Hello Steve, I am from Seattle but live in New York these days.
I think all of us in the Wikimedia community wish for a better process for digitizing paper media, storing it in Wikimedia projects, and categorizing it in a useful way. There have been efforts to do this but we lack standardization and some of the organizational infrastructure necessary. There are places in Seattle which have scanners set up to do this and if those places are not sufficiently accessible, then it would be possible to get equipment and set up in a community makerspace. To start digitizing content though several pieces have to come together. The usual outcome of digitization projects on Wikipedia is that a lot of media is uploaded then it is not sorted or used. To get the maximal value out of a project the digitization has to be paired with an immediate push to try to use the content, that why the project can be promoted and immediately measures can begin to note the impact. If you want to talk about the landscape of wiki-archiving then write me to talk by voice or video sometime, or just go to local wiki-meetings and talk to others. yours, On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Welcome, Steve. I am down in Portland, but I hope you find others to assist > you with these sorts of projects. Glad to hear of your interest in > Wikimedia Cascadia. > Jason > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Steve, > > > > Welcome to the group. Seattle is a good place for people with > multilingual > > abilities and international project manager localization experience. I > > think that some of our local employers would be interested in talking > with > > you. You might also want to keep an eye on Wikimedia Foundation and > public > > sector job postings. > > > > We have an editathon planned for tomorrow at UW. After that our next > > meetings will be in May. I need to coordinate with Peaceray about > > scheduling, and one of us will post a note to the list when a decision is > > reached. We sometimes meet socially on a Tuesday evening when we are not > > having editathons and other events. > > > > I look forward to meeting you! > > > > Pine > > On Apr 24, 2015 3:43 PM, "Steve Zitkovich" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello Wikimedia-Cascadians, > > > > > > > > > > > > I just joined the group and want to introduce myself. > > > > > > > > > > > > I am a native Seattleite (Garfield High School, 1984) but majored in > > German > > > and have lived/worked 12 years of my adult life in Europe (Germany, > > France, > > > UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia). > > > > > > > > > > > > Professionally I am an international product manager specialized in > > > localization. I recently left my last position and am looking for a new > > job > > > based in Seattle with international travel or be based abroad. > > > > > > > > > > > > There are two reasons I joined the Wikimedia-Cascadia group: > > > > > > > > > > > > 1/ Wikimedia is for me the ultimate internet organization: my internet > > > career is a extension of my interest in languages and inspiration of > the > > > internet as a communications medium to make information available > across > > > languages regardless of time + geography -- exactly what Wikimedia > does! > > I > > > want to be involved with Wikimedia. > > > > > > > > > > > > 2/ I have a social-entrepreneurial idea around digitizing old print > > > periodicals for which I would like to use some of Wikimedia's > open-source > > > tools or potentially even partner with Wikimedia itself. I have talked > to > > > Jonathan Morgan about it and he suggested I join this group and see if > > > there > > > are some people who would be interested in working on the idea with me. > > > > > > > > > > > > So if anyone in this group (or has friends outside this group) has a > > > passion > > > for digitizing print materials from the past (ex. DIY music/culture > > > magazines, neighborhood newsletters, school newsletters), send me an > > email. > > > > > > > > > > > > In any case, I hope to meet you in person at an upcoming > > Wikimedia-Cascadia > > > gathering. > > > > > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > > > > > > > Steve Zitkovich > > > > > > subscribed with "[email protected]", primary email = > > > "[email protected]" > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
