Hi All,
I was talking to another today about interest in setting up a WikiData
learning event in Manhattan, where the entire focus is on educating
ourselves and each other about the possible uses of WikiData.
WikiData was a big focus of the tech track at Wikimania, and among the
murmurings of most other sessions.
I think we could use some sort of informal meetup where we can all learn
better ways of using it, and perhaps also what kinds of projects we can
suggest it to. For me, I want to start talking to GLAMs about it, but I
don't know a lot of use cases of institutions doing so (yet!)
Anyone else have interest? Perhaps we could do this meetup somewhere in
lower Manhattan (WiFi a necessity!)
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Dorothy
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Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
Hi All,
At our last meeting this past Sunday 8/17/14, an interest in Wikimedia NYC
forming a Program Evaluation and Metrics Gathering subcommittee for the
chapter was identified, and I was nominated to head this committee.
I'd like to take the opportunity for anyone interested in helping me draft
a 6 month or 1 year plan (we will discuss timelines etc.) for metrics
gathering and evaluation to join this subcommittee.
I think it makes sense to plan a Google Hangout, or perhaps an IRL meetup
just for us to discuss the drafting of such a plan and to move it forward.
Please email me if you are interested in receiving notifications about this
effort and/or want to be part of the subcommittee or have any further
questions.
Thanks very much,
Dorothy
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Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
You are invited to join us at the 'Wiki-Salon and Skill Share', a community
event of knowledge-sharing for those of all levels of experience with
Wikipedia, on Sunday August 17 on the Upper West Side.
The main meeting runs from 2-5pm, and afterward we'll walk to a social
wiki-dinner together at a neighborhood restaurant
We welcome all interest from the education, museum and library, and
nonprofit worlds, and from everyone in any community interested in building
a bigger, broader and better Wikipedia.
For those in education, this can be a good way to kick off the Fall
wiki-semester! We'll be glad to help advise/assist with any course project.
For those who experienced our old community meetings at Columbia
University, the Wiki-Salon is an effort to get back to that style of
broad-ranging community discussion.
---Location---
Yeoryia Studios at Epic Security Building, 2067 Broadway, 5th Floor
Between West 71st & West 72nd Streets, above Gigi Cafe, near Trader Joe's
By 72nd Street station (1,2,3 subway lines)
---Sign up and more info---
Our page on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
Our page on Meetup.com:
http://www.meetup.com/WikimediaNYC/events/198921032/
You can officially 'sign up' at either of these pages, and please add your
ideas to the agenda!
I'll also be glad to answer any question you may have about the Wiki Salon.
Thanks,
Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC Chapter
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia_NYC mailing list
Wikimedia_NYC(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia_nyc
Here's a multilingual-focused Wikipedia event we are holding on Saturday
afternoon:
The Spoken Wikipedia Workshop NYC will be held on Saturday July 26, 3:30 -
5:30pm at Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
I've also proposed for those who are interested afterward, a social
wiki-dinner around Prospect Heights and Shakespeare in the Parking Lot
(Twelfth Night!).
http://shakespeareintheparkinglot.com/
(Note of caution: Our meeting room at BPL officially only holds 10 people,
so there's a possibility not everyone will get a seat in there, but there
is also the public area around the library.)
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi All,
Per our discussion at our last meeting with Asaf, I brought up an idea that
a few of us have been discussing, that is, applying for a PEG (Project and
Event Grant.. rolling application..) to create a small-grants program
shared by Wikimedia NYC and New England Wikimedians
<http://ne-wikimedians.org/wiki/Home>. That way, if someone from either
chapter wanted to attend a Wikipedia event in the NYC/New England area,
they could apply for a small grant for travel and a hostel.
I've put the idea up on Idealab. Please sign your name if interested, and
perhaps we can continue the discussion on-Wiki.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WM_NYC,_NE_inter-chapter_eve…
Thanks!
Dorothy
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Dorothy Howard
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
Hi All,
I want to let you know that William Blueher of the Thomas J. Watson Library
at the Metropolitan Museum, has created a GLAM-Wiki page for their project
and will be training a few of their museum interns to help them edit in the
coming months.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/TJWL
I'm excited to see where their project goes and will let you all know of
future developments there as it happens.
Thanks,
Dorothy Howard
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Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
Hi All,
I want to let you know that members of Wikimedia NYC including myself have
been talking with Sumana Harihareswara, Senior Technical Writer at the
Wikimedia Foundation, whom many of you know, about having her run an Ada
Initiative Ally Skills training
<http://adainitiative.org/what-we-do/workshops-and-training/> for WMNYC
sometime in late September. After the WMNYC meeting with Asaf yesterday,
there was also some talk about the WMF helping us find a suitable diversity
trainer to talk specifically about effective communication, tolerance, and
other topics of gender, privacy, etc. etc. in online communities.
If you are interested in helping coordinate this, please contact Lane or
myself and/or give us your feedback about scheduling a diversity training
event.
Thanks,
Dorothy
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*Dorothy Howard*, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
Hi All,
Thanks to those who attended the strategic planning meeting with Asaf from
the Wikimedia Foundation today. I think it was quite productive and
interesting!
The notes are at the following etherpad:
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wmnycjuly14
We should probably move them to an appropriate wiki or other space to make
sure they are preserved.
If you weren't at the meeting but have questions or comments as to the
notes please feel free to respond here or PM me or others who attended!
Perhaps we will do another recap of what happened that more succinctly also
lists the decisions we made going forward during the meeting.
Thanks,
Dorothy
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Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
Hey all,
Since not everyone is on the below lists, I figured I’d pass this along.
Kevin
---------- Forwarded message ----------
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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GLAM-US(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam-us
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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Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
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