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From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:35 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Applications open for WikiCite (Berlin, May 25-26,
2016)
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Research into Wikimedia content and
communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <
wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Citations and references are the building blocks of Wikimedia projects.
However, as of today, they are still treated as second-class citizens.
Structured data bases such as Wikidata offer a unique opportunity
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData> to
turn into reality over a decade of endeavors to build the sum of all
citations and bibliographic metadata into a centralized repository. To
coordinate upcoming work in this space, we're organizing a technical event
in late May and opening up applications for prospective participants.
*WikiCite 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016>* is a
hands-on event focused on designing data models and technology to *improve
the coverage, quality, standards-compliance and machine-readability of
citations and source metadata in Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia
projects*. Our goal, in particular, is to define a technical roadmap for
building a repository of all Wikimedia references in Wikidata.
We are bringing together Wikidatans, Wikipedians, software engineers, data
modelers, and information and library science experts from organizations
including *Crossref*, *Zotero*, *CSL*, *ContentMine*, *Google*, *Datacite*,
*NISO*, *OCLC* and the *NIH*. We are also inviting academic researchers
with experience working with Wikipedia's citations and bibliographic data.
WikiCite will be hosted in *Berlin* on *May 25-26, 2016*. Participation to
the event is capped at about 50 participants and we expect to have a number
of open slots for applicants:
- if you were pre-invited and have already filled in a form, you will
receive a separate note from the organizers
- if you have not been invited but you would like to participate, please
fill in this application form <http://goo.gl/forms/Yv6rve2wCt> to give
us some information about you and your interest and expected contribution
to the event.
Please help us pass this on to anyone who has done important technical work
on Wikimedia references and citations.
*Important dates*
- *March 29, 2016*: applications open
- *April 11, 2016*: applications close
- *April 15, 2016*: notifications of acceptance are issued (if you
applied for a travel grant, we'll be able to confirm by this date if we
can
cover the costs of your trip)
For any question, you can contact the organizing committee:
wikicite(a)wikimedia.org
The organizers,
Dario Taraborelli
Jonathan Dugan
Lydia Pintcher
Daniel Mietchen
Cameron Neylon
*Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter
<http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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It will soon be spring! ;-)
And that means the beautiful "Tree of 40 Fruit":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit
of which there are several examples scattered around the USA, will
briefly be in flower.
We need some openly-licensed images, for Wikipedia and its sister
projects. Can you help, please?
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
We take great pleasure in inviting you to the ResourceSpace Community
Meeting on June 23-24, 2016. It is the first event of its kind in
Germany and we are pleased to host you at Humboldt University in Berlin.
This meeting will be an excellent occasion to share our ideas and
experiences regarding ResourceSpace.
For more details about the Community Meeting and for registration,
please visit the website: https://attending.io/events/rs-2016
Call for Papers
---------------
The programme is divided into three tracks:
* Scientific – presentation of research work and its results concerning
ResourceSpace
* Technological – presentation covering technological aspects of the use
of ResourceSpace
* Best Practice – examples of successful implementations and deployments
of ResourceSpace
All submissions are accepted in English.
Please send an email with the attached abstract (as PDF) including the
time you need for your presentation at rs-2016(a)hu-berlin.de
The submission deadline is Friday 29 April 2016.
If you have any questions about the conference, please do not hesitate
to contact Katarzyna Biernacka via email at rs-2016(a)hu-berlin.de
We look forward to seeing you at the ResourceSpace Community Meeting.
Sincerely,
Katarzyna Biernacka
--
Katarzyna Biernacka
Digital Asset Management
ZE Computer- und Medienservice
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Raum 2'329
Rudower Chaussee 26
D-12489 Berlin
voice +49.30.2093.70069
http://www.cms.hu-berlin.de
Hi all,
The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) Committee is seeking new members for
its final round (before IEG transitions into the Project Grants program
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Imple…>
).
We are aiming to finalize committee membership by April 1st, and ask
interested candidates to submit their names by March 25th here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee#ieg-candidates. More
details below!
*About the committee*
We are a consensus-based volunteer committee with members who come from
over 15 different wikis and collectively speak over 10 languages. We review
grant applications in four categories: Research, Tools, Online Community
Organizing, and Offline Outreach and Partnerships.
This round will also follow directly on the heels of the second Inspire
Campaign <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>,
currently underway and focused on 'Content Curation and Review
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/FAQ>' so we expect
that to be a prominent theme in the proposals this round.
