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/…
--
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…
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
This is a reminder that the Wikimedia Language team's office hour is
happening later today (details at the end).
Please note, our agenda has been updated and today we will have a guest
speaker from the Tamil Wikipedia - Ravishankar A
<https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D…>,
who will talk about a campaign
<https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95…>
(page
written in Tamil) that is currently underway to create new articles of high
quality using Content Translation. The Tamil community also has a help page
and a video
<https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF:%E0%AE%8…>
(page
written in Tamil) to help new users learn the tool.
Do let me know if you would like to join in the discussion via our hangout.
You can also ask questions over IRC (check the details below) or over email.
Thanks
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session
# When: June 27, 2017 (Tuesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170627T1300)
# Where: IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Euhu4Q7HF4
# Agenda:
- Ravishankar A from Tamil Wikipedia talks about a state-wide
translation campaign using Content Translation.
- Updates from the Language team and Q & A.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:58 PM
Subject: WMF Language team office hour and online meeting on June 27, 2017
(Tuesday) at 1300 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia & GLAM
collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is
scheduled for Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 at 13:00 UTC. This will be an open
session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects.
This session is going to be an online discussion over Google
Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the
limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots
are available. Hence, do please let us know in advance if you would like to
join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during
the session.
Our last online round-table session was held in March 2017. You can watch
the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DWXTRl5ZEk
Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
session links and do let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session
# When: June 27, 2017 (Tuesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170627T1300)
# Where: IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=8Euhu4Q7HF4
# Agenda:
Updates from the Language team and Q & A.
--
Language Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
--
Language Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is
scheduled for Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 at 13:00 UTC. This will be an open
session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects.
This session is going to be an online discussion over Google
Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the
limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots
are available. Hence, do please let us know in advance if you would like to
join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during
the session.
Our last online round-table session was held in March 2017. You can watch
the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DWXTRl5ZEk
Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
session links and do let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session
# When: June 27, 2017 (Tuesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170627T1300)
# Where: IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Euhu4Q7HF4
# Agenda:
Updates from the Language team and Q & A.
--
Language Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi Arne,
I'm currently preparing a big upload of medieval manuscripts for he KB (using the glamwiki toolset), I'm using the Book and Artwork templates for that. Let's have a call or a visit about how to optimize the possibilities of these templates, I'm looking to improve as well.
I'm away next week, but in the week after my agenda is pretty open.
In the meantime you could check out "Digitised version of the Beyeren Armorial" and "Trivulzio" (not sure of the exact category names, pls search on Commons) to get an idea of how I used the templates so far.
On Dutch Wikipedia, I already created an {{Manuscript}} infobox template
Best regards,
Olaf Janssen
KB
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Today's Topics:
1. Metadata of digitized manuscripts (Arne Wossink)
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Hey all,
I'm helping out with an upload of digitized manuscripts. We were discussing
the metadata that come with those, and there were some issues that weren't
covered by any of the existing useful templates (book or artwork). However,
I would still prefer to use an existing template instead of building
something from different fields. Does anyone have experience with uploading
manuscripts and associated metadata to Commons, and can point me to some
examples of how specific problems were solved?
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
Hey all,
I'm helping out with an upload of digitized manuscripts. We were discussing
the metadata that come with those, and there were some issues that weren't
covered by any of the existing useful templates (book or artwork). However,
I would still prefer to use an existing template instead of building
something from different fields. Does anyone have experience with uploading
manuscripts and associated metadata to Commons, and can point me to some
examples of how specific problems were solved?
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
Forwarding from the Wikidata Weekly Summary:
https://ndsrbhl.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/the-role-of-librarians-in-wikidata…
Quoting from the blog post: "As WikiCite continues to grow, it will be
interesting to follow how (hopefully not whether!) the community integrates
GLAM metadata. Generating Linked Open Data citations has the potential to
connect objects and concepts with information resources to create context
for more accurate and interesting digital representations of knowledge and
cultural heritage. And more complete and complex graphs are better at
supporting deeper investigations, queries, and visualizations of these data
across repositories, collections, and knowledge bases."
Pine
Hello everyone,
As part of the new strategy of Creative Commons (which you can read about
here:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/24/cc-community-releases-movement-strat…),
CC is now opening the discussion over "platforms", which are defined areas
of work where people can join to collaborate and work together.
This is an ongoing discussion and platforms are supposed to be approved by
next year, when the new governance structure takes place. I've been
conducting the discussion regarding the need (or not) of CC having an Open
GLAM platform, and some of you have been commenting on the document that
outlines the main ideas (the doc. is still open for comments):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19hFvtDFPZU-FHWmnXaLX5TP9eR7h_Iou-6Cc4Wl…
We have now opened a mailing list, in case you want to join us on the
discussion:
https://creativecommons.email/mailman/listinfo/openglam
Please, feel free to comment on the document and share the mailing list
widely!
Thanks,
Evelin / Scann