Hello US Wikimedians,
Here is a link to the Doodle poll to help us schedule this month's
Wikimedia United States Coalition meeting:
http://doodle.com/poll/kgy38bftyekrwg6h
You are welcome to add items to the meeting agenda at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/November_2016#Agenda
Please note that:
* Thanksgiving Day is November 24th. Mindful of the high proportion of US
residents who have Thanksgiving celebrations, I omitted November 24th from
the list of options for this month's meeting.
* One of the agenda items for our November meeting will be to discuss
whether to have a December meeting, keeping in mind that many people take
time away from their regular activities in late December and early January.
If we decide not to meet in December, then this November meeting will be
our last for 2016 and the next meeting will be scheduled in January 2017.
Regards,
Pine
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1. Re: [GLAM] Getting ready for #1lib1ref 2017 (Erika Herzog)
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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 05:11:46 -0400
From: Erika Herzog <erikaherzog.postcard(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [GLAM-US] [GLAM] Getting ready for #1lib1ref 2017
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Maybe I am missing something but when folks are doing citations on En Wikipedia in both Wiki Markup -- as well as Visual Editor -- putting unique identifiers like OCLC, ISBN, DOI, etc into the Cite RefToolbar form and clicking on lookup icon does a great job often with auto filling info. The web Cite for many news sources also works we'll with URLs for places like The New York Times and The Washington Post, etc.
When librarians see these tools in practice it's very magical so if the end users have even minimal comfort with the interfaces I recommend these options for the fullest citations possible on En Wikipedia. With ref name= populated so ref can be re-used of course....
There is of course a massive loss of full bibliographic citation data to convey this info to Wikidata but there is no working solution to this yet.
I am not a fan of putting cites onto Wikidata until this is at least minimally improved although I understand the benefits and interoperability with multiple language Wikipedias, etc. I am probably just fetishizing my full robust citations but YMMV.
Much of this is connected to WikiCite -- and possibly Librarybase, so if you are interested more I strongly recommend investigating both projects, especially WikiCite.
Early stages yet, but exciting and moving in the right direction.
- Erika
> On Nov 1, 2016, at 5:06 PM, Raymond Leonard <raymond.f.leonard.jr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I may be preaching to the choir, but I think that there are two important pieces for encouraging librarians in entering bibliographic data into & retrieving it from Wikidata .
>
> The first would be some sort of web form that has multiple inputs with pre-determined properties such as Work, Edition, & Cataloging properties listed at :wikidata:Template:Book properties & :d:Wikidata:WikiProject Books . (especially the OCLC #!!!) While this may be contrary to the way things normally go into Wikidata, it could provide a format that I believe many librarians would find more user friendly. I write this as someone who once entered journal bibliographic data into a minicomputer-based online university catalog about 2½ decades ago. Some means for automatically loading MARC &/or OCLC data into Wikidata might also be a viable method, too.
>
> The second would be to implement a citation module for placing data into articles. The French Wikipedia (& I have also heard the Arabic Wikipedia) has already done this. It would be truly beneficial to get this translated to the English Wikipedia, although it would be better yet if we could come up a means of putting the module on a repository that could be used across projects. I am neither fluent in Lua or French, so producing an English version is a challenge for me, otherwise I would do it.
>
> Here's an example of how the French Wikipedia & Wikidata work together to produce a citation:
>
> Du chocolate : discours curieux divisé en quatre parties item in Wikdata:
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23906197?uselang=en
>
> The Modèle:Bibliographie (bibliographic template):
> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Bibliographie
>
> How the Wikimarkup looks for its use in Chocolat article ( {{bibliographie|Q23906197}} should be at the top):
> https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chocolat&action=edit§ion=50
>
> What the end result looks like (Du chocolate : discours curieux divisé en quatre parties should be at the top):
> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolat#Bibliographie
>
> Yours,
>
> Peaceray
> --
>
> peaceray(a)cascadia.wiki (forwards to)
>
> raymond.f.leonard.jr(a)gmail.com
>
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Bob Kosovsky <bobkosovsky(a)nypl.org> wrote:
>> Great suggestion, Daniel. I think there can should be a greater effort to promoting Wikidata among librarians with technical expertise because it is closer to what these librarians do (especially among catalogers and other tech types). In sessions introducing editing Wikipedia that included librarians, I've seen the librarians express greater interest in Wikidata than the encyclopedia.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
>> Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
>> blog: http://www.nypl.org/blog/author/44 Twitter: @kos2
>> Listowner: OPERA-L ; SMT-ANNOUNCE ; SoundForge-users
>> - My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions -
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>>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks, Alex and Jake, for keeping the ball rolling on this.
