Wikimania + video concerning MedinaPedia Library - Wikimedia-tn

16 May 2019

Dear all,
I thank you for your efforts. As you already know, I have developed with Mr. Houssem
Abida, Ms. Zeineb Takouti and Ms. Emna Mizouni a method of library outreach for
MedinaPedia Sfax. The idea consists of contacting libraries including books about the
Medina of Sfax and asking them to borrow us these books so that we can scan them and put
them in a Google Drive-based repository so that they can be used as references by the
participants to the project. These references are enriched with ones from online
repository such as Gallica, Library of Congress, Abhatoo and Cairn and validated by
professors emeriti. Further information about the work can be found in
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_TN_-_Library_Outreach.pdf. Currently, as
this method was successful to ameliorate the coverage of the Medina of Sfax in Wikipedia,
the leader of Libraries Space in Wikimania asked me if I can make a video about the method
or propose a brief session about it in Wikimania. As we did this work together, I ask for
your permission to do this proposal to Wikimania. I also ask if you would like to enter as
coauthors of this proposal. This session will be considered as a model of how user groups
can do library outreach to develop their projects. It can also allow us to have scanners
for other MedinaPedia projects.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
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-------- Message d'origine --------
De : Merrilee Proffitt &lt;mproffitt(a)gmail.com&gt;
Date : 2019/05/16 03:06 (GMT+01:00)
À : Houcemeddine Turki &lt;turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr&gt;
Objet : Wikimania + video

Hi Houcem,

Are you attending Wikimania? If so I would love it if you would propose a talk on your
Tunisian library project!
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Libraries

Or if you are not attending, perhaps someone else from the user group? This is a really
great example of work with libraries to support mutual efforts.

Also, I would like to feature the project in an upcoming session that would be open to
members of the user group, using something like Zoom or Google Hangouts so you can present
on it and share more broadly. I'd like to schedule that for sometime in June.

I hope your exams are going well.

Best,

Merrilee