Hello,
next week-end, Wikimedia Spain, with six science museums from five different cities in Spain, organizes an edit-a-thon about Spanish scientists and inventors. This is a collaboration with FECYT (Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología). The museums who participate are:
*MUNCYT, La Coruña*MUNCYT, Alcobendas (Madrid)*Museo de la Ciencia, Valladolid*Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid*Casa de la Ciencia, Logroño*Casa de la Ciencia, Sevilla
we could involve volunteers for every museum. There wil be different activities and the edit-a-thon will run on Saturday and in some museums also on Sunday.
FECYT freely shared 104 portraits of Spanish scientists on Wikimedia Commons.[3]
There is a coordination page on Spanish Wikipedia [1] and Galician Wikipedia [2]
The hashtag of the event is #WikimaratónCiencia and we invite you to participate on-line and to spread the word. This activity, in five different cities and six different museums the same week-end is a new challenge for us.
Thanks
[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Wikimarat%C3%B3n_Cient%C…https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimarat%C3%B3n_Cient%C3%ADfico_20…https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_of_scientists_released_b…
Santiago NavarroWikimedia España
Sorry for crossposting:Help one of the best volunteer photographers in Wikimedia Commons restore his stolen equipment.
Diego Delso is known as Poco a poco in Wikimedia Commons. In case you don't know, Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository where anyone can share freely-licensed content with everyone. Wikipedia uses Wikimedia Commons as it's image repository, so, in fact, most of the times you view an image in Wikipedia, you are actually viewing a Wikimedia Commons image.While Diego is just one of the thousands of Wikimedia Commons volunteers, he is a very special one: he's one of the main Commons contributors ever, having some amazing records, such as being the user with the highest amount of Featured Pictures ever (153 images) and also the one with the highest amount of quality images ever, with 5,777 Quality Images. That's an awesome amount of very high quality material, that Diego has given to every living person for free.Never heard about Wikimedia Commons? It's the repository that hosts allmultimedia files that you can see (and download) in Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects. Diego's files are used in those projects and are also available for everybody else with a free license.Furthermore, Diego has contributed in Wikimedia Commons in other ways. One of them is by supporting (by being an organizer or a jury) two of the most importantphotographic contests in the Wikimedia movement (and in the world!): Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth.Sadly, while Diego was in Buenos Aires after participating in a Wikimedia Iberoamerican Encounter with other Wikimedia volunteers, he got his equipment stolen. In this unfortunate event, he didn't only lost his camera, zoom lenses and laptop, but also every single picture he took during his 2 weeks trip in South America, which he was going to upload to Wikimedia Commons so they could be used by everyone, everywhere.As Wikimedia volunteers and Diego's friends, we could not stand aside of this, so we decided to help him to restore his equipment. You can help, too, by contributing to this campaign!Our goal is simple: to collect enough money to help Diego to buy exactly the same equipment he lost.All the gear he lost in Argentina is described below, with a reference to the price from Amazon for the same equipment.TipoModeloPreçoCamera bodyCanon EOS 5D Mark II$ 2,694.00Objective fisheye f/4.0Canon EF 8-15mm L USM$ 1,349.00Objective wide-angle f/4.0Canon EF 17-40mm L USM$ 839.00Objective wide-angle to telephoto f/4.0Canon EF 24-105mm L IS UVM$ 1,149.00LaptopAcer Aspire 1810T$ 600.00Total$ 6,631.00
Converted to Euro (since Diego is based in Europe) that goes to 5,300 Euro + 200 euro of Indiegogo fee, which is our target to collect.
This campaign is runned on indiegogo.com and the link is https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/funding-a-new-gear-for-wm-photographer-p…
You can use the short link http://igg.me/at/pocoapoco in social networks
Thank you
Santi Navarro
Forwarding. Worth commenting!
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From: "Erik Zachte" <ezachte(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 26 Nov 2014 18:06
Subject: [Analytics] RFC for media file request counts, please chime in
To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Development
and Operations Engineers" <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Analytics
Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <
analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners
coordination - closed list" <cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>
Cc:
Since 2008 Wikimedia collects pageview counts for most pages on nearly all
wikis. A longstanding request of stakeholders (editors, researchers, GLAM
advocates) has been to publish similar counts for media files: images,
sounds, videos. A major obstacle to effectuate this was the existing
traffic data collecting software. Webstatscollector simply couldn't be
scaled up further without incurring huge costs. In 2014 WMF engineers
rolled out a new Hadoop based infrastructure, which makes it possible to
collect raw request counts for media files. So a few months after releasing
extended pageview counts (with mobile/zero added), the time has come to
produce similar data dumps for media files.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Media_file_request_coun…
Please comment onwiki.
