Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be edited by anyone to store structured data. It currently has over 33.5 million articles and 1.9 billion edits in 287 languages. Wikidata provides structured, collaborative, free, open, multilingual, and referenced data through its API and licenses its data under CC0 to allow easy access and reuse. It helps projects like Wikipedia by providing integrated access to its data and supports smaller languages and communities through micro-contributions. In 2015, Google's Freebase project moved its data to Wikidata, increasing its scope and ecosystem.
wikipedia event_HerstoryEditathon 3-2016_v1.3raypun101
This document announces a Women's Herstory Editathon event to be held on Tuesday, March 29 from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Room 2108 of the Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno. Librarians will provide training and resources to help contributors add and improve Wikipedia entries about women in history. Light refreshments will be served and attendees should bring their own laptops. The event is free and open to the public in partnership with the Cross Cultural Gender Center, though parking is restricted. Contact information is provided for those seeking event or accessibility details.
Children's songs are universal. They are part of our cultural heritage. As you might know, there are a melodies that are sung in different languages. Sometimes with the same meaning, but sometimes they have total different lyrics and meaning. They illustrate how we are globally connected to each other. In a time where copyright dominates the music industry, we think it is important that the knowledge about songs like these is accessible. Not only the lyrics and their meaning, but also what they sound like. The wikis are a great place to collect this knowledge, just like the way these songs are taught to children around the world.
This presentation was used for a music scoring workshop. This workshop was an assignment for the Training for Trainers program at Wikimedia UK in August 2014.
This document provides an overview of Wikipedia editathons, which are events where institutions engage staff and community members to create and improve Wikipedia articles related to the institution's collections and areas of expertise. The goals are to increase educational content on Wikipedia, improve access to collections, and provide training. Effective editathons include a theme, tutorials, work sessions, and promotion. They require advance planning of tasks, resources, venue, and scheduling. Host institutions benefit from improving access to their digital holdings and furthering their educational missions.
Wikimedia Strategy - making it impactful, measuring impact, and thinking abou...Simon Knight
Slides from 3 sessions (on strategy (1), evaluation (2), and tech (3) with some overlap. The last isn't much thought out yet, and isn't one I'm presenting at wmcon.
Making the strategy impactful
From Strategy to Impact Measurement
Measuring impact – co-ordination, and localisationMaking the most of tech?
Check image attributions for licenses, otherwise CC-By with Wikimedia UK mark under a restricted license.
Open Monuments Project at GLAM Wiki Conference 2015Aleksandra Janus
How GLAM WIKI could be helpful or inspirational for social projects or change is more commons questions than what is there still missed. In order to reconsider idea for GLAM WIKI and make some improvements we would like to take a closer look at situations where and how GLAM WIKI has some limitations. When it could not be a good solution and why?
Why didn’t we decided to base our project on Wikipedia? How are the other examples of such projects? Is it only the example of monuments? What should be done in order to make Wikipedia more universal way of opening GLAM?
Philippe Beaudette - How To Motivate Legions of VolunteersFeverBee Limited
Philippe Beaudette, the director of community at Wikimedia, explains how Wikipedia uses various methods of persuasion to build a legion of volunteers to help edit their articles.
Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be edited by anyone to store structured data. It currently has over 33.5 million articles and 1.9 billion edits in 287 languages. Wikidata provides structured, collaborative, free, open, multilingual, and referenced data through its API and licenses its data under CC0 to allow easy access and reuse. It helps projects like Wikipedia by providing integrated access to its data and supports smaller languages and communities through micro-contributions. In 2015, Google's Freebase project moved its data to Wikidata, increasing its scope and ecosystem.
wikipedia event_HerstoryEditathon 3-2016_v1.3raypun101
This document announces a Women's Herstory Editathon event to be held on Tuesday, March 29 from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Room 2108 of the Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno. Librarians will provide training and resources to help contributors add and improve Wikipedia entries about women in history. Light refreshments will be served and attendees should bring their own laptops. The event is free and open to the public in partnership with the Cross Cultural Gender Center, though parking is restricted. Contact information is provided for those seeking event or accessibility details.
Children's songs are universal. They are part of our cultural heritage. As you might know, there are a melodies that are sung in different languages. Sometimes with the same meaning, but sometimes they have total different lyrics and meaning. They illustrate how we are globally connected to each other. In a time where copyright dominates the music industry, we think it is important that the knowledge about songs like these is accessible. Not only the lyrics and their meaning, but also what they sound like. The wikis are a great place to collect this knowledge, just like the way these songs are taught to children around the world.
This presentation was used for a music scoring workshop. This workshop was an assignment for the Training for Trainers program at Wikimedia UK in August 2014.
This document provides an overview of Wikipedia editathons, which are events where institutions engage staff and community members to create and improve Wikipedia articles related to the institution's collections and areas of expertise. The goals are to increase educational content on Wikipedia, improve access to collections, and provide training. Effective editathons include a theme, tutorials, work sessions, and promotion. They require advance planning of tasks, resources, venue, and scheduling. Host institutions benefit from improving access to their digital holdings and furthering their educational missions.
