Thanks for sharing Arne!
I love these internationally focused donations. Have you been using Patty
Pan? ( I see that you note the GLAM-Wiki toolset for one of them).
Cheers,
Alex
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Arne Wossink <wossink(a)wikimedia.nl> wrote:
> (Apologies for cross-posting)
>
> Dear list-members,
>
> I would like to draw your attention to 3 digital collections originating
> from Dutch institutions that have recently been made available on Wikimedia
> Commons:
>
> 1. The African Studies Center
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika-Studiecentrum,_Leiden>, Leiden
> University, donated 756 images made by Roel Coutinho
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Guinea-Bissau_and_Senegal_1973-1…>,
> a Dutch MD working in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal between 1973 and 1974. The
> images show aspects of daily life such as food preparation, festivities and
> school and hospital buildings, among other things. The metadata (including
> Portuguese captions) were prepared by Michele Portatadino, the upload was
> done by Hans Muller using the GWToolset.
>
> 2. The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean
> Studies
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_Institute_of_Southeast_Asia…>
> and Leiden University Library
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden_University_Library> donated 3114
> images <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:KITLV_donation_2016>
> to Wikimedia Commons as a follow-up to an earlier donation containing
> 2400+ images
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:KITLV_donation_2015>. The new
> donation contains photos, lithos, drawings, watercolours showing people,
> landscapes, plantations, plants and butterflies from countries such as
> Suriname, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and Singapore. The upload was
> carried out by Hans Muller.
>
> 3. The National Museum of World Cultures
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17153751> (a merger of the former
> Tropenmuseum, the Museum Volkenkunde and the Afrika Museum) donated a collection
> of 720 images
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_the_Nationaal_Museum…>
> to Wikimedia Commons. This donation consists of photos of objects from the
> museum's collection, and of photos taken during Dutch scientific and
> military expeditions in Suriname and the Dutch East Indies.
>
> Best,
>
> Arne Wossink
>
> Projectleider / Project Lead Wikimedia Nederland
>
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Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
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I would recommend to everyone not to donate or collaborate with the WMF projects. At all.
The WMF only cares about donation dollars and actively supports bullies and abusers on their sites.
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------ Original message------From: Mike DupontDate: Thu, May 26, 2016 7:04 PMTo: North American Cultural Partnerships;Cc: Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public];Wikimedia Mailing List;Subject:Re: [GLAM-US] Classical piano performances on Wikimedia Commons and WikiRadio
I am going to ask my wife to donate a classical piano recording as well,
thanks,
mike
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 1:07 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There is so much good content on Wikimedia that it's difficult to choose what to highlight, and I try to be mindful of my number of posts to email lists. I feel that this is worth a special mention because it's beautiful and unusual. Courtesy of User:La Pianista, we have good quality recordings of classical piano works:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio/index.php?channel=La_Pianista
I particularly recommend her performance of Chopin's Scherzo No. 3: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chopin_-_Scherzo_No._3_%28re-recorded%…. Quote (admittedly opinionated!) from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scherzo_No._3_%28Chopin%29: "The Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39, in C-sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1839, was written in the abandoned monastery of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain. This is the most terse, ironic, and tightly constructed of the four scherzos, with an almost Beethovenian grandeur."
Hope you enjoy,
Pine
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There is so much good content on Wikimedia that it's difficult to choose
what to highlight, and I try to be mindful of my number of posts to email
lists. I feel that this is worth a special mention because it's beautiful
and unusual. Courtesy of User:La Pianista, we have good quality recordings
of classical piano works:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio/index.php?channel=La_Pianista
I particularly recommend her performance of Chopin's Scherzo No. 3:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chopin_-_Scherzo_No._3_%28re-recorded%…
<javascript:void(0)>. Quote (admittedly opinionated!) from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scherzo_No._3_%28Chopin%29
<javascript:void(0)>: "The Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39, in C-sharp minor by
Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1839, was written in the abandoned monastery
of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain. This is the most
terse, ironic, and tightly constructed of the four scherzos, with an almost
Beethovenian grandeur."
<javascript:void(0)>
Hope you enjoy,
Pine
Since the WMF doesnt want editors and would rather support bullies because they are admins, I ask again for someone to take my name off these distro lists.
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------ Original message------From: Pine WDate: Thu, May 26, 2016 1:07 AMTo: Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public];North American Cultural Partnerships;Wikimedia Mailing List;Subject:[GLAM-US] Classical piano performances on Wikimedia Commons and WikiRadio
There is so much good content on Wikimedia that it's difficult to choose what to highlight, and I try to be mindful of my number of posts to email lists. I feel that this is worth a special mention because it's beautiful and unusual. Courtesy of User:La Pianista, we have good quality recordings of classical piano works:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio/index.php?channel=La_Pianista
I particularly recommend her performance of Chopin's Scherzo No. 3: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chopin_-_Scherzo_No._3_%28re-recorded%…. Quote (admittedly opinionated!) from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scherzo_No._3_%28Chopin%29: "The Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39, in C-sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1839, was written in the abandoned monastery of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain. This is the most terse, ironic, and tightly constructed of the four scherzos, with an almost Beethovenian grandeur."
Hope you enjoy,
Pine
Hi everyone,
As you may have noticed in the Annual Plan, the Wikimedia Foundation has
proposed more support of GLAM-Wiki. I want to happily announce that *Alex
Stinson* will be expanding and transitioning his role as Wikipedia Library
Coordinator to lead this new position as *GLAM-Wiki Strategist *within the
Community Engagement department at WMF. He will continue to report and
work closely with me in Wikipedia Library land, which I'm very happy about!
I'll let Alex introduce himself and his thoughts on the position, why it
matters, and what its goals are.
Best,
Jake Orlowitz
User:Ocaasi (WMF)
Head of the Wikipedia Library
jorlowitz(a)wikimedia.org
--
Hi all!
I am particularly excited to be shifting towards helping with GLAM-Wiki
support. I plan to bring my long history of working in Wikimedia outreach,
first as a volunteer in GLAM and the Education program and then as an
employee with the Wikipedia Library, to improve our global GLAM impact [1].
As we point out in the proposed annual plan, [2] GLAM-Wiki has a long
history as a programmatic strategy for volunteers and affiliates. These
programs have collected some of our best content, pushed our technologies
beyond their limits, and created a considerable volume of contributions
from both Wikimedians and experts for over 8 years.
However, as these practices become more and more sophisticated and varied,
volunteers from smaller communities without connections to the leaders of
successful projects have found themselves unable to replicate this success,
or replicating many of the mistakes from earlier projects. At the same
time, larger initiatives have been hindered by a lack of investment in
infrastructure and technology.
WMF has been a great supporter of GLAM through grants and affiliate
support, but we can do more. We haven’t provided consistent global
connection, communication and support for GLAM-Wiki resources and tools.
My goal is to help GLAM spread throughout our communities and potentially
tens of thousands of organizations that - as folks like Liam Wyatt have
been advocating from the beginning - share our same values: freely sharing
knowledge with the world.
Below I have outlined our approach for the GLAM-Wiki Strategist role [3]. I
want to use the next few months to listen and evaluate the needs of the
communities actively involved in GLAM-Wiki work to make sure that I
prioritize projects correctly. I am also going to be at Wikimania, and have
already talked to a number of GLAM-Wiki leaders at Wikimedia Conference.
My role as strategist is to consult, collaborate, organize, and plan. So,
please reach out to me with your questions, thoughts, needs or other
feedback.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
astinson(a)wikimedia.org
[1] A little about me
I have been working with the Wikipedia Library since May 2014, developing
the Library’s publisher partnerships, building relationships with dozens of
community and language leaders across our volunteer movement, crafting a
broader strategy for engaging the largest libraries and international
reference networks, and project managing tool and metrics improvements for
our program.
I also designed and deployed the successful #1Lib1Ref campaign (1lib1ref.org)
that drew nearly 30,000 viewers, 5 million tweet-impressions, and hundreds
of participants from the library world to Wikipedia in our first ever
viral, global micro-contributions drive for quality improvement.
In my volunteer, time I try to stay active as User:Sadads, where I am
mostly active on English Wikipedia ( >98,000 edits). I have been actively
writing content about literature and novels since 2008. I have always
thought of our movement as a community with a lot of opportunities around
partnerships and collaboration.
I was also one of the early adopters of GLAM-Wiki in the US: While still
in college, I approached the Smithsonian in 2010 about a partnership,
establishing the dialogue which grew to one of our most successful
long-term cultural partners within the movement. I have learned from those
early attempts and have led GLAM-Wiki relationships with a handful of
smaller organizations while in school and as a volunteer.
I am also a long time supporter of the Education program: I was trained as
part of the Public Policy Initiative's first round of "Campus Ambassadors",
the project that became first the U.S. and then the Global Education
Programs.
I am based in Southern Vermont, where I enjoy hiking, the local and the
local food culture. In my spare time, I try to produce sustainable food
through my garden and homebrewing-- I just put in 4 rows of potatoes, and
am about to start most of my summer crops.
[2] *Annual Plan for GLAM*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/…
[3] Some thoughts on the GLAM-Wiki Strategist Role
What I hope to do:
* Help lead efforts to evaluate and improve our GLAM-Wiki documentation,
and develop resources that make GLAM-Wiki a more approachable strategy for
volunteers, especially in communities which don't have much experience in
partnerships with formal organizations.
* Connect with and learn from the network of community leaders supporting
partnerships with GLAM and other organizations
* Help document and share the most successful, repeatable GLAM-Wiki project
models coming from our communities.
* Connect community leaders and outside organizations who approach
Community Engagement and other Wikimedia Foundation departments about GLAM
partnerships with the best volunteer leaders, resources, or learning
materials.
* Communicate GLAM and GLAM-Wiki needs with teams and departments within
WMF, including Community Resources, Strategic Partnerships and Engineering
teams. I have already started these conversations, and hope to be able to
share what I have been working on in the next couple months.
* Support strategic movement relationships with global organizations
(IFLA, ICOM, UNESCO, OCLC, Internet Archive, etc ) which can expand
opportunities for GLAM-Wiki programming and partnerships by local
affiliates.
What I won't be doing:
* Creating partnerships with local cultural heritage organizations
* "Coordinating" in any strong sense of the word -- It's not my role to be
“in charge” of what others are doing in the GLAM-Wiki space -- instead my
aim is to facilitate access to better tools and resources that help community
leaders coordinate these partnerships more easily and effectively.
What I would like to learn from the community and GLAM program leaders in
the next few months:
* Where does our community of GLAM-outreach leaders need the most support?
* What are the greatest technology barriers preventing the creation of
easy-to-create and scalable relationships with cultural heritage
organizations?
* What are the best opportunities for expanding GLAM-Wiki strategies to new
or emerging communities with less partnership experience or affiliate
support?
* How can we help a greater range of Wikimedia volunteers participate in
partnerships with our GLAM allies?
I am very optimistic about the opportunities for GLAM-Wiki work, especially
as Wikimedia becomes leaders of open and linked data, through projects like
Wikidata -- and I want to make sure our communities have the tools and
support to take advantage of that leading role in sharing cultural heritage
knowledge around the world.
-Alex
Hey all,
As part of the Community Resources department at the WMF restructuring the
grants program, they launched a new format: Rapid Grants!
These grants allow for more speedy applications for many of the kinds of
activities needed for GLAM & Library outreach and collaboration
(editathons, meetups, small travel costs, etc). If you have ever thought
about funding for programs:
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid>*
Share awareness about this as broadly as you can -- we want to make sure
more communities know about them, and can take advantage of the shared
movement resources.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
Hey GLAM-Wiki and Libraries ,
I hope you have seen the below conversation about structured data sets on
commons in open tabular data. As the world of openly published research
data, and data sets to inform graphing and other visualizations on
Wikimedia becomes more important. We can help centralize a lot of open
projects, especially as major research and public cultural heritage work,
like the digital humanities, is using data.
If you get in an opportunity, make sure to weigh in:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Tabular_d…
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, May 2, 2016 at 4:08 PM
Subject: [Research-Internal] Research Group: Yuri on tabular data storage /
graph extension
To: Internal discussion of WMF Research Team <
research-internal(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Yuri Astrakhan <
yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org>, Internal team communication for the Analytics
team <analytics-internal(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey all,
I had a chat this morning with Yuri about his work on the Graph extension
and the underlying proposal to build tabular data storage on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Tabular_d…>.
I am very excited about this proposal (you may remember my rant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DataNamespace> on almost the exact same
idea).
Anyway, I invited Yuri to attend our RG
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMF_Research_Group> meeting this Thursday
at 9:30 PT to give us an overview of the project and see how we could
benefit from / contribute to it. Also copying analytics-internal, who have
been working with Yuri.
Dario
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Hi folks,
We'll meet on Thursday, April 28 at 5 PM Pacific / 8 PM Eastern.
* We will try a meeting tool called Zoom instead of Google Hangouts. The
participant cap will be 50 people (: Please sign up for an account on
www.zoom.us and then take a look at
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362033-Getting-Started-on-PC-a…
* We'll use the Zoom time limit of 40 minutes to encourage ourselves to be
efficient with time. With that goal in mind, here's our tentative agenda:
5:00-5:15: Introductions and reports from chapters and groups. We'll divide
the time evenly. Please plan to have 1 minute per group, and please prepare
your intro and report ahead of time. :) If there is extra time then we can
have Q&A and discussion.
5:15-5:20: Discussion of possible Wiki Loves Earth campaign in the United
States See http://wikilovesearth.org.
5:20-5:30: WikiConference USA 2016 planning. See
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Cascadia_Wikimedians/WikiConfere…
5:30-5:35 Wiknic 2016 planning. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic.
5:35-5:40 Next steps, and gather feedback about the meeting format
Here is the Zoom meeting invite:
*Topic: Wikimedia US monthly meetingTime: Apr 28, 2016 5:00 PM (GMT-7:00)
Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:
https://zoom.us/j/377684933 <https://zoom.us/j/377684933> Or iPhone
one-tap: 16465687788,377684933# or 14157629988,377684933#Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 646 568 7788 (US Toll) or +1 415 762 9988 (US Toll) Meeting ID:
377 684 933 International numbers available:
https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=u1s0iDnjwkR5paCLwHCxcruXmYAvyItm
<https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=u1s0iDnjwkR5paCLwHCxcruXmYAvyItm> *
Hope to see you there,
Pine
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From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 4:52 PM
Subject: Middle East / North African Artists Month
To: "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi fellow GLAMers,
I'd like to share with you Middle East / North Africa (MENA) Artists Month,
which we're kicking off at the Guggenheim Museum on this Saturday, and
which is scheduled to run throughout May 2016:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MENA_Artists_Month
We welcome contributions in any language and from any country.
Token prizes will be sent from the Guggenheim from anyone who writes (or
significantly expands) three or more articles. Including artist-designed
temporary tattoos!
Here is the hub with WikiProject Women in Red on enwiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Meetup/13
And here are some names borrowed from a topical print encyclopedia, to get
you started:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_ar…
Thanks,
Pharos