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
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
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.
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.
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