Hi Isla,
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 3:29 AM, Isla Haddow-Flood <isla(a)wikiinafrica.org>
wrote:
Dear Lily and Maria
I could not agree more with what Lily has said.
Perhaps it could be good for the Wiki Loves organisers to get together at
Wikimania and chat about what we need collectively that perhaps the comms
and resources team could help with?
Please let me know if that is something you think can happen? If so, we
can then start extending the discussion and sorting out a time with other
teams!
On my end, this is a great idea. Let's gather Wiki Loves * organizers that
will attend Wikimania and discuss this more. (Let me know if you need my
help making this happen, Isla.:)
This being said, there is still the question of: where can we ask for these
kind of resources and what timeline is reasonable to set aside for getting
them? None of the tasks that we're in immediate need for can fit as part of
the tech wishlist and I honestly don't know what path we should take and
which doors we should knock on to get these resources? :)
Lily
(Yay!) Thanks!
Isls
Excuse the brevity, sent from my iPhone.
Excuse the brevity, sent from my iPhone.
On 29 Jul 2017, at 21:50, Lily
<lilyofthewest.wikimedia(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi María,
Thank you for sharing this update on wikilovesmonuments mailing list
and the work that has been done towards consolidating resources and
making the resources available to the community of volunteers more
discoverable. :)
I have one question for you which is probably relevant also to other
Wiki Loves contests (Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Africa, ...):
One of the biggest challenges we have in Wiki Loves Monuments
international team is around securing specific skills in the stack of
skills we need to run even better contest every year. I'd like to know
where we can seek these specific resources and how we can get a sense
of when we can expect to receive them, if at all. :) I give you a
couple of examples of the resources we need:
* Communications is key for the work of the international team, but
even more so for the work of local organizers. In the international
team, we have identified a need to provide documentation to local
organizers to help them be more effective in communications (with
press, with institutions which can become their partners, etc.). While
we can provide a wall of text :) and describe everything that the
local teams should consider doing (or not), we know this is not
effective for a lot of our audience. We need someone(s) who
understands our audiences (the local organizers), their needs, and
their environment, and how Wiki Loves Monuments work to help us create
simple, joyful to read and engage with, documentation. Where can we
ask for this type of resource? (I'm guessing this will touch on design
research, design, and communications specialties).
* Building better and more user-friendly tools for our audience:
The international team has been deeply involved in the development of
the following two tools with volunteers:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/montage-beta/#/
https://tools.wmflabs.org/monumental
We have amazing backend and frontend volunteers who work on these
tools. We define requirements for these tools and we build towards
those requirements. What we are really missing is user research and
design recommendations for both tools (we receive some from time to
time during hackathons, for example, but we need more continuous
support:). These tools are becoming more and more central to Wiki
Loves ecosystem and we need to make sure that all backend and frontend
developments are done towards systems that are designed to work well
for our users (both organizers/admins and also jurors and
participants). Where can we ask for this kind of resource? What kind
of timelines can we expect for receiving substantial help on this
specific front? :)
I'm looking forward for us, as a community of Wiki Loves organizers,
to continue this discussion with you here, in Wikimania, and beyond.
These contests have managed to design and implement a successful
formula for bringing newcomers to Wikimedia projects (check Wiki Loves
Earth results:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/ The Wiki Loves
Earth community has managed to bring more than 12K (90% of their total
pool) new volunteers to at least do 1 upload in Commons. This is
incredible!:). This ecosystem can benefit substantially from help in
very specific areas to become even more effective and we need to know
where to ask for this help and what the timeline for receiving help
will look like.
Best,
Lily
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Maria Cruz <mcruz(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Last January we announced the roll out of the Wikimedia Resource
Center, [1]
> a hub intended as a single point of entry for
Wikimedians all over the
world
> to the variety of resources and types of
Wikimedia Foundation staff
support
> they may need to develop new initiatives or
expand existing ones. The
> Wikimedia Resource Center’s beta version is now live on Meta Wikimedia:
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center
>
>
> The redesign of the hub was informed by user-testing sessions at the
> Wikimedia Conference 2017 in Berlin and feedback gathered on the talk
page
> of the hub. We have ordered resources by user
types to make them easier
to
> navigate, and now all Wikimedians can add
resources developed by
themselves,
> other individuals or organizations to the
hub. The next step for the
> Wikimedia Resource Center is to include features that will enable
> Wikimedians to better connect with other Wikimedians that can support
them.
>
>
> We are currently performing more testing and working to incorporate a
link
> to the Wikimedia Resource Center from
different community spaces, and it
> will be presented at Wikimania 2017 in Montréal. If you are interested
in
> taking part in this conversation, please
contact me, and if you are
coming
> to Wikimania, join our session [2] to discuss
how we best learn from
each
> other in the Wikimedia movement.
>
>
> We want to hear what you think about this new version and would like to
also
> invite you to submit your comments about it
privately, via direct email
to
> me, or publicly on the talk page.
>
>
> We’d like to thank Nirzar Pangarkar, Carolyn Li-Madeo and Volker
Eckl,key
> allies in bringing the new design to life,
for all their support in this
> project! Also a shout-out goes to James Hare, our technical design
intern,
> who has done great work of processing all the
documentation on the WRC,
> understanding its history and goal, and creating amicable interfaces for
> contributors.
>
>
> We are looking forward to more collaborations!
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> María
>
>
>
>
> [1]
>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017- January/085982.html
reinvent_the_wheel:_learning_from_others_in_the_Wikimedia_movement
>
>
>
>
>
> María Cruz \\ Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E Team \\
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
>
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Maria Cruz <mcruz(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As we have stated in our annual plan [1], “currently, community members
>> must search many pages and places to stay informed about Foundation
>> activities and resources.” We have worked in the past two quarters to
create
>> a single point of entry. We call it the
Wikimedia Resource Center, and
its
>> alpha version is now live on Meta
Wikimedia:
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center
>>
>>
>> As the movement expands to include more affiliates and more
programmatic
>> activities every year, newer Wikimedians
are faced with lack of
experience
>> in the movement and its various channels
for requesting support. In
order to
>> expand Wikimedia communities’ efforts, we
want to provide easy access
to
>> resources that support their very
important work. The [[m:Wikimedia
Resource
>> Center]] is a hub designed in response to
this issue: it is intended to
>> evolve into a single point of entry for Wikimedians all over the world
to
>> the variety of resources and types of
staff support they may need to
develop
>> new initiatives or also expand existing
ones.
>>
>>
>> This version of the Resource Center is only the beginning. For phase
two
>> of the project, we will enable volunteer
Wikimedians to add resources
>> developed by other individuals or organizations to the Wikimedia
Resource
>> Center, and in phase three, the Wikimedia
Resource Center will include
>> features to better connect Wikimedians to other Wikimedians that can
support
>> them.
>>
>>
>> We want to hear what you think about this prototype and our plans for
it!
>> If you have comments about the Wikimedia
Resource Center, you can
submit
>> your feedback publicly, on the Talk Page,
or privately, via a survey
hosted
>> by a third party, that shouldn’t take you
more than 4 minutes to
complete. A
>> feedback button is on the top right
corner on every page of the hub.
>>
>>
>> Looking forward to more collaborations!
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> María
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Annual_Plan/2016-2017/draft#Program_3:_Develop_capacity-
building_tools_and_resources_for_core_Wikimedia_programs
--
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Communications and Outreach Project Manager, Community Engagement
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