Fyi how wmde presents its year, a mobile friendly website.
Rupert
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From: "Abraham Taherivand" <abraham.taherivand(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: May 31, 2017 5:01 PM
Subject: [VereinDE-l] Jahresbericht 2016 von Wikimedia Deutschland: jetzt
auch als Website
To: <vereinde-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Liebe Freunde des Freien Wissens,
>
> jedes Jahr veröffentlicht Wikimedia Deutschland einen Jahresbericht, in dem
> ein Überblick der Arbeit des Vorjahres gegeben wird sowie Einblick in
> unsere Finanzen. Erstmals steht dieses Jahr ab sofort nicht nur der
> gedruckte Bericht und ein PDF zur Verfügung, sondern ein Online-Bericht,
> der wie eine eigene Website funktioniert. Wir haben das gemacht, damit je
> nach Interesse einzelne Themen und Berichtsteile einfach gefunden und
> gelesen werden können. Die Ansicht ist auch für Mobilgeräte optimiert. Wer
> mag, kann sich auch in Bus und Bahn oder anderswo über Wikimedia
> informieren.
>
> Kurz, ich freue mich, den Jahresbericht 2016 hier mit euch teilen zu
> können:
>
> * https://2016.wikimedia.de/
>
> Auf das was im Bericht steht, werde ich genauer unter anderem auf der
> kommenden Mitgliederversammlung des Vereins in Bamberg eingehen. Nicht
> vergessen, 17. Juni 2017![1]
>
> Mit besten Grüßen
>
> Abraham Taherivand
>
>
> P. S. Wer dennoch ein PDF braucht, zum Beispiel zum Ausdrucken, findet hier
> die Alternative:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/
> Jahresbericht_Wikimedia_Deutschland_2016.pdf
>
>
> [1] http://wmde.org/mv20-anmeldung
>
>
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Dear all
I'm pleased to confirm that this year's Wikimedia UK AGM will be taking
place on *Saturday 15th July* at Senate House Library
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2017_AGM/Venue> in London.
The detailed schedule for the day is currently being finalised but we will
start at 10.30am for networking, sharing, strategy discussions and lunch,
with the AGM itself from 2.30 - 4.30pm. Following the AGM there will be a Train
the Trainer networking and refresher event, also in the Library, for
previous participants of Wikimedia UK's Train the Trainer course.
We would encourage you to come and stay for the whole day, particularly if
you are a member and can vote at the AGM, although all volunteers, editors,
partners and potential volunteers and editors are welcome. The registration
page on Eventbrite can be found here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-uk-agm-2017-tickets-34718204083?re…>
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please note that you will need to register for the AGM and evening Train
the Trainer event separately by selecting the appropriate option(s) from
the drop down menu. There is limited capacity for both, so please ensure
you update your attendance details if you are no longer able to attend.
Any member who wishes to bring forward a resolution for consideration at
the AGM must inform the charity, and supply a copy of the suggested text,
by no later than *Friday 9th June 2017*. The suggested text may either be
sent by email to the chair of the board at michael.maggs(a)wikimedia.org.uk or
may be posted online at
*https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2017_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2017_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions>*
If you have any more general comments or queries, please email Nicola
Furness at nicola.furness(a)wikimedia.org.uk. Nicola and I will be emailing
(and updating the wiki) with further details including the agenda for the
day over the next few weeks.
With all best wishes
Lucy
--
Lucy Crompton-Reid
Chief Executive
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 207 065 0991
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT.
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). *Wikimedia UK is an independent
non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility
for its contents.*
Possibly of interest for some of the GLAMs you may be working with.
It would be good if we could persuade the funders to include
mandatory, or at least recommended, open access as a stipulation for
future awards.
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From: Ryan Kyle <rk(a)townswebarchiving.com>
Date: 30 May 2017 at 10:08
Subject: Digitisation Grant fund
To: AHFAP(a)jiscmail.ac.uk
Dear all,
*with apologies for cross posting*
I thought list members would be interested to know about the TWA
Digitisation Grant fund, which re-opens today.
The Digitisation Grant is aimed at UK archives (including business
archives), special collections libraries and museums, and offers
funding grants of up to £5000 for institutions to digitise their
collections.
The fund will be accepting applications from today until 7th July and
bids will be judged by a panel composed of:
John Chambers - Chief Executive ARA; Claire Adler - HLF Appointed
Expert Advisor; and Paul Sugden - Senior Digitisation Consultant.
More details and how to apply can be found below:
https://www.townswebarchiving.com/twa-digitisation-grant/
Best wishes,
Ryan Kyle
TownsWeb Archiving
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
There has been quite bit of discussion over the years about how the
Wikimedia movement could engage with those who have research interests
in family history or genealogy, and a centralised discussion page [1]
has been set up on Meta.
I am posting to ask whether there would be Wikimedian developers who
would be interested in joining an open source project to create a free
platform independent application called History Research Environment [2]
(‘HRE’) for the serious genealogist or historical researcher.
Considerable effort has been put into high-level planning over several
years, and we are now ready to start writing code.
While the proposed software is not currently an official Wikimedia
project, if there is enough interest we are open to it becoming
integrated or affiliated in some way. The plan is, in any event, that
the software should be interoperable with Wikidata to allow (subject to
the agreement of the Wikidata community) the exchange of a variety of
structured data including verified and fully sourced family trees.
