Hi everyone,
During this week's WREN meeting, I mentioned the *Image Description Week*
that the WMF GLAM and Culture team is organizing.
And, as I promised, we now have a proper available page for the event. Here
it is <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_Description_Week>. The already
participants still need to add themselves to the program properly, but I
hope you can read the page and maybe be inspired to organize an event or
simply participate in one.
The Image Description Week is happening from *May 16 to 22*, as a link to
the International Museum Day <https://imd.icom.museum/> (18 May) and the Global
Accessibility Awareness Day <https://accessibility.day/> (19 May).
Please, let me know if you have any questions or comments!
All the best,
Giovanna Fontenelle
Journalist, Historian, and Wikimedian
giofontenelle(a)gmail.com
@giofontenelle <https://twitter.com/giofontenelle>
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
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)
Hello all,
My name is Savannah and I also have been working as a WiR at an
academic organization focused on better representing writing studies and
the humanities broadly. I'm very interested in attending an upcoming
meeting about the issue of different WiR visibility in various contexts
(especially academic). I will try to make the meeting on Saturday if it
isn't too late at night (I'm in the US, PST time). If not, I will take a
look at the notes.
Cheers,
Savannah
Great idea. This weekend is good if we can find a time that suits. Not sure we can cover all of Europe, US and Aust/NZ without someone being up at 2am!
It would be great if the regular meetings could change times each month so there could be a chance of participating occasionally. The research open office is doing this now.
Cheers
Amanda
On 16 Mar 2022 7:59 am, Mike Dickison <mike(a)rove.wiki> wrote:
I would be keen to join a conversation. I'm at UTC+13, so a couple of hours ahead of Australia, but will try to make whatever time we decide on.
On 16/03/2022, at 12:38 AM, Željko Blaće <zblace(a)mi2.hr<mailto:zblace@mi2.hr>> wrote:
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<mailto:amanda.lawrence@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
Hi fellow WRENs,
Join here on Wednesday: https://meet.google.com/asi-hpms-pxv
Wed March 9, 12pm – 1pm Eastern Time - New York
Note that we will be returning to Google Meet rather than Wikimedia Meet,
as the latter is currently not stable enough.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Shameless self-promo, but hope to trigger your interest
for the online event tomorrow: #OpenMICwithPixelACHE
- research consultation on open archiving practices
--ON EVENT--
This event is the first open and public recording session
in the form of a consultancy for a research+reflection project
on the long parallel histories -20 years- of
Wikimedia, Creative Commons, and Pixelache Helsinki Festival
as a transdisciplinary platform. It is hosted by a network of
Pixelache members and Wikimedians for Vorspiel.Berlin guests.
At times the ambitions of Open Cultures, Codes and Knowledge,
with Wikimedia and the culture of Sharing and Remix have
overlapped with media arts festivals like Pixelache,
which has promoted open culture, and Wiki methodologies
in its early years. However, since then there has been much
pragmatism as (not)social (but)algorithmic media and online
platforms have abducted, obfuscated, and taken over media
festivals in the past decades, in the way that knowledge
was accumulated and has been shared.
How do we reconcile and learn from tensions, each others'
movements and hybrid practices?
This first gathering is an open mic session, inviting
open culture and digital arts professionals and enthusiasts
to join us in a semi structured conversation for cca 60 minutes.
Participating in discussion:
Florence Devouard (User:Anthere)
Željko Blaće (User:Zblace)
Rebecca O'Neill (User:Smirkybec)
Andrew Gryf Paterson
Sumugan Sivanesan
Other participants in project:
Toni Sant (User:ToniSant)
Yupik (User:Yupik)
WELCOME!
Saturday 5th of February, 2022.
@ 15:30 UTC / 16.30 CET / 17.30 EET
Online Zoom Link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82363805313?pwd=eG5DamdoaTB3SGNNWWNaZXpNTjRoUT09#…
Event on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/2aUVnvpGR
--ON PROJECT--
Pixelache Wikimedians-in-residence: This project will prototype
the combination podcast production, research and reflection residency
which focus on Wikimedia and cultural organisational practices,
including archiving.
It will discuss and reflect upon the long parallel history -20 years- of
Pixelache Helsinki Festival and transdisciplinary platform,
which has promoted open culture, and Wikimedia methodologies.
Where have these overlapped, gone hand-in-hand and then diverged.
We wish to reconcile ambitions with both the Wikimedia and
Creative Commons anniversaries.
#OpenMICwithPixelACHE - research consultation on open archiving
practices is part of the Pixelache Helsinki 20th anniversary programme.
As part of the festivities and deeper interrogations in Pixelache Helsinki's
20-year history, we plan to produce 3 discursive podcasts this year,
to be presented at the end of 2022.
The event is brought to you in partnership with Vorspiel Berlin
of CTM & Transmediale festivals with the support of
the Wikimedia Foundation.
http://pixelache.ac/projects/wikimedians-in-residence
--ON HOSTS--
About Pixelache Helsinki: Pixelache is an association of artists,
cultural producers, thinkers and activists involved in the creation of
emerging cultural activities. Amongst our fields of interest are:
experimental interaction and electronics, code-based art and culture,
grassroot organising & networks, renewable energy production/use,
participatory art, open-source cultures, bioarts and art-science
culture, alternative economy cultures, politics and economics of
media/technology, audiovisual culture, media literacy & ecology and
engaging environmental issues.
Pixelache Helsinki is funded by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland (TAIKE)
and Helsinki City - Culture and Leisure Department.
http://www.pixelache.ac
Vorspiel 2022: transmediale and CTM's Vorspiel is a program of
distributed partner events in the field of digital art and culture and
experimental sound and music, where a variety of partner venues invite
local and international audiences to a series of exhibition openings,
performances, interventions, artist talks and special events across the
city of Berlin.
The Vorspiel program was established in 2011, then called DAS Weekend.
In each of the past ten editions, over 60 project spaces, galleries and
independent cultural actors have curated and organized a rich program of
exhibitions, workshops and performances. Vorspiel is meant to be a
program for the city of Berlin, connecting different genres and
practices for creating opportunities of common exchange and reflection
and for bringing together communities and individuals which are dealing
with art, technology, politics and identity in a critical way, while
also seeking to strengthen the dialog with the two festivals. To create
this link, the Vorspiel program will take place before both festivals
this year starting from 21 January 2022.
http://vorspiel.berlin
For more INFO please email co-organisers of the event:
Željko Blaće, zblace(a)mi2.hr and
Andrew Gryf Paterson, andrew(a)pixelache.ac
Hi fellow WRENs,
Join here on Wednesday: https://meet.google.com/asi-hpms-pxv
Wed February 2, 12pm – 1pm Eastern Time - New York
Note that we will be returning to Google Meet rather than Wikimedia Meet,
as the latter is currently not stable enough.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)