Hello everyone!
The GLAM-Wiki US Consortium will be hosting the first GLAMout May 3rd noon-1 PDT. This is mostly an effort to get (and keep) momentum for our work, exchange information with one another. This is a forum for cultural professionals, Wikimedians, or any interested parties to learn and chat about GLAM activities. Our goal is to have an anchor topic each month and then to leave time for information exchange. We'll be using Google Hangout on Air as a platform (which will also allow the sessions to be recorded).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout
Connection details to come but plan to join!
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Merrilee
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I posted here back in March about some templates I'd created to enable direct links between Wikipedia articles and resources in readers' libraries about (and/or by) the subjects of those articles. (These linking services are still under active development, and I've been hoping to complete a port over to Wikimedia's own servers, once I have all the needed approvals.)
Yesterday, however, all of these templates were tagged by a Wikipedia user for discussion about possible deletion. (Because the higher-level templates used by editors invoke some lower-level templates that were also tagged, any usage of the links on Wikipedia pages looks pretty ugly at the moment.) If you're interested in the fate of these links and templates, please consider weighing in on the discussion, which you can find at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_Apr...
(And if you're interested in having your library included in the linking service, and aren't yet in the list of supported libraries, you can sign up here:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu//webbin/olbpcontact?type=library
The service is currently available for links from both Wikipedia and The Online Books Page, and can possibly be ported for other sites as well.)
John Mark Ockerbloom
Looks like a determination was made to delete it, even though the discussion seemed to indicate consensus was for keeping it?!
//Ed
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:41 AM, John Mark Ockerbloom ockerblo@pobox.upenn.edu wrote:
I posted here back in March about some templates I'd created to enable direct links between Wikipedia articles and resources in readers' libraries about (and/or by) the subjects of those articles. (These linking services are still under active development, and I've been hoping to complete a port over to Wikimedia's own servers, once I have all the needed approvals.)
Yesterday, however, all of these templates were tagged by a Wikipedia user for discussion about possible deletion. (Because the higher-level templates used by editors invoke some lower-level templates that were also tagged, any usage of the links on Wikipedia pages looks pretty ugly at the moment.) If you're interested in the fate of these links and templates, please consider weighing in on the discussion, which you can find at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_Apr...
(And if you're interested in having your library included in the linking service, and aren't yet in the list of supported libraries, you can sign up here:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu//webbin/olbpcontact?type=libraryThe service is currently available for links from both Wikipedia and The Online Books Page, and can possibly be ported for other sites as well.)
John Mark Ockerbloom
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
Hi Ed -
Unless I'm missing something, the discussion hasn't been closed one way or another yet - and all the templates still exist, so they certainly haven't been actually deleted yet. And I would certainly read the current consensus as to keep but address certain problems.
----- Kevin Gorman
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
Looks like a determination was made to delete it, even though the discussion seemed to indicate consensus was for keeping it?!
//Ed
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:41 AM, John Mark Ockerbloom ockerblo@pobox.upenn.edu wrote:
I posted here back in March about some templates I'd created to enable direct links between Wikipedia articles and resources in readers'
libraries
about (and/or by) the subjects of those articles. (These linking services are still under active development, and I've been hoping to complete a port over to Wikimedia's own servers, once I have all the needed approvals.)
Yesterday, however, all of these templates were tagged by a Wikipedia user for discussion about possible deletion. (Because the higher-level templates used by editors invoke some lower-level templates that were
also
tagged, any usage of the links on Wikipedia pages looks pretty ugly at
the
moment.) If you're interested in the fate of these links and templates, please consider weighing in on the discussion, which you can find at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_Apr...
(And if you're interested in having your library included in the linking service, and aren't yet in the list of supported libraries, you can sign up here:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu//webbin/olbpcontact?type=library
The service is currently available for links from both Wikipedia and The Online Books Page, and can possibly be ported for other sites as
well.)
John Mark Ockerbloom
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam