Hi all,
As we have stated in our annual plan [1], “currently, community members
must search many pages and places to stay informed about Foundation
activities and resources.” We have worked in the past two quarters to
create a single point of entry. We call it the Wikimedia Resource Center,
and its alpha version is now live on Meta Wikimedia:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center
As the movement expands to include more affiliates and more programmatic
activities every year, newer Wikimedians are faced with lack of experience
in the movement and its various channels for requesting support. In order
to expand Wikimedia communities’ efforts, we want to provide easy access to
resources that support their very important work. The [[m:Wikimedia
Resource Center]] is a hub designed in response to this issue: it is
intended to evolve into a single point of entry for Wikimedians all over
the world to the variety of resources and types of staff support they may
need to develop new initiatives or also expand existing ones.
This version of the Resource Center is only the beginning. For phase two of
the project, we will enable volunteer Wikimedians to add resources
developed by other individuals or organizations to the Wikimedia Resource
Center, and in phase three, the Wikimedia Resource Center will include
features to better connect Wikimedians to other Wikimedians that can
support them.
We want to hear what you think about this prototype and our plans for it!
If you have comments about the Wikimedia Resource Center, you can submit
your feedback publicly, on the Talk Page, or privately, via a survey hosted
by a third party, that shouldn’t take you more than 4 minutes to complete.
A feedback button is on the top right corner on every page of the hub.
Looking forward to more collaborations!
Best,
María
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/…
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María Cruz
Communications and Outreach Project Manager, Community Engagement
Hey everyone,
apologies for the cross-posting, we're just too excited:
we're looking for a new member for our team [0], who'll dive right away in
the promising Structured Data project. [1]
Is our future colleague hiding among the tech ambassadors, translators,
GLAM people, community members we usually work with? We look forward to
finding out soon.
So please, check the full job description [2], apply, or tell/recommend
anyone who you think may be a good fit. For any questions, please contact
me personally (not here).
Thanks!
Elitre (WMF)
Senior Community Liaison, Technical Collaboration
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Liaisons
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[2]
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/610643?gh_src=o3gjf21#.WMGV0Rih…
Hey all,
Romaine will be reminding us soon that its time to write "This Month in
GLAM" reports: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom
To get you thinking about those, I wanted to throw out a question to get
your idea's flowing:
What have you learned or makes you optimistic about GLAM-Wiki and OpenGLAM
in the last month?
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:
http://glamwiki.org
(English below)
Fotocollectie over Syrië op Wikimedia Commons
Syrië is al jarenlang het toneel van een bloedige burgeroorlog waarin al
honderdduizenden doden vielen, miljoenen mensen zijn gevlucht en hele
steden zijn verwoest. De recent aan Wikimedia Commons gedoneerde foto’s uit
de collectie van het Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen laten een ander
beeld zien. Deze foto’s, voor een groot deel gemaakt in de jaren ‘80, tonen
mensen die bezig zijn met hun dagelijkse werk, straatbeelden van steden die
inmiddels door oorlog verwoest zijn, en kunst- en andere objecten uit de
collectie van het museum. Juist het historische karakter van de foto’s
maakt deze collectie waardevol voor Wikimedia Commons. De upload bestaat
uit 352 foto’s en kan hier
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_of_Syria_from_Nationaal_…>
geraadpleegd worden. De upload valt samen met een fototentoonstelling in
het NMvW over Aleppo
<https://tropenmuseum.nl/nl/tentoonstelling-Aleppo?_ga=2.114503566.822778666…>
.
Photos of Syria on Wikimedia Commons
For years, Syria has been the scene of a bloody civil war resulting in
hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, and the destruction
of entire cities. The recent image donation by the Nationaal Museum van
Wereldculturen (the National Museum of World Cultures) in the Netherlands
shows another Syria. Many of these photos were taken in the 1980s and show
scenes of daily life and images and cities not yet devestated by war. Other
images show objects from the collection of the museum. Together, they form
a valuable resource on Syria for the various Wikimedia projects. The upload
consists of 352 photos in total and can be accessed here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_of_Syria_from_Nationaal_…>.
It coincides with a photo exhibition in the NMvW on Aleppo
<https://tropenmuseum.nl/en/exhibition/aleppo-2017>.
Kind regards,
Arne Wossink
Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
*(Werkdagen: maandag, dinsdag, donderdag / Office hours: Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday)*
Tel. +31 (0)6 11000505
E-mail: wossink(a)wikimedia.nl
*Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:*
Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3
3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht
Hi all,
As best practice we usually encourage GLAMs to provide as many metadata as
possible for media donations. However, providing these metadata and
"wikifying" them (for examply as part of an upload using Pattypan) can be
quite a bit of work, either for a Wikimedian or a GLAM volunteer/staff
member.
Do we have any case studies outlining immediate benefits of providing more
metadata? For example, does providing more metadata lead to better uptake
of images in articles on WP?
Best
Arne Wossink
Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
*(Werkdagen: maandag, dinsdag, donderdag / Office hours: Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday)*
Tel. +31 (0)6 11000505
E-mail: wossink(a)wikimedia.nl
*Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:*
Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3
3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht
Hello everyone,
This email is to let you know some of the outcomes of CC's Global Summit
(held in April in Toronto). As some of you may know, Creative Commons is
launching this year a new strategy to grow the community and also to be
more effective in helping institutions to release their content.
As part of these efforts, we had a session over "An Open GLAM platform" for
CC in the Summit. The notes and first dfrat of how this platform could work
in the network are here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19hFvtDFPZU-FHWmnXaLX5TP9eR7h_Iou-6Cc4Wl…
Alex has been providing some comments, but I think that it would be quite
useful from some of the folks that are here also to make any comments,
suggestions, wether in the doc or contacting me personally.
And for those of you who are interested, you can join us next Monday (May
22th) to a call that we'll be having at 12 pm UTC-3 here:
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/qtnvedissfem5m5ktgrbxabb7ie to
discuss how to move forward this platform. Your comments and attendance are
most welcome!
Best,
Scann
Forwarding.
Pine
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From: James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:41 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Automatic citation lookup now supports ISBNs, thanks
to OCLC
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey all,
I'm delighted to announce here that you can now use ISBNs to add
automatically-generated citations to Wikipedia. This is thanks to a
partnership with OCLC, a global non-profit library cooperative, whose
WorldCat database of books is the largest in the world.
One of the editing features for which we've had the most praise is the tool
to generate citations. This tool, started back in 2014, allows you to type
in a URL, DOI, or PMCID and have it suggest a filled-in citation. Making it
quicker and easier for new and existing editors alike to do the right thing
is a key part of our work.
However, Wikimedians love our books, and the most-requested feature was to
add to this the most common identifier for books, ISBNs. I know that a few
wikis built their own custom gadgets to do this, but I felt that we should
provide a proper, reliable tool that works on mobile as well as desktop
platforms, for all users and in all languages.
Over the past while, we agreed a partnership with OCLC to provide this data
for editors to use, to make referencing stronger and clearer for our
readers around the world. Identifiers for books will help them find further
information on topics that catch their interest, using our long-standing
BookSources tool and OCLC's WorldCat database.
This is now live on all wikis which have Citoid set up. If your wiki
doesn't have it, we'd love to help your community out – ask on the talk page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki>.
You can read more in the blog post
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/11/wikimedia-oclc-partnership/>, and of
course I'd love for you to try it out on a wiki that's configured with it
near you.
My very big thanks to OCLC, in particularly Merrilee Proffitt, and to my
colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, particularly Marielle Volz, Marko
Obrovac, and Jake Orlowitz, for making this possible.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Lead Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester at wikimedia.org
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Hi all,
I am the process of drafting a navigational tool for learning about case
studies for different kinds of GLAM-Wiki tactics to pair with the digital
collections portal I created last fall (
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Digitization ). The new sub-portal is
at: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Sharing_Knowledge .
For one of the sections, I would like to profile GLAM + Education projects;
I hear about them, but can't find very much documentation: where are these
documented for your community?
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:
http://glamwiki.org