Hello, you may remember the WMIT WIR at BEIC; if not, see links in
English. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BEIC
Last week, the 10 months collaboration came to an end; I published a
lenghty report/case study in Italian. TL;DR: free software developed, 10
BEIC staff contributing, a thousand images uploaded, 6500 usages, 400
articles created, 4 millions accesses/month.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:…
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The partnership between WMIT and BEIC will actually continue, but I'll
have a non-BEIC job at WMIT and a non-wiki job at BEIC. So I'll do
little/no editing for BEIC; probably some planning, training, uploading
and maybe coding. Maybe WMIT will keep providing BEIC a wiki editor and
invoice for it, maybe not.
I have some requests from you! I hope you can help.
1) Comments on the past months, e.g. based on the monthly updates or
brutal numbers.
2) Suggestions on what is worth translating of the report. There are
passages trying to push institutions to free software, open data, public
domain, community consultation, involvement of staff. Someone liked my
metaphor "be like mushroom, not sequoias". But maybe this is all covered
better elsewhere already?
3) Recommendations on how to update
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence . Should I
still be listed there, or call the WIR done? Where to record the
WMIT-BEIC partnership?
4) Lessons from other partnerships with institutions having an in-house
wikimedian not doing wiki work. (Other than Sannita/Luca at ICCU...)
Perhaps Scotland, Netherlands and Switzerland have more to say as AFAICT
they are all moving towards a permanent team serving multiple
institutions à la traveling WIR, like WMIT.
Nemo
P.s.: Sorry for cross-posting but I think it's better than many
overlapping messages; if possible reply on each list to the parts
relevant for that list and cc only me, not all the other lists.
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Hello Librarians and Archivists,
The Free Society Conference (FSCONS) are looking for speakers to come to
Sweden in November. Perhaps someone here might be interested in going?
Hopefully this isn't an inappropriate place to ask. The deadline for
proposals is July 15th (this Wednesday).
The topics of the tracks this year are:
* Keepers of Culture (archiving)
* Biohacking
* Everyday Crypto
* P2P Society
* Groundbreaking User Experience
Conference info: https://linproxy.fan.workers.dev:443/…
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Submit a proposal: https://frab.fscons.org/en/fscons2015/cfp/session/new
More about the conf:
FSCONS is a non-profit, progressive, and intimate conference that was
founded by Free Software groups in 2007 and has taken place in
Universities around Gothenburg every year since.
Around 300 people participate. Past topics include
cryptocurrency taxation, secure digital democracy, open source ecology,
and distributed communications. Past keynotes have included Richard
Stallman and Glyn Moody.
Keynotes this year are Ken MacLeod (Scottish Science Fiction Author) and
Birgitta Jónsdóttir (elected Icelandic Pirate Party MP). Werner Koch of
GnuPG will also speak.
Best,
Sam (FSCONS Volunteer)
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2015-06-23 9:00 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp(a)gmail.com>:
> 2015-06-23 8:49 GMT+02:00 Lucian Velea <lucian.velea(a)lexica.ro>:
>
>> Great idea. Does anyone know a statistics of number of libraries /
>> librarians by country?
>>
>>
> I compiled some numbers here
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge#Libraries
>
> And started a list of lists that needs to be …
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_by_country
>
>
Is anyone interested in contacting national libraries/culture ministries so
they can provide info about all the libraries for each country?
I have been working in Lists of museums/archives/libraries by country long
time, but I only find partial lists and the work is slow. How can we make
these institutions get involved?
> All the best,
>> Lucian
>>
>>
>> On 23.06.2015 9:14, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>>
>> Hoi,
>> That is only librarians in the USA.. Why not think big? There is a world
>> out there !!
>> Thanks,
>> GerardM
>>
>> On 23 June 2015 at 05:51, Thad Guidry <thadguidry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If 1 librarian in the USA added one fact or verified / qualified it
>>> per work day in their spare 2 mins a day.
>>>
>>>
>>> 119,729 Libraries in USA
>>> x
>>> 1 Librarian minimum per Library with internet access...mostly :-)
>>> x
>>> 251 work days in a year
>>> =
>>> 30,051,979 MILLION facts that could be added or verified
>>>
>>> Get the word out,
>>> Thad
>>> +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
>>>
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1. Great idea on adding libraries! I know who I want to ask about this when
I get back from vacation.
How about a policy proposal to go along with this that all libraries are
notable, and deserve articles? That provides an incentive for cooperation.
2. As a librarian, I allow 20 min. to verify a fact, not 2 minutes. It
can take an hour or more to cross check against different sources,
especially if you are in an unfamiliar content area where you don't know
the sources.
One of the strengths …
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get things right. Some facts are very quick, and others are a labor of
love. You can't always tell which is which beforehand.
3. If you want librarians to cooperate with the plan of thousands of
individuals adding facts on the job, I'd suggest working for a less toxic
editing environment on the site. In real life, librarians get to ask
patrons to leave when their conduct is unacceptable. By contrast, on
Wikipedia, the people who make requests for more civilized behavior can
be the ones who are asked to leave.
It may be acceptable to recruit people to work for free in a social club
known for off color language, heated arguments, and verbal abuse, but that
is because volunteers are free to leave. Accepting this sort of
poor treatment as a condition of employment is another matter altogether.
We librarians in the U.S. can all thank the public employees' unions for
sticking up for decent working conditions for librarians all these years.
--Kristin
Librarian, and former union steward
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> Hi there,
>
> Imagine my delight that you are creating a list of all the libraries in
> the world! However this does present a bit of an issue – are all libraries
> notable? The American Library Association estimates that there are around
> 120,000 libraries but doesn’t have an exact number because there is not a
> survey that covers all of them. Since librarians are discouraged from
> creating articles about their own institutions, this could be problematic?
> If this is an initiative that has broad approval I’m happy to help in any
> way that I can!
>
> http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet01
>
> Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer
> OCLC Research
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> From: libraries-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> [mailto:
> libraries-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Emilio
> J. Rodríguez-Posada
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> Subject: Re: [libraries] [Wikidata] How can Wikidata get over 30, 000, 000
> facts added a year ?
>
> 2015-06-23 9:00 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp(a)gmail.com
> <javascript:;><mailto:emijrp@gmail.com <javascript:;>>>:
> 2015-06-23 8:49 GMT+02:00 Lucian Velea <lucian.velea(a)lexica.ro
> <javascript:;><mailto:lucian.velea@lexica.ro <javascript:;>>>:
> Great idea. Does anyone know a statistics of number of libraries /
> librarians by country?
>
> I compiled some numbers here
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge#Libraries
> And started a list of lists that needs to be completed
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_by_country
>
>
> Is anyone interested in contacting national libraries/culture ministries
> so they can provide info about all the libraries for each country?
> I have been working in Lists of museums/archives/libraries by country long
> time, but I only find partial lists and the work is slow. How can we make
> these institutions get involved?
>
>
> All the best,
> Lucian
>
>
> On 23.06.2015 9:14, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> That is only librarians in the USA.. Why not think big? There is a world
> out there !!
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> On 23 June 2015 at 05:51, Thad Guidry <thadguidry(a)gmail.com <javascript:;>
> <mailto:thadguidry@gmail.com <javascript:;>>> wrote:
> If 1 librarian in the USA added one fact or verified / qualified it per
> work day in their spare 2 mins a day.
>
>
> 119,729 Libraries in USA
> x
> 1 Librarian minimum per Library with internet access...mostly :-)
> x
> 251 work days in a year
> =
> 30,051,979 MILLION facts that could be added or verified
>
> Get the word out,
> Thad
> +ThadGuidry<https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
>
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