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| Short Description || Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all medical knowledge. That's what we're doing. |
| Short Description || Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all medical knowledge. That's what we're doing. |
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| Longer description || We aim for a future in which all health information on Wikipedia is accurate in every language version and backed by authoritative sources. Globally, Wikipedia is already one of the most-used sources of freely available health information |
| Longer description || We aim for a future in which all health information on Wikipedia is accurate in every language version and backed by authoritative sources. Globally, Wikipedia is already one of the most-used sources of freely available health information. Participants from all backgrounds are invited to join us by writing, translating, reviewing and joining our discussions. |
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Get a leaflet printed for your project at Wikimania 2014
Project Leaflets are here to help you recruit volunteers for your project at Wikimania 2014 - and beyond - by making it more discoverable. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations. We hope seeing these will help showcase the breadth of activity within Wikimedia - and hopefully even most community members will find some they've never heard of before!
This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:
- Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film
- Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.
- Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.
- Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____
- Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost
All you need to do is fill in the template below, we'll do the rest - they'll be ready and waiting for you at Wikimania 2014.
Any questions? Please contact at: ed@wikimanialondon.org
See also Exhibition_Stands
Template
Your contact details | If we need any clarification about your project - won't go in the leaflet. |
Project name | |
Short Description | 50 words. Must be intelligible to non-Wikimedians. |
Longer description | 150 words. Why should they help? How can they get involved? Should include key links. |
Logo | (image from commons, ideally in svg, if not at least 800px width by 500px height) |
Primary webpage URL | |
Mailing List | |
Email contact | Email for primary contact/community manager/comms |
IRC channel | |
Facebook page | |
Twitter handle |
Request for Leaflets
We have provided you with a template above - copy and paste below, then add your details. Care for the word limits.
Systemic Bias Kit
Your contact details | keilanawiki![]() |
Project name | Writing Diversity Back Into Wikipedia |
Short Description | Wikipedia's systemic bias against women, non-Western people, people of color, non-Anglophone topics, and other marginalized groups is well known. Use this kit to learn how to create a sustainable series of workshops to combat this problem, one editor and one article at a time. |
Longer description | Representation in Wikipedia for these groups is so important, because Wikipedia is for everyone, not just white, cisgendered, heterosexual males from an Anglophone Western country. With this kit, you can learn how to gather a small, effective group of participants and teach them the skills they need to write articles! The model of one-off edit-a-thons or workshops is unsustainable, but with social advertising, repeat workshops (at least once a month), and a friendly, welcoming atmosphere, high editor retention rates are completely possible. This kit contains everything you need to run a workshop. Just add Wikipedians! |
Logo | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2kip.png |
Primary webpage URL | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias_kit |
Mailing List | |
Email contact | keilanawiki@gmail.com |
IRC channel | |
Facebook page | |
Twitter handle | @keilanawiki |
Wikidata
Your contact details | @nightrose |
Project name | Wikidata |
Short Description | Wikidata is an open database for the sum of all knowledge in the world, freely accessible and editable for everyone. The Wikidata project supports all Wikipedia language versions, more than 280 of them, with a single source of structured data. This means all articles in the free online encyclopedia can be complemented with data. To give an example: dates of birth or death of notable people can be integrated in all language versions of Wikipedia once they are stored in Wikidata. Of course, just like all knowledge in Wikipedia and as you'd expect, data in Wikidata can also be used freely everywhere else.
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Longer description | To get started, have a look on the following pages on wikidata.org: Basics- Wikidata:Introduction |
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Primary webpage URL | Wikidata.org |
Mailing List | wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org |
IRC channel | #wikidata |
Facebook page | facebook.com/Wikidata |
Twitter handle | @wikidata |
WikiProject Medicine
Your contact details | user:bluerasberry |
Project name | WikiProject Medicine |
Short Description | Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all medical knowledge. That's what we're doing. |
Longer description | We aim for a future in which all health information on Wikipedia is accurate in every language version and backed by authoritative sources. Globally, Wikipedia is already one of the most-used sources of freely available health information. Participants from all backgrounds are invited to join us by writing, translating, reviewing and joining our discussions. |
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Primary webpage URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine |
Mailing List | Wiki Medicine discussion <wikimedia-medicine@lists.wikimedia.org> |
Email contact | |
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Designer feedback | Copy doesn't make sense. Call to action should be clearer.
