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WREN or GLAM Wiki panel for Wikimania?
by Andrew Lih 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

Hi all, There are two days left for submissions for Wikimania panels or sessions. Has anyone submitted or is anyone planning on submitting sessions on their GLAM work, or might folks be interested in making a WREN panel to discuss the last year's worth of learnings, and also do some evangelism for WREN? A very regrettable thing for this year's Wikimania is that the submissions are not public. That makes it impossible to figure out what other people are submitting or what they are thinking. So if you have any sessions you are proposing, do share them here. Or we can combine forces on a session. Some thoughts: 1. From the Smithsonian side, we will likely submit one about the American Women's History Initiative and summing up our edit-a-thon and other activities - what we learned, what techniques have worked, and plans for the future. 2. GLAM tools and best practices - Incorporating SDC into the workflow, best tools for 2022? Might this be a session of interest for folks to collaborate on? 3. We've had a GLAM Culture Crawl day in the past, where we have training sessions and discussions oriented towards teaching GLAMs new to wiki contribution. Might this be an interesting thing to propose? Any other ideas welcome. -Andrew

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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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presentation draft on positive examples of WiR editing
by Rachel Helps 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Hello WREN friends, I've mentioned that I'm doing a lightning talk on why WiRs should edit Wikipedia. I mention the work of Mary Mark Ockerbloom, John P. Sadowski, and Ji Yun Alex Jung, as well as the recent Smithsonian intern Mia Cariello. Please let me know if: 1. You are mentioned and you would like me to * not mention you or * use a different example of your work. 2. You would like me to mention your work (I'm looking for examples that help fill some of the knowledge gaps identified by WMF). 3. You have other comments. You can see my draft here<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1V1GWwcGmr4Uclvvrv_PCceYVR6v9jQYGCzx…>. Rachel Helps Wikipedian-in-Residence 2086 Harold B. Lee Library Brigham Young University Rachel_Helps(a)byu.edu

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Feedback and insights on the "Future of History"
by Andrew Lih 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Hi all, this is a request for your insights and wisdom. And for some fun and interesting conversation. I'll be giving a talk next week at the Chautauqua Lecture Series, addressing the "Future of History" to an audience of ordinary folks. (In the US, Chautauqua is a famous intellectual summer camp for lifelong learners). So my request to you: In what ways is the Wikimedia movement addressing the challenge of crafting the future of history? I'd love to quote some insights from WREN to a larger audience. The full description of the topic is below. Thanks! -Andrew https://www.chq.org/schedule/events/weekly-themes/ The Future of History We live our lives swimming in a vast sea of information; what will wash up on the future’s shores and be deemed our history? When data is stored in the cloud rather than compiled in physical files, when we send emails and tweets rather than letters, how do the records of today become primary sources tomorrow? There are more ways to record history than ever before, but how can those records live in a useful way for the historians of the future — or, with everyone having the technology, and thus the capability, to be their own historian, their own librarian, will a need to study history as a formal vocation even exist? Beyond the logistics of such questions, broader issues are at play: Who are the gatekeepers of our stories, and who do we trust to be stewards of our lives and memories?

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A question for French and Arabic Wikipedians
by Daniel Obiokeke 02 Jul '22

02 Jul '22

Hi WREN, Just a little question: Is there an equivalent of Article for Creation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation) on the Arabic and French Wikipedia? Who approves drafts on the Arabic and French Wikipedia? Thank you. Daniel.

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