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Need help writing great case studies? Come to office hours!
by Alex Stinson 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

Hi all, We wanted to remind you about the Case Studies campaign from the Programs team at the Wikimedia Foundation: our hope is to collect case studies of program or activities that haven’t been documented before. We hope to collect more representatives case studies for Education, GLAM and other program areas to better support and inspire other program leaders! To learn more see: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Case_studies If you would like to learn more about what makes great Case Studies, we are holding office hours on Tuesday: - 1800 MYT/1000 UTC on November 28: https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/case-studies_utc0800 - 1200 EST/1600 UTC on November 28: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/case-studies <https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/case-studies?hceid=YXN0aW5…> If you can’t attend these office hours, but would like help thinking about your potential case study, please let us know: astinson(a)wikimedia.org or nsaad(a)wikimedia.org Hope you share! Nichole Saad, Education Program Manager Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist -- 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: http://glamwiki.org

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Fwd: #1lib1ref 2018! Make sure your ready!
by Alex Stinson 22 Nov '17

22 Nov '17

Hi GLAM and Library Wikimedians, This is a reminder that #1lib1ref organizing and outreach should start happening soon, especially with the New Year/holiday season coming up. If you want to help do outreach or coordination in your region or language context, but did not receive the organizing email below please let me know. We are available to answer questions and consult on developing local iterations and instances of the campaign in your context! Cheers, Alex Stinson ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:12 PM Subject: #1lib1ref 2018! Make sure your ready! To: Jessamyn West <jwest(a)wikimedia.org> Hello #1lib1ref Wikimedia organizers! You are getting this email if you expressed interest in organizing #1lib1ref this year, or supported organizing in previous years! #1lib1ref will launch January 16! We’ll ask librarians to celebrate Wikipedia’s birthday by adding one reference to Wikipedia. This is the third year we will be running the campaign ( see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons if you want to learn from previous years). Updating content #1lib1ref is an opportunity to highlight the intimate and growing relationship between Wikipedia and libraries. We know librarians use Wikipedia for a variety of purposes, but specifically focusing on how our references work helps librarians and those they work with understand and enter our community -- and in turn educate their patrons about our community . If you would like to coordinate #1lib1ref in your area, here are the main steps: 1. Begin outreach to you contact list for allies or partners you think would be interested in #1lib1ref this year. We find that working with regional library network organizations helps a lot. You may consider contacting important partners, who can help you communicate during the campaign now: to help them prepare blog posts, or other communications for the campaigns. Examples from previous years can be found at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Press/2017 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Press/2017> and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/ 1Lib1Ref/Press/2016 1. Review Citation Hunt -- Check if your language is supported in the top right for citation hunt: https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/ / https://citationhunt.org 1. If you want to translate into new language, please do so at: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:CitationHunt <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:CitationHunt> 2. Once you have a language translated (or discover a bug or needed change), request support at: https://github.com/eggpi/ citationhunt/issues 1. Review Hashtag Tracking --Hashtag tracking is an important part of demonstrating the impact of the campaign. Make sure your language is supported: - URL: https://tools.wmflabs.org/hashtags - Report bugs or request features or language support: https://github.com/hatnote/hashtags/issues/new <https://github.com/hatnote/hashtags/issues/new> 1. Get to know the campaign pages (see list after the signature), and translate pages you need in your local language. Feel free to customize or modify the pages in your language to better meet the needs of your local community. Please let Jessamyn (cc'ed) or myself know if there are improvements for campaign pages in your language. We look forward to collaborating with you! Thanks so much for your help—it should be a lot of fun, and we can’t do this project without you! If you have any questions please respond to this email, and we will make sure to help you find that support! Best, Alex Stinson Here is a list of pages that act as the main campaign pages - The Main Campaign Page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref> - The “How to participate” instructions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate> - The Citation Help instructions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Help> - The Connect page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/ 1Lib1Ref/Connect - The Side Bar: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:The_Wikipedia_ Library/1Lib1Ref/Sidebar - “the Coffee Hour kit”: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Coffee_Kit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Coffee_Kit> Note that there are a few coordination pages that do not need translation, but you should still check out: - A page for recording press/blog mentions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Press <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Press> A page for recording events: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Template:The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect/Events -- 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: http://glamwiki.org -- 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: http://glamwiki.org

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Reminder: Structured Commons IRC office hour starts in a bit more than an hour
by Sandra Fauconnier 21 Nov '17

