The July 2015 NYC WikiWednesdaysalon and skill-share with the
Wikimedia NYC community will be held on Wednesday, July 8, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street /
Union Square in Manhattan.
This will be the third of hopefully a series of approximately monthly "WikiWednesday" meetings at Babycastles, in addition to our weekend events and editathons.
Details
Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (feel free to come by early as 6, stay later for social hour)
Helping Wikidocks folks (those in the Wikipedia Meetup
boondocks without active local chapters) set up a local event using Wikimedia typical page layouts and information; adding state (Nebraska) to Meetup list --
BrillLyle (
talk) aka Erika
Slideshow: "Wikidocks: Wikipedia Meetup assistance for '
boondock' areas with no active local chapters":
PowerPoint +
PDF
BrillLyle to provide list of food options (to pizza)
Hope to do an event with the Smithsonian Asian-American group in August
Great American Wiknic @
Prospect Park - August 2 in Prospect Park & 15th Street in Brooklyn. Valuable since it attracts people who are afraid to attend edit-a-thons or other Wikimedia events
Committee discussion: Need to establish committees (like grant writing, events, diversity) and call for members to join said committees
Becksguy: We need someone to specialize in writing grants and the follow-up reports. Requires a lot of paperwork - suggested that at least 2 people be charged with such a job.
Calendar issues: Would be nice to have a bot to transfer info between Wikipedias. Noting that there are multiple calendar options - will try more.
Diversifying roles and functions. Fostering leadership to represent our (NYC) community. Much of this depends on individual responsibility. Think of cultural centers as a place to reach out.
Jim regularly rides on bike which facilitates taking photographs for illustration of Wikipedia articles
In uploading to
Wikimedia Commons, the secret is finding good categories to make the pictures findable
License to use? Default license is too protective. Jim doesn't care about credit, so he uses CC-0. He wants people to use his pics without hindrance
His pics also have geolocation embedded. He uses Google Earth and Web search to find locations. Uses programs and online editing to show camera location, object location, and camera direction
Slideshow: "Wikidocks: Wikipedia Meetup assistance for '
boondock' areas with no active local chapters":
PowerPoint +
PDF
Helping people in areas without big Wikipedia presence (i.e. "boondocks" + Wikipedia = Wikidocks), making event pages for those in far-away communities
Wikipedia in LIS education - namely at Pratt. Rich site for work on Wikipedia
Two recent edit-a-thons: Course Libraries, race, gender, sexuality and 2 edit-a-thons about librarians at Pratt
One class: Wikipedia, knowledge creation, how it fits into larger social structure. How librarians can become more involved with WP. How people come to knowledge, what it means to be invovled with knowledge creation. Edit-a-thon based on these topics at the Grad Center library (thanks to Megan). Some students worked on topical articles, others worked on aspects of librarianship. Was a way to apply knowledge learned in class - theory into practice. Last November (and spring) there was a "librarians at Pratt" edit-a-thon - focus was creating pages centering around Pratt - also talking and using Wikipedia as an educational tool. Why it is a useful tool, critical information literacy. Delved into where the information on WP comes from, similar questions. Questions about documenting how Pratt did it to serve as a model for others. Could be built out of existing articles/blog entries, or could be crowdsourced from students. Also WMF's learning patterns - collaboratively constructed area for help.
Vaughn88 (
talk) on Potential Public Broadcasting Collaborations with PBS
WNET, New York Public Media, and potentially PBS Learning Media
What results from partnership? Content creation, events, etc. We have opportunity to propose projects
WMF has offered WMNYC to collaborate - many pros and cons. Need to decide how to strategically proceed. Let's discuss. WMF wants a proposal that PBS would review. As of now, open. Soliciting ideas.
Suggested idea:
– High quality video creation
Question on what didn't go well with veterans' edit-a-thon
Send Vaughn88 ideas who will codify them before proposal
Support gender gap areas such as women artists: discussion about the possibility of journalist research (original research - interviews, scripted phone conversations, etc.) to serve as sources for entries where currently there are not enough existing secondary sources
Guidelines for notability (Vaughn88: notability guide for artists is being worked on)
Question about transcription. BrillLyle suggested looking at open source automated transcript used by the
Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky
The July 2015 NYC WikiWednesdaysalon and skill-share with the
Wikimedia NYC community will be held on Wednesday, July 8, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street /
Union Square in Manhattan.
