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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue VIII, August 2024

WMF GLAM report

Commons Impact Metrics, WikiLibCon25, and WikiConference North America

Commons Impact Metrics available via data dumps and API

In July, Commons Impact Metrics was launched officially via this post on Diff with extended details. Commons Impact Metrics is a new data product with monthly data dumps and a Wikimedia Analytics API for cultural heritage categories, and their media files, on Wikimedia Commons.

With this data, Commons contributors, campaign organizers, and GLAMs partners are able to:

Count monthly edits in a category;
Identify their most active contributors and most viewed files;
Understand which Wikimedia projects, languages, and articles are using their media files.

The goals for this project were to offer 1) more reliable data, which we accomplished by offering a dataset, data dumps, and API developed and maintained by the Data Products team and available for use and integration; 2) less complex data, which we solved by offering pre-computed data (not raw); 3) a more stable service, that was solved by using pageviews (over mediarequests) and having more depth to the categories (down to seven sub-categories) selected; 4) a service that would be at scale, solved by having categories with up to 1 million files; and finally 5) a process that would be well documented by having an API and service that aims to standardize our definitions and methods.

Access the data via Dumps (tips on how to work with dumps locally) and API
Find out more by reading the documentation and reviewing the Data Model
Add your own cultural heritage categories by making a Phabricator request (documentation here)

This was a collaborative effort between Community Growth (Culture and Heritage team) and Product & Technology (Data Products team).

Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025

The second edition of the Wikimedia+Libraries Convention will happen from January 15 to 17, 2025, in Mexico City, Mexico. This year's theme is Disinformation as a threat.

WikiLibCon25 is being organized by the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group, in collaboration with other affiliates from the region, and it will bringing together the Wikimedia community and librarians, as well as information professionals from all over the world, to exchange knowledge and promote collaboration projects between libraries and the Wikimedia ecosystem.

The call for scholarships is already closed, but the call for proposals is open until September 15. Submit a proposal via this form or get informed about the process of submitting a session here.

WikiConference North America

From October 4 to 6, WikiConference North America 2024 will take place in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, organized by the Wikimedians of Indiana. The gathering has 12 sessions on its GLAM track, that will cover topics from the GLAM tools in Toolhub to WikiPortraits or even the case of a Wikimedian in Residence in an Art Museum Miami or the GLAM CSI project. On the third day, the GLAM keynote will honor Effie Kapsalis and will be led by Smithsonian's contributors.

The Culture and Heritage team will be organizing a round table on how to create Wikimedia Working Groups for GLAMs, with the cases (and members) of the Digital Public Library of America and Biodiversity Heritage Library working groups.

Registrations are still open for online or in-person participation.

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