Hello!
I'd like to invite you to the next edit-a-thon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which will be focused on The Civil War and American Art<http://www.americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/art_civil_war/>. The event will include: new editor training, a tour with the curator, Eleanor Harvey, of The Civil War and American Art exhibition, and a group edit-a-thon.
When: Friday, February 15, 2013
Where: Smithsonian American Art Museum<http://www.americanart.si.edu/>, Located at 8th and G Streets, NW, in Washington D.C. We will meet in the G Street Lobby (enter at 8th and G Streets) at 9:15 a.m.
What to bring: photo ID, a laptop, coffee and snacks if you wish (lunch is provided)
Advanced RSVP Required! RSVP to Georgina Goodlander, goodlanderg(a)si.edu<mailto:goodlanderg@si.edu>, 202-633-8532, Due to the limited space, sign up is required. Space is limited to 20 non-staff participants.
Hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Georgina
Georgina Goodlander
Web & Social Media Content Manager
Smithsonian American Art Museum
(202) 633-8532 | GoodlanderG(a)si.edu
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Hello,
My organization owns the copyrights to some books and would like to
re-license them for sharing. The goal in doing this would be to maximize
the possibility of the books being read. I am aware that Wikisource hosts
books and that anyone can download these books as PDFs and EPUBs. Here, for
example, is *Moby Dick*.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moby-Dick
I was thinking to share books through a Wikimedia project, but I am also
interested in sharing them through other channels if that would get them to
the people who wanted them. I am especially interested in enabling these
books to be found and read on mobile devices. I wanted to ask this list
some questions -
1. Has anyone done this before?
2. Does anyone know of a process for making this work?
3. Does anyone know about making shared books available through many
popular readers, including iBooks, Google Play's bookstore, and Amazon
Kindle?
4. Does anyone else have books they are sharing or want to share, and if
so might like you like to chat with me?
Thanks,
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Lane Rasberry
206.801.0814
lane(a)bluerasberry.com
Dear sir /madam
I am please about your cultural information. i would like to create a partner ship with you and expand it to africa in school.
thanks for your kindness
mr vandy jayah
Hello everyone,
I'm very pleased to announce that Dominic McDevitt-Parks will be joining
Wikimedia DC as our new Cultural Partnerships Coordinator!
I expect that most of you already know Dominic, who has been a long-time
Wikimedian and a regular participant in events both within the DC area and
elsewhere. Dominic has graciously offered us the benefit of his immense
experience with building partnerships between cultural institutions and the
Wikimedia movement, most notably in during his tenure as the
Wikipedian-in-Residence at the National Archives and Records Administration.
In his new position as Cultural Partnerships Coordinator, Dominic will
report directly to the Board of Directors of Wikimedia DC. He will have
number of responsibilities, including serving as a point of contact for
DC-area cultural institutions and professionals looking for guidance from
Wikimedia; facilitating communication and sharing of best practices among
professionals and Wikimedians and between the two groups; helping to
initiate and evaluate partnerships between institutions and Wikimedia DC,
as appropriate, in the interest of the chapter's goals and the Wikimedia
movement as a whole; and serving as the bridge between the Wikimedia DC
community and the global GLAM-Wiki community.
Please join me in welcoming Dominic to his new role!
Cheers,
Kirill
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Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
I am excited to announce that the Chemical Heritage Foundation[1]—a
non-profit repository in Philadelphia, USA with collections relating to the
history and heritage of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related
sciences and technologies—is seeking an experienced Wikipedian to serve as
their Wikipedian in Residence[2]. The Wikipedian in Residence will work as
a community coordinator and strengthen the relationship between CHF and the
Wikipedian community through a range of activities, similar to past
GLAM-Wiki[3] residencies. This is a full-time, temporary position with a
small stipend with an immediate opening.
The Wikipedian in Residence's potential activities includes organizing
on-site events for the local Wikipedian community, adding digital content
from CHF's holdings to Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource, encouraging
increased content or quality of Wikipedia articles using CHF resources,
teaching Wikipedia skills to the CHF staff or researcher community, and
documenting their experiences in blogs, social media, or elsewhere.
To learn more or apply, please visit <
http://www.chemheritage.org/about/careers/wikipedian-in-residence.aspx>.
Questions relating to the position can be sent to Jeffery Guin, Manager of
Emerging Media, at <jguin(a)chemheritage.org>, or to me if they are general
queries about Wikipedians in Residence or GLAM-Wiki. Please forward this
message to other lists or or contacts you think would be interested. Thanks!
[1] See http://www.chemheritage.org/
[2] To learn more about Wikipedians in Residence, please visit <
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence>.
[3] If you are interested in learning more about Wikipedia's work with
cultural instituions generally, see <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US>.
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Dominic McDevitt-Parks
Cultural Partnerships Coordinator, Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org
dominic(a)wikimediadc.org
@Dominic_MP | @wikimediadc
Hey all, in case you haven't seen yet, School of Open launched its first
set of courses today, http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/37179.
The one of interest to this community is one developed by Maarten Zeinstra
and his network over at Kennisland/CC Netherlands/Wikimedia:
*Open data for GLAMs <https://p2pu.org/nl/groups/open-glam/>* (Galleries,
Libraries, Archives, Museums) – This course is for professionals in
cultural institutions who are interested in opening up their data as open
culture data. It will guide you through the different steps towards open
data and provide you with extensive background information on how to handle
copyright and other possible issues.
And more at http://schoolofopen.org/.
How can we spread the word to GLAM practitioners and enable to them to take
advantage of these resources?
Best,
Jane
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Jane Park
Project Manager <http://creativecommons.org/staff#janepark>
Creative Commons
the School of Open, a collaboration with P2PU: http://schoolofopen.org/
Like what we do? Donate: https://creativecommons.net/donate/
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Fbot] ==
I've started proposing and writing [[Wikidata:Requests for
permissions/Bot/VIAFbot]]. As suggestions started coming in, I thought
it'd be nice to have a small IRC meeting planning the bot task specifics
together. Maybe it's worth doing all the identitiers at once from all
language, and making sure we are satisfied with which Wikidata
properties we'll write
If you want to be a part of the meeting please fill out this
[http://doodle.com/ip92htift4x8y68r doodle poll], and I'll set up the
rest of the meeting.
Tentative agenda:
* Which Authorities data to use
* What to do for Data Conflicts
* What should be written to Wikidata for maximum phase 2 re-use
* Programming details of the bot
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Max Klein
Wikipedia in Residence
kleinm(a)oclc.org
+17074787023
Hi, all -
I'm a library science graduate student, working with the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to plan our first ever edit-a-thon. Our theme is African Americans in North Carolina, and we want to use our collection's resources to improve or create articles on this topic.
I have a question for you all - where is the best place on Wikipedia for me to promote this event? We have a Meetup page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/unc_edit-a-thon and I've posted a link to it, with some event info, on the talk page of the NC Project. Am I missing any other popular/appropriate places where events like this are listed? Any help would be appreciated!
Caroline Zarzar
carolinewz(a)unc.edu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Czarinanc