Dear all,
I thank you for your efforts. On March 19, 2009, I decided to create my Wikimedia account. Nowadays, it is 10 years since I became a Wikimedian. During these years, I contributed to many Wikimedia-related projects including Library outreach. Knowing that most library outreach methods developed by Wikimedia and Libraries User Group and GLAM-Wiki are not adapted to user group-led thematic projects, we created a library outreach method for user groups. After a successful pilot trial of our method in Tunisia, we will be honoured if our method will be applied on a larger scale. Further information can be found in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_TN_-_Library_Outreach.pdf.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
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Hi Avery,
You might be interested in my final report from the previous grant, which
is at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid…
.
I was not planning to publish the referencing videos to YouTube, but I
think that's a good idea. Do you have any suggestions about how to make the
videos be easy for people to find if they search for Wikipedia help with
referencing on Youtube? If so, I would be appreciative if you'd add those
comments to the project talk page at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation…
.
Accessibility and translation are very much in my mind as I'm working on
the current script. An issue to keep in mind is that the various language
editions of Wikipedia have variations in policies and workflows, so
translation alone may be insufficient to adapt a video or tutorial from one
language edition of Wikipedia to another language edition of Wikipedia.
I like the interactive nature of the Wiki Ed tutorial. WMF's Growth Team is
developing in-context help, which I think is also a good method for
teaching. My guess is that the optimal ways to teach how to edit Wikipedia
will be a combination of methods including video, interactive tutorials
possibly with quizzes and certifications, in-context help, and
individualized help. As an example of how the methods could be blended, I
think that in-context help could offer video tutorials of varying lengths
to cover certain subjects.
Thanks for the comments.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 10:24 PM Avery Jensen <averydjensen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> @Bekriah, that is very exciting. From time to time we have native Arabic
> speakers attend our events and have wondered how we could offer them
> instruction in Arabic. We would appreciate any further information you have
> on pending projects (or by email if it's not public or of general interest
> to this list).
>
> @Pine, it has been suggested to me that your original project might have
> been slowed because of the complexity of not only the instruction itself,
> but also knowledge about how to make an instructional video. There is
> supposed to be an online course on making instructional videos, but it has
> not been released yet. In the context of Wikipedia, the process is even
> more of a challenge because the YouTube format cannot be easily imported to
> Commons. It would also be an advantage to have transcripts available for
> those with hearing disabilities or who do not speak the language. There
> have been captioning and translation projects but they depend on
> transcripts.
>
> If anyone has not seen the self paced tutorials in the WikiEd training
> library, here is the first one, a basic overview.
> https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/wikipedia-essentials This
> type of tutorial has the advantage of being self paced and geared to visual
> learners (which is maybe 80% of an average class). Anyone who doesn't
> speak the language can easily use a translation tool to get a basic idea of
> the content.
>
>
Forwarding to other lists. :)
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 8:05 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] New data type: musical notation with Lilypond format
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
Following a request from community members, we just deployed a new data
type called “Musical Notation” in order to store musical notation in
Wikidata. Property creators can now find this new data type in the list and
create new properties with it.
A property with musical notation data type will display the notation in
Lilypond <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q195946> format, using the score
extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score>.
For example, if you enter this code as a value: \relative c' { c d e f | g2
g | a4 a a a | g1 |}, it will be displayed as a score:
[image: Screenshot musical notation Wikidata 1.png]
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_musical_notation_Wikidat…>
The score also appears on the diff pages.
[image: Screenshot musical notation Wikidata 2.png]
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_musical_notation_Wikidat…>
The existing property LilyPond notation (P5482)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5482> is used on around 300 items
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=P…>.
If you need any help from the developers to change the datatype of the the
property or to migrate the content, please let me know.
One bug is already known and we’re working on fixing it: if the score is
long, it gets out of the statement box and overlaps with the edit button.
If you encounter any issue, feel free to create a subtask of this ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208489>.
Cheers,
--
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Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
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La newsletter internationale GLAM-Wiki vient d'être publiée. Ce mois-ci, on
y parle de la Côte d'Ivoire et plus précisement de l'atelier Wikipédia qui
s'est déroulé récemment au Goethe-Institut. Consultez la newsletter ici
pour en savoir plus
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/…'Ivoire_report>.
Pour rappel, chaque mois est publiée la newsletter internationale
GLAM-WIKI. Elle retrace, à travers le monde, la collaboration entre
wikimédiens et acteurs culturels GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives,
Museums).
*_______________________________________________________*
*Mme Guebo Colette*
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Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire <http://wikimedia.ci>
(WCUG-CI)*
Hi everyone,
Is everyone ready with writing the report about collaborations with partner
organisations for the newsletter *This Month in GLAM*?
If not, you can easily start/continue in the newsroom:
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Deadline is in about 6 hours.
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Hi Bekriah,
Thanks for sharing the Arabic and Hebrew resources. Would you please add
the those resources to this catalog of tutorials
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_of_e…>?
