(cross-posting to cultural-partners)
Dear all,
Today is a great day for GLAM collaborations, it seems (just read
about the position at UC Berkley).
it is a pleasure and a joy for us to communicate that we opened today
a call for one position of Wikipedian in Residence at the MART museum
(Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto) in
Rovereto (TN), Italy[1][2][3].
Mart is a renowned Italian museum for modern and contemporary art,
hosting works of, among others, Giorgio Morandi, Giorgio de Chirico,
Carlo Carrà and Fortunato Depero.
Wikimedia italia and Mart started discussing about opening a
wikiresidence, in september 2013, and what you see is the result of
various months of discussion in which we have been able to overcome
the various hurdles we have found in our path. But luckily there was
an happy ending :-)
Please read (and spread) the call here:
(EN) http://bit.ly/wikipedianatmart
(IT) http://bit.ly/wikipedianoalmart
We are waiting for your application, too! International applicants are welcome!
Ciao,
Cristian
Wikimedia Italia
[1] http://www.mart.trento.it
[2a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_and_Contemporary_Art_of_Tren…
[2b] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_d%27arte_moderna_e_contemporanea_di_Tre…
[3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1919518
Hi all,
Just a reminder that we're hosting the first of 4 Individual Engagement
Grants proposal clinic Hangouts today, and it will begin a few hours from
now.
What: WMF grantmaking staff and IEG committee members will spend an hour
answering specific questions about IEGrant proposals, helping people create
their proposals, etc. If you'd like to get or give advice about grant
proposals for this program in real time, please join us!
When: Friday, 7 March 2014, 0100 UTC (Note: This is still Thursday in many
time zones)
Where: https://plus.google.com/events/chbmi5iegel2kru9irbgveinoqk
We're hosting 3 more of these before the March 31 proposal deadline for
IEGrants, on different days and times to accommodate various timezones, so
if today doesn't work well for you please consider joining in one of the
coming weeks:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events
And, as always, we're happy to take questions via the usual wiki-channels
anytime - these sessions are just an experiment in providing some extra
fast help, with voice :)
Hope to see you there,
Siko
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org
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Dear Wikimedia Community:
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations to the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on how to allocate movement funds to
best meet Wikimedia goals and strategic priorities. The Wikimedia
Foundation has now published a list of 2013-2014 Round 2 Annual Plan
Grant eligible
entities<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_portal/Eligibility_checklist…>
based
the eligibility criteria established in the Funds Dissemination Committee
framework. Please let us know if you believe there are any corrections to
be made to this list.
The six organizations that submitted Letters of Intent for Round 2
2013-2014 are categorized in the 'Yes', category based the
eligibility criteria<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_portal/Eligibility_criteria>,
and are now eligible to submit proposals in this round. Organizations must
continue to remain eligible throughout the FDC process in order to receive
funding.
All proposals created by eligible organizations for Annual Plan
Grants<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information> from
the FDC must be submitted by *1 April 2014* through
each organization's proposal hub page that was created
when each organization submitted an LOI for this round. A list of hub pages
for all proposals in this round may be found
here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals>
.
Please note that we are using the new dates announced by Anasuya Sengupta
in her email to the community.
One final note: organizations that prefer not to participate in
the FDC process in this round may be eligible to seek funding through
the Project
and Event Grants Program <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG>.
Please don't hesitate to reach out to me and the FDC support team (
FDCSupport(a)wikimedia.org) with any questions or requests for clarification.
Sincerely;
Garfield Byrd
Chief of Finance and Administration
Wikimedia Foundation
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I am very pleased to announce that Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC are
working in collaboration to host the first national Wikimedia conference in
the United States!
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/
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 (User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
>... it's probably more effective to make your point directly....
Any volunteer organization with a several year history of declining
volunteer participation should refocus its external advocacy efforts
from actions which can benefit no more than a small percentage of
volunteers to those that will likely benefit vastly larger numbers of
volunteers who might otherwise not have the time or inclination to
contribute.
> Nobody seems to support it.
Those who have expressed preferences at http://www.allourideas.org/wmfcsdraft
so far have not produced particularly radical priorities, which are
currently as follows, from
http://www.allourideas.org/wmfcsdraft/results
Open educational resources
Open access scientific research
Broadband internet access
Copyright on government works
Infrastructure construction and maintenance
College subsidy with income-based repayment terms
Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its
protocols without reservation
Increased data center hardware power efficiency
Telecommuting
Increase education spending,
>The Convention on the Rights of the Child is a good and important
> thing, and ... the two nations which have somehow neglected to
> ratify it should certainly be strongly encouraged to do so...
Most of its central portions regarding education and livelihood remain
unratified for the majority of the population because of treaty
reservations nullifying vast swaths of the text.
> but I would strongly oppose WMF being the vehicle for such
> domestic political campaigning
Should volunteers decide this question collectively, or is the
unsustainable status quo more important to preserve than
representation of volunteer preferences?
In order to address issues with previous volunteer community surveys
which may not have included options able to maximize volunteer
attraction and retention, I have drafted a revised volunteer community
survey which includes new items and top-scoring components of the
previous community survey:
http://demochoice.org/dcballot.php?poll=wmfcsdraft
It is in English only at present. Translations and other
internationalization of the responses are most welcome, because at
least a few are overly US-specific at present. The draft version will
accept responses from anyone for two weeks. The Foundation can select
a random sample of long-term volunteers from email registrations.
Alternatively, recent changes can be used in conjunction with editor
histories for random samples which volunteers could use to confirm
official results as a matter of best practices, or if the Foundation
fails to act.
A detailed rationale for this revision is at:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-March/000420.ht…
Best regards,
James Salsman
Oliver Keyes, okeyes at wikimedia.org, wrote:
>
>... I don't see a lot of things that are likely enough to succeed
> and provide a meaningful impact....
That's how I feel about copyright term extension efforts, but we have
been standing firm on them as a defense against the very real
possibility of losses to the public domain. The sources which speak on
the topics affecting volunteer lives can only go so far. At some point
volunteers need to help say which efforts we think are most likely to
help achieve our goals, including the existential threat of volunteer
attrition.
Here is an alternative survey method, also appropriate for statistical
sampling and independent validation, which includes a way for everyone
to add their own suggestions in-line in real time:
http://www.allourideas.org/wmfcsdraft
>... lawyers would likely consider this absolutely anathema
> to our legal restrictions around lobbying....
The legal department has had plenty of time to raise objections to any
of the specific proposals. I would personally love for the Foundation
to support a slate of candidates if volunteers could manage meaningful
endorsements tied to the mission, but in the US at least, that line is
drawn between issues and candidates, with parties being on the
candidate side of that line. I wonder if it would be legal to formally
endorse a green donkey in the US.
Best regards,
James
Hello all,
The Wikimedia Volunteer Response Team (also known as OTRS[1]) had an
extremely busy year answering emails from Wikimedia users, readers and
other interested people. We have once again prepared a statistical report
of administrator activity and ticket volume for the year 2013.
I invite you all to review this report on Meta[2]. If you have any
questions at all feel free to leave them on the talk page. If you wish to
review the first report, published last year with data from 2012, you may
also view that on Meta[3].
For the OTRS administrators,
Ryan // User:Rjd0060
[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS
[2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2013
[3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2012 (previous report)
Hoi,
In the latest iteration of the "Reasonator", you will find the option to
see what items exist in a radius of 15 km around the current item.
Obviously, you will find only those items that have a geo-coordinate. There
are however many of them :) They are everything from cities to amusement
parks like Disney land and its rides.
Essentially the functionality shows what is the result of a query.
The current maps are based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. This is a first
iteration of this functionality so we love to hear from you what more and
what else you would like us to do with maps and Wikidata.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/reasonator-cambridge-revisited-i…