Hello!

In our WREN last meeting we were discussing

*how to convince GLAM organizations that they need a WIR in the age of AI. *

So last week when Liam Wyatt was visiting Wikimedia UK's Wikipedia trainers network I asked how he would reply. After all, he is the first WIR of the world and is currently working with AI companies that are customers of Wikimedia Enterprise.

I made a LinkedIn post in Finnish https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johannajanhonen_joudutko-vastaamaan-ty%C3%B6ss%C3%A4si-toistuvasti-activity-7377209715816140800-g4AC?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAD19bQBCaMgS3A2mUiQ8RIFFvOH1Zb1zeE using his main idea and tagged him too. He replied https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7377209715816140800?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7377209715816140800%2C7377245407627755520%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287377245407627755520%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7377209715816140800%29 like this:

"Thanks for tagging me Johanna Janhonen 🗞️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannajanhonen/ - I'm glad something that I said sparked something for you!

So yes: my comment came from a presentation about some work I did with a public museum, where I helped to justify the curators' time to work with Wikipedia by arguing that not only is it an intellectual/moral responsibility to answer questions about the collection wherever those questions are being asked, but ALSO it is a way to *save time and effort* to have common questions answered correctly in the place where the general public is most likely to find them - on WP. This can be classified as a economic/professional efficiency benefit to the organisation. Which, as we know, is always easier to motivate management with economic arguments rather than moral ones!

The organisation (or individual) FIRST needs to make sure that the question is answered in an "official" place (e.g. somewhere in the official website, or academic journal article, thesis, newspaper report...) and THEN then can either write this fact directly into Wikipedia (with the reference) or "suggest" the fact on the discussion page of the article (especially if there is any implication of Conflict of Interest about the fact)."

I promised to send the reply to you too. So I hope it helps - or maybe we can continue the discussion either here or on LinkedIn.

Cheers, Johanna