Good afternoon,
Criss Library at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) is organizing an edit-a-thon on March 31, 2015. To coincide with Women's History Month our theme is women's history at UNO, which we may broadly define to include Omaha.
We are hoping to find someone who can help out now (online) answering questions and sharing experience that could be useful to our planning. It would naturally please us to have experienced Wikipedians able to help out onsite on the 31st as well.
Best,
Amy Schindler
Amy C. Schindler
Director, Archives & Special Collections<http://libguides.unomaha.edu/ArchivesSpecialCollections>
Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library<http://library.unomaha.edu/>
University of Nebraska at Omaha
402-554-6046
acschindler(a)unomaha.edu<mailto:acschindler@unomaha.edu>
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Hi all,
I'm working with a librarian (cc'd) at Virginia Commonwealth
University, which is in Richmond, on an editathon that is planned for
March 24, 2015; they are looking for Wikipedians who can help out
online or in-person.
The theme is going to be focused on Virginia history and VCU special
collections, e.g. Richmond, VA history, VCU history, the integration
of public schools, and women's suffrage in Virginia. They're
recruiting new editors, and would like to add links and info, and
hopefully upload photos to commons too.
Someone who is willing to help answering questions now and share some
of our editathon ideas/best practices and can be online during the
event would be ideal. I can probably do it, but may have a conflict,
so would like to recruit additional folks to help out.
Thanks!
Phoebe
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Definitely an incentive to use those doi, prc, & pmid parameters in the {{cite
web}} template!
Yours,
Peaceray
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dario and I just released our first static dump of identifiers. Right
> now, it only includes PubMed identifiers, but I'm running an extraction
> right now to add DOIs. It turns out that they are non-trivial to extract
> with regexes[1] alone, so I wrote an island parser to extract them from
> wikimarkup[2] that seems to perform very well.
>
> Halfaker, Aaron; Taraborelli, Dario (2015): Scholarly article citations in
> Wikipedia. figshare.
> http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1299540
> Retrieved 22:25, Feb 05, 2015 (GMT)
>
> 1.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27910/finding-a-doi-in-a-document-or-page
> 2.
> https://github.com/halfak/Extract-scholarly-article-citations-from-Wikipedi…
>
> -Aaron
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, saw that! Really neat. We're working on it with Analytics :)
>>
>> On 2/5/15, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> > FYI:
>> >
>> > http://www.altmetric.com/blog/new-source-alert-wikipedia/
>> >
>> > Pine
>> >
>> > *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock
>> of
>> > our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water
>> we
>> > must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
>> > which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the
>> broad
>> > fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do
>> not
>> > know.*
>> >
>> > *—Catherine Munro*
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jake Orlowitz
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>
FYI:
http://www.altmetric.com/blog/new-source-alert-wikipedia/
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
Dear Colleagues,
The Getty Research Institute will host our first Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon.
Co-organized with the online magazine East of Borneo
( http://www.eastofborneo.org/) . The event is part of the magazine’s
Unforgetting L.A. project
( http://www.eastofborneo.org/unforgetting) , which aims to build a
better online history of art in Southern California.
What: Join other volunteers to create and improve Wikipedia articles
for underrepresented subjects related to architecture and design in Los
Angeles.
When: Saturday, February 21, 2015, 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Where: Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall, The Getty Center (free
parking with validation for participants)
Who: Anyone! Beginners welcome! (New user training will be every hour
on the hour)
Details about the event, RSVP link, and information about Wikipedia are
available here: http://bit.ly/GettyEditaThon
If you have questions please let me know. I hope to see you there!
Kind regards,
Sarah Sherman
Reference Librarian
Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
310-440-6698
( tel:3104406698)
ssherman(a)getty.edu
www.getty.edu/research
Library access information
( http://grilibrary.wordpress.com/)
Facebook
( https://www.facebook.com/GettyResearchInstitute) │ YouTube
( http://www.youtube.com/gettyresearch) │ Pinterest
( http://www.pinterest.com/gettyresearch/) │ GRI e-News
( http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/e_news/index.html) │ The
Getty Iris
( http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/)
Hi All,
We are gearing up for the February 7th #BlackLivesMatter Wikipedia
Edit-a-thon
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Black_Life_Matters_Edita…>
this 12noon-5pm this Saturday February 7th at the NYPL Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY (organized by NYPL
<http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg>, METRO
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/METRO>, Wikimedia NYC
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City>), as well as the
AfroCROWD Editathon
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/AFROcroWd_and_Interglider.ORG/Ou…>
(Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia) at the Brooklyn Public Library
Central on Feb 7th and 8th (organized by Alice Backer, Milos Rancic,
Wikimedia NYC).
In addition to having a big community response at the Schomburg we have had
enough enthusiasm so that there are Black History Month Edit-a-thons being
planned by other organizers in Nashville
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashville/Our_Story_Matters_…>,
Westchester County
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Westchester_County/Black_Lif…>
(SUNY Purchase), and in Washington D.C. (note: we will be running a Google
Hangouts on Air/Youtube livestream with simultaneous events on February
7th). Richard Knipel has generously created a general launching page for
all Black History Month events at Wikipedia:Black WikiHistory Month
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Black_WikiHistory_Month>, and
there has already been some exciting and overwhelming press coverage by
major media outlets, Black History Month special reports, and Twitter (!),
which I will be documenting on Wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Black_WikiHistory_Month#Press>.
If you are a Wikipedian and plan to attend any of these events, please sign
up on the Event page(s) so we can have an estimate of facilitators we will
have on hand (though you are welcome to sign up as a participant but just
plan to do your own editing thing rather than help do training, as you
wish!)
*I can’t emphasize enough how thankful we are to have volunteer Wikipedians
attend these events, participate remotely, and take interest in the
multicultural gaps in Wikipedia. You all inspire me and the spirit of your
labor has attracted global attention to Black History and to the
socio/political import of Wikipedia! *
*One final note: we are collectively looking for experienced Wikipedians
in the SUNY Purchase/ Westchester area that might be able to help out at
the SUNY Purchase event scheduled for Saturday February 7th. Please email
me if you are in that area, and would like to help out! *
Let me know if there are any further questions.
All the best,
Kindest regards,
Dorothy Howard
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Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127