Libraries November 2023

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Wikimedia Research Grants | Deadline: December 15

by Silvia Gutiérrez De La Torre

Hi all, We are excited to announce the launch of this year's *Wikimedia Research Fund *to diversify the network of Wikimedia researchers globally and support the Wikimedia Movement in a deeper understanding of the projects, decision-making, and building new technologies. If you research Wikimedia Projects or are interested in doing so, you can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 15, 2023. While all research proposals related to Wikimedia projects are welcome, we particularly encourage research studies on medium to small-size languages and communities and in low-resourced languages and projects. You can even propose to repeat a past research in a given language in another language! More info at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_&_Techno…> . **Apply by December 15, 2023*,** *and* spread the word!* If you have questions, please get in touch with esearch_fund(a)wikimedia.org, Meta-Wiki [1], here, or schedule 1:1 consultations. Click here <https://calendar.app.google/uJkivKnmgR7piwvr9> to schedule a session with Kinneret Gordon <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:KGordon_(WMF)> or here <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/selfsched?sstoken=UUs2OFM0bEFMYzJt…> to schedule a session with Leila Zia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)>. -- *Silvia Gutiérrez* (she/her) Senior Program Officer, Libraries Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group: Summer/Fall Wikidata Working Hour Series Seventh Session November 20th!

by Hilary K Thorsen

Greetings, everyone – Over the summer and into the fall the <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> 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 assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it 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, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The seventh Wikidata Working Hour will cover the Author Disambiguator tool, which helps users assign authors to articles. During the session we will demonstrate how to use the tool on an author who was created during a previous working hour, and another who doesn't exist in Wikidata yet. After the demonstration, participants are encouraged to try the tool themselves during the rest of the working hour. This session will build on the work done in previous Working Hours by connecting authors to the articles they have written. Date and time: Monday, November 20th, 2023 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC / 7:00pm WAT / 7:00pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1700503200>) Zoom link to join: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95381033252?pwd=dFU4WXBXS1JySEhzemJvNktHQURUdz09 Password: 073880 Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr… Subsequent Working Hours will cover an open editing hour and analyzing and visualizing data with SPARQL and Scholia. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. To be sure to receive announcements about future Wikidata Working hours, <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata> 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: https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-23u674xs5-_E7sS0SWJwsBNsNvrIL… 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 WikiProject page: <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

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This Month in GLAM: October 2023

by Romaine Wiki

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What happened in GLAM in October?

by Romaine Wiki

Hello all! What happened with GLAM in October? 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/October_2023/Contents Please mention also the coming GLAM activities on our calendar on: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Calendar/November_2023 Deadline: 7 November If anyone needs help/explanation about the newsletter, please ask! Thanks & greetings! Romaine --- http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Romaine

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