21 Nov '17

Hi all! In a bit more than an hour - at 18:00 UTC - the IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons will start in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office. We plan to give many updates about the project, and of course there is also room for questions. The log will be published afterwards. Hope to see you there! Sandra -- Sandra Fauconnier Community Liaison for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation sfauconnier(a)wikimedia.org

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IRC office hour about Structured Commons: Tue Nov 21 @ 18:00 UTC
by Sandra Fauconnier 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Hi everyone! If you are curious about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: we have a IRC office hour planned next Tuesday, November 21, at 18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office <irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-office> (connect <https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-office>). Amanda Bittaker, Ramsey Isler and I will update you on the things we are working on, and on the upcoming plans and roadmap. If you are unable to be there: the log of the office hour will be published afterwards. But of course, when attending live, you can ask us all your burning questions :-) Hope to see you there! Sandra More (freshly renewed!) info about Structured Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data Newsletters (+ subscription link): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Structured_Data_on_Commons/Newsletter -- Sandra Fauconnier Community Liaison for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation sfauconnier(a)wikimedia.org

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Calling all program leaders and admirers! We need your Case Studies!
by Alex Stinson 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Calling all program leaders and admirers! Is there an education, GLAM or other program that you really admire? One you would like to know more about? Have you seen via the newsletter, blog, or social media a project that you think would make a great case study? The WMF Programs team would like you to encourage program leaders now to submit their case study to the Programs Case Studies Campaign. We will be accepting submissions until January 8, 2017 . We will then select projects in Education, GLAM and across all program areas to be highlighted in new case study brochures and materials. See https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Case_studies for more information about submission criteria and the selection process. Thanks much, Nichole Saad, Education Program Manager Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist -- 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: http://glamwiki.org

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#1lib1ref is coming! Help us organize!
by Alex Stinson 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

Hi Wikimedia program leaders and affiliates, The WMF Programs Team is excited to remind everyone that even though it’s October, #1lib1ref is coming! The campaign is January 15 - February 3, 2018, we will be launching our annual campaign where we ask librarians to celebrate Wikipedia’s birthday by adding one reference to Wikipedia.[1] This is the third year we will be running the campaign.[2] Last year we saw participation grow significantly from a handful of languages being actively coordinated by our communities, to dozens of affiliates and local organizers sponsoring or supporting the campaign and activating networks of librarians to be engaged. In particular: - the coffee hour kit, that helped librarians run simple editing events that taught other librarians how to participate: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Coffee_Kit - Support from the Wikipedia + Libraries Facebook group and an increased number of locally-led outreach and communications activities led to a steady increase in participation. What’s new? Following the success of last year’s campaign, we have identified a number of potential improvements that we would like to make to the campaign: - Some of the most successful #1lib1ref efforts, involved either pledges (i.e the State Library of Queensland pledged to add 1000 citations), or playful competition -- building on this idea, we are hoping to develop instructions and tactics for doing this. Look for more updates soon. - We have additional communications and community support at the foundation, from both the Communications team at the Foundation, and an engagement advocate and long time friend-of-the-campaign: Jessamyn West <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West_(librarian)> . This increased capacity allows us to do more targeted and supportive outreach the international library community, better design of outreach materials, and more coordinated and targeted support to our communities developing local language/context outreach. Where to start? We invite you or your affiliates to help support or coordinate local outreach to libraries! We need your help this year, to help make the campaign more inclusive: 1. Join the Wikipedia + Libraries Facebook group, where we will be coordinating many of the efforts during the campaign: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikilibrary 1. Start developing a list of allies or partners you think would be interested in #1lib1ref this year! Consider identifying regional library networks that you haven't partnered with yet. 1. Share your information so we can provide direct support: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEPXkpien91y2cRikM5IagBIct7Se6FTj… We will provide regular status updates on tools, translation, and communication materials to folks who fill out the form above. We’re looking forward to working together on the campaign this year! Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads [1] Note: Spanish speaking Latin American communities led by Wikimedia Argentina and Mexico plan on running a secondary campaign in Spanish in May to celebrate Spanish Wikipedia’s birthday and to avoid the Southern Hemisphere summer holiday season. If you would like to learn more contact: comunicacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar [2] We have learned lots of great lessons from the last few years, learn more at: - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Ja… Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: http://glamwiki.org

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[Wikipedia Library User Group] Endorsing the Wikimedia 2030 Strategic Direction?
by UY Scuti 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

