Hi,
One of the attendee of the recent first ever Glasgow Meetup has written a
lovely blog post. You can read it at <http://bit.ly/12VKpBr>.
Regards,
Katie
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Hello everyone,
I've just received an email from the Digital Shoreditch festival people.
They are offering free tickets to the "Make & Do" sessions that take place
this weekend. The sessions include workshops and talks.
If you'd like to make use of this offer, take a look at this page -
https://tickets.digitalshoreditch.com/2013/make-do/
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
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Hello everyone,
John Andersson of Wikimedia Sweden has commented on the ENWP Military
History project asking if there are any Wikimedians interested in taking
part in a First World War editathon in June this year -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#H…
I also posted something recently on the same page calling for Wikimedians
with ideas about projects related to the centenary of the war to get in
touch, too -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#C…
If you'd like to suggest ideas, lead on a project or like any support from
Wikimedia UK regarding this topic, please do get in touch.
You can also view my notes from a workshop related to the centenary on the
WMUK wiki here -
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_War_One/Notes_from_IWM_comms_workshop
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
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global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the
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Morning all,
So, myself and Katie are moving on with a long-planned but yet to be
delivered hand-out to support recruitment of members and volunteers for the
chapter - and we'd value your input.
I've posted the following on the water cooler too -
I've started a drafting page today (see
here<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer/Join_us_handout%7C>)
to put together the content and ideas for a dual purpose handout the
chapter can use to get expressions of interest from volunteers or potential
members.
You can all help massively by dropping by and adding a sentence or two
about how either volunteering and membership has led to interesting
experiences, projects, or other outcomes. Also, I'm happy for use to draft
section content - what would YOU say to get people to get involved?
There is no hard deadline on completing this, though I will probably be
running around at the AGM session on writing the new members pack asking
similar sorts of questions, so I would hope to see the first draft of that
and this ready by the end of June!
Ping me on talk page or email me if you have questions - happy to answer
and listen to advice :-)
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*So - suggest away!*
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United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
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Dear Wikimedia friends,
thanks for the valuable input on the project draft for the Chapters
Dialogue[1] in the recent weeks and at the Chapters Meeting in Milan.
I have now integrated the feedback and updated the Meta page
accordingly. The process is designed to be open and transparent, so
please feel free to comment on and enhance the description.
As of now, we are looking for a contractor (paid position, 6 months)
from within the Wikimedia movement to design, realise and evaluate
this project. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated person.
== Requirements ==
* Background knowledge of the Wikimedia movement
* Ability to shape and actively guide the dialogue
* Willingness and ability to travel world-wide
* Skills in inter-cultural communication
* Good written and spoken English skills, favourably also in Spanish
and possibly other languages
* Knowledge of project management and interview techniques
* Ability to work independently and remotely
* Attendance at this year's [[Wikimania 2013]]
* Experiences in survey design and data analysis are nice to have
* Be more of a story collector than a story teller ;)
Please apply until June 10, 2013 via email to
nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de and include
* a short motivation letter
* an overview of your experiences in this field
* a short description (max. 1500 characters) of what your first steps
in this project would be
* your earliest entrance date
* your time availability (full-time, part-time)
Find all the relevant information on the meta page. I am available for
all your questions and input, feel free to get in touch or leave
comments on the talk page.
Cheers,
Nicole
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Dialogue
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any that I might have missed!
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From: Howie Fung <hfung(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 18 May 2013 06:58
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Hiring Community Liaisons (Contract)
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Hey all,
For the last 18 months, the Engineering & Product Development department
has been experimenting with the role of “Community Liaison, Product
Development” - a staff member embedded in the Product team and tasked with
factoring community concerns into our software development process, keeping
editors informed about what we’re doing, and maintaining a dialogue between
those who write code and those who write articles.
While there is always room for improvement, I think this role has shown a
lot of promise. We have a number of large projects coming down the
pipeline (e.g., visual editor, discussion systems) and we need more help
reaching out to our contributor communities, especially our non-English
speaking projects, as our outreach there has traditionally been challenged.
We’d like to recruit a small number of English-speaking or multilingual
editors to do the Community Liaison job with different development teams
and focuses.
In particular we’re looking for people with a strong history of
contributions to our projects who can provide sound and reasoned judgment
and are trusted to do so by their community. Speaking other languages in
addition to English is a major plus, as one of the objectives here is to
ensure we can properly interact with and support non-English projects.
I’ve included the full job description below.
Our immediate need is for help with the Visual Editor. We’d like to hire a
few community liaisons to help inform different Wikipedia language
communities of the upcoming launch, create spaces for feedback and
discussion, synthesize feedback for the Visual Editor team, and other
activities required to support the Visual Editor launch later this year.
If this is a role that would interest you, please e-mail Philippe Beaudette
at pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org<
https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=pbeaudette@wikimedia.org
>.
And if you know someone else who might fit the role, let them know about
it :-). We’re provisionally interested in hiring 2-3 liaisons, at an hourly
rate commensurate with experience. This can be a part-time role, but we’ll
need at least 15 hours/week for the length of the engagement (minimum 3
months). Please do apply if you think it’s a role that suits you, and if
you find places we haven’t notified, spread the word!
