[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: May 2015

[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.

*This Month in GLAM – Issue V, Volume V – May 2015*
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Arabic region report: World Digital Library, Arab Peninsula Regional Group
meeting
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Arabic_region_report

Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Argentina_report

Catalan areas report: ORCID
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Catalan_areas_report

France report: GLAM, all over the place!
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/France_report

Germany report: Make a (GLAM) change!
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Germany_report

Italy report: Wikimedia Italia still works with BEIC Library and
bibliographic data
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Italy_report

Macedonia report: Wikiexpedition on bicycles and visiting one of the most
remote areas in Macedonia
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Macedonia_report

Netherlands report: Birds and Expeditions
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Netherlands_report

Poland report: The Józef Burszta Digital Archives donation
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Poland_report

Spain report: Edit-a-thons about Contemporary artists and St. James's Way
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Spain_report

Sweden report: Slow GLAM-month in Sweden
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Sweden_report

UK report: Progress on an image release from the Bodleian; National Library
of Scotland residency comes to an end; and Glasgow Museums develop a Wiki
Working Group
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/UK_report

USA report: Wikipedian at the Centers for Disease Control - NIOSH
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/USA_report

Open Access report: New Topic Page; Open Access and the humanities;
Wikimania & Wikidata
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Open_Access_report

Wikidata report: SPARQL and arbitrary access are coming
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Wikidata_report

Calendar: June's GLAM events
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2015/Contents/Events


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

[Johan Jönsson]

As of writing, Danish Wikipedia is now 32 articles from reaching 200,000.
It's midnight in Denmark now, so it will at some point tomorrow, CET.

//Johan Jönsson
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2015-06-04 14:41 GMT-07:00 phoebe ayers :

> I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos'
> observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an
> open discussion thread about things going right.
>
> What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is
> happening in the Wikimedia world?
>
> My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an
> edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is
> happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this
> year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating
> library conferences :)
>
> What's happening over in your part of the project?
>
> Phoebe
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

[Todd Allen]

Well, let's not forget the big picture.

For all the bickering and squabbling it might have entailed, for all the
stumbles that might have happened in the process, the lot of us have
created the largest and probably most significant educational work in the
history of the world. And we've done it in a not for profit and freely
shared fashion.

I think that's damned cool and I think it's something to be very proud of.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Jan Ainali  wrote:

> Perhaps a bit early of the roundup of the Wikidata Menu Challenge, but I
> think it is cool so I'll share it already. Some stats (thanks to André
> Costa for collecting it) on the 300 items in the challenge:
>
> Month of the challenge (and a few days afterwards) (2015-05-08 -
> 2015-06-08):
> {
> "users": 183,
> "bytes_added": 1832120,
> "edits": 9057
> }
>
> To be compared with the month before the challenge: (2015-04-04 -
> 2015-05-01)
> {
> "users": 132,
> "bytes_added": 71879,
> "edits": 493
> }
>
>
> *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
>
> Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige 
> 0729 - 67 29 48
>
>
> *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens
> samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.*
> Bli medlem. 
>
>
> 2015-06-10 22:15 GMT+02:00 Lila Tretikov :
>
> > This is really cool indeed and I am told (by the little birdie) that
> there
> > is more we can do. Thank you, team! Awesome!!!
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Brion Vibber 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
> > > [re: experiments using video.js to improve UI of TimedMediaHandler]
> > >
> > > > And we will need brion’s ogv.js https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/
> > > work
> > > > to support browsers without OGV/WebM support.
> > > >
> > >
> > > A couple updates on that front:
> > >
> > > 1) It looks like it should be easy to integrate ogv.js into video.js
> as a
> > > player tech.
> > >
> > > 2) I have an early version of WebM decoding in JavaScript
> > > <
> https://brionv.com/log/2015/06/07/im-in-ur-javascript-decoding-ur-webm/
> > >
> > > working! It's much slower than Ogg but has higher video quality when
> > > there's CPU available for it, as on a fast desktop/laptop that's
> running
> > > Safari or IE without WebM drivers natively installed.
> > >
> > > 3) I've also found a combination of free-but-crappy codec options that
> > > works in iOS natively: AVI with Motion-JPEG video and uncompressed
> audio
> > > ! To keep the bitrate sane
> > > we'll
> > > have to turn quality down, but 5fps and scratchy audio is often better
> > than
> > > nothing. This will work at times when ogv.js can't be used, such as the
> > > embedded web browsers in iPhone apps that haven't updated to Apple's
> > latest
> > > embedding APIs.
> > >
> > > -- brion
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

[Jan Ainali]

Perhaps a bit early of the roundup of the Wikidata Menu Challenge, but I
think it is cool so I'll share it already. Some stats (thanks to André
Costa for collecting it) on the 300 items in the challenge:

Month of the challenge (and a few days afterwards) (2015-05-08 -
2015-06-08):
{
"users": 183,
"bytes_added": 1832120,
"edits": 9057
}

To be compared with the month before the challenge: (2015-04-04 -
2015-05-01)
{
"users": 132,
"bytes_added": 71879,
"edits": 493
}


*Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*

Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige 
0729 - 67 29 48


*Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens
samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.*
Bli medlem. 


2015-06-10 22:15 GMT+02:00 Lila Tretikov :

> This is really cool indeed and I am told (by the little birdie) that there
> is more we can do. Thank you, team! Awesome!!!
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Brion Vibber 
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
> > [re: experiments using video.js to improve UI of TimedMediaHandler]
> >
> > > And we will need brion’s ogv.js https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/
> > work
> > > to support browsers without OGV/WebM support.
> > >
> >
> > A couple updates on that front:
> >
> > 1) It looks like it should be easy to integrate ogv.js into video.js as a
> > player tech.
> >
> > 2) I have an early version of WebM decoding in JavaScript
> >  >
> > working! It's much slower than Ogg but has higher video quality when
> > there's CPU available for it, as on a fast desktop/laptop that's running
> > Safari or IE without WebM drivers natively installed.
> >
> > 3) I've also found a combination of free-but-crappy codec options that
> > works in iOS natively: AVI with Motion-JPEG video and uncompressed audio
> > ! To keep the bitrate sane
> > we'll
> > have to turn quality down, but 5fps and scratchy audio is often better
> than
> > nothing. This will work at times when ogv.js can't be used, such as the
> > embedded web browsers in iPhone apps that haven't updated to Apple's
> latest
> > embedding APIs.
> >
> > -- brion
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

[Lila Tretikov]

This is really cool indeed and I am told (by the little birdie) that there
is more we can do. Thank you, team! Awesome!!!

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Brion Vibber  wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
> [re: experiments using video.js to improve UI of TimedMediaHandler]
>
> > And we will need brion’s ogv.js https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/
> work
> > to support browsers without OGV/WebM support.
> >
>
> A couple updates on that front:
>
> 1) It looks like it should be easy to integrate ogv.js into video.js as a
> player tech.
>
> 2) I have an early version of WebM decoding in JavaScript
> 
> working! It's much slower than Ogg but has higher video quality when
> there's CPU available for it, as on a fast desktop/laptop that's running
> Safari or IE without WebM drivers natively installed.
>
> 3) I've also found a combination of free-but-crappy codec options that
> works in iOS natively: AVI with Motion-JPEG video and uncompressed audio
> ! To keep the bitrate sane
> we'll
> have to turn quality down, but 5fps and scratchy audio is often better than
> nothing. This will work at times when ogv.js can't be used, such as the
> embedded web browsers in iPhone apps that haven't updated to Apple's latest
> embedding APIs.
>
> -- brion
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] GLAM Mailing lists

[Bohdan Melnychuk]

By cabalish I mean not closed lists with clear membership process as 
cultural partners is but the like of the paris group where you've got to 
be a part of a cabal in order to even know about it (or have cabal 
member mention it somewhere in front of you).


--Base

On 10.06.2015 13:46, Andy Mabbett wrote:

On 8 June 2015 at 23:35, Bohdan Melnychuk  wrote:


I'm sorry if some of the lists I listed were intended as cabalish and not to
be disclosed to others. I don't think cabalish lists are a good way to
collaborate for wikimedians.

"Cabalish" is rather a pejorative term. We have a closed GLAM list so
that we can have frank discussions without embarrassing our partner
organisations. if ether was no such list, then those discussions would
move to private emails, not become public.





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Re: [Wikimedia-l] GLAM Mailing lists

[Andy Mabbett]

On 8 June 2015 at 23:35, Bohdan Melnychuk  wrote:

> I'm sorry if some of the lists I listed were intended as cabalish and not to
> be disclosed to others. I don't think cabalish lists are a good way to
> collaborate for wikimedians.

"Cabalish" is rather a pejorative term. We have a closed GLAM list so
that we can have frank discussions without embarrassing our partner
organisations. if ether was no such list, then those discussions would
move to private emails, not become public.


-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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[Wikimedia-l] [x-post] Reminder: Language Engineering Office Hour is on June 10, 2015 (today) at 1430 UTC

[Runa Bhattacharjee]

[x-posted announcement]

Hello,

A reminder that the online office hour hosted by the Wikimedia Language
Engineering team is happening later today at 14:30 UTC. You can join the
hangout or watch the session from:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cuunke6rbmqpetvslv6jlakbhnc

Please note, due to the limitation of Google Hangouts there are few seats
available. So please let us know before hand if you would like to
participate on the hangout. We will also be on the IRC channel
#wikimedia-office to take questions. Please see below for the event
details, local time and original announcement.

Thanks
Runa

== Details ==

# *Event*: Wikimedia Language Engineering office hour session

# *When*: June 10th, 2015 (Wednesday) at 14:30 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150610T1430)

# *Where*: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cuunke6rbmqpetvslv6jlakbhnc and
on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode)

# *Agenda*: Content Translation
 updates and open Q & A



-- Forwarded message --
From: Runa Bhattacharjee 
Date: Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:20 AM
Subject: Next Language Engineering Office Hour is on 10th June 2015
(Wednesday) at 1430 UTC
To: Wikimedia Mailing List , Wikimedia
developers , MediaWiki internationalisation
, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration
[Public]" 


Hello,

The next office hour of the Wikimedia Language Engineering team (now part
of Editing) is scheduled for next Wednesday, June 10th at 14:30 UTC.
However, this time instead of only IRC we are hosting it as an online
discussion over Hangout/Youtube. Given the limitation of Google Hangouts,
there will be limited seats for joining into the Hangout. Hence, do let us
know (on the event page
) if you
would like to participate on the Hangout. The IRC channel #wikimedia-office
and the Q&A channel for the youtube broadcast will also be open for
interactions during the session.

Our last online round-table session was held a few months back with the
editors of the Catalan Wikipedia. You can watch the recording here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHu3vdlE1X8 .

Please read below for the event details and do let us know if you have any
questions.

Thank you
Runa

== Details ==

# *Event*: Wikimedia Language Engineering office hour session

# *When*: June 10th, 2015 (Wednesday) at 14:30 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150610T1430)

# *Where*: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cuunke6rbmqpetvslv6jlakbhnc
and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode)

# *Agenda*: Content Translation
 updates and open Q & A



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Wikimedia Foundation
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