Wikimediauk-l September 2015

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Wikimedia UK Trustee Treasurer excellence recognised
by Michael Maggs 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Treasurer highly Commended at Financial Leadership Awards Press release issued by Wikimedia UK, 18 September 2015: Greyham Dawes was awarded Highly Commended by the judges at the Financial Leadership Awards last night. The judges recognized that Greyham Dawes, who has been Wikimedia UK’s treasurer since February 2013, had completely changed both the charity's financial reporting and its planning. His pragmatic approach has helped the charity focus on the future, and his overwhelming positivity moves difficult conversations towards solutions. Carol Cambell, Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee said “Wikimedia UK is a high profile charity within the open knowledge movement and Greyham has been an important and influential part in enabling the organisational transparency that is an essential part of our work." Wikimedia UK is a young charitable organisation that is at the forefront of the open knowledge movement. They are the UK chapter of the global Wikimedia movement, and work with volunteers and a range of national organisations to help create and preserve open knowledge and to provide easy access for all.

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More help please
by Lester Caine 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Weston-Sub-Edge Am now working through the 'proof' that the Weston-Sub-Edge spelling was on of the mistakes in the Imperial Gazetteer and added a more authoritative link to the name section, but what is the correct way of handling this ... the name is a key element, and 'Weston Subedge' is the correct search term for mapping and genealogical data ... which is where I started :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Smoking is less addictive ;)
by Lester Caine 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

On 14/09/15 21:58, Michael Peel wrote: >> > On 14 Sep 2015, at 21:43, Lester Caine <lester(a)lsces.co.uk> wrote: >> > >> > On 14/09/15 21:29, Michael Peel wrote: >>>> >>> I've reworked the Name section and it is making a lot more sense, but >>>>> >>>> I'm still a little stuck with a citation for the post code stuff since >>>>> >>>> linking to the Royal Mail data is a copyright violation. But we can list >>>>> >>>> the name itself as it's under OGL - I believe. >>> >> Links to websites aren't copyright violations, so if you have a URL for the name on RM's site then I'd encourage you to add it to the article. >> > >> > Looks like I hit 'reply' rather than 'reply all' :( > Ah - I hadn't spotted that! Feel free to copy the list back in if you want! > >> > Anyway ... Royal Mail are crafty sods and the only way to get a listing >> > is to search for it from the generic page. >> > http://www3.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode does not allow generated URL's >> > simply to block people skimming the data via code :( >> > >> > And Google will not search for "Weston-Subedge" ... it always strips the >> > punctuation even if you wrap in double quotes .... > It's best to not use them as a reference, then. Think of people accessing the Wikipedia article in 5 years time, when Royal Mail has changed their websites and it's no longer returning the same search results - they won't be able to verify the information. It's better to point towards a more permanent source of the information in this case. And since there is not a quotable source ... The information is an impotant element of the problem so I'll leave as is at the moment and see if I can get a back door reference to the same material on the ONS site. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

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Smoking is less addictive ;)
by Lester Caine 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston-Sub-Edge I need a little help on styling this better. I've a growing number of citations, but I know it still needs some more. I have some history to add to the Industrial Estate which dates form the 2nd world war when it was part of the airfield. And I think I've actually tracked down the source of the name confusion, but not sure if that is 'original research'. So what can I do to clear the warning banner, and make the thing a little tidier? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

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Village, Hamlet and populations ...
by Lester Caine 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

