Outreach Wiki outreachwiki https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.47.0-wmf.9 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikimedia Wikimedia talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk TimedText TimedText talk Module Module talk Translations Translations talk Topic 4 1227 277181 277146 2026-07-06T22:40:19Z ~2026-38560-04 57884 Test 277181 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] =Test= 705 - Video Cameras Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?. 2:6 - 6:15, 130 days, (6:11+ to fill out). *6:16, 6:17, 6:18, 6:19, 6:20 (?) *6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?) *6:26 (?) *6:27 (?) *6:28 (?) *6:29 (?) *6:30 (?) *7:1 (?) *7:2 (?) *7:3 (7:4) ''7:5'' *202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses. *202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks. *202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others. *202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns. *202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things. *202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap. *202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others. *202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist. *202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets. *202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools. *202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk. *202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce. *202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels. *202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes. *202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others. *202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans. *202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers. *202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary. *202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint. *202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles. Current, 202 6614. ($#!+). *202 6615. (Ancient Sturcturez, Ruins or Buildings). ''2026616'' t3uo3ay7c042eci7pccino1i77g0uh2 277182 277181 2026-07-06T22:40:37Z ~2026-38560-04 57884 277182 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] =Test= 706 Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?. 2:6 - 6:15, 130 days, (6:11+ to fill out). *6:16, 6:17, 6:18, 6:19, 6:20 (?) *6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?) *6:26 (?) *6:27 (?) *6:28 (?) *6:29 (?) *6:30 (?) *7:1 (?) *7:2 (?) *7:3 (7:4) ''7:5'' *202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses. *202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks. *202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others. *202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns. *202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things. *202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap. *202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others. *202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist. *202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets. *202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools. *202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk. *202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce. *202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels. *202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes. *202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others. *202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans. *202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers. *202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary. *202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint. *202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles. Current, 202 6614. ($#!+). *202 6615. (Ancient Sturcturez, Ruins or Buildings). ''2026616'' 5e2m6xkrqwwp1lej01o1vbowc66sy9d 277183 277182 2026-07-06T22:41:18Z ~2026-38560-04 57884 277183 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] =Test= 706 - Roman Numerals! Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?. 2:6 - 6:15, 130 days, (6:11+ to fill out). *6:16, 6:17, 6:18, 6:19, 6:20 (?) *6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?) *6:26 (?) *6:27 (?) *6:28 (?) *6:29 (?) *6:30 (?) *7:1 (?) *7:2 (?) *7:3 (7:4) ''7:5'' *202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses. *202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks. *202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others. *202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns. *202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things. *202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap. *202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others. *202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist. *202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets. *202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools. *202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk. *202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce. *202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels. *202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes. *202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others. *202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans. *202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers. *202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary. *202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint. *202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles. Current, 202 6614. ($#!+). *202 6615. (Ancient Sturcturez, Ruins or Buildings). ''2026616'' b8gycdkj1r1b08nbem9pz8ktxeyp3e9 277184 277183 2026-07-06T22:41:39Z ~2026-38560-04 57884 277184 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] =Test= 706 - Roman Numerals, (Numbers). Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?. 2:6 - 6:15, 130 days, (6:11+ to fill out). *6:16, 6:17, 6:18, 6:19, 6:20 (?) *6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?) *6:26 (?) *6:27 (?) *6:28 (?) *6:29 (?) *6:30 (?) *7:1 (?) *7:2 (?) *7:3 (7:4) ''7:5'' *202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses. *202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks. *202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others. *202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns. *202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things. *202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap. *202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others. *202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist. *202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets. *202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools. *202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk. *202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce. *202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels. *202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes. *202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others. *202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans. *202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers. *202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary. *202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint. *202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles. Current, 202 6614. ($#!+). *202 6615. (Ancient Sturcturez, Ruins or Buildings). ''2026616'' nqs95qnf4uc0pned7i5crd51ifv2qjb 277185 277184 2026-07-06T22:41:56Z ~2026-38560-04 57884 277185 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] =Test= 706 - Roman Numerals, (Numbers). Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?. 2:6 - 6:15, 130 days, (6:11+ to fill out). *6:16, 6:17, 6:18, 6:19, 6:20 (?) *6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?) *6:26 (?) *6:27 (?) *6:28 (?) *6:29 (?) *6:30 (?) *7:1 (?) *7:2 (?) *7:3 (?) *7:4 (7:5) ''7:6'' *202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses. *202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks. *202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others. *202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns. *202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things. *202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap. *202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others. *202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist. *202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets. *202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools. *202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk. *202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce. *202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels. *202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes. *202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others. *202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans. *202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers. *202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary. *202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint. *202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles. Current, 202 6614. ($#!+). *202 6615. (Ancient Sturcturez, Ruins or Buildings). ''2026616'' 8jd9pzwss8e8drm7roye0fuj387cmdt 277186 277185 2026-07-06T22:42:37Z ~2026-38560-04 57884 /* Test */ 16 start 277186 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] =Test= 706 - Roman Numerals, (Numbers). Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?. 2:6 - 6:15, 130 days, (6:11+ to fill out). *6:16, 6:17, 6:18, 6:19, 6:20 (?) *6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?) *6:26 (?) *6:27 (?) *6:28 (?) *6:29 (?) *6:30 (?) *7:1 (?) *7:2 (?) *7:3 (?) *7:4 (7:5) ''7:6'' *202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses. *202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks. *202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others. *202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns. *202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things. *202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap. *202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others. *202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist. *202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets. *202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools. *202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk. *202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce. *202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels. *202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes. *202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others. *202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans. *202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers. *202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary. *202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint. *202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles. *202 6614, Plates, Blankets or even Vacuum Cleaner. Current, 202 6614. ($#!+). *202 6615. (Ancient Sturcturez, Ruins or Buildings). ''2026616'' kpj3x2g9om99e9fditrpq5rpeazij2p 277187 277186 2026-07-06T22:43:27Z ~2026-38560-04 57884 /* Test */ 16 done 277187 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] =Test= 706 - Roman Numerals, (Numbers). Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?. 2:6 - 6:15, 130 days, (6:11+ to fill out). *6:16, 6:17, 6:18, 6:19, 6:20 (?) *6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?) *6:26 (?) *6:27 (?) *6:28 (?) *6:29 (?) *6:30 (?) *7:1 (?) *7:2 (?) *7:3 (?) *7:4 (7:5) ''7:6'' *202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses. *202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks. *202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others. *202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns. *202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things. *202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap. *202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others. *202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist. *202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets. *202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools. *202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk. *202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce. *202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels. *202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes. *202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others. *202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans. *202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers. *202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary. *202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint. *202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles. *202 6614, Plates, Blankets or even Vacuum Cleaner. Current, 202 6615. ($#!