Wren March 2024

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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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A+F greetings from a Finnish WIR
by Johanna Janhonen 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Heipä hei and nice to e-meet you all! I joined this list in January and got the first message yesterday so I wanted to tell you a bit about our new project. We got funding for 2 years from Koneen Säätiö (Kone Foundation, initially started by the Finnish elevator company). I'm the WIR for three art researchers who are starting to write about their subject areas in the coming months. 25 % of the time I'm working for the project and the rest in my own company. We are also arranging a series of editathons and writing a book about female content on the Internet. In the summer we are coming to Wikimania. Are there A+F / WIR meetups planned for Wikimania? This is our blog which you'll be able to read with your translator: https://marginaalit.blogspot.com/ . I guess we are mainly concentrating on Finnish Wikipedia but maybe we also do something in French as one of the researchers lives in Paris. So in case there are some active French Wikipedians in the list, it would be great to have a private chat sometimes. I'm also interested to hear comments from other WIRs working with A+F. Cheers Johanna Janhonen johanna(a)piilotettuaarre.fi If someone wants to have a brief chat, just reserve a 15-minutes meeting with me at:https://calendly.com/jjanhone .

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Introducing Let’s Connect to all Wikimedians
by Bukola James 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

Dear Wikimedians, We hope this message finds you well and that you are in good spirits. We are the Let’s Connect working group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect/Team>- a team of movement contributors/organizers who are liaison representatives of 7/8 regions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_regions>. We are connecting with you to see if you are interested in and/or know about the peer-to-peer program, Let’s Connect <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect>! The program creates an open and safe learning space for any Wikimedian who is part of an organized group to share and learn different skills (organizational/interpersonal / grant related / learning & evaluation ...) with other peers to add value and contribute collectively to the community. The purpose is to further develop skills, share knowledge and promote human connections and mutual support between different groups and communities, in alignment with the Movement Strategy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy>. Every month, we host 2-3 live 2-hour learning clinics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect#Live_learn…> with interesting topics selected by our team and our interested sharers. Our live learning sessions have up to 4 interpreters translating the clinic for our participants. Our main languages are Spanish | Arabic | French | Portuguese. If there is a specific language you would like to see in the calls, we are happy to see how we can accommodate it. Let’s Connect is directed at Wikimedians in all regions that are part of organized groups (this can range from a group of individuals that are not formally organized user groups, chapters and mission-aligned organizations). Please see our Meta page for more criteria <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect#Who_is_Let…>. To participate as a sharer, you can register in this initial registration form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiea87tSYmB2-1XHn_u8RLe7efMJifJBz…> where you can register your learning and sharing interests and state if you want to share your knowledge through Learning Clinics. Below, you will find our team of 8 who are excited to meet with you if you are interested. Please email our team at letsconnect(a)wikimedia.org if you have any questions :) We look forward to hearing from you. Best, The Let’s Connect Working Group

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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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