Hey all--academic librarian previously in open data in Cambodia, and new to this group. Really appreciate the shout-out about the Jacob Lawrence event. I will try to make that.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Joe Mabel <[email protected]> wrote: > Felix already has Seko (and others) from Whose Knowledge on board. They've > discussed in the abstract what metadata is needed, but I don't get the > impression that the actual data modeling skills are there yet. Also, from > what Seko said during the conference, she's also still struggling with how > to get this stuff into Wikipedia in a way that will stick. She talked about > re-traumatization (maybe too strong a word, but hers) when Dalits wrote > articles and had them subsequently deleted. > > These groups are way ahead of us in terms of engaging with indigenous and > ethnic populations, but I think we'd be ahead on data modeling almost from > the get-go. > > There's a lot to talk about here, right now I'm more interested in who > might be on board to work on this than trying to run it all through in > emails, which often can be rather ephemeral. I hope that's OK. > > JM > > > > On 4/25/2018 4:23 AM, Jonathan Morgan wrote: > >> Might be a project that Whose Knowledge <https://whoseknowledge.org/> >> (started by a couple of WMF ex-pats) is interested in supporting? They >> don't have a lot of technical resources of their own, but are probably >> connected with the right networks. >> >> - J >> >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Joe Mabel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I talked this evening with Felix Nartey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki >>> /Felix_Nartey) from Ghana and it looks like their group are pretty far >>> along in arranging to do some orally-based work with people from >>> indigenous >>> cultures there. However, the want to use Wikidata to track their >>> content, >>> and on data modeling they are very much just beginners. I told them that >>> I >>> suspect I am not the only Cascadia Wikimedian who would be interested in >>> helping them work out a schema to model the data, since several of us >>> have >>> relevant skills. This might eventually also be of benefit to us locally >>> as >>> well, for cultural stuff with ethic groups and tribes/nations in our >>> geographic area. Not sure all of what this will ultimately entail from >>> us, >>> but Felix seems rock-solid, so we'd have a strong collaborator on the >>> other >>> end: I'm pretty sure they can sort out most of what data they'd want to >>> track, and we'd just have to devise a schema. >>> >>> Are there others in Cascadia besides just me who'd be interested in >>> taking >>> this on? Anyone know someone not yet a Wikimedian (or not all that >>> active) >>> who might find this interesting? >>> >>> JM >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
