For those of you who are not familiar with the Simons Foundation: - they are one of the funders of the Wiki Education Foundation's Year of Science [1], via their "Science Sandbox" program [2] - they are also financially supporting the WikiCite event in Vienna in May [3] - they are among the organizations who formally endorsed the Initiative for Open Citations we launched earlier this month [4]
Dario [1] https://wikiedu.org/yearofscience/ [2] https://www.simonsfoundation.org/education-outreach/science-sandbox/ [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017 [4] https://i4oc.org/#stakeholders On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forwarding a resource. > > Pine > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org> > Date: Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:23 AM > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] New guide for organizing Edit-a-thons at science > conferences > To: Wiki Research-l <wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > I just ran across a new-ish (Feb 17) resource for people interested in > running editathons for scientists, developed by the Simons Foundation. You > can read the blog post[1] and download the guide in PDF form[2]. > > The guide provides a well-organized and comprehensive set of practical tips > for organizing, publicizing, and running editathons and is tuned to the > needs and interests of science SMEs. > > Forwarding because I know there are many folks on this list who are > involved in this sort of work and/or could be. > > Cheers, > Jonathan > > 1. > https://www.simonsfoundation.org/education-outreach/ > crowdsourcing-expertise/ > 2. > http://simonsfoundation.s3.amazonaws.com/share/sciencesandbox/ > CrowdsourcingExpertise_4.7.17.pdf > > -- > Jonathan T. Morgan > Senior Design Researcher > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
