I am very pleased to announce that Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC are
working in collaboration to host the first national Wikimedia conference in
the United States!
Here are the details for the conference:
Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014
Location: New York Law School (185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013)
Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org
Email: wikicon(a)wikimedianyc.org
Registration: http://wikiconusa.eventbrite.org/
For more information, please review our official press release below! We
hope you will join us and help us spread the word!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCon_USA_2014_Press_Release_v1.p…
Thanks,
Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia DC has now published its activity report for the first quarter of
the 2013-14 fiscal year. The report is available on our wiki at
http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Activity_report_(Q1_2013–2014).
As always, comments or suggestions are very welcome!
Cheers,
Kirill
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Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
Hi all,
I'd like to announce the US National Archives' new virtual internship
program<http://www.archives.gov/careers/internships/virtual/index.html#wikipedian>for
Wikipedians. We are offering unpaid internships at the National
Archives for experienced Wikipedians with technical or community skills.
This is intended to be a way for Wikipedians interested in working on
NARA's GLAM efforts to formalize their affiliation with NARA, and receive
academic credit, work experience, and a reference. The interns will have a
staff mentor (me) to guide their work, and the chance to have a real impact
on the state of Wikipedia and public access to cultural heritage.
We are initially offering internships for Wikipedians with technical
skills, who would help us with Commons image uploads, analytics, etc., and
those skilled at organizing the Wikimedia community, to help coordinate our
WikiProject and communicate our activities. There is no required time
commitment or start date, and these sorts of details can be negotiated. I
would encourage anyone on this list with interest to apply or share out the
posting with other members of the Wikimedia community who might be a good
fit.
Please feel free to reply here or contact me personally if you have any
questions. More information and instructions for applying can be found
here:
http://www.archives.gov/careers/internships/virtual/index.html#wikipedian
Thanks!
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Dominic McDevitt-Parks
Digital Content Specialist, Wikipedian in Residence
National Archives and Records Administration
Dominic.McDevitt-Parks(a)nara.gov
(301) 837-0356
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia DC has released its Annual Plan for 2013-14. The plan can be
found on our wiki at http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annual_plan_(2013–2014); a
copy will also be posted on meta shortly.
As always, any comments or suggestions would be very welcome.
Cheers,
Kirill
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Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
Hi Wiki-Americans,
Our next monthly Wikimedia US community meeting will be next week,
Wednesday October 16, at 9pm Eastern Time / 6pm Pacific Time.
One agenda item of note is WikiConference USA, which is tentatively
scheduled now for Friday to Sunday, May 30 – June 1, 2014 at New York Law
School.
The venue will be the #wikimedia-us channel on IRC, and if you're not
familiar with IRC, please just use this easy web client:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-us
This is a venue for all Wiki-Americans to share our many diverse
experiences in local outreach and coordination, so please add your ideas to
the agenda:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/October_2013http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_USA
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia DC has now published its activity report for the third quarter of
the 2012-13 fiscal year. The report is available on our wiki at
http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Activity_report_(Q3_2012–2013); a copy will be
uploaded to meta shortly.
As always, comments or suggestions are very welcome!
Cheers,
Kirill
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Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
Hi Wiki-Americans,
You are invited to add your city's events for Wikipedia Takes America in
September and Wikipedia Loves Libraries in October/November (or for
libraries, really anytime in the Fall is good).
With the current publicity period, now is the time to get some attention
and gather communities together!
Please don't hesitate to add preliminary event planning, it's always better
to share a local sense of what is brewing :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Americahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi Wiki-Americans,
I have been working on a WLM-friendly 'Wiki Takes' creator wizard on
Commons, that allows a simple alphanumeric to designate both official WLM
goals and other goals to be selected for a real-life photo scavenger hunt
event.
This kind of tool is potentially useful, in that many cities have only a
small number of official monuments (which may already have good photos),
and because it simplifies marking even of official monuments for the
newbies on a one-day photo hunt.
Here is a rough prototype version, currently parked at the rather messy
photo hunt project page:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photo_scavenger_hunts#Event_wizard
Perhaps it would make more sense in future to associate the tool with the
more specific and developed WLM 'Wiki Takes' project page:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Organizing_a…
It works through this template, which converts an alphanumeric goal code
from a particular 'Wiki Takes' into the official monument id and template
(if applicable):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Hunt
And this is the default table arrangement of the goal codes, with the goal
name before the comma and the monument id (if applicable) after it:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Photo_scavenger_hunt…
I hope to promote the use of this tool for several local United States WLM
photo hunts in the 'Wikipedia Takes America' campaign this September:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America
Any thoughts on how to improve this system would be most appreciated!
Certainly my tech skills leave much to be desired ;)
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi Wiki-Americans,
Our next monthly Wikimedia US / WALRUS meeting will be this Wednesday
August 14, at 9pm Eastern Time / 6pm Pacific Time.
One agenda item of note is the Wiki Loves Monuments / Wikipedia Takes
America photography contest(s), set to take place in September.
The venue will be the #wikimedia-us channel on IRC, and if you're not
familiar with IRC, please just use this easy web client:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-us
This is a venue for all Wiki-Americans to share our many diverse
experiences in local outreach and coordination, so please add your ideas to
the agenda:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/August_2013http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)