Hi everybody,
I just wanted to make sure there will be some wikisourcerers at this
event. Is that so?
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Sujet : [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018 - Registration closes
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Date : Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:23:18 +0100
De : Michelle Poltier <michelle.poltier(a)wikimedia.de>
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Dear Wikimedians,
Thanks to those of you who have already registered for the Wikimedia
Conference 2018 – we are already very excited to host the conference
from April 20 to April 22, 2018 in Berlin!
== Registration information ==
You have not registered for the conference yet? Your affiliation is
eligible [1] to attend the conference and you have been selected to
represent your affiliation in Berlin? Then please be kindly reminded
to register until Monday, January 15, 2018. To register for the
conference, please find the link to the registration form below. [2]
== Holiday break of the organizing team ==
In view of the upcoming holidays, we would like to inform you that the
WMCON18 organizing team will be out of the office from December 22,
2017 until January 3, 2018.
If you need assistance or have any questions, we recommend you to
contact us before December 22. Otherwise, we will respond to your
emails as soon as possible upon our return.
== Visa information ==
We strongly advise all those of you who need a visa to register until
Monday, December 18, 2017.
We will do our best to send the documents (letter of invitation,
foreign travel health insurance, copy of registration of association
of WMDE) by December 22, 2017, which are needed for the visa
application process, to everyone, who registers until Monday, December
18, 2017. Should you register after this date, we will prepare and
send the documents to you beginning of January.
Further information on the visa process and assistance can be found on Meta. [3]
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,
Daniela & Michelle on behalf of the organizing team
Wikimedia Deutschland
wmcon(a)wikimedia.de
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Eligibility_Crite…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Registration_Info…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Visa_Process_and_…
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There's a new Telegram group:
tg://join?invite=FeIIHRKgyed-ODRYi0JzoQ
Currently got 50 of us in it. Just thought I'd spread the word here. I
know Telegram isn't super great for various reasons and some people
can't use it, but it seems to be growingly popular in the Wikimedia
universe.
Hi,
During Wikimania hackathon, User:Pmlineditor created two python scripts for
British Library Endangered Archives Program books upon request from Bengali
WIkisource community
One of the script is to mass download the books, the other script is to
selectively download and directly upload the books to Commons.
The scripts are in github - https://github.com/prachatos/eap2pdf
Thanks,
Bodhisattwa
Hello, Wikisourcerors!
Just in time for Mandela's centenary and Wikimania in Cape Town, South
Africa, we have just made available for transcription on Wikisource
Mandela's handwritten diary from the [[Rivonia Trial]] [1], which led to
Mandela's long imprisonment. The diary was contributed by the Mandela
Foundation, Johannesburg.
Come lend a hand:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Travel_diary_from_the_Rivonia_Trial_(S…
Cheers,
A.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial
Hi all,
This job is very relevant to organizers and community members on the
African and Indian lists, and the WikiSource community. Do try to share the
listing with folks you think would be interested.
Cheers,
Alex
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From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 5:00 PM
Subject: New GLAM and Underrepresented Heritage role at the Wikimedia
Foundation
To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination <
cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <
glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, North American Cultural Partnerships <
glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia & Libraries <
libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi All,
I am really excited to share with you the opening of a new job working
within the Programs Team at the Wikimedia Foundation: a Program Officer
focused on GLAM and Underrepresented Heritage.
As part of orienting our team to better support the Wikimedia Movement
direction, we hope this role can help us to better support tactics and
strategies that are becoming important among emerging communities wanting
to get involved in GLAM programs -- including, for example, leveraging
digitization, WikiSource and Wiki Loves type events to document
marginalized knowledge. They will be working closely with our existing GLAM
team, including Alex Stinson and Sandra Fauconnier, to document and expand
the impact of GLAM partnership in the movement, and to help us advance the
larger Equity and Infrastructure goals of the movement direction.
We also hope that this role helps our team build increased depth of
experience with Wikimedia communities outside of North America and Europe,
where existing GLAM communities have a strong community of practice and
from which Sandra and Alex (and Ben, the Programs team director) have deep
backgrounds.
If you know someone who is enthusiastic about or has deep experience
facilitating GLAM-Wiki or similar community initiatives, please share the
job announcement with them: https://boards.greenhouse.io/
wikimedia/jobs/1236692
Cheers,
Alex
--
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
--
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Just wondering if anyone else has an opinion on this:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198040
It might even be nice to extend the OCR gadget to be able to be used for
single-image transcriptions on Commons.
—Sam