Ohio Wikimedians User Group

03/26/2022

The Ohio Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2022, cosponsored by Ohio Center for the Book and the State Library of Ohio, is on! Through April 2, help add information about Ohio women to Wikipedia to celebrate their contributions.

From March 26 through April 2, The Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library, in collaboration with the State Library of Ohio, is encouraging people to add information about Ohio women to Wikipedia during Women’s History Month 2022 to celebrate their contributions to the cultural and so...

01/15/2021

Happy birthday Wikipedia! 🎉

12/10/2020

is going virtual for 2020! Join us December 11-13 for talks, training, gatherings, and chats with your fellow North American Wikimedia enthusiasts.

Learn more and sign up: https://2020.wcna.wiki

01/23/2020

Congratulations to The Cleveland Museum of Art for their one-year anniversary of ! 🎉 A year ago, the CMA released high-resolution images of all its public-domain artworks, as well as (metadata) for more than 61,000 art objects.

Learn about their great outcomes and collaborations in the last year, including how we're improving Wikipedia articles on CMA artists and artworks through WikiProject Cleveland Museum of Art.

By Jane C. Alexander, Chief Digital Information Officer, The Cleveland Museum of Art

09/03/2019

Our September newsletter is out! Updates include the launch of WikiProject Cleveland Museum of Art, our new mailing list, Wiki Loves Monuments, and more.

09/01/2019

Ohio Wikimedians! WikiConference North America 2019 is coming to Boston on Friday, November 8 through Monday, November 11.

For those interested in attending: Session proposals are open for lectures, panels, workshops, etc. Visit the submissions page to learn more and start your submission: https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2019/Submissions

Scholarship applications are also open through September 20th. https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2019/Scholarships

08/16/2019

Wikimania Stockholm is underway! A number of sessions will be live streamed for those who would like to participate remotely. Check out the program:

Have you ever thought about the Wikimedia movement in terms of sustainable development? How free knowledge could have the potential to radically change peoples’ lives? Or how we through cooperation, innovation and passion actually could build a better world? Perhaps you haven’t, but we want to t...

08/06/2019

Today we honor Toni Morrison, an Ohio native and one of the greatest authors in American history. Her acclaimed works explored the black identity in America.

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford,[2] February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019[3]) was an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University.

04/19/2019

Students from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University did a great job today at the Latinx Spanish+Portuguese Edit-a-thon in the Research Commons! Participants worked on expanding and translating articles on Latinx topics between English, Spanish and Portuguese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Columbus/Spanish_%26_Portuguese_Edit-A-Thon_2019

04/12/2019

The Under-Represented Language Scientists Edit-a-thon with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University and the Buckeye Language Network is underway at the Research Commons!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Columbus/Female_and_Under-represented_Language_Scientists

01/23/2019

The Cleveland Museum of Art has announced that they are now an Open Access Institution, providing the public the ability to share, collaborate, remix, and reuse their images of many as 30,000 public domain artworks, along with metadata for over 61,000 works! 🎉

The Cleveland Museum of Art announced on January 23, 2019, that it is an Open Access institution, using the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) designation for high-resolution images and data as related to its collection. At the Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access means the public now has the ability to ...

09/29/2018

Visiting any historical sites this weekend? Tomorrow is the last day to upload your photos of registered historical locations for ! Help illustrate Wikipedia through this great annual contest.

Welcome to Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in the United StatesA campaign to improve our coverage of U.S. historic and cultural sitesthroughout the month of September.  Submit a photo >>