Re: [Wikimedia-l] National Museum of Korea releases images of artifacts and old books.

2013-12-17 Thread RYU Cheol
Thank you for your attention, Asaf. I am contacting them for better release but they seem very busy for the release. From the conversation with them, I think they need some help from some experts from GLAM-WIKI fellows of Wikimedia movement for continuing the opening and long term success. I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cochrane Wikipedian In Residence

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Keating
This is a truly awesome initiative, and many thanks to those involved in organising it! Chris On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, Just a reminder that Cochrane is taking signups for a Wikipedian in Residence: Wikipedia:COCHRANE/WIR

[Wikimedia-l] IEG 2013 Round 2 Grantees Announced

2013-12-17 Thread Harold Hidalgo
Today we’re announcing the second round of Individual Engagement Grantees. [1] These grants from the Wikimedia Foundation support individuals and small teams of Wikimedians to experiment with new ideas aimed at having online impact on Wikimedia projects. We’ve learned a lot from the first round

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

2013-12-17 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 12/16/2013 03:36 AM, Andrew Gray wrote: Remember that while US caselaw is clear on this point, it is less clear-cut elsewhere. We at WM tend to take a clear line that 2D reproductions are ineligible, but it's not a guaranteed absolute truth, particularly in the UK! We can predict how a court

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

2013-12-17 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 12/15/2013 12:48 PM, Juergen Fenn wrote: 2013/12/15 Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info: We plan to launch a crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help describe what the images portray. The images release contained no image-level metadata == One million uncategorised images

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] IEG 2013 Round 2 Grantees Announced

2013-12-17 Thread Harold Hidalgo
Today we’re announcing the second round of Individual Engagement Grantees. [1] These grants from the Wikimedia Foundation support individuals and small teams of Wikimedians to experiment with new ideas aimed at having online impact on Wikimedia projects. We’ve learned a lot from the first round

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser Update

2013-12-17 Thread Megan Hernandez
Hi everyone, I've just posted a new update on meta. Please take a look and leave any questions or comments on the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013 On Monday, we started limiting the number of banners we are displaying to readers. If you continue to see banners more

[Wikimedia-l] Readers still love you

2013-12-17 Thread Megan Hernandez
More love from our readers for you. Enjoy! i feel like i have a new brain bolted on. that's the internet in general, but a few of the gears in there are labeled 'wikipedia' It beautiful how you can get authentic information on almost everything in one place.. you guyz are doing a great job I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser Update

2013-12-17 Thread Tomasz Finc
thanks for the update Megan and congrats on getting this far On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Megan Hernandez mhernan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, I've just posted a new update on meta. Please take a look and leave any questions or comments on the talk page:

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2013-14 Round 2 FDC/annual plan grants timeline moved out by a month: proposals due April 1, 2014

2013-12-17 Thread Anasuya Sengupta
Dear friends and colleagues, The 2013-2014 Round 2 FDC timeline and all associated dates are being pushed back by one month. Here are the key date changes: * Deadline for entities to meet eligibility requirements: 15 March 2014 * Proposal submission deadline: 1 April 2014 * Community review