I'm currently working around the area trying to get all the local places cross referenced properly. I've got The 2012 Index of Places from the ONS which has a supposedly complete set of places, but I've been hitting a number of problems which I think I've finally sussed. The OSM wiki defines 'hamlet' as less than 100-200 people, but village supposedly starts at 1000 up to 10000 with the proviso that it depends on the country. Ideally the two would perhaps meet :) We are perhaps looking at a population of around 8000 for a town designation in the UK, but anything down to 100 is still classified as a village by the ONS. What are actually missing from the OSN data are ANY hamlets despite their claiming to include them. My first exercise was to add links on the OSM data to the wikipedia entry for each village, and there is a small list of miss matches which I'm trying to sort out. However when cross referencing the population data reported by wikipedia quoting the 2011 census, but what that fails to account for is that only provides totals for the whole parish, which may have more than one hamlet/village. The IOP data contains the 'BUA' population for the villages, but omits the rest of the hamlets that make up the parish/ward. The IOP data is released under the Open Government Licence V2 so I see no problem using it in OSM or Wikipedia? I think what we are still looking for is a consistent list of hamlets to work from to fill in the gaps? The IOP data was supposed to be updated annually, but it seems only annual updates are currently being generated. To add to the fun, the six digit codes I've been using for LLPG data for many years have been replaced by a 9 digit code. While the 6 digit code had a nice three level structure, the 9 digit code has lost the third layer, but these still only go down to the ward/parish level. There is still no ID for the town/village :( And Scotland and Northern Ireland are separate data sets ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

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Getting back in ...
by Lester Caine 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

I've been going around in circles on software and not been getting any real content created for the last few years, so I've decided to ignore the problems and just get on with material. My starting point is OSM, and I've been adding links from places in wikipedia to their entry in OSM. For places read county/borough/city/town/village/hamlet/suburb, the last four of which Facebook lump under 'city' and make a complete mess of things. Plan off attack is to make sure all the places locally exist in wikipedia and I sort of got off to a good start, but hit a problem with miss matched names and missing entries. I've modified https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Subedge_railway_station to use the correct name for the period the railway existed, but there was no page for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Sub_Edge which I've created by cribbing other local villages. My crib sheet of names lists 'Weston Subedge' as taken from the ONS list but I'm waiting on some feed back from the Parish Clerk as to the 'official' spelling nowadays. I've extended https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston-sub-Edge to include it's information box. There is room for more work and additional links to other material, but basically ... am I on the right line. I'm planning to spiral out, and have a small list of missing village and hamlets to add to wikipedia and I'm cross checking everything against my other lists. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk

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Digitising old 8mm home movies
by Joe Filceolaire 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

I have inherited a bunch of 8mm home movies dating from 1958 to 1980. Most are of family holidays visiting various landmarks in Europe. There are about 10 reels. Each reel is 400ft which is about 90 minutes (I think). I want to get these digitised and post them under a CC-BY-SA license then cut up into short sections related to particular wikipedia articles and added to Commons. There is probably more than half of the movies which can be used this way (we visited a lot of cool places) I have been quoted £1000 to digitise these. Anyone know of other options for digitising these? Has anyone got suggestions for the best way to do this? Joe

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WikimediaUKblue mobile internet device
by Chris McKenna 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

Hello all I'm currently borrowing the white mifi mobile internet device, which broadcasts the network name "WikimediaUKblue". Unfortunately I don't know the password for it - it isn't the same as the black mifi I've used previously. I've tried the obvious passwords ("wikipedia", "wikimediaUK", etc) to no avail. Does anyone here know the correct password? Thanks Chris ---- Chris McKenna cmckenna(a)sucs.org www.sucs.org/~cmckenna The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart Antoine de Saint Exupery

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Site security certificate expired
by Peter Coombe 07 Sep '15

07 Sep '15

It appears that the security certificate for wikimedia.org.uk expired yesterday. Is someone from the chapter looking into this? Thanks, Peter

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National Archives, trainer needed for October/November
by Stuart Prior 04 Sep '15

04 Sep '15

Hello all, I've been in contact with the National Archives about running an event for staff and students over there, it would be a combination of a training event with the then aim of getting a lot of new articles up and some subjects expanded, backed by the extensive sources the National Archive have available. We haven't pinned down a date, though initially we know it would be a Monday in October or early November. In terms of scope, this could be very wide. So while the NA obviously need a trainer to support them, some organisational support would be great in terms of defining what subjects the event wants to and can cover, maybe a list of articles that need to be created, and where this might fit into other existing WP:Wikiprojects or other Wikimedia projects. So, someone that wants to start building up possible ways Wikimedia projects can get the most out of our relationship with the NA would be most welcome. Naturally we would cover expenses. Thanks -- *Stuart Prior* *Project Coordinator* *Wikimedia UK* +44 20 7065 0990 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.*

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