Good news.
Embracing the factor that GLAM and Wikipedia can grow together to enhance
the various possibilities of Free (deep) Knowledge is a good development
in the 15th year of Wikipedia and also to counterbalance the
commercialisation of the internet in this era.
Good that the Foundation in strenghening this area.
Jens
2016-05-21 20:19 GMT+02:00 Steinsplitter Wiki
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From: jorlowitz(a)gmail.com
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 17:23:53 +0000
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] New GLAM-Wiki Role at Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone,
As you may have noticed in the Annual Plan, the Wikimedia Foundation
has proposed more support of GLAM-Wiki. I want to happily announce
that *Alex Stinson* will be expanding and transitioning his role as
Wikipedia
Library
Coordinator to lead this new position as
*GLAM-Wiki Strategist
*within
the
Community Engagement department at WMF. He will
continue to report
and work closely with me in Wikipedia Library land, which I'm very
happy
about!
I'll let Alex introduce himself and his thoughts on the position, why
it matters, and what its goals are.
Best,
Jake Orlowitz
User:Ocaasi (WMF)
Head of the Wikipedia Library
jorlowitz(a)wikimedia.org
--
Hi all!
I am particularly excited to be shifting towards helping with
GLAM-Wiki
support. I plan to bring my long history of working in Wikimedia
outreach,
first as a volunteer in GLAM and the Education
program and then as an
employee with the Wikipedia Library, to improve our global GLAM
impact
[1].
As we point out in the proposed annual plan, [2] GLAM-Wiki has a long
history as a programmatic strategy for volunteers and affiliates.
These
programs have collected some of our best content, pushed our
technologies beyond their limits, and created a considerable volume of
contributions from both Wikimedians and experts for over 8 years.
However, as these practices become more and more sophisticated and
varied,
volunteers from smaller communities without
connections to the
leaders of successful projects have found themselves unable to
replicate this
success,
or replicating many of the mistakes from earlier
projects. At the
same time, larger initiatives have been hindered by a lack of
investment in infrastructure and technology.
WMF has been a great supporter of GLAM through grants and affiliate
support, but we can do more. We havenât provided consistent global
connection, communication and support for GLAM-Wiki resources and
tools. My goal is to help GLAM spread throughout our communities and
potentially tens of thousands of organizations that - as folks like
Liam Wyatt have
been advocating from the beginning - share our same values: freely
sharing
knowledge with the world.
Below I have outlined our approach for the GLAM-Wiki Strategist role
[3]. I
want to use the next few months to listen and
evaluate the needs of
the communities actively involved in GLAM-Wiki work to make sure that
I
prioritize projects correctly. I am also going to be at Wikimania, and
have
already talked to a number of GLAM-Wiki leaders
at Wikimedia
Conference.
My role as strategist is to consult, collaborate, organize, and plan.
So,
please reach out to me with your questions, thoughts, needs or other
feedback.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
astinson(a)wikimedia.org
[1] A little about me
I have been working with the Wikipedia Library since May 2014,
developing the Libraryâs publisher partnerships, building
relationships with dozens
of
community and language leaders across our
volunteer movement,
crafting a broader strategy for engaging the largest libraries and
international reference networks, and project managing tool and
metrics improvements
for
our program.
I also designed and deployed the successful #1Lib1Ref campaign (
1lib1ref.org)
that drew nearly 30,000 viewers, 5 million
tweet-impressions, and
hundreds
of participants from the library world to
Wikipedia in our first ever
viral, global micro-contributions drive for quality improvement.
In my volunteer, time I try to stay active as User:Sadads, where I am
mostly active on English Wikipedia ( >98,000 edits). I have been
actively writing content about literature and novels since 2008. I
have always thought of our movement as a community with a lot of
opportunities around partnerships and collaboration.
I was also one of the early adopters of GLAM-Wiki in the US: While
still in college, I approached the Smithsonian in 2010 about a
partnership, establishing the dialogue which grew to one of our most
successful long-term cultural partners within the movement. I have
learned from
those
early attempts and have led GLAM-Wiki
relationships with a handful of
smaller organizations while in school and as a volunteer.
I am also a long time supporter of the Education program: I was
trained
as
part of the Public Policy Initiative's first
round of "Campus
Ambassadors",
the project that became first the U.S. and then
the Global Education
Programs.
I am based in Southern Vermont, where I enjoy hiking, the local and
the local food culture. In my spare time, I try to produce sustainable
food through my garden and homebrewing-- I just put in 4 rows of
potatoes, and am about to start most of my summer crops.
[2] *Annual Plan for GLAM*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2
017/draft#Program_5:_Give_more_support_to_GLAM_partnerships
[3] Some thoughts on the GLAM-Wiki Strategist Role
What I hope to do:
* Help lead efforts to evaluate and improve our GLAM-Wiki
documentation, and develop resources that make GLAM-Wiki a more
approachable strategy
for
volunteers, especially in communities which
don't have much
experience in partnerships with formal organizations.
* Connect with and learn from the network of community leaders
supporting partnerships with GLAM and other organizations
* Help document and share the most successful, repeatable GLAM-Wiki
project
models coming from our communities.
* Connect community leaders and outside organizations who approach
Community Engagement and other Wikimedia Foundation departments about
GLAM
partnerships with the best volunteer leaders,
resources, or learning
materials.
* Communicate GLAM and GLAM-Wiki needs with teams and departments
within WMF, including Community Resources, Strategic Partnerships and
Engineering
teams. I have already started these
conversations, and hope to be
able to share what I have been working on in the next couple months.
* Support strategic movement relationships with global organizations
(IFLA, ICOM, UNESCO, OCLC, Internet Archive, etc ) which can expand
opportunities for GLAM-Wiki programming and partnerships by local
affiliates.
What I won't be doing:
* Creating partnerships with local cultural heritage organizations
* "Coordinating" in any strong sense of the word -- It's not my role
to
be
âin chargeâ of what others are doing in the
GLAM-Wiki space --
instead my aim is to facilitate access to better tools and resources
that help
community
leaders coordinate these partnerships more easily
and effectively.
What I would like to learn from the community and GLAM program
leaders in the next few months:
* Where does our community of GLAM-outreach leaders need the most
support?
* What are the greatest technology barriers preventing the creation
of easy-to-create and scalable relationships with cultural heritage
organizations?
* What are the best opportunities for expanding GLAM-Wiki strategies
to
new
or emerging communities with less partnership
experience or affiliate
support?
* How can we help a greater range of Wikimedia volunteers participate
in partnerships with our GLAM allies?
I am very optimistic about the opportunities for GLAM-Wiki work,
especially
as Wikimedia becomes leaders of open and linked
data, through
projects
like
Wikidata -- and I want to make sure our
communities have the tools
and support to take advantage of that leading role in sharing cultural
heritage
knowledge around the world.
-Alex
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