Much support for you in your new role, Alex, and I'm sure you'll have fun
working with all the amazing people around the world involved with GLAM
work!
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Mardetanha <mardetanha.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I am also so happy to hear this, though I already
almost knew this is
coming, it is very important that finally wmf now playing more attention to
GLam, hopefully with Alex we will achieve more,
I would to like second what shani already said, We're all behind you.
Mardetanha
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A historic moment in our movement.
Alex, all the best in your new role!
We're all behind you.
Best,
Shani.
On 20 May 2016 20:24, "Jake Orlowitz" <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> As you may have noticed in the Annual Plan, the Wikimedia Foundation
has
> proposed more support of GLAM-Wiki. I want
to happily announce that
*Alex
Stinson*
will be expanding and transitioning his role as Wikipedia
Library
Coordinator to lead this new position as
*GLAM-Wiki Strategist *within
the
Community Engagement department at WMF. He will
continue to report and
work closely with me in Wikipedia Library land, which I'm very happy
about!
>
> I'll let Alex introduce himself and his thoughts on the position, why
it
matters,
and what its goals are.
Best,
Jake Orlowitz
User:Ocaasi (WMF)
Head of the Wikipedia Library
jorlowitz(a)wikimedia.org
--
Hi all!
I am particularly excited to be shifting towards helping with GLAM-Wiki
support. I plan to bring my long history of working in Wikimedia
outreach,
first as a volunteer in GLAM and the Education
program and then as an
employee with the Wikipedia Library, to improve our global GLAM impact
[1].
>
> As we point out in the proposed annual plan, [2] GLAM-Wiki has a long
> history as a programmatic strategy for volunteers and affiliates. These
> programs have collected some of our best content, pushed our
technologies
beyond
their limits, and created a considerable volume of contributions
from both Wikimedians and experts for over 8 years.
However, as these practices become more and more sophisticated and
varied,
> volunteers from smaller communities without connections to the leaders
of
successful projects have found themselves unable to replicate this
success,
> or replicating many of the mistakes from earlier projects. At the same
> time, larger initiatives have been hindered by a lack of investment in
> infrastructure and technology.
>
> WMF has been a great supporter of GLAM through grants and affiliate
> support, but we can do more. We haven’t provided consistent global
> connection, communication and support for GLAM-Wiki resources and
tools.
> My goal is to help GLAM spread throughout
our communities and
potentially
tens of
thousands of organizations that - as folks like Liam Wyatt have
been advocating from the beginning - share our same values: freely
sharing
knowledge with the world.
Below I have outlined our approach for the GLAM-Wiki Strategist role
[3]. I
want to use the next few months to listen and
evaluate the needs of the
communities actively involved in GLAM-Wiki work to make sure that I
prioritize projects correctly. I am also going to be at Wikimania, and
have
> already talked to a number of GLAM-Wiki leaders at Wikimedia
Conference.
My role as strategist is to consult, collaborate, organize, and plan.
So,
> please reach out to me with your questions, thoughts, needs or other
> feedback.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex Stinson
>
> GLAM-Wiki Strategist
>
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> astinson(a)wikimedia.org
>
> [1] A little about me
>
> I have been working with the Wikipedia Library since May 2014,
developing
> the Library’s publisher partnerships,
building relationships with
dozens
of
> community and language leaders across our volunteer movement, crafting
a
broader
strategy for engaging the largest libraries and international
reference networks, and project managing tool and metrics improvements
for
our program.
I also designed and deployed the successful #1Lib1Ref campaign (
1lib1ref.org)
that drew nearly 30,000 viewers, 5 million tweet-impressions, and
hundreds
> of participants from the library world to Wikipedia in our first ever
> viral, global micro-contributions drive for quality improvement.
>
> In my volunteer, time I try to stay active as User:Sadads, where I am
> mostly active on English Wikipedia ( >98,000 edits). I have been
actively
> writing content about literature and novels
since 2008. I have always
> thought of our movement as a community with a lot of opportunities
around
> partnerships and collaboration.
>
> I was also one of the early adopters of GLAM-Wiki in the US: While
still
in
college, I approached the Smithsonian in 2010 about a partnership,
establishing the dialogue which grew to one of our most successful
long-term cultural partners within the movement. I have learned from
those
early attempts and have led GLAM-Wiki
relationships with a handful of
smaller organizations while in school and as a volunteer.
I am also a long time supporter of the Education program: I was trained
as
part of the Public Policy Initiative's first
round of "Campus
Ambassadors",
> the project that became first the U.S. and then the Global Education
> Programs.
>
> I am based in Southern Vermont, where I enjoy hiking, the local and the
> local food culture. In my spare time, I try to produce sustainable food
> through my garden and homebrewing-- I just put in 4 rows of potatoes,
and
am about
to start most of my summer crops.
[2] *Annual Plan for GLAM*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/…
>
>
> [3] Some thoughts on the GLAM-Wiki Strategist Role
>
> What I hope to do:
>
> * Help lead efforts to evaluate and improve our GLAM-Wiki
documentation,
and
develop resources that make GLAM-Wiki a more approachable strategy
for
> volunteers, especially in communities which don't have much experience
in
> partnerships with formal organizations.
>
> * Connect with and learn from the network of community leaders
supporting
partnerships with GLAM and other organizations
* Help document and share the most successful, repeatable GLAM-Wiki
project
models coming from our communities.
* Connect community leaders and outside organizations who approach
Community Engagement and other Wikimedia Foundation departments about
GLAM
> partnerships with the best volunteer leaders, resources, or learning
> materials.
>
> * Communicate GLAM and GLAM-Wiki needs with teams and departments
within
WMF,
including Community Resources, Strategic Partnerships and
Engineering
> teams. I have already started these conversations, and hope to be able
to
share
what I have been working on in the next couple months.
* Support strategic movement relationships with global organizations
(IFLA, ICOM, UNESCO, OCLC, Internet Archive, etc ) which can expand
opportunities for GLAM-Wiki programming and partnerships by local
affiliates.
What I won't be doing:
* Creating partnerships with local cultural heritage organizations
* "Coordinating" in any strong sense of the word -- It's not my role to
be
> “in charge” of what others are doing in the GLAM-Wiki space -- instead
my
> aim is to facilitate access to better tools
and resources that help
> community
> leaders coordinate these partnerships more easily and effectively.
>
> What I would like to learn from the community and GLAM program leaders
in
the next
few months:
* Where does our community of GLAM-outreach leaders need the most
support?
* What are the greatest technology barriers preventing the creation of
easy-to-create and scalable relationships with cultural heritage
organizations?
* What are the best opportunities for expanding GLAM-Wiki strategies to
new
> or emerging communities with less partnership experience or affiliate
> support?
>
> * How can we help a greater range of Wikimedia volunteers participate
in
partnerships with our GLAM allies?
I am very optimistic about the opportunities for GLAM-Wiki work,
especially
as Wikimedia becomes leaders of open and linked
data, through projects
like
Wikidata -- and I want to make sure our
communities have the tools and
support to take advantage of that leading role in sharing cultural
heritage
knowledge around the world.
-Alex
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