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Online edit-a-thon hosted by Wikipedians in Sydney
by Sven Manguard 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

News from other parts of the world: An edit-a-thon is being held by our colleges in Sydney, and it's being done online, meaning we can join in if we want. Details below: Sven ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Vandenberg <XXXXXXXX(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:10 AM Subject: Classical music countdown To: Sven Manguard <svenmanguard(a)gmail.com> Hi Sven, In Australia we have a classical countdown each year. France is the theme this year. Wikimedia Australia is organising a meetup/edit-a-thon, but also an online edit-a-thon over the week of the countdown. Maybe your are interested, or know someone who is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/October_2012 -- John Vandenberg

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Talk: Haiyi Zhu on Shared Leadership in Wikipedia - Tuesday 10/2 4:15pm
by Benj. Mako Hill 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

Greetings! The Berkman cooperation group is going to be hosting Haiyi Zhu from Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University who is going to talk about some of her research on shared leadership in Wikipedia. The meeting will Tuesday 10/2 at 4:15pm at Harvard at the Berkman Conference room at 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge (right near Harvard Law School). The seminar will include time for discussion and should end by 17:30. An abstract and biography follows. Abstract: Traditional research on leadership in online communities has consistently focused on the small set of people occupying leadership roles. We use a model of shared leadership, which posits that leadership behaviors come from members at all levels, not simply from people in high-level leadership positions. Although every member can exhibit some leadership behavior, different types of leadership behavior performed by different types of leaders on different types of followers may not be equally effective. We investigate how distinct types of leadership behaviors (transactional, aversive, directive and person-focused) and the legitimacy of the people who deliver them (people in formal leadership positions or not) and the experience of the people who receive them (newcomers and experienced members) influence the contributions that the receivers make in the context of Wikipedia. Bio: Haiyi Zhu is a fourth year PhD student in Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She is interested in how to manage people to achieve the common goal that transcends individual interest in an environment which lacks hierarchical structure and monetary incentives. Specifically, she has investigated shared leadership, group identification, goal settings and social modeling in the context of Wikipedia. One of her papers is nominated for best paper award in the 15th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. She got her bachelor degree in computer science from Tsinghua University in 2005. Hopefully, we'll see some of you Tuesday! Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill mako(a)atdot.cc http://mako.cc/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto

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Fwd: [WikiEducator] Hot off the Press: Free Digital Textbooks Offered as California's Governor Signs Bills
by Samuel Klein 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Nice work, Golden State! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cable Green <cable(a)creativecommons.org> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/09/free-digital-te… Sample Tweet: Free digital textbooks offered as California's Governor signs bills http://lat.ms/Q5lpCf <http://t.co/fqWSHdgz> #oer<https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23oer&src=hash> #cc <https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23cc&src=hash> #opentextbooks<https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23opentextbooks&src=hash> #openpolicy <https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23openpolicy&src=hash> ** <https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23openpolicy&src=hash>Way to go California! Cable -- Cable Green, PhD Director of Global Learning Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/education http://twitter.com/cgreen -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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OKFN meetups in Boston and SF
by Samuel Klein 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

(also sent to fc-discuss; excuse any multiple receipt) Jonathan Gray and I are starting local meetups for OKFN mavens, hackers, enthusiasts in Cambridge and SF: http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/Boston-MA http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/San-Francisco-CA Please join if you are interested, and indicate when you're free to meet. We are thinking about organizing a national event around free knowledge and shared data in the spring. Warmly, SJ -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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A cool history viz idea, looking for data/sw support
by Samuel Klein 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hello, My friend Zachary Davis in Cambridge is working on KANON, a cool visualization of history timelines, drawing on Wikimedia data, media, and text. He's looking for people to help brainstorm how to realize the idea, and for developers to work on the project - particularly on the Wikimedia data side and on a javascript front-end; see below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Kanon is an interactive timeline that visualizes humanity's most significant cultural works, initially proving the concept with books. The zoomable timeline enables the user to delve deeper into any time period and be shown the ten most important books. So zoomed completely out, one would see the ten most significant books of all time (e.g Odyssey, Bible, War and Peace) but zoomed into the time period between 1920-1930 the user would see the ten most significant books from that period (Great Gatsby, etc). "Significance" is ranked according to a composite index of Wikipedia page traffic for the particular work, google search traffic, google ngram mentions, and library circulation. Users could then click on a work they find interesting and go to a page showing more information and save the book to a customizable reading list. I'm looking for a developer to help with the D3 javascript library and making Wikipedia's API do as told. The job is paid. Mockups and more info here <http://bitly.com/kanonproject>. Email: zacharysdavis(a)gmail.com Phone: 617.999.8066 -- Zachary Davis Producer of Operations metaLAB(at)Harvard <http://metalab.harvard.edu/> zacharystevendavis.com [image: Inline image 1]

