Dear fellow WRENs - Do we have previous cases of WiRs in civil society organizations/non-governmental organizations or at least institutionally hosted community archives?
I am co-developing a pilot experimental project in Croatia on Civil Society archiving and Wikimedia and would love to hear your inputs in the plans. I can imagine it is not as frequent as these organizations have far less resources and visibility. I feel it is urgent with the situation in Croatian Wikipedia even if it gets cleaned from most toxic admins (again on Meta frontpage 14 November:RfC: Global ban for Kubura), we need to counterbalance a decade of suppression.
Will try to get sociologist and pioneering peace activist Vesna Jankovic (fast learning Wiki enthusiast) to become WiR in a very prominent NGO in the region www.Documenta.hr *(that uses MediaWiki software internally!). We work a bit against the odds as there is no local affiliate, so we can only apply for RapidGrants + she has no Wikimedian reputation, but we submit it as a team of 4 people.
If you like it feel free to endorse https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Piyacitta21/WikiMapping...
Best Z
On 11/18/20, Željko Blaće zblace@mi2.hr wrote:
Dear fellow WRENs - Do we have previous cases of WiRs in civil society organizations/non-governmental organizations or at least institutionally hosted community archives?
I am co-developing a pilot experimental project in Croatia on Civil Society archiving and Wikimedia and would love to hear your inputs in the plans. I can imagine it is not as frequent as these organizations have far less resources and visibility. I feel it is urgent with the situation in Croatian Wikipedia even if it gets cleaned from most toxic admins (again on Meta frontpage 14 November:RfC: Global ban for Kubura), we need to counterbalance a decade of suppression.
Will try to get sociologist and pioneering peace activist Vesna Jankovic (fast learning Wiki enthusiast) to become WiR in a very prominent NGO in the region www.Documenta.hr *(that uses MediaWiki software internally!). We work a bit against the odds as there is no local affiliate, so we can only apply for RapidGrants + she has no Wikimedian reputation, but we submit it as a team of 4 people.
If you like it feel free to endorse https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Piyacitta21/WikiMapping...
Best Z
Gentle reminder.
Best - Z