Hi All,
Myself, Jason Moore in Portland, OR, and other participants of Wikimedia
LGBT <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT/Portal> (a proposed
usergroup) have been organizing an Edit-a-Thon campaign called *Wiki Loves
Pride 2014*. We hope the campaign will reach community groups and
institutions interested in diversifying Wikipedia and adding information to
articles on LGBT topics. Along with others, Jason and I both helped out
organizing the Wikipedia Art+Feminism Campaign
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism>and hope to
replicate this wildly successful model with apt media and press outreach as
well as catering to both wiki and non-wiki crowds.
Wiki Loves Pride<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride_2014>,
a series of Edit-a-Thons will take place in June (most likely around
Saturday June 22nd).
If you are interested in volunteering to help organize these events or have
a venue that you think would want to host an Edit-a-Thon please email me or
wikiLGBT(a)gmail.com. We would love to have more co-coordinators and
supporters.
Please also find a general event poster attached which we encourage you to
distribute to interested parties.
Thank you!
Dorothy
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You're invited to participate in the Film, Freedom, and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon this Friday, April 25th. Although the edit-a-thon will be held as part of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) 2014 in Rochester, you do not need to be attending the conference to participate. Online participation is highly encouraged!
Check out the Meetup page for inspiration, resources, and tools: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/FilmFreedomAndFeminism
To participate,
1. Add your username to the list of participants.
2. Edit anytime, anywhere on Friday, April 25th on the topics of film, freedom, or feminism.
3. Add your contributions to the Outcomes section of the Meetup page.
Happy editing!
Lea
Leanora Lange
Processing and Institutional Archivist and Digitization Projects Liaison
Center for Jewish History
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New York, NY 10011
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Dear All,
Jen B. and I just got back from Berlin and the Wikimedia Chapters
Conference, where we represented WMNYC. I am extremely grateful for this
opportunity, and want to share as much as I learned (which was a lot!) from
the conference with the rest of the chapter. I hope that at the next
all-NYC-chapter meeting we can do a short presentation including some of
our finding from the conference.
First off, the official notes for all the presentations during the
conference are available on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014/Documentation
I have also uploaded rough notes from the sessions I attended on blogger:
http://wmnycwikicon2014.blogspot.com/
*Some other things:*
I was impressed at the strategic planning that many other Chapters
undertake to keep themselves organized. Many Chapters emphasized their
discussions of long and short term goals, project reporting and assessment
standards, and development of an annual plan. I think a conversation about
these things would be immensely helpful for us as a Chapter and would allow
us to develop better strategies for applying for grants and managing them.
I was especially impressed with how many chapters have paid staff and/or
office space, and paid developers working on Wiki projects. The WM
Deutschland office has a staff of 10-15! Something to consider as we have
conversations about our goals as a group...
V. cool, portable, offline Wikipedia: KIWIX:
http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page
GLAM-Wiki Toolset:
I have been trying to figure this project out for a while and just
discovered that it is still in Beta, and still having some tech problems
during its initial launch. In the meantime, find updates here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_Toolset_Project and talk
to me if you want details.
Wikimaps is an especially intriguing project for me:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps
Talking with some folks working on the project, I will be trying to connect
with NYPL Labs to have a WikiMaps hack-a-thon there. More details in the
future!
Please reach out to me or Jen if you have any other questions about the
Conference! It really got us excited for WikiConUSA!
Cheers,
Dorothy Howard
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Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
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