Outreach Wiki outreachwiki https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.48.0-wmf.3 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 0 72614 280187 279627 2026-11-04T20:01:37Z Nmilbrodt 56928 /* Upcoming CAHH meet-ups */ 280187 wikitext text/x-wiki The Community Archiving Happy Hour is a free monthly online meet-up for people interested in community archiving. New participants can sign up to join their [https://groups.google.com/g/cahappyhour-meetups/about google group] for information on how to join the happy hour meetup and announcements from members. The group's members contribute collectively to [[Community and Personal Archiving Resources]]. This is a complete schedule of their previous and upcoming meet-ups. === Upcoming CAHH meet-ups === Tuesday, November 10, 2026<br> Guest speaker: Krystal Mejias from [https://lesyearbook.nyc/ LES Yearbook]<br> Time: 11:00am PT, noon MT, 1:00pm CT, 2:00pm ET Thursday, December 10, 2026<br> Guest speaker: Ben Vershbow from [https://tapestries.media/dashboard/public Tapestries]<br> Time: 1:00pm PT, 2:00pm MT, 3:00pm CT, 4:00pm ET Thursday, January 7, 2027<br> Guest presenters: Elvis Bakaitis from [https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org/ Lesbian Herstory Archives]<br> Time: 12:00pm PT, 1:00pm MT, 2:00pm CT, 3:00pm ET Thursday, February 4, 2027<br> Guest presenters: TBD<br> Time: 1:00pm PT, 2:00pm MT, 3:00pm CT, 4:00pm ET Thursday, March 11, 2027<br> Guest presenters: TBD<br> Time: 1:00pm PT, 2:00pm MT, 3:00pm CT, 4:00pm ET Thursday, April 8, 2027<br> Guest presenters: TBD<br> Time: 1:00pm PT, 2:00pm MT, 3:00pm CT, 4:00pm ET Thursday, May 13, 2027<br> Guest presenters: TBD<br> Time: 1:00pm PT, 2:00pm MT, 3:00pm CT, 4:00pm ET Thursday, June 10, 2027<br> Guest presenters: TBD<br> Time: 1:00pm PT, 2:00pm MT, 3:00pm CT, 4:00pm ET === Past CAHH meet-ups === Wednesday, October 7, 2026<br> Guest speaker: Corey Lewis, [https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/main/html/communityarch.html MD Community Archives Network], Maryland State Archives<br> Thursday, September 10, 2026<br> Guest speaker: Camille Lawrence, [https://www.blackbeautyarchive.com/ Black Beauty Archive]<br> Tuesday, August 11, 2026<br> Guest speaker: Morgan Davis Gieringer, Head of [https://library.unt.edu/special-collections/ Special Collections], University of North Texas<br> Wednesday, July 8, 2026<br> Guest speaker: Robert LaRose from [https://humanitiesdc.org/dc-oral-history-collaborative/ DCOHC]<br> Thursday, June 11, 2026<br> Guest speaker: Dan Erdman from [https://mediaburn.org/ Media Burn Archive]<br> Friday, May 8, 2026<br> Guest speakers: Krystal Tribbett, Audra Eagle Yun, and Julia Huỳnh from UC Irvine Libraries Special Collections and Archives. Together they are project co-leads for [https://sites.uci.edu/ccap/ Community-Centered Archives Practice: Transforming Education, Archives, and Community History (CCAP TEACH] Thursday, April 7th, 2026<br> Guest speaker: Charanya Ramakrishnan from [https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/ The Louis Armstrong House Museum] Wednesday, March 4th, 2026<br> Guest speaker: Mallory Furnier from LA as Subject's [https://laassubject.org/about/archives-risk-committee Archives At Risk Committee Self-Assessment Program] at California State University, Northridge Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026<br> Guest speakers: Chloe Bordewich and Lydia Harrington from the [https://bostonlittlesyria.org/ Boston little Syria Project] Friday, January 9th, 2026<br> Guest speaker: Kristen Whitson from [https://wils.org/ WiLS] & [https://recollectionwisconsin.org/ Recollection Wisconsin] Thursday, December 4, 2025<br> Guest speaker: Dartricia Rollins from [https://www.georgiadusk.com/ Georgia Dusk] oral history project Wednesday, November 12, 2025<br> Guest speaker: Steven Sielaff from [https://oralhistory.org/ Oral History Association] Executive Board Listening Tour Friday, October 10, 2025<br> Guest speakers: Joan Ilacqua and Mic Hamilton from [https://www.queerhistoryboston.org/ Queer History Boston] Wednesday, September 3, 2025<br> Guest speakers: Kate Dollenmayer, C. Diaz and Pamela Vadakan from [https://www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/ Home Movie Day] Thursday, August 14, 2025<br> Guest speaker: Carmaletta M Williams from [https://uncoverkc.org/directory-volunteer/listing/black-archives-of-mid-america?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22070113587&gbraid=0AAAAADNWQOP3-guLEeOFFOo4Fz1oFZeqV&gclid=Cj0KCQjww8rQBhDjARIsAE43KPOod3y0caEXRs3x1-DqMwHV4EQtmKi1eWoz_xabz09Q9uVDKUyyiZMaAgbIEALw_wcB Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City] Tuesday, July 1, 2025<br> Guest speakers: Emma York and Laura Orleans from [https://exhibits.fishingheritagecenter.org/casting-a-wider-net/#profiles Casting a Wider Net] Tuesday, June 3, 2025<br> Guest speakers: Scout Zabel and Claudia from [https://www.abcnorio.org/ ABC No Rio] Tuesday, May 6, 2025<br> Guest speaker: Andrea Nelson from [https://rikersmemoryproject.org/ Rikers Public Memory Project] Tuesday, April 1, 2025<br> Guest speaker: Ines Aisengart Menezes from [https://maretorios.org/acervo/ Maretorios] Tuesday, March 4, 2025<br> Guest speaker: Donna Braquet from [https://digitalcollections.lib.utk.edu/collections/cbf7f01f-97a1-4b58-8228-9d2a8ad425e5?locale=en Voices Out Loud Project] at the University of Tennessee Knoxville Tuesday, February 4, 2025<br> Guest speaker: Marie Lascu and other volunteers from the [https://communityarchiving.org/ Community Archiving Workshop] team Tuesday, January 7, 2025<br> Guest speakers: Andrew Elder and Carolyn Goldstein from UMass Boston’s [https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll6 Mass. Memories Road Show] and [https://ropa.umb.edu/ RoPA Road Map for Participatory Archiving] programs Tuesday, December 5, 2024<br> Guest speaker: [https://www.risetogetherscc.org/dr-rebecca-hernandez Rebecca Hernandez], the inaugural Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library Tuesday, November 5, 2024<br> Guest speaker: Fanny Garcia from [https://voiceofwitness.org/ Voice of Witness] Tuesday, October 1, 2024<br> Guest speaker: Meral Agish, from [https://queensmemory.org/ Queens Memory Project] at the Queens Public Library September 3, 2024<br> Guest speaker: Anna Trammell from The Internet Archive's [https://communitywebs.archive-it.org/ Community Webs Program] August 6, 2024<br> Guest speaker: Beth Castle from [https://www.warriorwomen.org/ Warrior Women Project] July 2, 2024<br> Guest speaker: Syreeta Gates from [https://www.thegatespreserve.com/ Gates Preserve] June 4, 2024<br> Guest speaker: Maggie Schreiner and other volunteers from [https://interferencearchive.org/ Interference Archive] May 7, 2024<br> Guest speakers: Maigen Sullivan and Joshua Burford from [https://invisiblehistory.org/ Invisible Histories] April 7, 2024<br> Introductory meet-up ic44izabfy71yzi3i3uk7ztti308342 0 73382 280184 280170 2026-11-04T12:27:26Z MartinPoulter 647 metrics 280184 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/October 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Mughal scientific instruments + Gazette wind-down|By [[User:MartinPoulter|MartinPoulter]] & [[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]}} === Khalili Foundation === [[File:Khalili Collection Islamic Art sci 0045.1.jpg|thumb|right|Celestial globe by Muhammad Saleh Thattvi; one of ten new uploaded images]] '''Ten new images and more knowledge about Mughal metallurgy''' There are no new articles or translations this month, but a lot of article improvements. There was a very short article about the scientific instrument maker [[:w:en:Muhammad Saleh Thattvi|Muhammad Saleh Thattvi]], which I've expanded five times and put up for DYK review. I made a lot of edits to [[:w:en:Mughal Empire|Mughal Empire]], [[:w:en:History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent|History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent]], [[:w:en:Foreign relations of the Mughal Empire|Foreign relations of the Mughal Empire]], and [[:w:en:List of astronomical instrument makers|List of astronomical instrument makers]] in order to raise awareness of the [[:w:en:Lahore family of astrolabists|Lahore family of astrolabists]], whose article I created in September. Separately, a volunteer added an image of the Khalili astrolabe to the [[:w:en:Subah of Lahore|Subah of Lahore]] article. The articles on [[:w:en:Khalili astrolabe|Khalili astrolabe]] and Lahore family of astrolabists have both passed DYK review but are still waiting to be scheduled for Wikipedia's front page. I have continued to improve both articles, and have nominated Khalili astrolabe for Good Article review. The article on [[:w:en:Amanat Khan Shirazi|Amanat Khan Shirazi]] is also awaiting Good Article review. I discovered that an image of a celestial globe by Muhammad Saleh Thattvi, currently in the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, was being used in nine articles on a total of seven language versions of Wikipedia. The image was taken from an auction site, and ''falsely'' claimed as the uploader's own work. Once I realised this was a copyright violation I got the image deleted (along with the uploader's other copyright violations). I then uploaded a Khalili Collections image of the same object and edited English, Italian, Korean, Ukrainian, Tatar, Persian, and Egyptian Arabic Wikipedias to add in the replacement image. To support the above edits, I uploaded ten images of scientific instruments this month, with more to come. I have requested three new pages to be created on the Khalili Collections web site, documenting specific scientific instruments, for the Wikipedia articles to link to. The [https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en WikiNav tool] gives overviews of how readers are reaching Wikipedia articles, using data from September 2026. The [https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en&title=Khalili_Collection_of_Islamic_Art entry for Khalili Collection of Islamic art] shows that about half this article's readers are coming from articles on the Blue Quran, Samarkand Kufic Quran, Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, Musa va 'Uj, and Jami' al-tawarikh. There was an online event about Wikidata querying this month, where I learned that a service I use to find translations of my Wikipedia articles into other languages will no longer be available in early 2027. There will need to be a new software tool to do this. I'm not sure how this can happen but I will put out requests for help from the community. The Commons API reports '''3,459,148 image views''' for October. === ''The Gazette'' === Depending on when you read this, Andy Mabbett's [[:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/The Gazette|residence at ''The Gazette'']] is drawing, or has drawn, to a close with an online editing event on 7 November (see next issue for update, or [[:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/The Gazette/Event|join in]] if you see this in time). His work in October included [[:en:Wikipedia:Bot requests#Upgrade citations to 'The_Gazette' to use dedicated template|negotiations for a bot operator]] to upgrade bare-link citations; and completing transcription of ''[[:s:Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo|Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo]]''—an index to the painting ''[[:en:Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch|Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch]]''—on Wikisource, which led to a [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Key or index image|proposal for a new Wikidata property]], for linking such index images to the images they describe. He also added 27,609 English descriptions to existing Wikidata items about individual issues of ''The London Gazette'', and made a [https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8893.xml chance discovery] that [[:en:Charles Darwin|Charles Darwin]] read and kept a copy of ''The London Gazette''! A [[:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/The Gazette/Diary|project diary]] tracks what else he has been up to. === Heading 3 === <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=October 2026}}</noinclude> fzac9pxc4bym0sue9oq0pbas19vbmqa 280185 280184 2026-11-04T12:44:52Z MartinPoulter 647 improve headline 280185 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/October 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Mughal scientific instruments + Gazette wind-down|By [[User:MartinPoulter|MartinPoulter]] & [[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]}} === Khalili Foundation === [[File:Khalili Collection Islamic Art sci 0045.1.jpg|thumb|right|Celestial globe by Muhammad Saleh Thattvi; one of ten new uploaded images]] '''Raising awareness of Mughal metallurgy, including ten new images''' There are no new articles or translations this month, but a lot of article improvements. There was a very short article about the scientific instrument maker [[:w:en:Muhammad Saleh Thattvi|Muhammad Saleh Thattvi]], which I've expanded five times and put up for DYK review. I made a lot of edits to [[:w:en:Mughal Empire|Mughal Empire]], [[:w:en:History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent|History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent]], [[:w:en:Foreign relations of the Mughal Empire|Foreign relations of the Mughal Empire]], and [[:w:en:List of astronomical