Hello everyone,
We have just published "Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s
multicultural gaps" to the blog. url below:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/24/black-history-month-edit-a-thons/
Thanks to Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence, Metropolitan New York
Library Council, Aliceba for all the help editing and getting the draft
ready for publication.
Below is some proposed social media messages for this story. Please tweak
as needed.
*Twitter (@wikimedianyc)*
* Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle #Wikipedia's multicultural gaps
throughout the U.S. (link)
#BlackLivesMatter #glamwiki
(too long)
* Black History Month and #BlackLivesMatter Wikipedia Edit-a-thons take
place throughout the United States to tackle Wikipedia's Multicultural Gaps
#Wikipedia #glamwiki
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*Facebook (Wikimedia NYC Facebook)*
*Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia's multicultural gaps:
#BlackLivesMatter events took place throughout the United States, helping
create many new articles about black history. (link)
Thanks,
--
Andrew Sherman
Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
*E:* asherman(a)wikimedia.org
Hello everyone,
We have just published "Wiki Loves Africa photo contest announces winning
pictures" to the blog. URL bellow
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/23/wiki-loves-africa-photo-contest/
Thanks to Florence Devouard, former chair Board of Trustees, Wikimedia
Foundation, and
Isla Haddow-Flood, Project Manager, WikiAfrica, for the beautiful photos
and help editing.
Below is some proposed social media messages for this story. Please tweak
as needed.
*Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):*
•Wiki Loves Africa photo contest about Cuisine announces winning pictures !
(link)
•Nutmeg, Sardines, Okro and more. Check out the winning photos from Wiki
Loves Africa (link)
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*Facebook/Google+]*
•Wiki Loves Africa photo contest announces winning pictures ! Over 6,000
images about food were uploaded to Commons for this competition. See the
winners and learn more. (link)
•Nutmeg, Sardines, Okro and more. See the winning photos from Wiki Loves
Africa. Over 6,000 images about food were uploaded to Commons for this
competition. See the winners and learn more. (link)
Thanks,
--
Andrew Sherman
Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
*E:* asherman(a)wikimedia.org
Interesting new research for social & perhaps WikiResearch
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Stevie Benton" <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
Date: Feb 23, 2015 2:33 AM
Subject: [Advocacy Advisors] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Economic value of the
public domain
To: "Advocacy Advisory Group for Wikimedia" <
advocacy_advisors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hello everyone,
Please see the below. The UK's Intellectual Property Office has
commissioned a study into the value of the public domain. As Andrew
highlights in his email, Wikipedia comes out of it rather well...
I'm going to read the whole report when I have time but this will certainly
strengthen our case for PDGov.
Thank you,
Stevie
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>
Date: 23 February 2015 at 09:36
Subject: [cultural-partners] Economic value of the public domain
To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination <
cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>
A recurrent topic, this one. A new UK study has appeared:
https://zenodo.org/record/14975/files/CREATe-Working-Paper-2015-01.pdf
"The overall purpose of the project was 1) to map the size of the
public domain and frequency of its use; 2) analyse the role of public
domain works in value creation for UK businesses; 3) assist creators
and entrepreneurs to identify business models that benefit from the
public domain." ...
Interestingly, it seems to duplicate the recent work done looking at
images on Wikipedia as an example of this:
"Using commercially equivalent licence fees obtained from Corbis and
Getty for images relating to the biographical sample, we estimate a
total value of USD $208 million (GBP £138 million) per year for the
1,983,609 English-language Wikipedia pages in appropriate categories
which contain public domain images."
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andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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Hi Social Media Folks!
I'd like to post the following announcement regarding a completed Project
and Event Grant.
This year's annual writing competition on Arabic Wikipedia produced 4,000
new and improved articles! Supported by #wmfgrants:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Shipmaster_-_Community_of_Arabic…
Thanks,
Alex
--
Alexandra Wang
Program Officer
Project & Event Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
+1 415-839-6885
Skype: alexvwang
Hello Everyone,
We have just published "Working to bring diversity on Wikimedia projects?
Share what you learned" to the blog. url below...
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/19/diversity-learning-patterns/
Thanks to Maria Curz, Community Coordinator of Program Evaluation & Design,
and Brett Gibbs, Learning and Evaluation Team intern, for the wonderful
help and patients editing.
Below is some proposed social media messages for this story. Please tweak
as needed.
*Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):*
•Help bring more diversity on @Wikimedia projects: share new ideas and earn
a barnstar! (link) #ILoveDiversity
•Diversify with @Wikimedia and #ILoveDiversity. Participate or share new
Learning Patterns to earn a Barnstar!
•Earn a #ILoveDiversity Barnstar from the Learning Pattern Library when you
participate or add a new Learning Pattern.
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*Facebook/Google+*
•Help bring more diversity on @Wikimedia projects: share new ideas and
learning patterns to earn a barnstar. Join the the #ILoveDiversity
initiative!
•Diversity and Learning patterns go hand in hand. Support the
#ILoveDiversity initiative and receive a cool Barnstar badge!
•Meta Wikimedia presents the #ILoveDiversity initiative. Participate or
added a new Learning Pattern and earn one of our new Barnstar badges!
Thanks,
--
Andrew Sherman
Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
*E:* asherman(a)wikimedia.org
Hello everyone,
Andrew and I just published the "Wikimedia Foundation supports Twitter’s fight for transparency" story on the blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/19/wikimedia-foundation-twitter-transpare…
Special thanks to Michelle Paulson and Geoff Brigham for writing and helping us publish this great story!
Here are our proposed social media messages for this story. Please tweak as needed.
Twitter:
Court accepts @Wikimedia & other tech orgs' amicus brief in support of @Twitter's fight for transparency. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/19/wikimedia-foundation-twitter-transpare…
Facebook/G+:
The Wikimedia Foundation supports Twitter's fight for transparency: On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation joined Automattic, Medium, and others to file an amicus brief against the Department of Justice regarding national security requests.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/19/wikimedia-foundation-twitter-transpare…
Feel free to tweak as needed.
Thanks,
Fabrice and Andrew
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Movement Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Do you think we could engage with this new subreddit?
http://www.reddit.com/r/improvingwikipedia/
by "improving", it appears to be specifically focused on content creation
rather than any sort of structural changes. Nothing that couldn't be done
on-wiki, of course, but for whatever reason (familiarity?) they've chosen
to do it here.
Note reddit has had http://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia for quite some time -
it has 150,000 readers, but it is (mostly) just a place for posting links
to interesting Wikipedia articles. The new one only has 36 readers... but
it is less than 24 hours old!
Regards,
Charles / User:Chuq
