Wikimediauk-l June 2017

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Pride 2017
by John Lubbock 28 Jul '17

28 Jul '17

Hello mailing list. Last year we had a lot of fun taking photos at the Pride march in London. This year it's on Saturday 8th July and we can get press accreditation for photographers if anyone is interested in attending. You should have a professional quality camera. If there are any other events you would like to get press accreditation to go to, get in contact and let me know and I can ask for you. John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK

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New videos of WMUK events
by John Lubbock 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Hi all, I just wanted to direct your attention to two new videos of recent Wikipedia workshops that took place in London: Imperial College London schools workshop <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKS__1UTxhk> At the London Cinema Museum <https://youtu.be/aMF4vwB71mg> Please feel free to share them and let people know about the work we are doing. John

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Ragged University and the Edinburgh Settlement Archive
by MCANDREW Ewan 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Dear colleagues, In a recent Twitter exchange, Ragged University made it clear they needed assistance saving the Edinburgh Settlement Archive following its closure. https://www.raggeduniversity.co.uk/edinburgh-settlement/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_University_Settlement As the Edinburgh Settlement Archive is an important collection, Ragged University made it clear that they would welcome offers of assistance from the Wikipedia community (and relevant sister projects such as Wiki Commons and Wikisource) in order to ensure the collection was preserved and accessible to the public. If you would like to support their work, please do get in touch with them via their contact page. https://www.raggeduniversity.co.uk/contact/ Very best regards, Ewan Ewan McAndrew Wikimedian in Residence Tel: 07719 330076 Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR. www.ed.ac.uk

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Last call for the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference
by MCANDREW Ewan 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Please disseminate to interested colleagues as appropriate. Last call: registration is closing for the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference this week. The Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference<https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_nr4uufq9>– This full day conference on 6 July is for colleagues interested in how technology can support language communities. Guest speakers from all across Europe will be joining us in Edinburgh to showcase and discuss a range of exciting open education, open data and open knowledge initiatives. Registration for this event closes 27th June so don’t delay in booking your place<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017>. New satellite event: Introduction to Wikidata and the Wikidata Query Service<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-wikidata-and-wikidata-query-…> – this event is now scheduled 11am to 1pm on Tuesday 4 July presented by Léa Lacroix (Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland). Léa will also be joining us at the Celtic Knot as part of the Wikidata workshop on 6 July too. Just one of the many great speakers<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Speakers> and presentations<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017/Programme> at the Celtic Knot discussing community engagement and how to make Celtic and Indigenous languages a shared hub of online knowledge. Includes presentations from Catalan Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Scots Gaelic Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia and more. Navino Evans from Histropedia will also be joining us for Wikidata I/O: a showcase event at the Repository Fringe 2017<http://www.repositoryfringe.org/> conference in August. Three workshops will include: (1) how to add data in bulk (2) the wide variety of ways the data can be consumed, queried and visualised and (3) how to build SPARQL queries. 4th August 2017<http://rfringe17.blogs.edina.ac.uk/registration/> Very best regards, Ewan McAndrew Wikimedian in Residence Tel: 07719 330076 Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR. www.ed.ac.uk

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Cambridge Wikidata talks, this Thursday and next
by Charles Matthews 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

http://moore.libraries.cam.ac.uk/news/wiki-teaching-sessions-22-june-6-july… for the announcement of my third talk in the series, on 6 July. Still time to sign up for this Thursday's, which a Wikidata introduction. Next Thursday's will explain in particular ContentMine's recent work on tools related to WikiFactMine and WikiCite. Charles

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Firefox doesn't like cert for https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk
by David Gerard 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

Just renewed my WMUK membership, and Firefox balked at the SSL certificate. The cert doesn't expire until 2019, but Firefox 54 doesn't like it. Oddly, Chromium 58 is fine with it. Can anyone see what's wrong, which CA Firefox doesn't like any more etc? - d.

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Anyone in a position to photograph the towers that appear to have flammable cladding
by geni 24 Jun '17

24 Jun '17

Since they are likely to change appearance soon if they haven't already. The list so far is: Horatia House and Leamington House in Somerstown, Portsmouth, where the city council is removing cladding after testing found it was a fire risk Three high-rise blocks on the Mount Wise Tower estate in Plymouth, where cladding made of similar material to Grenfell Tower was found Five high-rise blocks on Camden Council's Chalcots estate in north London where officials are preparing to remove cladding Braithwaite House, one of eight blocks tested on an Islington Council estate Denning Point tower block in east London where Tower Hamlets Council said the cladding "did not fully comply" with requirements The Village 135 development in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, where 78 panels were being removed from one area of the site Clements Court tower in Cranford, west London, where Hounslow Council says it will remove the outer cladding from the building http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40380584 Some these do appear to be in slightly iffy areas mind. Somerstown for example doesn't have the best of reputations. -- geni

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Wikimedia UK 2017 AGM - Agenda, Registration and Lightning Talks
by Lucy Crompton-Reid 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Dear all The formal notice of Wikimedia UK's 2017 Annual General Meeting was sent to members by email earlier today, on behalf of the board of trustees. If you are a member and don't receive the email by tonight, please get in touch (after checking your spam box!) so that we can check that your membership is current and that we have the correct email address for you. If you are not currently a member of the charity, I would urge you to join here <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=4> or email membership(a)wikimedia.org.uk. For just £5 a year you can help shape the direction of the charity and stand for election to our board of trustees, as well as submit motions and vote in General Meetings. As a membership organisation it's vital for Wikimedia UK to have a vibrant, diverse and active membership body so please consider showing your support for open knowledge and for the chapter in this way. As previously confirmed on this mailing list, the next AGM for Wikimedia UK will be held on Saturday 15th July at Senate House Library in London and all volunteers, editors and partners are welcome, although only members of the charity can vote (in person or by proxy). The day starts at 11am and we aim to finish by 4.30pm, and we will be keeping you fed and watered throughout. The agenda for the day is on wiki here <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2017_AGM>. Following the AGM there is an evening networking and refresher event for previous participants of the Train the Trainer course, starting at 5pm, and the rest of us will be heading to a nearby pub I imagine :) We would like to invite people attending the AGM and meet up to give a short lightning talk - for example on your own work with Wikimedia, or developments within open knowledge - so please email membership(a)wikimedia.org.uk if you would like to participate. There are limited slots available and talks should be no longer than five minutes. We would love to see as many of our members, volunteers and other stakeholders as possible on 15th July, so please sign up through eventbrite here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-uk-agm-2017-tickets-34718203080?re…>. With very best wishes Lucy -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0991 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. 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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Introduction to Wikidata Thursday, 29 June, 2017, Cambridge Moore Library
by Charles Matthews 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

There are still places left for my talk on Thursday in Cambridge: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-reliability-of-wikipediaand-what-you-can… The following week, same time same place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-wikidata-tickets-35340980825 This will follow the same pattern: sandwich lunch, opening talk, two hour workshop session. A free event. Charles

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WMUK member confirmation sent to spam by GMail
by David Gerard 17 Jun '17

17 Jun '17

Apparently it was sent to spam because it doesn't meet GMail's "Bulk Sender Guidelines": https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en-GB#authentication tl;dr they want you using SPF, DMARC and DKIM. (The message headers say spf=neutral, which I expect means nobody's set it up.) These are very faffy (we just set this up at work) but worth it. But also very faffy. - d.

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