Hi all!
Since July 2016 [1], the Learning and Evaluation team has been invested in
understanding what leadership means in our movement, and how we can best
support it. On Thursday, November 16 at 9 am PST (1700 UTC), we will host a
public meeting to share what we have learned so far, and how we have been
working to support community leaders. Follow the stream here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJbg2w0RnFk and ask questions via IRC
(#wikimedia-office).
The first step was the Leadership Development Dialogue, a conversation
about what leadership means for our communities, and how the Wikimedia
Foundation can best support it. It was hosted by the Learning and
Evaluation team, part of the Community Engagement department.
The conversation touched on topics like what words best suited this area of
work, and also what skills identified a good leader, and how we could best
collaborate across the movement to provide support within our existing
infrastructures (e.g., Learning Days [2] and the Wikimedia Resource Center
[3]) and beyond.
What does this mean to your local community and your work? How can you join
these efforts?
Join us to learn more about what we have learned from community members
about leadership in the movement, and where we want to go next.
Participation is encouraged via IRC (#wikimedia-office). A recording of the
event will be available later on our youtube channel.
Hope to see many of you there!
Best,
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E
Team \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Leadership_Development…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Learning_Day_events
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Leadership_Development…>Wikimedia
Resource Center
Dear all,
I'm happy to announce that a one-year position for a Wikimedian in
Residence is open in Charlottesville at the Data Science Institute
(DSI) at the University of Virginia (UVA).
It is aimed at fostering the interaction between the university -
students, researchers, librarians, research administrators and others
- and the Wikimedia communities and platforms. As such, the project
will work across Wikimedia projects and UVA subdivisions, and
experience in such contexts will be valued.
More details about the position via
- https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/1471604/wikimedian-in-residence/
- http://www.my.jobs/charlottesville-va/wikimedian-in-residence/29f03442637b4…
.
For more details about the institute, see
http://dsi.virginia.edu/ .
I am working for the DSI (as a researcher) and shall be happy to
address any questions or suggestions on the matter (including
collaboration with other Wikimedian in Residence projects), preferably
on-wiki or via my work email (in CC).
Please feel free to pass this on to your networks.
Thanks and cheers,
Daniel
Calling all program leaders and admirers!
Is there an education, GLAM or other program that you really admire? One
you would like to know more about? Have you seen via the newsletter, blog,
or social media a project that you think would make a great case study?
The WMF Programs team would like you to encourage program leaders now to
submit their case study to the Programs Case Studies Campaign. We will be
accepting submissions until January 8, 2017 . We will then select projects
in Education, GLAM and across all program areas to be highlighted in new
case study brochures and materials.
See https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Case_studies for more information
about submission criteria and the selection process.
Thanks much,
Nichole Saad, Education Program Manager
Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist
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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org