I am attempting to do outreach to all the Wikimeida chapters to assess which ones might be offering scholarships to Wikimania 2015 being held in July in Mexico City. The WMF Scholarship program's call for applications has been recently posted and the deadline for receiving applications is February 16. The Scholarship Committee will be doing its review and making its recommendations to WMF from mid-February through mid-March.
If a chapter would like to be sent applications from those submitted to the WMF Scholarships Program, please get in touch with me prior to February 16. It would also be helpful for planning purposes for me to know if a chapter will be offering scholarships directly (not making use of the applications to the WMF program).
For more infomation about the WMF program see:
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
I look forward to hearing from chapter contacts in the next 3 weeks.
Thank you,
Ellie
Ellie Young
Conference Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
p. 415 839 6885 x6862
c. 510 701 8649
Hi Amir,
Some variables that you might also want to look at are:
Relative status of language - I have heard from more than one source that part of the Indic language problem is that people who can write in English and an Indic language usually prefer to edit English.
Different types of Internet access. Despite the best efforts of our mobile team wikipedia is basically a broadcast medium on smartphones. So the ratio of PCs to tablets to mobiles is going to be crucial, a language where smartphones are the main way to access the Internet will all things being equal support far less editing than a language where a substantial proportion of speakers have PC access.
My suspicion is that as with purchasing over the Internet, editing wikipedia is not a year one activity, so the level of editing is more likely to be related to last year's level of Internet use than this year's.
Policies on article creation vary between different language versions of wikipedia and this is bound to have an effect.
Regards
Jonathan Cardy
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> Hi,
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> It is well-known that the size of a Wikipedia in a given language is not
> proportional to the number of people who speak that language. By "size" I
> mean the article count and the active editor count.
>
> This begs the question: Is it proportional to anything else?
>
> I can think of a bunch of possible things (to most items you can add "...
> in the countries where this language is spoken"):
>
> * Penetration of Internet access
> * Quality of education
> * Number of people who know other major languages, such as English, French,
> Russian, Spanish, etc.
> * Number of people who *don't* know other major languages
> * Gross domestic product
> * Human Development Index
> * The level of usage of this language in the education system (in some
> countries schools function in foreign languages)
> * Amount of published literature in that language
> * Level of censorship and press freedom
> * [[Language planning]] policies (think Catalonia, Ukraine, Quebec, Israel)
>
> It is quite possible that the size of a Wikipedia is proportional not to
> one of these things, but to a combination of them. It is also possible that
> it is not proportional to any of the above, or to anything at all.
>
> Did anybody ever try to research this?
>
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> From: "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>
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> (And yes, I know that Language planning and some of the other items are not
> measurable as numbers. I'm throwing ideas around.)
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> 2015-01-25 17:57 GMT-08:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It is well-known that the size of a Wikipedia in a given language is not
>> proportional to the number of people who speak that language. By "size" I
>> mean the article count and the active editor count.
>>
>> This begs the question: Is it proportional to anything else?
>>
>> I can think of a bunch of possible things (to most items you can add "...
>> in the countries where this language is spoken"):
>>
>> * Penetration of Internet access
>> * Quality of education
>> * Number of people who know other major languages, such as English,
>> French, Russian, Spanish, etc.
>> * Number of people who *don't* know other major languages
>> * Gross domestic product
>> * Human Development Index
>> * The level of usage of this language in the education system (in some
>> countries schools function in foreign languages)
>> * Amount of published literature in that language
>> * Level of censorship and press freedom
>> * [[Language planning]] policies (think Catalonia, Ukraine, Quebec, Israel)
>>
>> It is quite possible that the size of a Wikipedia is proportional not to
>> one of these things, but to a combination of them. It is also possible that
>> it is not proportional to any of the above, or to anything at all.
>>
>> Did anybody ever try to research this?
