Hello all,
There has been chatter lately about facilitating more video donations from
our GLAM partners to Commons, so I felt compelled to share the Children's
Museum's latest donation - four videos that pan various dinosaurs in our
Dinosphere exhibit. They offer a new perspective to specific skeletal
structures than static images provide. So far we have our Dracorex and our
T-Rex, as well as a pan of half of our exhibit space.
I created a new category for our videos to keep better track of them:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos_from_The_Children%27s_Mus…
Happy for these to be used wherever you may find them helpful.
Happy Tuesday,
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/
Hi,
Friday 8 June 10.30 - 17.00 lunch included.
Spaces limited to 15, perhaps slightly more.
The reservation page is at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_London_2012. Please sign up now
or miss your chance!
I would like this to focus on the September conference and setting up
how we are going to move beyond a single budget holder (me over the
last year) to having a more formal sub-committee.
This will be an informal event, but as with last year's GLAM
networking event there will be the opportunity to present on your
special areas.
Spaces are fairly limited, so preference will be for the most active
GLAM ambassadors.
PS if you can't make this one, we are planning another networking
event for GLAM folks in the month before GLAMwiki 2012.
Cheers,
Fae
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http://enwp.org/user_talk:Faehttp://enwp.org/user:Fae/events
Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags
Sorry for cross-posting.
Dear
everybody,
My name is John
Andersson and I have recently been hired by Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE)
as the Event manager for the project Europeana Awareness[1], a
project that amongst other things has the goal of creating a closer
cooperation between the Europeana Foundation (and its vast network of
GLAM institutions) and the Wikimedia community and by doing so increase awareness of the work done by Europeana (hence the project name). The project leader for
WMSE's part of the Europeana Awareness is Lennart Guldbrandsson,
a.k.a. User:Hannibal, who many of you already know. I will however be
responsible for the day-to-day operations.
First of all I would
like to give you a short presentation about myself so that you know
who I am (if this understandably bores you, you can skip the
following paragraph) and secondly I will present the projects that I
will work with during the coming 18 months.
I
will start working full time on the 11th
of
June but until then I am working merely 35 percent as I am currently
at the very end of my university studies at the Master programme in
European Studies at Gothenburg University, finishing up my Master's
thesis that focuses on decision-making in the Arctic Council's
working groups. This time last year I worked as a trainee at the
European Parliament's Secretariat in Brussels for 5.5 months and from
before that I have a Bachelor of Science from Umeå University.
During my Bachelor I spent one semester in the U.S. as an exchange
student. I have been an administrator on the Swedish language version
for 6 years now and have contributed with hundreds of articles and
photos. On a more personal note I enjoy learning new things,
experiencing new cultures, traveling, meeting friends and reading a
good book.
Two major tasks that
I will work with are firstly the co-organization of a number of GLAM
conferences in some of the European countries that have active
Wikimedia Chapters that are working with GLAM issues, as well as to
organize a European wide competition called Wiki Loves Public Art
(WLPA), obviously inspired by the super successful Wiki Loves
Monument competition.
I am hoping to help
in organizing events in Sweden, Poland, UK, France, Germany, the
Netherlands and Belgium. Currently I am working on organizing the
first event, an Edit-a-thon in Leuven, Belgium.[2] If
you are planning to organize a GLAM event in any of these countries I
hope that you will take the opportunity to contact me and discuss how
I could help! For example, adding Europeana as a partner for the
event that you are organizing is likely to open new doors and attract
more institutions and I am the one to contact about that, I could
also help out with man-hours, perhaps supply you with information,
contacts and digitized media that Europeana already has (which could
be hard and time consuming to collect) or suggest and contact
international guests that could participate in your event.
The organization of
Wiki Loves Public Art will mainly take place later this year. But
even though this event is far in the future I hope that you write me
an email if you think that this sounds interesting and would like to
get involved in this work. I am well aware that this will take a lot
of time and effort to organize so we might as well start with some
initial planning as soon as possible!
I
am super excited about working with this full time and I really look
forward meeting and talking with all of you!
Sincerely,
John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event manager, Europeana Awareness
User names: User:John Andersson (WMSE) (work) and User:Jopparn (private)
Email: JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com
Skype: johnandersson86
[1]
See http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness
for more information. Currently only available in Swedish.
[2]
See
http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Europeana_meets_Wo…
(apologies for meta-cross-posting)
Let me forward an Open Access petition sent originally by Dario
Taraborrelli, from the Wikimedia Research Committee.
If you wanna know more, here there some comments form our Daniel Mietchen
(the document is uberdetailed :-):
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Areas_of_interest/Open-ac…
Aubrey
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(apologies for cross-posting)
A petition you should care about: require free access over the Internet to
journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research.
http://access2research.org/http://wh.gov/6TH
25,000 signatures in 30 days (by June 19) gets an official response from
the White House.
Dario
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Hi,
Wikimedia UK will be setting up the international 2 day GLAMwiki
conference structure next
week and we will soon be setting up ticketing. Ticket prices are an
area where there is often debate, and it is hard to please everyone.
To give a feel community opinion, I have kicked off a poll at
<http://www.doodle.com/ud2q42vuxqvfnuru> where you can tick any prices
you think are about right.
Please also chip in on this thread if there is any issue you would
like to see covered by ticketing and the discount we offer. For other
comments, such as conference content or timing, please raise your
questions at <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:GLAM-WIKI_2012>.
PS if you think in Euros or Dollars, just think of a 1:1 exchange
rate, by September who knows what might happen with currencies!
Cheers,
Fae
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Wikimedia UK Chairman
http://uk.wikimedia.org
When you're running an event, sometimes you want to help lots of people
create accounts on Wikimedia sites. To prevent spamming/vandalism,
ordinarily there's a cap on the number of accounts that can be created
from one IP address in a single day. But there's a way to ask for a
temporary removal of that restriction. The Foundation's Maggie Dennis
has written a quick HOWTO:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_request_lift_of_an_IP_cap
and so please feel free to link to it in your outreach HOWTOs, event
planning checklists, and so on. Thanks, Maggie!
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
