[Wikimedia-l] Conflict resolution wikis

[James Salsman]

Please see "WikiWinWin: A Wiki Based System Together with Win Win Method
for Collaborative Requirements Negotiation" by Ledan Huang, Xiaobo Wu and
Yangu Zhang (2013)
http://www.atlantis-press.com/php/download_paper.php?id=10885

Does someone want to do a Mediawiki extension for Google Summer of Code or
the like to implement a riff on that?

It's applicable to more than just software development, and the software
development it talks about includes collaborative documentation. I suspect
that it is very similar to general accuracy maintenance automation, and it
still works better with a human participant driving the process schedule
(to the extent that human is skilled at it) but there are some very
attractive opportunities for e.g. Wikidata and maintenance bot integration
down the road if it works out.

Best regards,
James Salsman
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

[David Gerard]

A message I just sent in a wikimediauk-l thread about photographic
negative scanners, which I thought might be of general interest to
Wikimedia organisations.

tl;dr: an archival-quality negative scanner has potential to be a
white elephant* (a donation that is actually a liability), but could
be a useful thing that an organisation could use to make very good
friends with GLAMs and individuals.


- d.


* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant


-- Forwarded message --
From: David Gerard 
Date: 15 February 2014 20:00
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list 


On 15 February 2014 19:52, geni  wrote:
> On 15 February 2014 15:23, David Gerard  wrote:
>> On 15 February 2014 15:09, Andy Mabbett  wrote:

>> > Change of plan: Thank you, but I've been offered the use of one of
>> > these:
>> >   http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/scanner/scoolscan_4000/
>> > by a friend who lives locally.

>> Oh you lucky bugger. That's the level of archival-quality
>> piece of kit we could do with for WMUK. Though it would have to live
>> in the office.

> A nikon product at the WMUK office? Is that wise:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canon_EOS_DSLR_family_(selection).jpg


:-)

Seriously, though: if you want archival quality, the way to go is a
CoolScan. Not only would we be able to scan negatives ourselves
(though it'd be tied to the office, rather than being a loanable
item), we'd be able to make very good friends indeed with GLAMs that
have random piles of unscanned negatives.

It'd be nice if someone with a few hundred quid bought a CoolScan,
scanned their collection, then donated the kit to WMUK when done with
it.

The way it usually goes is: someone buys a CoolScan on eBay, scans
their negative collection, sells it to the next person. WMUK would be
a suitable end point for such a chain.

The main catch is for it to be *someone else's* problem to make sure a
decade-old piece of kit is in usable condition not to be a white
elephant - donating something that turns into a liability is helpy
rather than helpful. CoolScan IV/4000 use FireWire, V/5000 on use USB
... software and supported OS is an interesting question as well ...
III/3000 and earlier do archival-quality scanning, but often have
weird hardware requirements. I think the I and II needed their own ISA
card. This is the sort of white elephant *not* to inflict on a small
charity.

If I had ~£500 to spare I would happily be that person. I'm not though :-)

I'll borrow the Ion (a rather less fragile piece of kit, so
borrowable), but if I had access to a CoolScan I'd happily do 'em
again.


- d.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor office hours in February

[Maggie Dennis]

Just a reminder that these are coming up directly. :) 1700 UTC
todayand
00:00
UTC 
tomorrow.
For those unfamiliar, these IRC live chats are explained in more detail at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours. Logs of VisualEditor
office hours, when completed, can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:VisualEditor_office_hours_logs

Hope to see you there!

Maggie


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Maggie Dennis wrote:

> Hi, guys.
>
> I just wanted to let you know, so you could mark your calendars if
> interested, that there are two IRC office hours scheduled to discuss
> VisualEditor in February.
>
> The first will be held on Saturday February 15 at 1700 UTC and the second
> will be held on Sunday February 16 at 00:00 UTC. (See
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for time conversion
> links.)
>
> Logs will be posted on meta after each office hour completes. You'll find
> them, along with logs for older office hours on the topic, at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:VisualEditor_office_hours_logs
>
> Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for more
> information on how to join in.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Maggie
>
> --
> Maggie Dennis
> Senior Community Advocate
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>



-- 
Maggie Dennis
Senior Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WIkimedia Nederland report for January

[Sandra Rientjes Wikimedia Nederland]

The report on Wikimedia Nederland activities in January is now available:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201401
.

It is also included as plain text in this message.

Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland

tel.(+31) (0)30 3200238
mob. (+31) (0)6  31786379

www.wikimedia.nl

*Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:*
Postbus 167Mariaplaats 3
3500 AD  Utrecht Utrecht


COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors

   -

   New years reception.The National Library of the Netherlands and the
   National Archive of the Netherlands hosted the Wikimedia Nederland New
   Years Reception 2014 on the 18th of January. After a word of welcome by the
   organisers a few new projects were presented. Visitors could also
visit the current
   exhibitionof
the National Archive, get a tour
   through the 
depotsof
the National Library, follow a short course on editing Wikipedia or
join
   a guided tour through The Hague. The reception ended with the prize
   ceremony of Wiki takes The
Hague,
   a local Wiki loves monuments event that was organised on the 22nd of
   September in 2013



   -

   Small grants.

Three requests for financial support of activities benefiting the Wikimedia
projects were received and accepted :

EURO 150 to support an edit-a-thon on art and feminism

EURO 500 to support the development of a tool to improve the presentation of
information generated through Wikidata.

EURO 254,10 for a subscription to a database to improve Wikipedia- articles on
restaurants.

The small grants programme is open to all members of the
Wikimedia-community, regardless of whether or not they are WMNL members.


   -

   Writing contest.

The Wikipedia community organised its annual writing contest and awarded prizes
to four 
articleson
the Dutch language Wikipedia for their outstanding quality. WMNL
supported the contest by providing and distributing the prizes.

WORK: content, collaboration and activity development

   -

   Kick-off 550 years Staten Generaal.

The first meeting of the Staten
Generaal,
the predecessor of the Dutch parliament, took place on January 9, 1464. The
project 550 jaar Staten
Generaalhas
been launched to mark that this happened 550 years ago. The focus of
the project is to improve information on the history of the Dutch
parliament by writing articles, organising edit-marathons and meetings with
experts. This project is an initiative of Wikipedians, and is supported by
WMNL both financially and logistically


   -

   Content donation University Museum Utrecht.

The University Museum  in
Utrecht launched a new website of their
collection.
The museum announced at the launch of the site that they will donate the
content - about 5500 images that are currently available and more images
that will become available in the future - to Wikimedia Commons. The
donation is scheduled for May this year, the GLAMwiki
toolsetwill
be used for the donation. The donation will lead to more available
content and higher quality images of pictures that are already on Wikimedia
Commons.

   -

   Wikipedians in Residence.

There are currently 6 Wikipedians in Residence (WiR) in the Netherlands.
The last to be announced is Maarten
Jansen,
who is already working at the Amsterdam
Museum.
5 WiR's and WMNL had a meeting to discuss their projects, the notes of this
meetingare
public (Dutch). WMNL is going to organise a workshop on using the
Europeana GLAM Wiki mass-upload tool for the WiR's and other staff of their
host organisations.

   -

   OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey.

The Open Knowledge Foundation , the Netherlands
Institute for Sound and Vision ,
Europeanaand Wikimedia Nederland are working
together to conduct the Open
Glam Benchmark 
Surveyin
the Netherlands. The goal of this survey is to gain an overview of the
extent to which cultural heritage institutions are adapting to new trends
such as setting up a digital strategy and their willingness

[Wikimedia-l] [WMBD] Bengali Wikipedia program with Grameen Phone (A Telenor group company)

[Nurunnaby Chowdhury]

Dear All,

I am happy to inform you Wikimedia Bangladesh (WMBD) has arranged a two day
(February 16 & 17, 2014) Wikipedia program with Grameen Phone (A Telenor
concern). Grameen Phone is the largest telecommunication company based in
Bangladesh. Besides, in Bangladesh Grameen Phone & Banglalink (A Orascom
Telecom and VimpelCom Ltd concern) now provide zero.wikipedia.org &
m.wikipedia.org, which is completely free of cost.

In this two-day program we will arrange different types of Workshops. WMBD
president Munir Hasan will conduct two seminars on wikipedia. Me & our
another Sysop of Bengali Wikipedia Nasir Khan will jointly run 2/3
workshops. Our target audience 70+ I-Genious student. This all I-Genious
students selected by a year-long program arranged by Grameen Phone & The
Daily Prothom Alo all over the country [1]. On the first day 35 & on the
second day 35 students will join this program. During the program we will
deliver hands on presentations, How to edit, how to contribute, How to
donate photo to commons. Moreover, we will enrich some articles those seem
incomplete..

After the successful completion of the program all i-Genious students will
receive certificates from WMBD & Grameen Phone.

In this program we are interested to show a video about wikipedia. It would
be great if anyone can give me a link where i may find the video.


​[1]
http://www.telenor.com/media/articles/2012/game-on-mobile-browsing-gets-competitive-in-i-gen
​


--
*​Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* | User: nhasive
Sysop of *Bengali Wikipedia​*

Bangladesh Ambassador of *Open Knowledge Foundation Network​*
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