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Hi Wikimedians,
WikiConference USA 2015 will be held *October 9–11* at the U.S. National
Archives in Washington, D.C.
Registration and scholarship applications are open. Session proposals may
be submitted.
Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org
Pine
Hello all!
The Wikipedia Library team has been building a "GLAM Glossary" to help
Wikipedians who want to work with GLAMs to acclimatize to the language,
terminology, and jargon in the field.
Knowing the right words to use, and what they mean, will lead to more
effective outreach and partnerships.
We would love for more knowledgeable folks to add or suggest terms.
*Jump in! * https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Glossary
Cheers,
Jake Orlowitz and The Wikipedia Library team
Forwarding announcement below.
Pine
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From: "Jake Orlowitz" <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jul 13, 2015 2:28 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] 5 New Visiting Scholars Positions Open (now under
Wiki Ed)
To: "wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <
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Cc:
The Wikipedia Library <https://enwp.org/wiki/WP:TWL> is pleased to announce
five new Wikipedia Visiting Scholars
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VS> positions
with US and Canadian universities and research organizations as part of an
program expansion.
Visiting Scholars are remote, unpaid Wikipedia editors who become
affiliated with top research libraries. They receive full access to the
partner library’s e-resources to expand topics of institutional interest
which also need development on Wikipedia. This marks the second successful
round of institutions participating in the program
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/17/wikipedia-research-library/>.
These new positions will be coordinated and managed by the Wikipedia
Library’s movement partner, the Wiki Education Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation> (Wiki Ed). Wiki
Ed will process applications, connect to schools, and drive the growth of
the program in the North American region. They are in an excellent position
to help expand Visiting Scholars because of their extensive existing
connections to universities and desire to support Wikipedia’s best content
creators.
We invite Wikipedia editors who specialize in content creation, and would
like access to a full research library, to apply for these new unpaid,
remote affiliate positions at the following research libraries:
- *McMaster University
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMaster_University>* is a public
university in Hamilton, Ontario
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Ontario>, Canada. The library’s
holdings in their Division of Research Collections and Archives contain
many valuable and unique resources, with emphases in areas such as peace
and war (with a particular emphasis on the Holocaust
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust> and resistance), Bertrand
Russell <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell>, Canadian
literature and popular culture.
- *DePaul University <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DePaul_University>*
is
a private university in Chicago <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago>,
Illinois. The library is looking for Wikipedians who can focus on Chicago
history, Catholic social justice studies, and/or Vincentian Studies
(including French history during the Napoleonic Era
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Era>).
- *The Smithsonian Institution
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smithsonian_Institution>*,
established in 1846 “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge,” is a
group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of
the
United States. The Warren M. Robbins Library of the National Museum of
African Art
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_African_Art> is
looking for a Wikipedian in Residence that can focus on modern African
art
and artists.
- *The University of Pittsburgh
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pittsburgh>* (PITT) is a
state-related research university in Pittsburgh
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh>, Pennsylvania. This Visiting
Scholar position will work with PITT’s Archives Service Center, Special
Collections and Center for American Music to focus on: Pittsburgh and
Pennsylvanian history including urban renewal in Pittsburgh, childhood in
the industrial era of Pittsburgh, music composers of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh
theater or significant literary figures from Pittsburgh; Colonial
American
history; historic American songs; or philosophy of science.
- *The University of Washington
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Washington>* (UW), commonly
referred to as Washington or, informally, UDub, is a public research
university in Seattle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle>,
Washington. This Visiting Scholar position will work with UW’s Special
Collections and focus on labor and the working classes in the Pacific
Northwest, all aspects of Pacific Northwest history and literature, and
Pacific Northwest architecture.
Full application information is available at the Wiki Education Foundation
signup page <http://wikiedu.org/visitingscholars/apply/>.<
http://wikiedu.org/visitingscholars/apply/>
Wiki Ed also invites editors to apply for a Visiting Scholar placement
pool. The pool will help grow the Visiting Scholar program by creating a
list of willing and interested candidates to offer to new partner
libraries. With the interests and needs of pre-qualified Wikipedians in
hand, Wiki Ed can work to find libraries that match your interests.
Access to research libraries as part of one of these visiting scholar
positions creates considerable opportunities for Wikipedia editors. It
allows them access to services and tools, including multiple paywalled
databases, integrated search and discovery tools, research collections and
recommendations from specialist librarians, and expert consultation. In
return, editors can begin a conversation with the library, which creates
opportunities for greater understanding and communication between these
universities and the wider Wikipedia community.
*The Wikipedia Library*
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Forwarding because it's so impressive to see Wikipedia exhibited and
photographed this way.
Pine
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From: "MZMcBride" <z(a)mzmcbride.com>
Date: Jun 23, 2015 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
MZMcBride wrote:
>http://nyti.ms/1Bl9VpB
>
>This story about an art exhibit opening in New York on Thursday is pretty
>neat. A Wikipedian has been working for years to create a print version of
>Wikipedia, described as "half utilitarian data visualization project, half
>absurdist poetic gesture." Hopefully we'll have photos of the project on
>Wikimedia Commons soon.
Victor Grigas delivered! :D
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Print_Wikipedia
Someone also reminded me that xkcd's "What If?" covered a variant of this
topic in "Updating a Printed Wikipedia" <https://what-if.xkcd.com/59/>.
MZMcBride
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I'll be at "State of the Map US", an OpenStreetMap event:
http://stateofthemap.us/
in New York city on 6/7 June, arriving on the afternoon of the 5th and
leaving late afternoon on the 8th.
Are any of you going; or likely to be around for a coffee in my free time?
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Hi!
The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
* MIT Press Journals — scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and
social sciences (200 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:MIT>
*Loeb Classical Library — Harvard University Press versions of Classical
Greek and Latin literature with commentary and annotation (25 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:Loeb>
*RIPM — music periodicals published between 1760 and 1966 (20 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:RIPM>
*Sage Stats — social science data for geographies within the United States
(10 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:SAGE _Stats>
*HeinOnline — an extensive legal research database, including 2000
law-related journals as well as international legal history materials (25
accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:HeinOnline>
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on: <
http://enwp.org/WP:TWL/Journals>
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references
across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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A reminder for everyone!
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From: Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 2, 2015 at 6:48 AM
Subject: [GLAM] What happened in GLAM in April?
To: "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all!
What happened with GLAM in April? Let us know and write a (short) report
about it for the newsletter 'This Month in GLAM' so that the worldwide and
local Wikimedia community can read what happened in your area. Also this
will encourage others to participate and donate material.
You can start writing here:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom
If your country/area isn't mentioned on the page, you can always add it to:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2015/Contents
Please mention also the coming GLAM activities on our calendar on:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Events/May_2015
If anyone needs help/explanation about the newsletter, please ask!
Thanks & greetings!
Romaine
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Andy's article on the Tree of 40 Fruits is exceptionally interesting.
I'll especially commend him on his beautiful use of the external video
template.
The request for photos of one of the 16 trees has a couple of
difficulties though. 1st we've only got about a month to get the photo
while the trees are in bloom. Also the map provided by van Aker is
very vague. I'd guess one tree is somewhere north of Philadelphia,
but I'd certainly need a better map to find it. One tree I could
track down is on the Syracuse University campus quad, which is briefly
visible in the CBS video at
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/trees_40_fruits_sam_van_aken…
There's others "in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Short Hills, New Jersey;
Louisville, Kentucky; Pound Ridge, New York" but we'd need to know
where exactly.
Is anybody close to the Syracuse campus?
Smallbones
> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:25:13 +0100
> From: Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
> To: North American Cultural Partnerships <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [GLAM-US] Tree of 40 Fruit
> Message-ID:
> <CABiXOEkxGBqRgzZh5ZWgpgwB+LxYEfR+ucW1ow=Ww-mhvL=Gew(a)mail.gmail.com>
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> Wikipedia needs an open licensed picture of one of the "Trees of 40 Fruit":
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit
>
> in blossom.
>
> Most are in the United States. There's a map of their locations at:
>
> http://www.treeof40fruit.com/works/map/
>
> Can anyone oblige, please?
>
> --
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
>
Hello,
Wikimedia DC has prepared this draft grant proposal for its Cultural Partnerships Program, a one-year pilot program to scale up Wikimedia volunteers’ work with cultural institutions by improving on the organizing capacity of our volunteers. To this end, we are partnering with the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium to organize our national network of volunteers and to train new ones through the second GLAM Boot Camp. Our goal is to make it possible for people to participate in the GLAM-Wiki movement and to keep better track of the work we are doing throughout the country.
The proposal is located here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_US-DC/Cultural_Partnerships_2… – comments and on-wiki endorsements are welcome.
Please contact me if you have any questions about the proposal.
Cheers,
James
—
James Hare
President, Wikimedia DC
http://wikimediadc.org
@wikimediadc