Wikimedia UK has currently not endorsed any candidate for the two
Chapter affiliate seats on the WMF Board of Trustees. Neither has any
UK candidate stepped forward.
Does anyone have views to share on this list for which candidate they
feel would best represent the interests of our volunteers? There is
around a week left and Michael Maggs (the UK Chairman) has stated that
the chapter might endorse a candidate if there were a "groundswell of
opinion".
The candidates are:
* Frieda Brioschi
* Mallory Knodel
* Patricio Lorente
* Anders Wennersten
* Alice Wiegand
You can find links to their nomination statements at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2014/Nominat…
To put questions to the candidates goto:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2014/Questio…
A related chapter discussion thread is at
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Engine_room#Affiliate-selected_seats_on_the_b…>
if you prefer to write there.
I am a bit disappointed there have not been more candidates (dropping
from 8 in 2012 to 5 this year). The "chapters movement" (and the GLAM
programme) would be best served by strong competition for these
positions.
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From: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de>
Dear Wikimedia friends,
My colleague Birgit Müller, our new Community Liaison, asked me to
forward this email to the international Chapter sphere.
It would be lovely if you help us to spread the word about the
upcoming deadline for the migration from Toolserver to Tool Labs among
your local communities.
Toolserver will stop operating on June 30, all tools that have not
been migrated by that date will stop working. We need tool developers
and users to support the transition and make it as smooth as possible.
More information in the following mail. Please don't hesitate to
contact Birgit (birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de) in case of any questions
or feedback.
Thanks a lot for you support and best regards from Berlin,
Nicole
This deadline is approaching. The Toolserver will stop working on June
30th. What will happen afterwards?
Background information
The Toolserver is a community based infrastructure that hosts software
supporting Wikipedia and its sister projects. Over the years many
active volunteers have developed helpful and great software tools that
are running on several Wikimedia projects.
The Toolserver is operated by Wikimedia Deutschland with assistance
from the Wikimedia Foundation and several chapters. For many reasons,
the Toolserver will be discontinued and replaced by Tool Labs [2], a
platform operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Please see the reasons
at [3]. For more than one year Wikimedia Deutschland has been
coordinating the migration of software tools from Toolserver to Tool
Labs.
What editors should know
The toolserver is a community-driven project. The tools shall be
migrated by the developers resp. maintainers themselves. Many of them
have already migrated their tools or have indicated that they will do
so before the end of this month. We have a special agreement with the
OpenStreetMap projects and with the developer of Merlbot [4] to ensure
these tools don’t stop working. All other tools will stop working by
July 1st.
What editors can do
On Tool Labs [2], you can look up if the tools that you use and need
have already moved there.
Talk to the developers of your favourite tools: It is important to
let them know how much you appreciate their tools and that you need
them to do your work.
Contact us if you don’t know who these developers are or if you have
any questions or if you want us to forward wishes or requests to tool
developers. Contact information is given at the end of this text.
Information for tool developers
If you are still facing the migration of your tools, please keep in
mind that lots of people use your tools. They are a great support for
their daily work and will be missed when they fail. Please take the
time to migrate them or poke us: WMDE can still support you during
migration - what we can’t do is maintain abandoned tools in the long
run.
>From July 1st on, the toolserver admins will still hand you over your
backups upon request and create redirects to Tool Labs for you. You
won’t be able to log in to the toolserver anymore though.
If anyone wants to have and reuse other people’s code, we recommend to
seek approval from them directly, even if from a legal point of view
there is no problem. Don’t hesitate to talk to us if you need a
contact person.
Here is a collection of the relevant links for you again:
Tool Labs: http://tools.wmflabs.org
Tool Labs help pages:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help
How to create redirects to Tool Labs:
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/.htaccess#.htaccess
Magnus Manske’s migration manual:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_tools…
Scripts to clean up your toolserver account]] after migration:
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Main_Page
Mailing list Labs-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
IRC channel #wikimedia-labs:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-labs
Marc-André Pelletier (Coren) and Andrew Bogott (andrewbogott) are the
WMF Tool Labs ops. Petr Bena (petan) and Tim Landscheidt (scfc_de) are
voluntary Tool Labs admins.
We invite you to join our IRC office hour in #wikimedia-office on
Wednesday, June 11th, at 5 p.m. UTC.
Contact:
The migration is coordinated by Silke Meyer (WMDE). Birgit Müller
supports her in communications. The two toolserver admins Marlen
Caemmerer und Alexander Mette are glad to help you with advice.
Marc-André Pelletier can answer all questions concerning Tool Labs.
Contact us at
Silke: silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [5], IRC: Silke_WMDE
Birgit: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [6], IRC: Birgit_WMDE
We hope that the transition will happen as smoothly as possible!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en
[2] http://tools.wmflabs.org
[3] https://toolserver.org/
[4] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:MerlBot
[5] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Silke_WMDE
[6] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Birgit_Müller_(WMDE)
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Volunteer Support Department
E-Mail: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de
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Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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Leiterin Internationales
Head of International Affairs
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 219158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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This is likely be of interest to many you:
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From: "Neil Beagrie" <neil(a)beagrie.com>
Date: Jun 3, 2014 11:06 AM
Subject: Invitation to comment: New Edition of Digital Preservation Handbook
To: <AHFAP(a)jiscmail.ac.uk>
apologies for any cross-posting
Dear colleagues
We are scoping and planning for a new edition of the online Digital
Preservation Handbook and would be very grateful if you could contribute
your needs and views to this work.
The Digital Preservation Handbook, written by Neil Beagrie and Maggie
Jones, is hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), which makes
the Handbook freely available as an online resource. The Handbook provides
an internationally authoritative and practical online guide that is heavily
used for continuous professional development, for university students, and
for training in digital preservation.
The National Archives is working together with other stakeholders including
Jisc and the British Library, to support the Digital Preservation Coalition
in updating and revamping the Handbook. It is anticipated that its revision
will be modular and undertaken over a two year period. We request your
input via a short online survey.
There are a maximum of 13 questions in total and the survey should take
around 10 minutes of your time to complete.
The online questionnaire is accessible at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DPHandbook and the survey will close on
Wednesday 16th June.
Thank you in advance for your participation. Your input will make a
significant contribution to the scoping of this important online resource
and the scheduling of modules for publication.
William Kilbride (Executive Director, Digital Preservation Coalition)
Neil Beagrie (lead author and editor)
I've been in correspondence with London's Metropolitan Police] over
the last few months, discussing the possibility of them open-licensing
some of their images - not least the scenic (as opposed to
scene-of-crime) pictures taken from their helicopters, and/ or images
posted to their social media accounts.
They have decided that they so not wish to do so on a blanket basis,
but say that they are willing to consider requests to do so for images
in an individual basis. You may send requests to:
DMC-Mailbox-.PressBureau-DMC(a)met.pnn.police.uk
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
*FINAL CALL FOR FREE REGISTRATION...*
This is a final call for free registration to attend the Future of
Education Workshop, which is taking place in London on 21 and 22 June as
part of the Wikimania 2014 Fringe.
Further details can be found here:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Future_of_Education_Workshop
Register now here:
https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/extern/url.php?u=2314&qid=459139
There are presently only 10 places left, and we'll be taking a waiting list
from Friday if these places are filled up.
Feel free to direct any questions about this event to
education(a)wikimedia.org.uk
Best wishes,
Toni
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toni.sant(a)wikimedia.org.uk +44 (0)7885 980 536
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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 fellow Wikimedians,
*Two special events just before Wikimania aimed at spreading good practice.*
*Governance workshop 7th of August.*
Based on the successful board training workshop held in March this year, we
are organising another such workshop, this time coinciding with Wikimania
here in London. This workshop will be based on the successful March
training workshop, with largely the same material covered. It's intended
for people who are (or will shortly be) board members of Chapters or
Thematic Organisations. This session is planned for 7 August 2014, i.e. as
a pre-meeting to Wikimania.
For more details, including a provisional agenda and registration link,
please go to <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Boards_training_workshop_August_2014>.
Places are strictly limited, on a first come first served basis.
*Train the Trainers - two day course. 4th and 5th of August*
We are also hosting an international version of our successful 'Train the
trainers' workshop which we've advertised to you previously. The
application deadline for a place there is Sunday 15 June. More information
and registration is at <
https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=68&reset=1>. Don't
miss out on a place, especially if you have previously indicated an
interest in attending but have not yet registered.
Hope to see many of you in London in August,
Katie
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Wikimedia UK
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Registered Company 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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tweet @jonatreesdavies
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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).
Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990.
Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
Hi all,
My last two big events as WiR at the Royal Society are:
a) Next Saturday morning 10.30-1.30 there is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Royal_Society/Neuroscie… (Eventbrite link there) , which despite efforts to avoid a clash, has ended up clashing with the Wikimania prequel Open culture Barbican event, AND a WMUK board meeting. A small event, but classy - no training, just neurologists and Wikipedians editing together.
b) The following Friday 13th, http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/royal-society-research-fellows-wikipedia-trai… - for the early/mid career Research Fellows, not actual FRSs: "Those of you at this year's Induction Day in February will have seen John Byrne, the Royal Society's Wikimedian-in-Residence, talking about the training he planned to offer, with various options. In the light of the feedback received we are offering this session that will combine the options, as this was most popular. There will a hands-on introduction to basic Wikipedia editing, so please bring a laptop (a few will be available if this is impossible). There will also be suggestions on how to maintain contact with the Wikipedia community in your field, and give them some access to your expertise, all at a low time-cost to you. Helpers will be on hand during the editing training, and places are limited, so please apply soon." Actually there is a possibility this date may change.
Email me re either, or apply on Eventbrite for the 7th (not Eventbrite for the 13th please),
Thanks,
John
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For those that did not catch Jimmy Wales' interview on the The Andrew
Marr Show earlier this morning, you can catch it on IPlayer. It is 20
minutes in and lasts for 7 minutes.[1]
The meat of the interview is about Jimmy's advice to Google about
potential censorship of biographic material in Europe, with some
discussion of Snowden.
Marr closes with a promotion of the New Statesman debate "Secrets and
Lies: Should we know how far surveillance goes?" at King's College on
Tuesday this week with Jimmy as one of the panellists (tickets
£15!).[2]
Links:
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04647bc/the-andrew-marr-show-01062014
2. http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/05/secrets-and-lies-should-we-know-how-far…
Citation:
{{cite web |title=The Andrew Marr Show: Andrew’s guests include Nigel
Farage MEP, Lord Ashdown, Jimmy Wales and Terry Gilliam.
|date=1 June 2014 |accessdate=1 June 2014 |publisher=BBC
|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04647bc/the-andrew-marr-show-01062014}}
Fae
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