Good day all,
With support from the Wikimedia Foundation, we are happy to announce that
the first ever Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%2BLibraries_International_Convent…>
will take place between 23-24 July 2022 in Maynooth,Ireland.
As the inaugural conference for professionals working at the intersection
of Wikimedia and Libraries, we seek proposals that engage all aspects of
libraries and
information literacy work happening in and alongside the Wikimedia movement.
The call for proposals is now open - please follow this link
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%2BLibraries_International_Convent…>
Proposals could include but are not limited to
- Advocacy and outreach in local contexts;
- Tutorials and training on Wikimedia’s core-knowledge projects
(Wikipedia, Wikidata,Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons); experience sharing
panels;
- Experience sharing panels
- Productive failures
- Future initiatives and research;
- Publication and research at the intersection of Wikimedia+Libraries
*The deadline for submissions is 21 June 2022 *.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in July....
Regards,
*Alice Kibombo*
*(On behalf of the Program Committee)*
Hello!
We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1654012858>). Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi (Stanford Libraries) will be sharing a project in development called Know Systemic Racism (KSR)<https://ksr.stanford.edu/>. It helps users discover factual data about systems shaped by racist policies and take action against them by connecting them with groups that address systemic racism. They are working on incorporating Wikidata into their project and will share this work in progress with us and are looking for feedback and advice on their process and schema. We hope you will join us to learn more about the project, especially if you have experience incorporating Wikidata into your own projects or are hoping to learn how to.
The call details are below. Everyone is welcome to attend. If you aren't able to attend, the meetings are recorded and meeting notes are available on Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n>. To receive notifications about upcoming calls and meeting notes you can subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata>.
The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.
Call Details:
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1654012858>)
Zoom link to join meeting: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99797764815?pwd=bjNFUzIxNDk5NW9QT2duZkVNVGpWQT09
Password: 258953
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pjuabqUARaxr2kaRodikVx0zBznyZ0kicvcajDP…
Events:
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Calls are held every other Tuesday, LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hours on alternating Mondays and Fridays, and WikiBase and WBStack Working Hours monthly. For exact dates, times, links to agendas, recordings of past group calls, and further information please see our project page at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
Communication:
Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata
#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: http://bit.ly/ld4slack
Notes in public LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n
Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators:
Alex Jung
Open Knowledge Specialist
University of Toronto Libraries
Hello everyone,
This is a friendly reminder that The Community Development team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Calls> at the Wikimedia
Foundation is hosting our second community call
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/Community_Calls#How_t…>on
Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 from 15:00 - 16:30 UTC on Zoom
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/81408843170?pwd=OVcwblBrQjR6WXpNVFNmZHJYWEFadz09>
[meeting link]
In this call, we will have 2 speakers from the community talk about their
work within capacity building. At the end of their presentations, we will
secure time for questions and answers.
To join in the community call:
-
To attend the call, please find the link here
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/81408843170?pwd=OVcwblBrQjR6WXpNVFNmZHJYWEFadz09>
.
-
Please ensure you have zoom downloaded <https://zoom.us/download> on
your personal device prior to the call.
We are excited to see and hear from you in our community call! If you have
any questions, please feel free to email the Community Development team at
comdevteam(a)wikimedia.org.
Thank you,
The Community Development team
Cassie Casares
Program Support Associate
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org
Hello everyone,
This is a friendly reminder that The Community Development team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Calls> at the Wikimedia
Foundation is hosting our second community call on Wednesday, March 25th,
2022 from 15:00 - 16:30 UTC on Zoom
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/81408843170?pwd=OVcwblBrQjR6WXpNVFNmZHJYWEFadz09>
[meeting link]
To join in the community call:
-
To attend the call, please find the link here
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/81408843170?pwd=OVcwblBrQjR6WXpNVFNmZHJYWEFadz09>
.
-
Please ensure you have zoom downloaded on your personal device prior to
the call.
We are excited to see and hear from you in our community call! If you have
any questions, please feel free to email the Community Development team at
comdevteam(a)wikimedia.org.
Thank you,
The Community Development team
Cassie Casares
Program Support Associate
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org
Hello,
You’re invited to make our images more accessible and discoverable:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Image_Description_Week
Images on Wikipedia are used for more than just illustration, but less than
half of them are contextualized by a caption that relates the image to the
article, and only 10% have some form of alternative text (‘alt text’) that
describes the visual content of the image for people with low or no
vision. Our lack of image description not only limits the accessibility of
content on Wikipedia, it also reduces the ease with which our open access
images can be discovered through search.
*Tuesday*
- Miriam Redi will share her first impressions of the Wikipedia
Image/Caption Matching Challenge [1]
- Sandra Fauconnier will demo five easy tools to improve descriptions of
images on Commons
*Wednesday*
Michael Raish will share an evaluation of captions written as a newcomer
task [2]
*Thursday*
- Sudhanshu Gautam will introduce the Wikistories pilot [3] and invite you
to create your own image-led stories on the Beta Cluster
- Florence Devouard will describe the life of an image after it's uploaded
to Commons
- Sandra Fauconnier will show beginners how to use OpenRefine [4] to
describe batches of images on Commons
We hope you'll be inspired to include more image description in your own
contributions and campaigns.
Fiona
1.
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/09/09/the-wikipedia-image-caption-match…
2.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tas…
3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistories
4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine
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*Fiona Romeo* (she/her)
Senior Manager, GLAM & Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>