Hi everyone!
Just another reminder that the GLAMout will be on Friday. We still have space on the agenda - if you sign up for an agenda topic, please indicate that you will be presenting (I'll try to make this clearer in the future). Right now I have four people signed up as attendees but only two agenda topics (a gentle reminder that only those presenting need to be in the Hangout - others can view on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbryqB4wmQM ).
And, if you can please post agenda items by close of business your time tomorrow to minimize last minute scrambling, that would be appreciated as well.
Thank you!
Merrilee
From: Proffitt,Merrilee
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 11:07 AM
To: Proffitt,Merrilee; 'Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]'; 'Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination'; 'North American Cultural Partnerships'; 'Wikimedia & Libraries'
Subject: March GLAMout next week!
Hi everyone,
It's your monthly email - the March GLAMout will be next Friday! Please tune in at 12pm-1pm Pacific Time (3pm-4pm ET | 19-20h UTC). Right now the agenda is wide open and I encourage anyone who has something to share to sign up, and also volunteer to run the GLAMout if you're inclined (I'm available if no one else is but would also be fine with turning it over to someone else).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout/2014/March
What is the GLAMout? It's a monthly online video-chat (using Google+ Hangouts) where cultural professionals, Wikimedians, or any interested parties can learn and chat about GLAM activities. The GLAMout is currently hosted by the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium. While the Google Hangout is limited to those presenting, anyone is welcome to view on YouTube.
Thanks and hope to see you online!
Merrilee
Hi all,
The latest edition of Books & Bytes is out, with a full overview of recent
Wikipedia Library organizing and outreach opportunities, our Spotlight
editorial/interview, plus news and notes from around the open access and
library world. Hope you'll check it out!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TWL/Newsletter
Best,
Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi)
Coordinator, The Wikipedia Library
Hi everyone,
It's your monthly email - the March GLAMout will be next Friday! Please tune in at 12pm-1pm Pacific Time (3pm-4pm ET | 19-20h UTC). Right now the agenda is wide open and I encourage anyone who has something to share to sign up, and also volunteer to run the GLAMout if you're inclined (I'm available if no one else is but would also be fine with turning it over to someone else).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout/2014/March
What is the GLAMout? It's a monthly online video-chat (using Google+ Hangouts) where cultural professionals, Wikimedians, or any interested parties can learn and chat about GLAM activities. The GLAMout is currently hosted by the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium. While the Google Hangout is limited to those presenting, anyone is welcome to view on YouTube.
Thanks and hope to see you online!
Merrilee
Hi everyone,
The February GLAMout is now available on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8szdHJkF928
For right now these are mostly under my YouTube account - if someone has the time and energy to move them somewhere else, please let me know (as long as it doesn't take a lot on my end!). I know there's a "better" way to share these, but my energy seems best spent in organizing and executing, not in follow up! I enjoy these conversations very much as a way to hear what is happening in the GLAM US Wiki community, which it turns out is quite a bit!
Merrilee
From: Proffitt,Merrilee
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 12:28 PM
To: 'Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]'; 'Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination'; North American Cultural Partnerships; 'Wikimedia & Libraries'
Subject: Reminder: GLAMout tomorrow!
Hi everyone,
Just a reminder that the GLAMout will be held this Friday - that's tomorrow! Please tune in at 12pm-1pm Pacific Time (3pm-4pm ET | 19-20h UTC) There is a more or less finalized list of topics at on the website.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout#February_7.2C_2014
What is the GLAMout? It's a monthly online video-chat (using Google+ Hangouts) where cultural professionals, Wikimedians, or any interested parties can learn and chat about GLAM activities. The GLAMout is currently hosted by the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium. While the Google Hangout is limited to those presenting, anyone is welcome to view on YouTube.
This month is a little more organized and I actually have a YouTube link to share ahead of time! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8szdHJkF928 You can use the #glamwiki hashtag on Twitter or the Q&A tool in YouTube (which I believe should be available once the event starts).
Thanks and hope to see you online!
Merrilee
Hi everyone,
Just a reminder that the GLAMout will be held this Friday - that's tomorrow! Please tune in at 12pm-1pm Pacific Time (3pm-4pm ET | 19-20h UTC) There is a more or less finalized list of topics at on the website.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout#February_7.2C_2014
What is the GLAMout? It's a monthly online video-chat (using Google+ Hangouts) where cultural professionals, Wikimedians, or any interested parties can learn and chat about GLAM activities. The GLAMout is currently hosted by the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium. While the Google Hangout is limited to those presenting, anyone is welcome to view on YouTube.
This month is a little more organized and I actually have a YouTube link to share ahead of time! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8szdHJkF928 You can use the #glamwiki hashtag on Twitter or the Q&A tool in YouTube (which I believe should be available once the event starts).
Thanks and hope to see you online!
Merrilee
Hello all,
If you are located in or near Austin, TX, or know of a Wikipedian who is,
could you please email me off-list? I can further dig for folks on-wiki,
but wanted to check here first. We have a geographically-dependent request.
: )
Thanks so much!
Lori
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Lori Byrd Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
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Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 1:43 PM
Subject: [libraries] February GLAMout on Friday
To: "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
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Hi everyone,
Just a reminder that the GLAMout will be held this Friday. We have a few
topics in mind but add yours to the list for this month or under future
topics!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout#February_7.2C_2014
What is the GLAMout? It's a monthly online video-chat (using Google+
Hangouts) where cultural professionals, Wikimedians, or any interested
parties can learn and chat about GLAM activities. The GLAMout is currently
hosted by the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium. While the Google Hangout is limited
to those presenting, anyone is welcome to view on YouTube. Please check the
page on Wiki and the #glamwiki hashtag on Twitter for viewing links (we
will send those out when we have them but it tends to be right when we
start).
Thanks and hope to see you online!
Merrilee
--
Lori Byrd Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
We're considering adding an "upload to wikimedia commons" button for
suitably-licensed images on our site, and am wondering where the API for
this is documented, and/or if we need to go through an approval process to
have our code allowed to do this. The closest similar thing I can think of
is the Wikimedia Commons app (for ios or android) where you set it up once
with your username and password, and then it lets you upload images very
easily from your phone.
Of course, in this case, it wouldn't be the reader's own work, so there'd
have to be some extra metadata we sent along.
Anyway, I can't seem to find the information I need. The app page is
here, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Apps/Commons/Support, but there is no
link to the source code -- I'd have thought that it would be open source.
The Commons API pages I can find (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:API,
http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnus-toolserver/commonsapi.php,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:API/MediaWiki) only describe the
read-only side.
Something else I'm not sure about: would the images be uploaded via the
individual user's account, or through our institution's account on Commons?
While I write this, I realize that there is another issue -- we would want
to keep track of which images have been uploaded already, and in those
cases, the button, rather than causing the upload, should take the user to
the already-uploaded image page. Is anyone else doing something like this?
Can anyone offer some pointers?
Thanks!
Chris Maloney
I am very pleased to announce that Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC are
working in collaboration to host the first national Wikimedia conference in
the United States!
Here are the details for the conference:
Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014
Location: New York Law School (185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013)
Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org
Email: wikicon(a)wikimedianyc.org
Registration: http://wikiconusa.eventbrite.org/
For more information, please review our official press release below! We
hope you will join us and help us spread the word!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCon_USA_2014_Press_Release_v1.p…
Thanks,
Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
Hi everyone,
This is an exciting announcement for those interested in the Wikipedia Libraries Project. For those of you working in libraries (or anyone wanting to attend!) we are having a meeting at the American Libraries Association midwinter meeting in Philadelphia (Saturday January 25th). We have a number of academic libraries who are interested in supporting Wikipedians in this novel way. Hopefully a lot more to report in the new year!
Merrilee
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From: open-glam [mailto:open-glam-bounces@lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Amanda French
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:21 PM
To: open-glam(a)lists.okfn.org
Subject: [OpenGLAM] Position: Wikipedia Affiliate, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Position announcement: Wikipedia Affiliate, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
(also posted at
http://chnm.gmu.edu/news/position-announcement-wikipedia-affiliate-roy-rose…)
In conjunction with The Wikipedia Library
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library> project,
the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
<http://chnm.gmu.edu/> (RRCHNM) at George Mason University is seeking
applicants for a "Wikipedia Affiliate." This is an unpaid, year-long,
remote research position beginning March 1, 2014 and ending February 28,
2015 that entitles the affiliate to full library privileges at George
Mason University <http://library.gmu.edu/>, including proxied access to
all online materials to which the GMU Libraries subscribe: more than 400
databases, thousands of scholarly journals and mainstream periodicals,
and hundreds of ebooks. The position is designed to give research
library access to a Wikipedia editor who does not currently have such
access or who has only limited access to scholarly resources: the
purpose of the position is to help improve Wikipedia's reliability and
accuracy by providing Wikipedia editors with access to the best
scholarly information resources while providing a model for other
universities to do likewise.
Qualifications
The affiliate will be an experienced Wikipedia editor with at least one
year of regular activity contributing to Wikipedia on historical topics
in any field, region, or period. The affiliate will also be a thorough
researcher who is committed to improving Wikipedia articles by
consulting and citing reliable, scholarly sources and who is a lucid
writer of text for Wikipedia encyclopedia articles on historical topics.
An undergraduate or graduate degree in History, Art History, or a
related discipline is desirable but not required.
Position Description and Duties
During the affiliate year, the affiliate will conduct scholarly research
using the library resources of George Mason University with the aim of
significantly improving the accuracy and reliability of at least 25
Wikipedia articles on historical topics, preferably articles within a
particular historical scope (for example: modern Russian and Soviet
history, U.S. Civil War history, the history of late imperial China).
Near the end of the affiliate year, the affiliate will write a brief
report listing the Wikipedia articles he or she has contributed to and
improved over the course of the year, describing how his or her access
to GMU library resources has helped increase the reliability of
Wikipedia on this topic and analyzing whether the affiliate program
could serve as a model for other universities. The affiliate will also
be asked to give a brief talk on the same subject to RRCHNM, either in
person or via a remote technology such as Skype.
Application Instructions
To apply, please send the following documents to Dr. Amanda French at
afrench5(a)gmu.edu <mailto:afrench5@gmu.edu> by January 20, 2014:
1. A standard résumé or curriculum vitae that also includes
* a link to your Wikipedia profile and
* at least three links to Wikipedia articles on historical topics that
you have contributed to.
2. A cover letter that includes
* a description of your background, including why you contribute to
Wikipedia and what level of historical expertise and interest you
have in which fields, regions, or periods;
* a summary of what access you currently have (or don't have) to
research materials such as databases and scholarly journals;
* an explanation of why you want to become a Wikipedia Affiliate to
RRCHNM; and
* a brief outline of the historical topic(s) and/or specific Wikipedia
articles you would focus on during your affiliate year.
All applicants will be notified of the outcome of the search by the end
of February 2014. The affiliate year will begin March 1, 2014.
About the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Since 1994 under the founding direction of Roy Rosenzweig, the Center
for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University has used
digital media and computer technology to democratize history, to
incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage
popular participation in presenting and preserving the past. The center
itself is a democratic, collaborative space where over fifty scholars,
technologists, and researchers work together to advance the state of the
art.
RRCHNM uses digital media and technology to preserve and present history
online, transform scholarship across the humanities, and advance
historical education and understanding. Each year RRCHNMâs many
project websites receive over 20 million visitors, and over a million
people rely on its digital tools to teach, learn, and conduct research.
George Mason University is a public research university located
approximately 14 miles from Washington, D.C., with over 30,000 students.
Global education and research are a fundamental part of the
universityâs mission to serve its diverse and international student
body. RRCHNM is part of the Department of History and Art History.
About The Wikipedia Library
The Wikipedia Library connects Wikipedia editors with libraries, open
access resources, paywalled databases, and research experts. We are
working together towards 5 big goals that create an open hub for
conducting research:
* Connect editors with their local library and freely accessible
resources
* Partner to provide free access to paywalled publications,
databases, universities, and libraries
* Build relationships among our community of editors, libraries, and
librarians
* Facilitate research for Wikipedians, helping editors to find and
use sources
* Promote broader open access in publishing and research
The Wikipedia Affiliate to RRCHNM position is based on the Wikipedia
Visiting Scholar idea suggested by Peter Suber at the Harvard Open
Access Project <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/hoap>.
--
Amanda L. French, Ph.D.
http://amandafrench.net
Email: amanda(a)amandafrench.net
Cell: 720-530-7515
Twitter: @amandafrench
Skype: amandafrenchphd
AIM: habitrailgirl
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