Libraries August 2022

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2022 Board of Trustees Community Voting Period is now Open

by Chitraparna Sinha

Dear community members, The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote: - Try the Election Compass <https://board-elections-compass-2022.toolforge.org/>, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics. - Read the candidate statements <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> and answers to Affiliate questions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> - Learn more about the skills the Board seeks <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> - Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> . If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/Wikimedia_Foundatio…> to vote now. *You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC.* To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> . Regards, Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>) Facilitator, South Asia, Movement Strategy and Governance <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance> (MSG)

1 year, 3 months

[Invitation] Join the Movement Strategy Forum

by Chitraparna Sinha

Dear community members, On 24 May 2022, the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team launched <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/movement-strategy-forum-community-rev…> a proposal for a new Movement Strategy Forum <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/> (MS Forum). The MS Forum is a multilingual collaborative space for all conversations about Movement Strategy implementation. It enables collaboration across communities, projects, and languages. Currently, 500+ volunteers are collaborating on the forum using its 100+ language capacity. We are inviting all community members to check out the MS Forum. You can login with your Wikimedia account. Join MS Forum <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/>. PS: Volunteers also participated in a community review process. You can read the report here <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/ms-forum-community-review-report/1436> . Regards, Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>) Facilitator, South Asia, Movement Strategy and Governance <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance> (MSG)

1 year, 3 months

Fwd: [GLAM] This Month in GLAM: July 2022

by Romaine Wiki

1 year, 3 months

LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group: Next Wikidata Working Hour August 5th on Creating and Editing Contributor (author or illustrator) Items!

by Hilary K Thorsen

Hi everyone, Over the summer and into the early fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by adding data about diverse children’s books<https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversity-statist…> from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, love children’s books, or have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The third Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover manually creating and editing contributor (author or illustrator) items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. You do not need to have attended the previous Wikidata Working Hours in the series to attend this one. Date and time: Friday, August 5, 2022 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 7:00pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1659718801>) Zoom link to join: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/98787352730?pwd=aGtLaFBTQ0NCK2w1UGNqSW83MUpBdz09 Password: 132298 Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr… Subsequent Working Hours will cover creating and editing items manually in Wikidata for publishers, and bibliographic works and editions, uploading batch metadata to Wikidata using OpenRefine and Quickstatments, and using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata. You don’t have to attend every session to benefit from the series, but attending whenever possible will offer the best experience in terms of applying skills and tools to a single data set. We’ll also record the demo portions of each Working Hour, so you can always catch up on anything you miss. To be sure to receive announcements about future Wikidata Working hours, subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata>. Other ways to follow what’s going on with the Affinity Group: Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata> #wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: <http://bit.ly/ld4slack> https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-1dkz2hlo3-bAwUs0V7cAUfq28U0~a… Notes in public LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n> Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> Hilary Thorsen Resource Sharing Librarian Stanford Libraries thorsenh(a)stanford.edu 650-285-9429

1 year, 4 months

What happened in GLAM in July?

by Romaine Wiki

Hello all! What happened with GLAM in July? Let us know and write a (short) report about it for the newsletter 'This Month in GLAM' so that the worldwide and local Wikimedia community can read what happened in your area. Also this will encourage others to participate and donate material. You can start writing here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom If your country/area isn't mentioned on the page, you can always add it to: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/July_2022/Contents Please mention also the coming GLAM activities on our calendar on: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Calendar/August_2022 Deadline: 7 August If anyone needs help/explanation about the newsletter, please ask! Thanks & greetings! Romaine --- http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Romaine

1 year, 4 months

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