I've been surprised by the success of this 7 min animation on Dewey
codes, from the Finnish libraries (kirjastokaista.fi):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF342znnAsM
It's been on the front page of YouTube in Finland for several days now,
even as top 1 trending video. It reached 200k views and counting.
As far as I know, no "serious" video on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia
projects has reached such a virality. (Although I see a Stephen Colbert
and an alltime10s video with 1M views each.) Maybe we can learn
something from it?
The video is part of a series by this Tuomas Toivainen:
http://www.kirjastokaista.fi/kallen-ja-keijon-kirjastoluokat-animaatiot/https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuomas_Toivainen
Federico
Congratulations John! Library data is such a powerful first step for
engaging partners, and we definitely need more case studies on this!
Cheers,
Alex
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:48 AM, John Andersson <john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
> wrote:
> *Hi everybody and sorry for crossposting,Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be
> the recipient of $65,500 in support from the Swedish National Library for
> our project Library Data.We will work in collaboration with the Swedish
> National Library to include a number of datasets onto Wikidata, such as
> data about authors, libraries and different special databases of
> bibliographies[1]. This is a pilot project where we aim to discuss with the
> community what to include and what to exclude. Based on the discussions and
> the requests from the community we will design a continuation of this
> project (if this first part is deemed successful continuous funding is
> possible for 3-4 more years).We started investigating a possible long term
> partnership with the National Library in 2017 when Wikimedia Sverige
> delivered inputs to the new National Strategy for the Library Sector on how
> Sweden's libraries can work with Wikimedia for mutual benefits.[2] The
> National Library has just made history as the world's first national
> library to fully transition to Linked Open Data (BIBFRAME 2.0),[3] so the
> timing could not have been better; we are now in position to examine how
> this move can benefit Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.Please contact
> the project manager André Costa (andre.costa(a)wikimedia.se
> <andre.costa(a)wikimedia.se>) or the developer Alicia Fagerving
> (alicia.fagerving(a)wikimedia.se <alicia.fagerving(a)wikimedia.se>) if you
> have
> any questions. As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in
> Swedish):
> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_
> inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_på_Wikidata_2018/Ansökan
> <https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_
> inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_p%C3%A5_Wikidata_2018/Ans%C3%B6kan>[1]
> https://libris.kb.se/deldatabas.jsp <https://libris.kb.se/deldatabas.jsp>
> [2]
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sverige_-_
> Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_
> Sverige_-_Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf>
> (in Swedish)[3]
> http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/
> pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-
> fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
> <http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/
> pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-
> fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975>
> *
> Kind regards,
>
> John
> - - - -
> John Andersson
> Executive Director
> Wikimedia Sverige
>
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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:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hi all,
*Tldr: *I published a series of recommendations for creating Wikimedian in
Residence positions, and would like your feedback at:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Creating_a_Wiki…
The long version:
As part of our continued support of the GLAM-Wiki community, we have been
getting an increasing number of requests to the Wikimedia Foundation GLAM
team from Wikimedia organizers, affiliates, and partner institutions about
“how to create or get Wikimedian in Residence positions”. As you are
probably familiar, Wikimedian in Residence positions are very effective at
expanding the impact of partnerships with GLAMs and other institutions, and
are very successful at expanding the ability for institutions to
collaborate with the Wikimedia community.
During the last half a year, I interviewed a dozen folks involved in
creating Wikimedian in Residence positions at affiliates, as independent
organizers in the movement, and at institutions independent of Wikimedia
organizers to collect their best thoughts and advice on how to create these
roles. Additionally, I drew on documentation created by Wikimedia UK in
their evaluation of the WIR program in the UK, the experience of advising
communities creating residencies and as part of WMF grants programs, and
other documentation from places like the Blog and This Month in GLAM.
The result is a recommendation on how to create these roles:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Creating_a_Wiki…
I would like to start sharing with folks inquiring about these roles.
However, before I do, I could use feedback on the page. Please join the
discussion at:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedian_in_Residence/Creating_a…
Cheers,
Alex
P.S. This is part of a series of documentation improvements that we have
been making over the last couple years. I highly recommend other
documentation about the various major tactics used in the GLAM-Wiki
community:
- The Model projects portal which includes a survey of common project
models in GLAM-Wiki
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Model_projects.
- The recently updated Commons and Wikidata upload workflows portal
created as part of Structured Data on Commons:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Resources/Data_and_media_partnersh…
- The personas and research evaluating Commons use for GLAM-Wiki
projects:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by…
- *The editathon organizer training that is part of the Programs and
Events Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editathons
<https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editathons> *
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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:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM