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
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
Hi Flo & all,
I would be very interested in collaborating on a shared proposal to
Wikimania this year. A panel seems like a great idea.
I have not been very involved on the listserv and with the WREN group
(apologies!), but as a refresher, I work with the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative
to engage scholars in writing studies (i.e. rhetoric, composition,
technical communication, literacy, and language studies) to edit Wikipedia
as a form of public scholarship.
Cheers,
Savannah
Hi WREN and GLAM folks,
I need your insights into what could be a very problematic year for us in
the GLAM wiki community, as our metrics tools to measure our impact are in
crisis and disrepair. If you have any insights, please do share them here,
or in the GLAM Wiki Telegram group where this conversation started
happening recently.
I sent a "HELP!" message to the Wikimedia SE content partnerships help desk
just the other day, included below, and hope this may be useful to start a
conversation. If there is enough interest, we might want to start a wiki
page to formally document our needs as a GLAM wiki community. Thanks.
-Andrew
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To: help(a)wikimedia.se
I'd like to formally employ the Helpdesk's services in getting some care
and attention to BaGLAMa2. It seems to have been failing since the end of
last year, and even then, it was reporting extremely low figures for all
categories. This is one of the few tools we have in the GLAM wiki community
to measure impact and to make the case for sustaining our work.
https://glamtools.toolforge.org/baglama2/
Without these basic metrics, 2023 could prove to be a disastrous year for
continuing efforts. So far, we have been unable to report good, reliable
numbers to folks such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Smithsonian
Institution. Other on-demand tools such as Glamorgan usually cannot handle
such large category trees, and also have their own problems with not being
able to read the pageviews API numbers accurately, which is another issue
in itself.
https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorgan.html
In short - help! How can we get this on the radar screen of people who can
put more care, attention, and resources into this? Thanks.
-Andrew