Wren April 2022

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WiR and WREN visibility on Wikipedias and Wikimedia
by Željko Blaće 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

Dear All - Last December 6th special meeting event on Wikipedia and NFT with a few invited guests made me think we could do meeting that are relevant beyond our immediate scope and be more visible... ...but also last week I was almost topic-banned on HR Wikipedia (Croatian) as none of the Admins knew what Wikimedian in Residence is and were thinking it is either paid editing or problematic self-promotion (when I was actually unemployed :-))) So after a successful event and a monthly HR drama, I am thinking what can we do better to increase WiR and WREN visibility on Wikipedia and Wikimedia. For people coming from most of the arts the notion of artist-in-residence is super familiar and easy to relate to, but average Wikipedian (if there is such thing) has very few chances to come across this term as well as to grasp what Wikimedian in Residence is. Only 27 Wikipedia instances have articles on WiRs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809586 What could be good strategies to change that? 15 years ago (so we missed it by a week) on December 13, 2006 we got this text as a start http://original-research.blogspot.com/2006/12/wikipedian-in-residence-propo… Maybe we can draft something short quickly today and just pass it on later in the day to Wikimedia-L and potentially to the DIFF Blog of WMF? Elsewhere? Best Z

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Re: WiR and WREN visibility on Wikipedias and Wikimedia
by Željko Blaće 16 Mar '23

16 Mar '23

Dear Amanda and ALL, we can start with a short 30min meeting this Saturday or alternatively Sunday if that works for others? Who else can-would join? On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 7:06 PM Amanda Lawrence <amanda.lawrence(a)rmit.edu.au> wrote: Hi Zeljko, > > Thanks for the suggestion, sorry for the slow response. I'm in CET +10 > (Aust Eastern Day Time or AEDT) so it does get tricky. > Currently 1pm CET is 11pm AEDT and 7 am ET (daylight savings will end here > soon and start other places so may change by an hour). So 1pm CET or > earlier would be great for me. I'd love to attend a meeting at some point > and get to meet people. > Thank you for elaborating. Hope others join in also. > Something I've noticed is a lot of the info on WiR is focussed on GLAM > orgs but I am in a Research Centre so there are quite different issues and > content editing is definitely something I need to do, with colleagues, but > also directly myself. > Understandable. Mind you there are other WiRs in academia and elsewhere (I am in NGO now) so there are huge differences indeed (can relate to that easily). > So it was quite confusing at the beginning seeing that some guides say no > paid editing while others say it is fine (for English Wikipedia) and > Wikidata seems to be no problem. > I gave up on absolute coherence in Wikimedia after finding similar (but also sometimes opposing) info and guidance in different corners on Wikimedia, so I hope you are not discouraged with this situation, but rather proactive to help advance and articulate some aspects :-) > There is a big community in health but I am in a social science area so > trying to adapt health approaches to a far more diverse and disparate > community and subject area. > I hear you. Wikimedia Foundation Research team work is also done without a single social science person, but that is hopefully going to change in the future... > I'm also interested in working with Wikidata but still trying to work out > how that would be effective for my organisation and the field. > Join the (big) club. Many try to do this in different fields, while those who already know it also keep expanding their agenda. > If anyone has any good links on being a WiR in a social science field I > would love to hear about them. > I would also love to have us look at this together and come up with a good way to establish an overview of WiRs across topics and fields (timeline exists). Best Z. Blace

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Wikimedia Summit 2022 - deadline April 17, 2022
by Andrew Lih 29 Apr '22

29 Apr '22

Hi all, As a bit of a surprise, the Wikimedia Summit 2022 announced they are going to have an in-real-life meeting September 9-11, 2022 (2022-09-09 to 09-11). They are only giving us two weeks to designate one person to apply to attend, which is very fast. I wanted to start this thread to get folks thinking before our meeting tomorrow, to see who might be interested in going. We have rarely had any kind of Wikimedia movement gathering in September of any particular year, so the timing is a bit unusual as it tends to be busy with a number of start-of-school activities in certain places. The focus will be on movement strategy among other things. I'm putting a link to the announcement here. Feel free to send any questions or discuss via email or come to the meeting tomorrow. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2022 -Andrew

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You're invited to a call about Commons and the Wikimedia Foundation’s draft annual plan
by Fiona Romeo 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Hello, Last week, the Wikimedia Foundation shared its draft annual plan on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2022-2023/…> and invited input via open calls in different time zones <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2022-2023/…>. You might have noticed that Maryana recognized that Commons is in desperate need of repair and made it a priority for the year ahead. There will be two calls dedicated to Commons: Wikimedia Commons 1 <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/81713873148> on Tuesday 26 April at 10:00 to 11:30 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1650967254> Wikimedia Commons 2 <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/83877607603> on Thursday 28 April at 16:00 to 17:30 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1651161601> Each call will be open to anyone to attend and you don’t need to register in advance. Commons is such an important project for GLAMs and other content partners. We really hope you can make it to one of the conversations. All the best, Fiona -- *Fiona Romeo* (she/her) Senior Manager, GLAM & Culture Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Wikidata and arts/cultural NGOs + their networks
by Željko Blaće 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

Dear ALL - I am failing to find WikiProject that would fit my urgent work so I started one WikiProject_Cultural_networks (all in kind of draft now) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cultural_networks ... and ... I was also eager to use something for non-profit_non-governmental_organization_working_in_arts_and_culture so I created it https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111597191 but have doubts if this is good approach as Rhizome for example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7320757 just used instance of: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31> nonprofit organization <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q163740> and art society <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12160242> (in my region art societies, are just art unions and are few) If there is anyone even remotely interested in this and/or free to correct me or brainstorm together please let me know here or join https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/wren and let's chat ;-) Best Z.

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Wiki in Residence meeting (Apr 6) on SDC-based citation and images
by Pharos 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

Hi fellow WRENs, Join here on Wednesday: https://meet.google.com/asi-hpms-pxv Wed April 6, 12pm – 1pm Eastern Time - New York A special session from Dominic: This will be a demo and brainstorming session. In the February WREN meeting we discussed a project I have been working on, with WMF project grant funding, to prototype auto-generated captions and/or citations of GLAM images using SDC. We went over a quick demo at the end of the hour, and talked about scheduling a dedicated meeting to discuss it further. We are seeking feedback from community members, especially those that do outreach and/or work with GLAM images, on the current prototype, in order to document use cases and demonstrate need for further technical development by WMF. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)

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