Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-11-11 Thread Ilario Valdelli
When I start from this page: http://wikiedu.org/blog/2014/11/07/user-testing-assignment-design-wizard/ and I click the wizard.wikiedu.org http://wikiedu.org/blog/2014/11/07/user-testing-assignment-design-wizard/wizard.wikiedu.org link I arrive in a page which says: This is somewhat embarrassing,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-11-11 Thread Sage Ross
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com wrote: When I start from this page: http://wikiedu.org/blog/2014/11/07/user-testing-assignment-design-wizard/ and I click the wizard.wikiedu.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-11-10 Thread Erik Moeller
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Indeed, highly specialized tools for the cultural and education sector _are_ being developed and hosted inside Tool Labs or externally. Looking at the current OAuth consumer requests [5], there are submissions for a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-10-31 Thread Stéphane Coillet-Matillon
Original Message Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:45:50 -0700 From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Just pinging

[Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-10-31 Thread Liam Wyatt
-2015_round1/Wikimedia_CH/Proposal_form#Offline_Dissemination_Program * [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kiwix_-_Wikipedia_Offline Original Message Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:45:50 -0700 From: Erik Moeller e

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-10-30 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:16 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Labs is a playground and Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums are serious enough to warrant a proper investment of resources, in my view. Magnus and many others develop magnificent tools, but my

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-10-25 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: I'm not seeing any developer contract time allocated to GLAM tooling work yet. At the same time I'm seeing reports of breakage and missing functionality in important tools running in Labs. To the extent that this breakage is due to Labs infrastructure or access to data, it's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-10-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There are several issues and imho the one Erik mentions is crucial. When no money is intended for GLAM tool related work, nothing will happen. The situation will remain one where everybody is eying each other... are you going to make a move ... are you? If you are all for a comprehensive

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-10-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
MZMcBride, 25/10/2014 16:16: But again, the focus would be integrating into the Wikimedia technical platform and fixing issues in production, rather than trying to make Labs scripts and tools better. False dichotomy IMHO. Usual example:* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/42259 Quite clearly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-10-25 Thread MZMcBride
Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: MZMcBride, 25/10/2014 16:16: But again, the focus would be integrating into the Wikimedia technical platform and fixing issues in production, rather than trying to make Labs scripts and tools better. False dichotomy IMHO. Usual example:*

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-10-25 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 10/25/2014 01:50 PM, MZMcBride wrote: [...] that probably doesn't mean investing in Labs, exactly. Not if you want to have a long-term, substantive impact, in my opinion. I'd like to address that particular recurrent canard here, if I may. Things that reside in labs are empathically /not/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-10-25 Thread Erik Moeller
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:16 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Labs is a playground and Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums are serious enough to warrant a proper investment of resources, in my view. Magnus and many others develop magnificent tools, but my sense is that they're

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-10-24 Thread Erik Moeller
Just pinging this thread -- looking through all the proposals for annual plan grants: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_%C3%96sterreich/Proposal_form https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_UK/Proposal_form

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-06-28 Thread Seb35
Similarly to what you are describing, Micru, BeWelcome has a process to identify issues and resolve them in a community discussion. It’s a sort of communal product specification/design. The process looks like: [1] 1/ firstly, community members can submit issues or product ideas, 2/ secondly,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-06-26 Thread Pine W
I will add this to my ever-growing list of possible projects for Cascadia. There are a few other projects under consideration that have received little WMF support but I feel are movement-aligned and would interest the public or the contributor base. In order for Cascadia to work on these

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-06-26 Thread Jon Davies
Thanks Erik, This is certainly something we are keen to work on. I was talking to Magnus just last night and of course our experience with Europeana has taught us a lot )I hope we have fully learnt the messages!). We are undertaking a scoping review of our Development plans at the moment and this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-06-26 Thread Stéphane Coillet-Matillon
Just as a quick update from WMCH - we are currently discussing our strategy/priorities for the 2015-20 cycle and yes, we plan to decide over the Summer whether we want to ramp up our development activities or not. We will, of course, keep you guys posted. 2014-06-26 10:29 GMT+02:00 Jon Davies

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-06-26 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Hi Erik, I would remember that in IEG or PEG there are several proposals of software development but every time these proposals don't offer a well defined approach to the maintenance. We know that maintenance is an important phase of the software development and it would be good to know if the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-06-26 Thread Liam Wyatt
Dear Erik, (Also copying in the Cultural Partners and GLAMwiki Toolset mailing lists as Erik's email below is directly is related to them). Thank you for this email with the explicit invitation for groups in the Wikimedia movement to directly take responsibility for supporting the technology

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-06-26 Thread David Cuenca
Erik (and others), is there any coordination page where groups could place, take, or discuss requests for development or requests for maintenance? I saw often that sometimes the hard-to-achieve consensus is found, but there is no way to evaluate the idea further. What now happens is: - several

[Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-06-25 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi folks, At the Zurich Hackathon, I met with a couple of folks from WM-CH who were interested in talking about ways that chapters can get involved in engineering/product development, similar to WM-DE's work on Wikidata. My recommendation to them was to consider working on GLAM-related tooling.