Here is the link. http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/87060742/
I'm not sure that we should promote it without their knowledge. I was hoping that someone on our list had been in contact with them. Gabe On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Kevin Rutherford <[email protected]> wrote: > It depends. I know people there, but not all of them are professors, since > I spent a semester there three years ago. I will add that event to the page > if you could send me a direct link to their meetup. > > Kevin Rutherford > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 5, 2012, at 4:16 PM, "Gabriel Fishman" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks SJ! On the subject I noticed on the meetup.com group that UMass > Lowell is doing a WLL event on the 13th. Does anyone have a contact over > there? I'll be at the Wikidata presentation at the same time but it would > be nice to coordinate with them and add the event to the Wikipedia page for > our New England Wikimedia group. > > Gabe > > On Nov 5, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > > FYI > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sarah Stierch <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM > Subject: [cultural-partners] [BLOG] Why Wikipedians should love Libraries > To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination < > [email protected]> > Cc: "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <[email protected]> > > > By Merrrilee Profitt from the OCLC - please share! > > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/05/why-wikipedians-should-love-librarians/ > > [image] > > Last year marked the start of Wikipedia Loves > Libraries<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries>(WLL), > and in 2012, WLL activities are in full swing, with many events > planned in the coming month. WLL was originally conceived as a way of > celebrating Open Access Week<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Access_Week>, > but we now have WLL events throughout the year. As a librarian who is > interested in seeing more coordination between libraries and other cultural > heritage organizations (i.e. GLAM <http://www.glamwiki.org>), I’d like to > offer some perspectives on why libraries and Wikipedia are so well aligned > with one another. > > The bottom line is that we share a common mission. We are dedicated to > providing free access to information and knowledge. Wikipedians want to > strengthen their articles by citing credible sources. If those sources are > in print, or hidden behind paywalls, it undermines the important tenant of > free access. > > Libraries collect those same credible sources and make them freely > available to patrons. Partnering with libraries helps keep sources free. > Librarians value “information literacy,” which means teaching the general > public to recognize, appreciate and rely on credible sources. Sound > familiar? Teaching basic Wikipedia editing skills can be a great, practical > way to re-enforce information literacy skills. > > Encouraging more librarians to become Wikipedians will also help address > the gender gap. Librarians are an almost mirror image of Wikipedians in > terms of gender – a March 2012 > survey<http://www.ala.org/research/sites/ala.org.research/files/content/March%202012%20report.pdf>of > members of the American Library Association found that 80.7 percent of > those in the profession are female (versus about 10 percent of Wikipedians). > > So, if you haven’t already, reach out to your local librarian. Suggest a > WLL event, or find out if you can use library space to hold an editathon on > a topic of local interest. Ask for help from your library in promoting > events, not only to library patrons, but also to staff. Be patient, and > recognize that librarians may move at a slower pace than Wikipedians (and > that they have a range of other events and activities on top of their > day-to-day duties). Be complementary to see if you can find a way for > Wikipedia activities to harmonize with areas where the library is already > investing. If you make the effort, I think you’ll have a good shot at > creating a beautiful partnership, and creating some new Wikipedians in the > process. > > -*Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research > (User:Mlet<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mlet> > )* > > > -- > *Sarah Stierch* > *Museumist and open culture advocate* > >>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><< > > _______________________________________________ > cultural-partners mailing list > [email protected] > https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Sarah Stierch <[email protected]>wrote: > >> By Merrrilee Profitt from the OCLC - please share! >> >> >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/05/why-wikipedians-should-love-librarians/ >> >> [image] >> >> Last year marked the start of Wikipedia Loves >> Libraries<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries>(WLL), >> and in 2012, WLL activities are in full swing, with many events >> planned in the coming month. WLL was originally conceived as a way of >> celebrating Open Access Week<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Access_Week>, >> but we now have WLL events throughout the year. As a librarian who is >> interested in seeing more coordination between libraries and other cultural >> heritage organizations (i.e. GLAM <http://www.glamwiki.org>), I’d like >> to offer some perspectives on why libraries and Wikipedia are so well >> aligned with one another. >> >> The bottom line is that we share a common mission. We are dedicated to >> providing free access to information and knowledge. Wikipedians want to >> strengthen their articles by citing credible sources. If those sources are >> in print, or hidden behind paywalls, it undermines the important tenant of >> free access. >> >> Libraries collect those same credible sources and make them freely >> available to patrons. Partnering with libraries helps keep sources free. >> Librarians value “information literacy,” which means teaching the general >> public to recognize, appreciate and rely on credible sources. Sound >> familiar? Teaching basic Wikipedia editing skills can be a great, practical >> way to re-enforce information literacy skills. >> >> Encouraging more librarians to become Wikipedians will also help address >> the gender gap. Librarians are an almost mirror image of Wikipedians in >> terms of gender – a March 2012 >> survey<http://www.ala.org/research/sites/ala.org.research/files/content/March%202012%20report.pdf>of >> members of the American Library Association found that 80.7 percent of >> those in the profession are female (versus about 10 percent of Wikipedians). >> >> So, if you haven’t already, reach out to your local librarian. Suggest a >> WLL event, or find out if you can use library space to hold an editathon on >> a topic of local interest. Ask for help from your library in promoting >> events, not only to library patrons, but also to staff. Be patient, and >> recognize that librarians may move at a slower pace than Wikipedians (and >> that they have a range of other events and activities on top of their >> day-to-day duties). Be complementary to see if you can find a way for >> Wikipedia activities to harmonize with areas where the library is already >> investing. If you make the effort, I think you’ll have a good shot at >> creating a beautiful partnership, and creating some new Wikipedians in the >> process. >> >> -*Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research >> (User:Mlet<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mlet> >> )* >> >> >> -- >> *Sarah Stierch* >> *Museumist and open culture advocate* >> >>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><< >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cultural-partners mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners >> > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-boston mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-boston mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston > >
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