Hello all, and apologies for crossposting!
I hope you are doing well!
As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]:
the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand
the availability of knowledge about human rights online.
As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign
from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human
rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the
campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN
Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights. More
information about the campaign is also available here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of
several ways:
Help us build the list!
-
We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in
human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further
improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and
geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see
instructions at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_t…
Organize an online or offline event!
We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia
to:
-
Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more about
hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign
-
Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or
partners! To learn more, check out the kit here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon
Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day!
Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide
audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics)
soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign.
-
Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public
can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading
the word.
-
Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using
#WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we
increase the communication to the public on 10 December
If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space
#human-rights tag
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…>
or by emailing Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org and Luisina Ferrante <
educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar>
If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize
in the Organize sections linked above!
Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To
watch for those materials, add
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta
watchlist.
Have questions?
If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next
Tuesday
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/community-office-hour-wikiforhumanright…>,
or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…>
.
Looking forward to your engagement with the campaign!
Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation
Luisina Ferrante, Wikimedia Argentina
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-righ…
--
Alex Stinson
Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hello everyone,
As you might already know, Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation
runs a Community Wishlist Survey every year to identify the needs of active
Wikimedia contributors. 2020’s Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020> is focusing
on Wikimedia projects other than Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata, in order
to serve smaller projects. The Community Tech team will work on the top 5
proposals voted by the community.
Some of you might know me already but let me reintroduce myself. I am
Satdeep Gill and I work in the Community Programs (GLAM) team at the
Wikimedia Foundation, and my work is heavily focused on supporting
Wikisource, a digital library of public domain and freely-licensed
texts. While many languages written in latin and similar scripts have had
transcription projects such as Project Gutenberg running for many decades,
Wikisource is the only transcription platform for many languages,
especially those which use non-latin scripts.
I have been working on documenting various pain points and case studies
around Wikisource and I will be coordinating with the Community Tech team
if any of the Wikisource-related proposals
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource>
get voted among the top 5 in Community Wishlist 2020. Voting runs until
December 2, 2019.
Based on a workshop I participated in recently with the Indic community at Wiki
Advanced Training 2019
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wiki_Advanced_Training/2019>
organized by CIS-A2K <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K>, I have
created a list of top priorities for the Indic Wikisource community. This
might be useful to the global Wikisource/GLAM community in evaluating
Wishlist proposals, and I have identified specific proposals that closely
match these priorities. They are:
1.
Tools/scripts across various Wikisources - There are many scripts/tools
that exist on some Wikisources and not on others. There isn’t enough
documentation available to easily localize and integrate them in other
Wikisources. (Similar to the proposal
Migrate_Wikisource_specific_edit_tools_from_gadgets_to_Wikisource_extension
2020 proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource#M…>
)
2.
VisualEditor for Wikisource/Improving the Proofreading Interface -
Wikisource uses a lot of templates and VisualEditor for Wikisource needs to
be designed accordingly. (Similar to UI_improvements_on_Wikisource 2020
proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource#U…>
)
3.
Tool to integrate book viewing with pagelist creation and identity page
scan errors - the workflow for creating pagelist could be improved by an
integrated bookviewer for PDF/DJVU files improving the page identification
experience and allowing for adding/removing errored pages from a scanned
file. (Similar to the proposal Index creation wizard 2020 proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource#I…>
)
Check the entire report from the Wiki Advanced Training at the link given
below:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2019/Contents/W…
Besides these, it might be worthwhile to consider the following proposal
around supporting inter-wiki links on Wikisource:
-
Inter-language_link_support_via_Wikidata 2020 proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource#I…>
Once again, don't forget to vote on your favorite proposals before December
2, 2019 as the Community Tech team will be working on the top 5 voted
proposals.
Feel free to reach out to me at sgill(a)wikimedia.org, in case you want to
discuss any of the above, or to further discuss needs and strategies for
Wikisource.
---
Regards,
Satdeep
--
Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Underrepresented Knowledge
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello all!
I want to give a brief update on the WikiForHumanRights Campaign which
began its soft launch last Friday! We are already seeing multiple online
events starting and several in person editathons. Special thank you to the
communities in Argentina and Armenia who are already editing! Looking
forward to more activities being shared at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize
Also, Wikimedia Argentina created a kit for working with partners to run in
person events for Human Rights! Check it out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Sensitive
Additionally, we updated the communications toolkit for the campaign at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share .
