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2019 AGM in Bristol on Saturday 13th July
by Lucy Crompton-Reid 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

Dear all I just wanted to give you all an early heads up that we are planning to hold Wikimedia UK's AGM this year on Saturday 13th July. We are looking at holding the event in Bristol for various reasons, but primarily because this is the city where the second highest number of our members lives (the first is London). My colleague Katie will be starting to look at venues over the next few weeks so if you have any suggestions or contacts, please get in touch! 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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#WikipediaDay
by John Lubbock 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Hi all, tomorrow is Wikipedia Day, and this year we're celebrating Wikipedia's 18th birthday since it was founded in 2001. We'd love to hear from the community online about why they value Wikipedia, and share the best responses to encourage others to think about editing Wikipedia and getting involved in the community. If you want to, you can respond to the questions below by posting a text or video message on social media (we are on Twitter, Facebook and Instagam as @wikimediauk) and tagging Wikimedia UK. For Wikipedia's 18th birthday we are asking everyone to tell us why they value Wikipedia. Tweet us your answers to these questions with the hashtag #WikipediaDay - What does Wikipedia mean to you? - Why do you think people should value Wikipedia? - What would you say to someone to encourage them to become a Wikipedia editor?' We will also be releasing some CC licensed interview footage with Jimmy Wales throughout the day which people can reuse however they like, and maybe a podcast too (if I have time). The WIkimedia Foundation are doing something similar, with the theme of Wikipedia becoming a 'young adult', and are asking the community to engage by doing any of the following, using the same hashtag, #WikipediaDay: - Send Wikipedia your favorite birthday selfie! (If you’re concerned about privacy, you’re free to get creative: birthday selfie of you cat? Birthday selfie made of legos?!) - Share a fact about Wikipedia (or even your favorite fact on Wikipedia) and we’ll reply back in the most snarky 18-year-old way we possibly can. - Recommend a place for Wikipedia to visit. What can we do now that we couldn’t before adulthood?! - Tag a celebrity in a Wikipedia-themed birthday wish! (What if Marie Kondo got rid of all the unreliable sources that did not “spark joy?” Wish upon a star. ✨) - Spread the good vibes. Wish a chapter or affiliate an early upcoming birthday instead. :) Please join us and help spread the news about Wikipedia turning 18! 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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Recent changes and watchlists on the UK wiki are still broken
by Chris McKenna 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

This issue was raised on the wiki and this mailing list at the end of November. We were assured then that the problem, apparently also affecting QRpedia among other things, and action was in hand to resolve this problem and prevent similar issues in the future. However, over a month later (albeit with Christmas in the way) there is no evidence that anything has happened (I have made two edits to the sandbox today, should anyone wish to do their own testing). This leads to some questions: -Is it really the case that there is only a single volunteer who can fix the wiki? -If so, how and why has this been allowed to happen? -What contingency plans does WMUK have in case this volunteer dies or otherwise becomes permanently (or long term) unvailable, with or without warning? -If not, why has the problem not been fixed yet? In either case: -What is the timescale for fixing the problems? -What concrete actions have been undertaken since November to prevent this happening again? -What concrete actions are planned to be undertaken in the future to prevent this happening again (short and long term), and what is the timescale for them happening? ---- 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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Dumb question about foundation membership
by Steve Bowbrick 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

Hi all, I'm pretty sure that my foundation membership payments stopped some time ago (my fault, credit card expired I suspect) but now I can't find where to log in and renew. Can you help? Thanks, s -- Social media for the BBC's speech and classical brands - including Radio 3, Radio 4 and the Proms 07718 120 073 http://twitter.com/bowbrick ---------------------------- http://www.bbc.co.uk This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. ---------------------

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Rescheduled strategy consultation meeting
by Lucy Crompton-Reid 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

Dear all Happy New Year! I hope you've all had a happy and healthy start to 2019. The rescheduled meeting about Wikimedia UK's next three year strategy will take place on *Wednesday 30th January* from 4 - 7pm. I will send out a more detailed agenda for the afternoon nearer the time but please do put this in your diaries and I hope many of you will be able to make it. I've deliberately scheduled it to go on later than a typical working day to enable more people to attend - so don't feel you have to come to the whole meeting. We can support travel costs if this is a barrier to you attending, but this will need to be agreed in advance. If you are able to attend please email *katie.crampton(a)wikimedia.org.uk <katie.crampton(a)wikimedia.org.uk>*. Please let Katie know if you would like your travel costs covered, with details of where you will be travelling from and the expected cost of the ticket. With thanks and 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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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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Encouraging GLAMs to use free Commons images
by Fæ 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

Finally got around to visiting the Ashurbanipal exhibition at the British Museum.[1] The exhibition is near first class.[2] If you are in London, treat yourself. The use of light projection to help illustrate the ancient friezes was smart, and done in a way that still let you examine the original objects in their normal state. I was taken aback when I realised that at the start of the exhibition, the delightful twenty foot across print of a panorama of a modern location in Iraq was sourced to Alamy.[3] Later in the exhibition, the modern location photographs I noticed were sourced to Alamy with credits to the photographer. Considering how much impact the Wiki Loves Monuments projects have had over recent years,[4] it is a shame that long established GLAM partners of our Wikimedia projects like the BM, still appear to prefer the ease of commercial stock photography libraries, rather than finding and trusting free images from Commons, or thinking of asking our Community for assistance if high quality photographs of historical locations are missing from our free collections, and might help future exhibitions. Does the UK chapter have any plans to do more to promote GLAM reuse of our free archives, or to bang the drum a bit more in GLAM journals where this happens successfully? # Links and footnotes 1. https://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/ashurbanipal.aspx 2. The convention of style over technical precision seems the norm. Failing to include accession numbers on descriptions, a lack of seating and displaying the fantastic library of cuneiform tablets in a case ten foot high and with no useful labels at all, tend to be considered bold choices rather than anything the museum wants to improve 3. The technical photographer within me noticed the slight focus anomalies, possibly due to the way software joins were done, and avoidable with either a far more expensive camera with panoramic features, or by stacking a much larger number of multiple shots 4. https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org Thanks Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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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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