This will be the third of hopefully a series of approximately monthly "WikiWednesday" meetings at Babycastles, in addition to our weekend events and editathons.
Details
Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (feel free to come by early as 6, stay later for social hour)
Helping Wikidocks folks (those in the Wikipedia Meetup
boondocks without active local chapters) set up a local event using Wikimedia typical page layouts and information; adding state (Nebraska) to Meetup list --
BrillLyle (
talk) aka Erika
Slideshow: "Wikidocks: Wikipedia Meetup assistance for '
boondock' areas with no active local chapters":
PowerPoint +
PDF
BrillLyle to provide list of food options (to pizza)
Hope to do an event with the Smithsonian Asian-American group in August
Great American Wiknic @
Prospect Park - August 2 in Prospect Park & 15th Street in Brooklyn. Valuable since it attracts people who are afraid to attend edit-a-thons or other Wikimedia events
Committee discussion: Need to establish committees (like grant writing, events, diversity) and call for members to join said committees
Becksguy: We need someone to specialize in writing grants and the follow-up reports. Requires a lot of paperwork - suggested that at least 2 people be charged with such a job.
Calendar issues: Would be nice to have a bot to transfer info between Wikipedias. Noting that there are multiple calendar options - will try more.
Diversifying roles and functions. Fostering leadership to represent our (NYC) community. Much of this depends on individual responsibility. Think of cultural centers as a place to reach out.
Jim regularly rides on bike which facilitates taking photographs for illustration of Wikipedia articles
In uploading to
Wikimedia Commons, the secret is finding good categories to make the pictures findable
License to use? Default license is too protective. Jim doesn't care about credit, so he uses CC-0. He wants people to use his pics without hindrance
His pics also have geolocation embedded. He uses Google Earth and Web search to find locations. Uses programs and online editing to show camera location, object location, and camera direction
Slideshow: "Wikidocks: Wikipedia Meetup assistance for '
boondock' areas with no active local chapters":
PowerPoint +
PDF
Helping people in areas without big Wikipedia presence (i.e. "boondocks" + Wikipedia = Wikidocks), making event pages for those in far-away communities
Wikipedia in LIS education - namely at Pratt. Rich site for work on Wikipedia
Two recent edit-a-thons: Course Libraries, race, gender, sexuality and 2 edit-a-thons about librarians at Pratt
One class: Wikipedia, knowledge creation, how it fits into larger social structure. How librarians can become more involved with WP. How people come to knowledge, what it means to be invovled with knowledge creation. Edit-a-thon based on these topics at the Grad Center library (thanks to Megan). Some students worked on topical articles, others worked on aspects of librarianship. Was a way to apply knowledge learned in class - theory into practice. Last November (and spring) there was a "librarians at Pratt" edit-a-thon - focus was creating pages centering around Pratt - also talking and using Wikipedia as an educational tool. Why it is a useful tool, critical information literacy. Delved into where the information on WP comes from, similar questions. Questions about documenting how Pratt did it to serve as a model for others. Could be built out of existing articles/blog entries, or could be crowdsourced from students. Also WMF's learning patterns - collaboratively constructed area for help.
Vaughn88 (
talk) on Potential Public Broadcasting Collaborations with PBS
WNET, New York Public Media, and potentially PBS Learning Media
What results from partnership? Content creation, events, etc. We have opportunity to propose projects
WMF has offered WMNYC to collaborate - many pros and cons. Need to decide how to strategically proceed. Let's discuss. WMF wants a proposal that PBS would review. As of now, open. Soliciting ideas.
Suggested idea:
– High quality video creation
Question on what didn't go well with veterans' edit-a-thon
Send Vaughn88 ideas who will codify them before proposal
Support gender gap areas such as women artists: discussion about the possibility of journalist research (original research - interviews, scripted phone conversations, etc.) to serve as sources for entries where currently there are not enough existing secondary sources
Guidelines for notability (Vaughn88: notability guide for artists is being worked on)
Question about transcription. BrillLyle suggested looking at open source automated transcript used by the
Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky