Hi All,
I am hoping to add an Editing Events organizer training to the Programs and
Events Dashboard in the coming months. I know there is a lot of
documentation for editathons out there, including but not limited to what I
have listed at:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Sharing_Knowledge#Editathons .
What is your favorite piece of documentation (any language) for new
Editathon runners?
Cheers,
Alex
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GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
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Forwarding.
Pine
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From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Subject: [Commons-l] Welcome Amanda Bittaker as the Program Manager for
Structured Commons
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <
commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Amanda Bittaker <abittaker(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi Wikidata and Commons Communities,
I’m excited to let you all know that Amanda Bittaker (cc'ed) has joined the
Audiences (formerly Product) team at the Wikimedia Foundation as the
Program Manager for the Structured Data on Commons program. She will be
working closely with teams from the Wikimedia Foundation, the Wikidata team
at Wikimedia Deutschland, and the communities to complete the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation grant [1], expanding the capabilities of Commons to make
it easier for people and institutions to find, share, and reuse Commons
content.
Many people may have met Amanda already. She joined the Foundation in
November 2014, working with the Learning & Evaluation team to help wiki
program organizers’ design, manage, and evaluate their programs. During
that time, she also partnered with engineers to build program tools such as
the Program and Events Dashboard[2] and the Global Metrics Magic Button [3].
Before joining the Foundation, Amanda worked in the international
development industry for five years, doing finance, program design,
monitoring, and evaluation. She spent two years in South America. Once upon
a time she also ran and oversaw programs at a nonprofit bicycle education
space that operated entirely by general consensus, which taught her a lot
about collaborative and transparent program management.
She is eager to work on Structured Data on Commons, helping our communities
make Commons as useful as possible, and helping to make transitions in
processes and workflows as smooth as possible. Amanda is based in San
Francisco in the US. You can find her on the wikis or at Wikimania or the
Wikimania hackathon in Montreal. She can converse pretty well in English
and Spanish, and would like to practice her French more, but it is still
very basic.
Cheers,
Alex
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Sloan_Grant
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/How_to_
use_the_global_metrics_magic_button
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GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
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Hey everyone,
apologies for the cross-posting, we're just too excited:
we're looking for a new member for our team [0], who'll dive right away in
the promising Structured Data project. [1]
Is our future colleague hiding among the tech ambassadors, translators,
GLAM people, community members we usually work with? We look forward to
finding out soon.
So please, check the full job description [2], apply, or tell/recommend
anyone who you think may be a good fit. For any questions, please contact
me personally (not here).
Thanks!
Elitre (WMF)
Senior Community Liaison, Technical Collaboration
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Liaisons
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[2]
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/610643?gh_src=o3gjf21#.WMGV0Rih…
Forwarding.
Pine
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From: Cornelius Kibelka <cornelius.kibelka(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 5:17 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Conference 2017: Report and
more learning material published
To: WikimediaAnnounce-l <WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
Three months ago, we welcomed many of you in Berlin to work, discuss and
get inspired at the Wikimedia Conference 2017. We have now published our
extensive and colorful grant report for this event, and you can read it on
Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Report
In the meantime, the documentation of all sessions is complete. Check it
out on Meta as well:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Documentation
While preparing the report, we have also written three learning patterns to
capture and share our experiences with other movement event organizers.
1) “Timing, Communication, Preparation: How to support your event
participants in the best way to get a Schengen Visa”
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Timing,
_Communication,_Preparation:_How_to_support_your_event_
participants_in_the_best_way_to_get_a_Schengen_Visa
2) “Briefing calls with speakers: A simple way to improve conference
sessions”
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/
Briefing_calls_with_speakers:_A_simple_way_to_improve_conference_sessions
3) “The Buddy Project: Let’s make your conference more newbie friendly!”
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/The_
Buddy_Project:_Let%E2%80%99s_make_your_conference_more_newbie_friendly!
And if you think, “wow, that’s a lot!”: David Saroyan, Visiting Wikimedian
at Wikimedia Deutschland from January until April, wrote a blog post about
his experience in the Wikimedia blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/30/why-i-visiting-wikimedian/
We would like to thank all participants, partners, affiliates and experts
who have contributed to making this such a great event, and the Wikimedia
Foundation for their generous support.
Thank you,
Happy reading,
Cornelius, Nicole, Daniela and Wenke
(the WMCON team)
PS: Stay tuned for our upcoming announcement of the Wikimedia Conference
2018 dates.
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Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC)
for the Wikimedia Conference
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207
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Dear all,
Today at 1 July the photo contest *Wiki Loves Public Space* started in
Belgium. This year is the first year in what we have during the full
Summer freedom
of panorama <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama> in Belgium (
info <https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama>), which means that
modern buildings and artworks in the public space can be photographed and
freely be published. For years it was not possible to illustrate articles
with photos of modern buildings and artworks in the public space due the
limitations of the Belgian copyright law. To celebrate this freedom and to
compensate the many years of not being allowed to upload photos of these
Belgian subjects (and thus bare articles), we organise this photo contest.
During the Summer months July and August 2017 anyone can participate by
uploading their own photos from modern buildings, public artworks, heritage
monuments and memorials, present in the public space in Belgium. Also
photos you made earlier are welcome.
See for more information about how to participate at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Public
_Space_2017_in_Belgium
This invitation is also available at:
https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Invitation_to_the_photo_
contest_Wiki_Loves_Public_Space_2017_in_Belgium
Kind regards,
Romaine
board member Wikimedia Belgium
Rue du Trône 51
1050 Brussels
romaine(a)wikimedia.be
www.wikimedia.bebe.wikimedia.orghttps://twitter.com/Wikimedia_BE
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
This is a reminder that the Wikimedia Language team's office hour is
happening later today (details at the end).
Please note, our agenda has been updated and today we will have a guest
speaker from the Tamil Wikipedia - Ravishankar A
<https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D…>,
who will talk about a campaign
<https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95…>
(page
written in Tamil) that is currently underway to create new articles of high
quality using Content Translation. The Tamil community also has a help page
and a video
<https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF:%E0%AE%8…>
(page
written in Tamil) to help new users learn the tool.
Do let me know if you would like to join in the discussion via our hangout.
You can also ask questions over IRC (check the details below) or over email.
Thanks
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session
# When: June 27, 2017 (Tuesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170627T1300)
# Where: IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Euhu4Q7HF4
# Agenda:
- Ravishankar A from Tamil Wikipedia talks about a state-wide
translation campaign using Content Translation.
- Updates from the Language team and Q & A.
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From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:58 PM
Subject: WMF Language team office hour and online meeting on June 27, 2017
(Tuesday) at 1300 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia & GLAM
collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is
scheduled for Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 at 13:00 UTC. This will be an open
session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects.
This session is going to be an online discussion over Google
Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the
limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots
are available. Hence, do please let us know in advance if you would like to
join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during
the session.
Our last online round-table session was held in March 2017. You can watch
the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DWXTRl5ZEk
Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
session links and do let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session
# When: June 27, 2017 (Tuesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170627T1300)
# Where: IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=8Euhu4Q7HF4
# Agenda:
Updates from the Language team and Q & A.
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Wikimedia Foundation