Hi y'all,
In case you didn't see it already, here is a reminder that the Naming
Convention Proposals Presentation will start in ~4 hours at 15:00 UTC
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Brand+Naming+Pres…>
on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3zlBGHHHiY
Something that you may not know, is that the Wikisource Community User
Group has a voice in this process.
More exactly here is a copy-paste of a mail I received yesterday from Samir
Elsharbaty (Community Brand and Marketing coordinator at the Wikimedia
Foundation):
*Feedback period: For affiliates and individuals from 16 June to 30 June
2020. A collective feedback survey link will be shared with your email
addresses next week. This survey is a primary way for affiliates to submit
feedback as a group on the proposals. If you would like to change the email
address we send the survey to, please let us know. Affiliate Liaisons: The
most straightforward way for your affiliate to provide feedback during this
phase and the upcoming ones is by designating an affiliate liaison to be a
connection point between our team and your affiliate. If you are interested
in designating a liaison to receive updates and facilitate discussions,
please reply to this email.*
I proposed my name to be the liaison for the Wikisource Community UG, if
anyone else is interested, they can join or even replace me.
And if you have any comments or remarks about the propositions, please
share them (before end of June) so I can then share them in the survey.
Cheers,
Nicolas
Hi all
we have a cantonal archive that would open a project page in German
Wikisource to start uploading historical documents.
Are there German Wikisource contributors here that may guide them? to
undestand the rules in German Wikisource?
Best regards
--
Ilario Valdelli
Wikimedia CH
Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre
Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera
Switzerland - 8008 Zürich
Wikipedia: Ilario
Skype: valdelli
Tel: +41764821371
http://www.wikimedia.ch
Hello everyone,
I hope you are all healthy and safe during these difficult times. I expect
that this news might cheer all Wikisource enthusiasts out there!
I am happy to introduce Sohom Datta
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Soda/>! He is one of the students that
the Wikimedia Foundation has selected for the current round of Google
Summer of Code. He is a first year student of Bachelor’s in Computer
Science and Engineering. He will be working on creating a widget to easily
create pagelists on Wikisource. Sam Wilson (primary mentor) and I
(co-mentor) will be mentoring this project.
This project was prioritized because Index creation wizard
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource/I…>
was one of the highly voted proposals in Community Wishlist Survey 2020
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020>, coming at
6th spot, but couldn’t make it to the Top 5. More updates on the next steps
related to the Wishlist process will follow shortly.
Further details and progress related to this project can tracked on the
related phabricator ticket:
-
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247157
Feel free to provide any feedback that you might have related to the
project on the phabricator ticket. We will be regularly providing updates
to the community as well.
P.S. Sohom also contributes to English Wikipedia and English Wikisource in
his free time under the username: Sohom data
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sohom_data>.
Stay Safe!
Satdeep
--
Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Underrepresented Knowledge
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Thanks for sharing Shrini.
>> The events can be anything. Below are a few ideas I can share
-- All of these are interesting ideas. Specially different aspects of
Wikisource might be an interesting idea to present/discuss, in my opinion.
Thanks
Tito Dutta
Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind
me over email or phone call.
On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 19:13, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Coko Foundation, USA is organizing a global wide event to promote
> “Open Publishing”.
>
>
>
> This is an online event.
>
> Anyone can propose, conduct event on their own language, their desired
> online platform.
>
> From the website,
>
> <quote>
> Open Publishing Fest celebrates communities developing open creative,
> scholarly, technological, and civic publishing projects. Together, we
> find new ground to share our ideas.
>
> This is at once a collaborative and distributed event. Sessions are
> hosted by individuals and organizations around the world as panel
> discussions, fireside chats, demonstrations, and performances. We
> connect those points to bring them in conversation with one another
> and map out what’s next.
>
> We seek to build networks of resilience and care for people working on
> new ways to develop and share knowledge.
>
> Join us by proposing a session. Proposals will be considered on a
> rolling basis up to and throughout the fest.
>
> </quote>
>
> Propose an event here – https://openpublishingfest.org/form.html
>
> You can propose any number of events.
>
> Last date to propose is May 29 2020. Yes. Till the last date, you can
> propose and conduct events.
>
> Already 70+ events are proposed. Check them all here –
> https://openpublishingfest.org/calendar.html
>
>
>
> The events can be anything. Below are few ideas I can share
>
> 1. Demo on any free/open source software related to publishing. There
> are plenty.
>
> Calibre
> Pressbooks.com
> LibreOffice
> Scribus
> Editoria
> PubSweet
> WikiSource.org
> wordpress blog
>
> and more
>
> 2. Hackathons to explore and contribute to these software.
>
> 3. Panel discussions on these publishing tools
>
> 4. Book reviews/discussion on open licensed books
>
> 5. Silent reading events. Mark a specific date/time and friends. Read
> few open licensed books. Thats all.
>
> 6. Proofread the books in wikisource.org in your language
>
> 7. If you can write, write a book or few chapters for your next open
> licensed book
>
> 8. Pratham Books is running https://storyweaver.org.in/ where you can
> create story books for kids. You can draw images and upload there.
> Translate existing stories to your language. All the books there in
> Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.
>
> 9. Check the Open Publishing Fest Event calendar here –
> https://openpublishingfest.org/calendar.html Promote the all the
> events you can at the social mediums you are.
>
> You can bring more ideas and share here.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> T.Shrinivasan
>
>
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>
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>
> --
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> T.Shrinivasan
>
>
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