#Hackaton update

With a room full of hackers, #GLAM, #Wikipedia and #MediaWiki hackers a lot gets done. The best bit is probably the interaction, the demonstrations, the explanations of techniques. It is best because this enables people to do better.

• Robert finished enabling Europeana in translatewiki.net
• today the Serbian localisation has been done completely !!
• Robert has started work to get pywikipedia enabled in translatewiki
• the statistics for our GLAM partners is being looked at
• a prototype was build for importing images out of a CMS of a GLAM
• a sentence level editor was demonstrated; the best bit is that usability studies determine its functionality
• I got one new t-shirt and Siebrand got three
• a first upload button from Open Images to MediaWiki was hacked together
• the temperature of the pizza kept the presentations brief - they were good

Thanks,
      GerardM

Open Images gets a #MediaWiki upload button

At the Amsterdam #hackaton they are building functionality that will upload a film fragment to MediaWiki from an Open Images repository.

When this software is translated in Spanish, we can upload this great Argentinian resource to Commons.

It is wonderful when a plan comes together.
Thanks,
      GerardM

The value of face time

Beatriz Busaniche

One of the presenters at the #GLAMwiki conferences in London and Paris was Beatriz. She brought us the wonderful news that Wikimedia Argentia had been given many, many DVD's with original news footage from the public Argentinian broadcaster. Many of these news items have found there way to the Spanish Wikipedia and this generated so much interest that other Argentinian networks are considering following this great initiative.

Such a treasure trove is both a responsibility and a commitment and in the Free Content world it is best to share the load. Sharing is hard when all the data is stored on physical objects. This was discussed by attendees of both conferences and the results are encouraging.

OpenBeelden is an open media platform giving easy access to audiovisual collections and facilitates easy reuse. It is an implementation of the MMBase content management system and both are freely licensed. OpenBeelden is used to make many Dutch news items available.

The 109 messages of the OpenBeelden software are now available for localisation at translatewiki.net. When this works out well, even the localisation of MMBase may become a translatewiki project.

Once the OpenBeelden is translated in Spanish, there is a platform to manage all the news items from the DVDs. This will surely allow Beatriz to share the wonderful resource she is the custodian of.

Thanks,
     GerardM