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Pine
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From: Clifford Snow <clifford(a)snowandsnow.us>
Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 8:06 PM
Subject: [Talk-us] OSM Foundation’s Call for Microgrant Applications
To: talk-us <talk-us(a)openstreetmap.org>
In case you missed this announcement, I'm reposting it on talk-us mailing list.
2020 will be the first year that the OSM Foundation operates the new
microgrants project. In the coming weeks, we hope to hear from you
about a bold, community-driven, and impactive OpenStreetMap project
idea that will benefit from a microgrant of up to 5000 euros. We
welcome a broad range of projects, with the minimum requirement being
a clear connection to OpenStreetMap.
What is a microgrant? In our case, it is a modest amount of funds
awarded to applicants in order to fund direct expenses of a project.
For an idea of successful projects, you can take a look at the
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s 2019 microgrant awardees. Keep in
mind that the OSMF has a wider focus than the humanitarian sector,
spanning our global community, and welcomes applications with any
focus that relates to OpenStreetMap. We particularly encourage
applicants to consider the core values from the OSMF’s mission
statement and how any microgrant work can incorporate them.
The OSMF Microgrant Program focuses on simple grant proposals, and we
will swiftly decide on what to fund. Our goal is to avoid a
complicated and long application and decision process. You should
submit a brief and concise proposal, and we plan to quickly announce
the awardees.
We encourage submissions from individuals, groups, and organizations
who have a clear idea they want to pursue. Each project should be
completed within 12 months of the microgrant being awarded this
spring. Microgrants are open to all OSMF members, and can be submitted
in any language. If you are not yet a member of OSMF then you can
apply to join up until the time you submit a microgrant application,
and be eligible for an award. Please note there is a fee waiver
program that may allow you to join the OSMF at no cost.
In light of the ongoing health crisis regarding COVID19, we will not
be awarding microgrants for projects which require offline group
gatherings and in person meetings, although these ideas are certainly
valuable for future rounds.
Funding can be used for a variety of purposes. You may need tools and
supplies for mapping activity, funds for training materials,
technology expenses for a series of virtual mapathons, prizes for an
online coding, mapping, or writing contest, and many more examples.
Please embrace your own creativity and not feel limited by the range
of examples.
We encourage you to consult with your local OpenStreetMap community
when planning a microgrant application, and make sure you adhere to
community guidelines in the scope of the project. If accepted for a
microgrant, you will be responsible for reporting progress, signing a
grant agreement, and making sure to follow the detailed microgrant
rules. It is strongly suggested that your project uses the funding to
enable volunteer work to have a wider and stronger impact than it
would without funding.
The call for microgrants will open on April 19th, 2020 and we will
continue to accept applications through May 10th, 2020. In order to
submit, visit the OSM Wiki page and click on “Start your application”
to enter the template. When this is complete, send a message to
microgrants at osmfoundation.org. We also encourage sharing your
application on osmf-talk when it is submitted. If you need help with
the submission process, please feel free to contact the Microgrants
Committee for help. If you don’t have enough time to prepare your plan
and application, please consider submitting it in a possible future
round of microgrants.
Once the submission period closes on May 10th, we invite the community
to review the complete list of submissions and provide feedback on the
wiki page. We also will accept feedback by email to microgrants at
osmfoundation.org and via osmf-talk.
Complete timeline:
April 19: call for microgrant applications opens
May 10: final date for submission (23:59 Pacific Time Zone, USA).
May 10-TBD: community feedback period
Late May: announcement of awards
For more details, see the complete rules and guidelines on the OSM
wiki and contact us at microgrants at osmfoundation.org with any
questions. This is the first time the OSMF is sponsoring such an
activity, and we look forward to learning together about how this
benefits our community and how to build a transparent, effective, and
inclusive microgrants program for everyone involved. We are grateful
for the opportunity to make funds available to the community and hope
to hear your ideas in the coming weeks.
Clifford
Member of the OSMF Microgrants Committee
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Hello all!
