Hey all,
Since not everyone is on the below lists, I figured I’d pass this along.
Kevin
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From: Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:00 PM
Subject: [GLAM-US] The Wikipedia Library: New Free Accounts Available
To: Wikimedia & Libraries <Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, North American
Cultural Partnerships <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch, wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
The Wikipedia Library has new, free research account signups available:
New
* British Newspaper Archive <http://enwp.org/WP:BNA> (50 accounts)
* Keesing's World News Archive <http://enwp.org/WP:Keesings> (25 accounts)
Expanded
* Credo Reference <http://enwp.org/WP:CREDO> (200 new accounts)
* JSTOR!! <http://enwp.org/WP:JSTOR> (400 new accounts).
Medical
* BMJ <http://enwp.org/WP:BMJ> (25 accounts)
* Cochrane Library <http://enwp.org/WP:Cochrane> (100 accounts)
Other
*Questia Online Library <http://enwp.org/WP:Questia (500 accounts)
*HighBeam Research <http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam (500 accounts)
Sign up!
Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and
1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. You can
signup today on English Wikipedia. But! If you have started a local
Wikipedia Library branch you can host signups on your local Wiki (Arabic,
Chinese...). To set up a Wikipedia Library branch email Ocaasi at
jorlowitz(a)gmail.com.
Thanks!
Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
The Wikipedia Library
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>
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Hi All,
As many of you know, I will be applying for a Wikimedia Foundation PEG
grant to extend my current working capacity (currently 2 days a week) as
Wikipedian-in-Residence at METRO
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan_New_York_Library_…>.
One of my main frustrations at METRO is not being able to respond to
requests from non-METRO members as METRO wants me to focus only on
institutions within our membership. This grant (linked)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Metro/Institutional_Growth_and_C…>
will
enable me to have 1 extra day at METRO where I can do outreach to non-METRO
members as well.
I want to clarify what this grant's relationship to Wikimedia NYC will be
so as to ask for your endorsements and make sure we are on the same page.
*Attn: WMNYC Board members: *If you support this grant, I would be
extremely appreciative if you make a comment endorsing it on the grant's
talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/Metro/Institutional_Growth_…>
where the grant committee is currently discussing it.
*Agreement: *
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Collaboration between METRO's Wikipedian-in-Residence and WMNYC will be
sought for public events. If WMNYC contributes support for an event, and a
co-host role is approved by the institution or group providing space and
other event resources, then WMNYC will be listed as a co-organizer on event
materials. This co-host role will be determined on an event-by-event basis.
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WMNYC may report on the activities and projects organized by METRO's
Wikipedian-in-Residence as part of the scope of chapter activities and
official chapter reporting where events were co-organized.
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WMNYC and WMDC may serve in an advisory role over the METRO WiR as
endorsing chapters, and will have access to project reporting. WMNYC may
report on its role as an advisor and endorser to this grant
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Funds provided in the grant for food and printing expenses will be used
towards Edit-a-Thons and other public events hosted by METRO or in
collaboration with WMNYC or WMDC.
Dorothy
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Dorothy Howard
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
Web <http://metro.org/> | Twitter <http://twitter.com/tweetmetro> | LinkedIn
<http://www.linkedin.com/company/2197752> | Facebook
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/METRO-Metropolitan-New-York-Library-Council/2…>
Help improve LGBT history and culture on Wikipedia!
You are invited to join us at Jefferson Market Library on Sat June 21,
11am-4pm. for "Wiki Loves Pride", an edit-a-thon where both experienced and
new Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve articles on LGBT topics.
Hosted by New York Public Library, Metropolitan New York Library Council,
Wikimedia LGBT and Wikimedia New York City.
Event details on the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
P.S. And in July, we have the return of the Central Park Wiknic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiknic
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Hi All,
I want to announce an upcoming NYC Edit-a-Thon for the Wiki Loves Pride
2014 Campaign, organized by WikiLGBT and to invite Wikimedia NYC members to
join in.
*Wiki Loves Pride 2014 *Edit-a-Thon at NYPL's Jefferson Market Library
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Market_Library>, June 21st, 2014.
11am-5pm.
*Event Page: *
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiki_Loves_Pride_2014
*Facebook: *https://www.facebook.com/events/468297923301575/
*Inside Jefferson Market Library *
This event is part of the international Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-Thons
taking place during Pride month, the month of June.
Below and attached are our standard press releases we are using to
advertise these events to institutions and seek institutional hosts for
these events. Please pass along this press release and the attachment to
any other institutions (US and International) that you think may want
to join in. Contact me if you have any more questions.
We hope to see you there!
WikiLGBT
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WIKI LOVES PRIDE LGBT WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THONS SET FOR JUNE, 2014
In the past few years, organized groups on Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia Foundation project-spaces have sought to increase the quality and
scope of public domain information and media relating to the LGBT
community. June, 2014 will see the first global Wiki Loves Pride Campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride_2014>
One of the aims of Wiki Loves Pride will be increasing the number of people
and perspectives contributing to LGBT information on the world's largest
encyclopedia, as well as encouraging institutions to add their authority
information, research and images to the public domain.
Contributions to information about LGBT topics in politics and policy,
medicine, topics in identity sexuality, and society, rights and attitudes,
history, culture, and institutions will vastly affect the ways in which
these topics are researched and understood internationally. In the past,
Wikipedia articles on these topics have been riddled with a lack of
scholarly sources and lack of perspectives, a problem which has the effect
of skewing public perceptions and affecting research and decisions in
public policy, science and medical practice, and community acceptance.
If you would like to host a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at your institution, or
to sponsor this campaign by offering your endorsement in some other way,
please contact the organizers. This campaign page will be a resource for
all satellite events, and will be available to help connect institutions
with experienced Wikipedians and learning resources. We are looking for
libraries, galleries, colleges, and other public, educational spaces to
host events.
*Information*
*When:* June 2014. Host an event as part of virtual Edit-a-Thons throughout
the month of June! Saturday June 21st will be the main day for events.
*Where:* Locations are still being sought please contact us to start
planning!
*Webpage:* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride_2014
*Contact:* WikiLGBT(a)gmail.com