Hi,
Anyone can help me to find the person who is coordinating or communicating
with the participants who got the scholarship for the Wikimania 2014 ?
I am trying to communicate with the scholarship team and sent email (to
wikimania14scholarships(a)wikimedia.org) about 5days ago. But none of the
team members feel that they should reply at least with an acknowledgement.
Even i tried to contact with 'Edward Saperia' (via ed(a)wikimanialondon.org)
about 2days ago. But same scenario.
So i am thinking that i might be knocking the wrong door and there might be
some other person who is responsible for this. Please help me to find the
right person.
[Sorry for cross posting]
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This has been bounced around before, but I think it would be pretty
excellent to a 3D printer available for experiments during the week of
the pre-Wikimania hackerthon and during Wikimania.
Does anyone have contacts within the industry to pull on to see if we
can get one for a week on demonstration? It would actually be smart
marketing as many chapters are probably thinking of getting kit like
this in the next year or two, in order to support open source 3D
designs (which we have yet to crack on Wikimedia Commons). Perhaps one
of the food printers (I have seen videos of sugar and chocolate
sculptures being printed) might be a lot of fun?
Associated discussion at:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Water_cooler#3D_printing.3F
Fae
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faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
Hi all,
Just a reminder that the deadline for Wikimedia UK Scholarships to
Wikimania 2014 is rapidly approaching:
Deadline: Sunday 15th June.
If you are interested, you can find the application form here
<https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/forms/d/1Ch3SXSW2YLuICmiOouxQ7hh…>
.
Looking forward to seeing you at Wikimania!
all the best
Fabian Tompsett,
Wikimania Support Team,
Wikimedia UK,
Address: 56-64 Leonard St,
Shoreditch,
London EC2A 4LT
Phone:020 7065 0991
Mobile: 07548 103787
Hi all,
Please see below if interested - content has been influenced by Martin
Poulter who was a Jisc Wikimedia Ambassador over the last year.
Regards,
Daria
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From: Owen Stephens <owen(a)ostephens.com>
Date: 3 June 2014 14:47
Subject: [MCG] New Jisc guide to making your digital resources easier to
discover
To: MCG(a)jiscmail.ac.uk
Dear all,
Back in February I mentioned on the list that I was working with others on
a Jisc guide to making digital resources easier to discover. This guide,
along with other outputs from the Jisc "Spotlight on the Digital" project
has now been published.
For an overview of all the work from the project this blog post from David
Prosser (Director of Research Libraries UK) gives a good overview
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/action-on-discoverability-03-jun-2014
Paola Marchionni has also posted a link to all the Spotlight on the Digital
recommendations and output at
http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2014/06/03/spotlight-on-the-digital-…
The guide itself is available at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/make-your-digital-resources-easier-to-discover
The guide covers a wide range of approaches to making digital resources
easier to discovery. Each approach is linked back to research on how users
search and discover digital resources (summarised at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/how-do-users-find-your-content), as well as
linking to organisation strategic aims as identified by university
libraries (some of which maybe shared by museums, but clearly there are
some differences here).
I hope the guide is of interest and useful, and I'd be very interested to
hear what people think.
Thanks
Owen
Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Consulting
Web: http://www.ostephens.com
Email: owen(a)ostephens.com
Telephone: 0121 288 6936
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Daria Cybulska - Programme Manager, Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 207 065 0994
+44 7803 505 170
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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.*
Do any fellow unpaid volunteers have a view on the changeover of the
charity from using the volunteer controlled wiki as a front end, to
using a fixed employee controlled website?
I feel this will be the end of the UK wiki in terms of being a public
landing site with immediate engagement with fellow volunteers.
Instead, we will have a public relations website subject to control by
the Chief Executive, presumably full of good news, and hidden behind
it will be the UK wiki, now acting only as a forum rather than a space
where volunteers could create pages that support fund-raisers, openly
discuss real issues, problems and so forth.
As a community of volunteers, we seem to have let the charity
gradually drift away from being volunteer driven and volunteer centric
and become overly sensitive to public relations. I am not sure why we
let that happen.
Link
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Engine_room#Digital_design_work_required
Fae
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faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
Hello everyone,
As you might remember, Wikimedia UK is working with think-tank Demos on a
project to try to collaboratively produce a submission to the Speaker's
Commission on Digital Democracy (a UK Parliament initiative).
I put together a blog post for them, which they have published today. It's
here - http://www.demos.co.uk/blog/modelfordigitaldemocracy
If you haven't seen the project yet, take a look at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connecting_knowledge_to_power:_the_future_o…
and
please do get involved. Would love for as many people to take part as
possible!
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
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Stevie Benton
Head of External Relations
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,
I have just published a request for quotes for a piece of digital design
work. Wikimedia Uk is commissioning two email templates and a small
website.
If you'd like to consider pitching for the work, please provide me with a
quote before the end of Friday 13 June. You can find the brief here on our
wiki -
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/File:Wikimedia_UK_digital_brief_June_2014.pdf
Please do forward to anybody that may be interested.
Thank you,
Stevie
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Stevie Benton
Head of External Relations
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.*
Hi -
WMUK is supporting a Wiki Workshop for Geographers
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_for_Geographers> at the Royal
Geographical Society in London (1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR) on
Monday 7th July 2014, 1pm-5pm.
2-3 trainers are needed for this event, one of whom will need to act as
lead trainer. Travel expenses will be covered as usual. Please contact me
or sign up on this page
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_for_Geographers#Trainers>, if
you're willing to join in as a trainer.
Many thanks,
Toni
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Dr Toni Sant - Education Organiser, Wikimedia UK
toni.sant(a)wikimedia.org.uk +44 (0)7885 980 536
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.*