Wikimediauk-l July 2018

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Wikibooks Group Opportunity
by Hannah Evans 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hi everyone, I'm pleased to share with you all an opportunity to join the* first Wikibooks Group/Club, *which will entail with several meetups from August- December 2018. The primary aim of the group will be to form a team to help support UCL's new Wikimedia in the Classroom course starting in October; an 'Approaches to Knowledge' module, comprising of 130 students, who will be graded upon the collective creation of a Wikibook! This will more broadly, however, be an opportunity to skill share/ peer learn the world of Wikibooks (and of course socialise) with some fellow Wikimedians in the coming months! Prior experience of Wikibooks isn't an absolute requirement- but those of you with Wikibooks experience are encouraged to inquire if you're interested! If you'd like to hear more details, drop me an email: hannah.evans(a)wikimedia.org.uk I'm hoping the group can have their first meeting in the first week of August, and will meet 3-5 times until December (the end of the Academic term). -- 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.*

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Historic Prisons database
by John Levin 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Dear list, A heads up that there is a new database of historic (c19th) English prisons: https://www.prisonhistory.org/ This is a pretty canonical database - I can't think of anything like it for any other place or period - with a wealth of detail, and much fine supporting material. Have been adding links to it on historic prisons pages, but obviously can be used to create and enhance entries. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis https://hcommons.org/members/johnlevin/

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Can you help us review images for Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2018?
by Michael Maggs 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Hi list Wikimedia UK is supporting the annual Wiki Loves Monuments contest again this year, and I am looking for 20-25 volunteers to help review and filter the entries. The contest finishes at the end of September, with reviewing and judging taking place immediately after that. We normally have several rounds of reviewing during October, enabling us to reduce the expected 10,000+ entries down to a long list of a few hundred from which the winners are selected by our panel of judges. You'd need to be able to commit to a minimum of 5-8 hours online reviewing, spread out over the month of October. As reviewing is done online, volunteers can be based anywhere in the world and you don't need to have any UK connections. We’re not looking for expert photographers, but you should have a basic ability to be able to distinguish a good photograph from a poor or mediocre one. Training in the online reviewing software is available. If you are able to help, or if you'd like more information, please let me know. Regards Michael ____________ Michael Maggs WLM-UK lead volunteer

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Wikimedians of 2018!
by Hannah Evans 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

At our AGM on Saturday, we featured the annual Wikimedian of the Year Awards--- Here you can find out the winners of 2018! <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/UK_Wikimedian_of_the_Year_2018> Congratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone who nominated their Wikimedians of 2018 -- 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.*

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Wikimedia UK 2018 AGM
by Katie Crampton 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

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 -- Katie Crampton Membership, Fundraising and Operations Assistant Wikimedia UK +44 (0)203 372 0761 *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.*

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Fwd: [Wiki-Medicine] WPMed Foundation to become a thematic organization: Your support is needed!
by Rex X 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

I hope you don't think this is too off-topic, but Wiki Project Med is applying to become a Thematic Organisation, the subject-specific equivalent of a Chapter, but based on a thematic area, rather than a geographic one. WPMEDF has been in existence for 6 years, and has cooperated with WMUK since it started. It became a User Group in 2014 and is now seeking the achieve the next step as a recognised Thematic Organisation for medicine globally throughout the Wikimedia movement. If you would support the idea, then perhaps you would be kind enough to indicate that at the bottom of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/Application which contains the full details of our application to AffCom. Thank you in advance for any support. Cheers -- Doug -------- Original Message ---------- From: Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com> To: ML - WPMed Foundation <wikimedia-medicine(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: 12 July 2018 at 16:03 Subject: [Wiki-Medicine] WPMed Foundation to become a thematic organization: Your support is needed! Dear WikiMed enthusiasts & friends, The WikiProject Med Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med , which is recognized as a formal User Group is now applying to become a Thematic Organization (an affiliate closer to a chapter). Details are in this Meta page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/Application#Support_Us! . Please support us by signing your name or your organization's name under paragraph #6. We'd be happy to answer any questions either here or on the talk page. Cheers, Shani Evenstein Sigalov Chair, WikiProject Med Foundation.

