I am hosting some editathons:
Thurs 28 May, Birmingham:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry/BH-…
at Birmingham Museums Collection centre (only rarely open to the
public!). We'll enjoy a 'backstage tour and the opportunity to
photograph objects, as well,of course, writing articles.
Weds 29 July, London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry/BH-…
in the library of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The focus will be
on chemistry-related topics; including both scientific and
non-scientific content (the latter including biographies, for
example).
Sat 8 August, North Cheshire
Watch this space (and keep the date free)!
In each case, lunch and refreshments will be provided; there will be
support for new editors (maybe you can help?) and we'll work on sister
projects such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource, as well
as Wikipedia.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Hi everyone,
To summarize (some of) the results of my Wikipedian in Residence project of last year <https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Expedities>, a web application was built and launched yesterday: http://www.expeditiewikipedia.nl/ <http://www.expeditiewikipedia.nl/>
It's a geographic visualization tool for a series of historical events, linked to Wikipedia. My WiR project was about expeditions, and this web tool puts these expeditions, their Wikipedia articles and/or Commons images 'on the map’, as a journey.
The best examples of Wikipedia and Commons integration are in the Dutch-language expeditions in the application.
It's a pilot, and the source code is open sourced on Github - https://github.com/ndkv/vm ... feel free to download, tweak, investigate, contact me and/or the developer if you have questions :-)
Many greetings, Sandra (User:Spinster)
Hello. Wikimedia Spain and the Asociación de Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Jaca, with the support of Jaca city council and the Diocesan Museum of Jaca, organize an edit-a-thon about the French route of the St. James Way in Aragón. The edit-a-thon will be run on 15 May. St. James Way is a cultural heritage site by UNESCO. Maybe, with the WiR of John at this institution more edit-a-thons about that could be hold.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editat%C3%B3n_Camino_de_…
Regards
Santi NavarroWikimedia Spain
Hi friends,
Mark Fonseca has only recently published his English podcast
<http://www.podcastchart.com/podcasts/source-code-berlin-mp4-audio/episodes/…>
on Coding da Vinci the GLAM hackathon in Berlin. WMDE runs this hackathon
together with Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, digiS and OKF Deutschland.
Already 150 hackers did screen the 45 datasets from GLAM institutions all
of them under free license. 18 projects are on the hack dash
<http://hackdash.org/dashboards/cdv15>. Please help us to upload the data
<http://codingdavinci.de/daten/> to Wikimedia Commons. And feel free to
join the programming competition ongoing until the awards in July. More
information on the hackathons own web page
<http://codingdavinci.de/english-infos/>.
Ready for your comments, questions and proposals.
best regards
Barbara Fischer
Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
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