Here's a fine WiR job focusing on using the Houghton special collections.
3 months @ 15 hr/wk, $16/hr
http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=8583
If you're looking for an excuse to come spend three months in Boston,
this may be a great opportunity. For whoever ends up there: this is a
beautiful library to work in.
SJ
Hi everyone!
I was told that I should write to this list with questions about finding a
scholarship for funding to attend the Wikimedia Diversity conference.
I'm a PhD student at MIT and have been designing ways to use gender data to
crowdsource greater participation in expanding Wikipedia's coverage of
women. This early prototype <http://passingon.followbias.com>, for example,
uses data about women in 20 years of New York Times obituaries. Users can
read about those women and check to see if they're in Wikipedia. As readers
explore, their micro-actions are pooled into a dataset of resources that
can be used to create stub articles for notable people.
In the long term, it should be possible to connect with other data sources
in archives and newspapers in ways that bring new editors into Wikipedia.
Think of it as a precursor to a Wiki Loves Monuments for diversity. I have
applied to the conference in hopes that my work on data could support such
an initiative.
1. What's the process for getting funding?
2. Who should I try to team up with on this effort
Thanks!
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Hello everyone,
Wikimedia DC will be holding its second annual Wiki Loves Capitol Hill training on Saturday, April 12. Wiki Loves Capitol Hill focuses on training volunteers on discussing legislative matters related to Wikimedia with Congressional staff, and like last year, there is no shortage of things to talk about!
This is the current list of agenda items: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Slowking4/congressional_briefing_agend…>. Feel free to add things to the list as necessary. Note that Wikimedia DC is not allowed to advocate for the election or defeat of candidates, and our ability to spend money on this is highly restricted.
Also, if you happen to be in the DC area in mid-April, we would be very happy to see you participate!
Please let me know if you have any questions.
—
James Hare
President, Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org
@harej / @wikimediadc
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/
We look forward to your submissions for workshops, seminars, tutorials,
panels, and presentations - please send your proposal in by March 31:
Submissions: http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions
Scholarships are also available.
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
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Dear All,
As one of the few female members of Wikimedia NYC I want to express to you
all my thoughts on the gender dynamics of the group to put things in
perspective. I hope that this email can continue into a wider discussion
about the gender politics of Wikipedia and how to address potential issues
of sexism in our community.
First off, I have been incredibly thankful for the opportunity to work with
all of you and have learned a lot from my participation in this group and
the gracious help of many of you.
That said, I have felt that the attitudes of some community members has
been quite antagonistic towards myself and that this had made me feel
unwelcome. Part of my criticism is that I have felt judged at different
points for not having the same technical strengths and/or community
connections in the group. I think it is important for older members of
Wikimedia NYC to remind themselves that not everyone has the same set of
skills/references to draw from and in order to create a friendly and open
environment for new members we have to be patient teachers to newcomers,
not judgmental exclusivists or lecturers. I also bring this up because I
have had several other women that have been in some way involved or have
worked with Wikimedia NYC members at events express discomfort at the
masculine and/or sexist undertones of some of the training styles of
members of Wikimedia NYC this was even true at the ArtAndFeminism event-
which I found very concerning. This greatly concerns me as the group
already is mostly male members, and the perception of this kind of negative
attitude could only prevent the diversification of our group and its
addressal of the concerns with the gender gap more widely in the Wikipedia
community.
I think one of the problems is that attendees of events don't want to be
told how things are and lectured to as much as they want to be given enough
encouragement to go out and learn the policies/editing on their own. The
difference might seem subtle but I think it is noticeable. I ask each
member of this group to please consider if perhaps you may be implicated in
my concerns here, because this email is not coming out of nowhere but out
of the discomfort and conversation among other members of the group to
which I will leave unnamed.
I also want to stress that Wikimedia NYC should not be a place for
unwanted, unprofessional romantic attention. This kind of attention makes
it hard to feel like a real person when one's intellectual interests are
being interrupted by an objectifying gaze. I ask that the group treat our
events and meetings like a workplace in the sense that harassment of a
sexual or romantic nature should not be tolerated.
Thanks for listening. I hope this conversation evolves perhaps into a
training on how to faster a friendly space environment in groups and/or a
larger discussion of the potential gender gaps within the group. I really
think it should be a conversation- I just felt I needed to express these
frustrations upfront instead of continuing to leave them unaddressed.
Thanks for reading,
Dorothy
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Dorothy Howard, Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
<http://metro.org/>
Join the Wikipedia 'Innovation Law and Policy Editathon Edit-a-thon'
at NYU Law on Saturday March 8 -
Together, we'll work to improve Wikipedia articles on innovation law
and intellectual property - new contributors and voices are especially
encouraged to join!
We'll also have one-on-one tutorial help for those new to wiki.
Location: Furman Hall / New York University School of Law, 9th floor
(245 Sullivan Street)
Time: Saturday March 8, noon - 6pm (drop-in anytime)
Wikipedia event page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
Optional RSVP:
http://nyulawwiki.eventbrite.comhttp://www.meetup.com/WikimediaNYC/
Thanks,
Richard (User:Pharos),
Wikimedia NYC
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