>>>
>>> Have you considered including a Wikidata component? In the long run, I
>>> expect librarians to spend more of their Wikimedia time on Wikidata,
>>> especially around
>>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData .
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> d.
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>> Hello Wikimedians!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We are excited to finally start coordinating among #1lib1ref organizers this
>>>> month.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you haven’t yet, we invite you to read the lessons that we learned from
>>>> last year’s great campaign:
>>>>
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As with last year, we hope to launch #1lib1ref on Wikipedia’s 16th birthday
>>>> in January, asking librarians to “Give a birthday present to Wikipedia, by
>>>> adding a reference”.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What’s new?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Last year we got a lot of feedback from librarians that they would have
>>>> planned more activities if “they just had a bit more warning and time” so we
>>>> are extending the campaign from eight days to 19 days, from January 15
>>>> through February 3.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We hope this does two things: a) it allows for several waves of
>>>> communications and people adopting the campaign for local events and b) fits
>>>> better with the start of the Spring Term at many universities in the
>>>> Northern Hemisphere, where librarians are in demand for various activities.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We also noticed last year a lot of social media about informal gatherings:
>>>> librarians wanted to learn about Wikipedia socially at physical events. We
>>>> think this is a great opportunity, so the Wikipedia Library team is
>>>> developing a coffee hour kit that provides enough material to help
>>>> librarians coordinate a small gathering, where they can talk about Wikipedia
>>>> with their peers and add their one reference.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The kit is going to include: a) recommendations for planning, b) a series of
>>>> discussion questions, c) easy suggested activities, and d) a flyer template
>>>> for promoting the event locally. If you would like to help build the kit,
>>>> or a new 1lib1ref logo, let us know.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How you can help
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We hope the campaign offers a platform for engaging librarians in your
>>>> region and context to learn more about Wikimedia projects. We know
>>>> librarians use Wikipedia for a variety of purposes, but the campaign’s
>>>> story--specifically how our references work--becomes a shared foundation for
>>>> understanding and entering our community. If you would like to coordinate
>>>> #1lib1ref in your area, here are the main steps:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Join the Wikipedia + Libraries Facebook group:
>>>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikilibrary
>>>>
>>>> Fill out this survey:
>>>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflWCp9QkNbIZWXCWU02bp_FGCAua4Z6Ua…
>>>>
>>>> Review Citation Hunt -- a volunteer-developed tool that allows for randomly
>>>> being offered a citation. Check if your language is supported in the top
>>>> right.
>>>>
>>>> URL: https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/
>>>>
>>>> Report Bugs or request features or language support:
>>>> https://github.com/eggpi/citationhunt/issues
>>>>
>>>> Review Hashtag Tracking -- a way to track edits made through the edit
>>>> summary field.
>>>>
>>>> URL: https://tools.wmflabs.org/hashtags
>>>>
>>>> Report bugs or request features or language support:
>>>> https://github.com/hatnote/hashtags/issues/new
>>>>
>>>> Translate the campaign page to your local language. We want to have it ready
>>>> for translation no later than November 10th and will notify you with an
>>>> email that it’s ready.
>>>>
>>>> Begin reaching out to partners that you think will want to participate
>>>> during the campaign through a) communications or b) activities.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We look forward to collaborating with you! Thanks so much for your help--it
>>>> should be a lot of fun.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Alex Stinson
>>>> Jake Orlowitz
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Alex Stinson
>>>> GLAM-Wiki Strategist
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
>>>>
>>>> Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
>>>> Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
>>>> http://glamwiki.org
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Forwarding discussion of interest.
Pine
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From: "Legoktm" <legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
Date: Oct 21, 2016 12:43
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Future of magic links / making ISBN linking easier
To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hi,
In the RfC meeting for the Future of magic links RfC, it was agreed upon
to disable magic links for the MW 1.28 release by default and begin the
deprecation for Wikimedia sites. One of the subpoints was to provide
migration tools and similar functionality. For RFC and PMID links, they
were added to the default core interwiki map, and the Wikimedia one. But
for ISBN, it points to the local wiki, so an interwiki link doesn't make
sense.
The two main proposals are:
Virtual namespace ([[ISBN:0-7475-3269-9]]), which is similar to existing
link syntax (double brackets), but is also a bit magical since there
haven't been any new virtual namespaces since Special and Media in the
initial version of MW.
Parser function ({{#isbn:0-7475-3269-9}}), which is typically how new
syntax/functions are added, but is farther away from traditional link
syntax.
I would appreciate comments on
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148274> - I've written a patch for
the virtual namespace as a POC, but writing one for the parser function
if people prefer that, should be trivial.
-- Legoktm
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Hi GLAM-Wiki Folks,
With the cooperation of IFLA, we have been working on white papers. We have
prepared the below email to forward to library communities in your context
to solicit feedback on the draft white papers. Please share with your
partners and community coordinators.
Also if you are on social media, we would welcome sharing of the following:
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/777923564150325248
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FWikimedia%2Fstatus…>
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/19/engaging-libraries-wikipedia/
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.wikimedia.org%2F2016%2F09%2…>
https://www.facebook.com/GLAMWiki/posts/1037706443016172
<https://www.facebook.com/GLAMWiki/posts/1037706443016172?hc_location=ufi>
I hope you get a chance to engage, and that these papers prove useful for
your outreach efforts.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org
Hello all,
As you probably have noticed, in the last few years more and more library
communities are engaging with Wikipedia as a tool for teaching our patrons
effective internet research, but also as contributors of Wikimedia
projects, through projects like Art and Feminism
<http://art.plusfeminism.org/>and the #1lib1ref campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref>.
But these kinds of collaborations, only scratch the surface -- whole
networks of libraries are integrating Wikipedia into their professional
work of sharing knowledge, and using it as a tool for serving their
patrons. Take for example the public libraries in Catalonia: nearly 200
libraries are actively contributing to Wikimedia projects, as an effort to
preserve Catalan language and culture.
Since early 2016, IFLA Headquarters and the Wikipedia Library Team at the
Wikimedia Foundation, have been supporting a group of Wikipedians and
Library experts in writing two white papers on the opportunities for
library and Wikipedia collaboration. Initial drafts of these papers were
presented at the WLIC 2016, and were well received.
We hope to continue to refine these papers, and we need your help to do it:
though the committees that wrote the papers include leading experts on
these collaboration, we know that their are hundreds of leaders in library
and Wikipedia communities who also have valuable experience with these
important partnerships. We hope to revise the current drafts to fully
reflect the global experience of Wikipedia and Library collaborators.
To this end, we invite you to join our open commenting period on the white
papers, that just opened on September 19 and will remain open through
October 31st. Instructions for commenting, are available in the following
Google docs:
-
Opportunities for Public Libraries and Wikipedia
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ysh1N6BT29-rrAGRidMj1i0BHBzcwIms7TUamUb…>
[1]
-
Opportunities for Academic and Research Libraries and Wikipedia
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrqxK46pqDs6DgSGHtfzAJLjQ94rA-3bgLDa2BZ…>
[2]
Thank you for your time! And please feel free to share the invitation for
comment widely!
Cheers,
Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation
Julia Brungs, Policy and Research Officer, IFLA
[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ysh1N6BT29-rrAGRidMj1i0BHBzcwIms7TUamUb…
[2]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrqxK46pqDs6DgSGHtfzAJLjQ94rA-3bgLDa2BZ…
See below and ping me offlist if interested! Travel/accommodations are
included.
The conference will be held on Nov 3 as part of their annual event on
> copyright including Seoul Copyright Forum and International Copyright
> Technology Forum (ICOTEC) to be held from Nov 1 to Nov 2.
>
> Theme: Future Industry and Shared Copyright Works
> Date: Nov 3, 2016
> Venue: National Library of Korea
> Sponsored by: Ministry of Culture
> Organized by: Korea Copyright Commission, Korea Culture Information
> Service Agency, National Library of Korea, CODE
>
> They are expecting around 200 guests from related fields including
> academia, GLAM sector and business sector. We are looking for someone from
> GLAM sector who can share their experience in collecting and curating open
> content, and a representative from services using open digital content or
> public domain works who can talk about open business model and its future
> opportunities.
>
>
--
Jane Park
Director of Platforms and Partnerships
Creative Commons
@janedaily
Get updates: http://bit.ly/commonsnews
Invest in the commons: https://donate.creativecommons.org/
Perhaps of interest: "...We’re making the latest version of our image
captioning system available as an open source model in TensorFlow."
https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/show-and-tell-
image-captioning-open.html
Pine
There are occasional community discussions about how to preserve Wikipedia
(and hopefully the sister projects) for a very long time even if there are
any of several kinds of global disasters. This archival technology might be
of interest:
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-eternal-5d-storage-history-humankind.html
Quoting from the article: "As a very stable and safe form of portable
memory, the technology could be highly useful for organisations with big
archives, such as national archives, museums and libraries, to preserve
their information and records."
I haven't studied this technology in any depth so I can't endorse it, but
it looks like it might be of interest to archivists, preservationists, and
contingency planners.
Pine