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Update on the Cambridge event on November 17
by Arend Sluis 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hi guys, Brief response to Sven's email. Alyssa is away this week. We are arranging some basic logistics (rooms, times). As far as the time, the 11-4 is a perfectly good working time range for the time being. (The CPL main branch closes at 5 on Saturdays.) With three events, though, we should be a little clearer about the timing of the program. Would the outreach seminar be before the tutorial? How long would it be? The audiences for the seminar and the tutorial are a bit different, so I want to make sure we publicize that correctly. It also affects the amount of space we need to reserve at the Library. Are you thinking (roughly) 11-12 Outreach Seminar 12-1 Tutorial 1-4 Edit-A-Thon And we can squeeze in some tea and cookies and snacks a few times. We are working on a poster right now and once Alyssa is back in town a couple of us will be working on a press release for the event. We will run the poster by you before printing and publishing it, since I expect it will use the Wikipedia logo somewhere. Besides contacting the Friends of the Library membership, we are also planning to reach out to some local newspapers and magazines, perhaps even Craigslist. We will keep you posted. Sven, for the tutorial component, should I expect something like what the screencast of last years Harvard event? http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/sites/osc.hul.harvard.edu.yopc/files/WikiLovesLi… Do we want to set up a pages like these http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_War_I/World_War_I_Editathon Thanks! Arend. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:00 AM, < wikimedia-boston-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Happy Monday mailing list subscribers! > > As a follow up to my earlier email and Arend's email on Thursday, I wanted > to give everyone a bit more information about the Cambridge event. > > The event will be taking place on November 17th at the Main Branch of the > Cambridge Public Library. The street address is: > 449 Broadway > Cambridge, MA > 02138 > > Hours have not been entirely finalized. We've been working off of the > assumption that they would be 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. If that is the case, I > personally will be arriving at 10:30 AM to help set up. I will also be > leaving (irregardless of the finalized hours) at 3:00 PM, as I have a plane > to catch later on in the afternoon. > > There are three components to the Cambridge event as it stands right now: a > Wikipedia Loves Libraries outreach seminar, a tutorial for new users, and > an edit-a-thon with the theme of "Cambridge". It's an ambitious program, > but with five hours, an large number of Cambridge/Boston based Wikipedians, > and eager partners, I think it will work. > > - The Wikipedia Loves Libraries outreach seminar is... well... an outreach > seminar. Alyssa Pacy, the Cambridge Public Library's archivist, has > connections within the area's network of librarians, and mentioned that she > would be inviting them. There are also two library schools nearby that we > know of, one at Simmons and the other somewhere in Rhode Island. What all > of that means is that we're going to have, hopefully, a large audience of > librarians, archivists, and future librarians at the event. I've never done > an outreach seminar, but I'm going to lean heavily on > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_For_Librarians, steal ideas from > the > Boston WLL event on 11/10, and hope for the best. > > - The tutorial for new users is... well... a tutorial for new users. I'm > thinking of doing a slideshow or a speech of some sort and then bringing > all the new users into the computer lab, where I and a couple of other > users will be camping out to help new users get set up and acclimatized. > This will segue cleanly into the edit-a-thon. > > - The edit-a-thon is... well... an edit-a-thon (who didn't see that > coming?). Both Alyssa and I will be working on preparing a list of > Cambridge themed stubs that users can work on if they don't have anything > else they want to do. > > But wait, there's more! Remember up top where I described Alyssa as the > Cambridge Public Library's archivist? That wasn't a typo. I meant > archivist, as in archives, as in *we get to go into the archives and use > very old, in some cases one-of-a-kind documents as sources*. Yes; awesome. > We might be able to hold a scan-a-thon there at a later date (they're > getting one of the cool top-down super scanners 'soon'), but until then > we're dealing with a once-in-a-blue-moon access opportunity here. > > And now for the begging: > > Please show up. Please, if you can, commit to showing up sooner rather than > later (and remember to tell me if you've signed up and can't make it). In > order for this event to be a success, we're going to need a number of > Wikipedians to be around. We're going to need at least three or four people > that are willing to spend time with the new users during the tutorial. It > would be nice to get a dozen Wikipedians in the room, both to reciprocate > the enthusiasm that Alyssa and Arend have shown us, and to demonstrate to > the librarians and the new users that this city has a thriving Wikipedian > community. Yes, I'm fully aware that we have two WLL events on back to back > Saturdays, and I would never suggest that people skip the one in Boston. I, > for one, am going to both, and it would be great to see a couple of other > people do that too. What I am saying though, is that this event can and > should be the start of a very fruitful relationship between the Cambridge > Public Library and the Society of Wikipedians in New England. So please > show up. > > Further information will be sent out as it becomes available. > > Sven >

