Welcome, Greg! Joe: just to close the loop, yep I agree this is important. I can't help out on this project right now, but if you are able to organize a collaboration I may be able to help out at a later date.
Jonathan On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Greg Bem <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
