Hello Steve,
I am from Seattle but live in New York these days.
I think all of us in the Wikimedia community wish for a better process for digitizing paper media, storing it in Wikimedia projects, and categorizing it in a useful way. There have been efforts to do this but we lack standardization and some of the organizational infrastructure necessary.
There are places in Seattle which have scanners set up to do this and if those places are not sufficiently accessible, then it would be possible to get equipment and set up in a community makerspace. To start digitizing content though several pieces have to come together.
The usual outcome of digitization projects on Wikipedia is that a lot of media is uploaded then it is not sorted or used. To get the maximal value out of a project the digitization has to be paired with an immediate push to try to use the content, that why the project can be promoted and immediately measures can begin to note the impact.
If you want to talk about the landscape of wiki-archiving then write me to talk by voice or video sometime, or just go to local wiki-meetings and talk to others.
yours,
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Jason Moore anotherbelieverwp@gmail.com wrote:
Welcome, Steve. I am down in Portland, but I hope you find others to assist you with these sorts of projects. Glad to hear of your interest in Wikimedia Cascadia. Jason
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Steve,
Welcome to the group. Seattle is a good place for people with
multilingual
abilities and international project manager localization experience. I think that some of our local employers would be interested in talking
with
you. You might also want to keep an eye on Wikimedia Foundation and
public
sector job postings.
We have an editathon planned for tomorrow at UW. After that our next meetings will be in May. I need to coordinate with Peaceray about scheduling, and one of us will post a note to the list when a decision is reached. We sometimes meet socially on a Tuesday evening when we are not having editathons and other events.
I look forward to meeting you!
Pine On Apr 24, 2015 3:43 PM, "Steve Zitkovich" mailinglists@zitkovich.com wrote:
Hello Wikimedia-Cascadians,
I just joined the group and want to introduce myself.
I am a native Seattleite (Garfield High School, 1984) but majored in
German
and have lived/worked 12 years of my adult life in Europe (Germany,
France,
UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia).
Professionally I am an international product manager specialized in localization. I recently left my last position and am looking for a new
job
based in Seattle with international travel or be based abroad.
There are two reasons I joined the Wikimedia-Cascadia group:
1/ Wikimedia is for me the ultimate internet organization: my internet career is a extension of my interest in languages and inspiration of
the
internet as a communications medium to make information available
across
languages regardless of time + geography -- exactly what Wikimedia
does!
I
want to be involved with Wikimedia.
2/ I have a social-entrepreneurial idea around digitizing old print periodicals for which I would like to use some of Wikimedia's
open-source
tools or potentially even partner with Wikimedia itself. I have talked
to
Jonathan Morgan about it and he suggested I join this group and see if there are some people who would be interested in working on the idea with me.
So if anyone in this group (or has friends outside this group) has a passion for digitizing print materials from the past (ex. DIY music/culture magazines, neighborhood newsletters, school newsletters), send me an
email.
In any case, I hope to meet you in person at an upcoming
Wikimedia-Cascadia
gathering.
Kind regards,
Steve Zitkovich
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