Wikimedia Strategy - making it impactful, measuring impact, and thinking abou...Simon Knight
Slides from 3 sessions (on strategy (1), evaluation (2), and tech (3) with some overlap. The last isn't much thought out yet, and isn't one I'm presenting at wmcon.
Making the strategy impactful
From Strategy to Impact Measurement
Measuring impact – co-ordination, and localisationMaking the most of tech?
Check image attributions for licenses, otherwise CC-By with Wikimedia UK mark under a restricted license.
Open Monuments Project at GLAM Wiki Conference 2015Aleksandra Janus
How GLAM WIKI could be helpful or inspirational for social projects or change is more commons questions than what is there still missed. In order to reconsider idea for GLAM WIKI and make some improvements we would like to take a closer look at situations where and how GLAM WIKI has some limitations. When it could not be a good solution and why?
Why didn’t we decided to base our project on Wikipedia? How are the other examples of such projects? Is it only the example of monuments? What should be done in order to make Wikipedia more universal way of opening GLAM?
Philippe Beaudette - How To Motivate Legions of VolunteersFeverBee Limited
Philippe Beaudette, the director of community at Wikimedia, explains how Wikipedia uses various methods of persuasion to build a legion of volunteers to help edit their articles.
Improving the troubled relationship between Scientists and Wikipedia Duncan Hull
This document discusses improving the relationship between scientists and Wikipedia. It notes that Wikipedia often lacks basic biographical information about notable scientists. A Wikipedian in Residence program was established at the Royal Society to address this issue through edit-a-thons and releasing portraits and data under open licenses. This led to improved coverage of Fellows of the Royal Society on Wikipedia. The document advocates for expanding such programs to other scientific organizations to increase representation of scientists on Wikipedia.
Wikidata presentation at SemTechBiz Berlin 2012Denny Vrandecic
The document summarizes Wikidata, which is presented as the next big thing for Wikipedia. Wikidata aims to provide a database of the world's knowledge that is machine-readable and can be edited by anyone. It seeks to collect references for data items, engage a global community to collect data, increase Wikipedia quality, and enable other data collection projects. The presentation outlines Wikidata's goals and a three-phase project plan to link language editions, augment info boxes, and enable inline queries in Wikipedia.
Presentation of the photo competition "Wiki Loves Earth 2016 in Bulgaria", given in the lecture panel of Bulgarian Foundation Biodiversity in the Biological Faculty of Sofia University.
Date: 1 June 2016
Authors: Spasimir Pilev and Vassia Atanassova
Intro to Editing Wikipedia - SCOTUS Editathon at NARASara Snyder
Introduction to editing Wikipedia. Part of the December 11, 2015 editathon on the Supreme Court of the United States, held at the National Archives and Records Administration's Innovation Hub #ArchivesInnovHub
The document discusses the partnership between The Children's Museum of Indianapolis and Wikimedia to improve Wikipedia articles related to the museum. It provides examples of other museums that have participated in Wikipedian in Residence programs, including the British Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and National Archives. It outlines the benefits of collaborating with Wikipedia, such as reaching wider audiences, engaging volunteers, and improving online information. Strategies discussed include hosting edit-a-thons, backstage tours, student programs, multilingual projects using QR codes, and connecting with educators. Next steps mentioned are supporting the GLAM-Wiki community and diversifying engagement.
Wikidata tutorial presented at the U.S. National Archives on October 10, 2015 as part of WikiConference USA.
Contains edits and corrections from version presented.
Released under CC0.
Europeana Awareness year 2 review slides for Workpackage 2 'End-user engagement'Johan Oomen
This document summarizes the key activities and results of Work Package 2 on end user engagement from the Europeana Awareness project. It discusses three objectives: researching end user involvement; launching two thematic campaigns on specific challenges for gathering user-generated content; and establishing collaborations with Wikipedia. It provides details on digital storytelling tools used, the 1914-1918 and 1989 campaigns across multiple countries, and Wikipedia edit-a-thons and competitions. Key results included large numbers of user contributions added to Europeana and visibility for Europeana. Future plans include expanding the campaigns and digital storytelling platform, and continuing Wikipedia collaborations.
Un breve resumen de la informática habla sobre los inicios sobre que es y también sobre la informática y la convergencia y en esto también se habla sobre la informática en la actualidad sobre que función cumple y que papel tiene en la actualidad
1) A photographic contest called Wiki Loves Africa is being run in several African countries in October-November 2014. The theme is cuisine.
2) Participants can submit photographs, videos, and audio related to topics around the theme of cuisine like markets, traditions, production, and consumption.
3) To get involved, countries can register at the provided website. Organizers can be contacted for more information.
These slides have been produced to support people who wish to deliver a Wikipedia editing session for new users. The slides support use of slides for a Wikipedia Editing Session (available at #http://www.slideshare.net/lisbk/wikipedia-editing-session) and explain how the slides can be used and tailored.
This is the "before" version of the slides I created for my interview with Intergraph. I've also uploaded my finished submission. You can view it on my uploads page.
