Hi all,
There are two days left for submissions for Wikimania panels or sessions.
Has anyone submitted or is anyone planning on submitting sessions on their
GLAM work, or might folks be interested in making a WREN panel to discuss
the last year's worth of learnings, and also do some evangelism for WREN?
A very regrettable thing for this year's Wikimania is that the submissions
are not public. That makes it impossible to figure out what other people
are submitting or what they are thinking. So if you have any sessions you
are proposing, do share them here. Or we can combine forces on a session.
Some thoughts:
1. From the Smithsonian side, we will likely submit one about the American
Women's History Initiative and summing up our edit-a-thon and other
activities - what we learned, what techniques have worked, and plans for
the future.
2. GLAM tools and best practices - Incorporating SDC into the workflow,
best tools for 2022? Might this be a session of interest for folks to
collaborate on?
3. We've had a GLAM Culture Crawl day in the past, where we have training
sessions and discussions oriented towards teaching GLAMs new to wiki
contribution. Might this be an interesting thing to propose?
Any other ideas welcome.
-Andrew
Dear All -
Last December 6th special meeting event
on Wikipedia and NFT with a few invited guests
made me think we could do meeting that are relevant
beyond our immediate scope and be more visible...
...but also last week I was almost topic-banned
on HR Wikipedia (Croatian) as none of the Admins knew
what Wikimedian in Residence is and were thinking
it is either paid editing or problematic self-promotion
(when I was actually unemployed :-)))
So after a successful event and a monthly HR drama,
I am thinking what can we do better to increase
WiR and WREN visibility on Wikipedia and Wikimedia.
For people coming from most of the arts the notion of
artist-in-residence is super familiar and easy to relate to,
but average Wikipedian (if there is such thing)
has very few chances to come across this term
as well as to grasp what Wikimedian in Residence is.
Only 27 Wikipedia instances have articles on WiRs
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809586
What could be good strategies to change that?
15 years ago (so we missed it by a week)
on December 13, 2006 we got this text as a start
http://original-research.blogspot.com/2006/12/wikipedian-in-residence-propo…
Maybe we can draft something short quickly today
and just pass it on later in the day to Wikimedia-L
and potentially to the DIFF Blog of WMF?
Elsewhere?
Best Z
Hi all,
Wikimania hosted a robust conversation around the areas of interest to WREN
folks. I'm listing a few thoughts here but encourage anyone to share your
insights to this list.
Some links in the meantime:
1. There was a great WREN panel at Wikimania with good attendance, hosted
by Florence Devouard. Mike Dickison's closing thoughts were powerful.
Session description: https://eventyay.com/e/8f889410/session/8611
Full video:
https://www.youtube.com/live/r6J_vNbWLY8?si=zirP0vtsHcyxbYPC&t=8633
Mike's comments on fixing and supporting metrics or WiR will "disappear" -
https://www.youtube.com/live/r6J_vNbWLY8?si=AyebgvYZrCN2Gm3K&t=10065
2. There is currently a very involved conversation on the GLAM Wiki
Telegram group about how to fix the metrics and other parts of the
toolchain. It's long, but there is widespread interest in keeping this
momentum going.
https://t.me/c/1723589369/2842
Thanks all.
-Andrew