Hi Folx!
Anyone expereinced in working as librarian and wikipedian with
elementary school teachers and pupils? How does it benefit your work?
What is a good resource to check for working on open content with
these target groups?
Thank you for any tips and tricks, pointers and leads!
Best Z. Blace
Greetings everyone,
A reminder that submissions for the community tracks at WikidataCon are open until October 20, 2021 (midnight anywhere in the world). You are welcome to submit a proposal to the conference! Giovanna Fontenelle and I are helping plan the GLAM track, which will be held Saturday, October 30th from 15:00<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1635606008> to 23:00<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1635634851> UTC. There are a variety of sessions you can propose from lightning talks to presentations and discussion sessions.
WikidataCon is an event held every 2 years coinciding with Wikidata’s birthday and is a time for the Wikidata community to come together to learn from each other. This year it will be held virtually and runs from October 29-October 31, 2021.
Overview of the Community Tracks: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…
Information about proposing a session is further down on that same page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…
Direct link to the proposal system: https://pretalx.com/wdcon21/submit/fJyHGM/info/
Please let me know if you have any questions or need any help with your submission.
Cheers,
Hilary
Hilary Thorsen
Resource Sharing Librarian
Stanford Libraries
thorsenh(a)stanford.edu
650-285-9429
The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open
Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, October 13, from 4 pm UTC to 5:30 pm UTC
(see your time zone here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1634140801).
As usual for our Open Meetings, we will provide updates from the Wikipedia
& Education User Group board, then leave most of the time for our guest
speakers.
Our guest speakers this month will be Amanda Rust and Amy Ruskin, who will
speak on their work with Wikidata in an educational library setting, and
Thomas Shafee, who will discuss the WikiJournals and their bridging of the
Wikipedia-academia divide.
Our speakers' biographies:
* Amanda Rust is the Associate Director for Services in the Digital
Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She’ll speak
about how Wikidata fits into an initiative to collaboratively document
neighborhood public art data in Boston. By focusing on public art outside
of more well-known downtown areas, this initiative hopes to highlight the
history of art and artists in historically marginalized neighborhoods.
* Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the
Northeastern University Library. She will discuss the process of setting up
the Boston neighborhood public art project in Wikidata, including
determining data models and creating a WikiProject page.
* Thomas Shafee is an evolutionary biochemist and data scientist based at
La Trobe Uni in Australia. He'll talk on the work he does on bridging the
Wikipedia-academia divide by forming compatible interfaces between the ways
the two communities operate. As part of this, he chairs the WikiJournal
User Group, and is Editor in Chief of the WikiJournal of Science and an
editor for PLOS Genetics. Through these, non-Wikimedian scholars can write
new high-accuracy Wikipedia pages, and existing Wikipedia pages are put
through external peer review.
We hope you can join us!
The meeting will be hosted via this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81371223837?pwd=K3dQZnh3WU9TYTY3MzBOV1l4WnBiZz09
Meeting ID: 813 7122 3837
Passcode: 153195
If you would like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please send me
an email offlist.
Hello everyone,
The annual #1Lib1Ref campaign invites librarians, researchers, book lovers
and wikimedians across the world to add missing references to articles,
helping make the encyclopedia more reliable and useful.
Are you excited about the 2022 edition of 1Lib1Ref as we celebrate 21 years
of Wikipedia in January 2022? Do you have any ideas on how to invite more
people to participate? Would you like to help organize and promote the
campaign in your communities?
You can join the 1Lib1Ref community via the Libraries (
libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org), and 1Lib1Ref (1lib1ref(a)lists.wikimedia.org)
mailing lists, or by joining the Wikimedia + Libraries User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_and_Libraries_User_Group>.
Check out the Meta-Wiki page for more details:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref
Feel free to reach out to me at *sgill(a)wikimedia.org <sgill(a)wikimedia.org>.*
Best
Satdeep
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Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>