In August of 2011 I interviewed for a job at Intergraph, a large software company in Huntsville, Alabama. As part of that interview, each of the candidates were given a test project to redesign the company's corporate overview. This was my submission. I ended up getting the job. :^)
Improving the troubled relationship between Scientists and Wikipedia Duncan Hull
This document discusses improving the relationship between scientists and Wikipedia. It notes that Wikipedia often lacks basic biographical information about notable scientists. A Wikipedian in Residence program was established at the Royal Society to address this issue through edit-a-thons and releasing portraits and data under open licenses. This led to improved coverage of Fellows of the Royal Society on Wikipedia. The document advocates for expanding such programs to other scientific organizations to increase representation of scientists on Wikipedia.
Wikidata presentation at SemTechBiz Berlin 2012Denny Vrandecic
The document summarizes Wikidata, which is presented as the next big thing for Wikipedia. Wikidata aims to provide a database of the world's knowledge that is machine-readable and can be edited by anyone. It seeks to collect references for data items, engage a global community to collect data, increase Wikipedia quality, and enable other data collection projects. The presentation outlines Wikidata's goals and a three-phase project plan to link language editions, augment info boxes, and enable inline queries in Wikipedia.
Presentation of the photo competition "Wiki Loves Earth 2016 in Bulgaria", given in the lecture panel of Bulgarian Foundation Biodiversity in the Biological Faculty of Sofia University.
Date: 1 June 2016
Authors: Spasimir Pilev and Vassia Atanassova
Intro to Editing Wikipedia - SCOTUS Editathon at NARASara Snyder
Introduction to editing Wikipedia. Part of the December 11, 2015 editathon on the Supreme Court of the United States, held at the National Archives and Records Administration's Innovation Hub #ArchivesInnovHub
The document discusses the partnership between The Children's Museum of Indianapolis and Wikimedia to improve Wikipedia articles related to the museum. It provides examples of other museums that have participated in Wikipedian in Residence programs, including the British Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and National Archives. It outlines the benefits of collaborating with Wikipedia, such as reaching wider audiences, engaging volunteers, and improving online information. Strategies discussed include hosting edit-a-thons, backstage tours, student programs, multilingual projects using QR codes, and connecting with educators. Next steps mentioned are supporting the GLAM-Wiki community and diversifying engagement.
Wikidata tutorial presented at the U.S. National Archives on October 10, 2015 as part of WikiConference USA.
Contains edits and corrections from version presented.
Released under CC0.
Europeana Awareness year 2 review slides for Workpackage 2 'End-user engagement'Johan Oomen
This document summarizes the key activities and results of Work Package 2 on end user engagement from the Europeana Awareness project. It discusses three objectives: researching end user involvement; launching two thematic campaigns on specific challenges for gathering user-generated content; and establishing collaborations with Wikipedia. It provides details on digital storytelling tools used, the 1914-1918 and 1989 campaigns across multiple countries, and Wikipedia edit-a-thons and competitions. Key results included large numbers of user contributions added to Europeana and visibility for Europeana. Future plans include expanding the campaigns and digital storytelling platform, and continuing Wikipedia collaborations.
Un breve resumen de la informática habla sobre los inicios sobre que es y también sobre la informática y la convergencia y en esto también se habla sobre la informática en la actualidad sobre que función cumple y que papel tiene en la actualidad
1) A photographic contest called Wiki Loves Africa is being run in several African countries in October-November 2014. The theme is cuisine.
2) Participants can submit photographs, videos, and audio related to topics around the theme of cuisine like markets, traditions, production, and consumption.
3) To get involved, countries can register at the provided website. Organizers can be contacted for more information.
These slides have been produced to support people who wish to deliver a Wikipedia editing session for new users. The slides support use of slides for a Wikipedia Editing Session (available at #http://www.slideshare.net/lisbk/wikipedia-editing-session) and explain how the slides can be used and tailored.
This is the "before" version of the slides I created for my interview with Intergraph. I've also uploaded my finished submission. You can view it on my uploads page.
In August of 2011 I interviewed for a job at Intergraph, a large software company in Huntsville, Alabama. As part of that interview, each of the candidates were given a test project to redesign the company's corporate overview. This was my submission. I ended up getting the job. :^)
A tongue-in-cheek presentation with 3 tips to avoid being a PowerPoint criminal.
These are slides from a humorous/informative speech I wrote for a recent Toastmasters meeting. I've modified the presentation since then so that it can stand on its own.
Spanish Version (thanks to David Gomez): http://www.slideshare.net/mercadeobienpensado/no-sea-un-criminal-del-powerpoint
Slides from a sermon I gave last year about the kinds of secrets that are dangerous to keep.
You can hear the audio for this sermon at http://www.teachingtruth.org/sermons?sermon_id=216
A summary of things we learned creating wikis to support NASA\'s Preliminary Design Review of the Ares I Launch Vehicle. Delivered June 11, 2010 at the Atlassian Summmit in San Francisco, CA, USA.