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| <center><big><big><b>Help shape Wikimedia UK’s delivery plans for 2017 – 18</b></big></big></center> | | <center><big><big><b>Announcing a new Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford</b></big></big></center> |
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| [[File:WMUK_evaluation_panel.jpg|Wikimedia UK evaluation panel, June 2016. Photo by Wolliff (WMUK) CC BY-SA 4.0|640px|center]] | | [[File:Clarendon Building, Oxford, England - May 2010.jpg|The Clarendon Building where the WIR is based. |640px|center]] |
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| Wikimedia UK will soon be applying to the Wikimedia Foundation for an Annual Plan Grant (APG) in 2017 - 18. Longstanding volunteers, members and other stakeholders will be familiar with this process but for those of you who aren’t, an APG enables affiliated organisations around the world - including country ‘chapters’ of the global Wikimedia movement, like Wikimedia UK - to access funds raised by the Foundation through the Wikipedia banner campaign.
| | The University of Oxford now employs a <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Oxford Wikimedian In Residence]</span> (WIR). Martin Poulter is working half-time on a one-year project to embed Wikipedia, Wikidata and related sites in the university’s teaching, research and public engagement. |
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| The deadline for proposals is 1st October and we will need to submit our draft delivery plan for next year as well as the proposal itself. On Saturday 24th September we will be holding a day of meetings to discuss and develop our proposal and our delivery plans for next year alongside the wider Wikimedia UK community. These include a meeting of the Evaluation Panel in the morning followed by a discussion focused on education from 12 - 3pm and a Planning Lab from 3 to 5pm.
| | Dr Poulter served as the WIR at the Bodleian Libraries for one year ending in March 2016. He led wiki training at nine public events, and gave sixteen other workshops and presentations. The images bulk-uploaded during this placement now get more than 3 million views per month from being used to illustrate Wikipedia articles in 49 languages. |
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| | Thanks to funding from the IT Innovation Challenge he is returning to the Bodleian with a cross-university remit. The new project is about working with Wikimedia UK to embed innovative use of Wikimedia sites across the university. This will involve: |
| | *training staff in the university to run Wikimedia-related events such as editathons; |
| | *helping research projects to enhance their impact by sharing outputs on Wikidata and Wikipedia; |
| | *creating customised training workshops for academics, librarians and other staff in the university; and |
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| <center><big><big><b>#Internaut Day – can we learn to stop worrying and love the internet?</b></big></big></center>
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| [[File:First Web Server.jpg|This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web - Photo by user:geni GFDL CC-BY-SA 4.0|640px|center]]
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| The public internet turned 25 today, which means it’s on its third unpaid internship, still living with its parents and has become a cynical nihilist with little hope for the future of humanity.
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| ‘The Web took off without regard for borders at all’, said Tim Berners-Lee on the 25th anniversary of the idea for the Web’s conception in 2014. In fact, for the pioneers of the public internet, this liberation from state control (especially coming just after the end of the Cold War) was part of the great promise of the internet, a promise that it has not always been able to live up to.
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| Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
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| <center><big><big><b>Access All Areas: how can Wikimedia contribute to increasing Open Access publishing?</b></big></big></center>
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| [[File:Benefitsofopenaccess_cc-by_logo.pd_eng.jpg|Benefits of Open Access -Image by Danny Kingsley & Sarah Brown, CC BY 4.0|640px|center]]
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| It used to be a normal part of an academic’s duties to be asked to peer-review papers for academic journals. They would do this as part of their salaried position at a university. Equally, publishers wouldn’t even pay the academic who had written the article, as Hugh Gusterson explained:
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| ‘I get paid nothing directly for the most difficult, time-consuming writing I do: peer-reviewed academic articles. In fact a journal that owned the copyright to one of my articles made me pay $400 for permission to reprint my own writing in a book of my essays.’
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| Academic journals used to not make much money, but in recent years have been taken over by for-profit companies like Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley-Blackwell. These companies now make very good profits, as they are in a position to charge a lot for access to their content. Erik Engstrom of Elsevier is the third highest paid chief exec in the FTSE100. He earned £16.18m last year.
