It turns out that UK Parliamentary constituencies are not well
represented in Wikidata; for example many lack details of adjoining
constituencies, coordinates, and shape files.
A query highlighting the missing data, and a tool for finding
neighbouring constituencies, can be found at:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_British_Politicians/Cons…
with discussion on its talk page.
If you can help with improving these items, please do!
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Hello everyone!
We are organizing an event for Research and Wikimedia to exchange about
research done in the field and for researchers and Wikimedia community
members to work together on new ideas. The idea derived from the fact that
many researchers reusing Wikipedia, Wikidata and their sister projects
often are not yet integrated with the community. This makes their work a
lot more difficult than necessary. At the same time, many research projects
are useful for the community, but not yet integrated into Wikipedia and co.
We want to change this and facilitate the exchange between researchers and
Wikimedia community members in an event, where we bring people interested
in similar topics together. If you are either doing research in the
Wikipedia space or are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects,
please come by on the 8th of February. More details below.
Please spread the event invitation in your communities!
Best,
Lucie
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/research-and-wikimedia-tickets-90824421289
*Description*
We are organizing an event for Wikimedians and researchers to exchange!
Come along and learn more about research happening around Wikimedia and
what Wikimedians can teach you about the different Wikimedia projects!
A large part of the computer science research community is exploring
Wikipedia, Wikidata and their sister projects. In the fields of natural
language processing (NLP) as well as semantic web, Wikipedia and Wikidata
are often used as a fundamental part of the research world. At the same
time, the community of Wikidata and Wikipedia could make use of a variety
of tools developed by researchers. However, currently, the gap between
things explored in research and actual applications in Wikidata and
Wikipedia needs bridging. Therefore, we want to build a community of
Wikidata community members and research to exchange needs, existing tools,
open challenges and research question to foster an environment, where both
communities can benefit from the exchange.
The ideal is to have all the different approaches and commonalities under
one umbrella to foster exchange and support of different research
communities and their approaches.
OpenSym and the WikiWorkshop are already doing that for the people
submitting to and attending computer science research conferences. But
without the exchange with the community, there is a lack of communication,
creating silos of missing exchange.
*The Goal is*
to connect the researcher and the Wikimedia community to enable an exchange
that could ultimately lead to the research projects being implemented as
tools for Wikipedia. And vice-versa: More research projects build on
community needs.
*We invite*
*Researchers*
Anyone who does or is planning to do research on or around Wikimedia
projects, such as Wikipedia, Wikidata and others.
*Wikimedians*
Anyone in the community, who is interested in improving the research
happening around Wikimedia - you don’t need any experience in research.
Wikipedia editor, Wikidata data magician, whatever you do in Wikimedia
projects, your feedback will be highly valuable.
*What we need from you*
We would ask all researchers to bring an A2/A3 poster about what they are
doing in Wikimedia that we can put up so that we can create an easy way to
exchange on different projects. If you don’t have a project yet, don’t
worry- just bring a poster with topics you find interesting, and you might
be able to meet other researchers already working in your field of
interest. (If you struggle with printing the poster beforehand, please
reach out to us a few days in advance.)
*Event*
We will spend a day exchanging on recent challenges around Wikimedia.
Besides the posters, we aim to form working groups for the afternoon to
work on topics of shared interest and possibly propose a project of common
interest.
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Lucie-Aimée Kaffee
Hello everyone,
On *26 February*, Wikimedia UK and the Disruptive Media Learning Lab are
holding an education summit. It will bring together people using Wikipedia
in a classroom setting to share their experiences with others who are
interested in Wikipedia's use as an educational tool. The event is open to
all, and if you are interested in our education work or have been
supporting classroom courses please do come along.
The registration page is here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-in-education-uk-summit-tickets-839…
Kind regards,
Richard Nevell
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Dr Richard Nevell
Project Coordinator, Wikimedia UK
*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.
Hello Wikimedians,
This weekend I am running an event
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/turkish-culture-wikipedia-editathon-tickets-…>
to train Turkish speakers to edit Wikipedia at Newspeak House in East
London from 11-5. I'm not sure of the total number of attendees, because
people usually drop out, but we have had around 30 signups, so I wanted to
ask if anybody might be interested to come and help out with training on
the day. If you have travel reasonable expenses for the day, Wikimedia UK
will cover them. Please email me back if you are interested in coming to
lend a hand - essentially we need someone to just wander around and answer
any questions people have. This will be more important after the initial
training and lunch, so you don't need to come at 11, but from 1-1.30pm to
5pm would be very useful.
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.*
Perhaps of interest to GLAM:
"DCMS has commissioned the present study to consider, from a technical
point of view, how
the Culture White Paper ambition to ‘access particular collections in depth
as well as search
across all collections’ might be realised.
'This project is a feasibility study, to develop and evaluate a practical
framework for
collecting relevant data in order to map cultural collections and consider
what
functionalities a tool based on this framework might possess given the
state of
existing technology. This project will provide the framework for carrying
out this
mapping exercise. It is not expected to produce the tool or mapping itself,
but help us
scope options for a technical solution.'"
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mapping-digitised-collections-in…
*Edward Saperia*
Dean of Newspeak House <http://newspeak.house/>
newsletter <http://www.tinyletter.com/edsaperia> • facebook
<http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter
<http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572
133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG
Hello Wikimedians,
I've been working on this video about the gender gap issue for some time
and finally published it this morning. I hope that you will find it
interesting and help to share it on social media so it reaches a wide
audience. I think it shows how much work our community has put into
addressing the gender gap over the last 4 years.
Here's the tweet:
https://twitter.com/wikimediauk/status/1211616545417416706
Facebook post:
https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK/posts/2921728411172632?__xts__[0]=68.A…
The blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2019/12/wikimedia-uk-publishes-closing-the-ge…
The YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9CzjIL-A1Q
Thanks!
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.*
Dear all
We will soon be advertising for the newly created role of *Head of External
Relations* at Wikimedia UK, full details of which are on wiki here:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Head_of_External_Relations_Job_Description
I would be very grateful if could share the vacancy with your
networks. Applications are open until *Thursday 16th January*.
Thanks and best wishes
Lucy
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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.
The Cambridge meetup is back, with a new venue:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/42
Those not very familiar with Cambridge should note that Mill Road, where we'll be, is in a different area of Cambridge from Mill Lane, where we have been meeting. Relevant Record is out of the centre, and in fact close to the new mosque, which is well worth a look.
We're also starting at 2pm to take advantage of the brunch that continues until 3. The place is a café with a vinyl record shop in the basement.
I hope to see some of you there. We know that 42 is the answer, so we might be asking what is the question.
Charles
Hello Wikimedians, I'm thinking about holding an election night editathon
at Newspeak House in London on Thursday 12 December. We did one there last
election and it was quite good fun to make draft articles on people who
were likely to become MPs in anticipation of the results (which don't
usually start coming in until after midnight). I imagine there will be a
larger gathering of people at Newspeak, because it's a centre for lots of
other political and tech groups on occasions like that, but I wanted to let
the mailing list know and ask people to tell me if they would be
theoretically interested in participating.
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.*