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WikiProject Open
Your contact details | User:Lawsonstu |
Project name | WikiProject Open |
Short Description | WikiProject Open is a place to collaborate on improving Wikipedia articles about open movements and make better use of open materials within Wikipedia. |
Longer description | |
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Primary webpage URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open |
Mailing List | Wiki Open discussion <openaccess@lists.wikimedia.org> |
Wikimedia LGBT
Your contact details | User:Another Believer |
Project name | Wikimedia LGBT |
Short Description | Wikimedia LGBT is a proposed user group that promotes the development of content on Wikimedia projects which is of interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities. |
Longer description | The mission of Wikimedia is to empower and engage people around the world to collaboratively collect and develop open educational content, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. The desire to archive and spread LGBT culture and history is strong both within the LGBT and Wikimedia movements.
Wikimedia LGBT's goals:
To get started, have a look on the following pages at Meta-Wiki:
See also: Wiki Loves Pride, LGBT Free Media Collective |
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Primary webpage URL | meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia LGBT/Portal |
Mailing List | LGBT@lists.wikimedia.org |
IRC channel | #wikimedia-lgbt |
Facebook page | facebook.com/WikimediaLGBT |
Twitter handle | @WikimediaLGBT |
Wikipedia Art and Feminism
Your contact details | User:OR drohowa,User:Theredproject, |
Project name | Wikipedia Art+Feminism |
Short Description | In February 2014, Siân Evans (Art Libraries Society of North America's Women and Art Special Interest Group), Jacqueline Mabey (The office of failed projects), Michael Mandiberg, Laurel Ptak (Eyebeam Fellow), and Richard Knipel and Dorothy Howard (Metropolitan New York Library Council) of Wikimedia NYC, organized an ArtAndFeminism edit-athon at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York City. More than 30 satellite events were organized in Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. The campaign attracted an estimated 600 participants, resulting in more than 100 new Wikipedia articles and 100 expanded articles focused on women and the arts. ArtandFeminism Edit-a-Thons continue to be organized and the ArtandFeminism project provides event hosting support and resources for any interested party. |
Longer description | Wikipedia's gender trouble is well documented. In a 2010 survey, Wikimedia found that less than 13% of its contributors are female. The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate: suggestions include leisure inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia's talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation. Many articles on notable women in history and art are absent on Wikipedia. This represents an alarming aporia in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge. |
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Webpage URL | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism and http://artandfeminism.tumblr.com/ |
Mailing List | |
Email contact | artandfeminismwiki@gmail.com |
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Facebook page | |
Twitter hashtag | #ArtAndFeminism |
Wikiwomen's Collaborative
Your contact details | User: Netha Hussain, User:SarahStierch, User:Atropine |
Project name | Wikiwomen's Collaborative |
Short Description | Wikiwomen's Collaborative is an online initiative that seeks to engage and inspire women to edit Wikipedia, Commons, and related projects through outreach events, calls for action, social media campaigns and peer-to-peer support. |
Longer description | The WikiWomen's Collaborative is a community project created by women around the world who edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and want to encourage others to do the same. At last count, the Wikimedia Foundation found that only 9% of Wikipedians are women. Wikiwomen's Collaborative aims to create a social movement to encourage those who are already active Wikimedians to continue to deepen their participation, inspire others to do the same, and make it easy for more women to successfully help share their portion of the sum of all the world's knowledge. Inspired by the women's movement of the 21st century, we hope that by creating dedicated places online to share our projects and support one another, we can engage more women to contribute to Wikipedia. |
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Primary webpage URL | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen's_Collaborative |
Mailing List | gendergap![]() |
Email contact | nethahussain![]() |
IRC channel | #gendergap |
Facebook page | https://www.facebook.com/WikiWomensCollaborative |
Twitter handle | @wikiwomen |
OpenGLAM
Your contact details | User:Liekeploeger |
Project name | OpenGLAM |
Short Description | OpenGLAM is a global community of people and organisations, coordinated and supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation, who are working to open up content and data held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. |
Longer description | OpenGLAM (http://openglam.org/) is committed to building a world in which our cultural heritage is freely available for everyone to access, use, connect and enjoy. To achieve this global cultural commons, as much open content and cultural data as possible needs to be available, which is why OpenGLAM actively encourages galleries, libraries, museums and archives worldwide to adopt proactive open content and open data policies. We run workshops and provide documentation for cultural institutions wanting to open up their data and content as well as organising events bringing together groups that are committed to building an open cultural commons. |
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Primary webpage URL | http://openglam.org/ |
Mailing List | open-glam![]() |
Email contact | openglam![]() |
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Facebook page | |
Twitter handle | @openglam |
Wiki loves Parliaments
Your contact details | Olaf Kosinsky |
Project name | Wiki loves Parliaments |
Short Description | Since 2009 Wikipedians are visiting German and Austrian State Parliaments to take pictures of their members. They have been made available under a free license on Wikimedia Commons. They can be used in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects but also outside of Wikipedia - in compliance with the license conditions - for example by the Members of Parliament themselves. |
Longer description | Wiki Loves Parliaments is a new name for a project which had already been implemented several times in the german-speaking community. Volunteers, mainly photographers and Wikipedians, gathered in State Parliaments for an orchestrated action in order to take as many portraits of deputies, talk to them, give them a hand if they had some problems with Wikipedia or their articles and leave a good impression with them and the parliament's administration on the Wikimedia movement.
These projects have been successful, since 2009 17 such projects have been organised, thousands of pictures were taken, photographers teached each other how to make the best portraits, equipment such as flash units, backgrounds and lenses have been bought and soon the project became an almost professional endeavour - at least looking at the results. The issue became a topic in the german conference of State Parliament directors and soon every parliament invited Wikipedia to visit them - even across the borders in Austria where until today two such projects have been implemented. Eventually we also started taking video statements from deputies. Besides the creation of free pictures of politicians, the project offers the deputies the opportunity to ask questions about Wikipedia and to discuss „their“ Wikipedia article (eg. to indicate possible problems with personal rights). For Wikipedians this offers the chance to explain their idea of „Free Knowledge“ and the work of the Wikimedia projects. In addition these contacts give Wikipedia photographers access to places that are not accessible to the public in order to produce free images. |
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Primary webpage URL | http://wikilovesparliaments.org |
Mailing List | news![]() |
Email contact | info![]() |
IRC channel | |
Facebook page | facebook.com/wikilovesparliaments |
Twitter handle | @WikiParliaments |
Guild of Copy Editors
Your contact details | Miniapolis |
Project name | WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors |
Short Description | A group of editors dedicated to proofreading and improving existing Wikipedia articles |
Longer description | Many Wikipedia articles need copyediting; our current backlog is almost 3,000 articles. Editors also request a final polishing of articles they are preparing for Good Article or Featured Article nominations. The need is great, and we do our best to meet it; however, we can always use more help! |
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Primary webpage URL | Project page |
Mailing List | Mailing list |
Email contact | afwi2g@gmail.com |
IRC channel | |
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WikiProject Baseball
Your contact details | |
Project name | WikiProject Baseball |
Short Description | The sport of baseball can trace its history back to the 1700s; it has survived scandal, the Great Depression, even World Wars, but has always remained the same game that our fathers loved to play. |
Longer description | WikiProject Baseball is a group of contributors dedicated to improving coverage of baseball on Wikipedia. No matter whether your interest in baseball lies in its origins or the modern-day game, there is always somewhere you can help, whether through updating statistics, taking photos, writing or copyediting articles, or helping to build project consensus on a wide range of issues. Join us today in celebrating the past, present, and future of America's natural pastime, which has now spread around the world into one of the most popular global sports. |
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Primary webpage URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Baseball |
Mailing List | |
Email contact | gophightins_wiki![]() |
IRC channel | #wiki-baseball ⧼IRC-connect⧽ |
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Wikiprojekt Osttimor
Your contact details | J. Patrick Fischer |
Project name | Wikiprojekt Osttimor |
Short Description | The Wikiprojekt Osttimor is the project about East Timor in German Wikipedia. Das Wikiprojekt Osttimor beschäftigt sich mit dem kleinen Land im Südostasien. |
Longer description | Members of Wikiprojekt Osttimor are collecting datas and writing articles about the little South Asian country East Timor. We are creating maps and searching the WWW free license photos of East Timor for using in Wikipedia. You can join us, help us with photos and informations and you get help here, if you want to write East Timor articles in other languages. You can find us in German Wikipedia, keyword: "Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Osttimor". Die Mitarbeiter des Wikiprojekt Osttimor sammelt Daten und schreibt Artikel über das kleine Land im Südostasien. Wir erstellen Landkarten und suchen das WWW nach frei lizensierten Fotos von Osttimor ab, um es in der Wikipedia zu verwenden. Du kannst Dich uns anschließen und auch mit Fotos und Informationen helfen. Wenn Du Artikel über Osttimor in anderen Sprachen schreiben willst, helfen wir Dir gerne. Du kannst uns in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia unter dem Lemma "Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Osttimor" finden. |
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Primary webpage URL | de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Osttimor |
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Cricket WikiProject
Your contact details | We're at [1]. We'll argue like teenagers over the minutiae of a batting average, but we're warm and welcoming to newcomers |
Project name | Cricket WikiProject |
Short Description | The Cricket WikiProject is a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the sport of cricket. |
Longer description | 'WP:CRIC' has one of Wikipedia's best records for producing high quality work, with dozens of Featured Articles, Featured Lists and even a whole Featured Topic on "The Invincibles" (the 1948 Australia team). We are always keen to welcome new contributors and will help you develop your skills - and 'your' articles. |
Logo | ![]() WikiProject |
Primary webpage URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cricket |
Mailing List | n/a |
Email contact | n/a |
IRC channel | n/a |
Facebook page | n/a |
Twitter handle | n/a |
WikiProject Military history
Your contact details | Kirill Lokshin and Harry Mitchell (hjmitchell at ymail.com) (leaflet was drafted by Nick-D, who will not be attending) |
Project name | WikiProject Military history |
Short Description | WikiProject Military history is group of English-language Wikipedia editors that work on topics related to military history, theory, and practice. |
Longer description | WikiProject Military history's goal is to build the foremost free-content encyclopedia of military history in the English language by:
The project is among the busiest and highest-achieving on the English-language Wikipedia, and currently has over 1100 items of featured content within its scope. The project provides support for the development of new and high quality articles through an active central discussion board, several topic-specific task forces, a forum where editors can ask for assessments of new and improved articles and one of the English-language Wikipedia's few A-class review processes. The project also includes a monthly newsletter and awards to recognise editors who are making a significant contribution to the subject area. Further information on the project is available at http://www.enwp.org/WP:MILHIST |
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Primary webpage URL | http://www.enwp.org/WP:MILHIST |
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Email contact | hjmitchell at ymail.com |
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Today's Articles For Improvement
Your contact details | w:User talk:Evad37, w:User talk:NickPenguin, or else post to the project talkpage. (Note: no-one from the project is attending Wikimania, as far as we know, but EdSaperia said that you'll distribute for us [2]) |
Project name | Today's articles for improvement |
Short Description | Today's articles for improvement (TAFI) aims to collaborate to improve Wikipedia content, one article at a time. Anyone can get involved! |
Longer description | Welcome to Today's articles for improvement. Each week we identify underdeveloped articles that require improvement. Our goal is to use widespread collaborative editing to improve article quality over a short time frame – everyone is invited to participate!
The current TAFI article can be found by visiting the Community portal (linked from the sidebar of every Wikipedia page). If you have an account, you can sign up for weekly talk page notifications at http://www.enwp.org/WP:TAFI/Notify By visiting the TAFI project pages, you can nominate articles for future collaboration, review current nominations, and have your say in in scheduling articles. If you have any questions, please visit our talk page at http://www.enwp.org/WT:TAFI |
Logo | ![]() Note: TAFI messages usually have a purple accent (border, and/or background, and/or font, etc.): HTML values #000080 (dark purple), #E2E7FF (light purple) |
Primary webpage URL | http://www.enwp.org/WP:TAFI |
Mailing List | n/a |
Email contact | n/a |
IRC channel | n/a |
Facebook page | n/a |
Twitter handle | n/a |
WikiProject Architecture
Your contact details | Elekhh |
Project name | WikiProject Architecture |
Short Description | Are you interested in architecture? Do you think it is important to impart knowledge about architecture? Then we would like to invite you to help us in this project. With over 30,000 encyclopaedic articles within our scope, of which only about 600 reached 'good quality' status, we need a lot of help. |
Longer description | This WikiProject aims to:
If you are interested in a particular topic, you can also join one of our 'daughter projects' focused on airports, skyscrapers, urban studies, etc. or start a taskforce on a new topic. Even with a small effort, you can make a huge difference to many people. Articles such as Burj Khalifa, Taj Mahal or the Colosseum are read by over 100,000 people per month! |
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Primary webpage URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Architecture |
Mailing List | n/a |
Email contact | n/a |
IRC channel | n/a |
Facebook page | n/a |
Twitter handle | n/a |
Snuggle
Your contact details | User:EpochFail or post at en:Wikipedia_talk:Snuggle. |
Project name | Snuggle |
Short Description | Wikipedia needs high quality new editors to join the community. Snuggle helps you find and support the best new editors. |
Longer description | Snuggle is a browser-based newcomer observation and support system. Snuggle is designed to allow Wikipedian mentors to observe the activities of recently registered editors and identify high quality new editors who are in need of help. |
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Primary webpage URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Snuggle |
Mailing List | |
Email contact | aaron.halfaker@gmail.com |
IRC channel | irc://freenode.net/#wikipedia-snuggle |
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Wikivoyage
Your contact details | voy:User:LtPowers |
Project name | Wikivoyage |
Short Description | For travellers, by travellers: a multilingual, web-based project working to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. |
Longer description | Wikivoyage was founded in the spirit of sharing knowledge... the same spirit that makes travel so enjoyable. Whenever travellers meet each other on the road, they swap info about the places they came from and ask questions about places they're going.
We want to make it easy to share that knowledge and let others share it; our copyleft license means that the facts you know can spread far and wide. Unlike traditional travel guide books, where everything is copyrighted and based on a single person's one-time visit, Wikivoyage is entirely open content and constantly updated with new information. All you need is Internet access to write and make changes to Wikivoyage articles, even (or especially) while you're travelling! Wikivoyage's largest language projects are English, German, and French, but we have 13 other languages, too. You can help them grow and become the go-to source for travel information for the world! |
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Primary webpage URL | http://www.wikivoyage.org |
Mailing List | wikivoyage-l at lists.wikimedia.org |
Email contact | LtPowers_Wiki at rochester.rr.com |
IRC channel | |
Facebook page | https://www.facebook.com/wikivoyage.org |
Twitter handle | @wikivoyage |