Hello Wikimedia Ireland!
Do you meet offline ever?
I'm interested in getting people together who are interested in Wikidata,
SPARQL, schema.org and all things semantic web.
Top o' the morning to you all,
Anthony
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PhD Candidate
Philosophy / Digital Humanities
University College Cork
Ireland
+353(0)857377737 <+353857377737>
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Meeting Minutes-3 May 2017
Attendees:
Shannon Eichelberger (SE)
Eugene Eichelberger (EE)
Rebecca O’Neill (RO)
Sharon Flynn (SF)
Dan Garry (DG)
User Group
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WLM Contractor
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Interview invitations to be sent out tonight to candidates
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EE and SE will conduct interviews-anyone else is welcome to attend
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Program Coordinator Update (RO)
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Met with contact at National Library of Ireland-staff member has been
brought on to push towards more open licensing Offered to
provide in house
training on CC licensing.
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Contacted a member of the Digital Repository of Ireland-waiting to
hear back.
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Trinity Library-planning another event around the Terry Pratchet
collection. “4 May is the tentative date.
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Attended Creative Ireland Event run by Dublin City Council. The city
is looking to collaborate with stakeholders to promote creative
endeavours.
Met with members of the crafting community looking to get more positive
imagery of crafting out there. Attending their meeting on 14 May.
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Created a Draft Newsletter. Want to make it a monthly recurrence.
Edit-a-thon/Workshops
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Upcoming Workshops
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24 May-Trinity College Dublin-2-5pm-Terry Pratchet Collection Workshop
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August-UCC-RO reported that Donna will possibly run another even in
August. She also found another professor at UCC using Wikipedia
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Possible future events
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WLM editing workshop
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Library Association workshop
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Trinity faculty who are looking to work with Wikipedia in the
classroom
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Vicipéid Workshop-SF spoke to contact in Galway. He would like to run
a more informal event, with perhaps 405 people, at the end of August.
Potential theme: Redressing the Balance-each participant finds an article
that is meaningful to them to improve. Wants to run the entire
workshop in
Irish. RO suggested a pre-event training.
Conferences
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Upcoming Conferences
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July 5-6-Celtic Knot-Edinburgh-RO has registered and booked her
flights and accommodation
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August 23-25 International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym
2017)-Galway-RO cannot attend. It is open to someone else to
attend in her
place.
WLM
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RO is still putting out feelers for an exhibition. Will contact some
local artists for ideas.
-- Shannon Eichelberger, Chair
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Wikimedia Community Ireland
Chair - Shannon Eichelberger
Project Coordinator - Rebecca O'Neill
Online: Wikimedia Community Ireland
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*Wikimedia Community Ireland Newsletter - May 2017*
*First staff member*
After receiving its first Simple Annual Plan Grant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple> for the Wikimedia
Foundation, Wikimedia Community Ireland is delighted to announce the hiring
of its first staff member! Rebecca O'Neill is the group's Project
Coordinator, acting as the point of contact for anyone interested in
working with Wikimedia Community Ireland. She will continue and expand the
work she has been doing with editing workshops and discussions on Wikimedia
with those working in education and cultural sectors. She has been an
editor on Wikipedia since 2011, and is currently about to finish her PhD
which was connected to her work with the Wikimedia community.
*Europeana 1914-18*
Europeana 1914-18 is a major project to digitise and publish primary and
secondary historical sources on the First World War
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World_War>. It is coordinated by
Europeana <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europeana>, as part of a broader
program to digitise European cultural heritage. As part of this work,
Europeana are hosting an on-Wiki competition which challenges Wikimedia
affiliates to create a portfolio of their past and current activities
relating to the theme of 1914-18. These portfolios will be judged by jury,
submissions close on July 31. All of the details can be found here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Europeana/1914-18>.
We are interested in hearing from the community if there are any events
that you would like to see run on this theme, so do get in touch!
*Wiki Loves Monuments 2017*
It is fast coming around to that time of year again, time to think about
this year's Wiki Loves Monuments! This year we hope to focus on the
monuments that have yet to have any photos uploaded to Commons, so let's
think about all those yet to be discovered monuments that deserve the Wiki
Loves treatment.
If you are interested in helping out in the organisation this year, either
virtually or by helping out with an event such as a photowalk in your area,
we would love to hear from you. If you are a photographer, start spreading
the word with your friends and photography clubs. It is a lot of fun, you
could win a prize, and you are showing off the unique built heritage of
Ireland to the world!
*Vicipéid and Celtic Knot conference*
As a group, we have been getting more and more involved in Vicipéid and
editing through Irish. We'd love to get in touch with more Irish language
editors, to hear your thoughts on what we could do to enhance the use and
contributions to Vicipéid. In particular we have been inspired by the Welsh
Wikipedia, which recently became the largest language Wikipedia to
have an equal
amount of biographies
<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2016/12/the-welsh-gender-equilibrium-welsh-be…>
of men and women.
There is a Twitter account called @Ga_Vicipeid
<https://twitter.com/Ga_Vicipeid> which has not been active for a few
years, if you know who set this up, please do let us know as it would be
great to get it tweeting again.
On 5 July this year, Wikimedia UK are hosting a conference for those
interested in the Celtic language Wikipedias, called Celtic Knot
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017>. This
conference is partly possible due to the first Scots Gaelic Wikimedia in
Residence
<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2017/01/wikimedia-uk-and-national-library-of-…>,
and other fantastic initiatives coming from smaller language Wikipedias
like our own. Please spread the word about the conference, it is sure to be
a rewarding two days.
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