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I've been planning to have the next meeting at our usual time on Monday the 7th. We did a Doodle poll last time to see if people wanted to change it and it seemed to work out that the most people were available at that time. It's a lot easier for us on the WebEx scheduling end if we keep it at the same time each month, unless there is a holiday or an outcry from the group. Jimi -----Original Message----- From: The NDSA Standards working group list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Goethals, Andrea Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:07 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [NDSA-STANDARDS] NDSA Standards Survey and Wikipedia Hello, I'd like to try to create a template to hold some of the information we recorded in our spreadsheet and insert it onto the BWF page. I think I can do this before our next call (did we set a day for that yet?). If I get it to work we can review it on the call. On a related note - on the last call I volunteered to look more into Wikipedia portals to see if they're worth pursuing for our project. I came to the conclusion that they're not (at least not at this stage). The main reason was discoverability. I experimented with searches and the article pages seem to be more discoverable than the portal pages. Also, I don't think there are enough relevant articles yet to need a portal. But, while I was looking at portals the more and more I looked at WikiProjects I thought they could be very useful for this project. We can talk about it on the next call but the key thing I like is that there are Wikipedia tools for tracking the quality of the articles in scope for your project. By using this we could measure the state of the articles currently and work to increase the number of relevant articles of high quality. Andrea > -----Original Message----- > From: The NDSA Standards working group list [mailto:NDSA- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jones, Jimi > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 12:21 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [NDSA-STANDARDS] NDSA Standards Survey and Wikipedia > > Greetings all. In our last Standards group WebEx we talked about > "diving in" and conforming some existing Wikipedia pages to our > survey's needs. I told the group that I would take the Broadcast Wave > format page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Wave_Format). I > had a meeting with some colleagues here at LC last week in order to > discuss the rules regarding LC employees and use of Wikipedia. It > turns out that yes, I can edit Wikipedia pages on the clock but I will > have to get clearances before I can. It seems to me that because of my > schedule it's unlikely that I will be able to get "cleared" to do > Wikipedia editing any time soon. Since these strictures would not > apply to any of you non-LC employees, I'm asking for someone from our > group to step up and edit an existing page (doesn't have to be the > Broadcast Wave page) to include the kinds of information in our early > Google Docs spreadsheet. We have our next group WebEx in two weeks > (Monday, November 7) and if we don't have at least one strawman > Wikipedia page to kick around then we won't have much to talk about. > Is there anyone in the group already working on this? If not, can > someone step up and work on at least one Wikipedia page so we can get > this project moving forward? > > Thank you all! I'm looking forward to talking with you in a couple > weeks, > > Jimi > > Jimi Jones > Digital Audiovisual Formats Specialist Office of Strategic Initiatives > Library of Congress > > (202) 707-2846 > [log in to unmask] > > > ############################ > > To unsubscribe from the NDSA-STANDARDS list: > write to: mailto:NDSA-STANDARDS-SIGNOFF- > [log in to unmask] > or click the following link: > http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA > - > STANDARDS&A=1 ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-STANDARDS list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-STANDARDS&A=1 ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-STANDARDS list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-STANDARDS&A=1