regulars, these are all good cases to discuss. Python gives you the (free) tools to pull in data from any internet source, so in the field of open knowledge these techniques are not limited to Wikimedia projects (I used the same methods to pull metadata from the Ministry of Defense API and the XenoCanto birdsong API). I know from past pub discussions that Roger always wanted to do some bot scripting, Andy could do with smarter ways of batch processing audio files and that Rich has and endless wealth of experience to share. Chip in on the registration page with your thoughts and suggestions. Thanks, Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm

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Fwd: New display on Higgs boson at the National Museum of Scotland
by brian.mcneil＠wikinewsie.org 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

One for the science geeks...

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Photographer help needed for the Wiki Loves Monuments competition in the UK
by Michael Maggs 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Hi all. I have a couple of requests, directed particularly to the photographers amongst you. 1. Enter photos into the Wiki Loves Monuments competition As some list subscribers may may know, I'm organizing the Wiki Loves Monuments competition in the UK. Although we have received over 8000 UK entries so far, the majority of those have probably been taken by users who are more interested in Wikipedia than in photography, and we are in need of some more high-quality entries from talented photographers. If you have any nice photos of UK listed buildings in your portfolio (for example from a previous UK holiday) please could you look them out and submit some entries? The website is at http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/, and the last date for submissions is midnight UK time on 30th September (next Monday). If you have images taken outside the UK, they can be entered via this page. 2. Help with pre-screening of the competition entries To avoid overloading the three-person UK jury with 10,000+ images to be judged, I'm looking to recruit around 20-30 volunteers who can help with some pre-screening to eliminate entries that have no prospect of winning one of the top 10 prizes. We have an online jury tool for that purpose, and all you need to do is to click through one day's worth of entries and quickly mark those that the judges don't need to see. No complicated scoring or judging ability is needed - just the ability to separate a potential prizewinner from the obviously lower-quality entries. For consistency, there will be two people independently reviewing each image. The work involved would be a minimum of one hour, to a maximum of 10, and would need to be done over the next two weeks. It would be fantastic if a good number of people from these mailing lists could help out. You can enter the competition as well as help with the pre-screening, as you wouldn't be asked to pre-screen your own images. Thanks for anything you can do. Please email me if you'd like more details. Regards Michael

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