Hello all,
We all know one of the most exciting and unanticipated results of GLAM-Wiki
partnerships is the close community we have established as Wikipedians
coordinating in various countries, and working together to support each
other in our outreach. Now our connections as Wikipedians are creating a
reciprocal effect of benefiting our organizations through unique side
projects that may or may not be Wiki-focused, but can help in sharing our
cultures across borders.
I'm very excited to share a simple but significant project that we've
started at the Children's Museum, a blog series called "Families Around the
World," in which we highlight the unique traditions of children and
families from our project partners around the globe. This stemmed from the
fact that people were interested in learning more about the Catalan
tradition of Castelling, and I piped up and said "Well hey - I have a close
[Wikipedia] friend who lives in Barcelona!" My colleagues were so
impressed with Alex's quick work getting video and writing up a fantastic
blog post about Castelling. And it turned out amazing!
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/blog/wikipedian-in-residence/castellers
Because I'm lucky enough to know all of you, I am hoping to continue this
theme by highlighting my Wikipedia friends from around the world and having
you (whoever would like to!) guest blog (no video necessary) about family
and children traditions in your country.
I'm always amazed by the surprising little gems of projects that crop up
here and there that help to illustrate that Wikipedia is not just an
encyclopedia, but an impressive community of volunteers who all have the
core goal of sharing of knowledge (and culture!)
I hope you enjoy the video and blog- and let me know if you're interested
in this project as well!
(And thanks Alex : ).
Lori
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US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello all,
I'm very excited to share that Thursday, July 12th is GLAM Night Out at the
beautiful Newseum in Washington DC.
Consumer Reports, thanks to their recent partnership with Wikimedia and
their Wikipedian in Residence Lane Rasberry, has partnered with the
GLAM-Wiki US community to throw a fabulous party at the Newseum on the
first evening of Wikimania.
This will be the launch of the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium, a forthcoming
network of GLAM professionals, organizations, and Wikipedians. The event
includes a reception and networking event for Wikipedians, GLAM
professionals, and other nonprofit and media professionals, followed by a
media panel discussion on conflicts of interest in science and medicine.
We encourage all Wikipedians involved in or interested in GLAM to attend.
This will be a fun time to connect with the GLAM-Wiki community and network
with GLAM professionals and beyond.
Please see the Wikimania page for information:
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Night_Out
The event is free but registration is required: http://bit.ly/RSVPnewseum
Also, don't forget that the Wikipedia Loves Libraries workshop will be held
on Wednesday:
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries
Please distribute as you'd like and we hope to see you there!
Lori
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The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
Forwarding - please circulate widely!
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From: Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>
Date: 22 June 2012 17:20
Subject: GLAM-WIKI 2012 - registration now open!
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, UK
Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce that registration is now open for the
GLAM-WIKI 2012 conference, to be held at the British Library in London
on 14th - 16th September 2012.
The conference will feature two days of presentations and workshops,
with the Friday focused on the work Wikimedia and similar
organisations have done in partnership with cultural institutions,
presenting case studies and discussing the benefits to both parties.
The Saturday will be oriented more towards the practical and technical
side, looking at ways to work together and running workshops to share
best practice.
The third day, Sunday 16th, will be an unconference day, with the
focus and agenda determined by the attendees on the day.
We are currently taking proposals for talks, workshops and panel
sessions, on three broad themes:
* Open content in the GLAM sector
* Developing sustainable partnerships
* New models and future projects
The call for papers will close on 23rd July, and the schedule will be
announced on 30th July.
Registration is now open at: http://glamwiki2012.eventbrite.co.uk/ and
accomodation details will be released at a later date when hotel
arrangements are confirmed.
More details, and the call for papers, are at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2012
If you have any questions, please contact glam(a)wikimedia.org.uk
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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Has the potential to seed another GLAM:Wiki project with the Smithsonian.
Daniel
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Hello everyone!
My name is David Parreño Mont and I'm a Catalan Wikipedian and the
Communications Coordinator for Amical Wikipedia. I'm one of the Catalan
Army members ;-)
This summer I'll do a kind of Wikipedia-in-Residence in the cultural
institutions of my town, Palafrugell.
Palafrugell<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palafrugell>is a village near
the Costa
Brava <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Brava> with a 23,000 inhabitants.
It's known for its beaches.
I'll combine all the institutions (library, archive, Josep
Pla<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Pla>Foundation, the 2
museus...) to do edit-a-thons, workshops, expand
articles, release images to Wikimedia Commons, do a Wiki Takes... We also
have the support of the city council.
In fact, firstly we did a Wikipedia workshop on June 16 in the library with
17 attendees (photos<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Biblioteca_de_Palafrugell>).
On June 18 we also did a Edit-a-thon in public library of
Figueres<https://twitter.com/Wikimediacat/status/214744002149363712>(where
Dali was born) to expand the Abdó
Terrades <http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd%C3%B3_Terrades_i_Poli> article,
a former mayor (1812 - 1856) —was the bicentenary of his birth.
Moreover, Àlex Hinojo is doing a great job with all the libraries in
Catalonia!
I'm looking forward to working with you all.
Kind regards,
*David Parreño Mont*
*User:Davidpar*
*@dapamont <https://twitter.com/#!/dapamont>*
Ole wrote:
> Various cultural institutions in Denmark are planning a cultural heritage
> hackathon in the autumn. They are still in the google-doc-phase:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Asi52gKHCCyOdG9naG55Y2xtVnlaLU…
>
> Perhaps someone is interested in chipping in with knowledge about the
> MediaWiki API?
It's now planned for October 5-6. It would be great for European
Wikimedia experts to go and teach people about the MediaWiki API,
uploading tools, Commons gadgets, and so on.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Claire Ross attended MuseumNext and was the only other presentation about
QR codes other than ours (which was of course detailing QRpedia.) At
MuseumNext all were impressed with the scan rates Alex and I shared - and
we were explicit in explaining that Wikipedia was an important factor in
the success of these QR codes. People know what they're getting when they
scan the codes, and it's worth overcoming all of the potential barriers of
QR in order to reach that Wikipedia article.
Claire wrote up a post summarizing the successes of QR in museums, and
QRpedia is front and center:
http://claireyross.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/what-does-success-look-like-for…
My favorite quote?
These QRpedia <http://qrpedia.org/> examples, with really impressive scan
numbers give QR code use in Museums hope. However *when not linked with
Wikipedia, QR code usage leaves a lot to be desired.** *
This is the same conclusion that the Brooklyn Museum came to when they
recently nearly gave up on QR codes in their museum, only to find our
QRpedia case studies and realize that linking to Wikipedia is the trick
that will drive higher usage. This resulted in their implementing WikiLink
a month or so ago.
With QRpedia continuing to explode, especially thanks to the recent success
of Monmouthpedia, I thought it was important to point out again that it *is
*Wikipedia that is increasing relevance for QR in general. And that's great
news for us! : )
Lori
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Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
dear all
with WikiAfrica we are trying to get contents and data on African cities, villages and territories on Wikipedia.
1. Marcok is working on putting together the available data http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Amministrazioni/Africa/Fonti#Collegam…
2. with the support of the University of Cape Town/African Center for Cities (Edgar Pieterse and Ismail Farouk) we are got in contact with Paul Sinclair, director of studies at the Uppsala University/Department of Archaeology and Ancient History. Paul Sinclair has been working on African cities for many years. I also contacted UN-Habitat.
3. m.casanova is collaborating in editing the data to produce the necessary CVS files.
4. we will make a test on Wikipedia in Italian (there are around 10 volunteers currently involved)
the idea is to create articles on African cities, villages and territories on wikipedia in all African languages (which include of course also English, French...). we plan to also provide the data for the German data project when possible and useful.
We would be really pleased if you can contact us if you have ideas, suggestions or links to existing databases (or to GLAMs we can contact to have access to data). please do not hesitate to forward the message to people who might be interested in the initiative.
thanks
iolanda/iopensa
I definitely feel that this contextualization of NARA's Open Government
Plan deserves to be shared on the public lists, not just on the private
list! : ) So I was bold and forwarded.
It's really, truly amazing to see NARA's deep and ongoing engagement with
Wikimedia to be so tangibly represented in this important document. Thank
you for sharing, and especially for sharing your thoughts on NARA's journey
with Wikimedia. It's a truly model partnership that every cultural
institution should work hard to emulate in whatever capacity they can.
Great work as always Dominic!
Lori
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Dominic McDevitt-Parks
<mcdevitd(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to draw your attention to the US National Archives' new Open
> Government Plan for 2012-2014[1], which they just recently released. I am
> really proud of this publication, and I think it shows how far we've come.
> On page 1, David Ferriero writes:
>
> Knowing we do not have all the answers, we are creating opportunities for
>> citizens to provide substantive contributions, including tags, transcripts,
>> and images. [...] We welcomed a Wikipedian-in-Residence and continue to
>> collaborate on projects, scan-a-thons, and to contribute high resolution
>> digital images to the Wikimedia Commons. Our work with Wikipedia is
>> changing the way we think about our work.
>
>
> Wikipedia is mentioned 9 times throughout the document, including under
> the "Tangible Results" section, and Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource each
> get two mentions as well. We're also mentioned in the timeline of the
> 2010-2012 plan's implementation on NARA's website.[2] This means that
> Wikipedia isn't just a cool experiment to NARA; they are drawing the
> connections between engagement with Wikipedia and fulfillment of their
> institutional mission. The US president gave the directive to the National
> Archives to implement a strategy for open government, and their work on
> Wikipedia is important enough to feature front and center in the document
> representing their official response. It also means that they think the
> project has been successful so far; it's worth talking about.
>
> This spotlighting of our work actually isn't new. In December, Carl
> Malamud started a whitehouse.gov petition drive called "Yes We Scan,"
> calling on the government to create a national effort to digitize all
> federal public records. David Ferriero was chosen to give the response, and
> he mentioned Wikipedia in the first paragraph.[3] His own blog post on the
> matter used the photos from our most recent scanathon,[4] and he also
> mentioned us, and quoted me(!), in his remarks in the public teleconference
> he held.[5]
>
> The Open Government Plan is important, I think, not just because it
> mentions Wikipedia favorably, but because of how it does so, by weaving it
> in throughout the plan as a part of a larger discussion of open government.
> It shows that a prestigious GLAM believes that Wikipedia is an integral
> part of its efforts in public engagement and increasing access, and it is
> not afraid to say so. Its principles—transparency, participation, and
> collaboration—and strategies—a "citizen archivist" initiative, which we are
> a part of—are important for any institution to recognize, and especially
> public ones. And it is just one short step to extrapolate from "open
> government" to a broader "open culture", for non-government institutions. I
> am hoping others around the world will find ways of putting this document
> to use in helping to carry our message to other institutions.
>
> Dominic
>
> [1] http://www.archives.gov/open/open-government-plan-2.0.pdf
> [2] http://www.archives.gov/open/milestones.html#more
> [3]
> https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/response/digitizing-federal-public-…
> [4] http://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/?p=3903
> [5]
> http://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Opening-Remarks-…
>
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Wikimedia Foundation
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