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Fwd: Join us in London for Open Data Day on March 4th & 5th
by Daniel Mietchen 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

This may be of interest to some here on the list. Cheers, Daniel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joseph Mcarthur <joe(a)righttoresearch.org> Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:38 PM Subject: Join us in London for Open Data Day on March 4th & 5th To: Joseph Mcarthur <joe(a)righttoresearch.org> Cc: Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> Hi, You’re invited to a weekend of learning, making, and doing to advance Open Research Data on March 4 and 5th. The event is hosted by SPARC and the NIH as part of an international celebration for Open Data Day. At its heart, Open Research Data is about making it easy for you and others to see, use and share data. This simple idea is powering some of the largest breakthroughs of our time and our event aims to celebrate and accelerate the power of Open Research Data. Whether new or old to Open Research Data, scholar or citizen, to join us for this weekend to make, hack, contribute, try, teach, design, test, learn (or just about anything!) in the name of Open Research Data. Interested? Learn more and sign up for tickets here. Hope to see you there, Joseph McArthur Assistant Director: Right to Research Coalition Co-Lead/Founder: Open Access Button Twitter: @Mcarthur_Joe P.s You're receiving this as you've been to (or registered for) Open Knowledge London events!

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Newnham College edit-a-thon 8 March
by Charles Matthews 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

I'm happy to announce that Newnham College will be marking International Women's Day, 8 March, this year with a Wikipedia editing event: http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/event/wikipedia-edit-thon-mark-international-wome… Everyone is welcome to come, and write on Wikipedia, in a woman's biography. Please do read what the link has to say about that. The event will run 12 noon to 8 pm in the Jane Harrison Room, Newnham College. There are training places, and if that would be your main interest, please note that training sessions start on the hour, and you need to book a slot for that. The most popular times are expected to be the initial two hours. If you are able to help with one-to-one support of editors, please just come along. A number of trainers will be there, but if also you'd like to be involved in that capacity, please let me know offlist. Charles

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Media spokespeople
by Lucy Crompton-Reid 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Dear all As promised I wanted to follow up about the Daily Mail story last week and the need for the Chapter to be able to call on volunteers who would feel comfortable talking to the media on behalf of the community. Thanks to David Gerard for initiating this discussion on the list. In the past the charity has offered media training for volunteers, and whilst we haven't budgeted for this in the current year it's certainly something to think about again in future. I attended CIPR's Media Handling and Crisis Communications course earlier this week (with a free place courtesy of Alastair McCapra) which I found extremely useful. As it happens, I contacted six or seven people about the Newsnight request last Thursday, but for various reasons we weren't able to provide a volunteer to talk to the BBC...In several cases this was because the editor concerned didn't agree with the decision, and so could potentially defend the process but not the outcome. There will doubtless always be circumstances in which a volunteer doesn't want to speak to the media about a particular story, or is unable to do so because of work, travel, location etc; hence the need for a 'stable' of people who can do this (sorry, I can't think of a more appropriate collective noun!) Either John or I will be in touch with those of you who have a) responded to David's message about media spokespeople in the past few days or b) are already on our radar as potential spokespeople, to create an up-to-date list of names and contact details. Please feel free to add your name to this list by replying to this message or dropping me and/or John Lubbock an email. With thanks and best Lucy -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0991 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. 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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Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] WikiFactMine Project is Advertising for a Wikimedian in Residence
by WereSpielChequers 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Dear all, There is a 6 month Wikimedian in Residence role, or perhaps in this case Wikidatan in Residence coming up, at least 50% based in Cambridge. WSC ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Arrow <tom(a)contentmine.org> Date: Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 2:00 AM Subject: [Wikidata] WikiFactMine Project is Advertising for a Wikimedian in Residence To: wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi, ContentMine is currently looking to hire a Wikimedian in Residence for the WikiFactMine Project (see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ContentMine/WikiFactMine). It's a six month long position and we're looking for someone who could spend around half their time in Cambridge, UK. We expect it to have quite a lot of Wikidata related work. If you're interested or know someone who might be then the advert can be seen at: http://contentmine.org/jobs Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

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Media enquiry from the BBC re editing/vandalism
by Lucy Crompton-Reid 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Dear all Firstly, many thanks to those of you who have said you would consider responding to Wikimedia press enquiries in future, and I will be emailing more about that within the next few days - particularly off the back of the Media Handling and Crisis Communications course I've been on for the past two days (and no, the irony of the timing wasn't lost on me). In the meantime, we've had an enquiry from BBC North West online who are working on a story about a music fan who apparently secured entry to the VIP area of a gig by editing the band’s Wikipedia page to claim he was a relative of one of the members. More fool the bouncers in my opinion but anyway...the BBC has asked "we wanted to check that this change would have indeed been processed this quickly and without being verified by Wiki editors? Would Wikipedia be interested in adding a comment about users making edits for their own means and what the organisation does to tackle this?" Clearly the journalist in question doesn't understand exactly how editing works and I think it would be most appropriate to have an editor respond to this, and talk about processes in place to deal with vandalism. The article is The Sherlocks <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sherlocks> and the edit in question was made on 10th February at 8.28pm and reverted by another editor at 4.15pm the following day. Would anyone be willing to talk to the BBC about this today? If so, could you let me know and I'll put you in touch. Thanks Lucy -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0991 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. 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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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Daily Mail again
by WereSpielChequers 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Re "why blacklist the Daily Mail not even worse sources? The Daily Mail is a very long way from being the first source deprecated by the Wikipedia community, it isn't even in the most deprecated category of sources, that would be ones that go into the spamfilter and are automatically rejected. If someone can point to a worse site currently in use as a source on Wikipedia we can comment on that and even start a discussion on them at the reliable sources noticeboard. But if someone comes to the discussion in the misconception that the Daily Mail is the first source we have deprecated, the best response is to explain that Wikipedians have been discussing the reliability of sources for many years. This may be the first such decision to get public interest, it is a very long way from being the first such decision. So to answer a question with a question, can you name a source which is less reliable than the Daily Mail but isn't deprecated on Wikipedia? For the record I wish we could go into a little more nuance re the Daily Mail, such as at what points in history could they be treated as reliable. I've heard that their sports coverage is reliable, except perhaps where it blurs into coverage of sports personalities. On 15 February 2017 at 03:28, - - <john(a)bodkinprints.co.uk> wrote: > On 09 February 2017 at 15:57 Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > Which leaves the question of "why blacklist the Daily Mail not even worse > sources?" If anyone can suggest an answer to that which would keep a journo > happy I'd be interested to hear it .... ;) > > One reason that I didn't see mentioned in the rfc is that, unlike say the > Guardian, the Mail seems to reuse its story urls after only 2 years or so. > Eg: I followed a ref link for a story on a record auction price for a > painting to find a recent story about a footie transfer. That may be good > enough for many linking websites but doesn't work for us. > > Btw i did the WMUK media training & am used to speaking to the press on > Wiki-in-residence matters, & would be happy to be on a panel or whatever, > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >

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Daily Mail again
by - - 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

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A web literacy text
by Charles Matthews 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

In the current context, https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/chapter/wikipedia/ from https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/ would seem to be of interest. That's a whole chapter, by the way. It's a couple of years since I was writing in this area. And, if anything, "web literacy" has moved further up the agenda. I think it counts as teachable, but it is apparently hard to get a consensus syllabus. Charles

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UK press corps - do we have editors on hand?
by David Gerard 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

I suspect we need to build up the UK press corps again. The call comes maybe every 1-2 years, but when it happens we need people. So if you see an email come by, you can *SPRING* into action and represent editors on the BBC ... Last night's Newsnight didnt happen, because the Daily Mail bottled it. Possibly because Alastair Campbell offered to speak up on our behalf, ahem. I'm regretting I couldn't make it now ... So! Who thinks they could do well off the cuff about the view of Wikipedia editors? I think Lucy would like all your names :-) - d.

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London meetup.
by Gordon Joly 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

FYI, A new venue for March (and April). :-) Gordo

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