Dear Esteemed Wikimedians,
We at DCW trust this message finds you in good health and high spirits.
Your unwavering commitment to the Wikimedia movement has played a pivotal
role in shaping the world of open knowledge sharing, and for that, we
extend our heartfelt gratitude.
We are thrilled to extend a special invitation to you to participate in the
"Wikimedia Leadership Development and Skills Enhancement Survey." This
survey has been meticulously crafted to gather your valuable insights and
experiences regarding leadership development and skills infrastructure
within our community.
Survey Details:
Title: Wikimedia Leadership Development and Skills Enhancement Survey
Duration: Approximately 10 minutes.
Purpose: Your input will be instrumental in guiding our efforts to better
support and empower Wikimedians in their leadership journeys.
How to Participate:
Click on the survey link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdv5ycHRfaod6wbj8zvhIfwO8Mq0pALeBC…>
here
to access the questionnaire.
Thoughtfully and candidly complete the survey by 5th October 2023. Rest
assured that your responses will be held in strict confidence and used
exclusively for research
purposes.
By participating in this survey, you become an integral part of the ongoing
evolution of leadership development and skills enrichment within the
Wikimedia movement and of DCW's ongoing project for the same. Your voice
matters, and your perspectives are essential.
We deeply appreciate your dedication to the Wikimedia community and your
willingness to help us continue to grow and thrive. Your insights will
directly impact the future direction of our project and movement.
Thank you for your time, commitment, and passion for open knowledge
sharing. We eagerly anticipate your participation in the survey.
Warm regards,
Affaf Nasir
Affaf(DCW).
Email address – affaf(a)dcwwiki.org
Hello,
Please join us for the first of three AI Salon panel discussions re the
intersection of Wikibrarians and artificial intelligence. This one will be
on GoogleMeet.
Thursday, Sep 28, 2023
10am EDT (UTC−04:00)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_and_Libraries_User_Group/Salons/2…
Thank you!
Best,
Rajene Hardeman
Chair WLUG Steering Committee
Forwarding this message as it might be interesting for the subscribers of
this list:
*Third Wikidata Working Hour: Adding the books from the bibliography of
diverse LIS resources
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YZjaD5l9hZPLiGRx6oqS7-dwy_d3M3-FDtJ…>.*
Date: Friday, September 15, 2023
*Time*: 8:00am PT / 11:00pm ET / 15:00 UTC / 4:00pm WAT / 5:00pm CEST / 8:30pm
IST (Time zone converter <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1694790009>)
Zoom link to join:
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97525952891?pwd=cVl1ZUNwVjlqM2NwdlA5aWhuQ2UwQT09
More details below :)
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From: Mohammed Awal Alhassan <alhassanawal77(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 9:39 AM
Subject: [African Wikimedians] LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group: Summer/Fall
Wikidata Working Hour Series Third Session September 15th!
To: <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings, everyone –
Over the summer and into the 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 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 third Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover adding the books
from our bibliography of diverse LIS resources
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YZjaD5l9hZPLiGRx6oqS7-dwy_d3M3-FDtJ…>that
we created in our 1st session to Wikidata as both works and editions. We
will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and
its browser
plugin <https://www.zotero.org/download/connectors> to automatically
extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that
can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements.
To get a sneak preview of what we will be doing, you can learn more about
the Wikidata & Zotero link here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Zotero.
Date and time: Friday, September 15, 2023 at 8:00am PT / 11:00pm ET / 15:00
UTC / 4:00pm WAT / 5:00pm CEST / 8:30pm IST (Time zone converter
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1694790009>)
Zoom link to join:
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97525952891?pwd=cVl1ZUNwVjlqM2NwdlA5aWhuQ2UwQT09
Password: 215071
Event page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
Subsequent Working Hours will cover webscraping for data in the PAWS
environment, adding authors and publishers manually into Wikidata, batch
editing using OpenRefine, batch editing using the LINCS tool, using the
Author Disambiguator tool, 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, 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
#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
WikiProject page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
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*Silvia Gutiérrez* (she/her)
Senior Program Officer, Libraries
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear all,
From November 2023 until April 2024, there will be an intensive online
train-the-trainer course
<http://c:commons:OpenRefine/Train-the-trainer_program_2023-24> for
candidate OpenRefine-Wikimedia trainers.
Do you want to help spread knowledge about OpenRefine, support Wikimedians
and their partners (cultural and other knowledge institutions) in using
OpenRefine to contribute to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikimedia projects?
Then apply for this course
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Train-the-trainer_pro…>.
There is room for up to 8 motivated participants.
You can find more info about the course, and a link to the application
form, on Wikimedia Commons.
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Train-the-trainer_pro…>
*Timeline*
- September 1 until September 15, 2023: application period. Read more
and apply here.
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Train-the-trainer_pro…>
- October 1, 2023: all applicants are notified.
- November 1, 2023: train-the-trainer course starts with a maximum of 8
participants.
Looking forward to your applications,
Sandra Fauconnier (User:SFauconnier)