+). *202 6616. (Heater Fan, Air, Vent). ''2026617'' mrw0agvoalj0135a1xam0i6ngxzc2kc 277188 277187 2026-07-06T22:44:14Z ~2026-38560-04 57884 /* Test */ 17 start 277188 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] =Test= 706 - Roman Numerals, (Numbers). Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?. 2:6 - 6:15, 130 days, (6:11+ to fill out). *6:16, 6:17, 6:18, 6:19, 6:20 (?) *6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?) *6:26 (?) *6:27 (?) *6:28 (?) *6:29 (?) *6:30 (?) *7:1 (?) *7:2 (?) *7:3 (?) *7:4 (7:5) ''7:6'' *202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses. *202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks. *202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others. *202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns. *202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things. *202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap. *202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others. *202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist. *202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets. *202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools. *202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk. *202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce. *202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels. *202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes. *202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others. *202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans. *202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers. *202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary. *202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint. *202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles. *202 6614, Plates, Blankets or even Vacuum Cleaner. *202 6615, Towels, Cloths or Dressing Gowns. Current, 202 6615. ($#!+). *202 6616. (Heater Fan, Air, Vent). ''2026617'' 8ccbp1t440qxs0wp5wdum8c6gmsx6pq 277189 277188 2026-07-06T22:44:46Z ~2026-38560-04 57884 /* Test */ 17 done 277189 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] =Test= 706 - Roman Numerals, (Numbers). Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?. 2:6 - 6:15, 130 days, (6:11+ to fill out). *6:16, 6:17, 6:18, 6:19, 6:20 (?) *6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?) *6:26 (?) *6:27 (?) *6:28 (?) *6:29 (?) *6:30 (?) *7:1 (?) *7:2 (?) *7:3 (?) *7:4 (7:5) ''7:6'' *202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses. *202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks. *202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others. *202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns. *202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things. *202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap. *202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others. *202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist. *202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets. *202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools. *202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk. *202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce. *202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels. *202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes. *202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others. *202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans. *202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers. *202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary. *202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint. *202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles. *202 6614, Plates, Blankets or even Vacuum Cleaner. *202 6615, Towels, Cloths or Dressing Gowns. Current, 202 6616. ($#!+). *202 6617. (Box Office, Movies). ''2026618'' 22jrs55bckaoqgenrekah5m5aosa1he 277190 277189 2026-07-06T22:45:38Z ~2026-38560-04 57884 /* Test */ 18 start 277190 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] =Test= 706 - Roman Numerals, (Numbers). Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?. 2:6 - 6:15, 130 days, (6:11+ to fill out). *6:16, 6:17, 6:18, 6:19, 6:20 (?) *6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?) *6:26 (?) *6:27 (?) *6:28 (?) *6:29 (?) *6:30 (?) *7:1 (?) *7:2 (?) *7:3 (?) *7:4 (7:5) ''7:6'' *202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses. *202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks. *202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others. *202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns. *202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things. *202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap. *202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others. *202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist. *202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets. *202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools. *202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk. *202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce. *202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels. *202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes. *202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others. *202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans. *202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers. *202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary. *202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint. *202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles. *202 6614, Plates, Blankets or even Vacuum Cleaner. *202 6615, Towels, Cloths or Dressing Gowns. *202 6616, Smiths Chips, Heater Vents, Stuff for Lasagna or Cloths. Current, 202 6616. ($#!+). *202 6617. (Box Office, Movies). ''2026618'' 04lkq01xxm58co1nft1ywpakosbynir 277191 277190 2026-07-06T22:46:24Z ~2026-38560-04 57884 /* Test */ 18 done 277191 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] =Test= 706 - Roman Numerals, (Numbers). Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?. 2:6 - 6:15, 130 days, (6:11+ to fill out). *6:16, 6:17, 6:18, 6:19, 6:20 (?) *6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?) *6:26 (?) *6:27 (?) *6:28 (?) *6:29 (?) *6:30 (?) *7:1 (?) *7:2 (?) *7:3 (?) *7:4 (7:5) ''7:6'' *202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses. *202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks. *202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others. *202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns. *202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things. *202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap. *202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others. *202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist. *202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets. *202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools. *202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk. *202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce. *202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels. *202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes. *202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others. *202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans. *202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers. *202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary. *202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint. *202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles. *202 6614, Plates, Blankets or even Vacuum Cleaner. *202 6615, Towels, Cloths or Dressing Gowns. *202 6616, Smiths Chips, Heater Vents, Stuff for Lasagna or Cloths. Current, 202 6617. ($#!+). *202 6618. (Boat Registration Check, Victoria). ''2026619'' 86zhtadbghv3towyu67onq3yag7jijq 277192 277191 2026-07-06T23:56:54Z ~2026-38560-04 57884 /* Test */ Done 277192 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] =Test= 706 - Roman Numerals, (Numbers). Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?. 2:6 - 6:18, 135 days, (6:19+ to fill out). *6:19, 6:20 (?) *6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?) *6:26 (?) *6:27 (?) *6:28 (?) *6:29 (?) *6:30 (?) *7:1 (?) *7:2 (?) *7:3 (?) *7:4 (7:5) ''7:6'' *202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses. *202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks. *202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others. *202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns. *202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things. *202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap. *202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others. *202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist. *202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets. *202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools. *202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk. *202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce. *202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels. *202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes. *202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others. *202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans. *202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers. *202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary. *202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint. *202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles. *202 6614, Plates, Blankets or even Vacuum Cleaner. *202 6615, Towels, Cloths or Dressing Gowns. *202 6616, Smiths Chips, Heater Vents, Stuff for Lasagna or Cloths. Current, 202 6617. ($#!+). *202 6618. (Boat Registration Check, Victoria). ''2026619'' 5ipt0a7ynh0uxckwusih3hrzvuctpy9 277193 277192 2026-07-07T03:34:21Z Jianhui67 5365 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/~2026-38560-04|~2026-38560-04]] ([[User talk:~2026-38560-04|talk]]) to last revision by [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] 276498 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] 9j3mzpuavjefdxudb4wdeddjeuql68x 277195 277193 2026-07-07T03:38:04Z Jianhui67 5365 Protected "[[Wikimedia:About Outreach wiki]]": High traffic page ([Edit=Allow only autoconfirmed users] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only autoconfirmed users] (indefinite)) 276498 wikitext text/x-wiki Welcome to the '''Wikimedia Outreach-Wiki''' (often shortened to '''Outreach-Wiki''' or simply '''Outreach'''), a wiki for coordinating outreach and collaboration initiatives between Wikimedians and outside partners. It was launched on 28 October 2009, with its first major initiative being the [[Bookshelf Project]]. There was a reorganization in 2011, with the first [[Main Page]] and a renewed [[Bookshelf]]. A [[GLAM]] portal was established in 2011 as well, and an [[Education]] portal was later active from 2019 to 2023. [[GLAM/Model projects]] also historically spawned several pages beyond GLAM such as [[Edit-a-thon]]. The project's flagship for the last several years has been the [[GLAM/Newsletter]]. [[Category:Communication]] 9j3mzpuavjefdxudb4wdeddjeuql68x 4 2239 277198 277135 2026-07-07T03:52:25Z Koavf 485 Removed protection from "[[Wikimedia:Sandbox]]" 277099 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Sandbox header/en}} <!-- Please leave this line alone! --> 4mce0etbkwwymu1wvbirplszszo71bq 3 28707 277196 264821 2026-07-07T03:50:30Z Jianhui67 5365 /* Sandbox */ new section 277196 wikitext text/x-wiki ==Welcome== {{welcome}} Warmly, [[User:AKoval (WMF)|Anna Koval (WMF)]] ([[user talk:AKoval (WMF)|talk]]) 21:37, 21 October 2015 (UTC) == A barnstar for you! == {| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;" |rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | [[File:Original Barnstar Hires.png|100px]] |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Original Barnstar''' |- |style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Dear [[User:Koavf|Koavf]], I'm sad that in 7 years no one has welcomed you to this wiki or posted a kind word on your talk page. Happily and humbly, I am proud to be the first. :) It's a privilege to acknowledge your 1.5+ million contributions to free knowledge. And it's a privilege to work with you here on Outreach wiki. Thank you, Koavf, for everything you do for the movement, for this project, and for our Outreach community. </br> Very sincerely yours, [[User:AKoval (WMF)|Anna Koval (WMF)]] ([[user talk:AKoval (WMF)|talk]]) 21:42, 21 October 2015 (UTC) |} == Thanks for sharing this article == Dear [[User:Koavf|Koavf]], I just wanted to thank you for sharing this article on your English Wikipedia user page. "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/22/you-dont-know-it-but-youre-working-for-facebook-for-free/ You Don't Know It, But You're Working for Facebook. For Free.]" --''The Washington Post'' It was a really good read, and I might have missed it otherwise. Take care, [[User:AKoval (WMF)|Anna Koval (WMF)]] ([[user talk:AKoval (WMF)|talk]]) 21:52, 21 October 2015 (UTC) :{{Ping|AKoval (WMF)}} Thanks for your kind words and all that you do for the [[w:Wikimedia movement]]. Please let me know how I can help you. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 23:59, 21 October 2015 (UTC) == Hello Wikimother== {{Ping|Koavf}} Can you help to show me how to create notification pop-ups. I want to start a something like (The Wikipedia Adventure) on [http://all4one.Wikia.com All4One Wikia] for our new comers/users. Thanks! [[User:Ras Benjih|<span style="font-family:times; font-size:15px; text-shadow:2px 2px 2px">Ras Benjih</span>]]<b>&#47;</b>[[User talk:Ras Benjih|<span style="font-family:times; color:#070; text-shadow:2px 2px 2px">^RasTalk</span>]] 07:50, 4 January 2016 (UTC) :{{Ping|Ras Benjih}} I am simply too busy at the moment to commit myself to your project. I wish you the best though and appreciate you reaching out to me. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 23:55, 6 January 2016 (UTC) I have some anxiety not knowing the affect of my article deletion. No comments made.--[[User:Fujifil|Fujifil]] ([[User talk:Fujifil|talk]]) 01:35, 20 July 2016 (UTC) == Marking for translation == Hi, I looked everywhere, IRC included, but no one seems to know the answer. I would like to mark [[Education/Ideal workshop/pl]] for translation, but apparently the system automagically interprets all pages marked for translation as English, regardless of the actual language they are written in. Do you know if there is a chance to mark the language the page is in? Partial translation is already available at [[Education/Ideal workshop]], but it would be easier to mark the Polish language page as the main blueprint, and copy the English paragraphs one by one. That way I would also have a reminder what parts of the translation are still missing. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] ([[User talk:Halibutt|talk]]) 08:13, 7 September 2016 (UTC) :{{Ping|Halibutt}} I think the problem is that you are trying to translate ''from'' a subpage up higher in the hierarchy. Have you checked [[mw:Extension:Translate]]? It also has help pages and an IRC chat. If that's not helpful, please let me know and I will do some more digging myself. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 15:04, 7 September 2016 (UTC) :: Yeah, I tried [[:meta:Help:Extension:Translate|the documentation]] (though it's really lengthy and I might have missed the solution there), I asked at IRC channels of mediawiki and at #mediawiki-i18n, to no avail. Also, moving the page one notch up the hierarchy doesn't do the trick either: [[Education/Warsztat idealny]]. Any help would be appreciated. Unless of course the developers did not think of such situation, which is also entirely possible... [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] ([[User talk:Halibutt|talk]]) 23:31, 7 September 2016 (UTC) ::: Hmmm, [[:meta:Topic:Tb3xr7ayjsvgrs45|it seems there is no way to solve this]]. Filed it as a bug ([https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145039 T145039]). For now I'd have to simply translate the document by hand and treat the English version as if it was an original. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] ([[User talk:Halibutt|talk]]) 23:49, 7 September 2016 (UTC) ::::{{Ping|Halibutt}} Frustrating. Let me know if anything interesting happens on that bug. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 01:02, 8 September 2016 (UTC) ::::: It seems the matter is somehow easy to fix, but we'd need [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69223 additional code enabled for that], and there's no ETA as far as I can tell. Anyway, the fix consists of a way to select the default page language on a page by page basis. I'll keep you updated. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] ([[User talk:Halibutt|talk]]) 08:58, 9 September 2016 (UTC) : It works! [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] ([[User talk:Halibutt|talk]]) 22:00, 30 January 2017 (UTC) ::{{Ping|Halibutt}} Nice. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 22:14, 30 January 2017 (UTC) == please help == Hi! Please help for [https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Village_pump#Hindi_Version_of_Wikipedia_.28Bookshelf.29 this] [[User:NehalDaveND|NehalDaveND]] ([[User talk:NehalDaveND|talk]]) 12:48, 14 November 2016 (UTC) == Admin Rights == On March 28, I applied to become admin and have not come objections. You could assign me the flag. Thansk and regards. --[[User:Samuele2002|Samuele2002]] ([[User talk:Samuele2002|talk]]) 15:33, 9 April 2017 (UTC) == Request == Hi, we apologize for you bother again, I also request the translation administrator permission in the RfP page, I think my English confused a bit and not dresses. Regards. —[[User:AlvaroMolina|<font color="#1406D0">'''Alvaro Molina'''</font>]] ([[User Talk:AlvaroMolina|<font color="#137500">'''✉'''</font>]] - [[Special:Contributions/AlvaroMolina|<font color="#137500">✔</font>]]) 05:52, 17 May 2017 (UTC) == Request == Hi Koavf, Would like to keep the Sysop rights with me, will utilize the sysop facilites soon on Outreach, whenever there is a necessity. Thanks. --[[User:Dineshkumar Ponnusamy|Dineshkumar Ponnusamy]] ([[User talk:Dineshkumar Ponnusamy|talk]]) 21:43, 13 August 2017 (UTC) :{{Ping|Dineshkumar Ponnusamy}} Okay. Please post to your talk as well--I will review them in a month. Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 21:49, 13 August 2017 (UTC) ==Sysop rights== Hi Koavf, Thank you for letting me know! I would love to maintain this rights and hope to keep my contributions active. Thank you.--[[User:Awinda|Awinda]] ([[User talk:Awinda|talk]]) 15:22, 13 August 2017 (MST) :{{Ping|Awinda}} Sure. Please post to your talk page with {{tl|Ping}} so I can see this request in one month when I am doing the actual changes. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 22:23, 13 August 2017 (UTC) ::+1, and "ping" already done. --[[User:Wikinade|Wikinade]] ([[User talk:Wikinade|talk]]) 09:28, 14 August 2017 (UTC) == Sysop rights == Honestly saying I even didn't know I have sysop here ;-) I never requested it, nor I used it. For sure, I don't need it. [[User:Polimerek|Polimerek]] ([[User talk:Polimerek|talk]]) 09:42, 14 August 2017 (UTC) :{{Ping|Polimerek}} Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 16:12, 14 August 2017 (UTC) == Where can I help? == Hello. Sorry to bother while you are busy doing heavy maintenance work. I have been keeping track of recent changes to see where I might be able to help this project, and nothing really came up. I have time to and interest in contributing to the maintenance of this project, so do you happen to know where I might be helpful? Thanks. --[[User:Joalpe|Joalpe]] ([[User talk:Joalpe|talk]]) 00:14, 15 August 2017 (UTC) :{{Ping|Joalpe}} That's not a bother. You can always check [[Special:SpecialPages]] and go from the maintenance reports if you'd like. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 01:16, 15 August 2017 (UTC) ::Hi. I have just done some cleaning of a messy sequence of nonsensical edits an editor did, but I was unable to delete [https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Topic:Tycmw0e6a2dxs9yd Topic on User talk:Doop family music]. Could you please help out? Thanks! --[[User:Joalpe|Joalpe]] ([[User talk:Joalpe|talk]]) 01:54, 18 September 2017 (UTC) :::{{Ping|Joalpe}} I undeleted the page and then deleted the individual topic and ''then'' deleted the user page again. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 02:04, 18 September 2017 (UTC) ::::The topic is still in blue (and it is still readable) --will it remain like this? --[[User:Joalpe|Joalpe]] ([[User talk:Joalpe|talk]]) 03:38, 18 September 2017 (UTC) :::::{{Ping|Joalpe}} Yes, unless an Oversighter uses the Suppression right. There are [https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers?username=&group=oversight&wpsubmit=&wpFormIdentifier=mw-listusers-form&limit=50 none] local to this wiki, so you'd have to request suppression on Meta. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 04:56, 18 September 2017 (UTC) *{{Ping|Joalpe}} [[Wikimedia:Village_pump#Advanced_advanced_user_rights]] [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 05:18, 18 September 2017 (UTC) == Admin rights == Hi Koavf. Just writing to let you know I have posted a request for permanent admin rights on this project. You granted me these rights temporarily a couple of months ago. At that time, you mentioned I should get in touch with you if I wanted to make such request. Thanks, --[[User:Joalpe|Joalpe]] ([[User talk:Joalpe|talk]]) 02:10, 25 October 2017 (UTC) == Request for Sysop == Dear :{{Ping|Koavf}} Can i get Sysop right in outreach.wikimedia.org ? Thanks [[User:Mohammed Galib Hasan|Mohammed Galib Hasan]] ([[User talk:Mohammed Galib Hasan|talk]]) 17:06, 13 January 2018 (UTC) :{{Ping|Mohammed Galib Hasan}} [[Wikimedia:Requests for permissions]]. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 17:34, 13 January 2018 (UTC) Dear :{{Ping|Koavf}} request done [[Wikimedia:Requests_for_permissions#Administrator_rights_request_for_Mohammed_Galib_Hasan|here]] . Thanks [[User:Mohammed Galib Hasan|Mohammed Galib Hasan]] ([[User talk:Mohammed Galib Hasan|talk]]) 12:21, 14 January 2018 (UTC) == A bowl of strawberries for you! == {| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;" |style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | [[File:Erdbeerteller01.jpg|120px]] |style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | how do I become a 'confirmed' translator/admin, doing zh <-> en for wiki? I was born in Shanghai and now reside in Princeton U.S.A. any advice would be appreciated! [[User:Allthingsgo|Allthingsgo]] ([[User talk:Allthingsgo|talk]]) 16:16, 4 September 2018 (UTC) |} :{{Ping|Allthingsgo}} Thanks for the berries! Giving out user rights on this wiki is generally relaxed. Please post to [[Wikimedia:Requests_for_permissions]]. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 16:57, 4 September 2018 (UTC) == Help with a template == Hi Koavf, I am hoping that you can take a look at [[Template:NavWiki/Navbar]] for me. The navbar has the appearance that I want on the template page, but when I view pages which are linked from the navbar and have the navbar on them, such as [[NavWiki/Additional Materials]] and [[NavWiki/Archives]], the padding or margin effects for the selected page cause icons or text to move in the navbar. Do you know what might be causing this effect? I would like to cancel the effect. Thanks, [[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<font color="DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</font>]] 21:39, 5 November 2019 (UTC) :{{Ping|Pine}} Wow. Well, a few things are happening here: one is that you have a table with a lot of {{code|div}}s in it: these are elements that are liable to create a new block that will have some formatting or wrapping issues that (e.g.) {{code|span}} doesn't. I tried just swapping one for the other and that didn't do the trick. Still tinkering there. Another is that you have a lot of {{code|font}}, which is a deprecated tag that should really be replaced with CSS in {{code|span}}s. Let me tool around a little bit more so I can get the behavior that you're looking to have. (Somehow, it seems just fine on [[NavWiki/Additional Materials]] at the moment but has some wonky alignment on [[NavWiki/Archives]] and I have no clue how that is even possible.) [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 23:10, 5 November 2019 (UTC) ::Hm. So it looks like (see below) that when you have a link, there is only one {{code|p}} but in the examples where the page is already chosen, there are two {{code|p}}s. I'm not sure how to fix this: if you have two paragraphs, it's going to have some kind of effect on the page... [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 23:16, 5 November 2019 (UTC) ===Quick dump of HTML to review=== Snippet from [[NavWiki/Newsletters]]: <pre> <td><div style="-moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; border-radius: 10px;; width: 84px; height: 105px; text-align: center; margin-right: 4px; border: 1px solid #DDDDDD; background-color: #FFFFFF; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#FFFFFF), to(#F2F3F4)); background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4);"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/NavWiki/In_Development" title="NavWiki/In Development"><font color="#000000"></font></a></b></p><div style="padding-bottom: 2px;"><b><a href="/wiki/NavWiki/In_Development" title="NavWiki/In Development"><font color="#000000">In<br />Development</font></a></b></div> <a href="/wiki/NavWiki/In_Development" title="NavWiki/In Development"><img alt="Gnome-applications-science.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Gnome-applications-science.svg/50px-Gnome-applications-science.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Gnome-applications-science.svg/75px-Gnome-applications-science.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Gnome-applications-science.svg/100px-Gnome-applications-science.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></a> <p class="mw-empty-elt"></p> </div> </td> <td><div style="-moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; border-radius: 10px;; width: 70px; height: 105px; text-align: center; margin-right: 4px; border: 1px solid #DDDDDD; background-color: #FFFFFF; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#FFFFFF), to(#F2F3F4)); background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4);"> <b><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><font color="#000000"><div style="padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 2px">Newsletters</div></font></a></b> <p><a href="/wiki/NavWiki/Newsletters" title="NavWiki/Newsletters"><img alt="Shadowsocks logo.png" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Shadowsocks_logo.png/50px-Shadowsocks_logo.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Shadowsocks_logo.png/75px-Shadowsocks_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Shadowsocks_logo.png/100px-Shadowsocks_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="185" data-file-height="185" /></a> </p> </div> </td> </pre> I'm wondering if I've hit a bug in MediaWiki. Have a look at these diffs. The top padding shouldn't be having such a significant effect on the placement of the icon. * First, I removed the navbar to make sure that the problem isn't attributable to the navbar. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=NavWiki/Archives&diff=205555&oldid=205554&diffmode=source * Then I changed the top padding to be 0px for the icon. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=NavWiki/Archives&diff=next&oldid=205555&diffmode=source * Then I changed the top padding to be 1px for the icon. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=NavWiki/Archives&diff=next&oldid=205556&diffmode=source * Then I gave up and re-added the navbar. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=NavWiki/Archives&diff=next&oldid=205557&diffmode=source What do you think? [[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<font color="DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</font>]] 07:30, 6 November 2019 (UTC) :{{Ping|Pine}} Seems like a bug in the software, yes. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 21:54, 6 November 2019 (UTC) == Hi == Hi {{PAGENAME}}, Just in case you are interested I would like to bring ''Covering Kids and Families of Indiana'' to your attention. If this is not the right wiki, please let me know for future postings. Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 16:14, 23 April 2020 (UTC) :{{Ping|Ottawahitech}} You can post to any of my talk pages and I'll see it but I don't know what you're trying to tell me. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 05:50, 24 April 2020 (UTC) ::Thanks for pinging me. It is good to know you closely watch all your talkpages, something I haven't figured out yet how to do efficiently. Just wondering if this a wiki-trick you may want to educate others about. As far as the Indiana organization, your page says that you are a hoosier, so I thought you may have heard about it? [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 14:58, 24 April 2020 (UTC) :::{{Ping|Ottawahitech}} I just have all my user preferences on all WMF wikis to email me when there are changes to my watchlist. Frustrating but it ''doesn't'' do this for minor edits, so I still manually check. I am a Hoosier but I just don't know what ''Covering Kids and Families of Indiana'' is. I took a look via DuckDuckGo, so thanks for the heads up. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 19:00, 24 April 2020 (UTC) ::[[w: Patient navigators]] may explain what ''Covering Kids and Families of Indiana'' is about (introduction to Obamacare). [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 11:00, 30 April 2020 (UTC) == Blocked on [[m:]] == {{Ping|Defender}}, I have been caught in several rangeblocks that stop me from editing [[m:]] lately (including my talk page!). Somehow, I am not IP block exempt, tho I thought I was. Please give me that user right on that wiki. Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 07:58, 30 July 2020 (UTC) == Request == Hello sir. I requested for translation admin in this wiki because i need this. Please see my request details at here-https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Requests_for_permissions#[Translation_admin]_rights_request_for_Tanbirzx. [[User:Tanbirzx|Tanbirzx]] ([[User talk:Tanbirzx|talk]]) :{{Ping|Koavf}} sorry i thought you maybe forgot my request. If you have some time then check my answers. Thank you. [[User:Tanbirzx|Tanbirzx]] == TA removal == Hello Koavf, kindly remove translation admin right from [[User:MCruz (WMF)]] & [[User:Cornelius Kibelka (WMDE)]]. Both are locked accounts. Thanks in advance. [[User:Minorax|Minorax]] ([[User talk:Minorax|talk]]) 11:31, 27 October 2021 (UTC) :Done. Thanks! [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 14:10, 27 October 2021 (UTC) == Deceased wikimedians == Hi {{PAGENAME}}, Should the wmf have a coordinated approach about obituaries for users who contributed to the movement? I have been [[Q:User_talk:Whatamidoing_(WMF)#More_on_global_UP_/_local_UTP_-_deceased_wikimedians|trying unsuccessfully]] to raise this issue before. With [[COVID]] claiming so many lives I have moved this up my priority list. I am writing to yu because earlier today I was following some inks from your userpage and found the page of [[User:Cindamuse]]. I know that this user, whom I have had a brief communication with in my early days on enwiki, had passed away (I found this out years after she died). I also know that enwiki has a page for deceased wikipedians ([[w:Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians]] )) which I just checked and was shocked to see how many of the usernames on that page I recognize. (BTW doesn't the existence of the page above contravene the [[w:Wikipedia:NOTSOCIALNETWORK]] ?) It occurred to me that due to the COVID situation the wikimedia movement should have a policy that spans all wmf-wikis, all topics and all languages, so that pages such as [[w:Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians]] is also available to other wikimedians who may not be active on enwiki. Before I spend too much time and effort developing this thought on this wiki which may/may not be [[Talk:GLAM/Newsletter/November 2021/Contents/From the team#Bad_idea| destined to the dustbin]] <s>(looks like my contributions to this discussion of a coupe of day ago have already gone to the dusbin?)</s> (<small>updated by [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 14:13, 23 December 2021 (UTC)</small>)) I better check that: * You are still active here? * This topic is not taboo on this wiki Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 16:04, 22 December 2021 (UTC) :{{Ping|Ottawahitech}} I am active and I don't think it's taboo or otherwise inappropriate to ask the question. I ''do'' think that it's better asked at [[m:]], since that is a meta-question. I'm in favor of some kind of unified policy for locking accounts or having a standardized banner for user account pages because that would aid in collaboration (as does the page on deceased Wikipedians), but I'm not sure that a common policy on writing obituaries is really needed. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 17:50, 22 December 2021 (UTC) ::'''re: I do think that it's better asked at m:''' Well I guess that rules out my participation since, as you know, I am blocked on Meta. Cheers, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 14:01, 23 December 2021 (UTC) == How we will see unregistered users == <section begin=content/> Hi! You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki. When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed. Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin '''will still be able to access the IP'''. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Improving tools|better tools]] to help. If you have not seen it before, you can [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation|read more on Meta]]. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|subscribe]] to [[m:Tech/News|the weekly technical newsletter]]. We have [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation#IP Masking Implementation Approaches (FAQ)|two suggested ways]] this identity could work. '''We would appreciate your feedback''' on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can [[m:Talk:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation|let us know on the talk page]]. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January. Thank you. /[[m:User:Johan (WMF)|Johan (WMF)]]<section end=content/> 18:18, 4 January 2022 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Johan (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Johan_(WMF)/Target_lists/Admins2022(6)&oldid=22532666 --> == A barnstar for you! == {| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;" |rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | [[File:Original Barnstar Hires.png|100px]] |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Original Barnstar''' |- |style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thank you for helping new wikipedian's get familiar with Wikimedia terms. [[User:Amiratohamy|Amiratohamy]] ([[User talk:Amiratohamy|talk]]) 19:36, 26 April 2022 (UTC) |} :{{Ping|Amiratohamy}} How kind: thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 19:37, 26 April 2022 (UTC) == [[Wikimedia:Inactivity policy]] == Hi Koavf, I just noticed that the inactivity policy has not been applied since October 2021. Would you be so kind to start a new run (contacting all effected admins)? Thanks, --[[User:Ameisenigel|Ameisenigel]] ([[User talk:Ameisenigel|talk]]) 14:13, 18 February 2024 (UTC) :Can do. I'll make a calendar reminder as well. Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 19:11, 18 February 2024 (UTC) == Remove sysop rights == Hi Koavf, please remove my local sysop rights (but not my translation admin rights). I do not need them very often and I can use my GS rights if there are any emergency situations. Thanks, --[[User:Ameisenigel|Ameisenigel]] ([[User talk:Ameisenigel|talk]]) 11:12, 22 October 2024 (UTC) :{{done}} Thanks [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 14:38, 22 October 2024 (UTC) == [[User_talk:Shawnmamentharian]] == Hello, do you think this is an acceptable way to use the talk page? [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:55, 29 November 2024 (UTC) :It is not. Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 15:26, 29 November 2024 (UTC) == Question about [[special:diff/264722]] == Hello, should we revert this edit, or should we just remove the external link? I look forward to hearing from you. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 15:11, 11 December 2024 (UTC) :I always delete spam just in case someone, somehow could come across it in the history and end up clicking on one of these links and then has a virus from some online gambling site or something. Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 16:52, 11 December 2024 (UTC) == Sandbox == Hello Koavf. I'm not very sure how to put this, but should we be protecting the sandbox? I feel like the sandbox should be the only proper venue which allows test edits. Temporary accounts do their test edits on other random pages now, and that can be disruptive. While I understand your intention of protecting the sandbox, I feel that it might be better to unprotect the sandbox and revert any test edit that comes about. Either way, I do not have a strong opinion. [[User:Jianhui67|'''<font color="#0E0">Jianhui67</font>]]^{[[User talk:Jianhui67|<span style="color:#1E90FF">'''talk'''</span>]]<span style="color:red">★</span>[[Special:Contributions/Jianhui67|<span style="color:#1E90FF">'''contribs'''</span>]]} 03:50, 7 July 2026 (UTC) m47k1rai6l4at8jdxna0vu4prggln46 277197 277196 2026-07-07T03:51:57Z Koavf 485 /* Sandbox */ Reply 277197 wikitext text/x-wiki ==Welcome== {{welcome}} Warmly, [[User:AKoval (WMF)|Anna Koval (WMF)]] ([[user talk:AKoval (WMF)|talk]]) 21:37, 21 October 2015 (UTC) == A barnstar for you! == {| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;" |rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | [[File:Original Barnstar Hires.png|100px]] |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Original Barnstar''' |- |style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Dear [[User:Koavf|Koavf]], I'm sad that in 7 years no one has welcomed you to this wiki or posted a kind word on your talk page. Happily and humbly, I am proud to be the first. :) It's a privilege to acknowledge your 1.5+ million contributions to free knowledge. And it's a privilege to work with you here on Outreach wiki. Thank you, Koavf, for everything you do for the movement, for this project, and for our Outreach community. </br> Very sincerely yours, [[User:AKoval (WMF)|Anna Koval (WMF)]] ([[user talk:AKoval (WMF)|talk]]) 21:42, 21 October 2015 (UTC) |} == Thanks for sharing this article == Dear [[User:Koavf|Koavf]], I just wanted to thank you for sharing this article on your English Wikipedia user page. "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/22/you-dont-know-it-but-youre-working-for-facebook-for-free/ You Don't Know It, But You're Working for Facebook. For Free.]" --''The Washington Post'' It was a really good read, and I might have missed it otherwise. Take care, [[User:AKoval (WMF)|Anna Koval (WMF)]] ([[user talk:AKoval (WMF)|talk]]) 21:52, 21 October 2015 (UTC) :{{Ping|AKoval (WMF)}} Thanks for your kind words and all that you do for the [[w:Wikimedia movement]]. Please let me know how I can help you. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 23:59, 21 October 2015 (UTC) == Hello Wikimother== {{Ping|Koavf}} Can you help to show me how to create notification pop-ups. I want to start a something like (The Wikipedia Adventure) on [http://all4one.Wikia.com All4One Wikia] for our new comers/users. Thanks! [[User:Ras Benjih|<span style="font-family:times; font-size:15px; text-shadow:2px 2px 2px">Ras Benjih</span>]]<b>&#47;</b>[[User talk:Ras Benjih|<span style="font-family:times; color:#070; text-shadow:2px 2px 2px">^RasTalk</span>]] 07:50, 4 January 2016 (UTC) :{{Ping|Ras Benjih}} I am simply too busy at the moment to commit myself to your project. I wish you the best though and appreciate you reaching out to me. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 23:55, 6 January 2016 (UTC) I have some anxiety not knowing the affect of my article deletion. No comments made.--[[User:Fujifil|Fujifil]] ([[User talk:Fujifil|talk]]) 01:35, 20 July 2016 (UTC) == Marking for translation == Hi, I looked everywhere, IRC included, but no one seems to know the answer. I would like to mark [[Education/Ideal workshop/pl]] for translation, but apparently the system automagically interprets all pages marked for translation as English, regardless of the actual language they are written in. Do you know if there is a chance to mark the language the page is in? Partial translation is already available at [[Education/Ideal workshop]], but it would be easier to mark the Polish language page as the main blueprint, and copy the English paragraphs one by one. That way I would also have a reminder what parts of the translation are still missing. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] ([[User talk:Halibutt|talk]]) 08:13, 7 September 2016 (UTC) :{{Ping|Halibutt}} I think the problem is that you are trying to translate ''from'' a subpage up higher in the hierarchy. Have you checked [[mw:Extension:Translate]]? It also has help pages and an IRC chat. If that's not helpful, please let me know and I will do some more digging myself. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 15:04, 7 September 2016 (UTC) :: Yeah, I tried [[:meta:Help:Extension:Translate|the documentation]] (though it's really lengthy and I might have missed the solution there), I asked at IRC channels of mediawiki and at #mediawiki-i18n, to no avail. Also, moving the page one notch up the hierarchy doesn't do the trick either: [[Education/Warsztat idealny]]. Any help would be appreciated. Unless of course the developers did not think of such situation, which is also entirely possible... [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] ([[User talk:Halibutt|talk]]) 23:31, 7 September 2016 (UTC) ::: Hmmm, [[:meta:Topic:Tb3xr7ayjsvgrs45|it seems there is no way to solve this]]. Filed it as a bug ([https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145039 T145039]). For now I'd have to simply translate the document by hand and treat the English version as if it was an original. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] ([[User talk:Halibutt|talk]]) 23:49, 7 September 2016 (UTC) ::::{{Ping|Halibutt}} Frustrating. Let me know if anything interesting happens on that bug. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 01:02, 8 September 2016 (UTC) ::::: It seems the matter is somehow easy to fix, but we'd need [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69223 additional code enabled for that], and there's no ETA as far as I can tell. Anyway, the fix consists of a way to select the default page language on a page by page basis. I'll keep you updated. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] ([[User talk:Halibutt|talk]]) 08:58, 9 September 2016 (UTC) : It works! [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] ([[User talk:Halibutt|talk]]) 22:00, 30 January 2017 (UTC) ::{{Ping|Halibutt}} Nice. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 22:14, 30 January 2017 (UTC) == please help == Hi! Please help for [https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Village_pump#Hindi_Version_of_Wikipedia_.28Bookshelf.29 this] [[User:NehalDaveND|NehalDaveND]] ([[User talk:NehalDaveND|talk]]) 12:48, 14 November 2016 (UTC) == Admin Rights == On March 28, I applied to become admin and have not come objections. You could assign me the flag. Thansk and regards. --[[User:Samuele2002|Samuele2002]] ([[User talk:Samuele2002|talk]]) 15:33, 9 April 2017 (UTC) == Request == Hi, we apologize for you bother again, I also request the translation administrator permission in the RfP page, I think my English confused a bit and not dresses. Regards. —[[User:AlvaroMolina|<font color="#1406D0">'''Alvaro Molina'''</font>]] ([[User Talk:AlvaroMolina|<font color="#137500">'''✉'''</font>]] - [[Special:Contributions/AlvaroMolina|<font color="#137500">✔</font>]]) 05:52, 17 May 2017 (UTC) == Request == Hi Koavf, Would like to keep the Sysop rights with me, will utilize the sysop facilites soon on Outreach, whenever there is a necessity. Thanks. --[[User:Dineshkumar Ponnusamy|Dineshkumar Ponnusamy]] ([[User talk:Dineshkumar Ponnusamy|talk]]) 21:43, 13 August 2017 (UTC) :{{Ping|Dineshkumar Ponnusamy}} Okay. Please post to your talk as well--I will review them in a month. Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 21:49, 13 August 2017 (UTC) ==Sysop rights== Hi Koavf, Thank you for letting me know! I would love to maintain this rights and hope to keep my contributions active. Thank you.--[[User:Awinda|Awinda]] ([[User talk:Awinda|talk]]) 15:22, 13 August 2017 (MST) :{{Ping|Awinda}} Sure. Please post to your talk page with {{tl|Ping}} so I can see this request in one month when I am doing the actual changes. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 22:23, 13 August 2017 (UTC) ::+1, and "ping" already done. --[[User:Wikinade|Wikinade]] ([[User talk:Wikinade|talk]]) 09:28, 14 August 2017 (UTC) == Sysop rights == Honestly saying I even didn't know I have sysop here ;-) I never requested it, nor I used it. For sure, I don't need it. [[User:Polimerek|Polimerek]] ([[User talk:Polimerek|talk]]) 09:42, 14 August 2017 (UTC) :{{Ping|Polimerek}} Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 16:12, 14 August 2017 (UTC) == Where can I help? == Hello. Sorry to bother while you are busy doing heavy maintenance work. I have been keeping track of recent changes to see where I might be able to help this project, and nothing really came up. I have time to and interest in contributing to the maintenance of this project, so do you happen to know where I might be helpful? Thanks. --[[User:Joalpe|Joalpe]] ([[User talk:Joalpe|talk]]) 00:14, 15 August 2017 (UTC) :{{Ping|Joalpe}} That's not a bother. You can always check [[Special:SpecialPages]] and go from the maintenance reports if you'd like. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 01:16, 15 August 2017 (UTC) ::Hi. I have just done some cleaning of a messy sequence of nonsensical edits an editor did, but I was unable to delete [https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Topic:Tycmw0e6a2dxs9yd Topic on User talk:Doop family music]. Could you please help out? Thanks! --[[User:Joalpe|Joalpe]] ([[User talk:Joalpe|talk]]) 01:54, 18 September 2017 (UTC) :::{{Ping|Joalpe}} I undeleted the page and then deleted the individual topic and ''then'' deleted the user page again. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 02:04, 18 September 2017 (UTC) ::::The topic is still in blue (and it is still readable) --will it remain like this? --[[User:Joalpe|Joalpe]] ([[User talk:Joalpe|talk]]) 03:38, 18 September 2017 (UTC) :::::{{Ping|Joalpe}} Yes, unless an Oversighter uses the Suppression right. There are [https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers?username=&group=oversight&wpsubmit=&wpFormIdentifier=mw-listusers-form&limit=50 none] local to this wiki, so you'd have to request suppression on Meta. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 04:56, 18 September 2017 (UTC) *{{Ping|Joalpe}} [[Wikimedia:Village_pump#Advanced_advanced_user_rights]] [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 05:18, 18 September 2017 (UTC) == Admin rights == Hi Koavf. Just writing to let you know I have posted a request for permanent admin rights on this project. You granted me these rights temporarily a couple of months ago. At that time, you mentioned I should get in touch with you if I wanted to make such request. Thanks, --[[User:Joalpe|Joalpe]] ([[User talk:Joalpe|talk]]) 02:10, 25 October 2017 (UTC) == Request for Sysop == Dear :{{Ping|Koavf}} Can i get Sysop right in outreach.wikimedia.org ? Thanks [[User:Mohammed Galib Hasan|Mohammed Galib Hasan]] ([[User talk:Mohammed Galib Hasan|talk]]) 17:06, 13 January 2018 (UTC) :{{Ping|Mohammed Galib Hasan}} [[Wikimedia:Requests for permissions]]. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 17:34, 13 January 2018 (UTC) Dear :{{Ping|Koavf}} request done [[Wikimedia:Requests_for_permissions#Administrator_rights_request_for_Mohammed_Galib_Hasan|here]] . Thanks [[User:Mohammed Galib Hasan|Mohammed Galib Hasan]] ([[User talk:Mohammed Galib Hasan|talk]]) 12:21, 14 January 2018 (UTC) == A bowl of strawberries for you! == {| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;" |style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | [[File:Erdbeerteller01.jpg|120px]] |style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | how do I become a 'confirmed' translator/admin, doing zh <-> en for wiki? I was born in Shanghai and now reside in Princeton U.S.A. any advice would be appreciated! [[User:Allthingsgo|Allthingsgo]] ([[User talk:Allthingsgo|talk]]) 16:16, 4 September 2018 (UTC) |} :{{Ping|Allthingsgo}} Thanks for the berries! Giving out user rights on this wiki is generally relaxed. Please post to [[Wikimedia:Requests_for_permissions]]. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 16:57, 4 September 2018 (UTC) == Help with a template == Hi Koavf, I am hoping that you can take a look at [[Template:NavWiki/Navbar]] for me. The navbar has the appearance that I want on the template page, but when I view pages which are linked from the navbar and have the navbar on them, such as [[NavWiki/Additional Materials]] and [[NavWiki/Archives]], the padding or margin effects for the selected page cause icons or text to move in the navbar. Do you know what might be causing this effect? I would like to cancel the effect. Thanks, [[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<font color="DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</font>]] 21:39, 5 November 2019 (UTC) :{{Ping|Pine}} Wow. Well, a few things are happening here: one is that you have a table with a lot of {{code|div}}s in it: these are elements that are liable to create a new block that will have some formatting or wrapping issues that (e.g.) {{code|span}} doesn't. I tried just swapping one for the other and that didn't do the trick. Still tinkering there. Another is that you have a lot of {{code|font}}, which is a deprecated tag that should really be replaced with CSS in {{code|span}}s. Let me tool around a little bit more so I can get the behavior that you're looking to have. (Somehow, it seems just fine on [[NavWiki/Additional Materials]] at the moment but has some wonky alignment on [[NavWiki/Archives]] and I have no clue how that is even possible.) [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 23:10, 5 November 2019 (UTC) ::Hm. So it looks like (see below) that when you have a link, there is only one {{code|p}} but in the examples where the page is already chosen, there are two {{code|p}}s. I'm not sure how to fix this: if you have two paragraphs, it's going to have some kind of effect on the page... [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 23:16, 5 November 2019 (UTC) ===Quick dump of HTML to review=== Snippet from [[NavWiki/Newsletters]]: <pre> <td><div style="-moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; border-radius: 10px;; width: 84px; height: 105px; text-align: center; margin-right: 4px; border: 1px solid #DDDDDD; background-color: #FFFFFF; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#FFFFFF), to(#F2F3F4)); background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4);"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/NavWiki/In_Development" title="NavWiki/In Development"><font color="#000000"></font></a></b></p><div style="padding-bottom: 2px;"><b><a href="/wiki/NavWiki/In_Development" title="NavWiki/In Development"><font color="#000000">In<br />Development</font></a></b></div> <a href="/wiki/NavWiki/In_Development" title="NavWiki/In Development"><img alt="Gnome-applications-science.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Gnome-applications-science.svg/50px-Gnome-applications-science.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Gnome-applications-science.svg/75px-Gnome-applications-science.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Gnome-applications-science.svg/100px-Gnome-applications-science.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></a> <p class="mw-empty-elt"></p> </div> </td> <td><div style="-moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; border-radius: 10px;; width: 70px; height: 105px; text-align: center; margin-right: 4px; border: 1px solid #DDDDDD; background-color: #FFFFFF; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#FFFFFF), to(#F2F3F4)); background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4); background-image: linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #F2F3F4);"> <b><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><font color="#000000"><div style="padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 2px">Newsletters</div></font></a></b> <p><a href="/wiki/NavWiki/Newsletters" title="NavWiki/Newsletters"><img alt="Shadowsocks logo.png" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Shadowsocks_logo.png/50px-Shadowsocks_logo.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Shadowsocks_logo.png/75px-Shadowsocks_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Shadowsocks_logo.png/100px-Shadowsocks_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="185" data-file-height="185" /></a> </p> </div> </td> </pre> I'm wondering if I've hit a bug in MediaWiki. Have a look at these diffs. The top padding shouldn't be having such a significant effect on the placement of the icon. * First, I removed the navbar to make sure that the problem isn't attributable to the navbar. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=NavWiki/Archives&diff=205555&oldid=205554&diffmode=source * Then I changed the top padding to be 0px for the icon. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=NavWiki/Archives&diff=next&oldid=205555&diffmode=source * Then I changed the top padding to be 1px for the icon. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=NavWiki/Archives&diff=next&oldid=205556&diffmode=source * Then I gave up and re-added the navbar. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=NavWiki/Archives&diff=next&oldid=205557&diffmode=source What do you think? [[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<font color="DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</font>]] 07:30, 6 November 2019 (UTC) :{{Ping|Pine}} Seems like a bug in the software, yes. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 21:54, 6 November 2019 (UTC) == Hi == Hi {{PAGENAME}}, Just in case you are interested I would like to bring ''Covering Kids and Families of Indiana'' to your attention. If this is not the right wiki, please let me know for future postings. Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 16:14, 23 April 2020 (UTC) :{{Ping|Ottawahitech}} You can post to any of my talk pages and I'll see it but I don't know what you're trying to tell me. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 05:50, 24 April 2020 (UTC) ::Thanks for pinging me. It is good to know you closely watch all your talkpages, something I haven't figured out yet how to do efficiently. Just wondering if this a wiki-trick you may want to educate others about. As far as the Indiana organization, your page says that you are a hoosier, so I thought you may have heard about it? [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 14:58, 24 April 2020 (UTC) :::{{Ping|Ottawahitech}} I just have all my user preferences on all WMF wikis to email me when there are changes to my watchlist. Frustrating but it ''doesn't'' do this for minor edits, so I still manually check. I am a Hoosier but I just don't know what ''Covering Kids and Families of Indiana'' is. I took a look via DuckDuckGo, so thanks for the heads up. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 19:00, 24 April 2020 (UTC) ::[[w: Patient navigators]] may explain what ''Covering Kids and Families of Indiana'' is about (introduction to Obamacare). [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 11:00, 30 April 2020 (UTC) == Blocked on [[m:]] == {{Ping|Defender}}, I have been caught in several rangeblocks that stop me from editing [[m:]] lately (including my talk page!). Somehow, I am not IP block exempt, tho I thought I was. Please give me that user right on that wiki. Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 07:58, 30 July 2020 (UTC) == Request == Hello sir. I requested for translation admin in this wiki because i need this. Please see my request details at here-https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Requests_for_permissions#[Translation_admin]_rights_request_for_Tanbirzx. [[User:Tanbirzx|Tanbirzx]] ([[User talk:Tanbirzx|talk]]) :{{Ping|Koavf}} sorry i thought you maybe forgot my request. If you have some time then check my answers. Thank you. [[User:Tanbirzx|Tanbirzx]] == TA removal == Hello Koavf, kindly remove translation admin right from [[User:MCruz (WMF)]] & [[User:Cornelius Kibelka (WMDE)]]. Both are locked accounts. Thanks in advance. [[User:Minorax|Minorax]] ([[User talk:Minorax|talk]]) 11:31, 27 October 2021 (UTC) :Done. Thanks! [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 14:10, 27 October 2021 (UTC) == Deceased wikimedians == Hi {{PAGENAME}}, Should the wmf have a coordinated approach about obituaries for users who contributed to the movement? I have been [[Q:User_talk:Whatamidoing_(WMF)#More_on_global_UP_/_local_UTP_-_deceased_wikimedians|trying unsuccessfully]] to raise this issue before. With [[COVID]] claiming so many lives I have moved this up my priority list. I am writing to yu because earlier today I was following some inks from your userpage and found the page of [[User:Cindamuse]]. I know that this user, whom I have had a brief communication with in my early days on enwiki, had passed away (I found this out years after she died). I also know that enwiki has a page for deceased wikipedians ([[w:Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians]] )) which I just checked and was shocked to see how many of the usernames on that page I recognize. (BTW doesn't the existence of the page above contravene the [[w:Wikipedia:NOTSOCIALNETWORK]] ?) It occurred to me that due to the COVID situation the wikimedia movement should have a policy that spans all wmf-wikis, all topics and all languages, so that pages such as [[w:Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians]] is also available to other wikimedians who may not be active on enwiki. Before I spend too much time and effort developing this thought on this wiki which may/may not be [[Talk:GLAM/Newsletter/November 2021/Contents/From the team#Bad_idea| destined to the dustbin]] <s>(looks like my contributions to this discussion of a coupe of day ago have already gone to the dusbin?)</s> (<small>updated by [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 14:13, 23 December 2021 (UTC)</small>)) I better check that: * You are still active here? * This topic is not taboo on this wiki Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 16:04, 22 December 2021 (UTC) :{{Ping|Ottawahitech}} I am active and I don't think it's taboo or otherwise inappropriate to ask the question. I ''do'' think that it's better asked at [[m:]], since that is a meta-question. I'm in favor of some kind of unified policy for locking accounts or having a standardized banner for user account pages because that would aid in collaboration (as does the page on deceased Wikipedians), but I'm not sure that a common policy on writing obituaries is really needed. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 17:50, 22 December 2021 (UTC) ::'''re: I do think that it's better asked at m:''' Well I guess that rules out my participation since, as you know, I am blocked on Meta. Cheers, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 14:01, 23 December 2021 (UTC) == How we will see unregistered users == <section begin=content/> Hi! You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki. When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed. Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin '''will still be able to access the IP'''. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Improving tools|better tools]] to help. If you have not seen it before, you can [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation|read more on Meta]]. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|subscribe]] to [[m:Tech/News|the weekly technical newsletter]]. We have [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation#IP Masking Implementation Approaches (FAQ)|two suggested ways]] this identity could work. '''We would appreciate your feedback''' on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can [[m:Talk:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation|let us know on the talk page]]. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January. Thank you. /[[m:User:Johan (WMF)|Johan (WMF)]]<section end=content/> 18:18, 4 January 2022 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Johan (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Johan_(WMF)/Target_lists/Admins2022(6)&oldid=22532666 --> == A barnstar for you! == {| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;" |rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | [[File:Original Barnstar Hires.png|100px]] |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Original Barnstar''' |- |style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thank you for helping new wikipedian's get familiar with Wikimedia terms. [[User:Amiratohamy|Amiratohamy]] ([[User talk:Amiratohamy|talk]]) 19:36, 26 April 2022 (UTC) |} :{{Ping|Amiratohamy}} How kind: thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 19:37, 26 April 2022 (UTC) == [[Wikimedia:Inactivity policy]] == Hi Koavf, I just noticed that the inactivity policy has not been applied since October 2021. Would you be so kind to start a new run (contacting all effected admins)? Thanks, --[[User:Ameisenigel|Ameisenigel]] ([[User talk:Ameisenigel|talk]]) 14:13, 18 February 2024 (UTC) :Can do. I'll make a calendar reminder as well. Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 19:11, 18 February 2024 (UTC) == Remove sysop rights == Hi Koavf, please remove my local sysop rights (but not my translation admin rights). I do not need them very often and I can use my GS rights if there are any emergency situations. Thanks, --[[User:Ameisenigel|Ameisenigel]] ([[User talk:Ameisenigel|talk]]) 11:12, 22 October 2024 (UTC) :{{done}} Thanks [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 14:38, 22 October 2024 (UTC) == [[User_talk:Shawnmamentharian]] == Hello, do you think this is an acceptable way to use the talk page? [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:55, 29 November 2024 (UTC) :It is not. Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 15:26, 29 November 2024 (UTC) == Question about [[special:diff/264722]] == Hello, should we revert this edit, or should we just remove the external link? I look forward to hearing from you. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 15:11, 11 December 2024 (UTC) :I always delete spam just in case someone, somehow could come across it in the history and end up clicking on one of these links and then has a virus from some online gambling site or something. Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 16:52, 11 December 2024 (UTC) == Sandbox == Hello Koavf. I'm not very sure how to put this, but should we be protecting the sandbox? I feel like the sandbox should be the only proper venue which allows test edits. Temporary accounts do their test edits on other random pages now, and that can be disruptive. While I understand your intention of protecting the sandbox, I feel that it might be better to unprotect the sandbox and revert any test edit that comes about. Either way, I do not have a strong opinion. [[User:Jianhui67|'''<font color="#0E0">Jianhui67</font>]]^{[[User talk:Jianhui67|<span style="color:#1E90FF">'''talk'''</span>]]<span style="color:red">★</span>[[Special:Contributions/Jianhui67|<span style="color:#1E90FF">'''contribs'''</span>]]} 03:50, 7 July 2026 (UTC) :I debated it, but I figured that a short-term semi-protection would maybe help more than hurt. I'll unprotect. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:51, 7 July 2026 (UTC) bk726i0wmccsnapx6cxwqswc9dnp9s8 0 72772 277165 277163 2026-07-06T13:13:52Z Beat Estermann 1772 277165 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann] & [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual hackathon and the CultureFLOW method are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.877-Kopf-mit-Ohrschmuck-Kupfer.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.877-Kopf-mit-Ohrschmuck-Kupfer]] In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla and neighbouring Oaxaca, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: https://stats.wikimedia.org/; https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> px63b4r7t4hr66k3tn262hrt47ic6za 277166 277165 2026-07-06T13:17:21Z Beat Estermann 1772 277166 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann] & [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual hackathon and the CultureFLOW method are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.877-Kopf-mit-Ohrschmuck-Kupfer.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: Head with earrings (copper)]] In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla and neighbouring Oaxaca, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: https://stats.wikimedia.org/; https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> 9btrrkgmlmv6tgw83dgpj8eookf0p0t 277167 277166 2026-07-06T13:24:38Z Beat Estermann 1772 /* Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World */ 277167 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann] & [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual hackathon and the CultureFLOW method are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]] [[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|250px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]] In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla and neighbouring Oaxaca, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: https://stats.wikimedia.org/; https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> gsb4kogqk7fdu4zij1gy3ywe8wm5ebu 277168 277167 2026-07-06T13:27:16Z Beat Estermann 1772 277168 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann] & [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual hackathon and the CultureFLOW method are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]] [[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]] [[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a Tlaxcalan man (around 1898)]] In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla and neighbouring Oaxaca, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: https://stats.wikimedia.org/; https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> akv61upmndg2rsv42txya54vfhbfnu1 277169 277168 2026-07-06T13:31:52Z Beat Estermann 1772 277169 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann] & [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual hackathon and the CultureFLOW method are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]] [[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]] In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. [[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a Tlaxcalan man (around 1898)]] : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: https://stats.wikimedia.org/; https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> coo6naggqqn8itaf5n0wlqx89dplfw1 277170 277169 2026-07-06T13:32:32Z Beat Estermann 1772 /* Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects */ 277170 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann] & [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual hackathon and the CultureFLOW method are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]] [[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]] In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' [[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a man from Tlaxcala (around 1898)]] : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: https://stats.wikimedia.org/; https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> 9nakrh5swsewt4xsu25t8xsfs6qlwy4 277171 277170 2026-07-06T13:33:14Z Beat Estermann 1772 277171 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann] & [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual hackathon and the CultureFLOW method are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]] [[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]] In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === [[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a man from Tlaxcala (around 1898)]] During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: https://stats.wikimedia.org/; https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> eex2ym543x5ps918iiq62pu4mi7rcfd 277172 277171 2026-07-06T13:56:03Z Beat Estermann 1772 277172 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann] & [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual hackathon and the CultureFLOW method are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]] [[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]] In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === [[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a man from Tlaxcala (around 1898)]] During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: https://stats.wikimedia.org/; https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. [[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]] * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> rlfqeuhwvha109y5lhs74m2ug08eqjf 277173 277172 2026-07-06T13:56:36Z Beat Estermann 1772 277173 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann] & [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual hackathon and the CultureFLOW method are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]] [[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]] === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === [[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a man from Tlaxcala (around 1898)]] During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: https://stats.wikimedia.org/; https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. [[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]] * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> 3jug7bh2pvwgdvcld636kjbztik5qzu 277174 277173 2026-07-06T14:02:54Z Beat Estermann 1772 277174 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann] & [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual hackathon and the CultureFLOW method are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]] [[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]] === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === [[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a man from Tlaxcala (around 1898)]] During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. [[File:Participantes del Hackatón BAM BUAP 26 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|500px|Participants of this year's hackathon]] * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: https://stats.wikimedia.org/; https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. [[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]] * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> covesh419ppiyh1i1pxkd22cgsjqrfe 277175 277174 2026-07-06T14:11:52Z Beat Estermann 1772 277175 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann]] &amp; [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual hackathon and the CultureFLOW method are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]] [[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]] === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === [[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a man from Tlaxcala (around 1898)]] During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. [[File:Participantes del Hackatón BAM BUAP 26 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|500px|Participants of this year's hackathon]] * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: https://stats.wikimedia.org/; https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. [[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]] * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> mb9ec29rkxicqeh6ivr6mhg3lglvn0n 277199 277175 2026-07-07T07:26:17Z Beat Estermann 1772 277199 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann]] &amp; [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons|hackathon]] and the [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/CultureFLOW|CultureFLOW method]] are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]] [[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]] === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === [[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a man from Tlaxcala (around 1898)]] During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. [[File:Participantes del Hackatón BAM BUAP 26 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|500px|Participants of this year's hackathon]] * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Statistics]; [https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world Most Spoken Languages in the World (Berlitz)]; [[:en:List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language|List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language (English Wikipedia)]]. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. [[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]] * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> 49pq0s64182kgjrqoy85ylw1ou5k6s4 277200 277199 2026-07-07T07:27:26Z Beat Estermann 1772 277200 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Open GLAM in Puebla|By [[User:Beat Estermann|Beat Estermann]] &amp; [[User:SandyEleJaguar|Sandra Palacios]]}} From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH]. === Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP === The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons|hackathon]] and the [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/CultureFLOW|CultureFLOW method]] are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level. [[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]] [[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]] === Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World === In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go: : '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future. : The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques. Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world. === Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects === [[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a Tlaxcalan man (around 1898)]] During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects: * '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts''' : Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme. : Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles. : And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. [[File:Participantes del Hackatón BAM BUAP 26 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|500px|Participants of this year's hackathon]] * '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap''' : The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. : One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)<ref>Sources: [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Statistics]; [https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world Most Spoken Languages in the World (Berlitz)]; [[:en:List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language|List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language (English Wikipedia)]]. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).</ref>. [[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]] * '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z''' : The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. : A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico. ''The video recordings of the final project presentations can be found at: ...'' <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> jrhgyumd2dykkufppo3bm30vwdsa2x4 0 72774 277176 2026-07-06T18:21:38Z DMontagne en résidence 53561 +1 277176 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Postal Mission on Wikimedia|By [[User:DMontagne en résidence|DMontagne en résidence]]}} === The Postal Museum is on Commons! === What do you do when a museum is threatened with closure and a unique collection is at risk of being dispersed? You mobilize. Quickly. Like the [[GLAM/Newsletter/February 2026/Contents/Belgium report|January gourmet adventure]], again. On June 27 and June 28, 2026, a French-Belgian team of Wikimedia volunteers visited the Musée des Postes restantes in Hermalle-sous-Huy (province of Liège). Their mission (again): to digitally preserve the museum's post heritage before it was too late. Costumes, caps, seals, postal supplies... were photographed and uploaded to Commons. Want to see all images on Wikimedia Commons? [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Items_photographed_by_the_Mission_Postale&fileuntil=0561-0430%0AEncrier+fantaisie+-+ID-0561-0430+-+Mus%C3%A9e+Postes+restantes+-+Mission+Postale.jpg#mw-category-media Then click here]. <gallery> Applique de boite postale - ID-0533-0371 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Repose-plume doré - ID-0622-0563 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Chaussures à crampons - ID-0479-0303 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Képi - ID-0457-0236 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Collection de timbres Littera - ID-0480-0307 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Pince à désinfecter - ID-0526-0363 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg </gallery> The digitization was organized in a matter of weeks, with support from Wikimedia Belgium and Wikimedia France. In the year that Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary, Postal Mission demonstrates (again) what Wikimedia has stood for for a quarter of a century: preserving knowledge and cultural heritage and sharing it freely — for everyone. <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> 3uur2pki9z567qno4inpmqoo3st6tw9 277177 277176 2026-07-06T18:25:39Z DMontagne en résidence 53561 277177 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Postal Mission on Wikimedia|By [[User:DMontagne en résidence|DMontagne en résidence]]}} === The Postal Museum is on Commons! === What do you do when a museum is threatened with closure and a unique collection is at risk of being dispersed? You mobilize. Quickly. Like the [[GLAM/Newsletter/February 2026/Contents/Belgium report|January gourmet adventure]], again. On June 27 and June 28, 2026, a French-Belgian team of Wikimedia volunteers visited the Musée des Postes restantes in Hermalle-sous-Huy (province of Liège). Their mission (again): to digitally preserve the museum's post heritage before it was too late. Costumes, caps, seals, postal supplies... were photographed and uploaded to Commons. Want to see all images on Wikimedia Commons? [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Items_photographed_by_the_Mission_Postale&fileuntil=0561-0430%0AEncrier+fantaisie+-+ID-0561-0430+-+Mus%C3%A9e+Postes+restantes+-+Mission+Postale.jpg#mw-category-media Then click here]. <gallery> Applique de boite postale - ID-0533-0371 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Repose-plume doré - ID-0622-0563 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Chaussures à crampons - ID-0479-0303 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Képi - ID-0457-0236 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Collection de timbres Littera - ID-0480-0307 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Pince à désinfecter - ID-0526-0363 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Essuie-plume - ID-0632-0582 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Porte-plume en ivoire - ID-0637-0592 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Petite plume blanche - ID-0666-0652 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Ensemble de plumes - ID-0643-0603 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg </gallery> The digitization was organized in a matter of weeks, with support from Wikimedia Belgium and Wikimedia France. In the year that Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary, Postal Mission demonstrates (again) what Wikimedia has stood for for a quarter of a century: preserving knowledge and cultural heritage and sharing it freely — for everyone. <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> p4pz4mtrun788aqyrnoql2x9ni4akul 277178 277177 2026-07-06T18:45:33Z DMontagne en résidence 53561 upadate 277178 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Postal Mission on Wikimedia|By [[User:DMontagne en résidence|DMontagne en résidence]]}} === The Postal Museum is on Commons! === What do you do when a museum is threatened with closure and a unique collection is at risk of being dispersed? You mobilize. Quickly. Like the [[GLAM/Newsletter/February 2026/Contents/Belgium report|January gourmet adventure]], again. On June 27 and June 28, 2026, a French-Belgian team of Wikimedia volunteers visited the Musée des Postes restantes in Hermalle-sous-Huy (province of Liège). Their mission (again): to digitally preserve the museum's post heritage before it was too late. Costumes, caps, seals, postal supplies... 669 objects were photographed in a total of 1,280 photos. Want to see all images on Wikimedia Commons? [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Items_photographed_by_the_Mission_Postale&fileuntil=0561-0430%0AEncrier+fantaisie+-+ID-0561-0430+-+Mus%C3%A9e+Postes+restantes+-+Mission+Postale.jpg#mw-category-media Then click here] (work in progress!). <gallery> Applique de boite postale - ID-0533-0371 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Repose-plume doré - ID-0622-0563 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Chaussures à crampons - ID-0479-0303 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Képi - ID-0457-0236 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Collection de timbres Littera - ID-0480-0307 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Pince à désinfecter - ID-0526-0363 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Essuie-plume - ID-0632-0582 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Porte-plume en ivoire - ID-0637-0592 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Petite plume blanche - ID-0666-0652 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg Ensemble de plumes - ID-0643-0603 - Musée Postes restantes - Mission Postale.jpg </gallery> The digitization was organized in a matter of weeks, with support from Wikimedia Belgium and Wikimedia France. In the year that Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary, Postal Mission demonstrates (again) what Wikimedia has stood for for a quarter of a century: preserving knowledge and cultural heritage and sharing it freely — for everyone. <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> ms1txvydymu5eltfy9cf6jx68uah321 0 72775 277179 2026-07-06T21:26:34Z Ambrosia10 11199 creating BHL update 277179 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members|By [[User:Ambrosia10|Ambrosia10]]}} === BHL Transition news === As part of the transition away from the Smithsonian, the BHL servers have now been physically moved from the Smithsonian to the Field Museum. For more information on this move see [https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/06/bhl-servers-are-moving the BHL blog]. === Quarterly BHL Identifiers needing review === The [https://admin.biodiversitylibrary.org/data/WDHarvestReview.20260630.1856.csv quarterly BHL Identifiers needing review] report has recently been released. It contains possible issues and errors both in Wikidata and in the BHL catalogue including BHL Authors having more than one Wikidata identifier in the BHL catalogue, Wikidata identifier associated with more than one BHL author, Wikidata identifier in BHL but corresponding BHL Author ID not in Wikidata, BHL Title has more than one Wikidata identifier and Wikidata identifier associated with more than one BHL title. Both Wikidata editors and BHL affiliated cataloguers are working through these issues but please feel free to lend a hand! This will be a work in progress. ===BHL in the Guardian=== There was a [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/natural-world-digital-biodiversity-heritage-library-scientific-knowledge-free-access-aoe recently article in the Guardian] about BHL which cover the current funding issues for this organisation. <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> 4viqrmsohzofrcgloh1mdcw230he5es 277180 277179 2026-07-06T21:27:53Z Ambrosia10 11199 copy editing 277180 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members|By [[User:Ambrosia10|Ambrosia10]]}} === BHL Transition news === As part of the transition away from the Smithsonian, the BHL servers have now been physically moved from the Smithsonian to the Field Museum. For more information on this move see [https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/06/bhl-servers-are-moving the BHL blog]. === Quarterly BHL Identifiers needing review === The [https://admin.biodiversitylibrary.org/data/WDHarvestReview.20260630.1856.csv quarterly BHL Identifiers needing review] report has recently been released. It contains possible issues and errors both in Wikidata and in the BHL catalogue including BHL Authors having more than one Wikidata identifier in the BHL catalogue, Wikidata identifier associated with more than one BHL author, Wikidata identifier in BHL but corresponding BHL Author ID not in Wikidata, BHL Title has more than one Wikidata identifier and Wikidata identifier associated with more than one BHL title. Both Wikidata editors and BHL affiliated cataloguers are working through these issues but please feel free to lend a hand! This will be a work in progress. ===BHL in the Guardian=== A [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/natural-world-digital-biodiversity-heritage-library-scientific-knowledge-free-access-aoe recent article in the Guardian newspaper] about BHL. It covers the current funding issues for BHL. <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=June 2026}}</noinclude> senia4by7thrrziw41tz93ew31w7ipd 3 72776 277194 2026-07-07T03:37:21Z Jianhui67 5365 + 277194 wikitext text/x-wiki == July 2026 == [[File:Information orange.svg|25px|alt=|link=]] Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Outreach Wiki. Your edits appear to constitute [[w:Wikipedia:Vandalism|vandalism]] and have been [[w:Help:Reverting|reverted]] or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the [[w:Wikipedia:Sandbox|sandbox]]. [[w:Administrators|Administrators]] have the ability to [[w:BLOCK|block]] users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism. Thank you. 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