Hi Wikimedia program leaders and affiliates,
The WMF Programs Team is excited to remind everyone that even though it’s
October, #1lib1ref is coming!
The campaign is January 15 - February 3, 2018, we will be launching our
annual campaign where we ask librarians to celebrate Wikipedia’s birthday
by adding one reference to Wikipedia.[1]
This is the third year we will be running the campaign.[2] Last year we saw
participation grow significantly from a handful of languages being actively
coordinated by our communities, to dozens of affiliates and local
organizers sponsoring or supporting the campaign and activating networks of
librarians to be engaged. In particular:
-
the coffee hour kit, that helped librarians run simple editing events
that taught other librarians how to participate:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Coffee_Kit
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Support from the Wikipedia + Libraries Facebook group and an increased
number of locally-led outreach and communications activities led to a
steady increase in participation.
What’s new?
Following the success of last year’s campaign, we have identified a number
of potential improvements that we would like to make to the campaign:
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Some of the most successful #1lib1ref efforts, involved either pledges
(i.e the State Library of Queensland pledged to add 1000 citations), or
playful competition -- building on this idea, we are hoping to develop
instructions and tactics for doing this. Look for more updates soon.
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We have additional communications and community support at the
foundation, from both the Communications team at the Foundation, and an
engagement advocate and long time friend-of-the-campaign: Jessamyn West
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West_(librarian)> . This
increased capacity allows us to do more targeted and supportive outreach
the international library community, better design of outreach materials,
and more coordinated and targeted support to our communities developing
local language/context outreach.
Where to start?
We invite you or your affiliates to help support or coordinate local
outreach to libraries! We need your help this year, to help make the
campaign more inclusive:
1.
Join the Wikipedia + Libraries Facebook group, where we will be
coordinating many of the efforts during the campaign:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikilibrary
1.
Start developing a list of allies or partners you think would be
interested in #1lib1ref this year! Consider identifying regional library
networks that you haven't partnered with yet.
1.
Share your information so we can provide direct support:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEPXkpien91y2cRikM5IagBIct7Se6FTj…
We will provide regular status updates on tools, translation, and
communication materials to folks who fill out the form above.
We’re looking forward to working together on the campaign this year!
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
[1] Note: Spanish speaking Latin American communities led by Wikimedia
Argentina and Mexico plan on running a secondary campaign in Spanish in May
to celebrate Spanish Wikipedia’s birthday and to avoid the Southern
Hemisphere summer holiday season. If you would like to learn more contact:
comunicacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar
[2] We have learned lots of great lessons from the last few years, learn
more at:
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Ja…
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org
Hello GLAM-Wiki folks,
If you didn't catch it, the Movement Strategy team is asking for
endorsements of the strategic direction.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 5:10 PM
Subject: [Wmfall] October 12: Strategy update - Movement direction now
posted for your endorsement consideration (#26)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "
wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
Movement Affiliates discussion list <Affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Internal mailing list for the Wikimedia's affiliations chairpersons <
Chairpersons(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, strategy(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi all,
I’m delighted to share that a final version of the Wikimedia movement's new
strategic direction has been posted on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10422143
The drafting group[1] bravely spent several weeks reading, considering, and
(when possible) responding to the comments posted about the previous
drafts. Attempting to capture and synthesize the aspirations and opinions
of a global movement based on hundreds of offline and online conversations
is no easy task. Please join me in thanking them not only for taking on
this formidable process, but for helping develop something I believe we can
all be proud of.
I am optimistic that this strategic direction provides every individual and
entity within the Wikimedia movement something to be excited about.
Beginning on October 26, we will be asking for individual contributors and
organized groups to endorse this new strategic direction for our movement.
I encourage you to spend the intervening days discussing this direction and
determining if you and/or your group will be endorsing it. You will find
more information about the endorsement day and the process on the
direction’s meta page next week.
The endorsement concludes phase 1 of the process, and we are currently
drafting the next steps of the process. The main goal of phase 2 will be to
answer the question "How do we implement the strategic direction", which
means identifying the resources needed for execution, and the activities it
involves. A first rough overview of this phase is being developed on Meta.
Take a look! [2]
On a different note, we have completed the move into our new office space
at One Montgomery Tower![3] Once again, thank you to everyone on staff who
was involved in making the move so seamless, and to all of you for your
patience over the past couple of weeks. Later this month, once we are more
settled in, we will be sharing photos and information about our new space
on the Wikimedia Blog.
Stay tuned!
መልካም ቀን። (Amharic translation: “Have a nice day”),
Katherine
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/
2017/People/Drafting_Group
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_2030/Process_planning
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_headquarters
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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:
http://glamwiki.org
Dear GLAMers,
Seems like I haven't written in this list for ages, so am really excited to
share some good news: *Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) has announced that it will
be hosting the 2018 international GLAM-WIKI conference! *
Though we are just in the first stages of organizing, it's clear to us that
in order to make this a successful event, the conference program should
focus on the topics and priorities that are important to the GLAM
community, namely -- you! So at this point, *you can help us by **filling
out this short survey*
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSds8yfSH5c09IhJ6ZEPQpyWh-N6fDbKHea…>
and letting us know what you find important and what you'd like to see in
such a conference.
There will be a proper sessions submission phase later on, but for now,
having a broad understanding of general topics that are of interest to this
community is helpful to WMIL, as well as the various charities we have
applied to in order to make this conference a reality.
I'm sure you have lots of questions and we'll do our best to answer them
and give some more info soon, but for now filling out the survey is the
best way forward.
Please feel free to contact me here or privately if you have any other
questions.
Cheers,
Shani Evenstein
on behalf of the 2018 GLAM-Wiki Conference organizing team.
PS -- CCed are Michal Lester, our ED, and Keren Shatzman, one of WMIL's
staff members, who is part of the organizing team.
Hello everyone!
The Wikimedia Foundation has created a survey for people involved in GLAM
(Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) media upload projects to
Wikimedia Commons. Please consider filling out the survey, if you are
currently participating in a GLAM batch upload project, or have
participated in one in the past! And we very much appreciate it if you
forward this message to colleagues/partners.
Here it is: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7WDA2RZvPDuaV7f
Completing the survey takes 10-15 minutes.
The survey results will be used to understand how the Wikimedia Foundation
can improve its support for batch uploads to Commons - in the project
Structured
Data for Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>, and beyond.
We are interested in learning more about the media collections that are
donated, the tools people use to prepare and upload files, and the overall
experience of donating media from GLAM organizations to Wikimedia Commons.
The survey data will be collected and stored under the terms of WMF's
survey privacy statement
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/GLAM_Donation_Survey_Privacy_Statement>.
A summary of the results will be made public when the survey is concluded,
so that we can all learn from it!
We hope to receive responses from Wikimedia community members and staff at
very diverse organizations - geographically, in terms of size and focus!
Thank you :-)
Many greetings! Sandra
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Sandra Fauconnier
Community Liaison for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>, Wikimedia
Foundation
sfauconnier(a)wikimedia.org
*Subscribe to the Structured Commons newsletter!*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Structured_…>
Hello all!
I am very happy to share with you the results of the first Community
Engagement Insights survey focused on Community Programs:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/2016-17_Repor…
This last year, we asked some very specific questions about GLAM and
Wikipedia Library related questions, including about how GLAM-Wiki is
perceived in the community and what research strategies folks use to create
content. Please review and share the data where you can!
If you would like to learn more about the Community Insights survey, I
highly recommend watching the video call from earlier today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoXpL-OUdNU
More documentation about the survey can found at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/2016-17_Report
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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Alex Stinson
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:
http://glamwiki.org
Hi all,
I am happy to announce that I have worked out most of the bugs on the
Running Editathons training on the Programs & Events dashboard, and its now
live: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editathons .
I will be marking it up for translation soon: if you would like to leave
feedback, or are interested in translation please let me know via the
instructions at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Training_modules/dashboard/editathon
Special thanks to María Kreuz who did a lot of previous research and gave
amazing feedback that made this as thorough as it is, and everyone else who
pitched in knowledge, skills or documentation to help develop a better
shared vision on editing events.
Also, please share the training widely with new organizers and bring back
feedback.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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Alex Stinson
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:
http://glamwiki.org