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UK positions on the proposed harmonization of Freedom of Panorama in Europe
by Fæ 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

For those interested in this proposed EU copyright change, and with access to the BBC IPlayer (it may only work in the UK), I suggest reviewing today's Daily Politics show.[1] The position of the Labour party MEP (Mary Honeyball) is to support new restrictions on Freedom of Panorama (she gives a good 2 minute explanation of why the proposed amendment is a great thing), while the UKIP Culture Spokesman (Peter Whittle) is set against. The arguments on both sides are reasoned but slightly confused, with some errors creeping in. However these sound-bite cases for both sides are worth thinking through if attempting to provide MEPs with lobbying comments or better case studies and briefing material.[2] I'm surprised to see a Labour politician arguing to damage the UK's current Freedom of Panorama, it feels like a future vote loser to me, especially in the light of the ever looming UK referendum on whether to stay in the EU.[3] Links 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060kp1r - go to 52 minutes into the programme, available on-line for a month from broadcast. 2. http://www.europarl.org.uk/en/your-meps.html - contact details for UK MEPs, Honeyball can be found under London. 3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32810887 Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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Volunteer Strategy Day, 25th July.
by Stuart Prior 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Hello all, As some of you may already be aware, we are having our second Volunteer Strategy Gathering <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015> on the 25th of July, the same day as our AGM. It will start at 10:30 till approximately 3pm. Please come along and bring your ideas for how Wikimedia UK can work with its volunteers and community. This is open to members and non-members alike. Best Stuart -- *Stuart Prior* *Project Coordinator* *Wikimedia UK* +44 20 7065 0990 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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Website downtime next month
by Richard Symonds 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

All, There may be some downtime on Wikimedia UK's website(s) next month, on July 15, from 00:01 to 04:00. Ideally it won't take more than five minutes but could be up to four hours. This is because our hosting provider are performing some routine maintenance work on their servers. This shouldn't be a huge problem, but I thought I'd let you all know just in case. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 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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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Library NEW Free Research Accounts
by Stevie Benton 18 Jun '15

18 Jun '15

Hello everyone, This might be of interest. Thank you, Stevie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jake Orlowitz" <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> Date: 17 Jun 2015 22:40 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Library NEW Free Research Accounts To: "wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Hi! > > The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available to you... > > *Taylor & Francis* — major publisher of academic journals with 2 subject > collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences > (30 accounts) > <http://enwp.org/WP:TANDF> > > *World Bank eLibrary* — digital platform containing all books, working > papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to > the present (100 accounts) > <http://enwp.org/WP:World Bank> > > *AAAS* — general science publisher, which publishes the leading journal > *Science* among other sources (50 accounts) > <http://enwp.org/WP:AAAS> > > > New French-Language Branch donations! > > *Érudit *— French-Canadian scholarly database of humanities and social > sciences, with sources in both English and French (50 accounts) > <http://enwp.org/WP:Erudit> > <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:%C3%89rudit> > > *Cairn* — Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online portal of scholarly > materials in the humanities and social sciences. Mostly French, but also > some English (100 accounts) > <http://enwp.org/WP:Cairn> > <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cairn> > > *L'Harmattan* — French language publisher of non-fiction and fiction, with > a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts) > <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:L'Harmattan> > > > Many other partnerships are still available, including an expansion of > Royal Society Journals: > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals> > > If you have suggestions for journals or databases we should seek access to > request it! > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals/Request> > > We are looking for more help coordinating the Wikipedia Library's account > distribution and global development! > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/The_Wikipedia_Library/Coordinators/Signup> > > Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references > across Wikipedia projects: sign up today! > > *The Wikipedia Library Team* > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
by Michael Maggs 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we work so that we can bring volunteering right into the heart of the charity. We plan to: * Establish a new volunteer engagement panel <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel> or steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer engagement * Embed members into our day-to-day decision making via a new evaluation panel <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Evaluation_panel> * Encourage the setting up of volunteer special-interest working groups <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Working_groups> to replace the existing non-board committees <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Committees#Non-board_committees> * Set up cultural/GLAM <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_and_GLAM_advisory_board> and educational outreach <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Educational_outreach_advisory_board> expert advisory boards to advise the WMUK main board on high-level strategy * Change our Articles of Association <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.…> to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees * Provide more effective support for volunteers via the new project coordinator <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_Coordinator> staff roles * Move toward project-based <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project-based_working> working practices to improve efficiency and to enable better self-evaluation of our work These draft plans follow on from the excellent feedback we received from our last Volunteer Strategy Gathering <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015>. They deliberately don't attempt to answer all possible questions about implementation, as we think it best that both further questions and the answers to those questions should come out of collaborative discussions. The plans are not set in stone, and with the community's help they can be improved, strengthened and fleshed out. We would like your feedback, either online or in person at our next Volunteer Strategy Gathering <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015> on Saturday 25th July 2015, in London. For more information, see the links on the right. Feedback, comments and discussion are more than welcome on the discussion page, or you can email chairatwikimedia.org.uk if you have feedback you would prefer not to make public. To read the full details on wiki see here: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael _______ Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK

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Why I love Wikisource
by Martin Poulter 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Recently I lost my Wikisource virginity, becoming not a passive cheerleader for the project but an active contributor. I have to say it's been a more rewarding experience than expected. I'd heard in a few places that imports from the Internet Archive, or imports of .djvu files, weren't reliable, but my little experience has been fine. Maybe I've been lucky in my choice of files. The whole process of loading in a book and starting transcription went quite smoothly, though it required attention to a lot of little steps and I wouldn't recommend it to non-geeky people. One surprise was that having entered data about the book into Commons, I had to enter the same data again into Wikisource. Later when I went through Preferences on Wikisource, I saw an option to automatically copy book data from Commons to Wikisource, but for reasons I don't understand it's off by default. The editing interface is last-century primitive but usable. An advanced toolbar with more buttons would enable me to work more quickly, but this might be possible with custom Javascript. In my new role as Wikimedian In Residence at the Bodleian Libraries, I'm doing a lot of advocacy for Wikisource to my audience of librarians because it's a great example of how sharing content improves content. It's also a great example of something lay people with computers can do to support research and free knowledge. There are two projects I'm working on (in volunteer time now and again, not paid work), in case anyone's interested. Firstly, there's a collection on Wikisource related to Mary Wollstonecraft, a very important philosopher and author of fiction and non-fiction, not to mention the mother of Mary Shelley. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Mary_Wollstonecraft There are gaps, but with some additional transcription work it's in hailing distance of being an impressive research resource, hopefully enabling more interesting projects such as the Mary Wollstonecraft Twitter: https://twitter.com/1759marywol1797 Her short book about raising daughters had been scanned but not transcribed, so I've been working on that, a quarter of an hour now and again. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Thoughts_on_the_Education_of_Daughters… The other project arises from a talk by a historian working with British Library Labs. He is studying the humour of the Victorian era, marking up a joke book to identify individual jokes and lines of dialogue. A fun spin-off from this work is the Mechanical Comedian project http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/ An ideal starting point for this work would be a checked, validated transcription of the out-of-copyright source book, which the team are gradually working on. So I'm urging them to use Wikisource as a platform, and to demonstrate I'm transcribing a similar book from the same era. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Everybody%27s_Book_of_English_wit_and_… Disclaimer: a lot of Victorian jokes are *not funny*, but there are rare gems. If, like I was, you're a Wiki*edian who's interested in Wikisource but hasn't taken the plunge. I recommend having a go. -- Dr Martin L Poulter Wikipedia contributor http://enwp.org/User:MartinPoulter Volunteer, Wikimedia UK http://wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter <http://uk.wikimedia.org/> Musician http://soundcloud.com/martin-poulter http://myspace.com/comapilot Person http://infobomb.org/

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Moderation of Fae
by Fæ 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

It has now been over a year that my email address was put on moderation (perhaps someone would like to provide a date, I have not trawled the archives). In the absence of any appeal process, I ask that this is lifted. My most recent email to this list has yet to be posted, it has been waiting for 9 days. Waiting for several days or over a week is now the norm for my rare posts to list. Though not one of my emails has ever been rejected from publication, this effectively makes communication impossible and amounts to an effective ban after being black-balled. Based on timing, I was put on moderation apparently due to Russavia's incivil posts to Wikimedia-l, not because of any email I have ever posted to this list that anyone can provide a link to, nor for any reason of incivility on my part. If I am to remain forever on moderation I ask that a clear rationale be given so that I can change the wording I use in emails to met whatever the list moderators believe is needed. At the current time I am completely in the dark as nobody will discuss this with me or provide examples. Thanks, Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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Gender gap on Women's Hour
by Charles Matthews 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

Earlier today, Daria and Jenny Kleeman talking: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05w456h at 16:45 in. Charles

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Wikipedia on Woman's Hour
by Andy Mabbett 28 May '15

28 May '15

Apparently, there was a feature on Wikipedia, on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, today. It''s included in their daily podcast. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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3D Files
by Edward Saperia 26 May '15

26 May '15

I remember someone once talking about a project to have a format for 3D objects (I guess in commons), which could then be rendered on pages as interactive widgets. Does anyone know what this was called or how I can find it? *Edward Saperia* Founder Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com> email <edsaperia(a)gmail.com> • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG

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