[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: May 2020

[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 X – May 2020*
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Armenia report: Edit-a-thon dedicated to International Museum Day
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/Armenia_report


Colombia report: A #1Lib1Ref to close the gender gap
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/Colombia_report


Côte d'Ivoire report: #1Lib1Ref 2020 from 26 to 28 May in Côte d'Ivoire
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/Côte_d'Ivoire_report


France report: WikiArchives; IMD 2020: Cross-Chapter Collaboration
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/France_report


Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2020 recap; International Museum
Day 2020
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/Indonesia_report


Italy report: New collaborations and contents!
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/Italy_report


Netherlands report: Analysis of Dutch GLAM-Wiki projects in relation to the
Dutch Digital Heritage Reference Architecture, Content donation from
Utrecht Archives, Detecting Wikipedia articles strongly based on single
library collections and Collection highlights of the KB
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/Netherlands_report


Sweden report: Free music on Wikipedia; NHB webinars; Wikipedia in
libraries – Projekt HBTQI
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/Sweden_report


Switzerland report: International Museum Day 2020
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/Switzerland_report


UK report: Japanese art
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/UK_report


USA report: Workshops & COVID-19 Symposium
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/USA_report


Special story: Content partnership category - your help is needed
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/Special_story


WMF GLAM report: GLAM metadata standards and Wikimedia projects
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/WMF_GLAM_report


Calendar: June's GLAM events
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2020/Contents/Events



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[Wikimedia-l] Ombuds Commission - minor request for consistency in the name

[Fæ]

Dear WMF Board members,

The Ombuds Commission acts on your behalf as part of the movements
governance processes and it is, therefore, the WMF board that
authorizes Ombuds policies. The Wikimedia project systems and policies
for the commission were established many years ago with rare
amendments since, and are not harmonized on the use of the word
"ombuds". For example, though the email contact group uses "ombuds",
the detailed policy page on Meta uses "ombudsman" and refers to
members of the group as "ombudsmen". As a gender-neutral form is in
common International English and American English usage and is already
used in some places and not others, can the WMF board agree that the
gender-neutral term is desirable in line with the goals of the
Wikimedia Foundation strategy and should be applied systematically?

With your agreement, this would then harmonize in the names of email
groups, the group name configured into the system on Meta and the
wording of policies, and help avoid an accidental bias towards
identifying ombuds members as men. As this is a question of
harmonization, rather than a change in process, policy or scope, this
is a style issue rather than a change that required a resolution or a
community RfC.

For those unaware, the Ombuds Commission "investigates complaints
about infringements of the Privacy Policy, the Access to nonpublic
personal data policy, the CheckUser policy and the oversight policy on
any Wikimedia project for the Board of Trustees. They also investigate
for the Board the compliance of local CheckUser or Oversight policies
or guidelines with the global CheckUser and Oversight policies."[1]

Links:
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission
2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/ombudsman

Thanks,
Fae
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: transition to implementation begins

[Gerard Meijssen]

 Hoi,

The biggest problem of this strategy document that I see is that it is
oriented towards our own internals. This is best understood from the first
sentence: *People-centeredness means that every aspect of our Movement must
address the needs and challenges of the people who power it and whom it
serves, so that each one can contribute in their best way to the sum of
human knowledge.*

It does not mention what we do and why we do it. It follows that based on
this we cannot give priority to our biggest bias; what we do first and
foremost is service wants in English. This bias is huge and when we were a
company, we would recognise that around 50% of Wikipedia traffic is in
English. We would realise the extend that scholarly publications are in
English studying aspects of English Wikipedia. We would know that we do not
have much data on everything else. We would be aware of our other products
and strategise how to improve their market value. For our movement, market
value is in the number of people it serves. We would for instance know that
Wikisource books are marketed in India external to us and we would consider
what it takes to provide a proper interface so that people find what is
available to them thanks to a non-English community. A community we do not
notice nor respect.

We are so happy with American students (doing good work) on English
Wikipedia but we do not engage high school students, even primary school
students who could write in their language expanding Wikipedias often with
less than 10.000 articles.

We have an opportunity to turn this around. We have this notion that we are
going to do things differently in this strategy. We have the papers that
for many are too long to read and we have the Special:MediaSearch (publicly
available for two weeks now) that enables search in Commons in all our
languages. When we support it in the Wikiway, we will allow for it not to
be perfect. We will find that as we add items to pictures that we will find
more results or even only results.. Try to find هيلين كوبر using text based
search in Commons and compare the results.

As a product, Commons only serves our own needs. We do not know the number
of downloads of pictures we do not know the extend Commons has been
searched in other languages. This is true for Wikidata as well. We may know
the volume of queries it serves but in what language and how do we extend
the usefulness of Wikidata in languages other than English? What strategies
are in place is this a key performance indicator? How can we show that we
care?

With Commons enabled for search in any language thanks to the
Special:MediaSearch, we have the perfect tool to start address this bias.
We can measure in what language Commons is searched. We can measure the
number of labels added to Wikidata that help people find images. We can
measure the number of downloads from Commons that happen as a result. We
can then demonstrate the pent up need there is.

This will likely be very much driven by the Wikimedia Foundation itself.
There will be outcries from vested interests that it detracts from
other/their priorities. People will state that they are disgusted with us
giving priority in this way. But do realise, white black of yellow, when
your language is English you are well served and others are not. English is
only about 50% of our traffic and you would not say so from what we
advertise we do.

Thanks,

  GerardM
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