>>
>> --
>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>> “We're living in pieces,
>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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Hi all
I’m looking for feedback and endorsement for my Wikimedia Foundation PEG
grant to be Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/MrjohnCummings/UNESCO_Wikimedian…>
.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/MrjohnCummings/UNESCO_Wikimedian…
I’d very much appreciate if you would have a look, the main objectives are :
*1. Train UNESCO and its partner organisations to contribute to Wikimedia
projects*: Provide UNESCO and its partners with the skills, tools,
resources and connections to contribute to Wikimedia projects in a
meaningful, measurable and sustainable way. To integrate into the Wikimedia
community both online and by matching them with local Wikimedia
organisations and volunteers for in person support and collaboration. The
project will*create and improve content receiving 100,000,000 views per
year* on Wikimedia projects, *educate 1000 people in over 200 organisations* to
learn more about Wikimedia projects. This will include *500 newly
registered users* trained to contribute to Wikimedia projects and *500
articles formally reviewed by experts*.
*2. Make content from the archives of UNESCO and its partners available on
Wikimedia projects:* This project will facilitate the *upload of 30,000
images, audio files, videos, data and other content*to Wikimedia projects
from UNESCO archives
<http://photobank.unesco.org/exec/index.htm?lang=en> (24,000
images), UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
<http://www.uis.unesco.org/Pages/default.aspx> and other sources including *10
organisations changing their content license to be Wikimedia compatible*, a
completed pilot project is outlined in the Goal section.
*3. Create a model and resources to encourage other UN organisations and
their partner organisations to engage with Wikimedia*: I will work to
understand ways in which UNESCO, its partner organisations and the
Wikimedia movement’s many shared goals (outlined in the Impact section) can
be furthered through contributing to Wikimedia projects. We will create a
comprehensive how-to handbook (documentation and a tool chain) which will
be an amalgam of existing resources and new resources created by myself and
the wider Wikimedia community. *This project will act as a model that can
be followed by other UN agencies and their partners to open up their
content and engage with Wikimedia* and the wider open education movement.
*4. Disseminate and promote information on the project and its outcomes,
open licensing and engaging with Wikimedia*: To make information about and
produced by the project as widely as possible with the*aim of moving
further towards making open licensing the standard for scientific, cultural
and educational organisations and engagement with Wikimedia common practice*
.
I ran a pilot project that resulted in the images found in the Wikimedia
Commons category Images from the archive of UNESCO
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_archive_of_UNES…>,
here are a few examples:
-
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Soda_volcano,_Oromia,_Ethiopia.jpg>
The Soda volcano, Oromia, Ethiopia.
-
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rubbles_of_the_cathedral_after_the_earth…>
Rubble of the cathedral after the earthquake that hit the Capital Port
au Prince just before 5 pm on 12 January 2010.
-
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Young_monk,_wearing_a_special_costume,_D…>
Young monk, wearing a special costume, July-August 1991, Sikkim, India.
-
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sabha,6,_getting_ready_to_walk_to_school…>
Sabha, 6, getting ready to walk to school from her house on the borders
eastern Gaza strip, where she and her family are still living in tents.
-
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mohana_fishermen_hunters_use_lures_from_…>
Not far from Mohenjo-Daro (or Mohenjodaro) - These Mohana
fishermen/hunters use lures from real birds to catch more birds. They will
either eat them or sell them. Mohenjodaro, Pakistan.
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Priest_of_rock-Hewn_Churches_of_Lalibela…>
Priest of rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela, a high place of Ethiopian
Christianity, still today a place of pilmigrage and devotion.
If you think this is a worthwhile project please click this link
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/MrjohnCummings/UNESCO_Wikimedian…>
and
click the endorse button. Please share with any individuals or groups you
think would be interested I want to include as many language Wikimedia
projects as I can.
Many thanks
Mrjohncummings <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mrjohncummings>
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Registered Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street,
London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom.
Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The
Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
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Registered Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street,
London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom.
Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The
Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.
Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990.
Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
The Wikimedia Nederland report for November and December is available on
meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederla…
It is included as text in this message:
*COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors*
- Wikimedia Nederland Conference, Utrecht, November 1.
Finding & Connecting was the theme of the annual Wikimedia Conference
Netherlands on Saturday, November 1st, 2014 in Utrecht. The day was opened
by Hans de Zwart (Bits of Freedom) who spoke on freedom and
commercialization of the web. In total 27 speakers gave presentations
during the conference on the themes 'Find', 'Connect', 'Behind the Scenes'
and 'in practice'. A specially designed 'gender gap' lounge area gave more
background about the lack of female contributors within Wikimedia projects.
With over 100 visitors, we consider it a successful conference.
· Wiki-Saturdays
There were four Wiki-Saturdays in November and December. On November 8,
volunteers presented a prototype of Wikiportret 2.0, which will make it
much easier to contribute portraits to Commons. The final product will be
available in February 2015. The last WikiSaturday of the year on December
20 attracted 18 members of the community, two of whom visited the WMNL
offices for the first time.
· Seminar on online communication
WMNL supported a group of community members, many of them moderators, in
organizing a seminar on online communication and the challenges of
communicating with people with a disorder in the autism spectrum. On
December 13, two experts gave presentations for a group of 15 Wikipedians.
This event ended with constructive discussions on options to improve the
working climate on Nl Wikipedia and avoid unnecessary conflicts. In 2015,
WMNL will make available resources for further activities in this area.
*WORK: content, collaboration and activity development*
· GLAM Hackathon, Amsterdam, November 14 - 16.
Thirty developers and programmers came together in Amsterdam to work three
days on new and existing tools. The theme of the meeting was workingwith
data from libraries, archives and museums. Some examples of the impressive
amount of development work during those three days: - A tool that measures
how long a visitor has looked at a picture in Media Viewer. - An interface
for Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikipedia that can be extended with
your own commands. Also you can easily run queries by using this interface
to different wiki platforms. - A website where you can see the paintings
have already been added to Wikidata. In addition 250 files without content
were sanitized and 30,000 images of paintings added to Wikidata. In the
run-up to the Hackathon we organised a workshop Wikidata for GLAMs.
· Writing event on World War II at NIOD, Amsterdam, November 29.
On Saturday, November 29th the research institute [www.niod.nl NIOD] opened
its doors for Wikipedians. One of NIOD's researchers gave a presentation on
his work and how it related to Wikipedia. Attendees were then able to work
in the NIOD library. They wrote and improved articles, added information to
Wikidata and made a start on improving the information on the illegal
press. There was also a tour of the beautiful building where NIOD is housed.
· Project Nature: content donations and a Wikipedian in Residence
We received two content donations: as a pilot project for our cooperation
with NGOs gathering data on wildlife, we are going to upload the
data-collection on Dutch damsels and dragonflies. This is donated by
Libellennet. TheKoninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library) donated the
illustrations from 'De Nederlandsche Vogelen', a magnificent 18th century
book on Dutch Birds. In 2015, we are going to organize events to ensure
that these content donations are used in Wikipedia and other projects. The
museum for natural history Naturalis has decided to appoint a Wikipedian in
Residence for at least 6 months in 2015.
Wikipedia course for beginners and 'intermediates'. In cooperation with the
Zeeuwse Bibliotheek (library of Zeeland, which operates both as a public
and an academic library) we organised two training courses on editing
Wikipedia in November 11 and 25.
*WMNL*
· Staff
Jesse de Vos joined WMNL for three months to work on content donations. He
normally works for our partner Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid. Frank Meijer
joined as a contractor to work on the education programme.
*Money*
· FDC recommendation
The FDC commented positively on WMNL's plan for 2015 and recommended a
grant of €304.000. Although this is slightly less than we requested, we are
confident that we will be able to implement our plans. We are going to look
for external funding, both in cash and inkind, and be extremely
cost-conscious when planning our activities.
· Donations
The holiday season inspired people to give substantial donations to WMNL.
In total we received €15.000 over November and December. We thank all our
donors for their generosity over 2014.
