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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Axel Pettersson
Projektledare GLAM/Outreach
Wikimedia Sverige
+46 (0)733 96 55 65
axel.pettersson(a)wikimedia.se
Twitter: @Haxpett <https://twitter.com/#%21/haxpett>
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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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Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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Forwarding.
Pine
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From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:35 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Applications open for WikiCite (Berlin, May 25-26,
2016)
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Research into Wikimedia content and
communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <
wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Citations and references are the building blocks of Wikimedia projects.
However, as of today, they are still treated as second-class citizens.
Structured data bases such as Wikidata offer a unique opportunity
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData> to
turn into reality over a decade of endeavors to build the sum of all
citations and bibliographic metadata into a centralized repository. To
coordinate upcoming work in this space, we're organizing a technical event
in late May and opening up applications for prospective participants.
*WikiCite 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016>* is a
hands-on event focused on designing data models and technology to *improve
the coverage, quality, standards-compliance and machine-readability of
citations and source metadata in Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia
projects*. Our goal, in particular, is to define a technical roadmap for
building a repository of all Wikimedia references in Wikidata.
We are bringing together Wikidatans, Wikipedians, software engineers, data
modelers, and information and library science experts from organizations
including *Crossref*, *Zotero*, *CSL*, *ContentMine*, *Google*, *Datacite*,
*NISO*, *OCLC* and the *NIH*. We are also inviting academic researchers
with experience working with Wikipedia's citations and bibliographic data.
WikiCite will be hosted in *Berlin* on *May 25-26, 2016*. Participation to
the event is capped at about 50 participants and we expect to have a number
of open slots for applicants:
- if you were pre-invited and have already filled in a form, you will
receive a separate note from the organizers
- if you have not been invited but you would like to participate, please
fill in this application form <http://goo.gl/forms/Yv6rve2wCt> to give
us some information about you and your interest and expected contribution
to the event.
Please help us pass this on to anyone who has done important technical work
on Wikimedia references and citations.
*Important dates*
- *March 29, 2016*: applications open
- *April 11, 2016*: applications close
- *April 15, 2016*: notifications of acceptance are issued (if you
applied for a travel grant, we'll be able to confirm by this date if we
can
cover the costs of your trip)
For any question, you can contact the organizing committee:
wikicite(a)wikimedia.org
The organizers,
Dario Taraborelli
Jonathan Dugan
Lydia Pintcher
Daniel Mietchen
Cameron Neylon
*Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter
<http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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It will soon be spring! ;-)
And that means the beautiful "Tree of 40 Fruit":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit
of which there are several examples scattered around the USA, will
briefly be in flower.
We need some openly-licensed images, for Wikipedia and its sister
projects. Can you help, please?
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
We take great pleasure in inviting you to the ResourceSpace Community
Meeting on June 23-24, 2016. It is the first event of its kind in
Germany and we are pleased to host you at Humboldt University in Berlin.
This meeting will be an excellent occasion to share our ideas and
experiences regarding ResourceSpace.
For more details about the Community Meeting and for registration,
please visit the website: https://attending.io/events/rs-2016
Call for Papers
---------------
The programme is divided into three tracks:
* Scientific – presentation of research work and its results concerning
ResourceSpace
* Technological – presentation covering technological aspects of the use
of ResourceSpace
* Best Practice – examples of successful implementations and deployments
of ResourceSpace
All submissions are accepted in English.
Please send an email with the attached abstract (as PDF) including the
time you need for your presentation at rs-2016(a)hu-berlin.de
The submission deadline is Friday 29 April 2016.
If you have any questions about the conference, please do not hesitate
to contact Katarzyna Biernacka via email at rs-2016(a)hu-berlin.de
We look forward to seeing you at the ResourceSpace Community Meeting.
Sincerely,
Katarzyna Biernacka
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Katarzyna Biernacka
Digital Asset Management
ZE Computer- und Medienservice
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Raum 2'329
Rudower Chaussee 26
D-12489 Berlin
voice +49.30.2093.70069
http://www.cms.hu-berlin.de
Hi all,
The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) Committee is seeking new members for
its final round (before IEG transitions into the Project Grants program
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Imple…>
).
We are aiming to finalize committee membership by April 1st, and ask
interested candidates to submit their names by March 25th here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee#ieg-candidates. More
details below!
*About the committee*
We are a consensus-based volunteer committee with members who come from
over 15 different wikis and collectively speak over 10 languages. We review
grant applications in four categories: Research, Tools, Online Community
Organizing, and Offline Outreach and Partnerships.
This round will also follow directly on the heels of the second Inspire
Campaign <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>,
currently underway and focused on 'Content Curation and Review
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/FAQ>' so we expect
that to be a prominent theme in the proposals this round.
For more info about IEG, the committee, timelines, and tasks, visit
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG.
*Committee membership criteria*
We look for the following qualities and qualifications in committee members:
Mandatory
- Experience with the Wikimedia movement and at least one Wikimedia
project <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects>.
- Experience with some aspect of Wikimedia programmatic or project-based
work, e.g. editor engagement, WikiProjects or other on-wiki organizing
processes, outreach, events, partnerships, research, education, gadget or
bot-building, etc.
- Ability to edit basic wiki-markup (grant proposal discussions are
largely conducted on meta-wiki).
- Reasonable facility with English, for reviewing and discussing grant
proposals.
- In good community- and legal- standing (not currently blocked or
banned, involved in allegations of unethical financial behavior, etc).
- Availability to actively engage in the selection process during the
published schedule for that round (time commitment is about 3 hours per
week, plus 1 extra day for scoring).
Preferable
- Experience leading, coordinating, or managing projects with an
intended on-wiki or online impact.
- Experience handling externally provided money and working within
budgets, preferably in a non-profit context.
- Experience applying for grants or working in grants programs (in the
Wikimedia, academic, or wider non-profit world).
- Ability to read and write in multiple languages.
Acceptable
- Members may apply for an Individual Engagement Grant themselves, but
they will recuse themselves from reviewing proposals in the same category
as their own during that round.
- Membership does not conflict with membership in other Wikimedia
committees, including the Grant Advisory Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee> or
the Wikimania Scholarships Committee.