Hello fellow Coloradans!
Want to curate a room at this year's Wikimania for a day?! There is just a
few more days to put in a submission to lead (or co-lead) a space during
the event - the deadline is this Friday, March 22, 2019. We've gotten a few
submissions, but not enough yet, so I'm bumping this thread to you all,
hoping that it might spark some interest!
You can read the public summaries here:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design#Submitted_proposal…
and
you can submit your proposal here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehMAmSWuVI1FI0dJU3S_RznEEPAuqeQH0…
Happy spring-time in the Rockies!
Deb
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deb tankersley
program manager, engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
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From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] New Wikimania program design announced: call for
proposals OPEN
To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Bumping this thread...
Have you ever wanted to curate a room at Wikimania for a day?
With one week to go in the call for people to lead a "Space" during the
conference, we have so far received submissions on these topic areas:
Data Science
Languages
Diversity
Health
Education
Environmental Sustainability
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You can read brief public summaries of these submissions here:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design#Submitted_proposal…
If you think something's missing, and would like to add to those which are
already listed, Go to that page and fill out the form to propose your topic!
- Liam / Wittylama (program chair)
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 19:28, Eric Luth <eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The Wikimania organizing team is now happy to announce the *Program
> Design* <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design> of
> Wikimania 2019!
>
> We believe that this year’s conference theme
> <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Theme> requires a format that
> is *future-oriented, collaborative, active, and focused on practical
> problem-solving. *The program will therefore consist of a series of
> parallel *spaces* (or tracks), lead by *leaders,* and through practical
> training, learning, idea-sharing and cross-cultural collaboration focusing
> on different *topic areas*.
>
> The call for proposals for these *Leaders*, and what they would like to
> do with those *Spaces*, is NOW OPEN. We invite you to visit the Program
> Design page <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design> on
> the Wikimania Wiki to read more.
>
> Best,
> *Eric Luth*
> Conference Manager, Wikimedia Sverige
> eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se
> +46 (0) 765 55 50 95
>
> Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
> Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se
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There's a Wikimedia edit-a-thon in Denver this Sunday, March 10!
cheers,
Gaurav
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From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Sunday Art+Fem in Denver
Date: Mar 8 2019, at 2:45 pm
Sharing this for Denver Sunday Mar 10 -
http://www.mcnicholsbuilding.com/events/detail/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-…https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-and-feminism-tickets-57147781553
They seem to have put a $10 ticket on it, which is a little strange, but if anyone wants to volunteer I could probably get it waived for you.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi,
An organization that I am involved with, 500 Women Scientists
<https://500womenscientists.org/>, is planning to host a Wikipedia
edit-a-thon to add or improve profiles of notable women in science. We have
done this in other locations around the world in the past
<https://500womenscientists.org/wikipedia-editathon>. The event is Friday
evening 6-7:30a Jan 25th in Fort Collins. I was wondering if a woman from
the Colorado wikimedia chapter might be interested in helping us with the
edit-a-thon?
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Jessica
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Jessica Metcalf, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Animal Sciences
& Microbiome Initiative
Colorado State University
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
Hello Colorado Wikipedians!
My apologies that I haven't met many of you before or been very active on
this list. I've been editing Wikipedia for 12 years, and living in Colorado
for 38. I'm hoping maybe Coloradan to Coloradan you can help me out with
some advice.
I've been trying to think of novel micropayment applications, and was
thinking it would be really cool if in addition to the "thank" link on
diffs there was also a "tip" link to send a small tip to the editor making
the tip-worthy edit.
Along these lines, I have three questions/requests.
(1) Can any one envision, or do you have objections to something like this?
If I stretch me imagination a bit, I can see some of the objections
Wikipedias have raised regarding CoI or other paid-editing scenarios
applying here (e.g. it would be a round-about way for entities to pay for
editors). I think the incentive of encouraging good edits would out-weigh
the risks, and the diffs are the right place to do it (e.g. not on a user
page or something like that). What do you think?
(2) What would be the right way to propose such a feature to Wikimeda? If
there's no obvious right way, would what be the wrong ways to avoid?
(3) Building on (2) what would be your suggestions on how to develop this
with an eye for adoption on Wikipedia? Does it make the most sense to build
it on a small independent Mediawiki and then have it ready for adoption on
Wikimedia? (what I'm planning to do) or is there something else that makes
more sense?
Thanks,
- Craig
Hey all, does anyone know if we've submitted/started an annual report
for 2017? Mostly I'm just asking if anyone has actually done this and I
just didn't notice - I was planning to do this myself several months
ago, but my health kind of took a downturn and I sort of lost track of
things. If not, I'll see what all we need to do to get on that, but let
me know.
Thanks!
-I
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From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 3:35 PM
Subject: Aug 22: WikiCon extended deadline
To: Wikimedia U.S. Chapter <wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The deadline for submissions and scholarships for WikiConference North
America has been extended to August 22, i.e. Wednesday.
To submit your presentation:
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Submissions
To apply for a scholarship:
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Scholarships
Remember, Wednesday is the final final deadline :)
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Update.
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Subject: [Wikimediaus-l] Aug 22: WikiCon extended deadline
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:35:19 -0400
From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States
(WALRUS) <wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia U.S. Chapter <wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The deadline for submissions and scholarships for WikiConference North
America has been extended to August 22, i.e. Wednesday.
To submit your presentation:
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Submissions
To apply for a scholarship:
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Scholarships
Remember, Wednesday is the final final deadline :)
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hey all, for anyone who's interested and hasn't necessarily gotten
around to it, general reminder that submissions and scholarship
applications are due tomorrow. So if you're like me and haven't
submitted anything yet and/or applied for a scholarship and want to, do
these now!
If you haven't done this before, proposal submissions are
talks/panels/workshops for basically anything we might see at any other
Wikimedia event, but also especially stuff applicable to local groups
and whatnot. Like what have we even been doing as a group?
And if you're wondering if you should apply for a scholarship, the
answer is yes. They're very straight forward, you just get 500$ to
figure out your own trip and that should cover most of it, and if you do
anything at all, you're probably in the running for getting one. If
you're subscribed to this list, you probably do something. If you're an
academic, you also have a more academia-style option to look into.
As a side note, in the past I may have mentioned how we should maybe try
combining the photo road trip idea with getting people to this
conference, but this was before I realised just how far away Ohio really
is. I thought it was close to Colorado! It's not! This one's further
away than San Diego! But even if that's not necessarily feasible for
this, we should still totally look into doing that sort of road trip at
some point, hint hint. Maybe if some of us meet up at the conference, we
could plan something then? I dunno.
-I