[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: February 2021

2021-03-15 Thread The 'This Month in GLAM' team
*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] March 17: Curiosity

2021-03-15 Thread Janna Layton
Reminder that this will be happening on Wednesday. On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:49 PM Janna Layton wrote: > In this showcase, Prof. Danielle Bassett will present recent work studying > individual and collective curiosity as network building processes using > Wikipedia. > > Date/Time: March 17,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] New Wikireplicas available, timeline update, and Quarry migration

2021-03-15 Thread Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
Hi, These changes are not arbitrary, they are a necessity to keep the replicas functioning. With the growth experienced in the last years (commons, wikidata) the current technology used by Wikireplicas is not feasible. I’ve outlined more technical details in a cloud mailing list response: [1] We

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proofread contest in collaboration with British Library on Bengali Wikisource

2021-03-15 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hello all, The contest has started today and it will go on for next one month. Tom Derrick, the digital curator of the Two Centuries of Indian Print project of British Library, has published a blog post about it on BL website.