Comments for Andy Mabbett, aka pigsonthewing

Comment on Requesting open-licensed, open-format recordings of the voices of Wikipedia subjects for Wikimedia Commons by A late answer to a question from the digital humanities conference | Smethurst

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:14:55 +0000

[...] The project I’m currently (kind of) working on has the research goal of finding a sweet spot between the last two: machine processing of audio content to build enough descriptive data to be corrected and enhanced by a community of users. Copying / pasting from an earlier comment: [...]

Comment on All your video are belong to us: open licence recordings of local government meetings by The case for allowing recording at Brackley Town Council meetings | Cllr Alexander Dutton

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:45:00 +0000

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Comment on All your video are belong to us: open licence recordings of local government meetings by All your video are belong to us: open licence recordings of local government meetings | Andy Mabbett, aka pigsonthewing « Open Council Meetings

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:26:02 +0000

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Comment on More police forces should publish web pages about wildlife crime officers by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:01:19 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Judith. This is an old blog post, so I won’t be removing information that was current when it was written.

Comment on More police forces should publish web pages about wildlife crime officers by Judith Smith

Judith Smith — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:00:45 +0000

I’d remove Duncan Thomas’ photo if I were you – he has been replaced by Mark Thomas (no relation) a couple of years ago.
The link for Greater Manchester doesn’t work and it’s hard to find any mention of wildlife crime on GMP’s pages – am going to a meeting with PCC and CC of GMP 19th March so hopefully will try to make progress in my campaign of many years to get one dedicated officer in GMP rather than the situation at present where each division supposedly has one PC who can spend 5 or 10% of his time on wildlife crime. In practice this doesn’t work and many of the posts are vacant including that of county WLO. In the past this was done by an Inspector at HQ in a Policy Unit – there were 5 Inspectors in this unit and they took it in turn to do it as an add-on. This actually worked OK as they worked 9-5 so you could always get hold of them. The divisional ones are impossible to get hold of and the amount of time they can spend is at the discretion of their line manager. When the postholder in the policy unit retired a few years ago, the CC decided that Wigan was the largest and most rural division so the guy who was the WLO could also do the county job. As he was continually off sick this just didn’t work at all and now he’s resigned and no effort is being made to fill the job. What a fiasco. With the RSPCA likely to discontinue wildlife rescues from July they are needed more than ever.

Comment on Thank you Herkimer Elementary for a Twitter spam case study by Mark Norman Francis

Mark Norman Francis — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:32:55 +0000

One that I've been affected by recently is a set of accounts re-posting a comment from someone that was an @-reply to me. I mark all as spam, but for reference I've left this example alone. I've had about twenty so far, averaging one every couple of days.

Comment on All your video are belong to us: open licence recordings of local government meetings by George Makin

George Makin — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:06:52 +0000

Great idea and one I argued for all the above reasons. One other benefit would be local government press officers won’t be able to censor comments or fail to report isues that politicians woulx rather keep quiet.

Comment on Politician pin ups – open-licensed pictures, please by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:09:34 +0000

That’s great; thank you.

Comment on Politician pin ups – open-licensed pictures, please by Gareth Illmann-Walker

Gareth Illmann-Walker — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:05:36 +0000

We’ve now set up a new website for the Walsall Labour Party over at http://www.walsall-labour.org.uk and all our councillors pictures we are happy to have open-licensed for use on Wikipedia.

Comment on Thank you Herkimer Elementary for a Twitter spam case study by Philip John

Philip John — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:02:46 +0000

Funny you say that I did once have an idea for a sort of crowd sources spam reporting thing whereby reporting a spam user would flash it up to other users to do the same, multiplying the effect of each report.

It never went anywhere because, clearly, Twitter would destroy such a tool in no time.