Wikimedia CH/Newsletter/06/2017

Please find Wikimedia CH's newsletter for the months of June and July.
If you wish to share an event or activity through this newsletter, please feel free to send us a message at info@wikimedia.ch. Happy reading!

What happened in June and July?

June 9th: Swiss Archive Day

Impressions of the Swiss Archive Day 2017

Many archives across Switzerland collaborated with Wikipedia and organized events on or around June 9th. In Romandie, the effort led to the creation of a template for quoting archives, which didn't yet exist in French. The template can be found here. High schools pupils were also involved, and learned about sources, sourcing information correctly online, and about adding information to Wikipedia articles. Archivists were very interested in collaborating with Wikipedia to spread more widely the information their archival fonds hold. Photographs of the event can be found on the Swiss archivists association: http://vsa-aas.ch/fr/journee-des-archives-2017/impressionen-archivtag/

Europeana 1914-18

Wikimedia Switzerland participated to the contest of Europeana 1914-18 presenting a portfolio of projects about the World War I. In this page have been assembled material uploaded year by year mainly from the Swiss Federal Archives, from the National Library, from the Archives Cantonales Jurassiennes, from the ETH Library and finally from the Museum of the radio Monte Ceneri.

June 19th-23rd : Eracom workshop

A class of students of Eracom, a design school in Lausanne, attended a Wikipedia workshop led by their professor. They improved and created content about Swiss graphic designers, and uploaded images to illustrate these articles. Flor introduced them to Wikipedia, explained WMCH's role, and Rama helped them with Commons.

Freiburg Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon on June 25th

User Yayahval led an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon during the Contemporary arts festival Belluard Bollwerk in Freiburg. It is the second one she organized, and it led to the creation of 6 articles, while 19 others were edited. The 18 editors were composed of Yayahval's Art+Feminism edit-a-thon crew, festival goers, and the festival's artists in residency.

Contact with the association Tech-Save

Tech-Save is a new foundation based in Freiburg that seeks to save and share technical and technological know-how and methods, in many domains, from flour mills to aeronautics. The head of the foundation approached WMCH in order to prepare a collaboration. A first step will be to teach and encourage the Foundation members to edit Wikipedia to include the techniques they have collected. Their association with former professionals from Ilford should mean bringing new knowledge about photographic know-how, more specifically, about cibachrome, on Wikipedia!

SBB/CFF-workshop in Olten

Administrative building of the SBB infrastructure Operating region Mitte

Of course, we had expected to discover the latest technology when we visited the SBB control center in Olten on July 15^th. But the scenery was much more spectacular. An introduction by an employee of this company first showed us the dimensions that this coordination work required. There must be no mistake and above all no system failure! In various stages, redundant systems are installed, which also multiple failures of different resources do not lead to a total breakdown. From energy supply to building security, electronics, to human workforce, all eventualities that could collapse could only slightly affect train traffic on the Swiss routes.

All participants - except one who had missed the connection to our tour due to the delay of the train to Olten - were then also member in the second part, when the dimensioning of the data exchange, which will be between SBB and Wikidata. SBB provides us with the rich stock of data that is suitable for use in different Wikimedia projects. From a provisional wish list, we are now proceeding to a duty booklet. We will report on the further progress.

List of coming events

You may also consult the upcoming list of all the events happening in Switzerland through the Wikimedia CH website.

Date	Events	Location
19.08.2017, 12PM to 6PM	Pic-nick at the Parc des Bastions and MEG visit	Geneva, GE
26.08.2017, 9AM to 5PM	Sommerbräteln mit Rahmenprogramm	Zurich, ZH
08.09.2017 - 10.09.2017	German WikiCon 2017	Leipzig, Germany
14.09.2017 8.30AM to 5PM	WikiData Zürich 2017	Zürich, ZH
14.09.2017 - 16.09.2017	Cultural Hackathon 2017	Lausanne, VD
19.10.2017 - 21.10.2017	WikiConvention francophone	Strasbourg, France
16.11.2017 - 19.11.2017	GLAM-on-Tour on Monte Verità	Ascona, TI

Announcements

Call for projects out now

The call for projects for 2018 is now out. If you have a project to submit to WMCH, we are looking forward to hearing from you. Please use this form to share your project.

Pic-nick and museum visit in Geneva on Saturday, August 19th

Romand and French border-based Wikipedians are invited to meet for a pic-nick followed by a visit of the Ethnography Museum. We will meet at noon at the Parc des Bastions, bring something to drink or to eat that you can share. Flor will bring cutlery, glasses and plates, but if you have reusable ones, feel free to bring them. We will then visit the MEG, where photography is authorized.

3rd Swiss Cultural Hackathon in Lausanne (September 14th-16th, 2017)

The next Open Cultural Data Hackathon takes place on 15-16 September 2017 at the University of Lausanne, in cooperation with the Laboratoire de cultures et humanités digitales, BCU Lausanne, infoclio.ch and further partners and sponsors. For further information and to register, click here to go to the event page on Open Data's website.

Wikidata workshop during HackZurich (14th September 2017)

Wikidata Logo

HackZurich is one of the largest hackathons in Europe and it will take place in Zurich, in September 2017. We invite Wikidata volunteers to join us and hack at HackZurich for and with Wikidata.

The main theme proposed is "Let's hack for Q72". We would like to hack software to improve the data and services about the city of Zurich. However, anyone joining HackZurich is free to decide if she wants to extend the topic and hack something more general for Wikidata. We are open to discussion!

If you do not have experience with Wikidata, we will run a Wikidata workshop the day before HackZurich starts, at the University of Zurich. We will explain what Wikidata is, and we will have hands-on sessions to learn how to code for and with Wikidata.

Where? University of Zurich. Oerlikon Campus. Meeting point at Auditorium BIN.1.B.01
Languages: English (for official communication), German.
Audience expected: people interested in Wikidata, coding and open data in general.
Registration here.

Teaming up in HackZurich:

What? Wikidata hackers participating at HackZurich. HackZurich reviews applications and selects hackers to participate during the hacking weekend.
Where? HackZurich will take place at TechnoPark (Technoparkstrasse 1, 8005 Zürich).
When? HackZurich runs from September the 15th until September the 17th.
Languages: English (for official communication), German.
Audience expected: people interested in Wikidata, coding and open data in general.

Page of the event: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Wikidata_Zurich Registration here

Scholar-in-Residence-Programm in the Eisenbibliothek

As a result of the successful cooperation during the archive day, the Eisenbibliothek in Schaffhausen has now announced that it wants to offer the community of volunteers a scholar program for the coming summer. For two people there is the possibility to work on the workstations of the archive intensively. The work is actively supported by the scientific staff. More information about this in one of our next newsletter.

How to use drones if there are birds

Vogelwarte, the Swiss bird station, has issued recommendations concerning drone usage around birds. They can be found here in French, German, and Italian: http://www.vogelwarte.ch/fr/station/news/communiques/les-oiseaux-face-aux-drones http://www.vogelwarte.ch/de/vogelwarte/news/medienmitteilungen/wie-voegel-auf-drohnen-reagieren http://www.vogelwarte.ch/it/vogelwarte/attualita/novita/come-gli-uccelli-reagiscono-ai-droni

Miscellaneous news

Convalescent

After a deep surgical intervention a long term volunteer got his memory back, and would like to restart editing. He writes that he has lost so much of his knowledge as a Wikipedian he needs external help to understand the techniques. If you live in or around Schaffhausen and you feel able to help him on some occasions, please contact to us. We will give you the contact informations.

Job request

A member of the community is looking for a Wikimedia specialist. He writes: "Wir benützen MediaWiki als Intranet und Dokumentation ISO 9001, allerdings haben wir nicht ein MediaWiki Spezialist. Ich brauche jemand die da etwas unterstützen kann und bereit ist stundenweise für uns zu arbeiten. In erste Linie geht es jetzt um die Installation von den folgenden in Wikipedia auch benützte Erweiterungen - ich denke das sind: Extension:CirrusSearch (Elastic search) und Extension:VisualEditor." If you are interested, please contact us; we will give you their information.