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 .
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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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Hi all,
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.
Thank you!
John
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Science_Competition_2023_in_th…
Wikimedia NYC, the 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting Wikipedia and related
projects in the metro area, is hiring our founding Executive Director,
apply here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City/Jobs
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi everyone!
Wikimedia Argentina is organizing an event as part of the Image Description
Month (https://w.wiki/7HXa) that will address accessibility and images.
I'm sharing their official message about the event below both in English
and Spanish:
*[ENGLISH] *
"Wikimedia Argentina's Culture and Open Knowledge program invites you to an
event that will address accessibility as a transversal perspective in
cultural spaces: Accessible cultural experiences. From the territory to the
screen. The proposal is part of "Image Description Month", a call to action
coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation aimed at making images more
accessible and easier to find on Wikimedia projects.
The event will cover different resources accessible to people who are blind
or have low vision to learn about their production processes and the social
impact they generate, focusing on audio descriptions or descriptions of
images. To do this, concepts will alternate with samples of accessible
resources produced in the territory, under the in-person modality (such as
theaters, cinemas, museums), and others made from virtuality (platforms,
social networks, web pages).
In addition, an instance of practice and exchange will be enabled so that,
based on audio description guidelines, alternative texts can be
collectively produced in images positioned on Wikipedia.
This proposal is facilitated by Gladys Benítez, screenwriter and narrator
of audio descriptions for series and films. She is a member of the program
TNC Accessible del Teatro Nacional Cervantes.
Interpretation in English and Spanish will be available.
Please register here https://forms.gle/BYhFMYfzz4pdidvN9 to receive the
Zoom link!"
*[SPANISH] *
"El programa de Cultura y Conocimiento Abierto de Wikimedia Argentina
invita a virtual que aborda la accesibilidad como perspectiva transversal
en los espacios culturales. La propuesta forma parte del "Mes de la
descripción de imágenes", un llamado a la acción coordinado por la
Fundación Wikimedia cuyo fin es que las imágenes sean más accesibles y más
fáciles de encontrar en los proyectos wikimedia.
En la charla se recorrerán distintos recursos accesibles para personas
ciegas o con baja visión para conocer sus procesos de producción y el
impacto social que generan, haciendo foco en la audiodescripción o
descripción de imágenes. Para ello, se alternarán conceptos con muestras de
recursos accesibles producidos en territorio, bajo la modalidad presencial
(como las salas de teatro, cine o museos) y otras realizadas desde la
virtualidad, a través de las diversas pantallas (plataformas, redes
sociales, páginas web).
Además, se habilitará una instancia de práctica e intercambio para que, a
partir de pautas de audiodescripción, se puedan producir colectivamente
textos alternativos en imágenes posicionadas en Wikipedia.
Facilita esta propuesta Gladys Benítez, guionista y narradora de
audiodescripciones para series y películas. Integrante del programa TNC
Accesible del Teatro Nacional Cervantes.
La charla contará con traducción simultánea al inglés. Te esperamos.
¡Regístrese aquí https://forms.gle/BYhFMYfzz4pdidvN9 para recibir el enlace
de Zoom!"
Abrazos / Best,
Giovanna and Angie
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer, Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
I thought I'd start a thread about the upcoming GLAM Wiki Conference,
Montevideo, Uruguay, 16–18 November, 2023.
Is anyone on this list going, and are you presenting or looking forward to
any kind of discussions or outcomes?
For those who aren't going, are there any hopes and recommendations on what
could be addressed at the conference?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023
While the site still says, "Our intention is to organize an event that
incorporates online elements, although a full hybrid event may not be
feasible within our current capacity," I don't believe a large set of
online activities are planned for those who cannot make it in real life. If
the organizers announce something different, please do let the list know.
Thanks,
-Andrew