Actually, this might be a good time to implement what we had talked about
for the last year which is a "statement of WIR princples" that might be
different than the meta page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_in_residence
In fact, I can already see that I don't fit some of what the meta page
describes, which may focus on a pre-Wikdata definition of what a WIR does.
The difficulty in writing about WIR is that it may or may not be in line
with a particular community's conflict of interest or paid
editing policies. For example, French and Italian accept paid editors (even
from for-profit corporate entities) quite openly, whereas some other
communities (like English Wikipedia) would view them very unfavorably. So
I'm open to ideas on what we might do to advocate for WIR in particular
communities. It will be challenging to come up with just one page to
capture all that.
Here's a talk from 2014 Wikimania that discussed some of these dynamics,
and also had some case studies of paid editing:
https://thewikipedian.net/2014/08/12/wikimania-2014-we-needed-to-talk-about…
-Andrew
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 9:15 PM Željko Blaće <zblace(a)mi2.hr> wrote:
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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