Forwarding from the Wikidata Weekly Summary:
https://ndsrbhl.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/the-role-of-librarians-in-wikidata…
Quoting from the blog post: "As WikiCite continues to grow, it will be
interesting to follow how (hopefully not whether!) the community integrates
GLAM metadata. Generating Linked Open Data citations has the potential to
connect objects and concepts with information resources to create context
for more accurate and interesting digital representations of knowledge and
cultural heritage. And more complete and complex graphs are better at
supporting deeper investigations, queries, and visualizations of these data
across repositories, collections, and knowledge bases."
Pine
Dear Wikimedia & Education community,
The time has come to form an education-focused User Group to support the
needs of the global education community.
This weekend, a group of education leaders from 10 countries gathered in
Yerevan, Armenia. We continued a discussion that began in Berlin at the
Wikimedia Conference to strategize about the future of global educational
initiatives within Wikimedia projects. We discussed our current model of
supporting educational initiatives, including the limitations and
challenges we have faced over the last several years.
Though we do not pretend to cover the entire spectrum of education
programs, we believe our collective experience has given us insight into
common needs within the education community. We believe a User Group is a
natural evolution from the current structure of the Wikipedia Education
Collaborative (the “Collab”). As we organize to support educational
initiatives around the world, we want to be inclusive, open, and
transparent within our community. User Groups have formed to help
Wikimedians collaborate across languages and countries, enabling better
communication and visibility globally. With time, we expect this User Group
may become a Thematic Organization.
Moving forward, we believe it’s vital to elevate the narrative of education
within our movement and the knowledge ecosystem. We see this group as a
platform for sharing the experiences and voicing the needs of the entire
global education community.
*We invite all interested parties **to join the User Group* as members (this
includes affiliates, individual program leaders, educators, students, etc), and
commit to setting the stage for greater success of Wikipedia in Education. *To
show your support, p**lease sign up under the "supporters" section in the
proposal page on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.*
Warm regards,
Shani Evenstein, Jami Mathewson, Vassia Atanassova & Liang-chih Shang Kuan
(On behalf of the founding members).
Hello Shani,
We also experimented with teaching Wikidata skills this year with a class
of social media students at Charles University in Prague. First 1.5hour
class introduced Wikipedia, 2nd was about Wikidata and the 3rd was a
hands-on course in Wikidata Query service. The students completed the
course with a basic understanding of how data are mined from WD and what
types of questions can be answered by WD.
If I had a 4th lesson I'd also explain Petscan and/or QuickStatements.
Vojtech
Dne 4. 6. 2017 5:23 napsal uživatel "Shani Evenstein" <shani.even(a)gmail.com
>:
I've been teaching WD as part of my 2 academic courses for the past two
years. I had one 1.5 hour session dedicated to it, where I introduce ways
of contributing and ways of using the data. Their task is usually to add
info regarding the Wikipedia articles they wrote to WD. Students usually
really like the WD Games. They also like things like Histropedia, the
timeline tool.
I know Andrew lee has also tried the latter that this year and created a
session where his students creayed a timelines to explore something.
Other than that, I'm unaware of other efforts to teach with WD, but since
I'm also working on developing a separate elective about it, I'd love to
see what you come up with. :-)
Shani..
On 4 Jun 2017 03:00, "Daniel Mietchen" <daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am preparing an elective course on Wikidata as part of a summer
> school (some bare-bone background at
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/FSCI_2017 )
> and am looking for examples of previous or ongoing coursework
> involving Wikidata.
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> Daniel
>
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I've been teaching WD as part of my 2 academic courses for the past two
years. I had one 1.5 hour session dedicated to it, where I introduce ways
of contributing and ways of using the data. Their task is usually to add
info regarding the Wikipedia articles they wrote to WD. Students usually
really like the WD Games. They also like things like Histropedia, the
timeline tool.
I know Andrew lee has also tried the latter that this year and created a
session where his students creayed a timelines to explore something.
Other than that, I'm unaware of other efforts to teach with WD, but since
I'm also working on developing a separate elective about it, I'd love to
see what you come up with. :-)
Shani..
On 4 Jun 2017 03:00, "Daniel Mietchen" <daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am preparing an elective course on Wikidata as part of a summer
> school (some bare-bone background at
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/FSCI_2017 )
> and am looking for examples of previous or ongoing coursework
> involving Wikidata.
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> Daniel
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikidata mailing list
> Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
>
People here may be interested in a Hackathon we're holding on August 13-18. right after Wikimania, in Potsdam, New York (about 2.5 hours drive from Montreal). The focus is on writing code to help produce offline collections of Wikipedia content and other educational materials, mostly for use in schools. The main wiki page can be found at http://OFF.NETWORK. We can probably help you with transportation and accommodation.
Some of the attendees will be there from groups such as Kiwix purely to write code. Others focus on end-use and are from the non-profit/educational community, such as Computers for Kids, Internet-in-a-box, KA Lite. These people will want to ensure that the technical needs of the groups can be met, and that resources are shared. You can see the sort of thing Internet-in-a-Box does in this recent article on opensource.com: https://opensource.com/article/17/5/internet-in-a-box-raspberry-pi
If you're interested in attending, it's probably best to contact me directly. Thanks!
