[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Mexico. Report of Activities of April 2014

Dear community: Below you will find the report of activities of the month of April 2014 done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or only to make some suggestions. The report is also available o

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

Jimmy Wales was recently asked, on Twitter: How do you collaborate with Universities? to which he replied: Right now mostly through our GLAM programs (galleries, libraries, museums).

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

If Universities or GLAMs want to talk about our best practices for running open knowledge projects that include Wikimedia projects, they ought to be asking some of the many people who have successfully delivered these projects. Tip: ** Always recommend they visit https://outreach.wikimedia.org **

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I think this speaks to how little is known and how poorly education projects have been promoted, especially outside the US and Canada. There is even the assumption on the part of many that this is the purview of chapters. The Education Program has just convened an Education Cooperative with rep

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Is there one place, perhaps on Meta, where a Wikipedian/Wikimedian could find a summary/briefing on the various different programs that exist? Newyorkbrad On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Leigh Thelmadatter wrote: > I think this speaks to how little is known and how poorly education > projects

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On 6 May 2014 15:28, Newyorkbrad wrote: > Is there one place, perhaps on Meta, where a Wikipedian/Wikimedian could > find a summary/briefing on the various different programs that exist? > > Newyorkbrad Hi Brad, Yes, this is the purpose of https://outreach.wikimedia.org. Admittedly it always nee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

On 6 May 2014 11:45, Fæ wrote: > On 6 May 2014 15:28, Newyorkbrad wrote: > > Is there one place, perhaps on Meta, where a Wikipedian/Wikimedian could > > find a summary/briefing on the various different programs that exist? > > > > Newyorkbrad > > Hi Brad, > > Yes, this is the purpose of https:/

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On 6 May 2014 16:53, Risker wrote: > On 6 May 2014 11:45, Fæ wrote: >> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter. ... > I think Newyorbrad's point is that this is sectioned off into a distant > project that few people know about - as I recall, it's not even part of the > SUL so one has

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On 6 May 2014 15:28, Newyorkbrad wrote: > Is there one place, perhaps on Meta, where a Wikipedian/Wikimedian could > find a summary/briefing on the various different programs that exist? > > Newyorkbrad > The ones that are relevant to the english wikipedia can be found ad https://en.wikipedia.o

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On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Newyorkbrad wrote: > Is there one place, perhaps on Meta, where a Wikipedian/Wikimedian could > find a summary/briefing on the various different programs that exist? > For education specifically: You can also go to http://education.wikimedia.org, which takes you t

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Le 06/05/2014 16:24, Leigh Thelmadatter a écrit : (...) There is even the assumption on the part of many that this is the purview of chapters. Why shouldn't it be ? -- Mathias Damour https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Astirmays ___ Wikimedia

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Where chapter support is wanted and helpful, no problem. What I mean here is that universities should not be "required" to work "under" a chapter just because one exists. > Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 20:08:58 +0200 > From: mathias.dam...@laposte.net > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject:

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Le 06/05/2014 20:15, Leigh Thelmadatter a écrit : Where chapter support is wanted and helpful, no problem. What I mean here is that universities should not be "required" to work "under" a chapter just because one exists. I mean that universities should be "able" to work "with" a chapter when

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Unfortunately, this is not always the case. > Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 20:46:23 +0200 > From: mathias.dam...@laposte.net > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities > > Le 06/05/2014 20:15, Leigh Thelmadatter a écrit : > > Where chapter support is wa

[Wikimedia-l] WikiConference USA - almost here!

I am very pleased to announce that WikiConference USA is less than 30 days away! Over the last few months, Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC have been collecting curated submissions on a diversity of wiki and free/open knowledge-related topics (with tracks on Community, Tech, Outreach, GLAM, Educatio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

Pine, I think you raise some important questions below. Obviously there has been a lot going on in the last week, so I'd like to give this a "bump" and add a couple points: On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:17 AM, ENWP Pine wrote: > > Will the Foundation prohibit chapters and other thematic organizations

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On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > > > I want to point out something that stands out to me. This is not an > outright contradiction, but it's a puzzling contrast. In an unrelated > thread on this email list, Executive Director Sue Gardner recently said: > > "Editorial policies [

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Nathan wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Pete Forsyth > wrote: > > > > > > I want to point out something that stands out to me. This is not an > > outright contradiction, but it's a puzzling contrast. In an unrelated > > thread on this email list, Executive