There is a new property on Wikidata, P4755, for UK railway station
codes (e.g. BNS for Birmingham New Street):, as used by many
ticket-booking and live-timetable websites.
Now just 72 stations lack their station code on Wikidata:
https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&depth=3&categori…
compared to over 2,500 that have them.
Please help to add the last few.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Maybe the chapter (or someone on their behalf) could collect this?
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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From: "Cassandra Parsons" <Cassandra.Parsons(a)wallacecollection.org>
Date: 18 Jan 2018 10:40 am
Subject: Equipment
To: <AHFAP(a)jiscmail.ac.uk>
Cc:
Dear All,
I have some studio equipment that needs to be removed from the museum on
Friday, free to anyone who can collect it! It would be sad to see it end up
in a skip so I thought I’d see if anyone might want it.
It’s all pretty old but still usable! Snaps attached. A Manfrotto still
life table (with bespoke reinforcement made by our conservation technician,
so you can shoot very heavy objects on it!), two Elinchrome flash heads….
one which works perfectly but I can’t remove the softbox. A stronger person
than me may be able to get it off but hey… comes with free softbox! The
other head needs to be repaired (the flash centre could sort it out pretty
easily I think!) because the modelling bulb doesn’t work (new bulb, new
fuse, still doesn’t work) but the flash works fine though so still usable
as is!. Comes with a power pack for the two lights. Also have some
accessories (umbrellas / modelling dishes / HUGE Octabox!) if they’re of
any use.
I know it’s short notice but if anyone want’s this studio kit and can come
to collect it from the Wallace Collection between 10am-5pm this Friday then
you’re welcome to it! I’d be very happy if a fellow photographer or small
museum could give it all a home!
Sincerely,
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Dear colleagues,
During the University of Edinburgh’s Festival of Creative Learning (19-23 February 2018),<http://www.festivalofcreativelearning.ed.ac.uk/> we will be holding a Women in Medicine Wikipedia editing event as part of 2018’s celebration of one hundred years since the Representation of the People Act (1918)<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1918> came into force and women were finally given the right to vote, almost fifty years after the Edinburgh Seven fought for and won the right to train and practice as doctors. #Vote100 #FCL18
Festival of Creative Learning events – Free and open to all!
1. #Vote100 and Women in Medicine – Wikipedia editing event (22 February 2018).<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Events_and_…>
2. Wikidata Hackathon<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-hackathon-festival-of-creative-lear…> – Learn how to edit Wikipedia’s most exciting sister project (21 Feb).
3. Histropedia workshops<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/histropedia-knowledge-from-wikipedia-visuali…> – create bespoke visually dynamic timelines in minutes (20 Feb).
Only 17.39% of biographies on Wikipedia are about notable women so there are a great many notable women in medicine missing (both historic and contemporary) from Wikipedia and from Google’s search results. More suggestions<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Events_and_…> for pages to edit are very welcome and the Royal College of Physicians’ recent Women in Medicine exhibition<https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/women-medicine> may give some ideas too.
No editing experience necessary as learning how to edit is super easy. Full training (and refreshments) will be given and you are free to edit whichever page you would like to contribute. Alice White from the Wellcome Library will also be joining us.
Join us to celebrate the lives and contributions of women in medicine and help us create new role models for young & old alike! All welcome!
Date for your diary!
This International Women’s Day (8th March 2018) we will also be holding a Wikipedia editing event to celebrate #Vote100 as an important milestone on the road to universal franchise. Details to be confirmed but please free to email me if you have suggestions or would be interested in attending.
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Ewan
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Hello everyone,
This is my last day at Wikimedia UK for a year as from Monday I'll be
taking a sabbatical to work for English Heritage do stuff to do with
castles. Best wishes to everyone on the mailing list, and please make sure
WMUK stays a primarily tea-drinking office as I never got the taste for
coffee.
Regards,
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Richard,
Excellent. You deserve it. Stay out of trouble!
On 27 Jan 2018 05:52, "geni" <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 26 January 2018 at 17:36, Richard Nevell
<richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This is my last day at Wikimedia UK for a year as from Monday I'll be
taking
> a sabbatical to work for English Heritage do stuff to do with castles.
Best
> wishes to everyone on the mailing list, and please make sure WMUK stays a
> primarily tea-drinking office as I never got the taste for coffee.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Nevell
But we do things with castles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_castles_in_England
Oh well have fun.
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Hi all,
We have 2 events on Feb 3 which you should all come to!
