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)
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 6:33 AM Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> ZB -- Just seeing this excellent idea. Yes, it is a good time to revisit
> and envision what might be possible if this were a much broader and more
> universal practice, with a wide range of templates.
>
Glad to hear you think so. Few people in the WREN list also expressed
interest so maybe we start in the upcoming meeting?
> I would suggest combining it with a global scholarship program for younger
> students -- a multilingual internationally known wikimedia scholarship
> program, with matching funds and support via regional partners, would
> elevate the principles, the focus on improving public knowledge, and the
> practice of self-organization and learning-by-participating that makes us
> tick.
>
OK - I did not hear of it, but curious for sure.
Best Z. Blace
> SJ
>
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 1:28 AM Željko Blaće <zblace(a)mi2.hr> wrote:
>
>> Before this last 21st day in the 21st year of 21st century
>> is globally over, I try to re-initiate re-thinking
>> on this 15 years old proposal for a Wikipedian-in-residence
>>
>> http://original-research.blogspot.com/2006/12/wikipedian-in-residence-propo…
>> but also articles in (only) 27 language Wikipedias,
>>
>> Meta, Outreach wiki and elsewhere
>> for updating the notion of WIR and roles it performs in Wikimedia,
>> an ecosystem of diverse entities, dynamics and relations.
>>
>> As Wikimedians with wider perspective than a single wiki project, often
>> more than a single language and for sure more than single community, gear
>> up to discuss and act on 2030 strategy, that includes new initiatives, new
>> formations of decentering resources, new content, forms and methods of
>> working, with new priorities, conditions, tools, services and what
>> not…there is also a value in reflecting and reimagining what is already
>> established but often overlooked practice.
>>
>> Some of the WIR practitioners have been self-reflecting on and off
>> publicly https://wikistrategies.net/5-things-wikipedian-in-residence/
>> and engaging with communities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc9YgFm2eso
>> there was also network establishment.
>> 3 years ago WREN UG (Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network User
>> Group) was recognized with the aim to protect the common elements of the
>> role and for creating a peer support network of new and experienced WIRs
>> for collaboration and to encourage a global professional environment which
>> inspires institutions to appoint persons to engage with Wikimedia.
>>
>> In recent times Wikipedian-in-Residence, is more often
>> Wikimedian-in-Residence, in rapid growth of Commons and Wikidata (but also
>> in 2021 first one in Wiktionary) and sometimes Wikimedian-at-Large, in more
>> generalized practice of strategy or direction setting work.
>> Additionally in time of pandemic when doing physical events is
>> challenging and many of the (potential) partner organizations are closing
>> down or limiting public events to bare essential, short and transient it is
>> more important than ever that individuals (rather than cohorts of editathon
>> enthusiasts) keep revisiting institutions and work with them in a most
>> flexible mode and scale.
>>
>> Finally to start both re-visioning and maybe even re-positioning WIRs in
>> Wikimedia we should think of what this network of ‘free agents’ can bring
>> towards 2030, beyond what WMF, affiliates, UGs, HUBs, WikiProjects and
>> other organizational forms can. Also think how much more useful this
>> initial inspiration of artists, writers and researchers in residence could
>> be if these creative and critical roles in the art and cultural sector get
>> embraced and encouraged more often and more intentionally.
>>
>> Z. Blace
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Hi all!
It's time to organize the judging for the 2021 Wiki Science Competition
[1], and I'm looking for people to serve on the jury. It’s not too much of
a time commitment as the judging is very informal and mainly done through
an email chain. Please think about if you know someone who might be
interested (including yourself) and let me know.
Thanks!
John
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Science_Competition_2021_in_th…
I am interested
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> It's time to organize the judging for the 2021 Wiki Science Competition
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> a time commitment as the judging is very informal and mainly done through
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> interested (including yourself) and let me know.
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> Thanks!
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Hi all,
For anyone working with Wikimedia Commons, there was an announcement for
WikiCommons Query Service (for SPARQL queries and Structured Data on
Commons) leaving beta testing and going into production in February 2022.
That's mostly good news, but the caveat is that authentication will be
required to use the service. I've posted some concerns on the talk page of
the proposal, as it may pertain to GLAM institutions and the general public
availability of Commons content. I thought this would be an issue of
interest to WREN folks, so here are some links:
Plans for WCQS:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/Upcoming_Ge…
Talk page questions and concerns:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:SPARQL_query_service/Upcomi…
Thanks,
-Andrew
Hi all, since we are overdue for a WREN meeting, I'd like to propose a
meeting on Wednesday with a special topic related to the recent news of a
"Wikipedia NFT" auction by Jimmy Wales; a recent Twitter interaction with
Creative Commons about NFT; and a larger discussion of the open GLAM space
as it relates to NFT and the crypto community.
SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday, December 6, 2021, 1700 UTC
Sorry for the short notice and the short note, but I wanted to put it on
your calendar.
I'll update the meta page with some basic info but invite folks to add to
this.
-Andrew