Thanks
Erik Zachte
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Hello, all! :)
I am Vassia / User:Spiritia from the Bulgarian Wikipedia, and some of you
have probably heard of our WMF-funded project with Sofia Zoo
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Sofia_Zoo_and_Bulgarian_Wikipedi…>
to place QRcodes and contents from Wikimedia on the information boards of
all exhibited animals.
After Wikimania-London, where I met Roger Bamkin and we spoke about QRpedia
and the possibilities for statistics of its usage, I tried to contact him
recently, but got no response. (Roger, hope you're well!) Anyway, I guess
someone else may also be of help.
My colleagues from the Sofia Zoo are very interested to have some (or any!)
statistics about the performance of our zoo-located QR codes.
There is a particular occasion for this request. There will be a European
zoo conference in March 2015, and they would like to report their
experience with Wikimedia, but back it up with some hard data.
The articles covered with QRpedia codes along this project are listed here:
http://bit.ly/1r3eKwl
Please, anyone who is able and willing to help, contact me and tell me what
other information may be needed to complete the research (or instruct us
how to do it by ourselves?)
Thank you very much in advance!
Vassia / Spiritia
Hello. I'm glad to announce the results of Wiki Loves Monuments Spain 2014. We have received 23,595 pictures from 525 participants. This is out 4th year and we arrived to 100,000 pictures.
You can see the ten finalist that will participate in the international contest and the winners of two special prizes (best picture of Paradores, our partner, and the best picture of St. James's Way in Aragon, by Asociación de Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Jaca). You can also enjoy the best 103 pictures. There was also a prize for the participant who uploaded pictures of more different monuments. He was Enfo, with 691 monuments, and he was the winner also last year.
All of them are on Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014_in_Spa…
We wrote a blog post:
http://blog.wikimedia.es/2014/11/ganadores-de-wiki-loves-monuments.html
and we are sharing this in social networks. You can spread the word if you want. Tomorrow we will send our press release.
Santiago NavarroWikimedia España
Hi!
This reminds me of ugly practices of proprietary software companies
giving free software to students so that they are able to learn the
tools and then later on have to pay. So we will be making links to
paywalled journals and we will be able to do it for free, but then our
readers will have to pay to read them? So Wikipedia will provide free
advertisements for paywalled content? Nicely done, nicely done.
This is not open access. This direct opposite to open access. We
should not be proud of this.
(Please don't take this as an attack on anybody personally and I think
The Wikipedia Library Team is doing a great job, but I really feel
this is a bad deal. And it was sent to the open access mailing list.
Which this is not.)
Mitar
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
>
> NEW
> *DeGruyter: 1000 accounts for English and German-language research, sign up
> on one of two language Wikipedias:
> English signup <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter>
> German signup <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter>
> *Fold3: 100 accounts for American history and military archives
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fold3>
> *Scotland's People: 100 accounts for Scottish Genealogy database
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople>
>
> EXPANDED
> *British Newspaper Archive: 100+ new accounts for British Newspapers
> archives
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BNA>
>
> OPEN
> *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam>
> *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social science
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia>
> *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR>
>
> Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and
> 1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. Signups
> for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local
> Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and German. To
> get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or
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Hi all,
Cross posting on purpose, no excuses ;-)
Tomorrow, tuesday November 4 at 19.00 CET, is the time for the GLAMout
global November.
Key topics are:
* Bring culture to Wikipedia by Ari Häyrinen, WMFI
* OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey - Last Call for national teams to participate!
by Beat Esterman
Link to the Google Hangout will be posted on the coordination page,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout/2014/November, here
and in some other channels before it starts.
Anyone interested in hosting the December GLAMout global can contact me, or
sign up at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout/2014/December.
Best regards,
/axel
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Axel Pettersson
Projektledare GLAM/Outreach
Wikimedia Sverige
+46 (0)733 96 55 65
axel.pettersson(a)wikimedia.se
Twitter: @Haxpett <https://twitter.com/#%21/haxpett>
Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
Läs mer på *wikimedia.se/sv/blimedlem <http://wikimedia.se/sv/blimedlem>*