Hi Greg! Hope to meet at the Jake event! Monika On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > -- Monika Sengul-Jones www.monikasengul.com (206) 715-2320 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
