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WikiTrain in Rennes

WikiTrain in Rennes

Some wikimedians editing train-related articles.

On saturday July 1st took place the fifth and last monthly workshop about Trains and rail transport in the museum of Brittany (musée de Bretagne).


Edit-a-thon in Pieve Tesino

By Jaqen

Edit-a-thon in Pieve Tesino

Wikimedians outside of Casa Alcide de Gasperi museum

Pieve Tesino in Trentino is the birthplace of Alcide De Gasperi, Italian statesman and one of the founding fathers of the European Union. Fondazione Trentina Alcide De Gasperi manages three institutions there: Museo Casa De Gasperi (Casa Alcide de Gasperi museum), Museo per Via and Giardino d'Europa De Gasperi.

On Saturday 29th of July the Foundation hosted an edit-a-thon! Wikimedians visited the two museums and the garden and then uploaded dozens of new photos on Wikimedia Commons and created new articles on Italian Wikipedia, including Museo per Via, Chiesa di San Sebastiano, Villa Daziaro, Silvano Buffa and Coreopsis verticillata.

Wikimedia Italia contributed with the lunch, with its very first grant of its new microgrant program!


Summer of data

By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)

Politician pin ups

Official parliamentary portrait of Tan Dhesi MP, JUne 2017, by Chris McAndrew (full version)

Just over five years after Andy Mabbett's Politician pin ups – open-licensed pictures, please blog post, the UK Parliamentary Digital Service released pictures of 620 (of 650) MPs under open licence. In her Making history: official portraits and open source images blog post, the PDS's Editor-in-Chief, Carrie Barclay, explained:

The election meant that all MPs would be passing through a certain place, at a certain time. That place being the Chamber as they're sworn in after the election. This gave us an unprecedented opportunity to take an official portrait of each Member without complicated shoot schedules, myriad locations, diary management, or difficult staffing issues.

Official parliamentary portrait of Tan Dhesi MP, "crop 2", (the preferred version for Wikipedia and Wikdiata)

Top celebrity photographer Chris McAndrew was commissioned to take the shots, with an average of just two minutes per person. Once they were made available on the parliamentary website, Andy and fellow volunteer Fæ worked to quickly upload all four versions of each image - the original and three formats of cropped image, being careful to name them in series (some had already been uploaded under other file names by other users; these duplicates are in the process of being rationalised). All can be seen in Category:Official United Kingdom Parliamentary photographs 2017.

Work is now ongoing to add the images to Wikipedia articles in all available languages, and to Wikidata. You can help!


Dog days of summer

California State University Northridge

Wikimedia LA held a STEM edit-a-thon, Meetup/LA/CSUN, at California State University, Northridge.

Black Lunch Table/Brooklyn Museum

Black Lunch Table held a meetup, Black Lunch Table/Brooklyn Museum July 2017 at the Brooklyn Museum.

Seattle Wiknic

Wikimedia Seattle held a wikinic, Wikipedia:Meetup/SeattleWiknic/2017.

Synthetic Biology at BUGSS

Wikimedia DC held a meetup, Synthetic Biology at BUGSS at Synthetic Biology at BUGSS, Baltimore, Maryland.

Arabic Wikipedia Day Edit-a-thon

Wikimedia DC held an edit-a-thon, Arabic Wikipedia Day Edit-a-thon in support of Arabic Wikipedia Day.


Wikipedia + Libraries project updates for GLAM

  • Wow - 700+ viewed the 60-minute preview webinar on the Wikipedia + Libraries online training program; you can view webinar here
  • Enrollment in the online training program is now open for US public library staff, if you know a US public library staff member, spread the word. Free course for US public library staff is from Sept. 13 - Nov. 15, 2017
  • WebJunction article in Librarians Who Wikipedia series is a spotlight on Paul Flagg
  • Monika Sengul-Jones (WIR) and Sharon Streams (Director, WebJunction) recruiting public library staff at the ALA annual conference in Chicago.
    Monika Sengul-Jones (WIR) and Sharon Streams (Director, WebJunction) recruiting public library staff at the ALA annual conference in Chicago.

Get more project updates in Montreal, including analysis of 20 interviews and 700+ survey results

Wikipedians - you are invited to be a guide to course participants!

English-language Wikipedia editors are invited to participate in the Wikipedia + Libraries online training program as guides. You can participate in the full course, or for one of the modules. Wikipedians need not be affiliated with US public libraries to participate, the more the merrier! Help course participants learn about Wikipedia by sharing your experiences and answering questions during the forum discussions that take place between the live sessions. Click here to participate.

Monikasj (talk) 23:33, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]


GLAM at Wikimania 2017

Overview of GLAM related submissions as scheduled

When indicated French, simultaneous translation will be provided.

Time Track Title Location
Friday 11 August 2017
11.00 - 12.00 Breakout sessions Wikipedian-in-Residence Birds of a Feather Salon 1 (level 2)
11.00 - 11.30 s1: Libraries & Education French: Wikipédia, les bibliothèques publiques et Montréal Ballroom West (level 4)
11.30 - 12.00 s1: Libraries & Education Création d'une communauté numérique locale. Prototypage d'un atelier contributif en bibliothèque Ballroom West (level 4)
11.30 - 12.00 s6: Wikidata: Wikidata & arts Modelling and Ingesting Performing Arts Related Data into Wikidata Salon 3 (level 2)
12.00 - 12.30 s6: Wikidata: Wikidata & arts The Sum of all paintings is just the start Salon 3 (level 2)
14.00 - 14.30 s8: Libraries & education (2) French: Sciences, histoire et projets Wiki, le mariage unique québécois Ballroom West (level 4)
14.00 - 15.00 s11: GLAM: Collaborations The Internet Archive and Wikimedia - Common Knowledge Goals Drummond West (level 3)
15.00 - 15.30 s11: GLAM: Collaborations Constitutional Court meets Wikipedia Drummond West (level 3)
16.00 - 17.00 s20: GLAM Other-a-thon: Roundtable on alternative models for public outreach events Salon 5 (level 2)
Saturday 12 August 2017
14.00 - 15.00 r4: Roundtables: cultural heritage We dreamt big - What did Connected Open Heritage manage to achieve? Salon 5 (level 2)
14.00 - 14.30 s29: GLAM: outreach Small GLAMs: opportunities & possibilities of working together with small cultural heritage institutions Drummond Center (level 3)
14.30 - 15.00 s29: GLAM: outreach It is not a matter of visibility: GLAMs contribute to fill the knowledge gap. New metrics for GLAMs and GLAM-Wiki cooperation Drummond Center (level 3)
14.30 - 15.30 s52: Wiki Loves Monuments Everything You Need to Know About Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 Salon 1 (level 2)
15.00 - 15.30 s29: GLAM: outreach Lingua Libre: Massive Open Audio Recording Drummond Center (level 3)
15.00 - 15.30 r4: Roundtables: cultural heritage Starting, Sticking, and Growing: Exploring and Scaling What’s Working for Cultural Heritage Organizations and Volunteers Salon 5 (level 2)
Sunday 13 August 2017
9.30 - 10.30 Keynote French: Libraries, Archives and sharing knowledge Ballroom West + Center (level 4)
11.00 - 11.30 s36: GLAM: Libraries Brick by brick: Libraries and Wikimedia building on each other Ballroom Center (level 4)
11.30 - 12.30 s36: GLAM: Libraries Libraries and Wikipedia: Global perspectives and opportunities Ballroom Center (level 4)
14.00 - 15.30 w13: Workshop: GLAM & Wikidata Wikidata + heritage data: Where do we stand? What's next? Salon 1 (level 2)
14.00 - 14.30 s48: GLAM & community On-Wiki Campaigning to Engage New Editors Salon 3 (level 2)
14.30 - 15.30 s48: GLAM & community What do we know about GLAM-Wiki? Salon 3 (level 2)

Meetups

Time Title Location
Friday 11 August 2017
13.00 - 14.00 Submissions/Wikipedia + Libraries Meetup Joyce/Jarry (level A)

See also


Zotero for Wikidata; Changes to Constraint Handling

By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)

Wikimania

GLAM news

Further reading

Tech developments

New GLAM-related properties

You are invited to comment on all open property proposals.


Edit-a-thons, Structured Commons and Wikimedia Blog

Edit-a-thon Training Draft

Edit-a-thons are one of the most commonly used programs among Wikimedia program leaders and one of the programs that they want to use most (see this survey result and this survey result.) However, in many settings and situations Wikimedia Community members are not sure what goes on during these events, or are unsure about the best practices for making those events successful.

During the month of July, Alex surveyed the existing documentation for edit-a-thons, to develop an initial draft of a training for folks who have not run Editing events before. The draft was developed, so that it could be included in the Programs and Events Dashboard training module environment. The environment allows for folks to translate such a training on Meta, localizing such a training for their own cultural and language context.

Please participate in giving feedback at the Draft Page.

Structured Data on Commons Update

Structured Data on Commons is making progress on design research and initial back-end development. This initial research, includes targeted outreach to major institutional partners, and deep design-research interviews With folks who have done batch uploads as part of GLAM projects.

With the hiring of User:SandraF (WMF), as the principal Community Liason on the project. She will also be supporting development of best practices for GLAM+Wikidata and the Structured Commons to be used as part of programmatic partnerships. Her background is very deep in GLAM-Wiki, where you may know her as User:Spinster.

The Structured Data team released a Newsletter on July 19 on Commons.

Wikimedia Blog updates

The Wikimedia Blog has included a number of stories of importance to representing GLAM-Wiki:

Participate in GLAM-Wiki activities at Wikimania

Wikimania this year, is filled with GLAM-Wiki programming, including a significant amount of the WikiConference North America and the main conference program. To learn more about the schedule, see: the post on the public GLAM mailing list.


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