Hi all,

Just been given leave by the University to submit proposals for in-person attendance at Wikimania so have put forward two x 25 min presentations:

  1. Student engagement with openness - 8 years of partnering with students on in-curriculum work, extracurricular volunteering, supporting funded and unfunded student project work. (Education track)
  2. Mapping the Accused Witches of Scotland with Wikidata - 5 years opening up a landmark historic research dataset with Design Informatics students and a series of brilliant 'Witchfinder General' student internships. (Open Data).

I'll hopefully be joined by student intern, Ruby Imrie, to give voice to the student experience for both talks.

But just to add that I'll be happy to attend, support or participate in any WREN / WiR proposals as there are number of opportunities and challenges of WiR work to be discussed and better understood/supported.

e.g. Rachel Helps, COI, impact measuring tools, that WiRs work in education as well (but maybe not as often) as GLAMs.

I'm cautious of the accusations of 'off wiki' canvassing as Lane mentioned... but also find raising a 'bat signal' to support awareness of discussions where they are moving in dangerously/unhealthy directions can be mutually beneficial for all concerned...  with judicious, polite and reasoned contributions. Though not en masse as that can just enflame in my experience.
  

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Hello

I can not remember if I posted the link to the Wikimania proposal : https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/review/EGFJNMN3MF8FNGJSPKANFCELC7FEA9ZY

I still have not found out how to add co-speakers... does anyone know ?

Best


Florence


Le 02/04/2024 à 03:02, Andrew Lih a écrit :
Hi all, 

Deadline is approaching, though I have it on decent authority that the deadline will be extended at least a few days.

I'm happy to be part of the WREN roundtable focusing on WiR challenges/approaches, though since I'm proposing some other sessions, I'm happy to take a "back seat" on this one and defer to others.

Note that there is also "yet another" GLAM panel organized with Sandra Fauconnier, Susanna Anas, Larissa Borck and others re: "Towards a cultural commons..." which has overlap with WiR but with a particular focus.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XWuo0vBUMwuHYTjitdDNld1T1FMLEQJhNxJrR63XpzY/edit

I still find the closing words of Lane Rasberry and Mike Dickison from last year's Wikimania panel ringing in my ears: 
https://www.youtube.com/live/r6J_vNbWLY8?si=t8vOId5zoU0RyXEX&t=10057

"There's a problem in that the free tools that we use to measure impact are broken... they are broken because it's no one's job to maintain them. Our livelihoods and jobs depend on this. Institutions are canceling Wikimedian in residence contracts because there's now no way to demonstrate impact. This is a critically important problem for the community to discuss. We need some solutions. We need commitment. We need commitment from the foundation otherwise the job of a Wikimedian in residence will disappear."

So one aspect of the panel could be to reassess the situation in light of this comment, in 2024.

Last year's session page:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/GLAM,_Heritage,_and_Culture/WDZBPN-Learn_and_discuss_with_member_of_the_Wikimedians_in_Residence_Exchange_Network

-Andrew


On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 10:54 AM Florence Devouard <fdevouard@gmail.com> wrote:

ok

So so far, we do have
* Andrew talk about GLAM CSI
* Possibly a roundtable with at least Jamie, Lane, Andrew and myself (anyone else interested ?)
* A peer to peer WIR meetup for networking (which may be conflated with the above in fact... meet-ups spots are often a bit challenging at Wikimania; easier to set-up in smaller conferences)

Anyone else ?

Flo

Le 27/03/2024 à 03:13, Andrew Lih a écrit :
I'll be there too! I am going to propose a session related to my new project which I'm happy to expand to include others or we could propose another one dedicated to another wikimedian in residence topic. 



-Andrew Lih
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Metropolitan Museum of Art - Wikimedia strategist
Previously: professor of journalism and communications, American University, Columbia University, University of Southern California
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 4:39 AM Lane Rasberry <lanerasberry@gmail.com> wrote:
I will be there

I talked last year; would join and support a session but others should talk.

Instead of a session or in addition to a session would like a wiki in residence meetup for peer to peer networking


Lane Rasberry
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 12:00 PM Jamie Flood <jamie.flood2@gmail.com> wrote:
I will also be there in person! I’d be interested in joining. If we wanted to talk about tools I would gladly share about View It! 

Thanks,
Jamie 

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:16 AM Florence Devouard <fdevouard@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all

Turns out that I will be attending Wikimania afterall.

So same question than last year really...

Did someone already submitted a proposition about WREN and WIR ?

If not... anyone interested for a joint effort ? in presence or distance.

Here is a link to last year submission : https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/GLAM,_Heritage,_and_Culture/WDZBPN-Learn_and_discuss_with_member_of_the_Wikimedians_in_Residence_Exchange_Network

Some thoughts

1) Related to WIPO, 3 years down the line... what worked... what did not work... what the plans are

2) Update about the tools and Wikimedia metrics issues.

3) Cool initiatives in Europe ?

4) Topics recently raised by Blace - to be discussed during Wikimedia Summit. Lessons from those discussions ? More proactive position in WM 2030 strategy implementation ?

What do you think ?


Flo


On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 1:28 PM Florence Devouard <fdevouard@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all

One year later... I would like to invite potential attendees for a shared submission proposition to Wikimania about WREN and WIR. Possibly more a panel type of submission than separated presentations.

Any one interested to join on drafting such a submission on a shared doc ?

Cheers

Flo

 

Le 10/06/2022 à 19:51, Andrew Lih a écrit :
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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