We are hosting our first Wikidata hackathon at Newspeak House in East
London, teaching people how to use Wikidata. It's been quite short notice
to organise, but we are hoping it will be a launchpad for future
hackathons. We'd like to create more Wikidata users in the UK, and see how
we can use Wikidata within our partnerships, as well as encouraging people
to upload new data sets.
We'd love to see you all at the hackathon, as well as the event with
Katherine Maher from the WMF later on the same day.
Sign up for the hackathon here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-hackathon-in-london-all-levels-of-e…>
.
Sign up for the 'Future of Wikipedia' talk with Katherine Maher here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-wikipedia-tickets-42271530285>
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As far as I could see this story lacked any facts, not even one tangible
example of attempted manipulation. I'd appreciate a link if I misunderstood
the press coverage.
It might be a good use of resources to just keep saying "please provide an
example" before responding to what is probably itself fake news. Otherwise
one keeps on focusing on flying teapots rather than stuff that matters for
open knowledge.
Thanks,
Fae
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LGBT+http://telegram.me/wmlgbt
On 12 Jan 2018 21:48, "Lucy Crompton-Reid" <
lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Dear all
I just wanted to give the Wikimedia UK community a heads up that Wikipedia
may be in the spotlight in the coming days, as the Daily Mail and the Sun
are planning to run a story tomorrow about how MPs have (apparently) been
given briefings about concerns Russian trolls are planting ‘fake news’ on
Wikipedia to corroborate the false information they spread on Twitter. The
stories are likely to say that not enough checks are being done by
Wikipedia to make sure the content on the site is not fake.
I'm not personally aware of any such briefings to MPs regarding Wikipedia,
although the most recent oral evidence to the DCMS Fake News inquiry does
refer to known Russian sources on WikiLeaks (with particular reference to
the US election). Obviously I'm assuming that the UK press will know the
difference between Wikipedia and WikiLeaks, but the claims are apparently
linked to the inquiry and this is all I've been able to uncover this
evening.
The Wikimedia Foundation press team has sent a short response to these
claims, as follows:
Wikipedia’s open, transparent model is uniquely resistant to
misinformation. Anyone can edit Wikipedia, to fix mistakes or expand
articles, provided their contributions are neutral and based in reliable
sources. Thousands of people do just this on Wikipedia every day. Nearly
every edit ever made to Wikipedia is available to the public, so anyone can
see how an article has changed over time. Wikipedia is always improving,
and this open model creates accountability and means that bias tends to be
rooted out quickly, leading to a more balance version of the facts over
time.
Best wishes
Lucy
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Hello everyone!
I am happy to announce that the call for papers for Celtic Knot 2018
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cynhadledd_Celtic_Knot_2018> is now open.
The deadline for proposals
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2018/Call_for_papers>
will be March 31st.
Celtic Knot 2018 aims to continue where last years conference left off.
Speakers are encouraged to share their success stories and the
challenges they have faced whilst helping to develop a small or minority
language Wicipedia.
So please submit your papers, and share this message in your own circles.
Information on registration for the conference will be available soon,
but if you have any questions in the meantime please get in touch.
Mae'r wefan Celtic Knot hefyd ar gael yn y Gymraeg
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cynhadledd_Celtic_Knot_2018> (The Celtic
Knot website is also available in Welsh
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cynhadledd_Celtic_Knot_2018>)
Many thanks
Jason
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From: "Andrew Bruce" <andrew.bruce(a)postalmuseum.org>
Date: 22 Jan 2018 11:11 am
Subject: Digitising Glass Plate Negatives Blog
To: <AHFAP(a)jiscmail.ac.uk>
Cc:
Hello Everyone
Following on from the fascinating unconference at Cambridge University
Library last August 'Seeing the Positives in Digitising Negatives' and all
of the debate that came out of that day Townsweb Archiving invited myself
and Ted Dearberg from IWM to write a guest blog post about our workflows
for digitising glass plate negatives
https://www.townswebarchiving.com/2018/01/workflows-digitising-glass-plate-
negatives-scanner-vs-dslr/
In the blog i'm arguing the case for using cameras while Ted is arguing the
case for scanners
Hope that's of interest and rekindles some of the discussions had during
the unconference!
Best Wishes
Andrew
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If your message is over 40KB, it gets held in the mod queue. I get a queue
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I've raised the limit to 100BK - but if possible, please use a link instead
of an inline image!
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