*GLOBAL*
· European lobby group
WMNL donated €4000 to support the work of the European Free Knowledge
Advocacy group over 2015. Other chapters also contributed, making it
possible to continue the advocacy work in 2015. WMNL will contractually
'host' Dimitar Dimitrov, our man in Brussels, in 2015. Previously, both
funding and hosting were done by WMDE.
· Official launch Wikimedia Belgium
WMNL chairman Frans Grijzenhout, secretary André Engels and Executive
Director Sandra Rientjes attended the official launch of Wikimedia Belgium
in Brussels on November 19. WMNL and WMBE will be cooperating closely, both
in development of activities and in providing support to the communities.
*GOVERNANCE*
· Board meeting
The Board met on November 5.
*UPCOMING EVENTS*
· WMNL New Years Reception
The annual WMNL New Years event will take place on January 17. This year,
it is hosted by the Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (Institute for Vision
and Sound)
· GLAM WIKI 2015
The international GLAM Wiki 2015 is on April 10-12.
*OTHER EVENTS*
Wikipedian in Residence Sandra Fauconnier organised a writing event on
intercultural meetings in the framework of The Great Wikipedia Expedition
on December 12.
Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland
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mob. (+31) (0)6 31786379
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Are you planning on attending the GLAM WIKI 2015
<https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015> conference? Then please make
sure that you checked if you need a visa to visit the Netherlands.
Wikimedia Nederland can support your visa request by sending you a
invitation letter to the conference. Some people can have the costs related
to the their visa request reimbursed. Please read the information on the Visa
page <https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015/Visa>, the link to a
request form for an invitation letter can also be found on that page.
Best,
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As Tomasz and Dariusz wrote, while visually impaired people have their
solutions, other users might want to use Wikipedia etc. as an audible
source, even as podcasts (because they prefer learning while listening,
they are on the go etc.). I guess as well that mobile platforms bring some
use cases here (and I don't know if the solutions used by impaired people
are so useful on, say, iPad or Android phone, especially in less popular
languages).
Some completely other yet connected thing is assistance for impaired to
actually edit. Recently I have been approached by a person born blind who
reads content from MediaWiki but had it difficult to actually contribute
(while they wished to).
Kind Regards,
michał "aegis maelstrom" buczyński
Dnia 26 stycznia 2015 8:45 Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl>
napisał(a):
> hi,
>
> while this proposal will not add value for the blind, most likely (they
> surely have their preferred solutions
>
> already), it may be useful for those who do not have time to look for
> audio output, but would appreciate it if
>
> it was available straightaway. I think there is some benefit in that,
> clearly.
>
> best,
>
> dj "pundit"
This press release is also available online here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Winners_Announced_in_Wo…
Winners Announced in World’s Largest Photo Contest: Wiki Loves Monuments
*International jury selects top 10 photos from more than 321,000 worldwide.
Over the four past years, more than 1.1 million images have been submitted
to the contest.*
The international jury for Wiki Loves Monuments 2014
<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/> announced today the 10 winning
photographs from the world’s largest photo contest, which ran from
September 1 - 30 this year. More than 9,000 photographers uploaded over
321,000 freely-licensed photographs of historic buildings, monuments and
cultural heritage sites in 41 countries to Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> for use on Wikipedia and
other free knowledge projects.
This year, the grand-prize winning photograph is an image of the Holy
Mountains Monastery <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Mountains_Lavra>, a
complex of architectural monuments of national significance in Sviatohirsk,
Ukraine, taken by Konstantin Brizhnichenko
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brizhnichenko>. The first written
mention of the monastery was in 1526. In 1624, the monastery was officially
recognized as the Sviatohirsk Uspensky Monastery. Before World War I, the
monastery was inhabited by approximately 600 monks. During the 1930s, it
was destroyed by the Soviets, along with other numerous religious sites
throughout the Soviet Union. Today, the monastery community consists of
more than 100 people, a number that increases each year.
