Wikimediauk-l August 2017

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Copyfraud by the British Museum
by Fæ 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

The Tullie House Museum in Carlisle has a number of objects on loan from the British Museum,[3] and it appears that it is only those objects that have any restrictions on photography. I took photographs of two of these (without any flash), as the restrictions are shockingly obvious cases of copyfraud, and not for any reason that might protect the works from damage.[1][2] It seems incomprehensible as to why the British Museum would ever want to make copyright claims over ~2,000 year old works especially considering they are not a money-making commercial enterprise, but a National institute and charity, with a stated objective[4] that "the collection should be put to public use and be freely accessible". Does anyone have any ideas for action, or contacts in the Museum, that might result in a change of how loans from the BM are controlled? I'm wondering if the most effective way forward is to make some social media fuss, to ensure the Trustees of the museum pay attention. The reputational risk the apparent ignorance over copyright by the BM loans management team seems something that would be easy to correct, so changes to policy are overdue. My own experience of polite private letters to a Museum's lawyer demonstrates that you may as well save hours of volunteer time by filing these in the bin, compared to the sometimes highly effective use of a few pointed tweets written in a few minutes and shared publicly and widely across social media. Those of us Wikimedians who work closely with GLAMs tend to shy away from any controversy, wanting the organizations to move towards sharing our open knowledge goals for positive reasons. I'm happy to try those types of collegiate ways of partnering, however drawing a few lines in the sand by highlighting embarrassing case studies, might mean we make timely progress while activist dinosaurs like me are still alive to see it happen. Links 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_2nd_century_bronze_j… 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_Fortuna_statue,_with… 3. Tullie House, Roman Frontier exhibition: http://web.archive.org/web/20161030151228/www.tulliehouse.co.uk/galleries-c… 4. British Museum "about us": http://web.archive.org/web/20170714042800/www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/ma… 5. Commons village pump discussion: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#British_Museum_and_… Contacts * https://twitter.com/britishmuseum * https://twitter.com/TullieHouse Thanks, Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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Wikimedia UK Office Move
by Lucy Crompton-Reid 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Dear all As many of you will be aware Wikimedia UK has been looking for new office space as our current building, Development House, has been sold by our landlords and is being redeveloped. After an extensive process led by Davina Johnson, our Director of Finance and Operations, and supported by Nicola Furness, our Fundraising, Membership and Operations Assistant, the team will be moving next *Wednesday 23rd August.* Our new offices are in Southwark, just behind Tate Modern and about a 10 - 15 minute walk from both Waterloo and London Bridge stations, and a five minute walk from Southwark. Our new address is: Wikimedia UK Europoint Office 1, Ground floor 5-11 Lavington Street London SE1 0NZ We will circulate new telephone numbers as soon as these are set up, but please note the last date the current address and phone numbers will work on is Tuesday 22nd August. Of course our email addresses will remain the same however it would be fair to expect a bit of disruption to emails and possible delays in replies, particularly over the next week as we pack the current office down and set up the new space. Once the dust has settled we will have a little 'open office' event with drinks and nibbles where volunteers, members and partners can come and visit us in our new offices. We will circulate a date for this as soon as possible but it's likely to be in the early autumn. If you have any questions about this please get in touch. Thanks and 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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Photography workshop
by Richard Nevell 26 Aug '17

26 Aug '17

Hello everyone, With Wiki Loves Monuments starting a week today some of you might be interested in a free photography workshop in London on Saturday 2 September. Details are on the registration page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-photography-workshop-tickets-36931… Richard Nevell -- Richard Nevell Project Coordinator Wikimedia UK - sign up to our newsletter <http://eepurl.com/cnYOw5> +44 (0) 20 3372 0765 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 5-11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ. 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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Last call for submissions for the Newsletter
by John Lubbock 25 Aug '17

25 Aug '17

Hello all, I'm just preparing the 3rd newsletter of the year to go out before the end of August. If you would like to submit something to be considered, please get in touch and let me know. We already have pieces on Wikimania, Wiki Loves Monuments, Harry Mitchell on War Memorials, Sara Thomas at SLIC, Upcoming Events, and the Parliamentary Digital Service content release. It would be great to hear from anyone who has an interesting project ongoing that they would like to tell others about. The deadline for this is next Tuesday. John Lubbock

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 video
by John Lubbock 25 Aug '17

25 Aug '17

Hi all, we've just published a promotional video for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 on YouTube <https://youtu.be/DSBjS1FBdSs>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK/videos/1655370024475150/?hc_ref=ARRLNU…> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk/status/900317383486832641>. I would really appreciate it if anybody who is able can share these posts so that they reach as wide an audience as possible. We are trying to make more of this video content so people can understand what we do in the UK and what the difference is between Wikipedia, the WMF and us as a chapter. Obviously as we don't have money for advertising, we rely on our (fantastic, intelligent, unaffected by flattery) community to get the word out, so I'd be incredibly grateful if those of you on social media can help share our content. Thanks! John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK

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#4947276 Invoice secondary Notice
by Ewan.McAndrew＠ed.ac.uk 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

Dear , I’m sorry, but I was unable to reach you on your cell phone so I am contacting you through this email about the status of this invoice below. http://totalvictorymma.com/Copy-Invoice-0384/ Respectfully Yours, Ewan.McAndrew(a)ed.ac.uk

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Meetup 3 September - workshop
by Charles Matthews 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

The Cambridge meetup on 3 September https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/35 will be preceded by a software workshop starting at 1 pm. More details will be given on the page, in due course. This innovation will not affect the usual largely social occasion starting at 3 pm. Charles

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] #4947276 Invoice secondary Notice
by MCANDREW Ewan 23 Aug '17

23 Aug '17

Dear all, Suffice to say I won’t ever be asking to pay invoices on this mailing list but many apologies for the phishing email you received which purported to come from my email address. I can see this has generated a great deal of discussion on this thread. Just to make you aware that I’ve reported the issue to the IS helpline here at the university who are looking into this as a matter of urgency. I’ve also run Malware checks on both my computer and mobile (using Malwarebytes and Norton) but nothing seems amiss/ turning up in these scans so far. I’m wondering also if this is not a university email problem per se given I have also received another phishing scam email to my gmail purporting to be from Jason’s email address at the National Library of Wales. So Jason and Wikimedia UK list admins may want to run scans too (belt and braces after all!). Apologies all once again. Best wishes, 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 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Discussion about spam mail
by Deryck Chan 22 Aug '17

22 Aug '17

Dear all, Please redact the actual spam / scam messages in discussions about them. This helps to prevent discussants from accidentally clicking on the trap while reading the discussion. I strongly advice everybody to delete the earlier messages in this thread which contained the full text and link of the spam message. Deryck On 21 August 2017 at 17:45, Lucy Crompton-Reid < lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: Thank you :) On 21 August 2017 at 17:16, Rex X <rexx(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: For those that are interested, the spammer's IP seems to be 189.223.76.180, which geolocates to Rosarito, Estado de Baja California, Mexico and their ISP is Telefonos del Noroeste, S.A. de C.V. if anyone wants to complain. They are simply using Ewan's name in the From: field, but it's worth him running a malware check just in case. I've sent a report via SpamCop anyway. -- Rexx > On 21 August 2017 at 11:09 Lucy Crompton-Reid > <lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > > > Sorry just saw that this actually came to the whole mailing list, not > directly to Owen...but my point still stands! > > On 21 August 2017 at 10:10, Owen Blacker <owen(a)blacker.me.uk> wrote: > > > I'm guessing this is phishing spam? > >

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Wiki Loves Monuments UK is looking for volunteers
by Michael Maggs 21 Aug '17

21 Aug '17

Hi all. Wiki Loves Monuments UK is looking for some volunteers to help with reviewing this year’s entries and identifying a long list of images that are worthy to be submitted to the three judges who will pick the final winners. You don't need to be a top photographer to volunteer for this, but you should have a good understanding of what makes an exceptional photograph and be able to distinguish good from mediocre images. You'd need to be able to commit to something like four or five hours work, mostly during October but perhaps during September as well. If you are able to help, please contact me by email. More details can be found at the competition website http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk All the best Michael

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