[[Sorry for x-posting]]
Dear all,
I'm happy to report that the content submission process
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMTLV2018/Program/Submit> for the
GLAMWiki Conference 2018 is now open! Submissions will be accepted *till
April 30th*, so feel free to start drafting your proposals.
Please note that submissions for scholarships
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_TLV_2018/Scholarships> will open
tomorrow via a different process and the actual registration will take
place later on in June. We'll notify you every step of the way. :)
Looking forward to reading your submissions,
Shani (on behalf of the organizing team and the program committee).
Hello,
Due to unavoidable reasons, we have had to move this online session to next
week, on 28th March 2018. The time will be same i.e. 1300 UTC. I will send
a reminder ahead of the session. Meanwhile, please see the original
announcement below for other details.
Thanks, and apologies for this last minute change.
regards
Runa
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Runa Bhattacharjee <
rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> [x-posted announcement]
>
> Hello,
>
> Wikimedia Foundation’s Language team would like to invite you for an
> online office hour session scheduled for Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at
> 13:00 UTC. This will be an open session to talk about our work, and in
> particular the changes to interlanguage links, which were recently
> rolled-out on the English Wikipedia.
>
> The new option shows a list of up to 9 languages instead of a long list
> that can have more than 200 items, and a panel with all the links that can
> be looked up in any language using a search box. The purpose of this
> feature is to make articles in all languages easier to find. We recently
> published a blog post about this feature and the thoughts behind the
> development:
>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/08/compact-language-links-launch.
>
> This session is going to be an online discussion over Google
> Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the
> limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots
> are available. Hence, do please let us know in advance if you would like to
> join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during
> the session.
>
> Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
> session links and do let us know if you have any questions.
>
> Thank you
> Runa
>
> == Details ==
>
> # Event: Wikimedia Foundation Language office hour session
>
> # When: March 21st, 2018 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180321T1300)
>
> # Where: and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZcL6zVcTA
>
>
> # Agenda:
> Discussion about Compact Language Links, and Q & A.
>
>
> --
> Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors)
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
--
Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors)
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone!
On Monday 14 May, Europeana and Wikimedia host a day of free in-depth
GLAM-Wiki workshops around Wikidata, and structured data on Wikimedia
Commons, at the Europeana offices in The Hague. This day is organized in
collaboration with, and precedes the EuropeanaTech Conference 2018,
which takes place in Rotterdam 15 and 16 May.
You can find a preliminary program, and information about registration,
at:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/EuropeanaTech_2018_Wikidata_w…
The EuropeanaTech conference program itself will also have a large
Wikimedia and Wikidata component :-) Maybe some of you - or GLAMs you
work with - are already planning to attend it; feel free to point people
to the Wikimedia workshops on 14 May too!
If you have any questions or remarks about the event, feel free to
contact me or Liam Wyatt (Europeana's GLAM-Wiki coordinator).
All the best! Sandra
--
Sandra Fauconnier
GLAM-Wiki Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hi everyone,
The first conversation about structured licensing and copyright on
Commons for the Structured Data project [0] is available for
participation [1]. The purpose of the discussion is to help identify the
best way to build a model for copyright information and licenses on
Commons.
In this phase, we are discussing how we can approach licensing on
Commons in general. We can stay close to the current situation of
copyright templates on Commons; or we can rethink the way we treat
copyright and licenses so that we are compatible with other schemes and
systems used by other institutions; or maybe we want to have another
approach altogether.
More detailed discussions will come later this year.
If you have experience with copyright on Commons, and have ideas on how
we can positively impact work with GLAMs in this area, please provide
feedback! Your input is crucial :-)
Warmly, Sandra
0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
Wikimedia Foundation’s Language team would like to invite you for an online
office hour session scheduled for Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at 13:00 UTC.
This will be an open session to talk about our work, and in particular the
changes to interlanguage links, which were recently rolled-out on the
English Wikipedia.
The new option shows a list of up to 9 languages instead of a long list
that can have more than 200 items, and a panel with all the links that can
be looked up in any language using a search box. The purpose of this
feature is to make articles in all languages easier to find. We recently
published a blog post about this feature and the thoughts behind the
development:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/08/compact-language-links-launch.
This session is going to be an online discussion over Google
Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the
limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots
are available. Hence, do please let us know in advance if you would like to
join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during
the session.
Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
session links and do let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Foundation Language office hour session
# When: March 21st, 2018 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180321T1300)
# Where: and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZcL6zVcTA
# Agenda:
Discussion about Compact Language Links, and Q & A.
--
Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors)
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone,
In honour of Women’s History Month, the Community Engagement department is
hosting a series of conversations with community members about Women in the
Wikimedia movement
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>,
and what their experience is like contributing to our projects.
Our conversations will focus on women within three strategic areas of our
work: Programs, Technical Spaces, and Leadership positions. Each
conversation will have two community members presenting on their work, and
15-20 minutes at the end for conversation, follow up questions, and
discussion. The goal of these discussions is to foster understanding of
challenges and inequalities that women face throughout our movement, and to
engage with our communities to help better address them.
These conversations will be online events, streamed on YouTube, and hosted
on BlueJeans. If you would like to participate in these events, please add
the event to your calendar, or sign up on wiki:
-
Women in Wikimedia programs: Thursday, March 8, 2018, 17:00 UTC (add to
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzNqdGxuNWttazNwMGZ…>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>
)
Presenters: Monika Sengul-Jones (OCLC Wikipedian in Residence) and Luisina
Ferrante (Wikimedia Argentina education coordinator).
-
Women in leadership: Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 19:00 UTC (add to
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGJqaXQzaTlmb3ZpMnJ…>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>
)
Presenters: Mervat Salman (Wiki Arabia 2015 organizer) and Natalia
Szafran-Kozakowska (CEE Spring coordinator, and Polish Wikipedia sysop)
-
Women in technical spaces: Wednesday, March 21st, 15:00 UTC (add to
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzFqMWV2YXZlc3VrYjJ…>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>
)
Presenters: Josephine Lim (Mediawiki contributor) and Ciell (organizer of
all-women hackathon in the Netherlands).
If you find this conversation series interesting, I would greatly
appreciate your support spreading the word. Please feel free to invite
anyone you think might have something to add to the conversations.
I look forward to seeing many of you online!
Best,
María
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E
Team \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>