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Revision as of 17:48, 29 October 2019
Welcome to the Autumn newsletter!
Time to put the jumpers on and find a cosy spot to read about all the hard work the team have been doing since the end of Summer!
Wiki Loves Monuments 2019
Here's some placeholder text for the announcements about WLM 2019.
Wikimedia UK partners with the Khalili Collections
Wikimedia UK has begun a partnership with the world's biggest private collection of Islamic art.
Gender Gap video published
Wikimedia UK has been producing a video about the work of our community over the past few years to reduce the gender gap on Wikipedia...
Art UK work
Something about our work with Art UK? Stuart or Sara to advise on this.
Art UK editathon, sculpture, 30 September
Scotland
Sara Thomas held a Wikipedia editathon with the British Geological Survey at the 46th IAH Congress 2019 to transfer information from the Africa Groundwater Atlas to Wikipedia "making hydrogeology information for Africa more visible and accessible to a wider audience". Another event in August with Code the City was on the subject of the 'Silver Screen in the Silver City'.
Sara has continued to work with the Dumfries Stonecarving Project, setting up social editing groups, and moving draft pages to mainspace. They’re also still looking to talk to HLF regarding their request to talk to projects with digital outputs.
A 'Commons to Culture' event is set for 15th October - will support NLS and NMS to develop workflows for uploading images to commons, and info to wikidata
David Livingstone Trust Editathon - 16th October as part of Black History Month
Highlands DataLab inaugural meetup - Inverness - 19th September
Education booklet?Facebook live (sprung on us!) for Dumfries events got a silly amount of views & interactions…. a bit of a surprise: 29th July has had 1000 views, 30 July (where we made more of an effort to have edit-a-long info available, and got one participant remotely) got 512 views so far.
https://www.facebook.com/StonecarvingDumfries/videos/2603095853036343/ and
https://www.facebook.com/StonecarvingDumfries/videos/466265083921629
University of Edinburgh residency
University of Edinburgh Wikimedian in Residence Ewan McAndrew continues to be recognised for his work at the university, with The Scotsman reporting on the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft data project, whose intern Emma has produced a fantastic map allowing people to explore the data.
Ewan placed an interview with the Witchfinder General student intern Emma Carroll onto Media Hopper, which you can see here.
It's now part of a four video playlist on the internship with the seminar presentation, her ALT conference lightning talk and the OpenRefine beginners tutorial she recorded.
Wales
It's been a busy few months at the National Library of Wales. Jason attended took part in the Celtic Knot conferences in Cornwall and was at Wikimania in Sweden. At the Hackathon he worked on adding thousands of Welsh language labels to Wikidata and spoke during the main conference about plans to share thousands of the library's bibliographic records to Wikidata. Jason also attended a 'Wikidata for National Libraries' summit organised by Liam Wyatt at Europeana, which was held in Stockholm following Wikimania.
Several Grant applications were approved over the summer and work is now beginning on the WiciLlén project. The project is lead by the National Library of Wales in partnership with Menter Iaith Món with the broad aim of improving access to information about Welsh literature through the medium of Welsh. Simon Cobb has been commissioned to assist with the release of 50,000 bibliographic records from the Library as bilingual Wikidata and Aaron Morris will lead a series of classroom workshops with different age groups, whilst Jason will hold a series of Edit-a-thons and a Hackathon. At least 500 new articles will be created using data, translation and volunteer contributions.
The first event of the project was a successful translate-a-thon. The event was hosted by the Library and attended by Welsh professional translation studies students from Aberystwyth University. Jason has also help the course leader develop a core assignment for the Translation course which will see students translating English Wikipedia articles into Welsh.
Work on the Dictionary of Welsh Biography timeline is nearly complete. The timeline will be a hugely powerful search and discovery tool for the new Dictionary of Welsh Biography website and will clearly demonstrate the value of sharing and round-tripping Wikidata. The latest test version of the timeline will be demonstrated by Jason at the Museums and Tech conference at the British Library and in more depth at WikidataCon 2019.
The National Library has also just received confirmation that its proposed Wikipedia education pilot project has received all the requested funding from the Welsh Governments Welsh language education unit. This will be a really exciting project, looking at how we can identify the content most relevant to to the Welsh curriculum and develop a clear template for presenting that information on Welsh Wicipedia. In partnership with Aaron Morris the project will also see the creation of a series of short educational videos to enrich articles and number of test events with School children to develop a lesson plan for A-level students to help create content suitable for primary school pupils.
As usual the National Library continues to share digital images to Commons. Most recent uploads include examples of newly digitised medieval manuscripts from the Peniarth Collection.
Jason:
- Attended Wikimania Hackathon and worked on improving Welsh labels in Wikidata.
- Agreed funding for Simon Cobb to develop Welsh Literature data as part of WikiLlen prosiect.
- Presentation of Wikidata for bibliographic data at Wikimania 2019.
- Presentation on the use of Wikidata at NLW for ‘Wikidata in Libraries’ meeting in Stockholm.
- Jason released an Annual Report for his residency.
- 7531 Wikidata edits to improve data for artworks from WIR-NLW.
- WiciLlen project approved with a grant from the Welsh Government - starts in September.
- Work continues with Histropedia on a timeline for Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
- Submitted a grant application to the Welsh Government outlining a plan for an Education Pilot Project in Wales, aimed at improving resources for school children on Welsh Wikipedia.
- Another batch of images from digitised Peniarth Manuscripts uploaded to Commons.
Welsh Language Commissioner Aled Roberts has started to change the licence to CCBYSA on many of the YouTube videos. (which videos? @Robin to advise)
Residencies at Universities
Andy Mabbett at the Coventry University Disruptive Media Learning Lab...
Martin Poulter at the Bodleian Libraries....
Education, education, education
Other Stuff
Any other project news
Threatened Heritage in Libya
A professor at KCL wants to use Wikimedia Commons as an image repository for photos of threatened heritage sites in Libya. Data import is ongoing and is at the Mix n' Match stage.
Banner Repeater
Something about BR?