Hi Terry,
I understand your comments, and I agree that online workshops may not work
for senior participants. In this project, the workshops, apart from
training a relatively small group, are meant to provide feedback,
consultation, and networking.
However, the final product - the "text book" may suit a range of Wiki
education scenarios, and hopefully help people leading / teaching wiki
skills to diverse groups.
I also suppose that this particular project is directed mainly at young
people. I underlined the fact that in my country, no level of school or
university education includes media education, internet literacy, open vs
closed data and so on.
Most young people can use social media - but using reliable sources,
contributing to open access knowledge and visual documenation, knowing how
to use materials submitted by other people - is a different matter. The
goal of this particular project is to hopefully raise the awareness and
skill level there, and to prepare teaching and encouragement material that
can help.
Best regards,
Marta M Moraczewska
śr., 16 mar 2022, 19:04 użytkownik Terry Jackson <info(a)thisweekmedia.com>
napisał:
> Hi Jane
>
> Anything to help publicise Wikipedia training and we'd like to use it
> ourselves to tackle digital exclusion. The aim is to create incentives for
> 55+ year-olds to attend local community-group digital training sessions
> across the Good Things Foundation Online Centres.Network
> <https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/our-network/>.
>
> Having recently become a network member, I'm looking at new and innovative
> means of attracting new Wikipedia editors. For example, there are 279 Civil
> Parishes in Cambridgeshire.all of which have Wikipediia articles e.g.
> Cottenham <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottenham>.
>
> Encouraging senior citizens with in-depth local knowledge to expand these
> articles through local Wikipedia "clubs" is something I'd like to
> pursue and I'm keen to know of any other enterprise like it in the UK.
>
> How might the CIG-E-Forum <https://jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/CIG-E-FORUM.html> be
> used to float this idea? Meanwhile, I'm working my way through
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Marta_Malina_Moraczews… and
> have Cc'd my colleague Andrew Zolnai for his thoughts.
>
> "The [Grants} project links a series of targeted workshops, prepared from
> the point of view of creative professionals, training them in a range of
> Wiki skills - combined with a plan to prepare an "all-in-one"
> textbook/manual, explaining licenses, OTRS (this may be especially useful),
> reuse and many other basics.".
>
>
> Essentially, our thoughts are with those who are digitally
> excluded through no fault of their own but still have much to contribute.
> @ online workshops at this stage would be counter-productive at this
> stage.
>
> Kind regards, Terry
>
>
> *T**er**ry Jackson*
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>
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 at 11:12, Daniels, Jane <jdaniels(a)cardiffmet.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to ask if you could post your messages to:
>>
>> https://jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/CIG-E-FORUM.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Here in the UK we are trying to raise awareness of all things
>> Wikipedia/Media/Data amongst our cataloguing & metadata workforce as this
>> gives us the perfect opportunity to create, share, enrich and maintain
>> metadata outside of the restricted access MARC environment.
>>
>>
>>
>> It would be really great if these messages from your group could raise
>> awareness of the possibilities.
>>
>>
>>
>> It might also engender a bit more support for structured training and
>> workforce development.
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Jane
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Marta Malina Moraczewska <marta.malina(a)gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* 16 March 2022 11:00
>> *To:* Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public] <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>> *Subject:* [GLAM] Creators and Wikipedia
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to interest those of you working with GLAM institutions, but
>> also with individuals who are artists, photographers, filmmakers and other
>> creators, in a project "Creators in Wikipedia".
>>
>>
>>
>> The project links a series of targeted workshops, prepared from the point
>> of view of creative professionals, training them in a range of Wiki skills
>> - combined with a plan to prepare an "all-in-one" textbook/manual,
>> explaining licenses, OTRS (this may be especially useful), reuse and many
>> other basics. This would have an English version and files letting people
>> easily prepare translations into other languages/localise examples used.
>>
>>
>>
>> The idea is also to introduce and connect this group of users to existing
>> Wikipedia initiatives - such as Art+Feminism, Women in Red, Wiki loves
>> SDGs, Wiki For Human Rights and Documenting Ukraine's Cultural Heritage.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is the project proposal:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Marta_Malina_Moraczews…
>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wiki…>
>>
>>
>>
>> Please let me know if you have comments, ideas, or suggestions. If you
>> consider the project worthwhile, please endorse here:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Marta_Malina_Moraczews…
>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wiki…>
>>
>>
>>
>> Also do let me know if you would like to take part in the project - as a
>> workshop guest (they will be partially run in English), to contribute to
>> the "textbook"/manual material, or to participate in its review. The
>> program is mainly addressed at audiences from CEE countries but hopefully
>> is adaptable to other uses.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for reading! Hope to hear your thoughts.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes!
>>
>> Marta Malina Moraczewska
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
Hi Everyone,
I would like to interest those of you working with GLAM institutions, but
also with individuals who are artists, photographers, filmmakers and other
creators, in a project "Creators in Wikipedia".
The project links a series of targeted workshops, prepared from the point
of view of creative professionals, training them in a range of Wiki skills
- combined with a plan to prepare an "all-in-one" textbook/manual,
explaining licenses, OTRS (this may be especially useful), reuse and many
other basics. This would have an English version and files letting people
easily prepare translations into other languages/localise examples used.
The idea is also to introduce and connect this group of users to existing
Wikipedia initiatives - such as Art+Feminism, Women in Red, Wiki loves
SDGs, Wiki For Human Rights and Documenting Ukraine's Cultural Heritage.
Here is the project proposal:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Marta_Malina_Moraczews…
Please let me know if you have comments, ideas, or suggestions. If you
consider the project worthwhile, please endorse here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Marta_Malina_Moraczews…
Also do let me know if you would like to take part in the project - as a
workshop guest (they will be partially run in English), to contribute to
the "textbook"/manual material, or to participate in its review. The
program is mainly addressed at audiences from CEE countries but hopefully
is adaptable to other uses.
Thanks for reading! Hope to hear your thoughts.
Best wishes!
Marta Malina Moraczewska
Hello everyone!
As some of you may know, several developers are currently working on a
project (funded by a Wikimedia grant) to add Structured Data on Wikimedia
Commons functionalities to OpenRefine. See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine for more info :-)
We are making good progress on this project. Many people in the Wikimedia
community actively use OpenRefine and are interested in these new features.
Because of this interest, the OpenRefine team starts hosting online,
monthly office hours for OpenRefine users from the Wikimedia community. You
can meet and ask questions to other OpenRefine / Wikimedia users here, and
talk to members of the development team. These office hours are informal,
have no set agenda, are held via Zoom but are not recorded. Registration is
not needed.
For now, we have scheduled office hours until the end of June 2022. Time of
the day alternates to accommodate participants from diverse time zones. If
these office hours prove to be popular, we will plan more of these later!
- Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 9AM UTC
- Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 4PM UTC
- Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 8AM UTC
- Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 4PM UTC
See
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where
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Hope to see many of you there!
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