My impression from my brief look is that the Hebrew tutorials use
JavaScript instead of video, but the goal is similar to instructional
videos, so I think that adding those tutorials to the catalog would be
good. There is a section in the catalog for tutorials which are in
development and not finished. I added a column to the tables to indicate
whether a tutorial is a video, interactive, or both.
Below are some additional comments that I have regarding the possibility of
adapting the video that I am producing for diverse language editions of
Wikipedia.
For the video that I am currently developing regarding referencing with
VisualEditor, I am keeping translatability and accessibility in mind. I am
hoping that the subtitles can be translated into non-English languages, or
at least languages which Google Translate understands well, with relative
ease.
The images and animations in each language edition of the video would
ideally be in the same language as the subtitles. Changing images and
animations will likely require more time than translating the subtitles. My
current pilot project in English will almost certainly finish this month.
After the end of this pilot project, I might request funding for a full
adaptation of the video into a non-English language, and if that goes well
then I could request additional funding for additional adaptations.
I know enough Spanish that I could probably adapt English Wikipedia videos
for Spanish Wikipedia with a relatively modest level of help from native
Spanish speakers, but I would need more support for languages which I don't
know well such as Romanian or French, and even more help for languages
which are written in diverse alphabets and which Google Translate
translates poorly or not at all. I would like to help with adaptations for
diverse Wikipedia language communities.
I am mindful that an issue when adapting instructional videos for diverse
Wikipedia language editions is that there may be variations in policies and
workflows. I would want to account for those variations when creating
adaptations of videos.
At this time I can't promise that this English language video will be
adapted for additional language editions of Wikipedia to use, but I think
that there is a good possibility that if the English version of this video
is well accepted and used by the English Wikipedia community, then the
video may be adapted for more language editions of Wikipedia. :)
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Forwarding in case people are interested in seeing what was funded.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Chris "Jethro" Schilling <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:06 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Project Grants program will fund 20 community-led
projects
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
In the latest round of Project Grants, the committee has recommended 20
projects for a total of approximately $678,666 USD in funding. We received
42 proposals for review, the largest round of proposals we’ve received in a
single round. Please join me in congratulating the applicants! I’d also
like to express my thanks to all applicants this round for their hard work
and engagement with their proposals, and to the Project Grants Committee
for their careful diligence in reviewing and providing crucial feedback
during this round. Without further ado, here’s what we’re funding:[1]
==Software: five projects funded==* Commons Android app v3: This third
version of the Commons mobile uploader app aims to increase app stability,
improve a recommendations feature for nearby places, maintain a limited
connectivity mode, and provide better outreach to underrepresented
communities. [2]
* Scribe: Scribe is an editing tool to support underserved Wikipedia
editors, helping them to plan the structure of their new articles and to
find references in their language.[3]
* Culture Gap Monthly Monitoring: The Wikipedia Cultural Diversity
Observatory (WCDO) proposes a set of solutions to regularly assist
communities and individual editors to increase the cultural diversity in
their language editions’ content.[4].
* GlobalFactSyncRE: GlobalFactSyncRE will extract all infobox facts and
their references to produce a tool for Wikipedia editors that detects and
displays differences across infobox facts in an intelligent way to help
sync infoboxes between languages and/or Wikidata. The extracted references
will also be used to enhance Wikidata.[5]
* Wikidata & ETL: This project aims at improving management and increasing
automation of processes loading data into Wikidata, and proposes a tool as
a platform for creation of repeatable processes for bulk loading data into
Wikidata and other Wikibase instances from various data sources.[6]
==Online organizing: four projects funded==* Wiki Loves Monuments
international team/2019 coordination: The international coordination team
for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) [7] proposes to strengthen the foundation
for healthy and sustainable WLM competitions across the world. In this
grant, the team will focus considerable effort on increasing the
sustainability of these events by addressing known issues around developing
best practices, resourcing local teams to run successful events, and
adapting to mobile engagement.[8]
* CEE Spring 2019: This annual international article writing contest
generates
content from every country and region in Central and Eastern Europe on 30+
Wikipedias. CEE Spring’s remarkable community spirit plays a central role
in fostering a thriving, collaborative volunteer base in the region. The
grant will continue incentivizing content creation focused on similar
themes from last year, including closing the gender gap, and expanding
minority language Wikipedias, and showcasing the cultural heritage of
Central and Eastern Europe. [9]
* WM HU/Editor retention program: This grant will fund the editor retention
program in the Hungarian Wikipedia. The project helps the Hungarian
Wikipedia community in decreasing the negative experiences and
strengthening the positive experiences of the contributors; improving the
community atmosphere and strengthening the community cohesion, the
Wikipedia identity, the sense of mission and pride in Wikipedia.[10]
* VisibleWikiWomen2019: Whose Knowledge?, in partnership with Wikimedians
and women’s and feminist organizations around the world, is organizing a
campaign to add more diverse and quality images of women to Commons and
Wikipedia throughout March 2019 to celebrate International Women’s Month.
This year, the organization plans to take what they have learned from 2018
#VisibleWikiWomen and grow the campaign, creating more materials and
connections that will be useful for this year’s campaign and many more
years to come.[11]
==Offline outreach: ten projects funded==* Smithsonian
Wikimedian-in-Residence for Gender Representation: This project will
establish a Wikimedian-in-Residence for the Smithsonian Women's History
Initiative, and increase the representation of women on Wikimedia projects,
and seek ongoing support for a permanent Wikimedian-in-Residence at the
institution.[12]
* Action Plan for Wikipedia + Libraries Training in Mexico: OCLC will
investigate the viability of and approach to a Wikipedia+Libraries training
program for library staff in Mexico, to leverage the libraries in support
of the Wikimedia Foundation’s New Readers initiative. This project will
identify a Mexico-based organization that would lead the training, develop
an advisory group, and produce an action plan for how to design and deliver
the training.[13]
* Offline Wikipedia in Senegal Schools: The problem this project plans to
address is the absence of an easy, rapid and reliable way to access the
treasure-trove of information contained in Wikipedia. The Offline Wikipedia
in Senegal Schools project is a Train the Trainers project: trainers will
attend a seminar teaching them about offline Wikipedia the Kiwix program.
They will then go out to remote schools in and in turn run a seminar
presenting Kiwix to the teachers. This seminar will be part of the
certification process.[14]
* Heritage GLAM: This project will focus on growing successful GLAM
partnerships with government institutes, capacity building and documenting
rare archives, books and artwork of historical and cultural importance to
North India with no or little online presence via our project Wiki Loves
Heritage. A part of the project will also be focused on integration of
content with Wikisource and Wikipedia.[15]
* Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO 2019-2020: Past engagement with UNESCO
has demonstrated that working with Wikipedia to share knowledge allows
UNESCO to reach a far wider public with detailed information that
traditional report publication. The applicants have prepared a roadmap to
mass adoption of open licensing and sharing of content on Wikimedia
projects across the UN. By the end of this grant in early 2020, the project
will result in policies, documentation and processes in place to share
knowledge from across the UN on Wikimedia projects. [16]
* Wiki Loves Africa 2019: Funding for this project will support prize
distribution efforts associated with local contests supported by Wiki Loves
Africa 2019, an annual public contest where people across Africa can
contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to
Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.[17]
* Wiki Kouman 2019 en Côte d'Ivoire (Local langua in Côte d'Ivoire): The
aim of the WikiKouman project is to increase the visibility and content of
Côte d'Ivoire’s local languages through the Wiktionary and other related
projects. WikiKouman derives its etymology from Dioula, one of the local
languages, in which "Kouman" means "to speak"[18]
* History of Quebec and French-speaking North America: This
Wikimedian-in-Residence project with the Fondation Lionel-Groulx (FLG) aims
to build and support the community of individuals and organizations
interested in developing and improving wikimedia contents pertaining to the
history of Quebec and French-speaking North America.[19]
* Wikipedia Women and Ancestral Knowledge from the Global South in the
Colombian context: In collaboration with Centro de Internet y Sociedad
Universidad (ISUR), this project is aimed at supporting indigenous
communities in Colombia to participate on Wikipedia and enhance the
participation of women through promotion of digital skills and article
development on multiple Wikipedia projects to represent their knowledge.[20]
* Editathons in Pistoia district: The project centers on an edit-a-thon
series in the Pistoia district of Italy. This grant is a way to get a
complete deep-level coverage and to develop a model for localized work for
other regions in Italy.[21]
==Research: one project funded==
* Machine Learning to Predict Wikimedia User Blocks: This project will
involve investigating user misconduct on English Wikipedia using machine
learning techniques to better understand and predict what circumstances
lead to user blocks. [22]
With thanks,
Chris Schilling
1. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Browse_applications>
2. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Commons_app/Commons_Android_…
>
3. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Scribe:_Supporting_Under-res…
>
4. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WCDO/Culture_Gap_Monthly_Mon…
>
5. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSyncRE>
6. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/MFFUK/Wikidata_%26_ETL>
7. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_interna…
>
8. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments>
9. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikimedians_of_CEE/CEE_Sprin…
>
10. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WM_HU/Editor_retention_progr…
>
11. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Whose_Knowledge/VisibleWikiW…
>
12. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Effie_Kapsalis/Smithsonian_W…
>
13. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/OCLC/Action_Plan_for_Wikiped…
>
14. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Offline_Wikipedia_in_Senegal…
>
15. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikilover90/Heritage_GLAM>
16. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/UNESCO/Wikimedian_in_Residen…
>
17. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019>
18. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Modjou/Wiki_Kouman_2019_en_C…
>
19. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/History_of_Quebec_and_French…
>
20. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ISUR/Wikipedia_women_and_anc…
>
21. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Editathons_in_Pistoia_distri…
>
22. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/University_of_Virginia/Machi…
>
Chris "Jethro" Schilling
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