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| <center><big><big><b>Pride in London – photographer Katy Blackwood on working with Wikimedia UK</b></big></big></center>
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| [[File:Pride_in_London_2016_-_Matthew_Barzun%2C_Sadiq_Khan_and_senior_members_of_Pride_in_London.png|Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Pride organisers - photo by Katy Blackwood CC BY-SA 4.0|640px|center]]
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| My name is Katy Blackwood. I’m a music photographer, fledgling photo-journalist and writer that has been published in print, worked as a professional and, on Saturday, donated her time and photographs to Wikimedia UK in the name of knowledge and free content.
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| The event was Pride in London, an occasion surely close to the heart of anybody that values equality, inclusivity and solidarity, whether they are LGBT or not. In such a divisive week for the United Kingdom, it brought together an estimated one-million people to celebrate humans of all cultures and sexualities, highlighted by a triumphant parade.
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| Working with Wikimedia UK, I attended as a member of the media in order to create high-quality photography of the parade and its build-up. These photos, including some by John Lubbock, have now been released under a licence that allows them to be used, for free, by anyone.
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| <center><big><big><b>Supporting our community to create open content: we want your ideas!</b></big></big></center>
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| [[File:Spain_national_football_team_Euro_2012_trophy_02.jpg|Spain winning the UEFA Euro 2012 Championships, CC BY-SA 3.0.|center|640px]]
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| As the summer rolls around, there are so many important cultural events which the Wikimedia community can engage with and create content about. The European Football Championships start this week, and the Olympics aren’t far away either. The festival season is already beginning, and there are hundreds of other cultural events taking place across the UK and the world, from religious ceremonies to elections, the London Comic Con, Pride, or any other kind of commemoration or anniversary events.
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| Wikimedia UK is hoping to support people who want to cover any notable events to create high quality images available under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. We have grant funding available for photographers who know how to take great photographs which could be used across Wikimedia projects. We would also be interested to support people who would like to add other content besides photographs. If you are going to particular events, we also may be able to liaise with the organisers to get you accreditation.
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| <center><big><big><b>Share your photos of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves on Wikipedia to inspire the world</b></big></big></center>
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| [[File:Guepier_d%27europe_au_parc_national_Ichkeul.jpg|A European bee-eater in Ichkeul National Park and Biosphere Reserve, Tunisia. Photo by Elgollimoh, CC BY-SA 3.0.|center|640px]]
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| Yesterday was World Environment Day, the United Nations’ designated day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment.
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| Many of us know the world faces unprecedented pressure from human activities. The United Nations Environment Programme Global Environment Outlook reports:
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| 'The state of global biodiversity is continuing to decline, with substantial and ongoing losses of populations, species and habitats. For instance, vertebrate populations have declined on average by 30 per cent since 1970, and up to two-thirds of species in some taxa are now threatened with extinction.'
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| <center><big><big><b>2016 Strategy Consultation</b></big></big></center>
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| [[File:Volunteer-Strategy-Gathering_2014-11-29_110.jpg|Volunteer strategy gathering, Brimingham, 2014 - CC BY 3.0 Brian McNeil|center|640px]]
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| Wikimedia UK are currently going through a strategic planning process for the next three years and welcome input from our members, volunteers and other stakeholders.
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| Please take a look at the page for the [https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2016_Strategy_Consultation 2016 Strategy Consultation] and the linked documents laying out the draft strategic framework and accompanying notes from a board planning session. If you have any suggestions or other feedback, please add comments to the talk page or email our Chief Executive on the email address provided. Thank you!
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| <center><big><big><b>The Shiver: communion with the past in a digital age</b></big></big></center>
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| Bodleian Wikimedian Martin Poulter says that although the digital world finds it hard to capture the intimacy of being in the presence of historical objects and texts, it can play an important role in adding value to the collections of museums, libraries and galleries which do provide that experience.
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| While working at the Bodleian, I’ve experienced what I call ‘the shiver’ many times. I had it when I realised I was reading Charles Darwin’s handwriting, or when shown a book that had been studied by Henry VIII. I saw it happening at the Marks of Genius exhibition when people encounter a Gutenberg Bible or a First Folio of Shakespeare.
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| The shiver is a realisation of a tangible connection to the past. It comes from authenticity, physicality and uniqueness. As such, it may seem irrelevant to digital information, which is endlessly reproducible and independent of physical location. However, when we think of how libraries can involve more people in that authentic experience, that digital world turns out to be crucial.
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