I'd be happy to answer queries.
Michael Maggs
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_genealogy_project
[2] https://historyresearchenvironment.org
(please excuse cross-posting for greater visibility, as the
[wikimedia-genealogy] mailing list still has very few subscribers)
[cross-posted]
FYI:
https://rcahmw.gov.uk/mapping-the-historic-boundaries-of-wales-commotes-and…
"The Royal Commission [on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of
Wales] has developed two digital geospatial layers using late-medieval
sources and historic parish boundaries to recreate the boundaries of
the commotes (cymydau) and cantrefs (cantrefi) of medieval Wales."
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Dear colleagues,
Please disseminate this open invitation to a University of Edinburgh and Wikimedia UK conference to interested colleagues as appropriate.
How can technology support language communities?
Join us at the Celtic Knot conference<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017> taking place Thursday 6 July 2017 at the University of Edinburgh Business School to find out. Our programme is now live!
Keynote speakers
* Professor Antonella Sorace<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh<http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/%7Eantonell/> and founding director of Bilingualism Matters<http://www.bilingualism-matters.org.uk/> will be speaking on ‘Bilingualism in minority languages: a resource and an opportunity’.
* Jason Evans<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_th…> will discuss his strategy for working with Wikimedia UK and the Welsh Government to develop the Welsh Wicipedia using a combination of community engagement, data manipulation and the implementation of Open Access policies.
Confirmed speakers also include:
* Susan Ross – Gaelic Wikipedian in Residence<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2017/01/wikimedia-uk-and-national-library-of-…> at the National Library of Scotland.<http://www.nls.uk/news/archive/2017/01/gaelic-wikipedian-begins>
* Dr. Sharon Arbuthnot<http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/sharon-arbuthnot%28519b4b40-d075-4b…> - Research Fellow, Queen's University, Belfast. Presenting on the AHRC-funded eDIL project<http://www.dil.ie/> (Irish Language dictionary) on Wednesday 5th July.
* Gareth Morlais – the Welsh Language Unit, Welsh Government. Gareth will speak about how mapping how much importance major companies (Google, Twitter, Apple) attach to creative activity on Wikipedia led to the Welsh Government helping to fund two Welsh-language Wikipedia initiatives.
* Delyth Prys – Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, will speak on Welsh/Celtic speech technology and why text-to-speech and speech recognition are becoming increasingly important in our digital world.
* Àlex Hinojo<http://www.alexhinojo.cat/en/bio/> – Executive Director, Amical Wikimedia<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia> on the Catalan language project.
* Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga – Developing the Basque Wikipedia: From corpus expansion to outreach.
* Astrid Carlsen – Executive Director, Wikimedia Norge speaking on Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and building a project to revitalize the Northern Sami Wikipedia.
* Robin Owain – Wales Manager, Wikimedia UK, speaking on recent developments supporting the Welsh language community.
* Mina Theofilatou presenting on ‘Adult Learners from the Ionian Islands of Corfu and Kefalonia sharing Cultural Heritage on Wikimedia Commons and Wiktionary’.
* Duncan Brown - Llên Natur<http://www.llennatur.com/Drupal7/llennatur/>, presenting on ‘Y BYWIADUR: the dictionary of life’.
* Rémy Gerbet - Wikimedia France; presenting on the Lingua Libre project<https://www.lingualibre.fr/> for massive open audio recording.
* Käbi Suvi - Wikimedia Estonia on the ‘Miljon+’ project as part of Estonia’s 100th anniversary.
* Ilario Valdelli - Wikimedia Switzerland, speaking on the Digital Library in Romansch and the new initiatives to map the archeological sites connected with Celtic culture in the Alps.
The main objective for Celtic Knot 2017 is the coming together of practitioners in the same room at same time; strengthening the bonds of those working to support language communities into a 'knot' and leading into action. We welcome diverse attendees ranging from Wikimedians, linguists, educators, researchers, information professionals, media professionals, translators, learning technologists and more coming together to share good practice and find fruitful new collaborations to support language communities as a result of the event.
To find out more about the conference themes and how to book your place to join us then please visit the Celtic Knot<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017> page. To assist with seeing areas of commonality and links between your work and the Wikimedia projects<http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/03/10/seeing-the-links-at-the-celtic-k…> you can click here<http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/03/10/seeing-the-links-at-the-celtic-k…>.
It promises to be a great event – including a panel on the Politics of Language Online, excellent papers, workshops and discussion spaces. Please feel free to forward this event to interested colleagues in your network.
If you would like to learn more then please contact me direct at ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk>.
Very best regards,
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk
Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk
My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday.
Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR.
www.ed.ac.uk
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
I have been, for a couple of weeks now, Wikimedian in Residence at ContentMine
Ltd., based in Cambridge. The next Cambridge meetup will be a joint event with
ContentMine:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/34
The venue is an unusual community workshop, and some people may enjoy the chance
to look around it.
As for ContentMine, it is a non-profit startup, and I'm working on its
WikiFactMine project, funded by a WMF grant. I have a desk in the Moore Library
in west Cambridge, and am doing a blog for them:
http://moore.libraries.cam.ac.uk/meet-your-wikimedian-residence
In simple terms the project is to get text-mined scientific facts into Wikidata.
I'd be glad to hear from anyone with an interest, and hope to see some of you at
the meetup.
Charles