Strange times we live in!
Many people staying at home -> more people with time for Wikipedia/etc.
It would be great to learn from everyone what kind of (online) activities
have taken place together with other organisations the past month(s)!
Also older online and offline activities are welcome too!
Hopefully your story can inspire others who are at home and can use some
suggestions what to do!
You can start writing here:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom
If you have any online activities in what people can digitally join in,
please also share them in the the calendar at:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Calendar/April_2020
The newsletter is expected to et published on 7 April around 20:00 UTC.
Stay healthy everyone!!
Romaine
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Might be of interest to folks on these lists as well.
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From: Bridges, Laurie <laurie.bridges(a)oregonstate.edu>
Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:50 PM
Subject: [libraries] Call for Chapter Proposals - Wikipedia and Academic
Libraries: A Global Project
To: libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Call for Proposals
*Project title:* Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project
*Editors:* Laurie M. Bridges, Raymond Pun, Roberto A. Arteaga
*OA Publisher:* Maize Books <https://www.fulcrum.org/maizebooks>, an
imprint of Michigan Publishing <https://www.publishing.umich.edu/>
*License:* CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>
*Email:* WikiGlobalProject(a)gmail.com
*Website:* https://sites.google.com/view/globalwikipedia/
*Proposals due:* June 1, 2020
*Notifications sent by:* June 30, 2020
*Send proposals as MS Word Document to:* WikiGlobalProject(a)gmail.com
*Questions:* WikiGlobalProject(a)gmail.com
Project Information
This open access edited volume will be a collection of approximately 20
chapters authored by academic library workers and faculty, Library and
Information Science (LIS) faculty, and disciplinary faculty from around the
globe that highlights engagement with Wikimedia-related projects and
activities.
This volume will be divided into two sections, and possibly a third:
1. The first section will include real-world examples of activities and
approaches to working with Wikipedia.
2. The second section will focus on the theories and underlying concepts
required for the development of pedagogical approaches to teaching with and
within Wikipedia.
3. A third thematic section may be added, depending on the breadth and
number of submissions, for example, a section related specifically to
WikiData.
Possible Topics
We are seeking chapters that include both practical and theoretical work.
Possible topics for chapters include (but are not limited to) the following
list:
- Case studies of Wikipedia in information literacy instruction
- Student researchers in Wikipedia
- Collaboration between Wikimedia user groups and academic library staff
- Wikipedia student clubs and their connection to libraries
- Benefits of academic libraries partnering with Wikimedia projects
- The role of Wikimedians/Wikipedians in Residence
- Collaborating with university faculty in the classroom
- Edit-a-thon pedagogy and practice
- Critical Librarianship and Wikipedia
- Wikipedia's fight against misinformation and "fake news"
- Medical students and training
- Use of Wikibooks in classes
- Wikidata visualizations for education
- Increasing and diversifying the audience for archival collections
through Wikipedia
- Addressing gaps in Wikipedia, such as gender, LGBTQ+, racial,
linguistic, regional, etc.
Editorial Timeline (tentative)
April 1 – June 1, 2020: Call for chapter proposals is distributed
June 15, 2020: Chapter proposals selected and authors notified
October 1, 2020: First draft of chapters due to editors
December 1, 2020: Second draft of chapters due to editors
January 1, 2021: Manuscript to publisher
Submission Information
Please send the following information to the editors by June 1, 2020:
- A tentative title and abstract proposal: Up to 500 words in MS Word
describing what you would intend to submit for this book. In your abstract,
indicate which section of the book your proposal is aligned to.
- Please include links to any other publications you may have (i.e. an
article, a blog post, or anything else that best reflects your writing
style)
- Author CVs or resumes (no more than 2 pages)
Information for Accepted Proposals
Final chapters will be approximately 3,000 words in length. All citations
must be APA 7th edition. This OA publication will be licensed under a CC BY
4.0 license. After final chapters have been edited and approved in English,
authors will have the option of providing a second-language translation of
their chapter. (example: English and Basque or English and Yoruba).This
will be determined on a case by case basis.
