Greetings, fellow GLAM project members, This message marks my first on the GLAM mailing list, which I joined following Wikimania 2012 (where I attended nearly all of the GLAM-related sessions with great interest). My thanks to Lori for her continued encouragement and support; she has provided a friendly face to the GLAM project and has answered any questions I have thrown her way since first hearing about Wikipedians collaborating with cultural institutions. Additional thanks to GLAM folks for providing so much quality information at Wikimania; I had the pleasure of meeting Wikimedia Foundation staff and GLAM professionals throughout the conference and at the GLAM Night Out event. (I was also interviewed by Victor G. and had a brief opportunity to discuss GLAM; we will see what the final product looks like and what is used for the fundraising campaign!)... My names is Jason and I have contributed to English Wikipedia under the username Another Believer for nearly five years now. I currently reside in Portland, Oregon and work for a non-profit arts organization. I have a great appreciation for cultural institutions and the role they play in our community. Stated simply, the marriage between GLAMs and Wikipedia is brilliant and the concept of Wikipedians in Residence is very exciting. I thought I might offer an update about an approaching project in collaboration with the Multnomah County Library. On October 27, the Central Library (the main branch of the Multnomah County Library) will be hosting an edit-athon in conjunction with Wiki Loves Libraries. I, and I believe at least one additional Wikipedian and member of WikiProject Oregon, will be attending the edit-athon. The primary focus will be to improve MCL-related articles, share the resources available to Wikipedians at MCL facilities and train new/interested Wikipedians. We have scheduled a meeting with MCL staff on October 3rd to organize the event. In addition, I have been invited to visit the library at a time closed to the public to meet staff, get a "behind-the-scenes" perspective and photograph the interior of the building uninterrupted. (The Central Library is located on the National Register of Historic Places, so all of my photographs will be uploaded to Commons as part of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition, an added bonus to this collaboration which is also known by MCL.) I bring this update to the GLAM mailing list with the hope that this collaboration might be the start of a greater bond between the Multnomah County Library system and Wikipedia. If anyone has literature to recommend (perhaps I should look closer at the Bookshelf available at the GLAM portal on Wikipedia), or advice about how to encourage a strengthened relationship between both parties, I am all ears! I will continue attempting to collaborate with MCL in the future, regardless of whether or not they are open to furthering the relationship beyond hosting occasional events. On a personal note, I remain very dedicated to Wikipedia and its sister projects, outreach initiatives and the concept of Wikipedians in Residence. My interests are primarily in research and content creation, and I appreciate the platform Wikipedia serves in our society (non-biased, free, educational, reliable, etc.); other interests include WikiProject construction and maintenance, categorization, grantwriting, collaborations, etc. Subjects of interest include architecture, current events, local history, monuments, music, National
Register of Historic Places, parks, performing arts, politics, public
art, science, etc. I am certain Wikipedians in Residence roles range from super-part-time unpaid positions to full-time paid positions; regardless, I am pleased to see relationships forming and industry standards being created. Not to sound self-serving, but my hope is that one day I might be able to make a living supporting Wikipedia-related projects, simply because I am that interested and dedicated to the mission. If anyone has any connections in the Portland area or hears of any opportunities that arise in the future, feel free to contact me directly. Similarly, I am always looking to improve my "Wiki CV" (as I like to call my Wikipedia-related activity), so I'd be interested in joining GLAM/Wikipedia-related workshops and events (especially if scholarships might be available!). Pardon the extended introduction, and keep up the amazing work! Thank you,Jason / Another Believer (P.S. - Sorry if this mailing list is not the ideal platform for this message. Between the various GLAM-related platforms, I thought I would start here!)
Hello All,
Happy open access week, to celebrate I created the Open Access Wikipedia
Challenge on P2PU [1]. The challenge is to embed media that was
harvested from Open Access journals in Wikipedia, and I created a
special edition barnstar for completing it [2]. This challenge is
totally friendly to newbies and librarians as it includes over 1 hour of
6 screencast tutorial videos that explain every detail right from the
account creation, to transclusion, and each module has waypoint
challenges.
Happy Open Access Week,
[1] https://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-access-wikipedia-challenge/
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Open_Access_Wikipedia_Challenge_Ba
rnstar
Max Klein
Wikipedia in Residence
kleinm(a)oclc.org
+17074787023
Hi all,
I just wanted to point out a presentation I created for training new editors at an event the Smithsonian hosted last Friday, "Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Backstage at the Smithsonian Libraries<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/WLL/2012>."
PDF on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Introduction-to-Editing-Wikipedia-fo…
I find that a lot of the existing tutorials are very text heavy, but this one includes lots of screenshots and visuals. Please feel free to link to it, improve it, and add it to the various lists of GLAM resources.
Best,
Sara
Sara Snyder
Webmaster, Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
(202) 633-7987 | www.aaa.si.edu<http://www.aaa.si.edu/>
Note that I've copied cultural partners and GLAM-US, but I think this can
be discussed on the public GLAM list.
I wanted to start a thread on the GLAM Bootcamp concept, which was one of
the main outcomes from GLAMcamp London, since I know even those of you that
were there weren't all in our breakout session. The observation was made
that one of our main issues is expanding the numbers of GLAM Wikipedians,
but GLAMcamps are aimed at sharing best practices among experienced GLAM
Wikipedians, not training new ones. Thus, the GLAM Bootcamp concept is that
we'll bring a dozen or so experienced (but non-GLAM) Wikipedians together
and train them in a number of GLAM-Wiki skills, like GLAM principles,
copyright, metrics, communications, conflict of interest, event planning,
Commons, and so on. You can read more at Lodewijk's summary, based on the
etherpad notes, here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Bootcamp
I think training a few people at a time, if they are well-selected and
follow through on the skills they hava gained, is actually a scalable model
since there are so few of us anyway. We'll likely be able to secure a venue
for free from a GLAM partner, since we'll only require a conference room.
We'd be relying on chapter and/or WMF funding for travel and per diem for a
relatively small group. I think the main obstacle is likely having a good
organizing group with enough experience and dedication to developing the
necessary documentation and presentations for the training sessions.
At GLAMcamp, we agreed to plan for (or at least inquire about within our
local communities) bootcamps in the US and Germany within 6 months. I have
informally taken the lead for the US GLAM Bootcamp so far. I spoke to NARA
folks last week, who gave his blessing to NARA hosting such an event in DC.
We've been pretty DC-centric with GLAM events in the US, but personally
think there is value going first to a well-known GLAM with a lot of
internal support to establish the model for these types of events. If there
is disagreement, though, it's obviously not just my decision. I'll be going
to the next Wikimedia DC board meeting on October 6 to present the idea,
since they will be important if this is held in DC (and probably even if it
isn't). In preparation, I have begun putting together a more detailed, but
still hypothetical, program for the US GLAM Bootcamp here:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Bootcamp/US.
I have some more specific questions about logistics and audience, but for
now I just wanted to loop everyone in on what's going on and ask for your
thoughts and reactions to the GLAM bootcamp concept. And please feel free
also to edit the pages on outreach.
Dominic
Hello all,
I'm delayed in sending this out, but the September edition of This Month in
GLAM is nearly ready to be published. If you have any updates, either
events or otherwise, please don't hesitate to contribute!
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom
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Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/