(Photo link:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svjatogorsk,_Lavra_3.jpg)
The winner will receive flight and accommodations in Mexico to attend
Wikimania, the international conference of the Wikimedia movement, to be
held in July 2015 in Mexico City.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Wiki Loves Monuments is
the world’s largest public photo competition. In it, people are asked to
take pictures of monuments from participating countries and to upload them
to Wikimedia Commons, enabling the photos to be used to illustrate
Wikipedia in articles about these monuments and other subjects.
“With over one million free images of heritage sites across the world, Wiki
Loves Monuments is one of the world’s most important history projects
today,” says Deror Lin, the international coordinator of the competition.
“Year after year, volunteers document hundreds of thousands of heritage
sites across the world and upload the images to the internet under a free
license for the benefit of the current andnext generations. These people
display the splendor of creativity and culture in their countries.”
The competition is organized in 41 participating countries, each focusing
on their national monuments and with their own national prizes. This year,
every participating country submitted 10 nominations to the international
jury who chose the winning pictures for the competition. A number of
countries participated in the competition for the first time, including:
Albania, Kosovo, Iraq, Ireland, Lebanon, Macedonia, Pakistan and the
Palestinian Authority.
The contest was first organized in 2010 in the Netherlands and resulted in
more than 12,500 pictures of Dutch monuments. Over the past four years more
than 1.1 million images have been submitted to the contest.
*2014 Wiki Loves Monuments Winners:*
-
1st Place - the Holy Mountains Monastery, Sviatohirsk, Ukraine by
Konstantin Brizhnichenko -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svjatogorsk,_Lavra_3.jpg
-
2nd Place - Gare du Nord in Paris, France, by MrsEllacott (his image
ranked 7thin the French national competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gare_du_Nord_December_2013.jpg
-
3rd Place - Jøvik and Great Cormorants near Ullsfjorden, Troms, Tromsø,
Norway by Siri Uldal (7th place in Norway’s national competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jøvik_handelssted_04.jpg
-
4th Place - Alte Sennalpe Batzen (literally: Old Dairy Mountain Pasture
Batzen) at Bregenzer Forest in Schröcken, Vorarlberg, Austria by Böhringer
Friedrich (9th Place in the Austrian national competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alte_Batzenalpe_2014_Interior_06.jpg
-
5th Place - Montfort Castle at Sunrise, Israel, by Eran Feldman (1st
Place in the Israeli national competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:מבצר_מונפורט_בזריחה.JPG
-
6th Place - St Michael’s Mount, Marazion, Cornwall, UK by Fuzzypiggy
(1st Place in the UK competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael's_Mount_II5302_x_2982.jpg
-
7th Place - Tower Bridge at Dawn, UK by Fuzzypiggy (3rd Place in the UK
competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tower_Bridge_at_Dawn.jpg
-
8th Place - Victorian Valves at Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK by:
RevDave (8th Place in the UK competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victorian_Valves.jpg
-
9th Place - Interior of the Romea Theatre, Murcia, Spain by: Pedro J
Pacheco - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teatro_Romea_Interior.jpg
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10 Place - View of the Interior of St. Peter's Church, Teruel, Spain.
by: Diego Delso -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Pedro,_Teruel,_Españ…
*For more information: *
*Itzik Edri, Spokesperson for the international jury - +972-54-5878078
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Tim Davenport <shoehutch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> My suggestion to Sucheta would be to start a website dedicated to the
> mission, to "first publish" there with appropriate free licensing, and to
> gradually port over material from there to WP on an topic-by-topic basis,
> assuming there is also scholarly literature on the topics being covered.
>
> It would also help to submit this documentary and historical website to
> scholarly review to better establish the work done there as academically
> reliable. Many of the academic journals include a "website reviews" section
> in the book reviews section these days.
>
> In short: first go off-wiki to systematize and write. Then document your
> work as reliable. Then integrate your work with the scholarly work of
> others and port over piece-by-piece to WP.
>
> My two cents...