Martin A. Walker (walkerma on Wikipedia)
Professor of Chemistry, SUNY Potsdam
walkerma(a)potsdam.edu<mailto:walkerma@potsdam.edu>
In 2016, Wiki Ed kicked off the largest targeted content initiative ever
undertaken in the Wikimedia world: the Wikipedia Year of Science. When the
year wrapped up in December, our programs for the initiative had added
nearly 5 million words of content to the English Wikipedia. More than 6,300
students edited more than 5,700 articles on STEM and social science
subjects on Wikipedia, and improved biographies of 150 women scientists.
The amount of content added during the Year of Science is impressive:
nearly 5 million words fills 3.5 full volumes of the last print edition of
Encyclopædia Britannica.
But simply touting our numeric successes isn’t enough. As part of Wiki Ed’s
commitment to the Wikimedia movement, we also wanted to evaluate our work —
and document and share our learnings.
We’ve published our Year of Science evaluation on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Year_of_Science_e…
The report highlights what we did as part of the Year of Science in the
Classroom Program, the Visiting Scholars Program, and other projects, as
well as indications of what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned from
the Year of Science. Our goal in publishing this report is to enable other
groups considering creating a large-scale content initiative like the Year
of Science to be able to learn from what we did.
I encourage anyone who’s interested to read the detailed report, or for a
TL;DR version, check out the green “Learnings” boxes. We welcome questions
on the talk page of the report or at Wikimania 2017 in Montreal, where I’ll
be presenting on the Year of Science initiative and what we learned from it.
LiAnna
--
LiAnna Davis
Director of Programs; Deputy Director
Wiki Education Foundation
www.wikiedu.org
Dear colleagues,
We need to talk about how minority languages are supported right now.
The Celtic Knot Conference 2017 is the first Wikipedia Language conference focusing on how technology supports Celtic & Indigenous Languages.
It takes place at the University of Edinburgh Business School on Thursday 6th July 2017.
Booking closes 27 June 2017 so don't delay. All welcome.
Watch this 3 minute video<https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_nr4uufq9> if you’d like to know more.
The main objective for Celtic Knot 2017 is the coming together of those working to support Celtic and Indigenous languages in the same room at same time; strengthening the bonds into a 'knot' and leading into action. We welcome diverse attendees ranging from Wikimedians, linguists, educators, researchers, information professionals, media professionals, translators, learning technologists and more coming together to share good practice and find fruitful new collaborations to support language communities as a result of the event.
Keynote speakers
* Professor Antonella Sorace<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh<http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/%7Eantonell/> and founding director of Bilingualism Matters<http://www.bilingualism-matters.org.uk/> will be speaking on ‘Bilingualism in minority languages: a resource and an opportunity’.
* Jason Evans<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_th…> will discuss his strategy for working with Wikimedia UK and the Welsh Government to develop the Welsh Wicipedia using a combination of community engagement, data manipulation and the implementation of Open Access policies.
Confirmed speakers also include:
* Susan Ross – Gaelic Wikipedian in Residence<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2017/01/wikimedia-uk-and-national-library-of-…> at the National Library of Scotland on making the Uicipeid a hub for online Gaelic knowledge<http://www.nls.uk/news/archive/2017/01/gaelic-wikipedian-begins>.
* Dr. Sharon Arbuthnot<http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/sharon-arbuthnot%28519b4b40-d075-4b…> - Queen's University, Belfast. Presenting on the AHRC-funded eDIL project<http://www.dil.ie/> (Irish Language dictionary) on Wednesday 5th July.
* Gareth Morlais – the Welsh Language Unit, Welsh Government. Gareth will speak about how mapping how much importance major companies (Google, Twitter, Apple) attach to creative activity on Wikipedia led to the Welsh Government helping to fund two Welsh-language Wikipedia initiatives.
* Delyth Prys – Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, will speak on Welsh/Celtic speech technology and why text-to-speech and speech recognition are becoming increasingly important in our digital world.
* Àlex Hinojo<http://www.alexhinojo.cat/en/bio/> – Executive Director, Amical Wikimedia<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia> on the Catalan language project.
* Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga – Developing the Basque Wikipedia: From corpus expansion to outreach.
* Astrid Carlsen – Executive Director, Wikimedia Norge speaking on Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and building a project to revitalize the Northern Sami Wikipedia.
* Robin Owain – Wales Manager, Wikimedia UK, speaking on recent developments supporting the Welsh language community.
* Mina Theofilatou presenting on The Kefalonian Dialect in Wiktionary and how Wikitherapy addresses social equality in open-source language projects<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017/Programme/CK125>.
* Duncan Brown - Llên Natur<http://www.llennatur.com/Drupal7/llennatur/>, presenting on ‘Y BYWIADUR: the dictionary of life’.
* Ilario Valdelli - Wikimedia Switzerland, speaking on the Digital Library in Romansch and the new initiatives to map the archeological sites connected with Celtic culture in the Alps.
* Subhashish Panigrahi presenting on Kathabhidhana<https://github.com/OdiaWikimedia/Kathabhidhana>, an open toolkit for anyone to record their language in a human and machine readable form.
To find out more about the conference themes and how to book your place to join us then please visit the Celtic Knot<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017> page.
It promises to be a great event – including a panel on the Politics of Language Online, excellent papers, workshops and discussion spaces. Please feel free to forward this event to interested colleagues in your network.
Very best regards,
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk>
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My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday.
Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR.
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Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk
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The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR.
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