Hi all,
Just a reminder that this Friday we will have a Wikipedia Art+Feminism
editathon at the MIT Libraries, from 1-4pm, in room 14N-132.
We will focus on artists' books and have a talk and showing of some of the
amazing artists' books in our collection by our art librarian! Then we can
work on articles about the artists, or another topic of your choosing.
More information and signup here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/MIT_Art%2BFeminism_20…
or here:
http://libcal.mit.edu/event/4021320
Let me know if you have any questions,
Phoebe
Hi Everyone,
Happy New Year! Hope you are excited for a fruitful new year of Wikipedia :)
Major
updates / activities for January-February 2018
1. Wikipedia Anniversary Celebration (Boston) :
Wikipedia will be 17 year old in January 2018! We have hosted
celebration parties in the past around Wikipedia Day and we can host
another small celebration/meet-up in late January/February as per
everyone's convenience.
Kindly participate in the poll and let us know your availability -
https://doodle.com/poll/ts3r7vwqsfp7v4mz
2.
Data and Editing Workshop @ MIT
:
SJ is organizing a workshop for people interested in writing about
universities and their people+research, next Tues-Thurs.
Hosted by the Media Lab, which has been leading the way w/ free-licensing
policies. This is part of MIT's inter-activities period, and open to the
public; but requires an RSVP for lunch.
Details and RSVP here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/2018_
Data_and_Editing_Workshop
You may reach out to SJ if you are interested in being a mentor for an
hour on one of those days.
3.
Wikipedia Anniversary Celebration (New York)
:
The Wikipedia Day 2018 NYC will be an all day celebration and
mini-conference on Sunday, January 14, 2018, hosted by Wikimedia New York
City at the Ace Hotel <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Hotel> in
Manhattan. This Wikipedia Day
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day> celebrates
Wikipedia's 17th birthday and we expect more than 150 people joining
conversations about Wikimedia and allied projects presented by Free Culture
Alliance NYC <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_Alliance_NYC>
partners.
More information :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2018
4
. Wikimedia Conference and report writing:
After successful report submission - t
he New England
Wikimedians
user group
is eligible
to send
two
representative
s
to the Wikimedia
Conference taking place from
20 to 22 April, 2018 in Berlin,Germany.
We
need to update our user group repor
t in order to qualify
. I have updated previous 201
6
/201
7
reports
Kindly have a look at the draft -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_England_Wikimedians/Reports
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_England_Wikimedians/Reports>
Apologies if I missed any events, feel free to edit the page.
After final report submission, we can talk about Wikimedia Conference
representatives at our next event/meet-up.
Thanks for reading this far, and hope to see you soon at Wikipedia
anniversary celebration event :)
Best
Regards
,
Abhishek
Suryawanshi,
Your friendly New England Wikimedian
Dear wiki wanderers,
I'm organizing a workshop for people interested in writing about
universities and their people+research, next Tues-Thurs. Hoping to help
get closer to 100% coverage in our fair city.
Hosted by the Media Lab, which has been leading the way w/ free-licensing
policies. This is part of MIT's inter-activities period, and open to the
public; but requires an RSVP for lunch. Details and RSVP here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/2018_Data_and_Editing…
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/2018_Data_and_Editing…>Let
me know if any of you are interested in being a mentor for an hour on one
of those days.
Warmly, SJ
===
Learn to edit Wikipedia like a pro: with structured data, annotated
sources, and memorable media. Learn how to compile lists of people,
places, and projects and turn them into redlinks.
Learn to make your own work accessible to others who might write about it.
Practice using the network of Wikidata, Commons, and Wikisource for
distributing already-published work.
Compete for clarity, glory, and cryptokitties.
*Where*: E15-359
*When*: Jan 9-11, 12-5pm* / 12-4pm / 12-4pm
[Jan 9 we're meeting elsewhere for lunch. RSVP for details]
*Who*: Humans + algorithmic entities with an interest in Boston-area
research
*What* to bring: Blood, sweat, tears. A laptop.
