Wikimedia-boston August 2013

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Request for interested speakers
by Kevin Rutherford 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

Hello Boston Wikimedians, Enid Karr, a librarian at Boston College is working on Open Access Week for the college, and is wondering if anyone would be interested in speaking or helping out with the event. In the e-mail, she mentioned ambassadors, but due to the fact that there are more people in Boston than just ambassadors, I am sending this out to the mailing list. Additionally, Kery Iyall Smith, a professor at Suffolk University is looking for an ambassador for a class that meets from 10:00-10:50 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. If you are an ambassador, or are looking to become one, let me know, as I am happy to provide more information. I have Cc’d both women onto this e-mail if anyone wants to find out more information directly, and I would encourage anyone who is interested to help out, because both outreach opportunities sound very interesting, and I would love it if they could both have a Wikimedian helping them. Kevin Rutherford

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Ada Lovelace Day Women-in-STEM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Oct 15 @ Brown University
by Maia Weinstock 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

Hi everyone, Just wanted to share the preliminary details for the 2nd annual New England Women-in-STEM edit-a-thon that will be held in conjunction with Ada Lovelace Day. This year's event will take place on *Tuesday, October 15th*from 3pm to 8:30pm in *Providence, RI* and is being co-organized by myself and several people at Brown University. Providence may be a bit of a hike for many of you, but I'm hoping to reach out to the Rhode Island/SE Mass./SE Conn. community as a way to recruit and train a new cohort of Wikimedians! If you cannot make it in person, we would still love to have you participate remotely... For more information, and to RSVP, check out our event page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada_Lovelace_Edit-a-thon_2013… We should have a room figured out by next week, at which time I will also be creating event pages on Meetup and Facebook. Please feel free to forward this to anyone in the New England area who may not be on this list! many thanks, Maia maiaw.com | 917-553-6158 | @20tauri | WP:Girona7

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Fwd: [Wikimediaus-l] Your city's events for WP Takes America and WP Loves Libraries?
by Samuel Klein 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

>From wikim'aus. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:41 AM Subject: [Wikimediaus-l] Your city's events for WP Takes America and WP Loves Libraries? To: "Wikimedia U.S. Chapter" <wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi Wiki-Americans, You are invited to add your city's events for Wikipedia Takes America in September and Wikipedia Loves Libraries in October/November (or for libraries, really anytime in the Fall is good). With the current publicity period, now is the time to get some attention and gather communities together! Please don't hesitate to add preliminary event planning, it's always better to share a local sense of what is brewing :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) _______________________________________________ Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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Annotating law and policy and wikis: Tue and Wed @ Berkman
by Samuel Klein 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Tomorrow afternoon from 3-5 there will be a technical overview of the Hypothesis platform and other tools being used to annotate laws and policies. About Hypothesis: http://hypothes.is/instructions/ https://github.com/hypothesis/h/wiki/roadmap https://github.com/hypothesis/h/wiki About the workshops: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ubga7ryBx99tBW_QzrXGqE0HqlG83freGEb8OJ6… If you're interested in attending for tomorrow afternoon, let me know or just drop by. If you're interested in coming for part of the workshop on Wed, let me know and I'll add you to the list. Sam. -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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Wikimania redux
by Samuel Klein 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Dear Wikiholics, I just returned from Wikimania Hong Kong, which was organized particularly well this year. Kudos to the local team; they wrote up their experiences quite well for the benefit of future bids. You can find slides from many of the talks and sessions online: http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule Some reflections on how it went are being shared now on the wikimania-l list as well, if you want to browse it. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2013-August/thread.html Back in Boston this week, there are discussions of legal annotation tomorrow and Wednesday: details in a separate message. Warmly, Sam. -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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Request for One Hour of Assistance Setting Up Wiki for Educational Project
by Rick 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Dear Boston Wikipedians, For the purpose of tweaking a wiki, I would be grateful for one hour of help from one of your members. Having met SJ Klein and others at an open house at the Berkman Center a couple of years back, and more recently at Clover in Harvard Square, I feel as though one or more of you may be interested in contributing an easy hour of your busy time to this particular project. I have basic skills and experience with MediaWiki, but I need some brief how-to assistance with some intermediate tasks. I have already gleaned what I can from documentation, help lines, and fiddling around. Using Mediawiki, I have begun setting up a wiki to support collaboration among the founders of a proposed grade 6-12 school. The group comprises oceanographers and marine biologists, maritime historians, geographers, geologist/geophysicists, linguists, authors, and practitioners from other disciplines who want to share the excitement of their marine and maritime perspectives with students of the rising generation. The school, to be called the "New Bedford Cheironeum," after Cheiron, the first teacher (and teacher of Jason and the Argonauts), will: - locate in the historic port of New Bedford, - function as a tuition-free, publicly supported, independently governed, "charter" school - serve a disadvantaged population of 756 students - emphasize "Ocean Education" through experiential learning - train students to operate a soon-to-be restored 120-yr-old, 100-ft long historic schooner as an ocean-going research vessel (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xhIHFKVDzU) - apply for membership in the International Baccalaureate "Middle Years Programme" and "Diploma Programme." - create a model for the creation of similar schools throughout the Atlantic basin The wiki I set up is currently password-protected. The url is www.NewBedfordCheironeum.org/wiki, and it is hosted by www.FatCow.com. I have a basic wiki. I need limited help with: - upgrading the current versions of MediaWiki, PHP, and MySQL - setting up one or two examples of templates, categories, portals, etc. - adding some basic extensions (parser,etc.) I am familiar with what needs to be done, but not practiced at it. This wiki needs to be robust enough to support and encourage communication among seriously committed founders, while stimulating the interest of potential supporters. We have plenty of content; we need a more engaging structure. We are trying to create a main page that resembles, in a more modest way, the main page of Wikipedia. We are also open to whatever suggestions you care to make. Thank you for considering this request. Your help at this juncture would be an invaluable contribution. Best regards, Rick Porteus Lead Founder New Bedford Cheironeum rporteus(a)NewBedfordCheironeum.org Mobile: 508-292-0476 I am in the process of designing a secondary school, grades 6-12, to focus on "Ocean-based Education" open as a charter school in -- Rick Porteus

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Re: [Wikimedia-boston] WMF hack/hangout day?
by Rachel Thomas 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Hi, I'll be able to come down to the hack day on either Tues or Wed of that week. I'll probably be there from about 9am to 5pm I will be mainly hacking on my QA scripts, but am also interested in the other activities/project work that will be going on there, and learning more about the other parts of Wikimedia I don't know about. I can give an informal demonstration of how to write our QA tests, if people are interested. What day is better for me to come into Bocoup? Thanks. --Rachel *Gnome FOSS Outreach Program for Women Intern Browser Test Automation, Wikimedia Foundation* Notes from the Bleeding Edge <http://www.bleededge.blogspot.com/> On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:00 AM, < wikimedia-boston-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send Wikimedia-boston mailing list submissions to > wikimedia-boston(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 11:38:16 -0400 > From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian(a)wikimedia.org> > To: wikimedia-boston(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Cc: Mark Holmquist <mholmquist(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-boston] WMF hack/hang-out? > Message-ID: > <CAK5kH3z8KqCxDuDg0NNzceUM-2+L5pONtwEEWqaKu= > bz_bqFkQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Looks like we're set to do some coworking at http://loft.bocoup.com ("355 > Congress Street, a 5 minute walk from South Station") on Monday Aug 19 > through Wed Aug 21. > > Let me know if: > a) you have a particular project and particular time you'd like to work > with others on that project > b) you'd like to hang out with WMF folks and have a particular time you'd > like to do so ;) > c) you'd like to organize something on Saturday Aug 17 at the bocoup > space. > > Otherwise I expect I'll be @ bocoup roughly 10:30am - 5:30pm on those three > days. Come and be social, and maybe something serendipitous will happen! > --scott > > -- > (http://cscott.net) >

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Re: [Wikimedia-boston] Wikimedia-boston Digest, Vol 35, Issue 17
by Rachel Thomas 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

Yes, I'd be interested in meeting up for a meetup/hackday. I'm currently an Outreach Program for Women intern for the QA automation team at Wikmedia, so I could hack on one of our QA tests, and I can show others how we are automating our tests these days. It's a pretty cool setup using Cucumber/Ruby/Selenium, and volunteers might be interested in learning the tools and helping out with one of the tests. --Rachel *Gnome FOSS Outreach Program for Women Intern Browser Test Automation, Wikimedia Foundation* Notes from the Bleeding Edge <http://www.bleededge.blogspot.com/> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:00 AM, < wikimedia-boston-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send Wikimedia-boston mailing list submissions to > wikimedia-boston(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikimedia-boston-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikimedia-boston-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-boston digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: WMF hack/hang-out? (Samuel Klein) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:05:05 -0400 > From: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> > To: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian(a)wikimedia.org> > Cc: Boston Wikipedians <wikimedia-boston(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-boston] WMF hack/hang-out? > Message-ID: > < > CAAtU9WLJ5oMuBVu2XspcVDNpE7GNck8K0U8CNs8eV9-1tOPNaQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I've asked Adam Hyland, a Boston wikipedian who works at the swank > software-house Bocoup, if they might have space we could use in their > demesne that week. > > You would also all be welcome at the Berkman Center - I could find a > room for us all in the new Wasserstein building at Harvard -- more > academic, less startup-culture. (more people hacking on annotation > :-) > > Either way, I'd be glad to spend those weekdays in a shared space. And > other Wikimedians would be welcome to come by and spend time with us. > > Warmly, > SJ > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:36 PM, C. Scott Ananian > <cananian(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > I hack on mediawiki for WMF. Mark Holmquist, another WMF hacker, is > going > > to be visiting Boston roughly Aug. 16 - Aug 21. There are other WMF folk > > scattered around here, along with lots of volunteers. Is anyone up for a > > meetup/hackday? Mark and I would like to play with hooking up Mozilla's > Tow > > Truck (https://towtruck.mozillalabs.com/) in order to allow real-time > > collaboration in a wiki context. (Editing? TeaHouse? Talk pages? > > something like that.) Maybe other people have their own hacking projects > > where it would be useful to be nearby and pick our brains? > > --scott > > > > -- > > (http://cscott.net) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-boston mailing list > > Wikimedia-boston(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston > > > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-boston mailing list > Wikimedia-boston(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston > > > End of Wikimedia-boston Digest, Vol 35, Issue 17 > ************************************************ >

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The Wikipedia Education Program is recruiting; user group updates
by Kevin Rutherford 03 Aug '13

03 Aug '13

Hello everyone, Firstly, I hope that you all have been having a great day, as it has been beautiful all this week! As you all know, the fall semester is fast approaching, and the Wikipedia Education Program is searching for Campus Volunteers to help facilitate the teaching of Wikipedia to students at local Boston-area college campuses. A few people receiving this e-mail already are already involved in the program and know what I’m talking about, but for those of you are are interested in finding out more information, you can go here: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program. Mainly all of the classes will be occurring within the 128 belt, but there is one class that will be occurring at Merrimack College, so if anyone would be able to easily go there, that would be great! In terms of involvement, if anyone wants to become involved, please let me know, and I will be happy to do a very brief interview and guide you along on the process. Finally, some updates on the user group front. Due to the developments at the last meeting, we have moved from the “In discussion” phase to the “Planned” phase. Our next group step is to be approved, now that Maia and I have agreed to sign and submit the User Group Agreement (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_Agreement), and hopefully we will be at this stage during our next meeting, when we can plan on electing an interim steering committee to help lead until our next annual meeting, where we will pursue the idea of possible chapter status. If you have any questions about the Education Program, e-mail me (but not the entire list), and if you have any questions about the User Group, e-mail the list (but not me directly). Have a great weekend! Kevin Rutherford

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WMF hack/hang-out?
by C. Scott Ananian 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

I hack on mediawiki for WMF. Mark Holmquist, another WMF hacker, is going to be visiting Boston roughly Aug. 16 - Aug 21. There are other WMF folk scattered around here, along with lots of volunteers. Is anyone up for a meetup/hackday? Mark and I would like to play with hooking up Mozilla's Tow Truck (https://towtruck.mozillalabs.com/) in order to allow real-time collaboration in a wiki context. (Editing? TeaHouse? Talk pages? something like that.) Maybe other people have their own hacking projects where it would be useful to be nearby and pick our brains? --scott -- (http://cscott.net)

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