Hi all,
Sue Gardner, former ED of the Wikimedia Foundation, received the
Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from the
Harvard undergraduate community of humanists, atheists & agnostics, and
she's giving a public lecture on Friday April 10 at 7:30 at Harvard. Free!
Tix:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hchaa-cultural-humanism-award-2015-sue-gardner…
Everyone should go! She tells me her talk will be a love letter to
Wikipedia.
best,
-- Phoebe
--
Phoebe Ayers
Wikimedia Foundation | UC Davis Libraries
http://phoebeayers.info
Hello, all--
I'm forwarding a call that went out to the Education list, in case anyone
local has the subject experience and would like to participate. It should
be a great opportunity to meet chemists interested in Wikipedia!
Best,
Amanda
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Date: 22 Mar 2015 23:58:05 -0400
From: "Martin Walker" <walkerma(a)potsdam.edu>
To: "Wikimedia Education" <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] "Wikipedia and Chemistry:
Collaborations in Science and Education": Symposium in Boston in
August
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We're holding a symposium at the national American Chemical Society
(ACS) meeting (in Boston, USA, August 16-20) concerning Wikipedia and
Chemistry, with a special emphasis on education projects. For example,
Ye Li (co-organizer) from the University of Michigan will be presenting
on use of Wikipedia editing in chemistry courses on her campus.
The description is as follows:
Wikipedia and Chemistry: Collaborations in Science and Education
Chemistry information on Wikipedia has an enormous reach and impact. In
this symposium, the connections between Wikipedia editors and the wider
chemistry community will be explored. In particular, collaborations
between educators, students and regular editors (Wikipedians) will be
examined to understand how Wikipedia editing can be set up as a
successful class project. Educators will demonstrate how Wikipedia
projects can help students with understanding subject matters and
improving information literacy skills. Meanwhile, we will explore how
educators and the Wikipedia community can work together through the
Wikipedia Education Program to ensure students' contributions to
Wikipedia are valid and effective. Finally, we will exchange ideas on
how to involve more chemists in contributing to Wikipedia, and how to
use the site wisely.
We are also planning an Edit-a-thon to get chemists engaged in editing
and contributing.
If you have experience of using Wikipedia (or indeed, another Wikimedia
platform if relevant) in chemical education, and would like to present,
please contact me, or submit an abstract via the ACS website. Abstracts
are due by Sunday, March 29th. If you just live in the area and would
like to help out with promoting Wikipedia in education among the
chemistry community, let me know.
Thanks!
Martin
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Prof. Martin A. Walker
Department of Chemistry
State University of New York at Potsdam
+1 (315) 267-2271
walkerma(a)potsdam.edu
Hi,
This is a reminder that we'll be having a meetup tomorrow at 7PM.
Here's a link with more details:
http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/220616428/
*I've changed the location from the Clover in Kendall Square to the Clover
in Harvard Square* (our old meetup spot). I was hoping that the Clover in
Kendall would be less noisy, but I was there this evening and it was much
busier than I remembered. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks,
Gabe
Hello Boston-area Wikimedians,
I'd like to invite you to Wikipedia Workshop For South Asian Languages at
Harvard Business School, planned for March 6:
Venue : Hawes 202, Harvard Business School campus
Date: Friday Mar 6th
Time: 3.30-5.30pm
Event is free and open to all.
Facebook RSVP:
https://www.facebook.com/events/438358232989798/438358236323131/
Hope to see you soon . :-)
Thanks,
Abhishek Suryawanshi,
User:AbhiSuryawanshi
Hello, all--
Exciting news! Next Wednesday is the re-instatement of our monthly meetup.
All are welcome -- you do not need to be an experienced Wikipedian to
attend:
http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/220616428/
And if that's not enough for you, we've also had a wonderful series of
edit-a-thons in February and still have several more coming up in March. So
if you've been slowly going mad from cabin fever, there may be a
Wikipedia-related event near you to herald the start of Spring. (These snow
piles have to melt sometime, right?)
Amanda / User:AmandaRR123
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Harvard Women's Week Women-in-STEM edit-a-thon
March 2, 4-6pm, Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, Cambridge
http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/220616057/
Wikipedia Workshop For South Asian Languages
March 6, 3:30-5:30pm, Harvard Business School, Allston
https://www.facebook.com/events/438358232989798/438358236323131/
Art + Feminism edit-a-thon @ MassArt
March 7, 11am-5pm, Godine Library at MassArt, Boston
http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/220634541/
Art+Feminism edit-a-thon @ Holy Cross
March 13, 11am-4pm, Dinand Library at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester
http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/220293222/
Hello -
It has been great to see the series of editathons and workshops over the
fall. Has anything been published summarizing the events in new england
over the past year?
If anyone is considering attending the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin in
May, eligibility to attend depends on regular reports of activity, by the
end of this week: see below.
Warmly,
Sam
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Date: Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:06 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] WMCON15 - Eligibility deadline closes in two days!
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
We would like to refer to our call for registration for the Wikimedia
Conference from February 13, 2015. As we thoroughly hope that a lot of
Wikimedians will come to Berlin to actively participate in the conference,
we would like to point out that the eligibility deadline ends in two days
(February 28).
Please carefully check the overview of eligibility statuses before
registering. It is important to note that the criteria have changed
compared to last year. Chapters, Thematic Organizations and User Groups
must have shown signs of recent activity AND be up-to-date on their
reporting by the eligibility deadline of February 28th. This means that
there are only two days left to follow-up on the aforementioned.
Please be kindly reminded to register until Monday, March 16, 2015. You
have less than three weeks left! For visa applicants we strongly recommend
to register as soon as possible and to check the amount of time needed for
applications to Schengen states.
Please find the link to the eligibility overview below (eligibility
deadline February 28):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Overview_Eligibil…
Also, please have a look at the current topics of the conference to pick
your representatives accordingly.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Programme_te…
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Programme_te…
>
Please find the link to the registration below (registration deadline March
16):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Registration
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Registration>
Today we have 17 affiliates who are represented at the conference. To the
remaining, please register as soon as possible. We would also love to see
you at the conference.
All registered participants can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Participants
Please do not hesitate to reach out to us any time via wmcon(a)wikimedia.de
should you have any questions or comments.
Best regards and see you soon in Berlin,
Daniela on behalf of the event team
Wikimedia Deutschland
wmcon(a)wikimedia.de
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Dear all:
AfroCROWD's next event will be HaitiCROWD on March 14th at the
Brooklyn Public Library's Info Commons from 12:30 to 3:30PM. The event
will showcase and invite engagement by attendees with the Haitian
Kreyòl, French and English Wikipedias and with our Haiti and its
diaspora suggested articles list.
It would be great to have interested NY Wikipedians there to help
onboard and generally guide both new people and returnees from our
February kickoff.
Here is the wikipage for the event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/Events#HaitiCR…
If you plan to attend, please also sign up on the eventbrite to
facilitate communication leading up to the event:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrocrowd-presents-haiticrowd-tickets-157195074…
Also, those who are curious about what was discussed at our kickoff
events can check out our AfroCROWD Kickoff Storify page:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrocrowd-presents-haiticrowd-tickets-157195074…
(Cross-posting all East Coast lists.)
Best,
Alice
A L I C E B A C K E R
www.afrocrowd.orgwww.kiskeacity.com
skype: alicebacker
Hi,
I hope everyone is doing okay with the endless snow. I'm wondering if
there's interest in resuming monthly meetups. Perhaps a location near Park
Street/Downtown Crossing would work ok for people on both sides of the
river.
Best,
Gabe
Hi everyone,
The popular Art+Feminism series of edit-a-thons is happening again for
Women's History Month, and two Boston-area groups are getting involved —
but they both need help from at least one experienced Wikimedian to act as
a facilitator.
Here's the info for the events; if you can help, please write to the
contact person directly.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), Boston: March 7 or 8
Contact: Gabrielle Reed gabrielle.reed(a)massart.edu
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester: March 13
Contact: Rachelle Beaudoin rachelle.beaudoin(a)gmail.com
We will add these events to our Meetup schedule as soon as they have event
pages set up. (Gabrielle and Rachelle, ping me when these are ready to go,
and I will add them.)
cheers,
Maia
maiaw.com | @20tauri | user:Girona7
Announcing AfroCROWD Intro to Wikimedia and How to Edit Wikipedia
workshops at New York's Brooklyn Public Library. Please email me if
you would like to discuss bringing one of these to your city. Please
also excuse cross-posting to various lists as we try to network across
the United States.
WHEN:
Saturday, February 7th 12:30 -3PM
Sunday February 8th 1-3:30PM
EVENTBRITE (better reading format):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrocrowd-intro-to-wikimedia-how-to-edit-wikip…
If you plan to view via Livestream from a different city, please let
me know of your interest at alice.backer(a)gmail.com.
PROPOSAL:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/AFROcroWd_and_Interglider.ORG/Ou…)
BACKGROUND:
Against the backdrop of Black History Month, the workshops seek to
further the International Decade for People of African Descent’s
development and education goals and Wikimedia’s goal of increasing its
reach. Technology companies Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo and Twitter have
recently reported that their workforce is 2% Black, a figure
non-proportionate to the 13% of Blacks living in the United States.
The Black Twitter phenomenon shows that Afrodescendants have
successfully taken to social media as an organizing tool. Exposing
more Afrodescendants to Wikimedia has the potential to take this foray
a step further and transfer skills that might deepen Afrodescendant
exploration of online technology. But beyond it all, editing Wikipedia
alone or as a group is a constructive and rewarding way to spend time
online.
The workshops will be the first in a series of activities by Afro Free
Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD), a new initiative which
seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent who actively
partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software
movements. The workshops are open to all Afrodescendants including but
not limited to individuals who self-identify as African,
African-American, Afro-Latino, Biracial, Black, Black-American,
Caribbean, Garifuna, Haitian or West Indian.
Although the February workshops will be held in English, they will
take into account that many Afrodescendant groups in the United States
might find that access to Wikipedia’s multilingual crowdsourcing
platform can help them transfer free knowledge to populations of
African descent outside of the United States that they are connected
to through origin or direct familial bonds. Multilingual
Afrodescendants may also want to use such platforms to develop and
maintain online bodies of relevant knowledge in native languages such
as Garifuna, Haitian Kreyòl, Igbo, Spanish, Twi or Yoruba, thereby
contributing to the survival of and increasing their proficiency in
those languages while also feeling more culturally grounded.
WHERE:
Brooklyn Public Library
Main Branch
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn. NY
http://www.bklynlibrary.org/
(Subway: 2,3, 4 to Grand Army Plaza)
FOUNDERS:
AfroCROWD founders are Alice Backer, founder of www.kiskeacity.com,
www.haitianbloggers.com, and Global Voices Lingua, a Brooklyn-based
lawyer, blogger and free knowledge and culture enthusiast who has been
aggregating and disseminating Haitian online expression since 2005 and
has launched citizen media campaigns in Haiti, the Caribbean, Africa
and the United States and Milos Rancic, founder of Anarchopedia,
veteran Wikimedian with over 10 years in the movement, Wikimedia
Language Committee member and chair of Interglider.ORG. Milica
Gudovic, Interglider.ORG's CEO, participant to the process of
localization of Creative Commons Licenses for Serbia and experienced
feminist activist of 20 years, has lended considerable time and
expertise to our grant proposal and will help us with training in the
coming months.
A L I C E B A C K E R
Haitian Blog Aggregator: http://haitianbloggers.com
LOF1804 Podcast: http://www.kiskeacity.com
Blog: http://www.kiskeacity.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kiskeacity
Newsletter: Kiskeácity Daily
skype: alicebacker