Wren July 2023

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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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Bianca's work as First Nations Wikipedian in Residence
by James Gaunt 24 Jul '23

24 Jul '23

Hi all, I know a lot of you were keen to hear more about Bianca's work as First Nations Wikipedian in Residence for Wikimedia Australia. She was improving information about First Nations music and musicians, using the resources available at State Library of Queensland. She has completed her initial residency there, and we have now extended it as a remote residency so she can build on the skills she's learnt over the past couple of months. Please read her blog post about her experience here: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/My_Experience_as_First_Nations_Wikipedian_in_… Unfortunately, most of the images used in the article can't be added to Commons so we won't be reposting this one to Diff. Cheers -- *James Gaunt* (he/him) Communications and Project Coordinator – Wikimedia Australia james.gaunt(a)wikimedia.org.au +61 412 401 512 www.wikimedia.org.au Wikimedia Australia is an independent charitable organisation which supports the efforts of the Wikimedia Foundation in Australia. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands upon which we live, work and share knowledge.

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Re: Activities in the National Library of Singapore in Wikimania
by Geoff Barker 21 Jul '23

21 Jul '23

Hi - I have just rehistered for this year's event and as Chair of the Wikipedia working group at the State Library NSW would be interested in partnering up with someone at the National Library to discuss wiki projects. Best Geoff.

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Wikimania discussion
by Florence Devouard 20 Jul '23

20 Jul '23

Hello everyone So the Wikimania programme has now been published. I summarized the key information about it on the submission page. * https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissions/Learn_and_dis… So we do have 30 mn. Here is my suggestion. Given the time ---> no presentation... only discussion open with the audience. We open the session with a 2 mn intro. We can present one another in one minute (local and distance if they are - Z or John or others. But keep in mind the timezone is favorable to early wakers Europeans and late sleepers North Americans) Then open questions from the room and answers. We will close with suggestions to connect (mailing list, meta page, other relevant sessions such as the UN one which comes after). You guys make sure to have your contacts ready. Let's prepare a bunch of questions in advance. If the room is hot, we can rely on their questions. If the room is cold... then I'll make sure some of the best questions are asked :) *TODO (anyone, please feel free to help)* 1. Add a collection of interesting links to the proposition (if you have ideas, please do complete the section about Links... ongoing current project, a diff article, a newsletter link, last year video about WREN etc.) 2. Review and complete your small profile description (make sure people do connect you to your institution and find out how to contact you. Also if you give another related presentation, please do mention it) I'll do mine later today as an example if you hate white pages. 3. On the etherpad, please do suggest questions to ask the panel : https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WiRs2023-2030 PS : James, I answer you separately Flo

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