______________________________
Laurie Bridges
Instruction and Outreach Librarian / Associate Professor
Oregon State University
OSU Libraries and Press
+1.541.737.8821
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Forwarding.
Pine
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 3:55 PM Mark Graham <mark(a)archive.org> wrote:
>
> On top of our efforts to add links to citations, in Wikipedia articles, to digital versions of referenced book available from archive.org (150K books from 10 Wikipedia language editions and counting…)
>
> The Internet Archive just launched a National Emergency Library.
>
> We would like to collaborate with, and otherwise support, every related WikiCite project.
>
> The team at the Internet Archive that is now working on this project include:
>
> Maximilian Doerr (cyberpower678)
> Stephen Balbach (GreenC)
> James Hare (harej)
> Jake Orlowitz (ocaasi)
>
> Please reach out to me directly if you would like to explore what we can do together!
>
> - Mark Graham
> Director, the Wayback Machine @ the Internet Archive
> (917) 697-0110
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikidata mailing list
> Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Dear Wikimedians,
Thank you for your patience. With careful consideration of the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic <https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/summary.html>, we have
made a decision to cancel the physical WikiCite Satellite New Delhi. We are
in contact with the Wikimedia Foundation, they support this decision and
are ready and flexible to support any follow-up actions. We will shift the
format of the conference to online discussions and presentations and will
be postponing this virtual event to the next month. The format and the
dates of this virtual event would be determined by the Program Committee in
collaboration with presenters.
We are disappointed that we won’t be able to collaborate in person but the
safety of the conference participants is our highest priority and we look
forward to engaging with you in our virtual program. We will be in touch
soon with further plans and next steps for participating.
Thank you for your understanding. Please direct any questions to
info(a)openheritagefoundation.org.
On behalf of Open Heritage Foundation
Kind regards,
Hardarshan
[1] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite_Satellite_Event_India_2020>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/COVID-19_Notice
[2] <https://forms.gle/L4tU6tDwcHRmFMcE9>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite_Satellite_Event_India_2020
[3] http://openheritagefoundation.org/
Hi folks!
As part of the process of building the Open GLAM Declaration between
Creative Commons and the Wikimedia Foundation, we're releasing some
research we have been doing lately. You can access it here:
https://medium.com/open-glam/research-papers-for-open-glam-informing-the-de…
We also have put together this form: https://forms.gle/kfDxoYSv71Hp67T3A so
you can submit the resources that you find inspiring. These might include:
articles that have made you rethink the way you manage traditional
knowledge; videos that help you formulate arguments to convince your
institution to adopt Open Access policies; talks that raise awareness about
releasing collections portraying people; or papers that help you build a
case inside your institution of the value added to interoperable
collections. It can even be slideshows!
If you have more than one resource and you would like to share these
directly, please just send us an email at info [at] openglam.org
We especially welcome resources in languages other than English! We expect
to have the Declaration prepared in at least five other languages, so any
supporting documents in other languages to help make the case would be very
beneficial.
You can read more about the process for the Open GLAM Declaration here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_GLAM
cheers,
scann
Hello,
Some time ago, I started to gather information regarding existing and
planned tutorials for Wikimedia which are in a video or interactive format.
Initially this information was on Meta in a place which was difficult to
find. I moved the content to
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/NavWiki/External_Resources. I hope that
this will be a helpful starting place for anyone who is looking for
existing or planned tutorial resources. Also, if someone creates or updates
a tutorial, I hope that they will update the information on that page.
The tutorials may cover topics for Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other Wikimedia
projects.
Currently, resources are listed which are in German, Spanish, Serbian,
Hebrew, and English. Also, I believe that the Arabic language tutorials
which are currently listed in the section for unfinished resources have
been completed, and I am planning to reach out to request an update
regarding the status of those resources.
Ever onward,
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )