Hi Fabian, so I have deleted the page and blocked the user. I'm told that R Nevell used to deal with this kind of thing a lot, and now I know that it's happening I will keep an eye on it in future. Thank you for alerting us. A lot of things to do with the website suffer from capacity issues, and we would appreciate it if anybody sees things like this in future if they could let us know so we can deal with them.
Thanks!
John Lubbock
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Wikimedia UK
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On 18 June 2018 at 16:43, leutha@fabiant.eu wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering what oversight is given to the Wikimedia Uk wiki following coming across this advert. https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%92%D1%8B%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0 Whilst this comes across as irrelevant spam, it does leave me wondering to what Wikimedia UK does to ensure that content which might be more troublesome is detected and removed.
No doubt other Wikimedians will be heartened by the hundred of people who have opened user accounts already this year https://wikimedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/newusers&offset=&limit=500&type=newusers&user=. However before celebrating, perhaps it might be worth looking into how many of these accounts are genuine and whether the CAPTCHA Security check is effective.
all the best
Fabian
aka Leutha
On 24 April 2018 at 15:58 John Lubbock john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
I'm afraid I can't figure out how to easily remove the copyright notice. I'll try to figure it out but it's not high up on my priority list. If anybody else who is familiar with Wordpress knows how to remove it, please let me know.
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
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On 24 April 2018 at 13:46, John Lubbock john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Hi Fabian. I've never noticed that copyright tag before. It seems to come as standard in Wordpress pages and I will see if there is a way to remove it.
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
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On 24 April 2018 at 13:31, leutha@fabiant.eu wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for the Wikimedia UK Spring newsletter.
Sorry if I missed any previous discussion about the assertion of copyright on the Wikimedia UK blog https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/, but I am afraid I have become a bit of a copyright geek over past fifteen years
- a bye-product of being a Wikimedian I suppose.
I have just posted a comment with the query:
"Does the copyright tag at the bottom of this page mean that I am assigning copyright of this comment to Wikimedia UK?"
Please note if the answer is yes, I am reproducing my comment here under a fair-use https://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p09_fair_use rationale.
all the best,
Leutha
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