Fellow Wiki-Americans,
We have been offered potential space for about 200 participants for a
three-day WikiConference USA event at NYU's ITP program for March 21-23,
2014.
Let us know your thoughts on this option.
Please see additional info here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_USA#Potential_venue:_NYU…
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi all,
I'm happy to announce that the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium has been officially
recognized as a Wikimedia affiliate user group! The decision to pursue
affiliation was one of the main outcomes of the Consortium's advisory group
meeting in April. We see this as an important step in our evolution as a
group, and for the GLAM-Wiki movement in the US. See below for the
resolution.
Dominic
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Carlos Manuel Colina*
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Subject: Approval of GLAM-Wiki U.S. Consortium
To: Dominic McDevitt-Parks <dominic.mcdevitt-parks(a)wikimediadc.org>,
Affiliations Committee list <affcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Good morning Dominic,
I am glad to inform you that the Affiliations Committee has approved the
formation of the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium. You can find the resolution on
Meta [1]. This means the GLAM-Wiki Consortium is recognised as a Wikimedia
User Group for a one-year period ending 30 June, 2014.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate contacting us.
Congratulations and welcome to the network of Wikimedia entities!
Regards,
Carlos M Colina
Vice-Chair, Affilations Committee
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/GLAM-Wiki…
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This sounds like an amazing idea!
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From: "Lori Phillips" <lori.byrd.phillips(a)gmail.com>
To: "North American Cultural Partnerships" <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [GLAM-US] GLAM Wiki 2014
Date: Wed, Jun 19, 2013 10:54 AM
*Sharing this from the cultural partners list, with permission from Leigh.
Please do share your thoughts/enthusiasm!*
*- Lori
*
Saludos!
After the successful GLAM Wiki 2013, there was talk about who would like to
host the next one. Id like to raise the possibility of having it in
Mexico, at my campus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITESM_CCM
ITESM CCM has been working on a number of different Wikipedia projects,
which include the campus library sponsoring photo contests and donations of
photos from the campus archives. In addition, at the education get-together
at the Milan meeting, there was discussion of how education and GLAM can,
and perhaps should, overlap. It would also be a good idea to have a major
GLAM event on the west side of the Atlantic.
I have discussed the possibility with the campus library director, who is
quite enthusiastic and have talked to a number of people (students and
teachers) already involved with Wikipedia. We have a preliminary user group
up and going
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Borregos_CCM_Student_User_Group, that
we will solidify come August when everyone is on campus and we can meet
face-to-face. We are looking at a date sometime in April.
We have also talked to Wikimedia Mexico, which has preliminary agreed to
cooperate with us.
We would like to know if the community likes the idea!
Leigh Thelmadatter
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*Sharing this from the cultural partners list, with permission from Leigh.
Please do share your thoughts/enthusiasm!*
*- Lori
*
Saludos!
After the successful GLAM Wiki 2013, there was talk about who would like to
host the next one. Id like to raise the possibility of having it in
Mexico, at my campus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITESM_CCM
ITESM CCM has been working on a number of different Wikipedia projects,
which include the campus library sponsoring photo contests and donations of
photos from the campus archives. In addition, at the education get-together
at the Milan meeting, there was discussion of how education and GLAM can,
and perhaps should, overlap. It would also be a good idea to have a major
GLAM event on the west side of the Atlantic.
I have discussed the possibility with the campus library director, who is
quite enthusiastic and have talked to a number of people (students and
teachers) already involved with Wikipedia. We have a preliminary user group
up and going
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Borregos_CCM_Student_User_Group, that
we will solidify come August when everyone is on campus and we can meet
face-to-face. We are looking at a date sometime in April.
We have also talked to Wikimedia Mexico, which has preliminary agreed to
cooperate with us.
We would like to know if the community likes the idea!
Leigh Thelmadatter
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Cultural-Partners(a)wikimedia.ch
https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners
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Hello!
I'd like to invite you to the next edit-a-thon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which will be focused on The Civil War and American Art<http://www.americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/art_civil_war/>. The event will include: new editor training, a tour with the curator, Eleanor Harvey, of The Civil War and American Art exhibition, and a group edit-a-thon.
When: Friday, February 15, 2013
Where: Smithsonian American Art Museum<http://www.americanart.si.edu/>, Located at 8th and G Streets, NW, in Washington D.C. We will meet in the G Street Lobby (enter at 8th and G Streets) at 9:15 a.m.
What to bring: photo ID, a laptop, coffee and snacks if you wish (lunch is provided)
Advanced RSVP Required! RSVP to Georgina Goodlander, goodlanderg(a)si.edu<mailto:goodlanderg@si.edu>, 202-633-8532, Due to the limited space, sign up is required. Space is limited to 20 non-staff participants.
Hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Georgina
Georgina Goodlander
Web & Social Media Content Manager
Smithsonian American Art Museum
(202) 633-8532 | GoodlanderG(a)si.edu
Follow @PaikBot<http://www.twitter.com/paikbot>
Mary,
Everyone is in agreement that it is good for organizers to post notices to
users who want to receive them. Wiki-etiquette is that if someone has
indicated that they are in a certain demographic, and an event targets that
demographic, then it is good to send them event notices. However, this has
only worked historically because there are so few events being advertised,
and if it happens at some point in the future that there are lots of events
then this unwritten rule may be clarified.
It is good for you to post this to project talk pages. Most project pages
often do not get updated with news notices, but some are, and if you add
your notice to an appropriate one then that is fine also.
To post on user talk pages you should be diligent in posting to users who
have opted-in somehow. Historically, the precedent for opting in might
include posting to people have made it known that they are in the event's
geographical region or people who have a history of publicly participating
in a relevant wikiproject. Signing up as a participant of a WikiProject is
also taken as consent to receive relevant notices.
I played around with invitation templates some time ago and made
[[:Template:Invite]]. I doubt that anyone has ever used it, but I used the
template to get feedback on the legitimacy of spamming people to visit
wp:meetup pages. What I found was that there were no guidelines in place
but people liked knowing about relevant events.
Cool? Good luck.
yours,
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Mary Mark Ockerbloom <
celebration.women(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Lane,
> I hope you won't mind a quick question:
> I've put together a possible invitation box for the Edit-a-Thon in my
> sandbox,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**User:Mary_Mark_Ockerbloom/**sandbox<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mary_Mark_Ockerbloom/sandbox>
> and I just want to check out the etiquette for putting it up on people's
> pages,
> since I haven't done that before.
>
> Is it appropriate for me to put it on :
> 1) user talk pages
> 2) project talk pages
> 3) project pages
>
> Any advice is welcome, always happy to be able to improve things,
> Thanks again, Mary
>
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> ability to be in many places at once." -- Audrey Niffenegger
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This isn't specifically on the topic of GLAM, but is a follow up to
one of the discussions that we had at last weekend's GLAM wiki
bootcamp, and something I'm very interested in, and maybe others will
be, too. I don't know a lot about this topic -- I'm hoping that
others can provide me with some pointers to the communities and
discussions on the mediawikis, where I might learn more.
Jarek, during his presentation, talked about the problems with
categories on Wikimedia Commons, using the example, "Painted portraits
of men of France". The main problem he described had to do with all
of the possible permutations of subcategories, and the difficulty of
consistently maintaining that subcategory tree.
A related problem also applies to a category we've been hearing a lot
about recently, "American women writers". In this case, there are (at
least) two problems that have been discussed: that this is an
asymmetric category (there is no "American men writers"); and that
people who are in this category are not also in "American writers",
although they should be.
Another problem with this method of categorization is that it doesn't
allow easy access to lists that might not correspond to a direct
category, but might be interesting, and could be derived from the
other categories. For example, all women writers who are *not*
American.
IMO, this is a fundamentally flawed way of adding semantic information
to articles. Jarek suggested that these should be tags, and I agree
that that would be simpler. So, for example, instead of having a
category "American women writers", there would be separate tags for
"American", "female", and "writer". Then, the original category would
be the union of these three. That would also solve the problem of the
asymmetry in the way male writers and female writers are categorized,
which is part of what led to the recent uproar.
But even better, IMO, would be true semantic tagging, in the sense of
the Semantic Web. (I'm not an expert in this topic, but have read
just enough to be dangerous.) Semantic linking lets you express
simple truths about things, such as, "this is a person", "this is
female", "this person is the author of Wuthering Heights", etc.
Furthermore, ''ontologies'' allow people to express relationships
among relationships. For example, "anyone who is the author of x is a
writer", "all authors are also humans", etc.
Having heard a little bit about the Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata, I
just dug a little bit to see if there is work afoot to try to
re-implement Wikipedia categories in some kind of scheme like this.
The Semantic MediaWiki is a MediaWiki extension that's designed to
allow this kind of tagging, but it was never integrated with any of
the Wikipedias. Instead, Wikidata is being developed and integrated.
There's some info on the relationships among Wikipedia, SMW, and
Wikidata on the Wikipedia entry for SMW [1] and on the SMW FAQ [2].
I know Wikidata has tackled inter-language links first, and next on
the agenda are infoboxes, but I'm not sure if anyone anywhere is
planning on reimplementing categories with this kind of scheme. Of
course it would be an enormous undertaking, and wouldn't happen
anytime soon. But, it does seem to me there's the potential of a much
more robust system. If anyone had any pointers to where I might learn
more, or join in some of those discussions, I'd be very interested. I
just posted a question to the wikidata-l mailing list.
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki#Semantic_MediaWiki_and_Wiki…
[2] http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_the_relationship_between…
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Cheers!
Chris
Hello all,
The second-ever GLAM-Wiki GLAMOut (hosted by the US GLAM-Wiki Consortium
but open to all :) is happening now (3pm ET) on Google Hangouts On Air.
Please join us!
http://youtu.be/gNDlyknMjvU <http://youtu.be/gNDlyknMjvU>
Feel free to post questions on the #glamwiki hashtag if you're not one of
those taking part in the Hangout itself, but are instead watching live.
Can't join us now? The video will be available soon. Please post agenda
items and sign up for the July Hangout as well! (The wiki page will be
updated with the new header immediately following this Hangout.)
Details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout#June_7.2C_2013
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The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
Great opportunity! Please cross post. Note closing date coming up soon -
June 10, 2013. Open to US citizens.
This position is responsible for assignments designed to manage and extend
NARA’s collaborations with Wikipedia/Wikimedia and related projects. There
may also be involvement in activity on other social media and online access
platforms depending on NARA's participation, collaborations, and projects
as directed.. To support these efforts, the Office of Innovation develops,
maintains and coordinates: the description program; agency-wide business
architecture; metadata standards and authorities; and provides internal
digitization labs, intranet, and social media programs.
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/344698500
Cheers,
Bettina
Hi all!****
** **
We will be having our second GLAMout—a monthly live Google Hangout on Air
session to discuss developments in GLAM-Wiki which is also recorded—this
Friday, June 7, 3–4 p.m. EDT (12–1 p.m. PDT; 7–8 UTC). Please mark it on
your calendars and try to join live or contribute. The GLAMout is a chance
to share important news or progress on GLAM-Wiki projects. I have created a
new section for June at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout>.
Sara Snyder and I have volunteered to talk about the new project getting
started at the Smithsonian Institution this summer, but we need more
contributors. Please sign up if you can speak on a topic.
If you missed the first GLAMout, you can get an idea of what it's like by
watching the archived video here: <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GLAMout_episode_1_-_May_3,_2013.webm>.
Thanks!
Dominic