Thanks.
Howie
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Community Liaison Job Description
Background Information and Statement of Purpose
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Engineering & Product Development Department is
looking at ways to more effectively incorporate broad community
perspectives in decisions and hold dialogues with our editors about the
scope, pace and features of upcoming changes to Wikimedia projects. As part
of this, it is hiring additional Community Liaisons from our volunteer
community.
Scope of Work
Support and improve our ongoing software development projects, in
particular:
-
Building up a network of volunteers from both English language and
non-English language wikis, increasing the number of projects we can
interact with;
-
Engaging the community in the software development process, by acting as
a conduit for community questions, bugs and and feature requests, talking
to editors about our work and how they can participate in it effectively,
and recruiting them for workgroups and studies;
-
Being available from time to time to provide expertise and knowledge
about our projects, including but not limited to training
externally-sourced staff in the way our projects work, answering their
questions, and providing expert advice on an ad-hoc basis;
-
Ensuring that our community is represented in the decision-making
process and that our planned software adequately reflects user needs;
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Monitoring Wikimedia projects, with the assistance of a network of
volunteers, for emerging issues that have an impact on Engineering
programmes; and
-
Other duties as needed.
Requirements
Effective Community Liaisons will be:
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Experienced users of Wikimedia projects, capable of representing our
community within the Foundation and vice-versa.
-
Strong communicators (both verbally and with the written word), able to
explain our products to different groups of users with different levels
of
technical understanding.
-
Able to focus on the larger picture, understanding which concerns and
views are widespread and which are marginal or individual.
-
Approachable, as both users and product developers must be able to trust
these people for the relationship to function.
-
Self-motivated - they will be given important projects and expected to
execute with little to no supervision.
-
Strongly empathetic - they excel at understanding the perspectives of
others and bridging the gap between different approaches to the world.
-
Willing and able to remain resilient in the face of frustration from our
users, in order to get the job done.
Pluses
Other positive attributes or areas of knowledge include:
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Diverse language skills. While the Wikimedia Foundation communicates
internally in English, we aim to be able to talk to our different
communities natively.
-
Experience with the software development process. You will be thrown
into teams that are actively working on new features; having a background
that reduces the slope of your learning curve is a plus.
- Familiarity with multiple Wikimedia projects is a major plus; we are
about more than just Wikipedia.
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Hi all
For the very first time, the UK community will be competing in the annual Wiki Loves Monuments competition in September. This is a community-led effort, with support from WMUK. A number of volunteers have already expressed interest in helping to organize the contest, but there is much to be done and many more volunteers are needed, both now and over the coming few months.
If you would like to contribute towards making our first ever competition the great success we expect it to be, please visit
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the_…
and leave your name there. Even if you are only able to offer us moral support, or want to take part as photographer in September, please leave your details anyway. You need not be based in the UK to help.
Michael
(MichaelMaggs on wiki)
Hi everyone,
On Friday 24th May there will be an editathon in Oxford, organised by
Bodleian Libraries. The event takes place on Queen Victoria's 194th
birthday and the focus of editing will be improve coverage of people and
events mentioned in the queen's diaries.
Wikimedia UK are supporting the event, and it while it isn't meant to be a
training session would be useful to have some people there who are
experienced Wikimedians and prepared to coach others and help structure the
day.
If you are interested in helping and are free on Friday 24th, could you
please contact either Richard Nevell (richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk) or
Daria Cybulska (daria.cybulska(a)wikimedia.org.uk).
You can sign up for the event on Wikipedia (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_University_of_Oxford/Qu…),
If you do so, please make sure to register through eventbrite as well:
http://victoriasjournal.eventbrite.co.uk/
Regards,
Richard
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movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
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Last week, the The New Art Gallery Walsall, where I am Wikipedian in
Residence, uploaded this high-res tiff to Wikimedia Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Lane_at_Hamstead,_Staffordshire.ti…
I've just learned that, as direct result, it is to be used in a new
book, the “Flora of Birmingham and the Black Country”, which goes to
the printer next Monday - a last minute decision by the books authors
and editor
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[pardon the cross-post and English-only post at this time]
Hello everyone,
*This is a reminder that there are 2 days left to apply to attend the first
Program Evaluation & Design Workshop, which will take place in Budapest,
June 22-23. Applications close at 12 AM PST May 17.*
Please review this recent blog announcing the event:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/09/program-evaluation-workshop-budapest/
*Wikimedia community members, chapter staff/volunteers, solitary volunteers
- anyone who is a program leader is encouraged to apply. Please note, we
have only 20 slots available and limited funding to support attendees. If
you do apply, you must email me at sarah(a)wikimedia.org if you are
requesting funding before/after you apply. *
We will be filming our workshop, so don't fret if you cannot attend this
first one, or aren't accepted to attend this time.
*You can get a better taste for the event through our evolving Meta Event
page: *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design/June_2013_Work…
Thank you Wikimedia Magyarország for your support and assistance.
-Sarah
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today
and keep it free!
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