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You are invited to the Royal Opera House
by WereSpielChequers 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

Hi, we are holding an outreach type editathon at the Royal Opera House on the 5/6th September and have some places for experienced Wikipedians. Would you like to join us? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/Royal_Opera_House_Septem… Regards Jonathan

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Wikidata training session
by Stevie Benton 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

Hello everyone, I think there's enough interest confirmed to be able to deliver a session teaching people more about Wikidata. The next step is to confirm a date. A Saturday is probably best for most folks and I'm happy to book a meeting room in the Wikimedia UK office. Once there is a consensus for a date I'll make the necessary arrangements. There's also still plenty of time to register an interest in attending. https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikidata_training_2015 Thank you, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton 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. United Kingdom. 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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Introduction
by Karla Marte 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hello, My name is Karla and I just started working in Wikimedia UK as the Administration and Programme Assistant and wanted to introduce myself. Learn more about what I will be doing and about me here: https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/ Cheers, -- Karla Marte - Administration and Programme Assistant, Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0990 <%2B44%20%280%29%20207%20065%200994> -- 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. United Kingdom. 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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List of public art in Wiltshire
by Andy Mabbett 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

A fellow editor has started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_art_in_Wiltshire Please help to complete it, with data or images. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photo contests (was visual Editor is now worth using in outreach editathons)
by WereSpielChequers 15 Aug '15

15 Aug '15

I have been going through the not particularly useful category Wikipedia requested photographs in the United Kingdom <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_t…> removing some that are done, doing a few either via commons or by importing them from the Geograph, and most importantly moving a lot of them down to the much more useful level of nation or in England to County. So if you fancy taking a few photos and putting them on Wikipedia we probably have some current requests near you! Anyone fancy adopting a county? First couple to call for help I will go through the requests for that county next week and pick off any I can import from the Geograph, which should make it a bit more practical to do the rest (offer excludes London, Scotland and Wales due to them being too big). Regards Jonathan On 12 August 2015 at 10:45, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Hello Edward, everyone, > > If there's a volunteer willing to take the lead on Monuments then we can > offer a little logistical support. However, the volunteers that delivered > it last year said it was an enormous amount of work and don't have the > time. If you would like to lead on it then we can help, although time is > very short at this point. > > Thanks and regards, > > Stevie > > On 12 August 2015 at 10:35, Ed Hand <edwardxx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Are we taking part in Wiki Loves Monuments this year? >> No mention of the UK here: >> >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2015/Partic… >> >> best wsihes >> Edward >> >> On 10 August 2015 at 16:43, WereSpielChequers < >> werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have now used the visual editor for more than a hundred edits since >>> the speed up. I agree that the classic editor is generally faster and I >>> suspect that will be especially true for anyone editing large articles as >>> V/E's still lacks section editing. >>> >>> I like the way V/E supports infobox editing, one of the things I >>> sometimes do is add images to articles and with the classic editor you >>> usually have the pain of having to check the template documentation to find >>> out what the parameters are for image and caption (sadly and for no obvious >>> reason these parameters are unlikely to be "image" and "caption"). V/E is >>> actually quite intuitive here in allowing you to run through the unused >>> parameters of the infobox. >>> >>> Table editing is more nuanced, on the one hand there are handy looking >>> options that come up inviting you to delete or add columns or rows and I'm >>> sure at some point I will find an opportunity to use them. But editing the >>> contents of a cell in a table is challenging, not a task I would suggest to >>> a newbie and far less intuitive than using the classic editor. >>> >>> Adding images from commons is really quite impressive in V/E, I haven't >>> yet been in the situation of having to work out which Newcastle V/E is >>> prompting me with and it would be good to know whether V/E is using wiki >>> data links, keywords, geocodes or some combination. But however it does it >>> the images it has prompted me with so far have been pretty good. >>> >>> Not sure between Joe and Andy's positions re showing diffs. I have had >>> very little to do with the education program, but I appreciate for >>> educators knowing how to look at the contributions of a student is >>> important. I think that V/E would be a better entry point for technophobes >>> whilst clearly the classic editor is better for the technoscenti. How you >>> recruit one or other group for an editathon without stereotyping is an >>> interesting conundrum. If you have access to a large mailing list of people >>> who might be interested then you could do two sorts of sessions, one >>> emphasising that this was Wikipedia editing for anyone, especially people >>> who tried it in the past and found it technically arcane. Another promising >>> a session led by a "power user" showing how to be an effective editor on >>> Wikipedia perhaps billed as "this session is suitable for anyone with any >>> programming experience, however rusty or archaic". >>> >>> Alternatively if you have a good ratio of experienced editors to newbies >>> you can guard people and show them the editor most suitable for them. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Jonathan >>> >>> >>> > On 9 Aug 2015, at 01:03, Richard Farmbrough <richard(a)farmbrough.co.uk> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > I guess when it is sufficiently fast that I don't have time to hit >>> "edit source" instead before it loads, I will start using it on other >>> projects. Until then, a good character editor beats a good WIMPS editor - >>> pity it's not a good character editor. >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Wikimedia UK mailing list >>> > wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >>> > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia UK mailing list >>> wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >>> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >> > > > > -- > > Stevie Benton > Head of External Relations > Wikimedia UK+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 > @StevieBenton > > 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. United Kingdom. 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.* > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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visual Editor is now worth using in outreach editathons
by WereSpielChequers 12 Aug '15