Hello everyone! We'd like to inform you about the Wikimedia 2030 Strategic Direction <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017>. If you haven't already heard about that, it is a deep look into our future as a community, where do we see ourselves in the next 15 years, what do we want and what changes should we make? Today is Endorsement day <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction/…> for the strategy, and we would like to know whether we should *as a user group*, endorse this direction or not. Endorsement doesn't mean 100% agreement but support for continuing the process with this document as a foundation. Please share your thoughts on the user group talk page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_Library_User_Group#Endorsing…> . Thank you, Aaron

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Make Wikipedia's Citations More Open with OAbot
by Jake Orlowitz 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

Hi! It's #openaccess <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/openaccess?source=feed_text> week and The Wikipedia Library is taking part with a viral, microcontribution campaign called #OAwiki <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/oawiki?source=feed_text>. The idea is simple: go to the web app OAbot <http://www.oabot.org>, review a citation with a closed access (paywalled) link, check the suggested open citation, and add the open link to the citation if it's a good fit. This makes every citation on Wikipedia easier to access, read, and verify! I'd love it if you would try out http:// <http://goog_1231209814/>oabot.org . Tweet https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/922529464898043904 Blog *https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/24/open-access-week/ <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/24/open-access-week/>* Also if you could share in your networks and say something nice about it this week, we can push #openaccess even further! Thanks and cheers, Jake Orlowitz Wikipedia Library Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: [Wmfall] October 12: Strategy update - Movement direction now posted for your endorsement consideration (#26)
by Alex Stinson 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

Hello GLAM-Wiki folks, If you didn't catch it, the Movement Strategy team is asking for endorsements of the strategic direction. Cheers, Alex Stinson ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 5:10 PM Subject: [Wmfall] October 12: Strategy update - Movement direction now posted for your endorsement consideration (#26) To: Wikimedia Mailing List <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, " wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Movement Affiliates discussion list <Affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Internal mailing list for the Wikimedia's affiliations chairpersons < Chairpersons(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, strategy(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, I’m delighted to share that a final version of the Wikimedia movement's new strategic direction has been posted on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10422143 The drafting group[1] bravely spent several weeks reading, considering, and (when possible) responding to the comments posted about the previous drafts. Attempting to capture and synthesize the aspirations and opinions of a global movement based on hundreds of offline and online conversations is no easy task. Please join me in thanking them not only for taking on this formidable process, but for helping develop something I believe we can all be proud of. I am optimistic that this strategic direction provides every individual and entity within the Wikimedia movement something to be excited about. Beginning on October 26, we will be asking for individual contributors and organized groups to endorse this new strategic direction for our movement. I encourage you to spend the intervening days discussing this direction and determining if you and/or your group will be endorsing it. You will find more information about the endorsement day and the process on the direction’s meta page next week. The endorsement concludes phase 1 of the process, and we are currently drafting the next steps of the process. The main goal of phase 2 will be to answer the question "How do we implement the strategic direction", which means identifying the resources needed for execution, and the activities it involves. A first rough overview of this phase is being developed on Meta. Take a look! [2] On a different note, we have completed the move into our new office space at One Montgomery Tower![3] Once again, thank you to everyone on staff who was involved in making the move so seamless, and to all of you for your patience over the past couple of weeks. Later this month, once we are more settled in, we will be sharing photos and information about our new space on the Wikimedia Blog. Stay tuned! መልካም ቀን። (Amharic translation: “Have a nice day”), Katherine [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/ 2017/People/Drafting_Group [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_2030/Process_planning [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_headquarters _______________________________________________ Wmfall mailing list Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall -- 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: http://glamwiki.org

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Books & Bytes – Issue 23, June – July 2017
by Aaron 21 Oct '17

21 Oct '17

Books & Bytes is the bi-monthly newsletter of The Wikipedia Library, focusing on recent, ongoing and upcoming activities and events in TWL and relevant topic areas. Read our previous newsletters here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter> and subscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Sign_up>! _Books & Bytes – Issue 23, June – July 2017_ Highlights: * Library card * User Group update * Global branches update * Spotlight: Combating misinformation, fake news, and censorship * Bytes in brief /Chinese, Arabic and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!/ Read the full newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/June-July2… For more updates, follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikilibrary>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/TheWikiLibrary/> and join the Facebook group <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikiLibrary/> The Wikipedia Library Team http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library

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