Hello all,
As some of you may already be aware, we are having our second Volunteer
Strategy Gathering
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015> on
the 25th of July, the same day as our AGM.
It will start at 10:30 till approximately 3pm. Please come along and bring
your ideas for how Wikimedia UK can work with its volunteers and community.
This is open to members and non-members alike.
Best
Stuart
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*Stuart Prior*
*Project Coordinator*
*Wikimedia UK*
+44 20 7065 0990
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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.*
All,
There may be some downtime on Wikimedia UK's website(s) next month, on July
15, from 00:01 to 04:00. Ideally it won't take more than five minutes but
could be up to four hours.
This is because our hosting provider are performing some routine
maintenance work on their servers.
This shouldn't be a huge problem, but I thought I'd let you all know just
in case.
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.*
Hello everyone,
This might be of interest.
Thank you,
Stevie
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From: "Jake Orlowitz" <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com>
Date: 17 Jun 2015 22:40
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Library NEW Free Research Accounts
To: "wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hi!
>
> The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available to you...
>
> *Taylor & Francis* — major publisher of academic journals with 2 subject
> collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences
> (30 accounts)
> <http://enwp.org/WP:TANDF>
>
> *World Bank eLibrary* — digital platform containing all books, working
> papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to
> the present (100 accounts)
> <http://enwp.org/WP:World Bank>
>
> *AAAS* — general science publisher, which publishes the leading journal
> *Science* among other sources (50 accounts)
> <http://enwp.org/WP:AAAS>
>
>
> New French-Language Branch donations!
>
> *Érudit *— French-Canadian scholarly database of humanities and social
> sciences, with sources in both English and French (50 accounts)
> <http://enwp.org/WP:Erudit>
> <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:%C3%89rudit>
>
> *Cairn* — Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online portal of scholarly
> materials in the humanities and social sciences. Mostly French, but also
> some English (100 accounts)
> <http://enwp.org/WP:Cairn>
> <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cairn>
>
> *L'Harmattan* — French language publisher of non-fiction and fiction, with
> a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts)
> <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:L'Harmattan>
>
>
> Many other partnerships are still available, including an expansion of
> Royal Society Journals:
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals>
>
> If you have suggestions for journals or databases we should seek access to
> request it!
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals/Request>
>
> We are looking for more help coordinating the Wikipedia Library's account
> distribution and global development!
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/The_Wikipedia_Library/Coordinators/Signup>
>
> Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references
> across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
>
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Recently I lost my Wikisource virginity, becoming not a passive cheerleader
for the project but an active contributor. I have to say it's been a more
rewarding experience than expected.
I'd heard in a few places that imports from the Internet Archive, or
imports of .djvu files, weren't reliable, but my little experience has been
fine. Maybe I've been lucky in my choice of files. The whole process of
loading in a book and starting transcription went quite smoothly, though it
required attention to a lot of little steps and I wouldn't recommend it to
non-geeky people.
One surprise was that having entered data about the book into Commons, I
had to enter the same data again into Wikisource. Later when I went through
Preferences on Wikisource, I saw an option to automatically copy book data
from Commons to Wikisource, but for reasons I don't understand it's off by
default.
The editing interface is last-century primitive but usable. An advanced
toolbar with more buttons would enable me to work more quickly, but this
might be possible with custom Javascript.
In my new role as Wikimedian In Residence at the Bodleian Libraries, I'm
doing a lot of advocacy for Wikisource to my audience of librarians because
it's a great example of how sharing content improves content. It's also a
great example of something lay people with computers can do to support
research and free knowledge.
There are two projects I'm working on (in volunteer time now and again, not
paid work), in case anyone's interested.
Firstly, there's a collection on Wikisource related to Mary Wollstonecraft,
a very important philosopher and author of fiction and non-fiction, not to
mention the mother of Mary Shelley.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Mary_Wollstonecraft
There are gaps, but with some additional transcription work it's in hailing
distance of being an impressive research resource, hopefully enabling more
interesting projects such as the Mary Wollstonecraft Twitter:
https://twitter.com/1759marywol1797
Her short book about raising daughters had been scanned but not
transcribed, so I've been working on that, a quarter of an hour now and
again.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Thoughts_on_the_Education_of_Daughters…
The other project arises from a talk by a historian working with British
Library Labs. He is studying the humour of the Victorian era, marking up a
joke book to identify individual jokes and lines of dialogue. A fun
spin-off from this work is the Mechanical Comedian project
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
An ideal starting point for this work would be a checked, validated
transcription of the out-of-copyright source book, which the team are
gradually working on. So I'm urging them to use Wikisource as a platform,
and to demonstrate I'm transcribing a similar book from the same era.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Everybody%27s_Book_of_English_wit_and_…
Disclaimer: a lot of Victorian jokes are *not funny*, but there are rare
gems.
If, like I was, you're a Wiki*edian who's interested in Wikisource but
hasn't taken the plunge. I recommend having a go.
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Dr Martin L Poulter
Wikipedia contributor http://enwp.org/User:MartinPoulter
Volunteer, Wikimedia UK http://wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter
<http://uk.wikimedia.org/>
Musician http://soundcloud.com/martin-poulterhttp://myspace.com/comapilot
Person http://infobomb.org/
It has now been over a year that my email address was put on
moderation (perhaps someone would like to provide a date, I have not
trawled the archives). In the absence of any appeal process, I ask
that this is lifted.
My most recent email to this list has yet to be posted, it has been
waiting for 9 days. Waiting for several days or over a week is now the
norm for my rare posts to list. Though not one of my emails has ever
been rejected from publication, this effectively makes communication
impossible and amounts to an effective ban after being black-balled.
Based on timing, I was put on moderation apparently due to Russavia's
incivil posts to Wikimedia-l, not because of any email I have ever
posted to this list that anyone can provide a link to, nor for any
reason of incivility on my part. If I am to remain forever on
moderation I ask that a clear rationale be given so that I can change
the wording I use in emails to met whatever the list moderators
believe is needed. At the current time I am completely in the dark as
nobody will discuss this with me or provide examples.
Thanks,
Fae
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faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae