Hi all,
A few days ago we organised an edit-a-thon in what we had participants
write about important women.
With most edit-a-thon we start with a group of people that know Wikipedia,
but are fully new to editing on Wikipedia. We usually start with an
introduction, which includes telling about:
- Do not copy paste from other sources, but write in your own words.
- For all facts sources need to be added.
- Link keywords to other articles in Wikipedia.
and some more things...
The participants usually do their best, but usually also forget something.
Like for example that a participant forgot to add a source for a sentence.
In our recent edit-a-thon we tried something new: besides the presentation
given and the handout of some instructions, we also created a checklist for
the participants to use at the end of their writing so they did not forget
anything.
That gave us better results than what we have got with similar groups in
the past.
This leads me to my question: when you organised an edit-a-thon, what kind
of cheatsheets, tricks, ... do you use so that the articles of participants
have a higher quality?
(Or that they are more inspired/enthusiastic, more aware, ..., etc)
Good examples?
If we can share those, we all can learn from good ideas and examples!
Thanks!
Romaine
(sorry for X-posting)
Dear all,
Forwarding this message from the Wikipedia & Education User Group, as we
believe GLAM & Education should be working hand in hand.
Cheers,
Shani.
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From: Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 4:16 AM
Subject: EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!
To: Education ML <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, EDUWiki UG ML <
eduwiki(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
(and sorry in advance for x-posting -- we are sharing this a bit wider to
draw attention to not only the education group, but also the Libraries and
GLAM groups, which we believe have a lot in common with ours and hope will
be active partners in our work throughout the year)
Below is a report of what we've been up to during 2018, including a few
updates looking forward to 2019. We've tried keeping it short and to the
point.
Best,
Shani.
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** 2018 Report - *
Our group has been recognized during 10/2018, so we don't have much to
report about, but here is a short summary of what we've been up to since
being elected -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/2018_Ann…
** Revamping our User Group Page - *
Check out our (a bit more) updated page on Meta. The work is far from over
and the key areas identified are especially a work in progress and will
keep evolving as we do more work. That said, you can now easily find who we
are, how you can get involved, how governance works, various resources and
a way to contact us, which is a good start.
** Logo - winner - *
As some of you remember, we've ran a logo challenge, in order to determine
what our logo would be. We finally have a winner - a logo that most people
voted for, which was designed by krishna chaitanya velaga (who also happens
to be one of our board members :)). The new logo will be implemented soon!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_and_Education_User_Group_…
** Bylaws -*
We have started working on a draft for our bylaws here (which, once done,
will be moved to Meta) -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hsEXVCnLrqC7qcGYXinEZENIDsZIvPnBcInh_bf…
We are looking for people with experience in governance to join the board
as we finalize our bylaws. If you're interested in working on it with us,
please contact us privately.
** Annual plan *-
We've also started working on an annual plan. Again, this is a draft, and
once done, it'll be moved to Meta. In the meantime, we are inviting anyone
who's interested in affecting what we'll be focusing on this coming year,
to comment on the (really not final!) doc -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wBR-tAHwpwsCo24tu7mL0QNgUJEebSA18_rbZF8…
** Working groups -*
As part of working on our annual plan, the board has recognized key focus
areas for our work: *Community, Resources & Outreach. *
It was decided to open *working groups* that will be working separately on
advancing each of these focus areas. So what do we want from you?
*Please check out the different working groups
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Get_invo…>
**and sign up* to the group(s) that interest you. We will soon start
working in those groups (also in accordance with the movement strategic
process) and interested users will be contacted directly. Each group will
have a facilitator from the board, and each group will determine its own
annual plan and tendency of meetings throughout the year.
** Monthly Open Online Meetings - *
As of January 2019, we will be conducting open online meetings at *the last
Monday of each month, between 1630-1800 UTC* (that is the time-slot most
people voted for in a doodle poll we conducted). We will send a reminder a
few days before, but this means you can already mark your calendars!
This is *a link to the meetings <https://meet.jit.si/EDUWikiUG> *(at least
for the coming 6 months) and a *the minutes from the meeting
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6jrTGrFIS51L9qGIWXZiLfRBHSNZF8vKcO1uST…>
*(which
we'll also be using for the coming 6 months). We are hoping to record our
next meetings for those who cannot attend.
In addition, in every coming meeting *we will feature 3 stories* of
initiatives from around the world. I*f you'd like to be featured* in one of
the coming meeting, please *contact me privately*.
