Apologies for any cross-posting!
Further to Dorothy's message last week about more standardised GLAMwiki resources, I have uploaded to Google Drive a publicly accessible and editable version of the information booklet that she mentioned (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-54az_yPpKyRnlCQWV6MEFGVXc/edit?usp=sharing). I am very much hoping that other GLAMWikimedians will contribute and make the revisions necessary to turn this booklet into a resource useful not only for librarians but also curators, archivists, and other GLAM staff and volunteers.
Cheers,
Ally
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Hi Phoebe -
These are very useful, thanks!
In my region, public librarians admit to being "scared" of Wikipedia and
don't know much about it or how to use it. So...
*...here's a slide deck developed for a branch-wide presentation as an
intro to Wikipedia:
http://www.slideshare.net/bdcousineaul/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-wik…
* ... and here's an adaptation of a manual originally developed by Susanna
Giaccai (still in my sandbox - feel free to improve!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bdcousineau/sandbox1
Cheers,
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> As we enter Wikipedia Loves Libraries season (hooray!) I thought I'd share
> some material I'm working on ... it started as a handout for librarians but
> changed to being ideas for librarians and participants at library
> edit-a-thons. It is a list of editing ideas that (I think) are suited to
> taking advantage of library resources.
>
> pdf handout:
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> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ten_ideas_for_editing_Wikipedia_ha…
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> wiki page:
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries/Editing_ideas
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> I have been reluctant to share this because "it's not finished"... but that
> is very un-wiki of me :) But, it's not finished -- especially the wiki
> page. So, please help me edit, clean-up, redesign, and in general let me
> know if you think this is a good idea or not. (And I will keep working on
> this over the next few weeks).
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> cheers,
> Phoebe
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As we enter Wikipedia Loves Libraries season (hooray!) I thought I'd share
some material I'm working on ... it started as a handout for librarians but
changed to being ideas for librarians and participants at library
edit-a-thons. It is a list of editing ideas that (I think) are suited to
taking advantage of library resources.
pdf handout:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ten_ideas_for_editing_Wikipedia_ha…
wiki page:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries/Editing_ideas
I have been reluctant to share this because "it's not finished"... but that
is very un-wiki of me :) But, it's not finished -- especially the wiki
page. So, please help me edit, clean-up, redesign, and in general let me
know if you think this is a good idea or not. (And I will keep working on
this over the next few weeks).
cheers,
Phoebe
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Hello, all--
I'm helping put together a series of Edit-a-thons at MA libraries, archives, and museums for Open Access/Wikipedia Loves Libraries Week, and would love your help! Together with my co-organizer Amanda Strauss (Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe), we are encouraging MA GLAMs to join forces for Open Access to Mass History:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries/Open_Acces…
We are generally enthusiastic, but inexperienced. This is our first year in trying to organize a series like this, and we would love to have at least one knowledgeable Wikipedia editor at each site. (As we contacted potential hosts, each and every one first asked about how to connect with a Wikipedia editor, so we think there are a lot of people eager to learn the ropes.) So if there are any folks on this list that would like to volunteer to be the local Wikipedia expert/tutorial giver, please let me know.
We have our list of confirmed sites up on the page above, and already have a few more in the works, so hopefully there is a time and date that works for everyone interested.
Also, please feel free to share this widely, and let me know if you have any suggestions on where else to publicize. And feel free to let us know if we are doing anything wrong!
Thanks,
Amanda (R.)
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Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
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Hello all - apologies for any cross-posting.
Just wanted to announce that there will be a Wikimeet taking place in Edinburgh on Sunday, 27 October, at the Malt Shovel Inn from 13:00 onwards. The Malt Shovel Inn is a very short (i.e. 2-3 minute) walk from Waverley station, so we hope to encourage Wikimedians and GLAM representatives interested in GLAMWiki collaborations to attend from outside of Edinburgh as well. Details are available on the events page here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Edinburgh_4. This is the fourth Edinburgh meetup, but the first since 2011 as far as I can tell. It also follows off of two successful Wikimeets in Glasgow this past year, and we hope this trend will continue!
There is no formal agenda but as you can see on the events page a number of GLAM events have been raised as of interest so we very much hope to see many faces both new and old from WMUK and cultural institutions in Scotland.
See you there!
Ally Crockford
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Phoebe Ayers (librarian at the University of California at Davis and
currently on the board of the Wikimedia Foundation) gave a nice talk
earlier this year introducing librarians of the Special Library Assocation
to Wikimedia and Wikipedia. That talk is now available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDzR6MBai3c
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Hello all,
The GLAM-Wiki GLAMOut (hosted by the US GLAM-Wiki Consortium but open to
all :) is happening now (3pm ET) on Google Hangouts On Air. Please join us!
http://youtu.be/iqMeJi4ZUZY <http://youtu.be/iqMeJi4ZUZY>
Feel free to post questions on the #glamwiki hashtag if you're not one of
those taking part in the Hangout itself, but are instead watching live.
Can't join us now? The video will be available soon. Please post agenda
items and sign up for the July Hangout as well! (The wiki page will be
updated with the new header immediately following this Hangout.)
Details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout
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[sorry for cross posting]
Hi all,
I just wanted to announce that there is right now a brand new wikimedia
mailing list dedicated to Open Access.
You can subscribe here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
As there are quite a few projects running between the Open Access world and
Wikimedia,
we felt it was a good idea to have a specific spot for our discussions and
work.
We'd be happy to welcome librarians, wikipedians, wikisourcians,
researchers and OA advocates interested in doing concrete stuff to
integrate more the OA and the Wikimedia movement.
You are welcome to join us.
Aubrey