>
> Tim Davenport
> "Carrite" on WP
> Corvallis, OR
>
>
>
>
> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 19:00:03 +0530
> From: Sucheta Ghoshal <sucheta.ghoshal(a)gmail.com>
> To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Is there some Wikimedia project to host
> contents based on original research?
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> Hi all,
>
> A few of my friends and I have been planning to document the history of
> counterculture in Bengali art and literature. These friends are also
> working in that domain professionally, and have access to a huge repository
> of texts, images, and other relevant details that they are willing to make
> available digitally in the form of free contents. We wish to have the
> contents as wikis, and, pictures and video snippets that might be involved
> - as properly licensed free materials. Now, the concern is if there is some
> Wikimedia Project that would host contents that are based on such an
> enormous amount of original research. Wikipedia is certainly not the
> appropriate place. And, as there exist no earlier works on this particular
> domain on the internet, references would be negligible. I was thinking
> about Wikibooks, instead. I am not entirely sure if that fits either, but I
> assume it fits better than Wikipedia, at least. The last option is to host
> it ourselves with the MediaWiki setup, and I am considering it very much.
> But, the idea essentially is to make people edit and enrich it with as much
> inputs as possible. It would be really helpful, in that case, if it could
> be placed in one of the Wikimedia projects. Suggestions, of every kind,
> would be deeply appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Sucheta
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Hello all,
Hereby I like to announce the project Wiki Loves Art in Belgium.
In November we had a meeting with a museum and we noticed that they were
very enthusiastic about Wikipedia/Wikimedia, but they experienced it as
difficult and maybe dangerous to open up their collection. This relatively
closed attitude appears to be not unique, but often occurring among Belgian
cultural institutions, compared with other countries, as we understood from
various organisations in the open knowledge sector.
Therefore we have thought about how to work together with cultural
institutions and we came up with Wiki Loves Art. This project has been
organised earlier in various countries, and in 2009 also in the
Netherlands. A Dutch team is currently working on organising Wiki Loves Art
in 2016 again, and that gave us the inspiration to start with the
organisation in Belgium as well.
Wiki Loves Art is a photo contest in what participants visit the museums,
galleries, archives and libraries which have determined a part of their
collection to be photographed and published under a free license. Wiki
Loves Art gives participating photographers often a unique possibility to
take photos in a cultural institution and/or to visit an organisation
behind the scenes. This has resulted in other Wiki Loves Art projects in
many photos that are widely used on various Wikipedias. For cultural
institutions this project gives the opportunity to collaborate with
Wikipedia/Wikimedia in a save way, without having opening the doors of
their entire collections, and show a part of their collection with
relatively little costs.
In an organisational point of view the project is intended to make the
Belgiumgap less wide and the availability will increase the coverage of
Belgian art on Wikipedia. In comparison with other countries, relatively
less articles have been written about subjects in Belgium in the various
language versions of Wikipedia. This project tries to stimulate to fill
this gap and that Belgian art and more is better visible and described on
Wikipedia.
Wiki Loves Art is a project under the flag of Wikimedia Belgium, but is a
joint project in what we work together with several organisations with a
long-term expertise in working with cultural institutions and/or open
knowledge projects. Together with them we had last week a meeting and
agreed on how we want to organise Wiki Loves Art in Belgium.
We need to start in time as the project is very labour intensive with much
time spend on communication with the various cultural institutions. The
Dutch team has therefore highly recommended to hire someone for one or two
days a week during the project to be able to manage all the communication
and organisational needs. We are also going to set up a website, print
flyers and leaflets, and after the contest we organise a jury to judge the
photos and organise a prize giving ceremony.
Therefore we created a grant request at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_BE/Wiki_Loves_Art_2016
If there are any suggestions or feedback, please let us know.
The project will be brought in at the General Assembly coming Saturday.
If you are interested in volunteering as part of the organisational team,
let us know!
The project page can be found at
https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Art_2016
Kind regards,
Romaine