*Finally,* we realize that while all of this makes perfect sense to us, it
might not be so clear to others, *so p**lease feel free to ask us anything
at all*. We are really looking to involve as many people from around the
world as possible in order to achieve our goals. In other words, we do not
want to rely only on the board to develop these key areas for the global
community; rather it is hoped that board members will take more of a
facilitator role, especially as our network strengthens and our
organization evolves.
Looking forward to working with as many of you in the coming year!
Shani and the Wikipedia & Education User Group Board.
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*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>.
Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.
Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
<http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>.
*+972-525640648*
UPDATE for #1Lib1Ref
<https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/1lib1ref?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG>:
What a first week! 3,341 edits from 21 languages. French is leading with
1,382 and user Mgquebec out front (265). 319 editors contributed so far and
76 are averaging one per day. Five languages are over 100 edits, and in
total we are 77% ahead of last year!
#1Lib1Ref has reached over 3 million users on Twitter 7.7 million times. 32
countries, from Nigeria to Malaysia to Colombia, are spreading the word.
Tell your friends: 1lib1ref.org
<http://1lib1ref.org/?fbclid=IwAR1PjxslfNFjr9yr7h8u5CUZG1yNXEhawXY3wiuHmKCKy…>
:)
Zoom in on the top 5 languages for #1Lib1Ref: Hebrew, English, Catalan,
French, and Serbian. Kudos to the top editors in each of those languages:
Dovidroth, Ambrosia10, Txescu, Mgquebec and Ванилица. You're doing amazing
work!
This year, whether you're a librarian or a library lover, an archivist,or a
museumist, or a student or researcher... you can make #1Lib1Ref your own.
Make an edit. Hold an event with friends or colleagues. Track your
impact. Tell your story.
Jake Orlowitz
The Wikipedia Library
Official site: https://ocs.letras.up.pt/index.php/IWSC2019/IWSC2019
The* International Wiki Scientific Conference 2019 *will be held on *March
11, 12 and 13, 2019 *in Porto (Portugal) and will take place at the Faculty
of Arts of the University of Porto.
*ORGANIZATION:*
*FLUP - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (PT)*
*CIC.DIGITAL Porto (PT)*
*Wiki Educação Brasil (BR)*
*PPGCI - Universidade Federal Fluminense (RJ-BR)*
CALL FOR PAPERS
https://ocs.letras.up.pt/index.php/iwsc2019/IWSC_2019/author/submit?require…
In 2018, after the European Year of Cultural Heritage was celebrated by the
first time and by the initiative of the European Union, the *IWSC 2019*
promotes *Heritage*, both material and intangible, to draw attention to the
presence of Culture and heritage on Wiki platforms and to the contribution
this digital resource/look could have on social and economic development in
Europe and worldwide.
Therefore, works will be considered provided they focus on Wiki culture as
a topic, source or way of spreading scientific knowledge and teaching tool
and, particularly in the scope of heritage. Texts should be written in
English, Spanish or Portuguese and will be assessed by members of the
Scientific Commission.
Submission period starts on the 15 October and ends on the *30 January 2019*.
Authors will be notified whether their works have been accepted by the *10
February 2019*.
*The papers should be submitted in the following thematic groups:*
- Wiki Culture
- Information accreditation on Wikipedia
- Spreading and promoting Science on Wikipedia
- Dissemination and promotion of material and intangible heritage
- Educational Projects on Wiki Platforms
Posters may be presented (up to 3 pages, including references) or articles
(from 8 to 10 pages, including references).
The papers will be published in the digital proceeding of the event. For
this reason, at least one of the authors must register for the event and
perform oral presentation.
In the case of changes requested by the evaluators, the authors have
until *February
20, 2019* to submit their final versions.
*Opening of Call for Papers: *October 15, 2018
*Call for papers closes:* January 30, 2018
Best regards
Rodrigo Padula
Hello everyone,
Captions can now be added to files on Commons. There's a bug with
abusefilter sending errors to new accounts adding captions, the bug is
being investigated and fixed right now. IRC office hour starts in a few
minutes and the team is ready for your questions!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
--
Sandra Fauconnier (she/her)
Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia
communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hello everyone!