instrument makers|List of astronomical instrument makers]] in order to raise awareness of the [[:w:en:Lahore family of astrolabists|Lahore family of astrolabists]], whose article I created in September. Separately, a volunteer added an image of the Khalili astrolabe to the [[:w:en:Subah of Lahore|Subah of Lahore]] article. The articles on [[:w:en:Khalili astrolabe|Khalili astrolabe]] and Lahore family of astrolabists have both passed DYK review but are still waiting to be scheduled for Wikipedia's front page. I have continued to improve both articles, and have nominated Khalili astrolabe for Good Article review. The article on [[:w:en:Amanat Khan Shirazi|Amanat Khan Shirazi]] is also awaiting Good Article review. I discovered that an image of a celestial globe by Muhammad Saleh Thattvi, currently in the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, was being used in nine articles on a total of seven language versions of Wikipedia. The image was taken from an auction site, and ''falsely'' claimed as the uploader's own work. Once I realised this was a copyright violation I got the image deleted (along with the uploader's other copyright violations). I then uploaded a Khalili Collections image of the same object and edited English, Italian, Korean, Ukrainian, Tatar, Persian, and Egyptian Arabic Wikipedias to add in the replacement image. To support the above edits, I uploaded ten images of scientific instruments this month, with more to come. I have requested three new pages to be created on the Khalili Collections web site, documenting specific scientific instruments, for the Wikipedia articles to link to. The [https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en WikiNav tool] gives overviews of how readers are reaching Wikipedia articles, using data from September 2026. The [https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en&title=Khalili_Collection_of_Islamic_Art entry for Khalili Collection of Islamic art] shows that about half this article's readers are coming from articles on the Blue Quran, Samarkand Kufic Quran, Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, Musa va 'Uj, and Jami' al-tawarikh. There was an online event about Wikidata querying this month, where I learned that a service I use to find translations of my Wikipedia articles into other languages will no longer be available in early 2027. There will need to be a new software tool to do this. I'm not sure how this can happen but I will put out requests for help from the community. The Commons API reports '''3,459,148 image views''' for October. === ''The Gazette'' === Depending on when you read this, Andy Mabbett's [[:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/The Gazette|residence at ''The Gazette'']] is drawing, or has drawn, to a close with an online editing event on 7 November (see next issue for update, or [[:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/The Gazette/Event|join in]] if you see this in time). His work in October included [[:en:Wikipedia:Bot requests#Upgrade citations to 'The_Gazette' to use dedicated template|negotiations for a bot operator]] to upgrade bare-link citations; and completing transcription of ''[[:s:Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo|Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo]]''—an index to the painting ''[[:en:Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch|Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch]]''—on Wikisource, which led to a [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Key or index image|proposal for a new Wikidata property]], for linking such index images to the images they describe. He also added 27,609 English descriptions to existing Wikidata items about individual issues of ''The London Gazette'', and made a [https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8893.xml chance discovery] that [[:en:Charles Darwin|Charles Darwin]] read and kept a copy of ''The London Gazette''! A [[:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/The Gazette/Diary|project diary]] tracks what else he has been up to. === Heading 3 === <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=October 2026}}</noinclude> s4eyuqfhrrg80xvqwsg5z71wsavr6cb 0 73383 280183 280169 2026-11-04T12:12:27Z MartinPoulter 647 metrics section 280183 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/October 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|A dozen new articles|By [[User:MartinPoulter|MartinPoulter]]}} ''This is the twenty-fourth monthly report of the [[:m:UNESCO Memory of the World project|ongoing work to improve the representation of the UNESCO Memory of the World international register on Wikimedia projects]]. This is supported and fully funded by the Khalili Foundation, with the involvement of UNESCO and Wikimedia UK.'' === New articles created by volunteers === [[File:A Collection of selected maps of Iran in the Qajar.jpg|thumb|right|One of the maps of Iran subject of new articles in Persian and English Wikipedias]] *Arabic: [[:w:ar:اتفاقيات_سانتا_في|Capitulations of Santa Fe]] *Azerbaijani: [[:w:az:Kell kitabı|Book of Kells]] *Balinese: [[:w:ban:Hikayat Hang Tuah|Hikayat Hang Tuah]] *English: [[:w:en:Administrative Documents of Astan Quds Razavi|Administrative Documents of Astan Quds Razavi]] *English: [[:w:en:Collection of selected maps of Iran in the Qajar Era|Collection of selected maps of Iran in the Qajar Era]] *Hausa: [[:w:ha:Tarihin Ƙungiyar Al'ummai|League of Nations Archives 1919-1946]] *Korean: [[:w:ko:국제연맹 아카이브|League of Nations Archives 1919-1946]] *Persian: [[:w:fa:مجموعه اسناد تشکیلات اداری آستان قدس رضوی|Administrative Documents of Astan Quds Razavi]] *Persian: [[:w:fa:مجموعه برگزیده نقشه‌های دوره قاجار ایران|A Collection of selected maps of Iran in the Qajar Era]] *Sinhala: [[:w:si:ගාල්ලේ ත්‍රිභාෂා සෙල්ලිපිය|Galle Trilingual Stele]] *Tajik: [[:w:tg:Қурси осмонии Небра|Nebra Sky Disk]] *Ukrainian: [[:w:uk:Лист_Перу_Ваша_ді_Каміньї|Letter from Pero Vaz de Caminha]] The two English articles had been translated from Persian by AI and had lots of errors. I made substantial changes and renamed one of the articles to make them better fit English Wikipedia. === Metrics === The Commons API reports '''142 million views''' of images relating to the Memory of the World International Register. This figure is only approximate due to imperfect tagging. The Massviews tool reports '''3,338,685 views''' of English Wikipedia articles that link to the Memory of the World International Register. <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=October 2026}}</noinclude> cx0gqfnzu1ao6knhz11780zztqt04cc 280186 280183 2026-11-04T13:14:57Z MartinPoulter 647 reword 280186 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/October 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|A dozen new articles|By [[User:MartinPoulter|MartinPoulter]]}} ''This is the twenty-fourth monthly report of the [[:m:UNESCO Memory of the World project|ongoing work to improve the representation of the UNESCO Memory of the World international register on Wikimedia projects]]. This is supported and fully funded by the Khalili Foundation, with the involvement of UNESCO and Wikimedia UK.'' === New articles created by volunteers === [[File:A Collection of selected maps of Iran in the Qajar.jpg|thumb|right|One of the maps of Iran described in new articles in Persian and English Wikipedias]] *Arabic: [[:w:ar:اتفاقيات_سانتا_في|Capitulations of Santa Fe]] *Azerbaijani: [[:w:az:Kell kitabı|Book of Kells]] *Balinese: [[:w:ban:Hikayat Hang Tuah|Hikayat Hang Tuah]] *English: [[:w:en:Administrative Documents of Astan Quds Razavi|Administrative Documents of Astan Quds Razavi]] *English: [[:w:en:Collection of selected maps of Iran in the Qajar Era|Collection of selected maps of Iran in the Qajar Era]] *Hausa: [[:w:ha:Tarihin Ƙungiyar Al'ummai|League of Nations Archives 1919-1946]] *Korean: [[:w:ko:국제연맹 아카이브|League of Nations Archives 1919-1946]] *Persian: [[:w:fa:مجموعه اسناد تشکیلات اداری آستان قدس رضوی|Administrative Documents of Astan Quds Razavi]] *Persian: [[:w:fa:مجموعه برگزیده نقشه‌های دوره قاجار ایران|A Collection of selected maps of Iran in the Qajar Era]] *Sinhala: [[:w:si:ගාල්ලේ ත්‍රිභාෂා සෙල්ලිපිය|Galle Trilingual Stele]] *Tajik: [[:w:tg:Қурси осмонии Небра|Nebra Sky Disk]] *Ukrainian: [[:w:uk:Лист_Перу_Ваша_ді_Каміньї|Letter from Pero Vaz de Caminha]] The two English articles had been translated from Persian by AI and had lots of errors. I made substantial changes and renamed one of the articles to make them better fit English Wikipedia. === Metrics === The Commons API reports '''142 million views''' of images relating to the Memory of the World International Register. This figure is only approximate due to imperfect tagging. The Massviews tool reports '''3,338,685 views''' of English Wikipedia articles that link to the Memory of the World International Register. <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=October 2026}}</noinclude> 6z6jzsxduxojkm59zv4njsn0kf23cga