Dear John,
I'd be happy to see the chapter bring back these sort of events. Thinking
of a few lessons from when we last did them, coffee, soft drinks and some
sort of snacks are important - remember that many attendees will be coming
straight from work. We also used to designate a pub for the end of the
evening.
You need to allow for a variable start time, some people will be working
nearby, others may finish later and be an hour away - starting off with
something informal such as a wiki surgery would give time for more people
to get there. You don't want to give some people an hour to kill after work
or exclude others because they can't slope off work early.
Don't try to get 12 topics fixed before you start, topics will emerge as
you talk to the attendees and potential attendees. But the ones we
discussed at the London Meetup, FA writing, AWB workshop etc would give a
good diverse start. Geni's talk on "photography in museums" is one I would
happily hear again.
Last Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday would give some distance from the
existing London meetup on the second Sunday, and in the months with 5 weeks
give you an advantage when you are competing against events that use the
1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th week of the month.
Jonathan
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:14:25 +0100
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> Hi all, after talking to community members at the London meetup yesterday,
> I want to suggest that we start running a monthly skillshare after work at
> the Wikimedia UK office. It would be good to organise a 12 month programme
> with skillshares on things like 'getting an article to featured article
> status', AWB, Wikidata infoboxes, something on commons or photography
> perhaps.
>
> Would anybody like to suggest other subjects which it would be good to have
> a workshop on? We need a list of 12 which would have some broad appeal to
> the community and chapter members.
>
> I would suggest Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, maybe first week of the
> month. How does that sound to everyone?
>
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> Excellent idea. There was an idea to start something similar "what have you
> learnt recently/Share your exciting new learning (of course Wiki-related)".
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> Thanks
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> On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 16:45, John Lubbock <john.lubbock(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
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> > Hi all, after talking to community members at the London meetup
> yesterday,
> > I want to suggest that we start running a monthly skillshare after work
> at
> > the Wikimedia UK office. It would be good to organise a 12 month
> programme
> > with skillshares on things like 'getting an article to featured article
> > status', AWB, Wikidata infoboxes, something on commons or photography
> > perhaps.
> >
> > Would anybody like to suggest other subjects which it would be good to
> have
> > a workshop on? We need a list of 12 which would have some broad appeal to
> > the community and chapter members.
> >
> > I would suggest Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, maybe first week of the
> > month. How does that sound to everyone?
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> I like the idea. Once you have worked out how to do it efficiently, maybe
> the WMF can send out trainers to places where the skills are thin on the
> ground.
> Cheers,
> Peter
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> the Wikimedia UK office. It would be good to organise a 12 month programme
> with skillshares on things like 'getting an article to featured article
> status', AWB, Wikidata infoboxes, something on commons or photography
> perhaps.
>
> Would anybody like to suggest other subjects which it would be good to have
> a workshop on? We need a list of 12 which would have some broad appeal to
> the community and chapter members.
>
> I would suggest Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, maybe first week of the
> month. How does that sound to everyone?
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Hi all, I've been quite busy organising some upcoming events. We have a
presentation and a short editathon this weekend at Mozfest, an editathon at
Newspeak House, and two meetups (Wikidata and a skillshare) at the office
in London. I hope we will be doing a skillshare at the office each month
from now on, so if you have ideas for important Wikimedia skills that
should be disseminated more widely in the community, and if you'd like to
lead a workshop to teach others about it, please let me know.
For the Sunday of Mozfest, Mozilla have allowed us to offer our community
50% discounted 1 day tickets if you would like to attend that day of the
conference. The discount code can be found here
<https://ti.to/Mozilla/mozilla-festival-2018/discount/18Wikimedia>.
