We are pleased to announce that Red de Leon (User:Alternativity) has been hired by the Bantayog ng mga Bayani[1][2] (“Monument to Heroes”), a Philippine foundation that maintains a museum and library dedicated to the heroes and victims of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship, as its first Wikipedian in Residence. As far as we know, this is also the first ever Residence project in East and Southeast Asia. The project will last for three months from April to June 2018.

As a Wikipedian in Residence, Red will be working with a small team to help the digitize portions of Bantayog's library as well as to improve coverage of topics related to the Marcos regime in Wikipedia and its sister projects. He will also serve as a liaison between Bantayog and the Wikimedia community by organizing events and workshops, and plan to help the Filipino Wikimedia community grow by sharing his skills as a Wikipedian to Bantayog’s constituency of museum visitors, library researchers, and supporters.

If you are interested, you can check out the project page[3] on the Outreach Wiki where more information about the project and its output will be posted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantayog_ng_mga_Bayani [2] http://bantayog.org/ [3] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_Bantayog_ng_m...