Hi Isla,
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 3:29 AM, Isla Haddow-Flood isla@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@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@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
January/085982.html
[2] https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/How_not_to_
reinvent_the_wheel:_learning_from_others_in_the_Wikimedia_movement
María Cruz \ Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E Team \ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mcruz@wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Maria Cruz mcruz@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
Annual_Plan/2016-2017/draft#Program_3:_Develop_capacity- building_tools_and_resources_for_core_Wikimedia_programs
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