sorry for cross posting:
on the 5th of July this year edition of Coding da Vinci ended in Berlin. 20
projects presented their new apps, soft- and hardware (sic!) to the jury
based on 47 datasets including more than 600 thousand media files. We have
started to upload the files on Commons here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Coding_da_Vinci:_Der_Kultur-Hac…
But we certainly need help to really get them all integrated. Please help
us and check them out here:
http://codingdavinci.de/daten/
In case of any question, come back to me.
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Hi Virginia,
Glad to hear the donations are appreciated... and good luck on your PD-mission!
Best,
Olaf
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Thank you Olaf, this kind of donations are wonderful examples for other countries too. I've just reported it to Italian libraries major list, after a discussion some weeks ago about a regional digital library [1] and its choice of CC BY-NC-SA licenses insted of PD.
It's a long road for us...
bye
virginia https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Virginia_Gentilini
[1] http://bibliotecadigitale.regione.liguria.it
Fae, thanks for the suggestions and pointing out some tools & groups I was not yet aware of, I'll go and check them out. Yesterday I happened to stumble on the VisualFileChange tool, which I find highly useful for post-upload cleanup & housekeeping.
Best regards,
Olaf
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Nice work.
Scans of maps/atlantes are some of the highest resolution images that most Wikimedia Commons users might have reason to browse. They are a good test of systems, especially the in-built zoom viewer!
I have sub-categorized collections by careful pre-processing of the XML files that feed into the GLAMwiki toolset. In practice there is little harm in getting on with a batch upload without categorization being fully worked out, so long as some thought (and resources) are put into "housekeeping" tasks in the days after upload. You may want to add some of the top categories to the GLAM dashboard[1] so that you can easily track and report on usage and volunteer engagement. The simplest recommendation I make for volunteer categorizers, is to read up on cat-a-lot and work out how to use the "insource:" option for searches. Adding hundreds of images to a category, or moving them between categories then becomes a quick and simple.[2][3]
Perhaps one other thing I would like to suggest as an improvement is approaching the community on the Map workshop[4] and seeing if some volunteers would like to suggest a best practice for adding geocoordinates to the images, possibly creating a volunteer backlog to check these by hand.
Links
1. GLAM Dashboard https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/GLAM_dashboard
2. Advanced Commons searching https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch
3. VisualFileChange tool
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:VisualFileChange.js
4. Map workshop
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop
Thanks,
Fae
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Hello, you may remember the WMIT WIR at BEIC; if not, see links in
English. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BEIC
Last week, the 10 months collaboration came to an end; I published a
lenghty report/case study in Italian. TL;DR: free software developed, 10
BEIC staff contributing, a thousand images uploaded, 6500 usages, 400
articles created, 4 millions accesses/month.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/BEIC/2015-07
The partnership between WMIT and BEIC will actually continue, but I'll
have a non-BEIC job at WMIT and a non-wiki job at BEIC. So I'll do
little/no editing for BEIC; probably some planning, training, uploading
and maybe coding. Maybe WMIT will keep providing BEIC a wiki editor and
invoice for it, maybe not.
I have some requests from you! I hope you can help.
1) Comments on the past months, e.g. based on the monthly updates or
brutal numbers.
2) Suggestions on what is worth translating of the report. There are
passages trying to push institutions to free software, open data, public
domain, community consultation, involvement of staff. Someone liked my
metaphor "be like mushroom, not sequoias". But maybe this is all covered
better elsewhere already?
3) Recommendations on how to update
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence . Should I
still be listed there, or call the WIR done? Where to record the
WMIT-BEIC partnership?
4) Lessons from other partnerships with institutions having an in-house
wikimedian not doing wiki work. (Other than Sannita/Luca at ICCU...)
Perhaps Scotland, Netherlands and Switzerland have more to say as AFAICT
they are all moving towards a permanent team serving multiple
institutions à la traveling WIR, like WMIT.
Nemo
P.s.: Sorry for cross-posting but I think it's better than many
overlapping messages; if possible reply on each list to the parts
relevant for that list and cc only me, not all the other lists.
Hello all,
As part of my residency at Museums Galleries Scotland, I'll be making some video guides to (editing) Wikipedia, incorporating some screencasts of training sessions I deliver. This can't be the first time that this has been done! If anyone's got links to anything they've done before, any that they know of, or just has any hints/tips, I'd be most grateful!
All the best & thanks in advance!Sara
Wikimedian in ResidenceMuseums Galleries Scotlandhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Museums_Galleries_Scot…
As Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society of Chemistry, I'm
working with our Wikiquote colleagues to raise awareness of that
project, though a competition:
http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw/2015/07/09/quotable-chemistry-a-chemistry-…
to source quotes about chemistry. Your participation would be welcome.
I also wonder if this is the first time that a Wiki[p|m]edian in
Residence has worked with Wikiqoite?
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
