Very nice. Good luck, Leo!
Somewhere in here there should be a showing of Monument Men.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:23 PM, James Hare <james.hare(a)wikidc.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> I am pleased to announce that Wikimedia District of Columbia has selected
> Leo Zimmermann to lead our Wikipedia Summer of Monuments project. Leo's
> experience running Wikipedia workshops and reaching out to rural libraries
> have prepared him for what is our largest outreach project yet. The object
> of Summer of Monuments is to improve photographic coverage of nationally
> recognized historic sites in the Southern United States, a region that is
> underrepresented on Wikipedia. In particular, we have identified ten states
> where photographic coverage lags behind: Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
> Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
> Our plan is to build on the success we had with Wiki Loves Monuments with a
> campaign of direct outreach to those historical and cultural institutions
> who share our mission to improve access to the world's knowledge. To learn
> more, read our latest blog post:
> <http://blog.wikimediadc.org/2014/06/introducing-wikipedia-summer-of-monumen…>.
>
> We invite Wikimedians and our allies to join us in this effort to share
> history on Wikipedia!
>
>
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Hey all,
I just received a request for Will Rico for someone to speak at the LibrePlanet Boston Desktop GNU/Linux Users Group, and I figured that I would pass this along. They meet the first Wednesday of each month in Kendall Square, and have spaces open for the rest of the year. If you are interested, I have cc’d him on this e-mail, and the link to their Meetup.com page is: http://www.meetup.com/desktop-linux-users-group/. If any of you are interested, please feel free to e-mail him, as I would love to have more collaboration with non-Wikimedians in the area!
Kevin Rutherford
Hey everyone,
As some of you already know, WikiConference USA will be going on this weekend in New York City. While it is scheduled to go from Friday to Sunday, the bulk of the events will be on the first two days. There is still time to sign up online for the event (it's free), and there will be multiple presentations from many of the New England people, including John Phelan, Sara Marks, and myself: http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Main_Page#Schedule_of_sessions
I hope to see some of you there, as we will hopefully have time to help consolidate more support in our area for the coming months, as well as explore more opportunities to expand our outreach and funding avenues!
Kevin Rutherford
Hey all,
Just in case some of you don’t already know, WikiConference USA is only a few weeks away!
Kevin
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Subject: [Wikimediaus-l] WikiConference USA - almost here!
I am very pleased to announce that WikiConference USA is less than 30 days away! Over the last few months, Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC have been collecting curated submissions on a diversity of wiki and free/open knowledge-related topics (with tracks on Community, Tech, Outreach, GLAM, Education), and recruited some excellent keynote speakers who can speak to their personal activism and leadership in these domains.
But this is a "Wiki" conference, and what it thrives on most is your participation, your differing areas of experience and expertise, to enliven and enrich all of the sessions we have planned together. And, exciting too, there still will be numerous opportunities for "unconference" sessions led by participants on the fly, and we encourage you to bring the ideas from your domain for these sessions as well.
Here are the details for the conference:
Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014
Location: New York Law School (185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013)
Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org
Email: wikicon(a)wikimedianyc.org
Registration: http://wikiconusa.eventbrite.org/
And our distinguished and dynamic roster of keynote speakers:
*Phoebe Ayers - Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
*Sumana Harihareswara - Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Team; Advisor, Ada Initiative
*Christie Koehler - Community Building Education Lead, Mozilla Corporation
*DC Vito, Executive Director - The LAMP/MediaBreaker
For more information, please review our official press release below! We hope you will join us and help us spread the word!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCon_USA_2014_Press_Release_v1.p…
Thanks,
Richard Knipel (User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
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Hey all,
Our Meta page has just been marked for translation, so if any of you are confident in translating to other languages, please feel free to translate this page: : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_England_Wikimedians
Have a great week, and I look forward to more positive updates in the coming weeks!
Kevin Rutherford
Co-Chair, New England Wikimedians
Hello all,
As many of you already know, we had a meeting on Saturday in Kendall Square (the notes can be found here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/New_England_Wikimedians_April_2014_meetup). For those of you who weren’t able to attend, we planned out two more meetups and the next general meeting, as well as talked about the edit-a-thon on May 3rd at the Peabody Essex Museum. Further information on all of these events can be found on our Meetup.com page, as I have yet to finish developing the respective Wikipedia pages for two of the events: http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/
In terms of other major things that came out of the meeting, we agreed to gain fiscal responsibility through the sponsorship of Wikimedia District of Columbia. This will allow for us to spend money and have a place to put any funds that we raise without having to rely on anyone’s personal bank account, and prevent the need for incorporation. We will also be able to raise funds and have a place to store them, without having to do sort out where the money should go. Additionally, we will pursue having a website so that we can consolidate some of our web activities, which would also allow for the discontinuation of the Meta page, as well as allow us to have a website to direct people who are interested in us. Another lesser matter that we will pursue will be generic business cards for members of the user group, so that people will be able to perform outreach better. This will come into affect once the Affiliations Committee decides on a redesign of our logo, due to there being some legal issues that many user groups are skirting by using the WMF’s logo in their designs. Each of the above things were the result of myself and Ben talking to people at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin last week, and have all gotten the green light from the Affiliations Committee.
Finally, per the implementation of other chapters, we have developed an Friendly Space Policy that outlines the user group’s views on harassment and other unwelcome behavior at chapter events: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_England_Wikimedians/Friendly_space_poli…. This policy will go into effect immediately, as we want to create a welcoming environment for anyone who attends our events. If anyone has any questions or suggestions about this policy, please feel free to e-mail myself or Maia.
On behalf of the provisionary board for the New England Wikimedians,
Kevin Rutherford- Co-Chair
Maia Weinstock- Co-Chair
John Sanzi- Secretary
Benjamin Lees- Treasurer
Jennifer Baek- Legal Council
P.S. These officer roles are for temporary organizational purposes. If anyone wants to run for an office that would take on certain specific responsibilities, we will hold elections at our annual meeting in July when we decide upon some more roles for interested persons.
The following looks like a beautiful opportunity to expand access to a
special collection that isn't currently online. Some people savvy to the
most successful WiR projects should apply: this will work out best as a
facilitative role that networks with the editors and curators on
Commons/WS/WP.
http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=8583
I look forward to seeing people this afternoon! SJ
Harvard College Library Houghton Library: Wikipedian-in Residence
> Assistant, $16:00/Hour
>
> Duties/Description:Supervised by the Curator of Early Modern books and
> Manuscripts, and working with other Houghton subjects
> specialists, expand coverage on Wikipedia of topics
> relevant to Houghton collections.
>
> Adding sources for existing pages and creating new pages on
> notable topics. Provide appropriate formatting and metadata
> (and OCR cleanup in the case of texts) to upload public
> domain content to Wikimedia and Wikisource, and facilitate
> the use of such materials by other Wikipedia users. Explore
> the creation of WikiProjects related to Houghton holdings
> and promote participation in such projects.
>
> Qualifications:BA. Candidate must be a registered Wikipedian in good
> standing, with substantial experience in writing and
> editing Wikipedia articles, and possess knowledge of
> Wikipedia standards, culture, and rules. Knowledge and
> experience working with Special Collections preferred.
> Attention to detail, good organizational skills, problem-
> solving ability, ability to work independently and
> collaboratively. Demonstrated ability and enjoyment in
> writing both clear narrative text and documentation.
> Excellent oral and written communication skills.
> Proficiency with Windows-based applications.
>
Hello fellow Wikimedians,
I hope that you are all enjoying this beautiful day, as there are two things that I wanted to make known to people. I just realized that I don’t think there was ever an announcement on the general mailing list for the meeting that we are having on Saturday, so here is more information on our quarterly meeting: http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/157467352/ It will be from 1-3 in the Clover Food Lab in Kendall Square, which is a new location for them.
Also, our Facebook page is nearing 100 likes, so if you haven’t already connected with us on Facebook, check us out: https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaNewEngland
We hope to see you there, and please feel free to e-mail me back with any questions.
Kevin Rutherford
Hello Bostonians (as well as everyone else on the list),
The article on the 2014 Boston Marathon is a tad short for DYK (which has a
minimum article length of 1500 characters, around 60 more than what the
article has now). The DYK nomination has stalled because of this. If
someone would be kind enough to expand the article, and another person be
kind enough to put it through a DYK review once it's been expanded, I would
then be able to place the hook in a prep area on the appropriate date so
that the article appears on the main page during the marathon. (I can't do
the expansion or the review if *and* also move it to prep, which is why I'm
asking here).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know_nominations/2014_Boston…
Thanks in advance,
Sven Manguard