All,
A short announcement: our Interrim Chief Executive (D'Arcy Myers) has now
left us, please remember to update your address books to our new Chief
Executive, Lucy Crompton-Reid <lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk>. She
started today, but is still catching up on things, so bear in mind that she
might be a little slow in replying to any emails.
You can read more about Lucy here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2015/07/welcoming-lucy-crompton-reid-as-new-c…
All the best,
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
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Hi all,
Has anyone else seen the email from MySociety about the Gender Balance game
they've created? See
https://www.mysociety.org/2015/07/30/introducing-gender-balance-the-game-th…
for more about it.
It appears they also have a database which we may be free to upload to
Wikidata...
Richard Symonds
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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).
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over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
So I went to https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2015/07/welcoming-lucy-crompton-reid-as-new-c…
and Firefox 41.0.1 complains about the SSL cert:
blog.wikimedia.org.uk uses an invalid security certificate. The
certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown.
The server might not be sending the appropriate intermediate
certificates. An additional root certificate may need to be imported.
(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
Works fine in Chromium 45.0.2454.101.
- d.
Hi all,
Have a look at the message from Rosa below - she's looking for some advice
on contributing to Wikipedia relating to collections she is representing.
If anyone is in the area and/or is interested in helping our, feel free to
get in touch! It sounds like she's already done a fair amount of research,
so may only need a bit of support.
All the best,
Daria
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rosa Sadler <r.sadler(a)sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: 23 September 2015 at 09:08
Subject: Contributing to articles on Wikipedia using materials at National
Fairground Archive
To: glam(a)wikimedia.org.uk
Dear GLAM UK,
I am a member of staff in the Library at the University of Sheffield. The
National Fairground Archive is based within the Library and we are
interested in using our subject knowledge and collections to contribute to
Wikipedia articles relating to this area. We understand the policy about
not contributing original research and would not be doing this.
I have looked at your pages on Wikipedia and have seen the information
about Wikipedia projects and Wikimedians in residence and I want to ask: is
it a requirement that we be part of a project with a pre-existing
Wikimedian or is it ok for members of staff here to become editors and make
contributions independently? Would this be seen as a conflict of interest?
We would, of course, be using individual accounts and obeying the
guidelines for editors. Our aim in contributing would be to make
information about this area more available to the public by adding to
articles and to provide links (in citations) to our collections so that the
general public can further benefit from them.
I am interested to hear whether this kind of activity would be acceptable
to the Wikipedia community and as such I look forward to your response.
Best wishes,
Rosa
Sadler
*Library Information Services Coordinator*The Diamond
University Library
University of Sheffield
r.sadler(a)sheffield.ac.uk
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All,
The University of Edinburgh has today started advertising for a part time
Wikimedian in Residence post:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AMB999/wikimedian-in-residence-fixed-term-part-ti…
To quote from it directly:
Do you have an eye for detail and a love of facts? Are you an experienced
> Wikimedian with experience working with the Wikimedia community? What
would
> you do to engage our staff and students in editing, contributing and
> sharing open knowledge? We are recruiting a Wikimedian in Residence to
work
> in Information Services alongside our learning technologists, archivists,
> librarians and information literacy teams. Following our first successful
> editathon events we now need your help to establish a network of
> Wikimedians on campus and to embed digital skills and open knowledge
> activities in learning and teaching across the University.
>
Good luck to those who apply - any questions will have to go to the
University directly, as they're running the recruitment process themselves.
All the best,
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
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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.*
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia UK has applied to the Funds Dissemination Committee for next
year's funding. The proposal can be found on meta-wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Wikim…
It is open for comment
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Commu…>
until 30 October.
Regards,
Richard Nevell
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Hi all,
tl;dr summary: I'm planning to run a survey about wikimeets in the near future. Do you have any comments/suggestions on the draft? See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Wikimeet_survey
At a recent meetup, a Wikipedian who was new to wikimeets pointed out that the event had the air of a gentleman's club about it. Looking around at the high-back comfy chairs, the Victorian-era interior decorations, the pints of real ale, and the mostly-male (and regular) attendees, I couldn't really disagree with their assessment. This started me thinking: are there better venues and times to hold meetups, or better ways of advertising/inviting people to planned meetups? What would make them more open and inviting to new editors, or the many long-term editors that have never attended a meetup?
As an experiment to try to improve the attendance and advertising of wikimeets in the North of England, a few months ago I posted messages on the talk pages of previous wikimeet attendees about the last Leeds and Manchester wikimeets, and the Liverpool wikimeet coming up this weekend. There was, unexpectedly, a pretty good response, with a number of people signing up to attend the wikimeets. I'm not sure whether it was a direct consequence or not, but we had a long-term editor attend the last Manchester wikimeet who hadn't previously attended a wikimeet. I couldn't attend the last Leeds wikimeet: was anyone there and able to say whether it made a difference or not? I'm hoping that the irregular wikimeet attendees who have signed up for the Liverpool meetup will be there!
It also started a longer conversation with Iridescent [1], which led to the idea of having some sort of a UK-wide notifications list. During that conversation, I started drafting a survey of past and potential wikimeet attendees with the aim of getting some quantified and actionable answers about how to improve wikimeets, and also improve communication about wikimeets. The latest draft of the survey is at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Wikimeet_survey
Amongst other things, the survey draft asks about how people get to wikimeets; when and where wikimeets should be held; what activities should take place at wikimeets; and how notifications about an upcoming meetup would ideally be circulated.
I'm hoping to run this survey soon, so if you are interested in improving the survey questions then please send me an email or post on the talk page before the end of the month! In particular, if you currently organise (or regularly attend) wikimeets, then I'd greatly appreciate your input/feedback about the survey questions before it goes live. Ideally the survey would be run in association with WMUK, but given the recent turmoil I'm not sure if this will be possible, so I'll run it myself unless WMUK expresses an interest in helping out with it!
Thanks,
Mike
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Iridescent/Archive_17#Next_meetups_…
This is *really* fun. Thanks for pointing it out, Richard!
I've put up a quick-and-dirty blog post on how to render these at
http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2015/taking-pictures-with-flying-governme…
- it's fairly easy, though a little fiddly.
(I don't have much previous experience with QGIS so may have skipped a
step that makes it all simpler - please do correct me if so...)
Demo images are all on Commons.
Andrew.
On 1 October 2015 at 15:44, Richard Symonds
<richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> I've just knocked up the one at
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heightmap_of_Trencrom_Hill.png. I
> haven't added it to any articles but it's there to use if you want!
>
> It's not much work, but the issue is that the heightmaps tend to not cover
> Wales or Scotland, and they tend to cover flood zones, rather than hills.
> This makes tracking down high-resolution data of castles/hills (which tend
> to be high up) rather difficult. Most of England is covered with 1 metre
> resolution though, with 25cm being the best.
>
> 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.
>
>
> On 22 September 2015 at 11:20, Richard Nevell
> <richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I think it should be downloadable as jpegs as well as the underlying data
>> files. This gives you a visualisation of the landscape, with or without
>> trees if you want. Very useful for landscapes, and excellent for
>> archaeological sites which only survive as earthworks.
>>
>> On 22 September 2015 at 11:11, Richard Symonds
>> <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Forwarding to this list, perhaps someone has some ideas for how we can
>>> make use of the newly released LIDAR data!
>>>
>>> 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.
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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.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Tim Waters <chippy2005(a)gmail.com>
>>> Date: 22 September 2015 at 10:34
>>> Subject: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now
>>> available
>>> To: OSM - Talk GB <talk-gb(a)openstreetmap.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> back in June we had a thread announcing that this LIDAR data was due
>>> to be released. Well some of it has.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/18/laser-surveys-light-up-ope…
>>>
>>> http://environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey#/
>>>
>>> I think it's just for England, and appears to be 1m and 2m composite
>>> DTM and 1m and 2m DSM They do intend to release a Tiled version next,
>>> and I think 50cm and 25cm are coming also
>>>
>>> What can we do with it?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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Forwarding to this list, perhaps someone has some ideas for how we can make
use of the newly released LIDAR data!
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.*
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tim Waters <chippy2005(a)gmail.com>
Date: 22 September 2015 at 10:34
Subject: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now
available
To: OSM - Talk GB <talk-gb(a)openstreetmap.org>
Hello,
back in June we had a thread announcing that this LIDAR data was due
to be released. Well some of it has.
https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/18/laser-surveys-light-up-ope…http://environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey#/
I think it's just for England, and appears to be 1m and 2m composite
DTM and 1m and 2m DSM They do intend to release a Tiled version next,
and I think 50cm and 25cm are coming also
What can we do with it?
Cheers,
Tim
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