Hey Sam,
Great timing on the questions about tools!
I recently published a framework for organizing campaigns that describes
the existing tools used for different stages in Campaigns:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Organizer_Framework . [1] If you
or your volunteers helping with metrics want to talk through the various
metrics options and what you would like to measure, I would be happy to
workshop those ideas with you. We are still piloting the framework -- so
testing those parts with you would be great -- I would love to learn where
you have other questions.
Cheers,
Alex
[1] Learn more about why at:
https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/09/24/help-the-movement-learn-about-content-…
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 1:20 PM Sam Oyeyele <samoye_(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Apologies for cross-posting. After a successful first iteration of the
> “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will
> be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition
> of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8
> languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons,
> which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the
> contest to over 1,000. About 9 in-person events were also organised for the
> edit-a-thon in different parts of the world.
>
> The contest is organized by a Wikimedia project called "The AfroCine
> Project",[1] which is dedicated to improving the coverage of the history,
> works, people, places, and events, that are associated with the cinema,
> theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the Caribbean, and the
> diaspora.
>
> If you would love to join this exciting event, please list your username
> as a participant on the English Wikipedia contest page.[2] If you would
> love to lead this contest for your country or community, please list your
> name in the coordinators page here.[3] The rapid grants team would be
> accepting proposals throughout October and November, in case you'd need
> funds to run local edit-a-thons or some other activities related to this
> event. Upon listing your name on the coordinators' page, you'd be contacted
> to talk about the resources you'd need to run the event in your community.
> You can also contact me directly for any clarifications.
>
> Finally, We also need volunteers to handle some aspects of the AfroCine
> project. These aspects include:
>
> 1. Community Liaison: This role essentially involves closely engaging with
> local communities to support their activities within the scope of Afrocine.
>
> 2. Communications: This involves the communications aspects of the
> project. Sharing relevant information on mailing lists and social media
> would be the responsibility of this person.
>
> 3. MAC Jury: This role involves joining the jury of Months of African
> Cinema contest. We need as many people as we can get :).
>
> 4. Tools: Going forward, we would need relevant tools to better track the
> metrics and also analyse the general impact of these events. We are calling
> for Wikimedia volunteers who can navigate wikimedia tools that can be
> useful for the project.
>
> If you would love to help with any of these roles, or some other roles
> that have not been mentioned, please contact me directly.
>
> If you have further questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach
> out to me personally or right here on the mailing list or the project
> talkpages.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Sam Oyeyele.
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_AfroCine_Project
> [2]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
> [3]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Coordinators
>
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Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
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Hello everyone,
Apologies for cross-posting, and please forward to communities who you
think will be interested.
In light of the movement’s increased focus on diversity and becoming
essential infrastructure for diverse human knowledge, the Community
Programs team at the WMF has begun investigating the use of content
campaigns in the movement. Campaigns are some of the most reliable ways to
create new content and introduce new contributors to the movement, but we
have a lot of questions like:
What are the different steps that our community organizers have to go
through in order to organize campaigns and contests such as Wiki Loves
Monuments, Wikipedia Asian Month, #1lib1ref Wikidata Menu Challenge etc.?
What are the tools that are being used in organizing these campaigns and
contests such as PetScan, Listeria, CitationHunt, Fountain, wscontest tool,
Outreach Dashboard etc.?
During some initial research into the space, we have developed a draft
Organizer
Framework <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Organizer_Framework>[1]
that highlights key stages in organizing any campaign/contest and the
documentation that we could find supporting those stages.
Now, we need your help us improve the framework so that we can help less
experienced organizers understand how to better support content campaigns.
Please join us in discussing the framework and provide feedback on the talk
page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Campaigns/Organizer_Frame…>[2]
or connect with us on the discuss forum.[3]
If you want to reach out directly, feel free to email us at
astinson(a)wikimedia.org or sgill(a)wikimedia.org.
Thanks,
Alex Stinson and Satdeep Gill
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Organizer_Framework
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Campaigns/Organizer_Framework
[3]
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/feedback-on-content-campaigns-framework…
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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
Hi all,
So far in Ireland, we have only had one institution donate images to
Commons, and that was the Hunt Museum with the Sybil Connolly images
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Collections_of_the_Hunt_Museum>.
I know how to find stats for individual files on Commons, but is there a
way to get stats for a group or collection of images?
Thanks so much!
Rebecca
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PhD in Digital Media
Project Coordinator Wikimedia Community Ireland <http://wikimedia.ie>
Hi Wikipedians,
Has Wikipedia ever done a Wiki loves the Caribbean, El Caribe, or a similar campaign?
I know that the Caribbean encompasses a variety of Wikipedia geographical organizations – including the U.S.! – so I wondered how they have been represented in larger campaigns.
Also thinking of this as WikiConference America approaches. Just a musing from me, loving learning about others work, too!
Best wishes,
Laura
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Laura Jenemann
Communication, Media, & Film Librarian
Boston University Libraries
617-353-9240
ljeneman(a)bu.edu<mailto:ljeneman@bu.edu>
On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 11:50, Biyanto Rebin
<biyanto.rebin(a)wikimedia.or.id> wrote:
> We are happy to announce that Wikimedia Indonesia will collaborate with
> Indonesian Air Force to provide free access for their museum collection to
> wider audiences.
Great news - well done!
> We are starting to upload and provide the QR code to their collection.
Can you confirm that you will be using QRpedia?
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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