Hello all!
I want to give a brief update on the WikiForHumanRights Campaign which
began its soft launch last Friday! We are already seeing multiple online
events starting and several in person editathons. Special thank you to the
communities in Argentina and Armenia who are already editing! Looking
forward to more activities being shared at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize
Also, Wikimedia Argentina created a kit for working with partners to run in
person events for Human Rights! Check it out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Sensitive
Additionally, we updated the communications toolkit for the campaign at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share .
We are going to begin increasing Social Media starting around December
10th! As you see the campaign being talked about from @Wikimedia and on the
hashtag #WikiForHumanRights -- we need your help to share it.
If you have any questions or are considering organizing an event, please
let us know.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 2:36 PM
Subject: WikiForHumanRights: Help us Organize the Campaign, November
15-January 30
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia &
GLAM collaboration [Public] <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Mailing list for
African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia &
Libraries <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimania 2019 <
wikimania19(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: Luisina Ferrante <educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar>
Hello all, and apologies for crossposting!
I hope you are doing well!
As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]:
the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand
the availability of knowledge about human rights online.
As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign
from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human
rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the
campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN
Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights. More
information about the campaign is also available here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of
several ways:
Help us build the list!
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We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in
human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further
improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and
geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see
instructions at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_t…
Organize an online or offline event!
We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia
to:
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Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more about
hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign
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Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or
partners! To learn more, check out the kit here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon
Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day!
Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide
audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics)
soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign.
-
Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public
can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading
the word.
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Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using
#WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we
increase the communication to the public on 10 December
If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space
#human-rights tag
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…>
or by emailing Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org and Luisina Ferrante <
educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar>
If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize
in the Organize sections linked above!
Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To
watch for those materials, add
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta
watchlist.
Have questions?
If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next
Tuesday
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/community-office-hour-wikiforhumanright…>,
or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…>
.
Looking forward to your engagement with the campaign!
Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation
Luisina Ferrante, Wikimedia Argentina
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-righ…
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Alex Stinson
Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
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Alex Stinson
Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hello colleagues,
I have resumed work on my video tutorial project for Wikipedia and the
sister sites. I am hoping that eventually there will be video tutorials
and/or interactive tutorials in multiple languages, but for now I am
focusing on producing a small number of videos for English Wikipedia to
test the process and to get feedback from the community. These videos will
be designed for "organic" new users who become active on Wikipedia without
first being involved in a formal program that provides guidance for new
contributors, but I think that the videos may also be useful for formal
Wikimedia program organizers to share with their participants.
A project space is live on Outreach Wiki:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/NavWiki. I invite you to look at the
organization of the space and let me know if you have any feedback.
Comments and questions may be left on the project talk page
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:NavWiki>.
I am hoping to publish two videos for English Wikipedia by the end of 2019,
and to collect feedback on them until at least January 2020 before deciding
on significant next steps. If the feedback is positive then then I hope to
produce more videos in the future and/or to adapt the videos for additional
languages.
If you would like to sign up for the project newsletter, you can do that at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tutorials_N….
Regards,
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Wow, this is a nice one! BHL is a great partner of the Internet Archive
and a precious source for countless Wikipedia articles and Wikimedia pages.
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/11/now-hiring-program-manager.html
Federico
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Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] Job Opportunity - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Program Manager
Data: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 16:05:44 +0000
Mittente: "Hutchinson, Alvin"
Please excuse cross-posting.
The Smithsonian Institution is looking for a program manager for the
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL).
This is a federal position located in Washington, D.C.
More about the position is attached or available here:
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/11/now-hiring-program-manager.html
A brief summary follows:
Headquartered at the Smithsonian Institution, the Biodiversity Heritage
Library<https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org> (BHL) is the world’s
largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and
archives. Through the collaborative efforts of a global
consortium<https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/about/bhl-consortium/>
of over 80 natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries,
BHL provides free access to over 57 million pages from hundreds of
thousands of volumes, representing over 500 years of scientific
exploration, discovery, and data. Working closely with the international
community of biodiversity data providers and natural history collection
service organizations, including GBIF<https://www.gbif.org/>,
CoL<https://www.catalogueoflife.org/>, CETAF<https://cetaf.org/>,
TDWG<https://www.tdwg.org/>, EOL<https://eol.org/> and
iDigBio<https://www.idigbio.org/>, BHL is part of the core
infrastructure for biodiversity research and data. As an important
contributor to this global network, BHL helps equip researchers with the
information they need to tackle today’s biodiversity, environmental, and
climate crises.
The announcement on USAJobs.gov is here:
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/550897300
Please spread the word.
Alvin
Alvin Hutchinson
Smithsonian Libraries
202.633.1031
Have you seen Smithsonian Profiles<https://profiles.si.edu/>?
Dear all,
Germany's national public television broadcaster ZDF releases video clips
and photos on climate change and global warming under CC BY 4.0 for the
first time on this website:
https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/terra-x-creative-commons-cc-100.ht…
Though there are things to improve, like adding a CC-button with more info
on correct licensing in each video, this his can be seen as a milestone and
a role model for more content and public service broadcasters like ARD to
open up and share content especially in the fields of news and
documentation.
After all, media under public law are publicly financed and using free
licences would correspond to their mission since they'd make a significant
contribution to the reach of public content.
Feel free to share the news and make them visible on twitter and other
channels.
Tweet by WMDE (german):
https://twitter.com/WikimediaDE/status/1186304730932355072
Blogpost on netzpolitik.org (german):
https://netzpolitik.org/2019/zdf-veroeffentlicht-terra-x-clips-unter-freier…
best
Lilli
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Projektmanagerin Politik
project manager public policy
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0https://wikimedia.de
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Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns
dabei!https://spenden.wikimedia.de
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Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hello everyone!
We've been submitting some information to the This Month in GLAM
newsletter, but in case you haven't seen it, the Wikimedia Foundation is
supporting the work on the Open GLAM Declaration:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_GLAM
We're having our monthly call on Thursday October 10, at 10 AM EST 3 PM CET
and 2 PM UTC. If you want to join, please check your timezone!
This is the link to join: https://www.uberconference.com/openglam
The agenda & the full log of all the calls is available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-ooRioOKMgLJo5s9IB-kDmmq5ZXUsiAPGRBzMM…
Hope seeing some of you there!
cheers,
scann