Hello fellow Wikimedians, librarians, and bibliophiles,
I hope you are doing alright, staying healthy and gearing up for the
upcoming festive season. I am excited to share that we are bringing you
another iteration of the 1Lib1Ref <https://1lib1ref.org/> as we celebrate
21 years of Wikipedia next month.
As always, participation is pretty simple. All you need to do is add more
references to Wikipedia articles and type #1lib1ref in the Edit Summary.
We are bringing you some exciting updates. For instance, seven more
languages from the CEE region are now supported by the CitationHunt tool
<https://citationhunt.toolforge.org/>. Thanks to the amazing volunteer
efforts of Guilherme Gonçalves <https://github.com/eggpi> and Gorana Gomirac
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gorana_Gomirac_(VMRS)>.
If you are already familiar with editing Wikipedia and would like to
experiment a bit, we are piloting a couple of contribution methods for
advanced contributors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#…>
in the January 2022 round.
Read more about the campaign at the blog post on Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/12/16/1lib1ref-is-back-in-2022-with-more-la…>
.
See you all on 15th January 2022!
Regards
Satdeep
Greetings from Afrocine Project,
It is already the end of the Months of African Cinema global contest and a
lot has been achieved! We have been able to get over 4,000 articles created
in 16 languages!
We are about to constitute the International Jury team, which will consist
of members from all the languages that participated in the global
contest/edit-a-thon. If you would like to join us in the Jury team, please
let us know by 31 December 2021 by filling this form.[1]
Thanks for all your contributions this year and congratulations to you!
Together we are bridging the content gap and improving on the systemic
bias, in-respect of the African continent.
Regards,
Ebenezer Mlay
Community Liaison – Afrocine project
1.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrt_xGsVNV1rJthKrEQvRlPOTAlgTU0Iz…
Apologies for cross posting -- join us to Decmber 14th to learn more!
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From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:39 PM
Subject: December 14 Conversation hour about organizing for
#WikiForHumanRights 2022
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*TL:DR --* Join us for a Conversation hour December 14 at 1500 UTC to learn
how to organize for WikiForHumanRights 2022.
Hello Everyone!
#WikiForHumanRights: Right to a Healthy Environment 2022 [1]is back!
From April
15 through to June 14 2022 we encourage local affiliates, individuals or
organizations interested in the campaign to organize activities around the
intersecting themes of human rights and the environment.
If you are interested in organizing your community for the campaign, please
join us for a conversation hour on December 14 at 1500 UTC [4] (more
details below) to learn how you can participate.
Why the Right to a Healthy Environment?
This October, the Right to a Healthy Environment was formally recognized
[1] by the United Nations Human Rights Council. According to Michelle
Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
"A safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is the foundation of
human life. But today, because of human action – and inhuman inaction – the
triple planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and nature loss is
directly and severely impacting a broad range of rights, including the
rights to adequate food, water, education, housing, health, development,
and even life itself."[2]
The environmental crisis is getting more complex. Humanity needs to make
thousands of big and small decisions to address it. As the UN Environmental
Program described it, we need to make “Peace with Nature”[3] and protect
the human rights of the most vulnerable.
Wikipedia and other platforms need to fill the knowledge gaps at the
intersection of sustainability and human rights in every context and
language. The world needs access to reliable information about the link
between environmental sustainability and human rights.
What can you do? Help us organize!
We need your help! The campaign will officially launch on April 15 (one
week before Earth Day), but we need your help now to begin preparing this
global call to action.
Last year we had 24 community-led editathons, workshops, webinars, and
writing contests, with contributions to over 2000 articles in more than 40
languages. To match (and hopefully exceed) these impacts, we need your help
to organize your local communities!
Activities related to human rights and sustainability are good topics for
local communities to both a) identify new partners, b) recruit enthusiastic
participants and c) fill key topics for impact in their own language or
context.
Join the Conversation to learn more!
Join us for 1.5 hours of conversation Tuesday the 14th December 2021 15:00
UTC on Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509> [4], to learn more
about:
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How you can participate in this campaign and organize local events in
your community or region.
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Which topics this campaign will target, and how you can connect with
subject matter experts, partners, and other resources to support successful
content creation activities.
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How the Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns team can support you in designing
your event and doing targeted outreach to potential contributors drawn to
these topics.
