Do you organize wiki events? Would you like to have a convenient tool that provides metrics about the impact of your events? Then you are a potential user of Event Metrics [1], a new tool under development. I’m writing now to find event organizes who can help us test the usability of this new metrics program, to make sure people such as yourself can understand and easily use its functions.
The test will involve a one-hour videoconference session with a design researchers, who will lead you through a series of tasks on the program and talk to you about how well the tool's user interface works for you and how it could be improved. Sessions will take place the second and third weeks of January.
If you’d like to help out, please email Daisy Chen, dchen[at]wikimedia.org, and let her know:
* The email address where you prefer to be reached.
* Your time zone
* General times when you prefer to meet (evenings, mornings, etc.)
Daisy will follow up to schedule a time. Thanks for helping to make Event Metrics a tool that event organizers will find empowering!
Joe
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Event_Metrics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Event_Metrics>
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Joe Matazzoni
Product Manager, Community Tech
Wikimedia Foundation
Bonjour à tou-te-s,
J'espère que vous allez bien.
Vous trouverez via ce lien un programme de bourse pour la conservation
inité par l'OFA avec une allocation de 6000$ et un mois de formation.
👉 https://bit.ly/2zvhqwS
Date limite de dépôt des candidatures : 08 janvier 2019
Bien à chacun(e),
*Mme Guébo Colette *
Responsable projet Glam-Wiki Civ
Hello all!
tl;dr Do you work for a cultural institution and have you contributed media
files from your collections to Wikimedia Commons? And/or are you interested
in crowdsourced metadata around your collections? Then consider filling in
this short survey.
Or are you a Wikimedia volunteer working on GLAM-Wiki projects? Then please
bring this survey to the attention of the GLAMs you work with! :-)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMnowgs8Zs_Qcbkdk20Sxk0ake0gZrQP8…
The questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
A bit more context:
Many Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs) upload media to
Wikimedia Commons. These media files help to enrich the experience of
Wikipedia articles and increase the reach of heritage collections. The
metadata of these media files are often augmented and enriched by the
volunteers of Wikimedia projects. These enrichments often do not find their
way back to the contributing GLAMs.
The Swedish National Heritage Board (www.raa.se), in collaboration with
museums in Sweden, are researching and prototyping a tool that makes it
easier to extract this enriched metadata. This questionnaire indexes the
use of third-party metadata in collection management systems in order to
determine the scope of the tool that is going to be developed.
The questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes to fill in. If you
have additional information or suggestions feel free to mail the researcher
(Maarten Zeinstra) at info(a)ip-squared.com.
*Privacy statement*
The information that you contribute to this questionnaire will only be used
for research purposes for the duration of the project. We will not keep or
distribute information about you or your institute unless you have given us
prior consent to do so.
This project is closely related to Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data). From early
2019, files on Wikimedia Commons can be enhanced with multilingual,
structured data from Wikidata (www.wikidata.org). The APIs of Wikimedia
Commons will become more refined as well, which makes it easier to feed
back improved metadata in a systematic way.
See project info from the Swedish Heritage Board:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons_Data_Roundtripping
Many thanks in advance for your help and input! :-)
With kind regards, Sandra
--
Sandra Fauconnier
Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia
communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hello everyone!
tl;dr Please fill in this short survey about how you like your GLAM-Wiki
documentation!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWcLNO6dyM11usIet29bGhEPtbA-01q04…
In 2019, the documentation for batch uploads of files to Wikimedia Commons
will be improved, on the occasion of Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
Before we start working on this, the GLAM team at the Wikimedia Foundation
wants to understand better which types of documentation you already use,
and how you like to learn new GLAM-Wiki skills and knowledge. To learn more
about this, I have created a short survey, which you can access here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWcLNO6dyM11usIet29bGhEPtbA-01q04…
The survey runs until November 30, 2018. It is most relevant for beginning
and active GLAM-Wiki volunteers, and for GLAM staff members who have (some)
hands-on experience with Wikimedia projects.
You can read the privacy statement at
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-Wiki_Documentation_Survey_Privac…
If you have any questions, please get in touch with me:
sfauconnier(a)wikimedia.org
Many thanks in advance! :-) Greetings, Sandra
Structured Data on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
--
Sandra Fauconnier
Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia
communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Forwarding to other email lists which may have subscribers who are
interested.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 8:05 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] The WikiCite 2018 program is live
To: <wikicite-discuss(a)wikimedia.org>, Discussion list for the Wikidata
project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The program of WikiCite 2018 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018>
(Berkeley, 27-29 November 2018) is now available
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018/Program>.
The plenary sessions and the tutorials will be recorded and we're looking
into the possibility of making a livestream available.
Dario -- on behalf of the organizing committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018#Organizing_committee>
wikicite(a)wikimedia.org
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Save the date for the 2019 LD4 Conference: May 10-11, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, at the Martin Conference Center<http://www.theconfcenter.hms.harvard.edu/> at Harvard Medical School. The LD4P initiative<http://www.ld4p.org/>, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is hosting this conference to bring together those who are passionate about the adoption of linked data in libraries.
We’re seeking volunteers to join the Program Committee and set the themes, goals, format, and content of the meeting, from the overall vision down to the details of the two-day agenda. Our beautiful venue accommodates up to 150 people, with flexibility for multiple simultaneous activities. The possibilities are wide open for the direction and nature of this meeting: What would be most valuable to you in a community meeting? How can this community gathering best advance the adoption of linked data in libraries? Join the Program Committee and shape an event you want to be part of!
To be on the Program Committee, you should plan on attending the conference in Boston on May 9 and 10, 2019, and be available for bi-weekly teleconference calls beginning in December. (Program Committee members will receive a stipend to offset the cost of attendance.)
Fill in this short form (https://goo.gl/forms/fEuYxOP4AkiV6dH93) by November 20 to join the Program Committee.
For those not joining the Program Committee, keep an eye out for a call for proposals and other announcements about the 2019 LD4 Conference!
Michelle Futornick (Stanford University) and Jason Kovari (Cornell University)
2019 LD4 Conference Co-Chairs