Apparently, I made my 250,000th edit to the English Wikipedia yesterday.
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Again, one of our objectives is to promote the development of structured data for the 16 Mole-Dagbani languages, utilizing Wikidata, so that these languages can become more digitally usable and visible on the internet.
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We're deeply saddened by the loss of , who was such a bright spark in the open knowledge movement.
Effie led the efforts to develop the Smithsonian’s Open Access Initiative, which put millions of images from the collection into the public domain. Rest in peace Effie.
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Effie was an awesome person. May her memory be a blessing. She taught me so much. It was wonderful to see her recently and exchange ideas and share some laughs. I will continually be inspired by her. ...
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I knew Effie very briefly through twitter and then occasionally had convos at various networking / happy hour events. I learned quite a bit from her. To her family and friends and everyone who knew her, my condolences . May her memory be a blessing.
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Oh my goodness. I never really knew Effie, but I was always impressed by her commitment and thought of her as part of the core of the DC digital cultural heritage community. This is a shock and a loss
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It absolutely breaks my heart to learn of Effie’s passing. I hope that the improving openness, clarity, and compassion of mental health discussions in our profession will reach more of us in the future.
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We are saddened to learn of the passing of our friend and ally Effie Kapsalis
Our condolences to her family, and her colleagues at the Smithsonian.
everloved.com/life-of/effie-
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Tomorrow we publish Part 2 of our new blog series: 'Historical Research in the Digital Age'.
William J. Turkel on creating and understanding digital tools for historians.
Part One: 'We're All Digital Now' by series host, , is also available bit.ly/3USKsxl
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Joan Fear has been described as "the greatest Waikato painter of the 20th century"; until today she didn't have a Wikipedia page.
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The new #flickr Foundation is official! It'll help secure the long term future of all the awsome Flickr Commons content & explore new opportunities for curation, collaboration & engagement ❤️
Check out the shinny new website for the lowdown.
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We actively encourage people to use our letter as a basis for a letter to - to urge an investigation into eBook markets which distort access to knowledge across educational sectors as well as public libraries. #eBookSoS
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🌍 З 1 травня до 31 серпня у світі тривав найбільший міжнародний фотоконкурс пам'яток природної спадщини «Вікі любить Землю» 2022.
🔎 Детальніше про його результати читайте у нашій статті: blog.wikimedia.org.ua/2022/12/12/wle
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Now got on the public art list for Birmingham. With updated photos taken this morning.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p
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AfLIA has taken on four Wikimedians to make library collections in Africa more visible, open and connected using Wikidata. web.aflia.net/aflia-takes-on
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Wikimedistas de Uruguay is planning to organize the GLAM Wiki Conference in November 2023 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Help them plan an unmissable event:
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If you saw on #BBCLauraK just there talking about how sites like Wikipedia get swept into legislation targeting basically three sites, here's what the Online Safety Bill will force Wikipedia to do:
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If you've got an interest in early 20th century housing & architecture in Australia, you might want to check out these recent additions to 's digitised journals:
The home builders annual (12 issues, 1938-50) - nla.gov.au/nla.obj-309506
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"DEArt: Dataset of European Art" an object detection and pose classification dataset with 15k paintings between the XIIth and the XVIIIth centuries, based on categories.
paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2211.01226
dataset: zenodo.org/record/6984525
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Wiki World Heritage is proud and happy to organize the first contest on Arabic Wikisource: « Wikisource and World Heritage ». More details on this pilote project w.wiki/64cf
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Now that I've uploaded new professors from Canterbury, AUT and Massey, there are 94 women professors in NZ without a Wikipedia page (still awaiting announcements from Otago, Lincoln, VUW, Waikato, Auckland, so the list will grow even longer!)
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Other nice non-moth species at Mt Thomas too! I routinely snap pics like this for , and kind people help me with IDs. All my photos are released under an open CC BY licence, in case they might be useful to someone.
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I haven't got pinboard linked to mastodon yet so I've popped back briefly to share:
Do volunteer transcriptions improve search and discovery in loc.gov? blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2022
#crowdsourcing #MuseTech
Btw I'm really enjoying mastodon! Less kerfuffle
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It is #ExploreYourArchive Week and today’s theme is maps and plans. Our archive contains information on the history and architecture of theatre buildings in the UK including architectural drawings and plans #EYAMapsPlans
theatrestrust.org.uk/discover-theat
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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS:
Digital Heritage: Museum Data, Digitization and Digital Infrastructure.
The book proposal will be submitted to Routledge in the beginning of 2023 with chapter proposals from tech/design/data experts, practitioners & researchers:
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So how *do* you get natural science collection images and metadata up and usable on Wiki? Like this: blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2022/11/28/mus
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Hi! Twitter have banned our bot from posting new images of benches 🙁
But! You can follow us on #Mastodon 🐘!
Here's the link botsin.space/@openbenches
Mastodon is just as easy to use as Twitter, and much friendlier. Oh, and they have a *brilliant* API for bots.
#JoinMastodon
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The slides and video for my talk
"The Wikimedia ecosystem and Science for the Public Good"
at the #S4PGxTFOM #opendata & #Wikimedia gathering organized by on Monday Nov. 28 at 13:00 UTC are up at
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo .
Register via
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New to me, the endlessly fascinating User:Mr. Ibrahem/claims, listing the top 50 most used wikidata properties, and for each, the top 50 most used values. All manner of surprise within.
* wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mr._
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Educational photographs from soup to nuts, free, forever
Drypetes sepiaria (fruit)
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dryp
Have great #Food or #Cooking photos to share? Go to commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:U
#WikimediaCommons #Green #Drypetes
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Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno () is on the stage for Monday's #S4PGxTFOM open data & #Wikimedia discussion! Amanda is the Education Manager at Wiki Movimento Brasil, and also works as a digital communication professor. Join us Nov. 28 at 13:00 UTC: eventbrite.com/e/s4pg-x-tfom-
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Cristian Consonni () is one of our speakers at Monday's #S4PGxTFOM event on open data! A research scientist in computational social science & Wikipedian, Cristian studies social phenomena in the digital space. Join us Nov. 28 at 13:00 UTC: eventbrite.com/e/s4pg-x-tfom-
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Not a surprise, but still disappointing. Canada makes copyright term extension official. Term extended to life + 70 years as of December 30th.
New works entering the public domain lost for a generation.
orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php
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It’s unacceptable that publicly funded research is locked up behind paywalls.
That’s why the govt will be requiring open access publication of MBIE funded science.
This will give us all better access to knowledge & drive greater impact from science.
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Today, in light of a disappointing ruling from a Moscow Court, the Wikimedia Foundation reaffirms our continued commitment to stand against attempts to suppress free knowledge in Russia. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)
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Wow, worst photo credit I’ve seen for a while. This godwit photo is
1. Not in fact from NZ Birds Online
2. From , via the Wikipedia article
3. Legally-required to be credited to JJ Harrison, the photographer
Good job, !
PS it’s a godwit in Australia.
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