Organizers can find more information at this (still under development): page
on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights>[5]
If you want to join us as an organizer, please join our Telegram Group
<https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh>[6]
If you have any questions send us an email at campaigns(a)wikimedia.org
Looking forward to hearing you in the conversation,
Ruby Damenshie-Brown and Alex Stinson
[1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1102582
[2] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27443
[3] https://www.unep.org/interactive/making-peace-nature/
[4] https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509
[5]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
[6] https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh
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Alex Stinson
Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors
through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns
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Alex Stinson
Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors
through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns
Hello,
We're closing the year by reflecting on recent trainings and courses for
museum workers and librarians.
Today (Monday 13 December) at 15:00 UTC, Wikimedia Argentina will present
their Cultura para abrir course, which attracted more than 600 GLAM
professionals in Latin America, and Wiki Movimento Brasil will share their
GLAMs tutorial and its use in the Wiki Loves Bahia campaign.
Tomorrow (Tuesday, 14 December) at 10:00 UTC, we will have Alice Kibombo
talking about the Wikipedia in African Libraries course she delivered for
AfLIA, and Wikimedia UK presenting the Connected Heritage webinars and
program.
Joining instructions are available on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team/Office_Hours
We hope to see some of you there.
Fiona
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Fiona Romeo (she/her)
Senior Manager, GLAM & Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1639501238>). We’ll have Wikidata related lightning talks:
* Steve Baskauf, Vanderbilt University, "Progress report on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery: Improving metadata and adding images to Commons"
* Anne Chen, Yale University, Use of Wikidata in a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria)
* Jim Hahn, University of Pennsylvania, Round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine
The call details are below. Everyone is welcome to attend. If you aren't able to attend, the meetings are recorded and meeting notes are available on Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n>. To receive notifications about upcoming calls and meeting notes you can subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ld4-wikidata>.
The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.
Call Details:
Date and Time: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1639501238>)
Zoom link to join meeting:
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94389717482?pwd=dG1jQS9wWWp2cFg5WG90OGxzb0pmZz09
Password: 481896
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bP08VUYC3nPWOay31s7pyZHrykawVQpwlOUxBrk…
Working Hours:
Join us for a collaborative hour of editing and Wikidata practice. We will provide a project for the hour, and you’re always welcome to bring your own projects to work on. This is a space for community and skill-building. We welcome your questions and your expertise about all things Wikidata. Subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata> for an announcement of the next working hour.
Upcoming Working Hour:
* Friday, January 21, 2022 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC / 7:00pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1642788025>)
Communication:
Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata
#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: http://bit.ly/ld4slack
Notes in public LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n
Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators
Hilary Thorsen
Resource Sharing Librarian
Stanford Libraries
thorsenh(a)stanford.edu
650-285-9429
Greetings,
Thank you all for your participation and support during the 2021 Months of
African Cinema Contest[1] which ended on 30th November 2021.
Based on our initial statistics, we have been able to get about 3,000
articles created in over 14 languages![2] A big thank you to everyone who
created articles during the contest for making this happen. We also want to
sincerely thank all organizers who have managed to make the contest happen
in their local communities.
The review of all the submitted articles will commence as soon as possible
and we hope to announce winners in February 2022. If you haven’t already,
please remember to list your articles in both the Users by Articles page[3]
and the article achievement section[2] in order to get your articles
assessed by the international jury.
We wish you all a fulfilled month ahead and look forward to your
participation in future projects!
Warm regards,
Eben Mlay
Community Liaison, Afrocine project
1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
Hello everyone,
As Wikisource turns 18 today, I would love to invite you all to celebrate
this occasion together at *1:30 PM UTC / 7 PM IST *(24 November 2021) - check
your timezone <https://iw.toolforge.org/zonestamp/1637760610>.
Incoming CEO of the WMF, Maryana Iskander will be joining the conversation.
40+ people including wikisource volunteers, WMF staff and partners have
confirmed their participation for the event.
Some of the confirmed speakers are:
- Tom Derrick - British Library and Bengali Wikisource collaboration
- User:PseudoSkull - Transcribing films on Wikisource
- User:Sneha (CIS-A2K) - Research on Indic Wikisource projects
More details are available on the event page:
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Eighteenth_Birthday
There is still time to get your invite to join the event. Just *reach out
to me at sgill(a)wikimedia.org <sgill(a)wikimedia.org>*.
Best
Satdeep
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Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>