Forwarding the latest message from Keegan:
Multilingual captions are scheduled to go live on Wikimedia Commons today,
Thursday 10 January, between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC. The time window may
change at the last minute, and the team may hold the deployment (or roll it
back) if last minute problems occur. Should that happen I will keep you all
informed, and I'll see you all at the IRC office hour today.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Structured data - file captions coming this week
(January 2019)
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia Team <Multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia Mailing List <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all, following up on last month's announcement... [0]
>
> Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either
> Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature
> to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you
> might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:
>
> * Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on
> mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel
> free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons. [1]
> * Test out using captions on Beta Commons. [2]
> * Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you
> have anything you'd like to say prior to release. [3]
>
> Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January
> with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as
> anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as
> well as a link to join, are on Meta. [4]
>
> Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to
> the IRC office hour on Thursday. I'll reply to this post once I confirm
> exactly what day file captions will be released to Commons.
>
> 0.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=…
> 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:File_captions
> 2. https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/
> 3.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Beta_captio…
> 4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
>
> _______________________________________________
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Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia
communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Dear all,
I'm forwarding a request from Natalia Mileszyk re participating in Public
Domain Day.
We hope you can spread the word in your local communities and join the
celebrations around the world!
Cheers,
Shani.
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*JOIN COMMUNIA FOR THE PUBLIC DOMAIN WEEK *
On New Year’s Day, as every year, there is the Public Domain Day celebrated
– works of many great artists and scientists will come into the public
domain and will be available for access, use and re-distribute. You can
check the list of them at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_in_public_domain. But 2019 is also a
unique year (see below).
Therefore, we want to invite all organizations working for openness and
commons to celebrate with us Public Domain Week (January, 21-25). Some of
our partners will organize events this week (including Creative Commons in
the US, Centrum Cyfrowe in Poland), but we would love also to see other
things happening - your imagination is the limit. Maybe you want to
organise something? An event, a hackathon, a concert, a contest? Maybe you
want to help with internet outreach on the public domain? Publish something
on your blogs (Why public domain is important to you? How your readers can
contribute from the public domain?), give some love to the topic on social
media?
*We are not planning to coordinate this action too much (there won’t be any
new website etc., but cross-referencing is more than welcome!) nevertheless
please let us know (nmileszyk(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl
<nmileszyk(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl>) by January 16th if you’ll participate so we
can put you in touch with other contributors to the Public Domain Week.*
*Materials for the Public Domain Week:*
- graphics -
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mCHyDQ6MCgmmkW93690hoLwQBpHwox_A?us…
- #publicdomain
- relaunching of the webpage with Public Domain Manifesto by January 21st
(we’re well aware that it looks really outdated) + all of the 24
translations of the manifesto (that are available at
http://publicdomainmanifesto.org/translations.html) will also be published
- check if your language is available!
*Why 2019 is so special? *
- We’ll celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Public Domain Manifesto (
http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/manifesto.html) endorsed by many
international organizations;
- In the US, ever since the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, no
published works have entered the public domain (well, none due to copyright
expiration). But for the first time in 20 years this January, tens of
thousands of books, films, visual art, sheet music, and plays published in
1923 will be free of intellectual property restrictions (
https://creativecommons.org/2018/12/05/join-us-for-a-grand-re-opening-of-th…
)
- There is a chance that the public domain will be granted legal
protection in the new copyright directive, which is debated right now in
the EU (
https://www.communia-association.org/2018/12/21/copyright-reform-still-stal…
).
Best,
Natalia
Natalia Mileszyk
Centrum Cyfrowe | centrumcyfrowe.pl/
public policy expert
@nmileszyk
(+48) 668440136
ALSO:
Creative Commons Polska | creativecommons.pl
Communia Association | communia-association.
<http://communia-association.org/>
Hello everyone!
Some structured data updates are arriving on Wikimedia Commons this week.
There will be an IRC office hour to discuss it. See below!
Cheers and best wishes for the new year, Sandra
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 9:32 PM
Subject: [Commons-l] Structured data - file captions coming this week
(January 2019)
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all, following up on last month's announcement... [0]
Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday,
9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add
short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want
to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:
* Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on
mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel
free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons. [1]
* Test out using captions on Beta Commons. [2]
* Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have
anything you'd like to say prior to release. [3]
Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with
the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything
else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a
link to join, are on Meta. [4]
Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the
IRC office hour on Thursday. I'll reply to this post once I confirm exactly
what day file captions will be released to Commons.
0.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=…
1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:File_captions
2. https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/
3.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Beta_captio…
4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
--
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Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia
communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
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