October 27 - Mozfest - Under the hood: How understanding Wikipedia’s
internal structure and community can teach media literacy
<https://guidebook.com/guide/147793/event/21682580/> - 11.15-12.45
October 28 - Mozfest - LGBT+ Middle East and North Africa (and more!)
editathon <https://guidebook.com/guide/147793/event/21920091/> - 2-5.30pm
November 4 - Middle Eastern Human Rights editathon at Newspeak House
<https://attending.io/events/wikimedia-editathon-middle-east?fbclid=IwAR3LC0…>,
London - 12-4pm
November 7 - Wikidata meetup
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikidata-meetup-tickets-51708402223?ref=estw>,
Wikimedia UK office in London - 6-9pm
November 21 - Wikimedia UK skillshare
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-uk-skillshare-writing-a-featured-a…>
- Writing a Featured Article at the Wikimedia UK office, London
All the best,
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 203 372 0767
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
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Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ.
Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open knowledge
movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make
knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia UK? Donate
here <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk>.
The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
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non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility
for its contents.*
If you were at the march yesterday and took photographs, or have
friends who took photographs, remember to share them on Wikimedia
Commons.
The category to use is
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:People%27s_Vote_March,_20_Octob…
The press and newspapers are full of stock photographs from the usual
suspects, but Wikipedia (and bloggers/journalists hunting for good
free media) has very few options to illustrate the People's Vote
article right now. I have uploaded a few of my photographs from the
day, but I did not manage to get photographs of the notable people
mentioned several times in the press as being at the event, such as
Sadiq Khan or Delia Smith.
Thanks
Fae
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Hi all, this is an email to ask for help and advice on improving the
Wikimedia UK websiite. Speaking to RexX recently at an event, I was
discussing some of the issues we are having with the UK website recently as
a result of it not being updated much. Some other chapters have recently
gone down the path of moving away from MediaWiki to make their sites more
user friendly, but I don't think we want to do that and I feel sure that
with a bit of effort we could make our MediaWiki site look a lot nicer.
If you look at the Special:Version
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Special:Version> page on the WMUK site, you
can see all the extensions that are installed currently. It appears we are
lacking many that would be useful, and not being a huge MediaWiki person I
wonder if anybody could lend a hand with helping to install some. In
particular, we cannot display video on the site, because there is no Timed
Media Handler extension. We probably also need Template Styles for reactive
tables, and there's probably more that would be useful. I would really
appreciate if anybody could offer help in installing these and/or advising
what other extensions we should install.
The website really needs quite a lot of work, but one thing I would really
like to be able to do is to automate scraping the image and lead paragraph
off blog posts and having it go onto the WMUK main Wiki page. At the moment
this needs to be done manually and this is quite annoying. The same goes
for the events list on the main Wiki page, which constantly has to be
updated and duplicated from the Events page. Again, if anybody knows how
this could be achieved, we would be very grateful.
One idea I'd like to suggest for doing this is to have a WMUK one day
workshop with anybody who is interested to meet up and work with us on
improving the site. I would be happy to organise this and arrange it if
people would like to attend help us improve the site. If you would be
willing to willing to come to London for this kind of event, please let me
know so I can get an idea of how many people might come and help out.
I hope that Wikimedia UK can also be here to support your Wikimedia work
and projects, so please bear in mind that there are always small grants
available for expenses to cover members' projects, so please let us know
what interesting things you have been doing and if there is any way we can
support you.
All the best,
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 203 372 0767
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1,
Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ.
Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open knowledge
movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make
knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia UK? Donate
here <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk>.
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.*
This is an early event for the Wikidata 6th birthday celebrations, going on around the world:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ContentMine/Cambridge_Wikidata_Works…
The venue is where a number of recent meetups have been held.
The programme has largely pulled together now, but you should probably check back later - there may be more on images.
All welcome: the morning session will be relatively introductory. Space is limited, so sign up if you are coming (and please <s>strike</> yourself if it turns out you can't).
Charles
Hi John
Thanks for offering to help out with this year's Wiki Loves Monuments
image reviewing. If it's OK with you, I'll bring you in at the end of
the week, or early next. As you've submitted a lot of entries yourself,
it will make things much easier if you're a round 2 rather than a round
1 reviewer. As yet the software can't prevent reviewers being presented
with their own images so clashes need be be handled manually - and that
would be a lot of work in round 1. Round 2 will be easier to manage.
All the best
Michael