Anyone else watch "The Good Fight",[1] the sequel to "The Good Wife" which I
didn't get drawn into? The first series is showing on More 4, and episode 6,
“Social Media and Its Discontents” which I saw earlier this week, was certainly
one to get me shouting at the television.
An absurd plot, but it had a Chicago law firm acting as "ArbCom" in a ban appeal
by an attention-seeking troll. Starting with the proposition that websites do
have terms of service, I think I could teach a class on the whole business of
online toxicity and "fake news" by critiquing the handling by the scriptwriters.
Seriously, I do suggest that "literacy" in these issues should not be left to
TV.
Charles
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Fight
Hello everyone,
As you may know, there is an ongoing discussion about the Wikimedia
movement's strategy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017>.
Organisations and individuals from within the movement are invited to
contribute. Wikimedia UK are hosting a virtual discussion on 9th May to our
own community has a chance to contribute.
It will take place over Google Hangouts, *4pm-6pm on Tuesday 9th May*.
If you want to take part, please let me know off-list so I can send you an
invite.
If you can't make it, there will be other opportunities to take part in
discussions and we're planning on having another virtual meetup as well as
some in-person events.
Richard Nevell
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Dear list,
The subject of publishing postgrad / PhD these under open licenses came
up via the W.UK twitter account a few days ago:
Wouldn't it be amazing if all postgrad/PhD students were given the
option to publish dissertations/theses on Open Licenses? #OpenKnowledge
https://twitter.com/wikimediauk/status/857618743924592640
I think there's two issues here: first, if, how and when postgrad theses
are published, then second, under what license.
For the first, there's been debates recently about embargoing
publication etc. Eg:
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/publishing-dissertation-online/51…
But that's another subject really.
For the second, I think there's no reason that prevents any thesis being
published under a free open license, save where there is use of
copyrighted materials. But I haven't found many unis stating this clearly.
Leeds is the only UK university I've found that overtly advocates CC
licenses:
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/371/copyright_for/294/copyright_for_phds/4
But this is on the sole basis of a few hours googling.
I'm a PhD at Sussex ATM, so will be looking more closely into their
arrangements next year.
John
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Hi everyone
Just a reminder that it’s time for you to vote in the 2017 Wikimedia
Foundation Board Elections. Details of the candidates can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…
from where there is a link to the voting page.
Questions and answers are here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…
And the candidates are:
▪ Chris Keating (The Land)
▪ Milos Rancic (millosh)
▪ Dariusz Jemielniak (pundit)
▪ James Heilman (Doc James)
▪ Abbad Diraneyya (عباد ديرانية)
▪ María Sefidari (Raystorm)
▪ Peter Gallert (Pgallert)
▪ Yuri Astrakhan (yurik)
▪ Abel Lifaefi Mbula (BamLifa)
Michael
Could we do a project to try and get a video of every vertebrate
endemic to the UK walking, flying swimming, slivering or whatever it
does (is locomoting the general term?)? Something like geograph but
with animals rather than map squares.
Things that we would need. A list of every animal endemic to the UK
and some way of keeping track of uploads. Wikipedia has a fairly
decent set of lists starting here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna_of_Great_Britain#Vertebrates
Things that would be useful:
Talks on transcoding. How to get the video from your phone or camera
to wikipedia with the best results (VLC ffmpeg2theora)
Talks on how to record decent videos. To an extent with photos you can
take a dozen pics and get a good one through shear luck. Harder to do
with video.
Info from the RSPB and the like on how to record videos responsibly
A page to list publicly accessible bird hides and the like.
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geni
Hello Wikimedia UK,
The organisers of Wikimania 16 called and asked if any Wikimedian from the
UK are interested in going to Esino Lario (location of Wikimania 16) to
teach Italian secondary school teachers about various science and art
subjects in English.
They're looking for postgraduate students, teachers, and teacher trainees
from Britain to go and teach. The dates are 10-15 July 2017 and there's a
remuneration of €1000 for taking part.
Further details are in the forwarded email below. Please contact Catherine
Pensa <cathpensa(a)yahoo.it> from the Wikimania 16 team if you're interested.
Deryck
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Catherine Pensa <cathpensa(a)yahoo.it>
Date: 22 April 2017 at 09:41
Subject: Re: English Courses in Esino Lario July 12-14, 2017
To: Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)gmail.com>
Cc: Lara Pensa <larapensa85(a)gmail.com>
Dear Deryck,
>
>
> a few months have gone by and we are now finally ready to launch our
> summer courses in Esino Lario: a dozen learning and entertaining
> activities for people who want “active holidays” in the mountains.
> http://www.esinolario.org/it/corsi-estivi-2017-intro/
>
> Italian teachers wishing to teach their subjects in English (which is now
> part of the syllabus for GCSE) will certainly benefit from some lessons and
> experience with good English teachers.
> We would be very happy if you could come to Esino again - and we are most
> thankful for your help in finding excellent candidates!
>
> Can you please forward our offer to the widest range of prospective
> teachers who might be interested in teaching a few days in Esino Lario on
> €1000 (for travel, board & lodging and tutorial fees). See leaflet.
>
> We would be very thankful if you could forward the leaflet and information
> to British Wikipedians too and post it on the internet to spread the news
> widely.
> Please let me know if you think we should write to Wikipedians
> ourselves or post the info on social networks. We definitely need a good
> communication scheme and count on you!
>
> High school Italian teachers are busy until the beginning of July. Thus
> the course will take place *from Wednesday 12th to Friday 14th July *(arriving
> from GB on the 10th -for some briefing on July 11th- and leaving on the
> 15th or later).
> Enrolling will start this week-end and the deadline is May 20 for the
> students.
> By the end of May we need to receive applications from the English
> teachers in order to select a few for each subject.
>
> Our Italian school system is highly academic: lots of lectures, lots of
> studying, notions, demanding exams. Fewer opportunities for group work and
> laboratory experiments…
> The subjects we mean to offer in English in Esino are:
> *Mathematics, Science, Physics, History, Fine Arts, English Literature,
> Physical Education.*
> Teachers, postgraduates and students from a teacher training college would
> be most welcome. So would Wikipedians specialized in these subjects.
>
> We are proposing *an intensive 3-day course, 18 hours all in all, *with
> lessons on topics which are part of the syllabus of the equivalent of GCSE
> in Italy - with practice, discussion, exercises, educational games, videos,
> etc…
> The purpose is to offer a short but intensive “immersion” into the way
> teachers work in a high school in the UK.
>
> Don’t hesitate to suggest anything that may improve the project and please
> help us find smart and lively people for the job!
> We would like to repeat this kind of courses in the future! I trust it
> will be successful but of course it is a totally new project this year.
>
> Thanking you in advance for your help and looking forward to seeing you
> again in Esino I send you the best greetings of the Wikimania 2016 team!
>
> Most friendly yours,
> Catherine with Iolanda, Lara and Marta
>
>
>