Hi Wiki-Americans,
You're invited to help schedule our next monthly online meeting!
You can fill in your available dates and times here:
https://doodle.com/poll/dmuywuqxe3kgp67g
Thanks,
Pharos
Hi Wiki-Americans,
You're invited to help schedule our next monthly online meeting!
You can fill in your available dates and times here:
https://doodle.com/poll/n4cgzksw4r56ifcv
Thanks,
Pharos
Hi everyone,
The first conversation about structured licensing and copyright on
Commons for the Structured Data project [0] is available for
participation [1]. The purpose of the discussion is to help identify the
best way to build a model for copyright information and licenses on
Commons.
In this phase, we are discussing how we can approach licensing on
Commons in general. We can stay close to the current situation of
copyright templates on Commons; or we can rethink the way we treat
copyright and licenses so that we are compatible with other schemes and
systems used by other institutions; or maybe we want to have another
approach altogether.
More detailed discussions will come later this year.
If you have experience with copyright on Commons, and have ideas on how
we can positively impact work with GLAMs in this area, please provide
feedback! Your input is crucial :-)
Warmly, Sandra
0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
Forwarding.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kevin Payravi <kevinpayravi(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 11:32 AM
Subject: [Wikimediaus-l] WikiConference North America 2018 - Community
Survey [Help Wanted]
To: "Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS)" <
wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
WikiConference North America needs your help! We want your input on the
needs and wants for our conference. This is your chance to let us know the
problems, goals, and types of programming you think our North American
Wikimedia community needs to focus on.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFcST3dDx6Za7nSxGW
iCl4YgkYpWsZl05y3j_ceplY_R6JuA/viewform
The survey shouldn't take more than 5-10 minutes, and is a prerequisite for
us to get grant funding from the Wikimedia Foundation - so your input is
greatly appreciated!
If you haven't heard yet, we're thrilled to announce that WikiConference
North America 2018 will be happening in Columbus, Ohio from October 18 -
21. Stay tuned to our website for details, and follow us on social media to
be kept up to date.
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Main_Page
Thank you!
Kevin Payravi
SuperHamster on en.wiki
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Hi everyone,
There is a new feedback request up on Wikimedia Commons, regarding
Structured Data on Commons. The topic is a very important discussion:
between wikitext-in-Mediawiki, Wikibase on Commons, and Wikibase on
Wikidata, what file metadata gets store where?
I would like to invite everyone involved in GLAM projects on Commons to
help us think about file metadata that is especially important for, and
sometimes unique to, media files that have been provided/uploaded by
GLAM institutions.
Feedback on GLAM metadata is collected here on the page:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
This consultation will formally run for two weeks, closing on 1 March.
There will not be decisions made at that time; this is a part of the
information-gathering process in order to make the informed decisions.
Thank you for your time, see you on the wiki!
Sandra
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Sandra Fauconnier
GLAM-Wiki Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
See below for submissions to Wikimania, an important gathering to help the
Wikimedia community learn about how to collaborate with heritage
institutions to fill knowledge gaps!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:21 PM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2018 Call for Submissions
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Program committee list <wikimania-program(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedia community,
We are pleased to announce that Wikimania 2018 is now accepting proposals
for workshops, discussions, presentations, or research posters to give
during the conference. To read the full instructions visit the event wiki
and click on the link provided there to make your proposal:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
The deadline for submissions is 23:59 UTC on *Sunday March 18, 2018*.
This is approximately 6 weeks away. Whether you are a community member of
one of the Wikimedia projects, or a fellow open content creator or
consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session.
*Theme*
This year, the conference will be taking place in Cape Town, South Africa,
where the organisers are giving this Wikimania a unique flavor — an
explicit theme based in African philosophy:
“Bridging knowledge gaps, the *ubuntu* way forward.”
Read more about this theme, why it was chosen, and what it means for the
conference program at the Wikimedia blog:
*https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/>*
Throughout the conference program, this theme will be tightly held, but
loosely defined - in order to encourage a diverse range of responses to the
theme. It is our hope that this theme will give us the opportunity to
further our goal of creating the “sum of human knowledge”, by encouraging
greater diversity and inclusion in who participates and what we discuss at
Wikimania.
To learn more, and to make a proposal for the conference, please visit:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
Please forward this announcement to other lists and groups across the
Wikimedia movement.
<https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>
We look forward to reading your submissions. Sincerely,
*Program committee co-chairs Emna Mizouni, Felix Nartey, and Liam Wyatt.*
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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org
Hi fellow Wiki-Americans,
We'll meet for a pan-USA Wikimedia local activists chat on Monday, February
5 at 6:00 PM Pacific / 9:00 PM Eastern.
Agenda, feel free to edit:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/February_2018
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Chromebook or Android:
https://zoom.us/j/382197618
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,884234801# or
+16465588656,884234801#
Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 408 638 0968 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 382 197 618
International numbers available:
https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=bLX_A8iHToP8y08eq8_53sfTHy9TPMaq
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi Wiki-Americans,
You're invited to help schedule our next monthly online meeting!
You can fill in your available dates and times here:
https://doodle.com/poll/rnnt7r9xfsrizkc5
Thanks,
Pharos
Hi all,
As part of the Structured Data on Commons program, Jonathan Morgan and
Sandra Fauconnier were able to interview a number of GLAM project
participants or include them in a survey, to examine how Commons is used by
that community and how we could support them. In the research, they
highlight a number of both social and technological challenges faced by
that group, alongside the needs of the Commons community.
I highly recommend either reading the report, or watching the the video
documented at:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/29/glam-multimedia-metadata-commons/
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org