Good morning all
I'm pleased to confirm that this year's Wikimedia UK AGM will be taking
place on *Saturday 14th July* at the Flett Lecture Theatre, the Natural
History Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2HF.
The detailed schedule for the day <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2018_AGM> is
currently being finalised. But we will start the event at 10:30am with
talks and workshops from 11am, including a keynote speech from the
Campaigns Director of Liberty, Corey Stoughton, a look at our work with the
Welsh Government from Welsh Digital Language Specialist, Gareth Morlais,
and an introduction to the challenges and successes of the Natural History
Museums' new Data Portal <http://data.nhm.ac.uk/> with Helen Hardy.
The actual AGM order of business is scheduled for 3 pm - 4.30 pm, but we
would encourage you to come and stay for the whole day. All volunteers,
editors and partners are welcome, but only members will be eligible to vote
on AGM matters.
To attend, you must please let us know you're coming. The registration page
on Eventbrite can be found here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-uk-agm-2018-tickets-46366475376>.
For security and catering we must have an up to date attendee list, so if
you can no longer attend after registering please email me at
katie.crampton(a)wikimedia.org.uk
Any member who wishes to bring forward a resolution for consideration at
the AGM must inform the charity, and supply a copy of the suggested text,
by no later than *Friday 8th June 2017*. The suggested text may either be
sent by email to the chair of the board at info(a)wikimedia.org.uk or may be
posted online at
*https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2017_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2017_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions>*
If you have any questions do let me know. I'll be emailing and updating the
wiki with further details, including the agenda, over the coming weeks.
With best wishes
Katie
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Wikimedia UK
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*Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for 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? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk
Wikimedia UK is a 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
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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.*
As part of my new Wikipedia Residency, I'm running an event at
Birmingham's Ikon Gallery:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikon_Gallery
on Sunday. There are still a few places available. Come along, and
write or update articles about contemporary art & artists.
The event is free, lunch will be provided, but please bring a laptop.
Training will be available for new editors.
Book at:
https://www.ikon-gallery.org/event/wikipedia-editathon/
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Hi Everyone,
It brings me with great excitement to announce the opening of nominations
for the *UK Wikimedians of the Year Awards 2018!*
You can read about the* 4 Categories for 2018 *and *put forward your
nominations here! <https://goo.gl/forms/vPAopPgoMY9xJ1hu1>*
Nominations are open from today, May 29th, until *Midnight Tuesday July
10th. *
The winners will be announced as part of our Annual General Meeting on
*Saturday
14th July*, at the Natural History Museum, London.
Happy nominating!
Hannah
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Hannah Evans
*Programme Coordinator*
*Wikimedia UK*
*020 3372 0765*
*Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for 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? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk
Wikimedia UK is a 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
<https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gm…>
.
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.*
Following changes which now disallow article creation by unconfirmed editors, a successful RfC was held to establish a new permission, "Event Coordinator". Details are at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Event_coordinator
This permission will be very useful for all of our volunteers who are involved with events and I'd encourage all of our regular trainers to apply for the permission at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Event_coor…
Please let me or Daria know if you encounter any problems with an application,or if you're unsure of anything related to the rights.
Cheers
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Doug
Possibly of interest...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gyorgy Fazekas <g.fazekas(a)qmul.ac.uk>
Date: 8 May 2018 at 16:03
Subject: Postdoc position in London / QMUL / Semantic Audio
To: "semantic-web(a)w3.org" <semantic-web(a)w3.org>
Postdoc opportunity, salary: £32,405 - £36,064, closing: 20 May 2018,
duration: 8 month. Apologies for the reminder and cross posting,
please circulate widely.
Dear All,
The Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary, University of
London is seeking to appoint a Post Doctoral Research Assistant as
part of the Audio Commons project to extend the existing team of
researchers.
Audio Commons aims to bring the success of Creative Commons (CC) to
the world of audio and the creative industries by helping the
retrieval, reuse, management and licensing of audio content.
Audio Commons is a joint European Union Horizon 2020-funded project
combining the strength of 3 academic and 3 industry partners; UPF,
Barcelona, (Music Technology Group), Queen Mary University of London,
(C4DM), University of Surrey, (Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal
Processing, Institute of Sound Recording, Surrey Business School),
AudioGaming, Toulouse, France, Waves, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Jamendo Music,
Luxemburg. The project runs over 3 years, with a total budget of over
EUR 2.9M.
The project addresses several issues faced by the creative industries
when using musical as well as non-musical audio material on the Web
and aims to develop novel methods enabling the creation, access,
retrieval and reuse of audio material in innovative new ways. The
researcher will develop algorithms that combine audio signal
processing for content analysis with semantic web technologies for
gathering and analysing contextual information related to audio
recordings. The work will involve the development of new ontologies
and Web-based Application Programming Interfaces supporting the Audio
Commons Ecosystem, developing novel signal processing and machine
learning algorithms for content annotation, and conducting user
studies to evaluate application specific prototypes, such as novel
tools for sound design, in collaboration with the project's industry
partners.
For more information about Audio Commons, please see: http://audiocommons.org
Applicants are expected to have excellent research, programming and
academic writing skills, as well as expertise in two or more of the
following areas: 1) Semantic Web technologies (RDF, SPARQL, OWL) and
Linked Data or databases and structured data representation, 2) Audio
Signal Processing, Machine Learning and Music Information Retrieval,
3) Logic-based inference, REST-based Application Programming
Interfaces. Strong programming skills (preferably in Python) is
essential.
The post is full time and available for 8 months or until 31 January
2019, whichever is the shorter. The starting salary will be in the
range of £32,956 - £36,677 per annum inclusive of London allowance.
Benefits include 30 days annual leave, defined benefit pension scheme
and interest-free season ticket loan.
Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr. George Fazekas at:
g.fazekas(a)qmul.ac.uk.
Details about the School can be found at: www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 20 May 2018 and interviews
are expected to be held shortly afterwards.
To apply, please visit the Human Resources website
(https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobID=3259) and
search for reference QMUL14659.
Please apply directly online where you find the full details of the
available positions. Please do not send completed applications by
email.
Best wishes,
Dr. George Fazekas
Lecturer in Digital Media,
Centre for Digital Music
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London
Web: http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~gyorgyf/
AudioCommons: http://audiocommons.org
SAAM2018: http://saam.semanticaudio.ac.uk/
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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
Hello everyone.
Interested in supporting small and minority language Wikipedias?
Developing Wikidata and tools in your language? or using Wikipedia as an
educational tool to promote the use of your language? Well, these are
just some of the themes we will explore at the Celtic Knot 2018
Wikipedia languages conference in Wales.
*Tickets are now on sale and we are inviting applications for travel
scholarships* <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2018>
Please spread the word and help us make the conference a success!
Thanks!
Jason
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