Dear fellow Wikimedians, dear Florence,
as the Wiki loves Africa 2019 competition is coming to its close I would
like to bring back the question which I raised already in December 2018:
*1. Do others share my impression that images from the competition are
hardly ever used in wikipedia articles?*
*2. Do others have the impression that the present approach for Wiki
Loves Africa does not help much to close the knowledge gap about Africa? *
When I posted in December some participants here voiced interest but
wanted to wait for a feedback fom the organizers. Such a feedback I have
not seen. So allow me to repeat some lines from my first post:
/I was an early fan of the idea of "Wiki Loves Africa" but I have to
confess that my fan status has cooled over time. I cannot claim to have
done a comprehensive reseach but did some checks here and there.//
////*So I have the impression that
a) the competition has brought a number of really beautiful photographs
b) the competition has brought lots of images which are not used
anywhere in wikipedia articles (my short checks give me the impression
that could be the case for the vast majority of images produced)*//
////
//and//*I ask myself if the reason may be that a lot of these mages is
frankly unusable.*//
////
//I remember that prize selected image showing some beautiful ladies in
Massai attire knitting under a tree (the year of adornment) which was
selected in a winner category but is unusable for any purpose (unless
you want to document fake stereoptypes - the motive was fake...)//
////
//There is a lot of nice looking images which I do not know how to use
because of their not clear labelling, unhelpful categories and useless
explanations. It helps me as author nothing to see an image and a text
like "traditional tools of Ghana/Malawi/etc". *This is unusable and
useless*.//
////
//I write this not from the point of view of a lover of beauty (my taste
is poor) but just simply from the view of a wikipedia author. I would
love to have some thousand images (not necessarily beautiful) which
just show African villages. We know the criticism about the white spots
on the African maps of knowledge. Villages back home in Germany may have
less than 1000 inhabitants but 3 articles about the village, about its
church and about the sports club. Images are available and people look
for them.//
////
//*I do not want to denigrate Wiki loves Africa but i would love to hear
from others how they see the value of the results as they have been so
far. Why do we do it - what do we get from it? *//How can images about
"play" be useful for closing the white spaces on the African map of
knowledge?/
Cheers, Ingo - "Kipala"
Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili user group
Dear Wikimedians,
1Lib1Ref is happening again from *15 May to 5 June*, the campaigns focus is
to improve the reliability of Wikipedia through citation improvements and
fact sourcing on the platform. You can engage your community in this
exercise during the campaign period to improve the quality of the articles
about your favourite landmarks, cities, monuments, national cultural and
heritage sites.
Visit 1lib1ref.org for more information!
PS: Apologies for cross posting.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 5:26 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing 1Lib1Ref (1Bib1Ref) in May 2019!
To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Librarians and library lovers,
Next month from May 15th to June 5th we will be joining together around the
world to make Wikipedia more reliable. You can participate in #1Lib1Ref by
simply adding a citation to Wikipedia's content.
That's all we ask and imagine: a world in which every librarian (or
archivist, reference professional, and scholar) adds 1 more reference to
Wikipedia.
This is the fourth year of the #1Lib1Ref campaign and our second time
running it in May, when it's more convenient for the southern hemisphere.
You can learn about this year's January campaign too in our recently
released learnings report.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons/2019
Full resources and guides for participating in May are available on the
http://1lib1ref.org campaign website.
The campaign will be fully tracked with daily metrics and leaderboard
updates. You can make sure your contribution is counted by using the
Program and Events Dashboard for your event, institution, or region.
Login to start a new event or join up with an existing group for the May
Campaign here:
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_may_2019/programs
Please tell your library and library-loving friends about #1Lib1Ref in
May. We need everyone's help to make Wikipedia more reliable!
Sincerely,
Jake Orlowitz
Head of the Wikipedia Library
Wikimedia Foundation
wikipedialibrary(a)wikimedia.org
@Wikilibrary
P.S. Don’t worry if you can’t make it for the May campaign, as now 1Lib1Ref
receives annual support and you can always reach out for assistance any
time of the year.
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>*
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*Skype:Flixtey*
Dear Wikimedians,
Apologies for cross-posting, particularly to those who may have already
read on other mailing list. I think you may find the announcement below
interesting and worth your notice.
-------------------------------------------------
Last April 5th the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation announced the
launch of the Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Greenhouse>. The W&E
Greenhouse is a fully immersive co-learning experience that lasts 9 months
and is designed for emerging leaders in our movement who believe in the
value of Wikimedia projects in education. It will equip participants with
the skills, knowledge, and support to bring their ideas to life and scale
them into high-impact education initiatives in their community.
The W&E Greenhouse has two modalities of participation: you can apply as a
team or as an individual. Applying as a team means that you present an idea
for an education project you want to develop in your local community. One
team will be selected to receive seed funding for their project, on-site
mentoring and support from WMF staff, and access to a free project
management online course. Applying as an individual means completing a
short form expressing your interest and motivation, and this will give you
access to the free online course. So far we have received applications from
all over the world and we are very excited to keep reading about the
amazing education projects you want to develop. You can apply as a team
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Greenhouse#Team_Applications>
or as an individual
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Greenhouse#Individual_Applica…>
before
May 12.
We have prepared some resources to support your applications:
- Overview of the W&E Greenhouse
<
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v1XVAFOURx0eS42nUYEcrplygfm_p_enagG…
>
- What topics will be covered in the online course?
<
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W%26E_Greenhouse_Curriculum_for_Onl…
>
- What is the timeline of the online course?
<
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W%26E_Greenhouse_online_course_-_Ti…
>
- How do I start with a team application?
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Team_Application_Guidance.png>
- What is the team application like? (video guide)
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/13H-hbzp44lprnZKZV8UoMywgBFQ3w0nx/view>
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Melissa
Guadalupe Huertas via email: mguadalupe(a)wikimedia.org
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Cheers!
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*Global Coordinator*
*The Wikipedia Library
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>*
*Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*
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*+233242844987 <+233%2024%20284%204987> | **+447452508504*
*Skype:Flixtey*
Dear African Wikimedians,
Making Wikimedia events a friendly, welcoming environment in which all
users can interact fruitfully, learn from each other and inspire each
other, is a goal we all share. The Wikimedia Foundation currently is
looking into supporting this goal with an improved Friendly space policy,
specifically tailored to our big international events. We will build the
policy in a way that it will also serve as a minimal standard for all
Foundation supported events.
We do not want to build this new policy without input, ideas or comments
from the African community as well. Please visit the consultation page on
meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy_consultation_2019>
[1], leave your input and spread the word to other Wikimedians! You are
very welcome to leave ideas and comments in other languages than English,
please use the language you feel comfortable expressing yourself.
We are also looking for help in translating the consultation page and also
this message. So if you could help with this or spread the word we need
help translating, we will also be grateful!
Of course you are also welcome to come back to us via email with any
questions you have.
Hoping to hear from you on Meta,
Cheers,
Samuel
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy_consultation_2019
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*Samuel Guebo*
Trust and Safety Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Hello everyone,
There is so much to be documented from the three northern regions of Ghana
in terms of culture, monuments and notable people.We seek to extend Wiki
activities to remote areas in the northern regions of Ghana. Most
activities take place in the south. In order to recruit new editors and
establish clubs in Upper East and Northern region we need funding to embark
on the proposed Wiki Tours the North project.
We would be very glad if you could support us by endorsing the grant
proposal here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Celestinesucess/Wiki_T…
Feedbacks and comments are welcome.
Thank you
Ursula
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Zita Ursula Zage
Co-founder of the GOI Foundation
Call/WhatsApp: +233543183760
Twitter: @Zuzage
facebook: Ursula Zage
web: ursulazage.com
I have sent this e-mail to the general Wiki Loves Monuments list first, but
this request is relevant for all of you who organize Wiki Loves...
campaigns and who work with UploadWizard in this process!
All feedback welcome!
Sandra
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Sandra Fauconnier <sfauconnier(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:54 PM
Subject: Structured Data on Commons and Wiki Loves... campaigns: wishes for
UploadWizard?
To: <WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone! I hope all is well :-)
Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (SDC) will become available this year.
With SDC, Wikimedians can add data from Wikidata directly to files on
Wikimedia Commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/About
Benefits include multilinguality of Commons files (users can find and
describe files on Commons in many languages), and machine-readable data
with better APIs, that offer more advanced possibilities to build
applications like Monumental - https://tools.wmflabs.org/monumental/
In the not so far future, you will also be able to organize Wiki Loves...