For more info about IEG, the committee, timelines, and tasks, visit
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG.
*Committee membership criteria*
We look for the following qualities and qualifications in committee members:
Mandatory
- Experience with the Wikimedia movement and at least one Wikimedia
project <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects>.
- Experience with some aspect of Wikimedia programmatic or project-based
work, e.g. editor engagement, WikiProjects or other on-wiki organizing
processes, outreach, events, partnerships, research, education, gadget or
bot-building, etc.
- Ability to edit basic wiki-markup (grant proposal discussions are
largely conducted on meta-wiki).
- Reasonable facility with English, for reviewing and discussing grant
proposals.
- In good community- and legal- standing (not currently blocked or
banned, involved in allegations of unethical financial behavior, etc).
- Availability to actively engage in the selection process during the
published schedule for that round (time commitment is about 3 hours per
week, plus 1 extra day for scoring).
Preferable
- Experience leading, coordinating, or managing projects with an
intended on-wiki or online impact.
- Experience handling externally provided money and working within
budgets, preferably in a non-profit context.
- Experience applying for grants or working in grants programs (in the
Wikimedia, academic, or wider non-profit world).
- Ability to read and write in multiple languages.
Acceptable
- Members may apply for an Individual Engagement Grant themselves, but
they will recuse themselves from reviewing proposals in the same category
as their own during that round.
- Membership does not conflict with membership in other Wikimedia
committees, including the Grant Advisory Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee> or
the Wikimania Scholarships Committee.
We want to invite all members and interested user of the ResourceSpace
community to the 1st Community Meeting in Berlin, Germany! It will be a
great opportunity for us, people of diverse backgrounds, to share our
ideas and experiences regarding ResourceSpace.
The event will be hosted at the Humboldt University in Berlin,
Germany. There will be no registration fee!
Because it will be our first Community Meeting, we want to give you the
opportunity to choose the date in order to meet as many of you as possible.
Please fill in the following „Intention to attend“ form so we can make
further preparations:
http://goo.gl/forms/lnwNJe5Soh
Official registration and details to the event will follow soon.
Should you have any queries please contact rs-2016(a)hu-berlin.de
Warm Regards,
Katarzyna Biernacka
--
Katarzyna Biernacka
Digital Asset Management
Arbeitsgruppe "Objektmanagement"
ZE Computer- und Medienservice
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Raum 2'329
Rudower Chaussee 26
D-12489 Berlin
voice +49.30.2093.70069
http://www.cms.hu-berlin.de
I second the desire for a laymen's guide for partner analytics for GLAM institutions. We report monthly to internal stakeholders on the Museum & Library's Wikipedia contributions. Having a guide to the analytics so that we could better convey these statistics would be most appreciated.
--Teri Embrey
Theresa A. R. Embrey, MLIS
Chief Librarian
Pritzker Military Museum & Library
104 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60603
Email: tembrey(a)pritzkermilitary.org<mailto:tembrey@pritzkermilitary.org>
Web: www.pritzkermilitary.org<http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/>
Phone: 312.374.9333
Fax: 312.374.9314
Hi all,
Since the HTTP to HTTPS change last summer, a number of Wikipedia Library
and GLAM partners have reported a drop in traffic reported as "referrals"
from Wikipedia, where many of these referrals are being reported as organic
referrals, effectively creating "dark traffic".
Dario Taraborelli from the research team, worked with Wikimedia Ops to find
a solution to this problem. He and I are also working with a number of
movement partners to understand this effect, and better assess how
Wikipedia references provide referrals to frequently cited websites (see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikimedia_referrer_policy and
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87276 ).
Last Tuesday (Feb 23) the ops team turned on a new "meta referrer tag" so
that sites getting traffic via clicks from Wikimedia pages may see these
referrals in analytics reports. Several publishers have of an increase in
correctly labeled Wikimedia traffic.
Since this effect has been in place for about a week: you may want to let
your partners at cultural heritage institutions know about this change.
Historically, referrals have been a indicator of partnership success and a
persuasive tool for organizations to participate, and the HTTPS change may
have obscured this.
Moreover, if your GLAM partners would be interested in supporting by
sharing referral traffic: we will be collecting partner analytics data from
January 1 to March 30 in about a month. Let me know if you think your GLAM
partner would like to participate.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson