Forwarding in case US Wikimedians who aren't on the Education or GLAM
mailing lists would like to participate in this.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Joe Matazzoni <jmatazzoni(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 9:31 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] help test usability of the Event Metrics
program
To: <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Do you organize wiki events? Would you like to have a convenient tool that
provides metrics about the impact of your events? Then you are a potential
user of Event Metrics [1], a new tool under development. I’m writing now to
find event organizes who can help us test the usability of this new metrics
program, to make sure people such as yourself can understand and easily use
its functions.
The test will involve a one-hour videoconference session with a design
researchers, who will lead you through a series of tasks on the program and
talk to you about how well the tool's user interface works for you and how
it could be improved. Sessions will take place the second and third weeks
of January.
If you’d like to help out, please email Daisy Chen, dchen[at]wikimedia.org,
and let her know:
* The email address where you prefer to be reached.
* Your time zone
* General times when you prefer to meet (evenings, mornings, etc.)
Daisy will follow up to schedule a time. Thanks for helping to make Event
Metrics a tool that event organizers will find empowering!
Joe
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Event_Metrics <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Event_Metrics>
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Joe Matazzoni
Product Manager, Community Tech
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello all!
tl;dr Do you work for a cultural institution and have you contributed media
files from your collections to Wikimedia Commons? And/or are you interested
in crowdsourced metadata around your collections? Then consider filling in
this short survey.
Or are you a Wikimedia volunteer working on GLAM-Wiki projects? Then please
bring this survey to the attention of the GLAMs you work with! :-)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMnowgs8Zs_Qcbkdk20Sxk0ake0gZrQP8…
The questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
A bit more context:
Many Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs) upload media to
Wikimedia Commons. These media files help to enrich the experience of
Wikipedia articles and increase the reach of heritage collections. The
metadata of these media files are often augmented and enriched by the
volunteers of Wikimedia projects. These enrichments often do not find their
way back to the contributing GLAMs.
The Swedish National Heritage Board (www.raa.se), in collaboration with
museums in Sweden, are researching and prototyping a tool that makes it
easier to extract this enriched metadata. This questionnaire indexes the
use of third-party metadata in collection management systems in order to
determine the scope of the tool that is going to be developed.
The questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes to fill in. If you
have additional information or suggestions feel free to mail the researcher
(Maarten Zeinstra) at info(a)ip-squared.com.
*Privacy statement*
The information that you contribute to this questionnaire will only be used
for research purposes for the duration of the project. We will not keep or
distribute information about you or your institute unless you have given us
prior consent to do so.
This project is closely related to Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data). From early
2019, files on Wikimedia Commons can be enhanced with multilingual,
structured data from Wikidata (www.wikidata.org). The APIs of Wikimedia
Commons will become more refined as well, which makes it easier to feed
back improved metadata in a systematic way.
See project info from the Swedish Heritage Board:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons_Data_Roundtripping
Many thanks in advance for your help and input! :-)
With kind regards, Sandra
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Sandra Fauconnier
Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia
communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hello everyone!
tl;dr Please fill in this short survey about how you like your GLAM-Wiki
documentation!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWcLNO6dyM11usIet29bGhEPtbA-01q04…
In 2019, the documentation for batch uploads of files to Wikimedia Commons
will be improved, on the occasion of Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
Before we start working on this, the GLAM team at the Wikimedia Foundation
wants to understand better which types of documentation you already use,
and how you like to learn new GLAM-Wiki skills and knowledge. To learn more
about this, I have created a short survey, which you can access here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWcLNO6dyM11usIet29bGhEPtbA-01q04…
The survey runs until November 30, 2018. It is most relevant for beginning
and active GLAM-Wiki volunteers, and for GLAM staff members who have (some)
hands-on experience with Wikimedia projects.
You can read the privacy statement at
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-Wiki_Documentation_Survey_Privac…
If you have any questions, please get in touch with me:
sfauconnier(a)wikimedia.org
Many thanks in advance! :-) Greetings, Sandra
Structured Data on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
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Sandra Fauconnier
Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia
communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hello everyone!
This is a new community consultation for Structured Data on Commons that is
quite relevant for everyone who deals with copyright and licenses on
Wikimedia Commons.
Please take a look, and voice your opinion!
Thank you :-) Sandra
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From: Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 7:13 PM
Subject: [Commons-l] Structured data - copyright and licensing statements
designs
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings,
New designs are up for structured copyright and licensing statements [1],
based on feedback from the first round of designs. Please take some time to
look over the new mockups and tell us what you think. How copyright and
licensing is displayed in structured data is extremely important, and the
development team needs to hear from you.
Thanks, enjoy your weekend.
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
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Keegan Peterzell
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
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Sandra Fauconnier
Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia
communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hi All,
I hope you get a chance to take the survey described in the medium post
below: I am part of a working group looking into the relevance of the
#OpenGLAM principles for advancing GLAM-Wiki and other open practices in
the GLAM community.