===
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Megan Wacha <megan(a)wikimedianyc.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 10:13 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia NYC] January 14th: Wikipedia Day 2018
To: wikimedia_nyc(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear Wiki-Yorkers,
You are invited to attend Wikipedia Day 2018 on Sunday, January 14th at the
Ace Hotel in midtown Manhattan!
Part of Wikipedia's global 17th birthday celebration, Wikipedia Day will
include a mini-conference of scheduled panels as well as unconference style
talks and discussions proposed by attendees on the day of the event. And it
wouldn't be a birthday without cake, so we'll have plenty of that too.
This event is free of cost and open to all. We encourage you to invite
anyone who might be interested in discussing Wikipedia and Wikimedia
projects, but all attendees must agree to follow our friendly space
policies: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policies
To register, please sign-up at http://www.acehotel.com/calend
ar/newyork/wikipedia-day-2018. See this year's schedule and sign your wiki
account name on the wiki event page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2018.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our
roster, and otherwise join in the open space experience. We look forward to
seeing you soon!
Megs
--
President, Wikimedia New York City
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Hello Wikimedians of Boston!
The New England Association for Information Science & Technology (NEASIST)
is hosting an upcoming conference at Simmons College in Boston on January
8th called *Understanding and Using APIs*. The conference is meant to
appeal to beginner or expert users of APIs and we are bringing in guests
from WBUR, EBSCO, Harvard Art Museums, and others to present and demo their
web APIs or projects built using public APIs. Most folks working with open
data would find this useful for their own projects. Please pass on this
invitation to the any other folks that might be interested.
Best,
Joshua Dull, NEASIS&T PC Co-Chair
WHAT: Understanding & Using APIs
REGISTER:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/understanding-and-using-apis-tickets-397303515…
WHO: beginners who want to know how APIs are important in digital
scholarship; anyone who wants to find an API community of practice
WHEN: Monday, January 8, 2018 (9:00 am - 4:00 pm)
WHERE: Boston (Simmons College)
HOW MUCH: $75 general, $45 ASIST members, $30 students
WHY: Finding ways to connect information is one of our biggest challenges.
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are sets of requirements that
govern how one application can talk to another and share data. These
capabilities are great for researchers (part-time or professional),
librarians, students, and really anyone who works with data! Our morning
speakers are experts in APIs, and through them you'll understand what APIs
are and learn the practical uses of how APIs can enhance your data. In the
afternoon session, you'll see hands-on demonstrations and learn about API
tools you can bring back to your organization.
QUESTIONS: neasist(a)gmail.com
Hi all,
I'm forwarding this editathon announcement on behalf of Amanda Rust and the
group at Northeastern. This is a really interesting topic with lots of
specialized library sources. Members of the public are welcome, see below &
the meetup page for details. Leave a note on the talk page if you have
questions.
Happy Thanksgiving!
best,
Phoebe
*From:* List for communications related to Boston-area DH consortial
activities [mailto:BOSTONDH@LISTSERV.NEU.EDU <BOSTONDH(a)LISTSERV.NEU.EDU>] *On
Behalf Of *Elizabeth Polcha
*Sent:* Tuesday, November 21, 2017 2:02 PM
*To:* BOSTONDH(a)LISTSERV.NEU.EDU
*Subject:* Decolonizing Wikipedia 12/1/17
Hi all,
Please see below details for an upcoming Wikipedia editing event sponsored
by Northeastern's Digital Scholarship Group and the Early Caribbean Digital
Archive. Apologies for cross-posting!
De-colonizing Wikipedia: Editing Romantic Depictions of Colonial History
and Literature
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Northeastern_OA17>
When? Friday, December 1st, 2017, 11:00am - 3:00pm
Where? Snell Library, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
<https://maps.google.com/?q=360+Huntington+Avenue,+Boston,+Massachusetts+021…>
.
Who? Open to the public as well as Northeastern University students,
faculty, and staff.
Inspired by two recuperative digital archives at Northeastern, the Early
Caribbean Digital Archive <https://ecda.northeastern.edu/> and the Women
Writers Project <http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/>, this event seeks to
revise Wikipedia articles which extend romantic and orientalist
representations of colonial history and literature. Our goal is to
neutralize the heightened romantic and sentimental language used on
Wikipedia to represent historical figures, paying special attention to
representations of marginalized persons such as women, free and enslaved
people of color, and indigenous persons. We will focus on Wikipedia
articles on historical persons, travel narratives, natural histories,
captivity narratives, and slave narratives.
This hack-a-thon style session will focus on editing and updating Wikipedia
pages in a group setting. You do not need any prior experience with
Wikipedia to participate, just bring a laptop and a power supply. Attendees
from outside Northeastern will need a photo ID to sign into the
library—Just let the front desk staff know you are here for the
edit-a-thon. Bring your suggestions for articles that need to be improved
or authored, or help edit articles from the "Suggested Topics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Northeastern_OA17>"
list. Pizza will be served.
Best,
Liz
--
Elizabeth Polcha
Project Manager, Early Caribbean Digital Archive
Northeastern University
Dear all,
I'm posting the below on behalf of Dr. Helen Dixon, cc'd, who is organizing
an edit-a-thon at her organization's (Society for Biblical Literature)
annual conference in Boston on Sunday Nov. 19th. They're looking for people
to help out. If you're interested, please get in touch with her directly!
best,
Phoebe
---
I’m seeking some trainers to assist at a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon we’re
organizing at the upcoming (in mid-November) Society for Biblical
Literature Annual Meeting in Boston. The idea is to host about 100 people,
and train them in editing Wikipedia pages, through a workshop focusing on
increasing the representation of female biblical scholars on Wikipedia (and
within a ‘happy hour’ setting!).
Some of us have hosted events like this before, and have done some editing,
but we’re all pretty basic users, and would love to have some more expert
editors either leading the training or just available as roaming helpers.
We understand that your expertise deserves compensation—please talk with us
about this if you are interested!
The information is as follows:
Wiki, Women, and Bible Workshop and Happy Hour at SBL
<https://www.facebook.com/events/214853279000146/?acontext=%7B%22action_hist…>
*
Sunday, November 19 5:30pm – 7:30pm
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Room 200 (Second Level)
*Society for Biblical Literature 2017 Annual Meeting
<https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting.aspx>
Contact: Helen Dixon, Assistant Professor of Religion at Wofford College,
South Carolina (dixonhm(a)wofford.edu)
Hello Boston Wikipedians,
Do you have any cool projects that use the WikiMedia API
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page>? Want to showcase your
project to a wide audience of information professionals?
The New England chapter <https://neasist.asist.org/> of ASIS&T is holding
an upcoming conference called "Understanding and Using APIs" at Simmons
College in Boston on January 8th, 2018. We are interested in inviting folks
from different disciplines to demonstrate how they use APIs in their work
or research. If you or someone you know has a project to share, send me an
email detailing your project and how it relies on the WikiMedia API.
Use a non-Wikipedia API in your work? That's great! We are looking for all
sorts of API projects to showcase so feel free to get in touch.
Thank you,
Joshua Dull
NEASIS&T Program Committee Co-Chair
joshualdull(a)gmail.com
Hello all!
You are invited to join us at MIT this fall for two Wikipedia edit-a-thons:
*Saturday 9/30, 11a-1pm,* focusing on women in architecture, hosted by the
MIT chapter of Natl Assc of Minority Architects (NOMAS) and the MIT
Libraries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Women_in_Architecture
*Friday 10/27, 1pm-4:30pm*, focusing on open access and using open access
materials, hosted by the MIT Libraries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Open_Access_Week_at_M…
Snacks and editing training (from yours truly and other experienced
editors) will be provided at both events. All are welcome, new and
experienced editors alike. Add your ideas for topics to work on to the
editathon pages! And let me know if you have any questions.
best,
Phoebe