Dear colleagues,
Please disseminate to interested colleagues as appropriate – this event is open to all.
We’ve moved our #Vote100 Wikipedia editing event<tinyurl.com/Votes100> to the University of Edinburgh’s central campus and the Teaching Studio LG.07 at David Hume Tower Building. The event is part of the Festival of Creative Learning and 2018’s celebration of one hundred years since the Representation of the People Act (1918)<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1918> came into force and women were finally given the right to vote, almost fifty years after the Edinburgh Seven fought for and won the right to train and practice as doctors. #Vote100 #FCL18
Festival of Creative Learning events – Free and open to all!
1. #Vote100 Wikipedia editing event (22 February 2018).<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Events_and_…>
2. Wikidata Hackathon<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-hackathon-festival-of-creative-lear…> – Learn how to edit Wikipedia’s most exciting sister project (21 Feb).
3. Histropedia workshops<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/histropedia-knowledge-from-wikipedia-visuali…> – create bespoke visually dynamic timelines<http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?q=%23Timeline%20of%20U…> in minutes (20 Feb).
This email is to invite you take part in the event where you can learn how to edit, meet supportive colleagues, have refreshments and help address Wikipedia’s systemic bias by publishing a new article of your choice about a suffragette, a notable women in medicine or any of the incredible women missing from Wikipedia e.g. Bessie Watson, the Scottish child suffragette and piper<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_(Bessie)_Watson>. More suggestions for pages to edit are very welcome.
Bring a friend, bring two! We have a very large room, food and drink and lots of pages to create. No editing experience necessary, full training will be provided and it’s super easy (& fun) to do.
Only 17.39% of biographies on Wikipedia are about notable women so there are a great many notable women missing (both historic and contemporary) from Wikipedia and from Google’s top search results.
I hope you can find time to attend as we could greatly use your support.
Best wishes,
Ewan
Ewan McAndrew
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Dear all
We have recently reviewed and updated Wikimedia UK's Finance Policy, which
is shared in a google doc here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I9IfT7Y5R6InUWLo177MgdmmNl--f1NCjaPjFXS…>.
I am circulating this now for community review, so please feel free to make
suggestions directly to the document or email me on
lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk with any comments or questions.
Please note that we have moved some of the detail out of the current policy
(on wiki here <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Finance_Policy>) into a set of
financial procedures, and removed areas that are now covered by separate
policies or procedures.
The policy will be reviewed and hopefully agreed by the board at their next
meeting on 10th March, so please could you get any comments to me (or added
to the google doc) by *Thursday 1st March*.
Thanks and best wishes
Lucy
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Hello,
The National Library of Wales is applying for a Scholarships Grant from
the Wikimedia Foundation to enable more people to attend the 2018 Celtic
Knot <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2018>
conference in Aberystwyth.
If you attended the conference last year or are interested in attending
this year *please complete this short community survey, which is a
compulsory element of our grant application.*
https://goo.gl/forms/aw2wA5gMa6tZJcO33
Thanks in advance!
Jason
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Maybe the chapter (or someone on their behalf) could collect this?
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From: "Cassandra Parsons" <Cassandra.Parsons(a)wallacecollection.org>
Date: 18 Jan 2018 10:40 am
Subject: Equipment
To: <AHFAP(a)jiscmail.ac.uk>
Cc:
Dear All,
I have some studio equipment that needs to be removed from the museum on
Friday, free to anyone who can collect it! It would be sad to see it end up
in a skip so I thought I’d see if anyone might want it.
It’s all pretty old but still usable! Snaps attached. A Manfrotto still
life table (with bespoke reinforcement made by our conservation technician,
so you can shoot very heavy objects on it!), two Elinchrome flash heads….
one which works perfectly but I can’t remove the softbox. A stronger person
than me may be able to get it off but hey… comes with free softbox! The
other head needs to be repaired (the flash centre could sort it out pretty
easily I think!) because the modelling bulb doesn’t work (new bulb, new
fuse, still doesn’t work) but the flash works fine though so still usable
as is!. Comes with a power pack for the two lights. Also have some
accessories (umbrellas / modelling dishes / HUGE Octabox!) if they’re of
any use.
