This month’s news and happenings include a new book and our next community
meeting. Details below.
News
ESEAP 2022
Thank you to everyone who attended and assisted in making the recent ESEAP
conference <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2022> a great
success. So many people from around the world took part in-person and
shared ideas, tips, and discussions based on the many projects they’ve been
involved in. We’ll have a more indepth update in the coming weeks, and all
recorded sessions will be uploaded to our YouTube channel
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7KmIF_I_csO9XZrxUhyVYA> soon. In the
meantime, photos from ESEAP are being added on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:ESEAP_Conference_2022>. Thank
you!
The Worlds of Wikimedia
The Worlds of Wikimedia (WOW) conference was another huge success. Thank
you to everyone who joined in both online and in-person. Photos are being
added on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Worlds_of_Wikimedia_2022> and
are now illustrating the WOW website <https://www.wow2022.net/>. Jess
Wade’s video presentation is also available to watch on the WOW website
<https://www.wow2022.net/>, and you can read our wrap up here
<https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Worlds_of_Wikimedia_2022>. Thank you to
Bunty Avieson and Frances Di Lauro for putting together a great series of
presentations.
Heather Ford writes on Wikipedia
Heather Ford has published her book Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and
the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age focusing on how the Wikipedia page
on the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution> evolved following
its creation mere hours after the revolution began. The book was ten years
in the making and was launched at the recent Worlds of Wikipedia
conference. You can read more about it in this recent essay by Heather Ford
<https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-shaping-history-why-i-spent-ten-years-studying-one-wikipedia-article-192602>,
or find more information at MIT Press
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046299/writing-the-revolution/>.
Tim Sherratt’s guest post about his recent Wikidata project
Tim Sherratt is a historian, hacker, and Associate Professor of Digital
Heritage at University of Canberra. He runs the GLAM Workbench
<https://glam-workbench.net/>, a collection of guides to help you explore
and use data from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. Earlier this
year he received a grant from Wikimedia Australia to explore and create
integration of Australian government agency data with Wikidata. Read part
one of two articles where he discusses his recent work
<https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Exploring_government_departments_by_linking_Wikidata_to_the_National_Archives_of_Australia>
and watch his recent presentation for our November Community Meeting on
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQ_-QgUOBw>.
Events
Online Drop In Session - Thursday 8 & 15 December
Drop in and join us online with any Wikipedia questions you have for these
two special sessions on Zoom. Are you interested in learning how to edit
Wikipedia? Or need help adding a reference? Would you like some tips on
using Visual Editor? Our volunteers will be available to answer questions
you have. Feel free to drop in at any time from 11am AEDT. See our Events
page for more <https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Events>.
Next Community Meeting - Wednesday 14 December
Our monthly community meetings are open to everyone. In December, we have a
presentation from Kerry Raymond on the Wikipedia tool Web2Cit
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Web2Cit>, and special guest Ewan
McAndrew, Wikimedian
in Residence at University of Edinburgh
<https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia/about-the-residency>,
will join us to discuss his work implementing Wikimedia projects across his
university. Join us Wednesday 14 December at 7pm AEDT. Details here
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/AustralianCommunityMeeting_14_December_2022>
.
More events will be announced soon. Keep up to date on our website
<https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia>.
#Wikimedia
Other things from around the web:
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Wikipedia’s Citations Are Influencing Scholars and Publishers
<https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/11/01/guest-post-wikipedias-citations-are-influencing-scholars-and-publishers/>,
The Scholarly Kitchen
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Writing the Revolution — Wikipedia and the online battle over facts
<https://www.ft.com/content/872b64f5-e735-4feb-9580-1e362ba85b7b>,
Financial Times
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Wikipedia, Once Shunned, Now Embraced in the Classroom
<https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/11/09/more-professors-now-embrace-wikipedia-classroom>,
Inside Higher Ed
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Wildlife searches for ‘wild turkey’ on Wikipedia spike in spring and
fall, research shows
<https://www.thenewstribune.com/outdoors/article269144007.html>, The
News Tribune
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Apple is quietly tagging podcast episodes by topic (using Wikidata and
Wikipedia)
<https://wearebumper.com/blog/2022/11/15/apple-episode-topics/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2022-11-15>,
bumper
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