Hi folks,
This past Sunday WikimediaNYC had the opportunity of training on Wikidata,
courtesy of user emw. His slide presentation is here:
http://www.slideshare.net/_emw/up-and-running-with-wikidata
His nutshell summary: Wikidata is a way to bring structured data to
Wikimedia projects.
Although I knew a little about Wikidata already, his presentation and
personal revelation ("I almost never edit Wikipedia now; all my editing is
on Wikidata") convinced me that I have to be more active on Wikidata (at
least now I know how to begin being more active).
So I'm wondering whether there are any GLAM projects that regularly
undertake Wikidata editing/integration as part of their activities.
Other suggested activities from WM/NYC meeting are listed here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC#Activities_for_the_Wikid…
If you've never done any Wikidata, I highly recommend the Wikidata Game:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/
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Dear all,
for two years now, Wikimedia Deutschland runs the project GLAM on tour (
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMonTour), which fosters
relationships between GLAM volunteers and cultural heritage institutions.
On the latest tour station in the city of Brilon, we had a film produced
that illustrates how cultural heritage institutions and GLAM volunteers
work together on a local level. Here it is:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_on_GLAM-Tour_Kulturkooper…
We wanted to illustrate how cultural cooperations with GLAMs can be
started, motivate volunteers to engage in GLAM activities themselves and
examplify for cultural institutions, how an editathon or other activities
with Wikipedians might look like.
Please feel free to add subtitles (German and English already available),
or get in touch with us . We love to get your comments, feed back and
questions.
Best,
Barbara & Lilli
Barbara Fischer
Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Jeweils persönlich von Montag bis Donnerstag für Sie erreichbar
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-(0)44
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Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
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[sorry for cross-posting]
Hi there,
maybe some of you have seen it already: Wikimedia Deutschland, the German
Commission for UNESCO and North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre
just published a guide on how to correctly use Creative Commons licenses.
You can read all about it here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/09/using-licenses-easy-and-legal/.
The guide also has a pretty nice Meta page (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Content_-_A_Practical_Guide_to_Using_C…)
where you can read the full text or download the PDF. Thanks to Jean-Fred
for turning on the translation tool! I am looking forward to the guide
being available in many, many languages.
If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch with me via
e-mail or the talk page on Meta (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Open_Content_-_A_Practical_Guide_to_Us…
).
Best,
Katja
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Telefon 030 - 219 158 26-0
www.wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hello,
next week-end, Wikimedia Spain, with six science museums from five different cities in Spain, organizes an edit-a-thon about Spanish scientists and inventors. This is a collaboration with FECYT (Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología). The museums who participate are:
*MUNCYT, La Coruña*MUNCYT, Alcobendas (Madrid)*Museo de la Ciencia, Valladolid*Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid*Casa de la Ciencia, Logroño*Casa de la Ciencia, Sevilla
we could involve volunteers for every museum. There wil be different activities and the edit-a-thon will run on Saturday and in some museums also on Sunday.
FECYT freely shared 104 portraits of Spanish scientists on Wikimedia Commons.[3]
There is a coordination page on Spanish Wikipedia [1] and Galician Wikipedia [2]
The hashtag of the event is #WikimaratónCiencia and we invite you to participate on-line and to spread the word. This activity, in five different cities and six different museums the same week-end is a new challenge for us.
Thanks
[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Wikimarat%C3%B3n_Cient%C…https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimarat%C3%B3n_Cient%C3%ADfico_20…https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_of_scientists_released_b…
Santiago NavarroWikimedia España
Sorry for crossposting:Help one of the best volunteer photographers in Wikimedia Commons restore his stolen equipment.
Diego Delso is known as Poco a poco in Wikimedia Commons. In case you don't know, Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository where anyone can share freely-licensed content with everyone. Wikipedia uses Wikimedia Commons as it's image repository, so, in fact, most of the times you view an image in Wikipedia, you are actually viewing a Wikimedia Commons image.While Diego is just one of the thousands of Wikimedia Commons volunteers, he is a very special one: he's one of the main Commons contributors ever, having some amazing records, such as being the user with the highest amount of Featured Pictures ever (153 images) and also the one with the highest amount of quality images ever, with 5,777 Quality Images. That's an awesome amount of very high quality material, that Diego has given to every living person for free.Never heard about Wikimedia Commons? It's the repository that hosts allmultimedia files that you can see (and download) in Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects. Diego's files are used in those projects and are also available for everybody else with a free license.Furthermore, Diego has contributed in Wikimedia Commons in other ways. One of them is by supporting (by being an organizer or a jury) two of the most importantphotographic contests in the Wikimedia movement (and in the world!): Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth.Sadly, while Diego was in Buenos Aires after participating in a Wikimedia Iberoamerican Encounter with other Wikimedia volunteers, he got his equipment stolen. In this unfortunate event, he didn't only lost his camera, zoom lenses and laptop, but also every single picture he took during his 2 weeks trip in South America, which he was going to upload to Wikimedia Commons so they could be used by everyone, everywhere.As Wikimedia volunteers and Diego's friends, we could not stand aside of this, so we decided to help him to restore his equipment. You can help, too, by contributing to this campaign!Our goal is simple: to collect enough money to help Diego to buy exactly the same equipment he lost.All the gear he lost in Argentina is described below, with a reference to the price from Amazon for the same equipment.TipoModeloPreçoCamera bodyCanon EOS 5D Mark II$ 2,694.00Objective fisheye f/4.0Canon EF 8-15mm L USM$ 1,349.00Objective wide-angle f/4.0Canon EF 17-40mm L USM$ 839.00Objective wide-angle to telephoto f/4.0Canon EF 24-105mm L IS UVM$ 1,149.00LaptopAcer Aspire 1810T$ 600.00Total$ 6,631.00
Converted to Euro (since Diego is based in Europe) that goes to 5,300 Euro + 200 euro of Indiegogo fee, which is our target to collect.
This campaign is runned on indiegogo.com and the link is https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/funding-a-new-gear-for-wm-photographer-p…
You can use the short link http://igg.me/at/pocoapoco in social networks
Thank you
Santi Navarro