FRENCH / FRANÇAIS :
(English below / anglais plus bas)
Bonjour à toutes et tous,
Je m'appelle [ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Micka%C3%ABl_en_r%C3%A9sidence | Mickaël Schauli ] , et j'ai le plaisir d'être, depuis un mois, Wikimédien en résidence à Strasbourg, dans l'est de la France.
Je suis accueilli par l' [ https://urfist.unistra.fr/ | URFIST ] (Unité régionale de formation à l'information scientifique et technique) de l'Université de Strasbourg.
Ce poste résulte d'un partenariat entre le ministère français de l'enseignement supérieur et de Wikimédia France, dans le cadre d'un plan national pour la science ouverte.
Je resterai au sein de l'Université pendant un an, jusqu'en mars 2025. Pendant ma résidence, je vais notamment m'occuper de former les équipes universitaires en interne, organiser des ateliers et coordonner les projets qui existent déjà.
Plus d'informations (en français) sur [ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wikifier_la_science | cette page ] .
Sentez-vous libre de me poser toutes vos questions. J'aurai sans doute le plaisir de croiser certain·es d'entre vous à la prochaine Wikimania.
En vous souhaitant une très agréable semaine et au plaisir d'échanger avec vous,
Bien à vous,
Mickaël Schauli
Wikimédien en résidence
URFIST de Strasbourg
Bâtiment Le Studium, Bureau E.24
2 rue Blaise Pascal, 67000 Strasbourg
ENGLISH / ANGLAIS :
Hello everyone,
My name is [ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Micka%C3%ABl_en_r%C3%A9sidence | Mickaël Schauli ] , and a month ago I started a residence in Strasbourg, in Eastern France.
I'm hosted by the [ https://urfist.unistra.fr/ | URFIST ] (Unité régionale de formation à l'information scientifique et technique / Regional training unit for scientific and technical information) at the University of Strasbourg.
This position is the result of a partnership between the French Ministry of Higher Education and Wikimedia France, as part of a national plan for open science.
I'll be staying at the University for a year, until March 2025. During my residence, I'll be training internal university teams, organizing workshops and coordinating existing projects.
More information (in French) on [ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wikifier_la_science | this page ] .
Feel free to ask any questions and I may see some of you at the next Wikimania,
Wishing you a very pleasant week and looking forward to hearing from you,
Kind regards,
Mickaël Schauli
Wikimédian in residence
URFIST de Strasbourg
Bâtiment Le Studium, Bureau E.24
2 rue Blaise Pascal, 67000 Strasbourg
Hello,
On English Wikipedia there are some editors and reviewers accusing a
Wikimedian in Residence of misconduct. I am not asking for any particular
response from anyone, except that Wikimedians in Residence plan to support
members in achieving compliance with rules and defense of
misunderstandings.
The above is the minimum that anyone needs to read. What follows are
details.
---------------------------------------------
My own summary and perspective: Rachel Helps, Wikimedian in Residence at a
university in the United States since 2016, is accused of undisclosed
conflict of interest editing, biased editing, and recruiting paid and
unpaid colleagues in inappropriate editing. In my opinion, this editor has
done everything correctly as the Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network
recommends. I could be mistaken because the discussion and texts run for
hundreds of pages, but I do not immediately identify particular problems. I
posted in support of this editor in the discussion.
I do not think this accusation is easy to understand. Note also -
Wikipedia prohibits canvassing of uninterested parties to post in existing
discussions and decisions, and I am not asking anyone to casually join this
discussion.
See the discussion at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incid…
archived at
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noti…
Regardless, WREN needs the following to prevent this in the future -
1. clear guidance on how to be a good Wikimedian in Residence
2. a plan for reacting to accusations, if anyone ever wants an
organizational opinion on whether someone is following the rules
3. confirmation from the wiki community that our recommendations are
actually acceptable to wiki editors
I estimate that the university partner here has spent several hundred
thousand dollars of its own money, without Wikimedia Foundation grant
support, to develop Wikimedia content. Their particular expertise is in an
irreplaceable field of religious studies. I would regret the loss of this
institutional partnership, and our colleague, if there were a way to
negotiate a fix to this rather than an end to the program there.
thanks
--
Lane Rasberry
user:bluerasberry
🟦🌀💙🌀🟦
Hi all,
There are two days left for submissions for Wikimania panels or sessions.
Has anyone submitted or is anyone planning on submitting sessions on their
GLAM work, or might folks be interested in making a WREN panel to discuss
the last year's worth of learnings, and also do some evangelism for WREN?
A very regrettable thing for this year's Wikimania is that the submissions
are not public. That makes it impossible to figure out what other people
are submitting or what they are thinking. So if you have any sessions you
are proposing, do share them here. Or we can combine forces on a session.
Some thoughts:
1. From the Smithsonian side, we will likely submit one about the American
Women's History Initiative and summing up our edit-a-thon and other
activities - what we learned, what techniques have worked, and plans for
the future.
