Wikimediauk-l December 2018

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Does anyone have access to ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly?
by Harry Mitchell 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Hi all, Does anyone on the list have access to the journal ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly, published by Cambridge University Press? I'm looking for an article from volume 12, issue 1 (March 2008) - specifically https://doi.org/10.1017/S1359135508000948/ in connection with my war memorials project. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Harry Mitchell http://enwp.org/User:HJ +44 (0) 7507 536 971 Skype: harry_j_mitchell

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Any photographers near Southampton?
by Harry Mitchell 05 Jan '19

05 Jan '19

Hi all, Is there anyone with a camera or decent smartphone within easy reach of Southampton? I'd really appreciate some photos of the cenotaph in Watts Park (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_Cenotaph). I know the weather is not good for photography but I'm not too worried about quality - I just need a few shots from each angle to aid with writing a description. Thanks, Harry Mitchell http://enwp.org/User:HJ +44 (0) 7507 536 971 Skype: harry_j_mitchell

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Diversitech
by Lucy Crompton-Reid 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Dear all ContentMine, the Cambridge based organisation which some of you will be familiar with through WikiFactMine and/or their other initiatives, has submitted an application to the Wikimedia Foundation for a new project, *Diversitech. *This will apply text-mining techniques to a multilingual corpus of LGBT articles, to help improve the quality of related Wikimedia pages and Wikidata. Wikimedia UK will be supporting the communications aspects of this project, if the grant application is successful. Please can you consider adding your support to the funding bid, if you think that this is a good initiative? It's on wiki here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ContentMine/Diversitech Many thanks Lucy -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 203 372 0762 *Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement, and a registered charity. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827 Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ 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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Any editors in Chemistry?
by Sara Thomas 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Hello all, Wondering if there's anyone on the list that edits in Chemistry, that might be willing / able to offer me some advice? Am following up with a group of PhD students that I trained a while back - they've continued to edit (hurrah!) and have recently had some substantial edits reverted (aaah); I'm unfamiliar with the subject matter and would appreciate a second pair of eyes, or any pointers in terms of further guidance I could offer to them... All the best, Sara Thomas aka lirazelf aka Sara Thomas (WMUK)

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Strategy consultation meeting postponed
by Lucy Crompton-Reid 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

Dear all As there has been limited take up of the planned meeting tomorrow afternoon, I've decided to postpone this until after the Christmas break. I'll message again once a new date has been arranged - giving more notice, and more time for the discussion. Drinks in the office with staff and board are still happening tomorrow at 5pm. Do let Katie (copied in) know if you're coming. Thanks and all best wishes Lucy -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 203 372 0762 *Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement, and a registered charity. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827 Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ 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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My return from maternity leave, plus strategy consultation/festive drinks on Thursday 13th December
by Lucy Crompton-Reid 11 Dec '18

11 Dec '18

Dear all As I think most of you are aware I have been on maternity leave since the end of March (with my beautiful baby boy arriving on 5th April!), and Sandy Balfour has been the interim Chief Executive during that time. I returned to work a few weeks ago but am working part time hours (usually three days a week) until the New Year, when I'll be back full time. I've enjoyed my first few weeks back but am still catching up on quite a lot of things, as I'm sure you'll appreciate. An important piece of work over the next few months is developing our new three year strategy from 1st February 2019 - 31st January 2022. I have done some initial work on this following a short discussion about our future strategic focus at July's AGM, a board away day in September, and staff discussions; however I'm keen to ensure that this also takes account of and reflects community concerns and priorities. With this in mind, I would like to invite interested volunteers/editors/members to Wikimedia UK's office on *Thursday 13th December* for a strategic planning discussion. This will be followed by some festive drinks/nibbles with staff and board (prior to a board meeting later that evening). The schedule will be: 4 - 5pm - strategy discussions 5 - 6pm - drinks and nibbles 6pm board meeting I realise that some people may be interested in the chapter's future strategy but unable to attend the meeting in person, and will be in touch about other ways in which to contribute; however I wanted to get this date in people's diaries asap. Please can you email Katie.Crampton(a)wikimedia.org.uk to let her know if you will be attending one or both elements. There is no obligation to come to the meeting at 4pm in order to get a free drink at 5pm...but you are encouraged to do so! All best wishes Lucy -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 203 372 0762 *Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement, and a registered charity. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827 Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ 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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Cambridge meetup 15 December
by Charles Matthews 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

The next Cambridge meetup will be on 15 December: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/39 It will follow our current pattern, of a traditional meetup as social occasion, from 3 pm, in the Makespace community workshop, preceded by a two-hour ContentMine workshop. This time the workshop will be about the ScienceSource wiki at http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org/ and its function as a place to help annotate scientific papers. Real data for that, from text-mining, is on the way. Account creation for the wiki will be opened up, at least for a period: right now, to avoid giving the spammers an early Xmas present, you need to ask me. Anyway, please set aside time to come and join us. Charles

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New Wikiproject Proposal/Wikidata post-election updating toolkit
by Emily Robertson-Knowlton 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

Hello everyone — We at mySociety have posted a new Wikiproject proposal for a 2019 project grant: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikidata_post-election_updat…. We need your feedback and comments on the project. What we’ve done — and what we want to do Wikidata now has up-to-date and consistent data on political position holders in current national legislatures for at least 39 countries <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/mySociety/EveryPolitician/Fi…> (and work in progress for over 60 countries), thanks to work by volunteer community members on the Wikiproject every politician. mySociety worked as part of this project with a Wikimedia Foundation grant in 2017-18. There is now a real possibility for Wikidata to become the definitive source of data about democracies worldwide — but only if that data can be maintained sustainably. A significant risk is that elections and other major political changes quickly render data on political position holders and legislatures in Wikidata out-of-date. We’re proposing a Wikidata post-election updating toolkit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikidata_post-election_updat…> project, which aims to ensure that data on elected representatives is substantially correct and complete within a month following an election, leading to improved quality and consistency of data in Wikidata over time. We’ll work as part of the Wikidata community to create and signpost tools and pathways that help contributors to quickly, easily and consistently update data following an election or other political change. How community members can get involved in the project If you’re already active around data relevant to political position holders, legislatures, or elections in Wikidata, we’d like your feedback and help to test the new tools and guidance and ensure that they are consistent with the emerging consensus around modelling these types of data. In particular, if you live in a country or major region that has an upcoming election, please talk to us about piloting the tools! We’d like for you to test the project tools and guidance to update data following your country’s election, and to give us feedback on the value and appropriateness of the approach in your context and political system. In general, we’re keen to encourage discussion and evaluation of Wikidata as a source of current position holder data. Please review our proposal If you’re interested in this, and are active on Wiki projects, please have a look and review our proposal here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikidata_post-election_updat… Thanks! ~Emily Emily Robertson-Knowlton Delivery Manager mySociety mySociety blog <http://www.mysociety.org/blog/> Follow mySociety on Twitter <https://twitter.com/mysociety> Like mySociety on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/mySociety>

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Recent changes and watchlists broken on the WMUK Wiki
by Chris McKenna 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

Currently, both recent changes and watchlists on the WMUK Wiki are showing 0 changes, despite there being changes that should be shown - there have been four posts to the Engine Room (where this problem was flagged up) in the past 2 days for example. 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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