We are going to begin increasing Social Media starting around December
10th! As you see the campaign being talked about from @Wikimedia and on the
hashtag #WikiForHumanRights -- we need your help to share it.
If you have any questions or are considering organizing an event, please
let us know.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 2:36 PM
Subject: WikiForHumanRights: Help us Organize the Campaign, November
15-January 30
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia &
GLAM collaboration [Public] <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Mailing list for
African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia &
Libraries <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimania 2019 <
wikimania19(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: Luisina Ferrante <educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar>
Hello all, and apologies for crossposting!
I hope you are doing well!
As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]:
the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand
the availability of knowledge about human rights online.
As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign
from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human
rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the
campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN
Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights. More
information about the campaign is also available here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of
several ways:
Help us build the list!
-
We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in
human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further
improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and
geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see
instructions at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_t…
Organize an online or offline event!
We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia
to:
-
Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more about
hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign
-
Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or
partners! To learn more, check out the kit here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon
Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day!
Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide
audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics)
soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign.
-
Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public
can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading
the word.
-
Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using
#WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we
increase the communication to the public on 10 December
If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space
#human-rights tag
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…>
or by emailing Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org and Luisina Ferrante <
educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar>
If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize
in the Organize sections linked above!
Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To
watch for those materials, add
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta
watchlist.
Have questions?
If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next
Tuesday
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/community-office-hour-wikiforhumanright…>,
or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…>
.
Looking forward to your engagement with the campaign!
Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation
Luisina Ferrante, Wikimedia Argentina
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-righ…
--
Alex Stinson
Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
--
Alex Stinson
Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hello colleagues,
I have resumed work on my video tutorial project for Wikipedia and the
sister sites. I am hoping that eventually there will be video tutorials
and/or interactive tutorials in multiple languages, but for now I am
focusing on producing a small number of videos for English Wikipedia to
test the process and to get feedback from the community. These videos will
be designed for "organic" new users who become active on Wikipedia without
first being involved in a formal program that provides guidance for new
contributors, but I think that the videos may also be useful for formal
Wikimedia program organizers to share with their participants.
A project space is live on Outreach Wiki:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/NavWiki. I invite you to look at the
organization of the space and let me know if you have any feedback.
Comments and questions may be left on the project talk page
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:NavWiki>.
I am hoping to publish two videos for English Wikipedia by the end of 2019,
and to collect feedback on them until at least January 2020 before deciding
on significant next steps. If the feedback is positive then then I hope to
produce more videos in the future and/or to adapt the videos for additional
languages.
If you would like to sign up for the project newsletter, you can do that at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tutorials_N….
Regards,
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Wow, this is a nice one! BHL is a great partner of the Internet Archive
and a precious source for countless Wikipedia articles and Wikimedia pages.
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/11/now-hiring-program-manager.html
Federico
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Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] Job Opportunity - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Program Manager
Data: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 16:05:44 +0000
Mittente: "Hutchinson, Alvin"
Please excuse cross-posting.
The Smithsonian Institution is looking for a program manager for the
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL).
This is a federal position located in Washington, D.C.
More about the position is attached or available here:
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/11/now-hiring-program-manager.html
A brief summary follows:
Headquartered at the Smithsonian Institution, the Biodiversity Heritage
Library<https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org> (BHL) is the world’s
largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and
archives. Through the collaborative efforts of a global
consortium<https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/about/bhl-consortium/>
of over 80 natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries,
BHL provides free access to over 57 million pages from hundreds of
thousands of volumes, representing over 500 years of scientific
exploration, discovery, and data. Working closely with the international
community of biodiversity data providers and natural history collection
service organizations, including GBIF<https://www.gbif.org/>,
CoL<https://www.catalogueoflife.org/>, CETAF<https://cetaf.org/>,
TDWG<https://www.tdwg.org/>, EOL<https://eol.org/> and
iDigBio<https://www.idigbio.org/>, BHL is part of the core
infrastructure for biodiversity research and data. As an important
contributor to this global network, BHL helps equip researchers with the
information they need to tackle today’s biodiversity, environmental, and
climate crises.
The announcement on USAJobs.gov is here:
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/550897300
Please spread the word.
Alvin
Alvin Hutchinson
Smithsonian Libraries
202.633.1031
Have you seen Smithsonian Profiles<https://profiles.si.edu/>?