Dear All,
Our 115th meetup in London is coming up on the 12th Feb. More details at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/115
As usual we will try to be opposite the main doors with at least one laptop
with a Wiki logo.
I'm guessing the conversation will range from the recent run of RFAs on EN
wiki to the trending topics on Wikipedia and the submissions for this years
Wikimania.
Hope to see you there
WSC
Dear all
I'm in the process of reviewing and updating Wikimedia UK's board level
policies and as agreed at the last board meeting, this will involve
community consultation prior to amended policies being reviewed and agreed
by the trustees.
The first two policies that I have reviewed are the Safeguarding Policy
(formerly Child Protection) and the Diversity and Equalities Policy. I
think the easiest way to view my suggested changes against the original
policy is in a google doc, which I have shared below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R2WdCy2uILnmWXmzhfrEbgId862b6Ick5mfjdeG…https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eIGcVTxhyeo1_sH0eOWqYJBgkiRzKLKNdU9Lc31…
Please feel free to add comments directly to the document (ideally) or in
an email to me, by Friday 3rd February.
Many thanks
Lucy
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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.*
Dear list,
As this is my first post to this list, an intro to start:
I am a student at Sussex, but live in London, writing a PhD on the
history of imprisonment for debt.
I've been doing minor edits and correction on wikipedia for about 4
years, and attended wikimania at the Barbican a few years back. My user
page is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Technolalia
My Phd has involved a lot of digging around for historic statutes, and
this has led to a side project, and one that I hope will work with
Wikipedia. In short, I have OCRd around 80 volumes of various editions
of the Statutes At Large and the Public General Statutes. They cover the
period from Magna Carta, up to 1875 (after which digitized volumes are
scarce). I believe they contain a more or less complete set of public
acts from about 1765 to 1875. Although it is obviously alphanumeric soup
at the moment, I am working on automatic correction of the more obvious
errors, and on producing decent metadata.
My aims are to make finding legislation easier, to make it easier to
examine, both by eye and by machine, and to produce reliable metadata
from and for it. My immediate priority is to extract the tables of
contents from the collections, and build a reliable list of acts with
regnal codes and full titles (correctly spelled).
My site for this project:
http://statutes.org.uk
and my github repo:
https://github.com/Anterotesis/statutes
Wikipedia has many useful lists of statutes, some entries on particular
acts, & in wikicommons a few of the texts. I very much want my work to
contribute to wikipedia and improve this aspect of it. I've been talking
with Andrew Gray, mainly with regard to Wikidata, but such is the size
of the task I think more hands will be needed. & of course I don't want
to start making great changes without consultation.
As empire spread English common law around the world, there are many
international aspects to this as well, not least the number of British
statutes concerned with other countries. To this end I've been
collecting sources of Anglophone common law, eg for Barbados:
http://statutes.org.uk/site/collections/international/barbados-law/
& Jamaica:
http://statutes.org.uk/site/collections/international/jamaican-law/
And also OCR'd a set of volumes of Irish statutes to 1800:
https://github.com/Anterotesis/statutes/tree/master/Ireland
(Raw OCR, no auto correction carried out)
I'd very much like to see wikipedia develop this legal history as well,
but for my part I have enough to do with the British acts.
I hope this is of interest to you,
John
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John Levin
http://www.anterotesis.comhttp://twitter.com/anterotesis
Hello all, I wanted to gauge if there was interest in the idea of doing a
Commons uploading walking tour in London at some point. I've started to go
on my lunch break to places near the Wikimedia UK offices to take photos to
illustrate Wikidata items and WP articles which don't have photos. You can
see here
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/#lat=51.52186839072881&lng=-0.0784707…>
on
WikiShootMe that there are more green items (with photos) near the office
on Leonard Street, but that there are still some areas (Bunhill cemetery to
the West, Arnold Circus to the East) which have a lot of places without
photos (in red).
So I wonder if any Wikimedians would be interested in doing a walking tour
of either of these places with me to add photos to Commons. It doesn't have
to be these locations, and you're welcome to suggest other places with lots
of red items that need photos. I will be taking some photos most lunchtimes
during work days, so if anyone is free then, let me know. Alternatively we
could arrange a specific outing on a weekend or in the evening to take
photos in a specific place. We can use WMUK camera equipment if anyone
needs to borrow a camera.
Please let me know here or by email (john.lubbock(a)wikimedia.org.uk) if
you'd be interested in doing something like this.
All the best,
John Lubbock
Hello,
I'm writing a Wikipedia article about Spalding War Memorial but struggling
for useful photos and I live at the opposite end of the country. s there
anyone on this list who lives within striking distance who might be willing
to go and take some better pictures for me?
Thanks,
Harry Mitchell
http://enwp.org/User:HJ
+44 (0) 7507 536 971
Skype: harry_j_mitchell
Dear all
Wikimedia UK and Middlesex University will be holding an Education Summit
in the University's Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement on *Monday
20th February*. The day will include keynote speeches from Melissa Highton
(Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services at the University of
Edinburgh) and Stefan Lutschinger (Associate Lecturer in Digital Publishing
at Middlesex University) as well as practical workshops, inspiring
presentations and lightning talks.
The event is free to attend, and you can read more about the day and sign
up on the Eventbrite page here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-uk-education-summit-at-middlesex-u…
Best wishes
Lucy
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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.*
Dear all
As I know some of you will already be aware, Wikimedia UK, Women in Red and
Wikimedia editors and communities around the world are partnering with BBC
100 Women to raise awareness of the gender gap on Wikipedia, improve
coverage of women and encourage women to edit.
A multi-location, multilingual volunteer-led editathon will be taking place
in various locations across the world on *Thursday 8th December. *In the
UK, editathons will be taking place for BBC staff, presenters and special
guests in all four nations of the UK with events in Belfast, Cardiff,
Glasgow, London and Reading. Women in Red are also running a virtual
editathon to involve more established editors, particularly those who are
already working on the gender gap.
You can read more about this project on the meta page, which we will be
updating as the week continues:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK/Events/BBC_100_Women
Whilst the events in the UK are primarily for BBC staff, presenters, VIPs
and other special guests, Wikimedia UK is collating a small guest list for
the Broadcasting House event. If you would like to attend, please email
Nicola.Furness(a)wikimedia.org.uk (copied in above) and let her know which of
the following times would be best for you: 2 – 4pm, 3 – 5pm, 4 – 6pm or 5 –
7pm. Nicola is liaising with the BBC over capacity and will confirm your
space ASAP.
We are also exploring the potential for external guests at the events
in Cardiff, Reading and Glasgow, so please email Nicola if you are
interested.
All best
Lucy
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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.*
Dear all
Wikimedia UK will be joining forces with the London meetup for a little
festive jollity on Sunday 11th December. Please come and join volunteers,
editors, staff and trustees for some mulled wine or ale/gin/juice (delete
as appropriate) and possibly even a mince tart, at the Penderel's Oak Pub
in Holborn from 1pm on Sunday 11th December.
If you're planning to come please sign up here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/113
Thanks and all best
Lucy
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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.*
