[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: October 2013

2013-11-11 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.

*This Month in GLAM – Issue X, Volume III – October 2013*
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Australia and New Zealand report: WikiTowns, Wikitakes, using railways and
murder in extending reach
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2013/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_report

Czech Republic report: New GLAM project in the Czech Republic
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2013/Contents/Czech_Republic_report

France report: Working on metadata; Symposium on the public domain; News
from GLAM in Rennes
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2013/Contents/France_report

Germany report: "Shaping access!"
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2013/Contents/Germany_report

Italy report: Bibliohackathon and shoes
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2013/Contents/Italy_report

Mexico report: Day of the Dead photo contest
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2013/Contents/Mexico_report

Netherlands report: Edit-a-thon design
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2013/Contents/Netherlands_report

Spain report: Pictures of and interviews with swimmers
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2013/Contents/Spain_report

Sweden report: Reverse upload, Shoes and NHB
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2013/Contents/Sweden_report

USA report: GLAM-Wiki Activities in New York; edit-a-thon in Portland
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2013/Contents/USA_report

Open Access report: Open Access Week, Accelerating Science Award
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2013/Contents/Open_Access_report

Calendar: November's GLAM events
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2013/Contents/Events


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http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Toolserver decommissioning - migrate to Labs

2013-11-11 Thread Silke Meyer 
Hi!

The toolserver will run until June 30th 2014. Nothing changed about this date.

As announced to all toolserver user accounts today, all accounts will
expire in January 2014. They can be renewed as usual. The two
toolserver admins Marlen Caemmerer and Alexander Mette provided two
scripts which will help you to pack and download your data and delete
them afterwards.

The reasons for my decision to have the accounts expire: First of all,
I would like to remind everyone to think about their tools' migration
early and get help if needed. Second, we are dealing the data of a few
hundred expired accounts already. The owners shall have the chance to
re-login and collect their data. They have been reactivated and will
expire in January, too. Third, I would like to encourage all those who
already moved over to Tool Labs to download and then their stuff
themselves.

Best, Silke



2013/11/11 Federico Leva (Nemo) :
> FYI
> (If you discover something on roadmap, archiving etc., please add to the
> central wiki page on the topic:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Toolserver .)
>
> Nemo
>
>  Messaggio originale 
> Oggetto: Toolserver decommissioning - migrate to Labs
> Data: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:57:59 + (UTC)
> Mittente: TS Admins 
>
> Dear nemobis,
>
> as you know we are shutting down the Toolserver. Therefore we have
> set all accounts to expire on
>
> 6th of January 2014
>
> Please migrate your tools to Labs.
>
> For packing and deleting all your stuff except the user-store you can
> use the scripts
> byebye
> and
> burnbridges
> on nightshade.toolserver.org. The first tool creates tarballs of all
> your data except for the user-store and the second tool deletes all
> this data as well as expires your account.
>
> Best regards
> Your TS admins
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikiml-l] Preparing a proofreading contest for Wikisource's 10th aniversary

2013-11-11 Thread Ramesh N G 
Where I can the details of this proof reading pages in wikisource?
On 08-Nov-2013 9:35 PM, "Sarah Stierch"  wrote:

> Super cool.
>
> I know a lot of GLAM folks in the US who would be excited about this. And
> I'm a fan of more love for WS that's for sure!
>
> -Sar
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Vishnu T  wrote:
>
>> Dear Micru,
>>
>> Wonderful initiative! From India the Malayalam Wikisource community might
>> be keen to take part in this. They have also recently released an offline
>> CD (volume 2) of the Malayalam Wikisource.
>>
>> Taking the liberty to copy the Malayalam list on this for them to take
>> lead
>> on this.
>>
>> CIS (not from the A2K Grant) will be glad to sponsor two prizes (one
>> e-book
>> reader and one portable pen-scanner), if the ML community take lead on
>> this.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Vishnu
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7 November 2013 05:28, David Cuenca  wrote:
>>
>> > On the Wikisource mailing list we are discussing about a contest to
>> > celebrate Wikisource's 10th aniversary.
>> >
>> > The contest would be from Nov 24th till Dec 1st. During that time the
>> > participants would proofread a selection of books and they would get
>> points
>> > per page. The one with the most points would win an ebook reader.
>> >
>> > So far WM-IT and Amical Wikimedia have comited each the prize for their
>> > respective contests on the Italian and Catalan Wikisource. WM-AU and
>> WM-DC
>> > are considering to sponsor the English edition.
>> >
>> > If you would like to help us to organize more language editions or find
>> > more sponsors, get in touch.
>> >
>> > If you would like to participate, stay tuned! :)
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Micru
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Toolserver decommissioning - migrate to Labs

2013-11-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo) 

FYI
(If you discover something on roadmap, archiving etc., please add to the 
central wiki page on the topic: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Toolserver .)


Nemo

 Messaggio originale 
Oggetto: Toolserver decommissioning - migrate to Labs
Data: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:57:59 + (UTC)
Mittente: TS Admins 

Dear nemobis,

as you know we are shutting down the Toolserver. Therefore we have
set all accounts to expire on

6th of January 2014

Please migrate your tools to Labs.

For packing and deleting all your stuff except the user-store you can
use the scripts
byebye
and
burnbridges
on nightshade.toolserver.org. The first tool creates tarballs of all
your data except for the user-store and the second tool deletes all
this data as well as expires your account.

Best regards
Your TS admins

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [cultural-partners] When was the first...? Your input is needed

2013-11-11 Thread Lodewijk 
June 2009 was indeed Wiki Loves Art /NL. But wasn't that also already based
on the (different in scope and way it was organized though) New York
edition earlier that year? Smaller in number of organizations, but I
believe not very small in number of photos.

Lodewijk


2013/11/11 Hay (Husky) 

> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Ryan Kaldari 
> wrote:
> > The first Wiki photo competition (that I'm aware of) was Wikipedia Takes
> > Manhattan in Spring 2008.
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan/Spring_2008
> The first "big" photo competition was Wiki Loves Art, during june 2009:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons%3AWiki_Loves_Art_Netherlands
>
> We had 45 museums participating back then, resulting in 5500 photographs.
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2013-11-11 Thread Tilman Bayer 
Minutes and slides from the third quarterly review of the Foundation's
VisualEditor and Parsoid teams are now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/VisualEditor-Parsoid/November_2013

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller  wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> to increase accountability and create more opportunities for course
> corrections and resourcing adjustments as necessary, Sue's asked me
> and Howie Fung to set up a quarterly project evaluation process,
> starting with our highest priority initiatives. These are, according
> to Sue's narrowing focus recommendations which were approved by the
> Board [1]:
>
> - Visual Editor
> - Mobile (mobile contributions + Wikipedia Zero)
> - Editor Engagement (also known as the E2 and E3 teams)
> - Funds Dissemination Committe and expanded grant-making capacity
>
> I'm proposing the following initial schedule:
>
> January:
> - Editor Engagement Experiments
>
> February:
> - Visual Editor
> - Mobile (Contribs + Zero)
>
> March:
> - Editor Engagement Features (Echo, Flow projects)
> - Funds Dissemination Committee
>
> We’ll try doing this on the same day or adjacent to the monthly
> metrics meetings [2], since the team(s) will give a presentation on
> their recent progress, which will help set some context that would
> otherwise need to be covered in the quarterly review itself. This will
> also create open opportunities for feedback and questions.
>
> My goal is to do this in a manner where even though the quarterly
> review meetings themselves are internal, the outcomes are captured as
> meeting minutes and shared publicly, which is why I'm starting this
> discussion on a public list as well. I've created a wiki page here
> which we can use to discuss the concept further:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews
>
> The internal review will, at minimum, include:
>
> Sue Gardner
> myself
> Howie Fung
> Team members and relevant director(s)
> Designated minute-taker
>
> So for example, for Visual Editor, the review team would be the Visual
> Editor / Parsoid teams, Sue, me, Howie, Terry, and a minute-taker.
>
> I imagine the structure of the review roughly as follows, with a
> duration of about 2 1/2 hours divided into 25-30 minute blocks:
>
> - Brief team intro and recap of team's activities through the quarter,
> compared with goals
> - Drill into goals and targets: Did we achieve what we said we would?
> - Review of challenges, blockers and successes
> - Discussion of proposed changes (e.g. resourcing, targets) and other
> action items
> - Buffer time, debriefing
>
> Once again, the primary purpose of these reviews is to create improved
> structures for internal accountability, escalation points in cases
> where serious changes are necessary, and transparency to the world.
>
> In addition to these priority initiatives, my recommendation would be
> to conduct quarterly reviews for any activity that requires more than
> a set amount of resources (people/dollars). These additional reviews
> may however be conducted in a more lightweight manner and internally
> to the departments. We’re slowly getting into that habit in
> engineering.
>
> As we pilot this process, the format of the high priority reviews can
> help inform and support reviews across the organization.
>
> Feedback and questions are appreciated.
>
> All best,
> Erik
>
> [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vote:Narrowing_Focus
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [cultural-partners] When was the first...? Your input is needed

2013-11-11 Thread Hay (Husky) 
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Ryan Kaldari  wrote:
> The first Wiki photo competition (that I'm aware of) was Wikipedia Takes
> Manhattan in Spring 2008.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan/Spring_2008
The first "big" photo competition was Wiki Loves Art, during june 2009:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons%3AWiki_Loves_Art_Netherlands

We had 45 museums participating back then, resulting in 5500 photographs.

-- Hay

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