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
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
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Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open knowledge
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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
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for its contents.*
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!*
Hello UK Wikimedians, Mozilla have issued a call for proposals for sessions
at this year's Mozfest. I'd like Wikimedia UK to have a presence there, so
if anybody has any ideas for sessions, why not let us know and we will see
if we can support it?
https://mozillafestival.org/proposals
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.*
Hello Wikimedians, as usual, I am starting to collate ideas for our Quarter
2 newsletter, and I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who is
working on an interesting project and would like to write a short summary
of it for the newsletter. It's not easy to create all the content we need
for various publications without help from other people, and I always
encourage people to get in touch if they have something they would like to
write about for the blog or newsletter.
Looking forward to hearing from people!
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.*
Hi
My membership expired last month but I don't think I received an invitation
to renew it - is that usual?
How do I renew my membership for WMUK? I also don't think I received
confirmation that my membership application was approved.
Please advise.
Thanks
Kelly
As you probably know, the EU is considering changes to copyright law which
could have serious negative effects on Wikipedia, as well as on the ability
to share article abstracts and memes. We encourage our community to take a
look at the following petition and consider adding your voice to calls to
MEPs to vote against this poorly considered law when it comes before the
European Parliament.
https://saveyourinternet.eu/
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.*
Hello all, I am thinking about making a video to promote WLM 2018. What I
would like to do is to find a photographer who may be going somewhere
interesting to take photos of a particular monument, and to go along with
them to film their expedition and do a short video about why they
contribute to the competition, to give an idea of why people participate
and how easy it is. If anybody is doing any photography expeditions for
WLM, or would like to organise one with me and RockDrum coming along to
film, please let me know.
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.*