Cheers,
Alex
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From: scann <scannopolis(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:27 AM
Subject: [GLAM] survey around #openGLAM principles
To: Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public] <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[Apologies for crossposting]
Hey folks! We're running a short survey around the #openGLAM
<https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/openglam?source=feed_text> principles.
We'd love to hear your thoughts and opinions on them. Also, any help in
distributing the survey is highly appreciated!
Check what all this is about and fill in the survey!
https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/do-you-use-openg…
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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hi all,
*Tldr: *I published a series of recommendations for creating Wikimedian in
Residence positions, and would like your feedback at:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Creating_a_Wiki…
The long version:
As part of our continued support of the GLAM-Wiki community, we have been
getting an increasing number of requests to the Wikimedia Foundation GLAM
team from Wikimedia organizers, affiliates, and partner institutions about
“how to create or get Wikimedian in Residence positions”. As you are
probably familiar, Wikimedian in Residence positions are very effective at
expanding the impact of partnerships with GLAMs and other institutions, and
are very successful at expanding the ability for institutions to
collaborate with the Wikimedia community.
During the last half a year, I interviewed a dozen folks involved in
creating Wikimedian in Residence positions at affiliates, as independent
organizers in the movement, and at institutions independent of Wikimedia
organizers to collect their best thoughts and advice on how to create these
roles. Additionally, I drew on documentation created by Wikimedia UK in
their evaluation of the WIR program in the UK, the experience of advising
communities creating residencies and as part of WMF grants programs, and
other documentation from places like the Blog and This Month in GLAM.
The result is a recommendation on how to create these roles:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Creating_a_Wiki…
I would like to start sharing with folks inquiring about these roles.
However, before I do, I could use feedback on the page. Please join the
discussion at:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedian_in_Residence/Creating_a…
Cheers,
Alex
P.S. This is part of a series of documentation improvements that we have
been making over the last couple years. I highly recommend other
documentation about the various major tactics used in the GLAM-Wiki
community:
- The Model projects portal which includes a survey of common project
models in GLAM-Wiki
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Model_projects.
- The recently updated Commons and Wikidata upload workflows portal
created as part of Structured Data on Commons:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Resources/Data_and_media_partnersh…
- The personas and research evaluating Commons use for GLAM-Wiki
projects:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by…
- *The editathon organizer training that is part of the Programs and
Events Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editathons
<https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editathons> *
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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Forwarding some good news.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Fernandez <wikigamaliel(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 7:13 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] Wikimedia DC: Knight Prototype Fund support for the
Wiki Art Depiction Explorer project
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Discussion
list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, The Wikipedia Library User Group Google
Group <WikiLibraryUG(a)googlegroups.com>
Wikimedia District of Columbia is proud to be the recipient of $50,000 in
support from the Knight Prototype Fund, an initiative of the John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation. Wikimedia DC will collaborate with the
Smithsonian Institution on a project called the "Wiki Art Depiction
Explorer", an effort to create an interface for museum visitors and other
art enthusiasts to crowdsource metadata about visual depictions in museum
artworks. Making this data more accurate and robust will allow further and
deeper discovery of these works by anyone in the world.
The project was created by three longtime Wikimedia DC volunteers: Andrew
Lih, author of The Wikipedia Revolution, Effie Kapsalis, Chief of Content &
Communications Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and Robert
Fernandez, member of the board of directors of Wikimedia DC. Andrew Lih
is currently in South Africa for Wikimania and looks forward to talking to
other Wikimedia volunteers about this project.
The aim of the Knight Prototype Fund is to support the development of
innovative ideas to use technology to engage people with the arts and
cultural institutions. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has
previously supported organizations and projects related to Wikimedia,
including the Wikimedia Foundation.
For the announcement from the Knight Foundation, see
https://knightfoundation.org/press/releases/knight-prototype-fund-awards-
projects-that-explore-avenues-for-connecting-people-with-
the-arts-through-tech
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Hi All,
I am really excited to share with you the opening of a new job working
within the Programs Team at the Wikimedia Foundation: a Program Officer
focused on GLAM and Underrepresented Heritage.
As part of orienting our team to better support the Wikimedia Movement
direction, we hope this role can help us to better support tactics and
strategies that are becoming important among emerging communities wanting
to get involved in GLAM programs -- including, for example, leveraging
digitization, WikiSource and Wiki Loves type events to document
marginalized knowledge. They will be working closely with our existing GLAM
team, including Alex Stinson and Sandra Fauconnier, to document and expand
the impact of GLAM partnership in the movement, and to help us advance the
larger Equity and Infrastructure goals of the movement direction.
We also hope that this role helps our team build increased depth of
experience with Wikimedia communities outside of North America and Europe,
where existing GLAM communities have a strong community of practice and
from which Sandra and Alex (and Ben, the Programs team director) have deep
backgrounds.
If you know someone who is enthusiastic about or has deep experience
facilitating GLAM-Wiki or similar community initiatives, please share the
job announcement with them:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1236692
Cheers,
Alex
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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM