Hi all,
This week, I am continuing NARA's work to improve the transparency of our
contributions to Wikipedia by rolling out a user page
template<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:NARA_user_page> which
will be used for all NARA staff accounts. Here is an example of the
template in action, on the user page of a staff member from our Office of
the Federal Register: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Woo_24>.
To recap our work so far, NARA has published:
- Our internal staff editing
guidelines<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/National_Archives_and_Records_…>
(internally:
July 2012, publicly: September 2012)
- A long-form statement of our
principles<http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/?p=8502> on
our blog (September 2012)
- My personal FAQ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dominic/FAQ> about
my paid activities on my user page (October, 2013)
The new template includes language approved by NARA's general counsel's
office for this purpose. It serves the dual purpose of enforcing standard
conflict of interest disclosure language on all NARA staff user pages,
while also giving staff members new to Wikipedia an automatic, visually
appealing user page to start off with. It also places the users into a
category, so that we can easily track all staff accounts.
My hope is that it will also serve as a visual cue for when an account is
operating outside of the bounds of our approved rules of engagement for
Wikipedia—if someone from NARA is editing without this template on their
user page, it probably means they haven't been trained in Wikipedia and
management is unaware of their actions. And finally, of course, I have
written the statement so that it is more than just a disclosure, but also a
positive message to the Wikimedia community about our intentions. Here are
two of the more important statements:
- "We are working to make our holdings, publications, and other
resources more accessible to the public by engaging directly with
Wikipedia."
- "Because the National Archives' educational mission is in line with
Wikipedia's mission to disseminate knowledge freely, I will not make edits
that I do not believe are in accordance with Wikipedia's practices and
procedures."
There is also a note that directs any Wikimedians with concerns about any
NARA staff's edits that they can contact me, as I act as NARA's liaison to
Wikipedia.
I am hoping this method is useful for other institutions. I'd love to hear
any feedback others have on this approach we're taking.
Dominic
Hello,
I am a Wikipedian in Residence this summer at the University of Puget Sound’s Archives & Special Collections, in Tacoma, WA. I am a rising senior and will be working this summer with Katie Henningsen, our Archivist and Digital Collections Coordinator, to make our archival material accessible through Wikipedia.
I recently met with Lianna Davis, Head of Communications and External Relations at the Wiki Education Foundation, and she suggested that I introduce myself to the email list and get connected to other, more experienced Wikipedians. I’m still pretty new to Wikipedia, and may be reaching out to this list for some guidance down the line as I begin to write articles, so I wanted to introduce myself and Katie in advance!
Best,
Kara Flynn ‘15
Wikipedian in Residence
Archives & Special Collections
University of Puget Sound
Thank you for supporting the University of Puget Sound Archives & Special Collections.
Katie L.B. Henningsen | Archivist & Digital Collections Coordinator
UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND
Collins Memorial Library
1500 N. Warner St. #1021
Tacoma, WA 98416-1021
T: 253.879.2669
pugetsound.edu/library
Hi everyone,
Thank you all for your prompt responses and helpful suggestions! I'll be sure to look into the various links you've all sent.
Thanks again.
Best,
Kara
Hi Katie!
Welcome. I recommend three quick tutorials to get up to speed, about an
hour each:
* http://enwp.org/WP:STUDENT - Education program training
* http://enwp.org/WP:TWA - Wikipedia adventure interactive game
* http://enwp.org/WP:PANDS - Plain and simple guide for new editors
For much more in depth background, there's:
https://en.wp.org/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual - Missing Manual
Good luck!
Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi)
The Wikipedia Library
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Welcome Katie!
>
> I was just at the American Alliance of Museums Conference (there were a
> few of us there) in Seattle this past week, shame I didn't know about your
> work sooner :)
>
> Glad that you have joined us here, I've done many projects and consulted
> on multiple residencies. If we can be of any help here, so let us know.
>
> -Sarah (who lives down the street in Oakland, California!)
>
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Kara E Flynn <kflynn(a)pugetsound.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am a Wikipedian in Residence this summer at the University of Puget
>> Sound’s Archives & Special Collections, in Tacoma, WA. I am a rising senior
>> and will be working this summer with Katie Henningsen, our Archivist and
>> Digital Collections Coordinator, to make our archival material accessible
>> through Wikipedia.
>>
>> I recently met with Lianna Davis, Head of Communications and External
>> Relations at the Wiki Education Foundation, and she suggested that I
>> introduce myself to the email list and get connected to other, more
>> experienced Wikipedians. I’m still pretty new to Wikipedia, and may be
>> reaching out to this list for some guidance down the line as I begin to
>> write articles, so I wanted to introduce myself and Katie in advance!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Kara Flynn ‘15
>> Wikipedian in Residence
>> Archives & Special Collections
>> University of Puget Sound
>>
>>
>> Thank you for supporting the University of Puget Sound Archives & Special
>> Collections.
>> Katie L.B. Henningsen | Archivist & Digital Collections Coordinator
>> UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND
>> Collins Memorial Library
>> 1500 N. Warner St. #1021
>> Tacoma, WA 98416-1021
>> T: 253.879.2669
>> pugetsound.edu/library
>>
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I'll be visiting Chicago on 20-25 May, and have some free time then.
Are there any GLAM events in that period, anyone at a GLAM I should
meet, or is there anyone who'd like to meet for coffee/ beer?
I'd be happy to chat about my Wikipedia Residences in the UK; QRpedia,
or other activities.
I'd also like to meet a local birder, who can help me identify the
birds I see there!
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Hi all,
I am going to reach out to the World War I museum in Kansas City to try to
follow up on Wikimedia UK's call for "WWI and Dissent" editathons in
November. Does anyone on the list serv have a recommendation on who I
should talk to? My graduate program has a graduate working in their grant
writing staff right now, so I am going to see if she has any
recommendations as well.
Alex Stinson
I am very pleased to announce that WikiConference USA is less than 30 days
away! Over the last few months, Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC have been
collecting curated submissions on a diversity of wiki and free/open
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Education), and recruited some excellent keynote speakers who can speak to
their personal activism and leadership in these domains.
But this is a "Wiki" conference, and what it thrives on most is your
participation, your differing areas of experience and expertise, to enliven
and enrich all of the sessions we have planned together. And, exciting
too, there still will be numerous opportunities for "unconference" sessions
led by participants on the fly, and we encourage you to bring the ideas
from your domain for these sessions as well.
Here are the details for the conference:
Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014
Location: New York Law School (185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013)
Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org
Email: wikicon(a)wikimedianyc.org
Registration: http://wikiconusa.eventbrite.org/
And our distinguished and dynamic roster of keynote speakers:
*Phoebe Ayers - Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
*Sumana Harihareswara - Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Team;
Advisor, Ada Initiative
*Christie Koehler - Community Building Education Lead, Mozilla Corporation
*DC Vito, Executive Director - The LAMP/MediaBreaker
For more information, please review our official press release below! We
hope you will join us and help us spread the word!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCon_USA_2014_Press_Release_v1.p…
Thanks,
Richard Knipel (User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC