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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia as the front matter to all research": A brown bag on scholarly citations in Wikipedia this Friday 12/4 @ 12 PT
by Pine W 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

May be of interest to GLAM folks. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:01 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia as the front matter to all research": A brown bag on scholarly citations in Wikipedia this Friday 12/4 @ 12 PT To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Come and join us for a brown bag this Friday December 4 at 12 PT to learn about unique identifiers and scholarly citations in Wikipedia, why they matter and how we can bridge the gap between the Wikimedia, research and librarian communities. Wikipedia as the front matter to all research YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_oexqz8pA < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_oexqz8pA> Event information on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_as_the_front_matter_to_all_resear… < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_as_the_front_matter_to_all_resear… > Measuring citizen engagement with the scholarly literature through Wikipedia citations. Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef Wikipedia (in toto) is probably the 5th largest referrer of citations to the scholarly literature. That is, more Wikipedia users click on and follow citations to the scholarly literature *from* Wikipedia domains than from any single scholarly publisher in the world. What does this tell us about general interest in the scholarly literature? What does this tell us about scholarly engagement with editing Wikipedia articles? The short answer is “we don’t know.” But we are actively working with Wikimedia to find out. Building the sum of all human citations Dario Taraborelli, WIkimedia Foundation As sourcing and verifiability of online information are threatened < http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/citing-as-a-public-service-building-the-su…> by the explosion of answer engines and the changing habits of web users, Wikimedia has an outstanding opportunity to extract and store source data for every conceivable statement and make it transparently verifiable by its users. In this talk, I’ll present a grassroots effort < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData> to create a human-curated, comprehensive repository of all human citations in Wikidata. ––––––––––––– Bonus read: a real-time tracker of scholarly citations added to Wikipedia, built with Raspberry Pi http://blog.crossref.org/2015/12/crossref-labs-plays-with-the-raspberry-pi-… < http://blog.crossref.org/2015/12/crossref-labs-plays-with-the-raspberry-pi-… > Dario Taraborelli Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org <http://wikimediafoundation.org/> • nitens.org < http://nitens.org/> • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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Re: [GLAM-US] [GLAM] This Month in GLAM: October 2015
by Pine W 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

That white paper ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Flemish_art_collections,_Wikidata_an…) is very helpful! We in Cascadia Wikimedians are discussing engagement plans for a couple of museums, most likely the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_Museum_of_Natural_History_and_Culture> and the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Luke_Museum_of_the_Asian_Pacific_America…>. It will be great for us to have this white paper available when we talk to the museum staff. Pine On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:58 PM, The 'This Month in GLAM' team < thismonthinglam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > *This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent > happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, > events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives > and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at > glamwiki.org. > > *This Month in GLAM – Issue X, Volume V – October 2015* > ------------------------------ > > Argentina report: Edit-a-thon & editing challenges > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Contents/Ar… > > Belgium report: Flemish institutions start with Wikidata project > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Contents/Be… > > France report: From Brittany to Provence > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Contents/Fr… > > Italy report: The history of Fascism in Italian libraries > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Contents/It… > > Macedonia report: Wikipedian in residence at the Macedonian Academy of > Sciences and Arts > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Contents/Ma… > > Spain report: GLAMing Madrid, libraries and free images > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Contents/Sp… > > Sweden report: 55 000+ links to Wikipedia; Exhibits, concepts and > biographies > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Contents/Sw… > > UK report: 'Hywel Dda' edit-a-thon & Pic-a-thon > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Contents/UK… > > USA report: GLAM activities in Philadelphia & Seattle > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Contents/US… > > Open Access report: Open Access Week; Recent uploads > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Contents/Op… > > Wikidata report: Wikidata this month > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Contents/Wi… > > Calendar: November's GLAM events > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Contents/Ev… > > > ------------------------------ > > > Single page view > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2015/Single > > Twitter > http://twitter.com/ThisMonthinGLAM > > Add your story / Work on the next edition > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom > > > -- > The *This Month in GLAM* team > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter > > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > GLAM(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam > >

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Fwd: Announcement: English Wikipedia has passed 5 million articles
by Pine W 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

English Wikipedia has passed 5 million articles. The community has written an open letter (which includes video): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_million_articles Pine

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Fwd: "Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age"
by Pine W 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

Good news. (: Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Date: Oct 29, 2015 12:48 AM Subject: "Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age" To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Jake Orlowitz" <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> Cc: "Wikimedia Legal" <legal(a)wikimedia.org> Good news for open access: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/us/harvard-law-library-sacrifices-a-trove… I hope that Wikimedians will get access to the collection via TWL. (: Pine

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Requests for community input on Cascadia Wikimedians plans
by Pine W 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

Hi all, Your comments would be appreciated at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Cascadia_Wikimedians_User_Group/… You can read about recent activities and our plans for the first quarter of 2016 in this email: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-cascadia/2015-October/00068… Thanks in advance, Pine

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Cool new (non-US) project for potential outreach
by Jen Dawson Cardelús 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

There's an awesome new project called Zoosphere <http://www.zoosphere.net> that is taking high-resolution images of biological specimens and putting them online. This seems to be a project of the Berlin Natural History Museum, which is digitizing its insect collections, though I'm not entirely sure whether other museums are involved -- there are a number of logos at the bottom of the project website, but they may just be advisors/financial sponsors/etc. The images at Zoosphere include photos of type specimens and are pretty awesome. NYT coverage here <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/science/putting-museums-samples-of-life-o…>. It appears that the images posted so far are CC-0, which is great. I'm not sure exactly how Wikipedia/Commons could be involved in this besides scraping the content they upload and potentially encouraging them to continue using free licensing, but it might make sense to have a German Wikimedian contact them. Does anyone have German contacts that could be useful here?

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Arizona GLAM-Wiki folk?
by Alex Stinson 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

Hi All, Do we know of anyone in Arizona that is active in GLAM-Wiki? Or, similarly, is there anyone whose focus is on indigenous artifacts? A request came through the Foundation recently, and we would love to engage community members as leaders. Cheers, Alex Stinson

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GLAM-Wiki US consortium
by Pine W 12 Oct '15

12 Oct '15

Hi GLAM-Wiki folks, I just watched the video from WikiConference USA 2015 about the GLAM-Wiki US consortium. I'm glad to see that there is progress happening this year with the development of the consortium. Here at Cascadia Wikimedians, we recently had our first Seattle-area museum event with the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Luke_Museum_of_the_Asian_Pacific_America…> (which is a Smithsonian affiliate). Our current thinking is that we'd like to have quarterly activities with them. We've also had some GLAM events in the Portland area with the Art+Feminism theme, and we're actively engaged with the University of Washington Library System (which is among the largest library systems in the United States). I would be very interested to know if it's possible to get regular updates about the progress of the GLAM-Wiki US consortium, and what services it might be able to provide that would be aligned with our goals and interests. While I'm writing, I'll mention that there are tentative plans for WikiConference USA 2016 to be hosted by Cascadia Wikimedians in the Seattle area, and we would welcome the opportunity to have a meeting of the consortium at next year's WikiConference if the conference is in Seattle. Please keep in touch. Regards, Pine Executive Director Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

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Fwd: Upcoming press release to celebrate 5 million articles on English Wikipedia
by Pine W 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Please see below. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:41 PM Subject: Upcoming press release to celebrate 5 million articles on English Wikipedia Dear colleagues, Aligned with discussions at the Wikimedia Conference about coordinating press releases around the world, I would like to invite you to participate in the drafting and upcoming publication of a community-written press release that celebrates English Wikipedia's milestone of 5 million articles. I particularly extend this invitation to affiliates which are located in areas where English (in any dialect) is a primary, official, or common language. Drafting and discussion are happening here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29#5_… Please ask your affiliates to participate in a near-simultaneous press release from interested affiliates and WMF on the day that English Wikipedia reaches 5 million articles. Please make sure that your affiliate's contact information is current on Meta so that it can be included in the press release. Journalists may wish to speak with representatives of your organization about the press release and about Wikipedia in general. This event offers and opportunity to raise public awareness of Wikipedia in general and our many accomplishments, as well as the many challenges and opportunities ahead of us to make English Wikipedia in particular be more accurate, friendly, inclusive, accessible, reputable, and comprehensive. Regards, Pine

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Fwd: [GLAM] Europeana questionnaire on costs of rights clearance
by Alex Stinson 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

>From Europeana: in case you have connections related to rights clearance. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sandra Fauconnier <sandra.fauconnier(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:55 AM Subject: [GLAM] Europeana questionnaire on costs of rights clearance To: open-glam(a)lists.okfn.org, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" < glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, Europeana is holding a short survey to investigate the costs of right clearance in cultural institutions. Please forward to anyone for whom this might be relevant! Quoting from a LinkedIn post: Europeana is advocating for copyright reform to make it easier for cultural heritage institutions to share items online. To help us, please take our 3-question survey about the costs of rights clearance within your organisation by 18 September. Link to the survey: http://svy.mk/1MZg1R8 Best, Sandra _______________________________________________ GLAM mailing list GLAM(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam

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