I know it’s short notice but if anyone want’s this studio kit and can come
to collect it from the Wallace Collection between 10am-5pm this Friday then
you’re welcome to it! I’d be very happy if a fellow photographer or small
museum could give it all a home!
Sincerely,
*Cassandra Parsons*
Photographer
Office: 020 7563 9575
Studio: 020 7563 9572
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Dear colleagues,
During the University of Edinburgh’s Festival of Creative Learning (19-23 February 2018),<http://www.festivalofcreativelearning.ed.ac.uk/> we will be holding a Women in Medicine Wikipedia editing event as part of 2018’s celebration of one hundred years since the Representation of the People Act (1918)<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1918> came into force and women were finally given the right to vote, almost fifty years after the Edinburgh Seven fought for and won the right to train and practice as doctors. #Vote100 #FCL18
Festival of Creative Learning events – Free and open to all!
1. #Vote100 and Women in Medicine – Wikipedia editing event (22 February 2018).<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Events_and_…>
2. Wikidata Hackathon<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-hackathon-festival-of-creative-lear…> – Learn how to edit Wikipedia’s most exciting sister project (21 Feb).
3. Histropedia workshops<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/histropedia-knowledge-from-wikipedia-visuali…> – create bespoke visually dynamic timelines in minutes (20 Feb).
Only 17.39% of biographies on Wikipedia are about notable women so there are a great many notable women in medicine missing (both historic and contemporary) from Wikipedia and from Google’s search results. More suggestions<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Events_and_…> for pages to edit are very welcome and the Royal College of Physicians’ recent Women in Medicine exhibition<https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/women-medicine> may give some ideas too.
No editing experience necessary as learning how to edit is super easy. Full training (and refreshments) will be given and you are free to edit whichever page you would like to contribute. Alice White from the Wellcome Library will also be joining us.
Join us to celebrate the lives and contributions of women in medicine and help us create new role models for young & old alike! All welcome!
Date for your diary!
This International Women’s Day (8th March 2018) we will also be holding a Wikipedia editing event to celebrate #Vote100 as an important milestone on the road to universal franchise. Details to be confirmed but please free to email me if you have suggestions or would be interested in attending.
Very best regards,
Ewan
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk
Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk
My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday.
Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR.
www.ed.ac.uk
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Hello everyone,
This is my last day at Wikimedia UK for a year as from Monday I'll be
taking a sabbatical to work for English Heritage do stuff to do with
castles. Best wishes to everyone on the mailing list, and please make sure
WMUK stays a primarily tea-drinking office as I never got the taste for
coffee.
Regards,
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Richard,
Excellent. You deserve it. Stay out of trouble!
On 27 Jan 2018 05:52, "geni" <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 26 January 2018 at 17:36, Richard Nevell
<richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This is my last day at Wikimedia UK for a year as from Monday I'll be
taking
> a sabbatical to work for English Heritage do stuff to do with castles.
Best
> wishes to everyone on the mailing list, and please make sure WMUK stays a
> primarily tea-drinking office as I never got the taste for coffee.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Nevell
But we do things with castles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_castles_in_England
Oh well have fun.
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Hi all,
We have 2 events on Feb 3 which you should all come to!
We are hosting our first Wikidata hackathon at Newspeak House in East
London, teaching people how to use Wikidata. It's been quite short notice
to organise, but we are hoping it will be a launchpad for future
hackathons. We'd like to create more Wikidata users in the UK, and see how
we can use Wikidata within our partnerships, as well as encouraging people
to upload new data sets.
We'd love to see you all at the hackathon, as well as the event with
Katherine Maher from the WMF later on the same day.
Sign up for the hackathon here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-hackathon-in-london-all-levels-of-e…>
.
Sign up for the 'Future of Wikipedia' talk with Katherine Maher here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-wikipedia-tickets-42271530285>
.
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
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