2. GLAM tools and best practices - Incorporating SDC into the workflow,
best tools for 2022? Might this be a session of interest for folks to
collaborate on?
3. We've had a GLAM Culture Crawl day in the past, where we have training
sessions and discussions oriented towards teaching GLAMs new to wiki
contribution. Might this be an interesting thing to propose?
Any other ideas welcome.
-Andrew
Hello,
I hope this message finds everyone well. A friendly reminder about this
event today, April 10th, at 6 pm UTC.
______________________
We are happy to extend an invitation to you for an upcoming workshop
entitled *Part II: Tr**ansforming Biodiversity Heritage Library Images
with Structured Data on Commons.*
*Workshop Details:*
- *Title:* *Part II: Transforming Biodiversity Heritage Library Images
with Structured Data on Commons*
- *Date/Time:* Wednesday, April 10th, @ 2:00 PM EST | Find your time
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240410T180000&p…>
- *Event Page: *
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1coxEzJ3XZDxoD47AuW6T_HgRxLKIvCC-usu2VpP…
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1coxEzJ3XZDxoD47AuW6T_HgRxLKIvCC-usu2VpP…>
- *Zoom Meeting Link:*
https://smithsonian.zoom.us/j/86563563251?pwd=NEU3MWovMkRaQW5hV09BdTlRZ1ZVd…
In the first workshop, we began our data modeling efforts by mapping and
prepping BHL Flickr image data for Structured Data on Commons (SDC)
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#:~:text=Structur….>.
SDC is a groundbreaking initiative funded by the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation that will allow media to be described using machine-readable,
structured data making it easier to view, translate, search, edit, and
curate visual content across all Wikimedia projects.
Converting BHL Image data in SDC was the second most voted use case from
the BHL Wikimedia White paper entitled *Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to
Support Life on a Sustainable Planet <https://bhl.pubpub.org/>**.* For this
reason, we are thrilled to keep the momentum going to complete the mapping
work we started and continuing to uncover exciting possibilities with new
tools built to help GLAMS do this work. Join us as explore these tools
together:
*Tools and bots to explore! 🤖*
- Wiki Commons extension for OpenRefine
<https://github.com/OpenRefine/CommonsExtension>
- Flickypedia <https://www.flickr.org/tools/flickypedia/>
- FlickypediaBackfillrbot
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FlickypediaBackfillrBot>
By completing our mapping work as a community and converting wiki text to
structured data, we will unlock the potential to describe BHL images more
robustly while building a viable SPARQL endpoint for BHL's Image
Collection. This work will improve the data ecosystems for Wikimedia
Commons, Flickr, and BHL alike and most importantly serve our global user
bases through enhanced search precision and retrieval.
Hope to see you there!
JJ, Sandra & Giovanna
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer, Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello!
We are happy to announce that there is now a free and publicly accessible
course on the learning platform, WikiLearn, on how to upload and edit files
on Wikimedia Commons using OpenRefine: *OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons:
the basics*
<https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2023/…>
.
OpenRefine <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenRefine> is a free
data-wrangling tool that can be used to process, manipulate, and clean
tabular (spreadsheet) data and connect it with knowledge bases, including
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.
This online course is available at any time, for free. Anyone with a
Wikimedia account can enroll with the click of a button. It can be followed
at your own pace, with computer-graded exercises. A certificate is awarded
at the end to those who complete the course.
The training is suitable for Wikimedians, Wikimedia affiliate staff, and
partners (e.g. GLAM staff and Wikimedians in Residence). Accomplishing the
course should take an average of 6 to 8 hours.
This course was developed as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's training
and sustainability grant to OpenRefine
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Training_2023-24>.
It is currently available in English and can be easily translated into
other languages (more about the translation process here
<https://studio.learn.wiki/meta_translations/discover_courses/> and here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_how_to_translate_course…>).
Translations for this course in French, Spanish, and Portuguese are being
worked on and will be available very soon.
Please, feel free to share this course with people you think might be
interested in learning more about OpenRefine or Wikimedia Commons, who are
part of your network, in groups, social media, or any other places.
Thank you!
Best,
Giovanna & Sandra
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer, Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello!
We are happy to announce that there is now a free and publicly accessible
course on the learning platform, WikiLearn, on how to upload and edit files
on Wikimedia Commons using OpenRefine: *OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons:
the basics*
<https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2023/…>
.
OpenRefine <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenRefine> is a free
data-wrangling tool that can be used to process, manipulate, and clean
tabular (spreadsheet) data and connect it with knowledge bases, including
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.
This online course is available at any time, for free. Anyone with a
Wikimedia account can enroll with the click of a button. It can be followed
at your own pace, with computer-graded exercises. A certificate is awarded
at the end to those who complete the course.
The training is suitable for Wikimedians, Wikimedia affiliate staff, and
partners (e.g. GLAM staff and Wikimedians in Residence). Accomplishing the
course should take an average of 6 to 8 hours.
This course was developed as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's training
and sustainability grant to OpenRefine
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Training_2023-24>.
It is currently available in English and can be easily translated into
other languages (more about the translation process here
<https://studio.learn.wiki/meta_translations/discover_courses/> and here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_how_to_translate_course…>).
Translations for this course in French, Spanish, and Portuguese are being
worked on and will be available very soon.
Please, feel free to share this course with people you think might be
interested in learning more about OpenRefine or Wikimedia Commons, who are
part of your network, in groups, social media, or any other places.
Thank you!
Best,
Giovanna & Sandra
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer, Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Heipä hei
and nice to e-meet you all! I joined this list in January and got the first
message yesterday so I wanted to tell you a bit about our new project.
We got funding for 2 years from Koneen Säätiö (Kone Foundation, initially
started by the Finnish elevator company). I'm the WIR for three art
researchers who are starting to write about their subject areas in the
coming months. 25 % of the time I'm working for the project and the rest in
my own company. We are also arranging a series of editathons and writing a
book about female content on the Internet. In the summer we are coming to
Wikimania. Are there A+F / WIR meetups planned for Wikimania?
This is our blog which you'll be able to read with your translator:
https://marginaalit.blogspot.com/ .
I guess we are mainly concentrating on Finnish Wikipedia but maybe we also
do something in French as one of the researchers lives in Paris.
So in case there are some active French Wikipedians in the list, it would
be great to have a private chat sometimes. I'm also interested to hear
comments from other WIRs working with A+F.
Cheers
Johanna Janhonen
johanna(a)piilotettuaarre.fi
If someone wants to have a brief chat, just reserve a 15-minutes meeting
with me at:https://calendly.com/jjanhone .
Dear Wikimedians,
We hope this message finds you well and that you are in good spirits. We
are the Let’s Connect working group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect/Team>- a
team of movement contributors/organizers who are liaison representatives of 7/8
regions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_regions>. We are
connecting with you to see if you are interested in and/or know about the
peer-to-peer program, Let’s Connect
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect>!
The program creates an open and safe learning space for any Wikimedian who is
part of an organized group to share and learn different skills
(organizational/interpersonal / grant related / learning & evaluation ...)
with other peers to add value and contribute collectively to the community.
The purpose is to further develop skills, share knowledge and promote human
connections and mutual support between different groups and communities, in
alignment with the Movement Strategy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy>.
Every month, we host 2-3 live 2-hour learning clinics
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect#Live_learn…>
with
interesting topics selected by our team and our interested sharers. Our
live learning sessions have up to 4 interpreters translating the clinic for
our participants. Our main languages are Spanish | Arabic | French |
Portuguese. If there is a specific language you would like to see in the
calls, we are happy to see how we can accommodate it.
Let’s Connect is directed at Wikimedians in all regions that are part of
organized groups (this can range from a group of individuals that are not
formally organized user groups, chapters and mission-aligned
organizations). Please see our Meta page for more criteria
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect#Who_is_Let…>.
To participate as a sharer, you can register in this initial registration
form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiea87tSYmB2-1XHn_u8RLe7efMJifJBz…>
where
you can register your learning and sharing interests and state if you want
to share your knowledge through Learning Clinics.
Below, you will find our team of 8 who are excited to meet with you if you
are interested. Please email our team at letsconnect(a)wikimedia.org if you
have any questions :)
We look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
The Let’s Connect Working Group
Dear All -
Last December 6th special meeting event
on Wikipedia and NFT with a few invited guests
made me think we could do meeting that are relevant
beyond our immediate scope and be more visible...
...but also last week I was almost topic-banned
on HR Wikipedia (Croatian) as none of the Admins knew
what Wikimedian in Residence is and were thinking
it is either paid editing or problematic self-promotion
(when I was actually unemployed :-)))
So after a successful event and a monthly HR drama,
I am thinking what can we do better to increase
WiR and WREN visibility on Wikipedia and Wikimedia.
For people coming from most of the arts the notion of
artist-in-residence is super familiar and easy to relate to,
but average Wikipedian (if there is such thing)
has very few chances to come across this term
as well as to grasp what Wikimedian in Residence is.
Only 27 Wikipedia instances have articles on WiRs
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809586
What could be good strategies to change that?
15 years ago (so we missed it by a week)
on December 13, 2006 we got this text as a start
http://original-research.blogspot.com/2006/12/wikipedian-in-residence-propo…
Maybe we can draft something short quickly today
and just pass it on later in the day to Wikimedia-L
and potentially to the DIFF Blog of WMF?
Elsewhere?
Best Z
I can be of help but I am not based in the USA.
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> I'm putting together the U.S. jury for the 2023 edition of the Wiki
> Science Competition [1], and I'm looking for volunteers who are U.S.-based
> and have a background in STEM or photography. The judging process is
> relatively informal, with an email chain with a few rounds of voting and
> one Zoom call. We should be done by the end of February. Let me know by
> this coming Friday if you're interested.
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> Thank you!
> John
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