Social media/Calendar/2014/09

September 1 - September 5

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September 2

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September 4

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Sixty ways to help new editors

Monthly metrics meeting

September 5

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Sept 8 - 14

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September 8

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Program Evaluation and Design is trying to get community engaged in finding out the history of some popular Wikimedia programs. MCruz (WMF) (talk) 20:02, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

t: Do you know how Wikimedia hackathons started? Help @WikiEval learn more abt the origin of programs. Comment here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Evaluation#The_history_of_Wikimedia_programs:_Hackathons

f/g+: Wikimedia Program Evaluation is looking into the history of Wikimedia programs. If you know how the first Hackathon was organized, who was coordinating the activity or any other information, comment on the Talk Page on the Evaluation portal on Meta!

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Evaluation#The_history_of_Wikimedia_programs:_Hackathons

Maithili Wikipedia

  • t: Maithili Wikipedia still does not exist despite the language being native to over 40 million people in Nepal, India:

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/08/a-focused-approach-for-maithili-wikipedia/

  • t: To native Maithili speakers: "If you want Wikipedia in your language come forth, you are the best one to contribute:"

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/08/a-focused-approach-for-maithili-wikipedia/

  • t: 40 million native speakers. No Wikipedia. Versatile Wikipedian's challenge to bring an entire language online:

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/08/a-focused-approach-for-maithili-wikipedia/

  • f/g: 40 million native speakers. No Wikipedia. Versatile Wikipedian's challenge to bring an entire language online.

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/08/a-focused-approach-for-maithili-wikipedia/

September 9

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Now available: Charting Diversity – Working together to diversify Wikipedia

  • f/g: "Charting Diversity deals with diversity and its importance to Wikipedia, documenting our current knowledge on the matter, setting out fields of action and concluding with a catalogue of measures to serve as motivation for our future work." A recent study lays out potential initiatives that can help gender diversity on Wikipedia. Read more on the results here. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/09/working-together-towards-diversity-in-wikipedia/

September 11

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New images released are quickly put to use CR_UK

Sept 15 - Sept 21

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September 16

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Global Metrics for Grants: One way of Doing, Reporting and Learning Better

September 17

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  • f/g: "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower people around the world to develop freely licensed educational content and to globally disseminate that content." As part of Week of Action: A World Without Mass Surveillance put on by the @Electronic Frontier Foundation, two legal counsels from the Wikimedia Foundation outline how transparency is at the core of the Foundation's mission. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/17/wikipedia-is-built-on-transparency/


September 19

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Editors find wide range of uses for source access donated by Newspapers.com

Sept 22 - Sept 26

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September 23

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Greek Wikipedia user wins key hearing in defamation case

A behind the scenes look at the Wikimedia Foundation’s emergency response system

September 24

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Quantitative versus Qualitative: More friends than enemies

As Wikimedia program leaders and evaluators work together toward more systematic measurement and evaluation strategies Museo Soumaya's 50 hours editathon

  • f/g: Wikimedia Mexico and Museo Soumaya will perform from September 26 to 28 the most big Wikipedia editathon ever made! During 50 hours, volunteers and staff from the museum will edit about art of five centuries. For the first time in it history, the museum will remain open for 50 hours during this editathon and will have conferences by Jonathan Cardy (Wikimedia UK), Liam Wyatt (Europeana), Herminia Din (American Alliance of Museums) and Alan Lazalde (Wikimedia México) https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Museo_Soumaya/Editat%C3%B3n_Soumaya_Abierto._50_horas_de_arte

es Museo Soumaya's 50 hours editathon

September 29 - Oct 3

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September 29

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Round-table with editors from the Catalan Wikipedia