Dear Wikimedia UK mailing list,
We have been given some free off peak weekday tickets to the tank museum in
Dorset.
I have already Emailed those of our Wiki Loves Monuments participants who
opted in to further events, so apologies if this is a repeat, but if anyone
here fancies taking photographs of tanks, send me your snail mail address
and I will send you a ticket
Regards
Jonathan Cardy
GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) Organiser/Trefnydd
GLAM (Galeriau,
Llyfrgelloedd, Archifdai a llawer Mwy!)
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Hi all,
One of our volunteers asked me to put out a call for broken laptops. If you have a broken laptop and you want somebody to help you fix it or you just want to see it recycled, please bring it along to Wikimania!
I imagine lots of us will have broken laptops knocking around, and this could be a great opportunity to bring them back to life or to recycle them properly.
So we have an idea of demand, please email me off-list if you're interested.
Thanks,
Harry Mitchellhttp://enwp.org/User:HJ
Phone: +44 (0) 7507 536971
Skype: harry_j_mitchell
Anyone interested in taking up creating better articles for the
history of Gay Switchboard (and Gay Switchboard Ireland below)?
>From my memory, it was a complex set of organizations across the UK,
in the 1980s/90s more general gay groups setting up their own help
systems. Then London Switchboard got really big, with serious funding,
and this became a much more coordinated movement.
Different organizations still cover different areas, for example
Nottingham - http://www.nottslgs.org.uk - and have their own
interesting and complex histories that would be useful as Wikipedia
articles. There are sources for some of this evolution of gay groups,
with well known writers like Lisa Power putting some of this down in
their semi-autobiographical books.
I have looked at this topic before (last editing London Lesbian and
Gay Switchboard on the English Wikipedia in 2011), however due to some
'unpleasantness' when I have had a personal connection with an
organization, I suggest someone with no past connection take a look.
Thanks
Fae
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From: "Gay Switchboard (via Twitter)" <notify(a)twitter.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:21:05 +0000
Subject: Gay Switchboard (@GaySwitchIrland) replied to one of your Tweets!
To: Fae <faewik(a)gmail.com>
Fae @Faewik
@PolariMagazine @GaySwitchIrland @Wikipedia No Wikipedia article for
it, yet there is for London - someone fix it!
04:09 PM - 30 Jul 14
Gay Switchboard @GaySwitchIrland
@Faewik @PolariMagazine @Wikipedia our core work is supporting the
community.Perhaps someone at Wikipedia would like to volunteer to do
it?!
04:21 PM - 30 Jul 14
Fae
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If anyone's looking for a short article to translate into Welsh, I
have just created:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rae_Jenkins
about an orchetrsal conductor from Ammanford; later principal
conductor of the BBC Welsh Orchestra .
If notification of such articles, new, in English, but of Welsh
interest, are welcome, but best made elsewhere, please let me know the
venue.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Hi all,
In case it is of interest, I just wanted to point to a relatively in-depth twelve-month project report for the Wikimedian in Residence programme at the National Library of Scotland, available on Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NLS_Wikimedian_in_Residence_12_mont…) or as an editable doc in Google Drive (link in Commons talk page).
The report covers outcomes, reflections, and recommendations as well as a couple of case studies. Comments/discussion welcome.
Cheers,
Ally
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This may be of interest to some individuals, and/or Wikimedia UK might want
to make representations. Deadline August 11th (ish).
Simon
Message: 1
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:39:00 +0200
From: Ren? K?nig <kontakt(a)renekoenig.eu>
To: <re-search(a)listcultures.org>
Subject: [re-search] Google asks for comments concerning the "right to
be forgotten"
Message-ID: <013501cfa859$3b33cd00$b19b6700$(a)renekoenig.eu>
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Hi,
Google is gathering opinions and expertise on the ?right to be forgotten? in
an online consultation. This is also a chance to become an expert speaker in
one of their consultation meetings. I don?t know how serious Google will
take these but I think it might be an interesting opportunity to actively
interfere:
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/advisorycouncilcomments/
Best,
Ren?
?
Ren? K?nig, Dipl.-Soz.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS)
P.O. Box 3640 76021 Karlsruhe
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 721 / 608-22209
Web/Skype: renekoenig.eu
Twitter: r_koenig
Hello everyone,
tl:dr - Wikimedia UK and Demos are looking to community-source a submission
to the Speaker's Commission on Digital Democracy and we need your help! Get
involved here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connecting_knowledge_to_power:_the_future_o…>
Recently the Speaker of the House of Commons established a commission
<http://www.parliament.uk/business/commons/the-speaker/speakers-commission-o…>
to
investigate the opportunities digital technology can bring for
parliamentary democracy in the UK. This consultation is a public exercise
which attempts to explore various themes relating to digital democracy.
Wikimedia UK <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page> and Demos
<http://www.demos.co.uk/>, working with Wikimedians, have been exploring
whether the norms and values of the Wikimedia community can be applied to
this kind of consultation, especially the consensus-based approach to
writing and enacting Wikipedia policy.
The experiment has been going well and led to a community-sourced
submission to the first theme which was looking at how technology can
facilitate better scrutiny of the work of Parliament. You can view this
submission here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connecting_knowledge_to_power:_the_future_o….>.
The talk page is also worth a look as the discussion offered some really
useful insights into how the content was reached.
However, we need your help. The second theme of the consultation has now
been published and it is about digital representation. We would love for as
many people to take part in this exercise as possible. The Commission was
really appreciative of the efforts of the community first time around and
it would be great to come up with another excellent community-driven
submission. You can view the questions that are being asked, and
participate in creating the submission, here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connecting_knowledge_to_power:_the_future_o…>
.
A third theme will follow in the next couple of months and a similar
approach will be taken then. Finally, once the Commission closes for
submissions, Demos and Wikimedia UK will write up a comprehensive report on
the process and what we have learned which we will, of course, make
available to the community.
Thank you for any and all help, it is very much appreciated.
Stevie
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Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal
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Hello,
Wikimedia UK are now accepting applications for a Fundraising Assistant
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Fundraising_Assistant> to support the
delivery of the charity's fundraising programme, in particular working with
our donors and undertaking the essential administrative tasks involved with
donor stewardship.
If you are interested in applying, more details can be found here
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Fundraising_Assistant>. The deadline for
applications is 5pm BST on Friday 1st August 2014.
Regards,
Richard Nevell
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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.*
Forwarding in case anyone here can help!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>
Date: 27 Jul 2014 15:27
Subject: [Wikimania-l] I need help from people with access to a library in
London
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hello,
If you are attending Wikimania, live in London area and have access to a
good library - it's possible that you'll be able to help me make my
Wikimania talk better. Please contact me off-list at
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il (I don't want to spoil the surprises too much
:) ).
Thank you!
--
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http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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