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
[2]
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/How_not_to_reinvent_th…
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/…
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