12 Aug '15

If anyone is still running outreach editathons to try and recruit new editors, you might want to consider using visual editor. I spoke to some of the WMF people at Wikimania and apparently the issue of it running very very slowly on old kit has recently been largely addressed. I've pointed out in the past that as long as that bug was a "won't fix" you couldn't promote Visual Editor at outreach editathons because even if all the laptops look pretty new, there could well be someone present using a borrowed laptop and intending to use an old PC at home. Since we really can't start an editathon asking the attendees if they all use new computers at home, and then reverting to the classic editor if someone says their machine was bought in 2010 I and several others have been ignoring the Visual Editor for the last couple of years. I have just run a quick test on this myself using a friend's old PC and V/E does now work, though it is still a little slower than the classic editor. Regards Jonathan / WereSpielChequers

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Sharing a million photographs
by Fæ 10 Aug '15

10 Aug '15

A Wikimedia blog post highlighting and celebrating some of my batch upload projects over the last 3 years has been posted at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/10/sharing-a-million-photographs. For Commons to work it's always a collegiate effort. and I know many long term UK based volunteers have helped with categorizing and reusing these projects. Thanks everyone! Please retweet! It's nice to have a good news story about Wikimedia Commons doing the rounds. https://twitter.com/Faewik/status/630676649042964480 P.S. there's a minor amendment requested with the blog team. The original wording is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Sharing_a_million_pho…. Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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ODNB missing women in focus
by Charles Matthews 08 Aug '15

08 Aug '15

It is a little while ago now that I was asked, by Roberta Wedge, about the "missing women" on the English Wikipedia, who are identified in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB). I'm glad to say that, with a recent technical development I now have a list. (Recent means "since this morning", by the way - thanks as ever to Magnus Manske for his assiduous pushing of the tech support envelope for Wikidata. The new tool PagePile tool at https://tools.wmflabs.org/pagepile/ filled the final gap.) So I can reveal a list of 2,345 women with their Wikidata IDs at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Charles_Matthews/PagePile This comes out as pile 188 for PagePile. If you look at the wikitext on my page, the data is actually in two columns, Wikidata ID followed by name. (This is tabbed data, though the first four or so tabs seemed not to come out straight. Doubtless a teething problem.) It was a question of combining two Wikidata queries with the new tool, which generally speaking handles and combine lists in a clean way that wasn't previously available. So much for the technical advance. A few comments on the content. These are females with an OBIN (Oxford biographical identifier), rather than those with an article to themselves. They are not automatically notable, therefore. "Missing" is relative: Myra Hindley is on the list, but that is because the name is a redirect on enWP. Also, this list is not warranted complete, since we are aware of a couple of percent of OBINs that do not yet have a Wikidata entry. Around 150 or 200 more names may have to be added, in the end. All said, this is the first sight of realistic list, however, of the ODNB missing women. Translation lists, such as those with existing articles on the German or French Wikipedias, can easily be added. Charles

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Wikidata training
by Stevie Benton 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

Hello everyone, A volunteer has got in touch with me to ask about Wikidata training, mentioning the previous session that was delivered here in London. Is there any interest in a second session? If enough people are keen on attending then perhaps we could set something up? Would any volunteers be keen to take a lead on this? Thank you, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton 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. United Kingdom. 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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Monthly Google hangout?
by Stevie Benton 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

Hello everyone, At the volunteer strategy day one of the things that was emphasised was a better flow of information between volunteers, staff and the board. I've been thinking about some of the ways in which we can improve this. One idea I had was to host a monthly Google Hangout at a regular time and date at which anyone can drop in and share ideas, ask questions, float suggestions and so on. This would regularly be attended by at least a couple of members of staff and a couple of trustees, perhaps on a rotational basis. We tried a similar thing with IRC a while back and it wasn't particularly successful, in part because the tool isn't especially engaging for many people. I think we are ready to try something different. Any thoughts? Stevie -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton 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. United Kingdom. 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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