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Update on the Cambridge event on November 17
by Sven Manguard 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Happy Monday mailing list subscribers! As a follow up to my earlier email and Arend's email on Thursday, I wanted to give everyone a bit more information about the Cambridge event. The event will be taking place on November 17th at the Main Branch of the Cambridge Public Library. The street address is: 449 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02138 Hours have not been entirely finalized. We've been working off of the assumption that they would be 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. If that is the case, I personally will be arriving at 10:30 AM to help set up. I will also be leaving (irregardless of the finalized hours) at 3:00 PM, as I have a plane to catch later on in the afternoon. There are three components to the Cambridge event as it stands right now: a Wikipedia Loves Libraries outreach seminar, a tutorial for new users, and an edit-a-thon with the theme of "Cambridge". It's an ambitious program, but with five hours, an large number of Cambridge/Boston based Wikipedians, and eager partners, I think it will work. - The Wikipedia Loves Libraries outreach seminar is... well... an outreach seminar. Alyssa Pacy, the Cambridge Public Library's archivist, has connections within the area's network of librarians, and mentioned that she would be inviting them. There are also two library schools nearby that we know of, one at Simmons and the other somewhere in Rhode Island. What all of that means is that we're going to have, hopefully, a large audience of librarians, archivists, and future librarians at the event. I've never done an outreach seminar, but I'm going to lean heavily on http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_For_Librarians, steal ideas from the Boston WLL event on 11/10, and hope for the best. - The tutorial for new users is... well... a tutorial for new users. I'm thinking of doing a slideshow or a speech of some sort and then bringing all the new users into the computer lab, where I and a couple of other users will be camping out to help new users get set up and acclimatized. This will segue cleanly into the edit-a-thon. - The edit-a-thon is... well... an edit-a-thon (who didn't see that coming?). Both Alyssa and I will be working on preparing a list of Cambridge themed stubs that users can work on if they don't have anything else they want to do. But wait, there's more! Remember up top where I described Alyssa as the Cambridge Public Library's archivist? That wasn't a typo. I meant archivist, as in archives, as in *we get to go into the archives and use very old, in some cases one-of-a-kind documents as sources*. Yes; awesome. We might be able to hold a scan-a-thon there at a later date (they're getting one of the cool top-down super scanners 'soon'), but until then we're dealing with a once-in-a-blue-moon access opportunity here. And now for the begging: Please show up. Please, if you can, commit to showing up sooner rather than later (and remember to tell me if you've signed up and can't make it). In order for this event to be a success, we're going to need a number of Wikipedians to be around. We're going to need at least three or four people that are willing to spend time with the new users during the tutorial. It would be nice to get a dozen Wikipedians in the room, both to reciprocate the enthusiasm that Alyssa and Arend have shown us, and to demonstrate to the librarians and the new users that this city has a thriving Wikipedian community. Yes, I'm fully aware that we have two WLL events on back to back Saturdays, and I would never suggest that people skip the one in Boston. I, for one, am going to both, and it would be great to see a couple of other people do that too. What I am saying though, is that this event can and should be the start of a very fruitful relationship between the Cambridge Public Library and the Society of Wikipedians in New England. So please show up. Further information will be sent out as it becomes available. Sven

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Finding a home for archival Wikipedia / Wikimania items and swag
by Samuel Klein 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Dear New Englanders, I have a bunch of Wikipedia swag dating back to 2004, including flags and posters and pins and shirts from the 2006 Wikimania (much of them unbranded, and good forever) that should go into a local wiki-collection -- either a museum or as things to give away at future events. The place I currently use to store most of my gear recently had some flooding, which made me realize I need to move it. If you or a cool dry storage space you know are interested in hosting a local wikiarchive, please reply to me offlist. Warmly, SJ -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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Hello (again)
by Arend Sluis 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

I managed to figure out how to sign up for the Boston Wikimedia mailing list (obviously)! Thank you to all who came to Monday's meetup and shared their enthusiasm for organizing a WLL event with Alyssa Pacy (Archivist, CPL) and the Friends of the Cambridge Public Library (represented by myself). It was great fun meeting you all and sharing the excitement. Alyssa will focus on providing materials and sources for an edit-a-thon, "bad" articles to use as starting points for a tutorial, and related items. The Friends will take care of publicity--local papers will definitely be on our list, as well as our membership, the library branches, and other venues--as well as providing refreshments. Rooms have been reserved! Hopefully some people will show up :-) Arend.

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Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Camera users - the Android app is for you!
by Samuel Klein 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

We should have a Wiki Takes Boston outing soon; say on the 22nd? SJ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:41 PM Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Camera users - the Android app is for you! To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition < wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Greetings WLM Members, Version 1.2.3 of the WLM Android App is on Google Play<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm>and here <http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.3.apk>. We have made some improvements and in particular, there is an important enhancement related to camera photos. Yes, camera photos. Please let me explain. The app is a great way to find monuments, but many participants in WLM use cameras to take the photos they will submit to the contest. It is great to submit mobile photos to the contest as well, but cameras generally offer better quality and control. So why not upload mobile photos as placeholders, to make camera submissions easier? The following blog post, which will be published tomorrow, explains how this works. Using the Wiki Loves Monuments App as a travel log<http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=17406> Posted by Philip Chang <http://blog.wikimedia.org/author/pchang/> on September 10th, 2012 The Wiki Loves Monuments Android App<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm> is a great way to take photos and upload them to Wikimedia Commons during the world’s largest photo contest<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/29/kicking-off-wiki-loves-monuments-2012/> throughout September. But what if you are shooting with a camera and don’t see yourself taking too many photos with your mobile phone? You can now use the app as a convenient travel log and make it much easier to organize your photos when processing and uploading them at home. Here’s how you use the app as a travel log. As you walk around finding monuments nearby to shoot with your camera, use the app on your phone to find the monuments and take a picture of them to upload, either on the road or when you get home. Back on your computer, your uploaded mobile photos will be a convenient record of all the monuments you visited, sitting on Commons under “My uploads.” As an added bonus, every mobile upload you add to Commons will include a link to the Special Upload Wizard that automatically allows you to upload and categorize more photos of that monument based on its campaign and reference number. This is similar to clicking the “upload photo” button on the monument lists in Wikipedia, but it is right there in your travel log. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_more_photos.png> A screenshot of the new travel log feature associated with WLM app photos uploaded to Commons. To see your travel log and use this feature, you must login at commons.wikimedia.org <http://blog.wikimedia.org/commons.wikimedia.org> and click on “My uploads” at the top. Click on the name of any uploaded photo and the file page of that photo will open. Scroll down and below the description you will see the link, “Upload more photos of this monument.” The travel log can help you in two ways: 1. you will see a sequential list of the monuments you visited, which helps in identifying the monuments taken on your camera 2. you can submit the photos from your camera for each monument directly from the travel log The latest app, version 1.2.3, has been published in the Google Play<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm> store and that version has this new feature. Please update the app if you downloaded it before and do not have auto-updates turned on. If you have good ideas about photo uploads in general, or improvements next year, feel free to post feedback<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Feedb…> or send email <mobile-feedback-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>. You may also download the app here<http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.3.apk>, or on the F-Droid market<http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=wiki%20loves%20monuments&fdi…> . We appreciate your support. Happy uploading! *Phil Chang, Product Manager, Mobile* - Copyright notes: "Upload more photos"<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_more_photos.png> by Philinje <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Philinje>, under CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode>, from Wikimedia Commons -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810 _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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