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
This is a great opportunity, especially when we have not had a lot of
activity in the last few years focused on developing WLM & WL Public Art in
the United States.
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From: Axel Pettersson <axel.pettersson(a)wikimedia.se>
Date: Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:43 AM
Subject: [cultural-partners] GLAM partners for Connected Open Heritage
To: Cultural Partners <cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>
Hi all,
One of the goals for Connected Open Heritage[1] is to get more then 100.000
images of immovable cultural heritage uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and
that means we (Wikimedia Sverige) have some developer time available to do
complete or help with batch uploads that fits all the criteria for the
project.
If you have any GLAM partners, or suggestions for GLAMs, that have images
that are digitized, under free licenses and with available and structured
metadata, but that don't have the time or technical skills to do the work
you can send them our way. Feel free to add them to the list of partners as
a suggestion[2] or send me an email with contacts and other relevant links
and information.
No promises that we can take care of all suggestions or interesting
proposals, but the sooner we can connect and start working, the more we can
manage.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage/Partners#Suggestions
Bästa hälsningar,
/axel
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Projektledare GLAM/Outreach
Wikimedia Sverige
+46 (0)733 96 55 65
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Twitter: @Haxpett <https://twitter.com/#%21/haxpett>
Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
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I was unable to edit or add events to this calendar. It does not seem to be functional to the casual user?
Calendaring is a huge issue. For Wikimedia NYC we are currently using Google calendars (one public calendar that lists many global tech events, and one private calendar for planning of tentative events).
There has been an active discussion on Phabricator here about the need for a good solution for the many events.Consolidate the many tech events calendars in Phabricator's calendar:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1035
Phabricator calendarhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/calendar/
Ideally open-sourced calendaring could be integrated better with Wikimedia projects, but this is not happening now as far as I can tell.
Folks are welcome to use the WM NYC calendar if that's helpful -- located in the footer of the light orange box on our main Meetup page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC -- or possibly copy events into another calendar? That might be a great option, though from experience maintaining calendars can be time consuming.
I also set up a calendar at one point for the existing Art+Feminism events here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism but due to lack of support it was abandoned about 7/8ths of the way through...
Feedback, solutions, suggestions would be much appreciated.
Best,
- Erika Erika Herzog
Secretary, Wikimedia NYCUser:BrillLyle
From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS) <wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Winifred Olliff <wolliff(a)wikimedia.org>; Kacie Harold <kharold(a)wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2016 7:45 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaus-l] Wikimedia US public calendar
Hi folks,
In an effort to make scheduling easier for everyone, I set up an unofficial public calendar for US Wikimedia events: http://localendar.com/public/Wikimedia_US
Nice features:
* You can add events as you wish, which will appear on the public calendar once an admin approves the posts. Feel free to add events from local affiliates. Please note the location of each event *in the name of the event*. If an event is online/virtual, you can say "online".
* You can click on an event, which will create a popup that will let you export the event to your choice of calendar formats.
There's no obligation to post events here, but I hope that this tool will be convenient for everyone. This is an experiment and comments are welcome.
Pine
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Cross-posting.
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 4:45 PM
Subject: Wikimedia US public calendar
To: "Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS)" <
wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Kacie Harold <kharold(a)wikimedia.org>, Winifred Olliff <
wolliff(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
In an effort to make scheduling easier for everyone, I set up an unofficial
public calendar for US Wikimedia events:
http://localendar.com/public/Wikimedia_US
Nice features:
* You can add events as you wish, which will appear on the public calendar
once an admin approves the posts. Feel free to add events from local
affiliates. Please note the location of each event *in the name of the
event*. If an event is online/virtual, you can say "online".
* You can click on an event, which will create a popup that will let you
export the event to your choice of calendar formats.
There's no obligation to post events here, but I hope that this tool will
be convenient for everyone. This is an experiment and comments are welcome.
Pine
Forwarding a blog post about concept tagging with Wikidata. (:
Pine
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From: Lydia Pintscher <Lydia.Pintscher(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 3:03 AM
Subject: [Wikidata] Using Wikidata for tagging at Yle
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey everyone :)
One of the major use cases we have for Wikidata (next to providing general
purpose data about the world and acting as a hub that connects many
different databases) is concept tagging. So far not much has happened in
that space it seems compared to the other two. Just recently I came across
a tweet talking about the use of Wikidata for exactly that at the Finnish
Broadcasting Company and I asked for some more details. Micke has now
written down what they're doing and how they did it in a blog post:
http://wikimedia.fi/2016/04/15/yle-3-wikidata/ Great use of Wikidata's
concepts and stable IDs.
Cheers
Lydia
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