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Pride in London
by Fæ 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

A nudge for your calendar, Pride in London is going to be on Saturday 7th July. Just a month away if you want to plan a big day out in London! The parade itself is for registered groups, but is a lot of fun to watch and makes a great photography subject. If you want to officially take photographs for Wikimedia Commons and get privileged access, media passes can be requested up until 22 June.[1] Remember that we have an easy way to put freely released LGBT+ related photographs on Wikimedia Commons, see the LGBT Free Media collective.[2] Throughout June the international WikiLovesPride is running, so regardless of where you are, it's a great time to take a look at improving Wikipedia articles on LGBT+ history or biographies.[3] The history of the London gay rights marches and Pride parades looks skimpy and out of date, missing changes like the growing size of the event, now the third largest LGBT+ parade in the world, being awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service, and there being no mention of UK Black Pride events which run in parallel and are notable enough for a stand alone article. It's these primary Wikipedia articles and related photographs that journalists rely on when they are reporting on Pride events.[4] Pride in London training for stewards has started, and lots more volunteers are needed (it takes hundreds of stewards for the Parade alone). It's easy to book yourself in and the session lasts an hour. If you cannot get to Southwark for training, there will be remote digital training sessions too. I went on the first course last weekend, and for the first time I'll be a senior steward on the day. Drop me a note if you want to ask about it. If you are media savvy and can help out with tweets and photographs to support the event, there are calls for volunteers for those activities too.[5][6] Links 1. https://prideinlondon.org/media-centre 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:LGBT_Free_Media_Collective 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride/2018 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_London 5. https://prideinlondon.org/volunteer 6. https://twitter.com/PrideInLondon/status/1003924645106671616 Cheers, Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT+

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ScienceSource launches its focus list
by Charles Matthews 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

I'm back working at ContentMine, as Wikimedian in Residence , on the ScienceSource project, which is the sequel to WikiFactMine. We started in June, and yesterday launched our first participatory subproject. (The ScienceSource wiki is coming along, but will not be active for a little while yet.) The landing page for the ScienceSource focus list is at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ScienceSource_focus_list and that page has a couple of videos that start in at a very basic level. There is also some general discussion today on Wikipedia, at WT:MED, from the perspective of medical editors. The overall aim of ScienceSource is to give proper technical support to those who want to edit Wikipedia medical articles. There is a barrier to entry, namely the WP:MEDRS guideline on reliable sources in the health area. It is quite an education to try to understand it, from a standing start. To add a biomediical paper to the focus list, which currently has about 600 papers, you need to add a P5008 statements to the paper's Wikidata item, with object ScienceSource (Q55439927). More detailed instructions are on the page, and the list can be viewed using a query on its talk page. We are looking to collect 30K relevant open access papers, with good coverage of medical conditions. Please have a go yourself, and forward this mail to anyone you think might be interested. Those with suggestions who don't want to work on Wikidata can use the talk page to make them. Wikimedians, medical experts, librarians, all are welcome. Charles

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Wikimania attendees
by John Lubbock 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

Hello UK Wikimedians. I am wondering if any of you who are going to Wikimania, especially if you are doing talks or got grant funding, might email me to let me know what you will be doing there so that I might cover UK Wikimedians' activities on social media and the blog. There won't be many staff attending so it would be great to know who is going from the community so that we can promote your work if you would like us to. If you have got grant funding, I think you are required to write about your trip for the WMF. If anybody would also like to write about Wikimania for our blog, we would be very grateful! 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.*

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Wikimedian of 2018 Awards- Nominations today at midnight
by Hannah Evans 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

Hi Everyone, Today is your final opportunity to nominate your: - *Wikimedian of the Year * - *Positive Wikimedian of the Year* - *Partnership of the Year* - *Up & Coming, Wikimedian to Watch* for 2018! Please your nominations here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cHvaXPweG0KToYgmjFWWzCY8Mo1pvW2qstusK4DNAF…> *The nominations will be closing tonight (July 10th) at midnight*- and will be announced at this year's Wikimedia UK AGM, taking place at the Natural History Museum, this Saturday, (which you can still register for and attend)! The winners will be chosen based upon the details given in the nominations. *Happy nominating!*

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