(Monuments, Earth, Africa, Art, Love, ...) campaigns on Wikimedia Commons
with structured data. (This is entirely optional, but maybe some of you are
already keen to do this, especially if you already have monument or other
data in Wikidata!)
In the course of 2019, the SDC development team wants to improve Wikimedia
Commons' UploadWizard to support the campaigns that want to be powered by
Structured Data 'new style'.
Do you have ideas and wishes for this? The team wants to hear which
structured data features you want to see in UploadWizard, and we are now
organizing a consultation about this over the next two weeks.
This page gives more context, and links to where you can leave feedback.
We're collecting this first round of input until April 17.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
Many thanks in advance!
Warmly, Sandra
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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,
*About the Offline UserGroup*
There have been many efforts to distribute offline snapshots to places
with little connectivity, via schoolservers, wikireaders, and
pocket-sized servers that run on batteries.
* We created astatic content initiative
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Static_content_group>early on;
* Anoffline mailing list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l>has been
around for many years;
* Kiwix has provided a stable toolchain for creating and viewing
offline snapshots;
* At various times (2011-12, 2016-) the WMF has staffed or supported
offline teams testing and developing toolchains for translation and
article selection, including one simply called "Offline".
* A number of community grants from WMFR, WMDE, WMF and other
foundations have supported offline deployments and focused
translations for that purpose.
This user group is a shared community for people using the mailing list
and developing any of these related initiatives!
*Objectives of the UserGroup*
+ Consolidate and support offline snapshots of wiki knowledge, and
deployments of them in schools, clinics, and rural communities.
+ Update and maintain theoffline projects portal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_projects>here on Meta.
+ Advocate for better distribution of and awareness of offline
wikis, in all parts of the world where internet access is
restricted, expensive, or unavailable: including schools, clinics,
prisons, refugee camps, disaster areas.
*Activities*
* Development of offline distributions with Kiwix
* Support for editors compiling modern snapshots of wikipedia, such as
WP 1.0
* Offline distributions to rural clinics, schools, and libraries
* Offline editing with WikiFundi
* Development of synchronizing solutions
* Past events: 2017 offline hackathon in NY
* Future events: Offline meetup @ Wikimania, Kiwix hackathon
*Membership ***Following the last update during Wikimedia Summit regarding WMF board seats selection [1], the UserGroup needs to clarify its membership.
For those already members in 2018, please confirm whether you are still a member of the Offline UserGroup in 2019.
If you were not yet a member and want to be, add your name ;)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_offline_wikis#Membership_in…
Anthere
Hello everyone
Please read this email from Sandra, which may be of interest to you if
you are a participant or an organiser of a Wiki Loves contest.
Our input is welcome, and even desired. Please provide feedback before
April 17th.
Cheers
Florence
-------- Message transféré --------
Sujet : Structured Data on Commons and Wiki Loves... campaigns: wishes
for UploadWizard?
Date : Thu, 4 Apr 2019 12:54:45 +0200
De : Sandra Fauconnier
<sfauconnier-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA(a)public.gmane.org>
Répondre à : Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
<wikilovesmonuments-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r(a)public.gmane.org>
Pour : WikiLovesMonuments-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r(a)public.gmane.org
Groupes de discussion : gmane.org.wikimedia.wikilovesmonuments
Hello everyone! I hope all is well :-)
Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (SDC) will become available this
year. With SDC, Wikimedians can add data from Wikidata directly to files
on Wikimedia Commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/About
Benefits include multilinguality of Commons files (users can find and
describe files on Commons in many languages), and machine-readable data
with better APIs, that offer more advanced possibilities to build
applications like Monumental - https://tools.wmflabs.org/monumental/
In the not so far future, you will also be able to organize Wiki
Loves... (Monuments, Earth, Africa, Art, Love, ...) campaigns on
Wikimedia Commons with structured data. (This is entirely optional, but
maybe some of you are already keen to do this, especially if you already
have monument or other data in Wikidata!)
In the course of 2019, the SDC development team wants to improve
Wikimedia Commons' UploadWizard to support the campaigns that want to be
powered by Structured Data 'new style'.
Do you have ideas and wishes for this? The team wants to hear which
structured data features you want to see in UploadWizard, and we are now
organizing a consultation about this over the next two weeks.
This page gives more context, and links to where you can leave feedback.
We're collecting this first round of input until April 17.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
Many thanks in advance!
Warmly, Sandra
--
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
