Wikipedistas em residência

A Wikimedian in Residence (or some variant, such as Wikimedian-in-residence, WiR, or Wikipedian) is a professional role in communications for an organization to share its knowledge within the Wikimedia platform, measure the impact of the same, and promote Wikipedia through training, education, and edit-a-thons. In the same way that organizations such as universities, nonprofit organizations, NGOs, research institutes, libraries, and museums may post information to their websites and social media, these organizations may also promote the integration of their expertise in Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Wikimedia platform.
The Wikimedia community distinguishes branding and marketing from expertise and knowledge. In this context, there is a custom that Wikimedians in Residence do not edit about their institution, but rather share the knowledge of their institution. Wikimedia projects seek to present the best available information from the most authoritative sources, and any organization which is willing to share its information in that context is welcome to appoint a Wikimedian in Residence to facilitate this.
Wikimedian in Residence programs began in the early 2010s with experimental professional positions in university classrooms, nonprofit organizations, and museums. Now the culture and practice of these roles is more developed through organizations including the Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network which provides peer to peer support for organizations and individuals engaged sharing open knowledge in the Wikimedia platform.
About
- Time allocation
- Fulltime for a very short period (e.g. British Museum project, 5 weeks)
- Fulltime for a longer period (e.g. Chateau de Versailles project, 6 months. University of Edinburgh project, 18 months)
- Part time for a long period (e.g. Children's Museum of Indianapolis project, 1 year)
- Part time permanently (e.g. Bundesdenkmalamt - Scanproject, Vienna, minimum 3-4 years)
- Rewards
- Wholly unpaid (e.g. British Museum project, Bundesdenkmalamt)
- Study credit (e.g. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis project, first 3 months)
- Stipend/scholarship (e.g. Chateau de Versailles)
- Paid internship (e.g. Early NARA projects)
- Contract employee (e.g. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis project, year 2)
- Full time employee (e.g. National Archive Full time Wikipedian in Residence, University of Edinburgh Wikimedian in Residence)
- Recruitment method
- Published job offer through official recruitment process (e.g. NARA) [could add Chapter rep. to interview panel if necessary].
- Outsource recruitment to local Wikimedia Chapter (e.g. Versailles project)
- Informal recruitment through existing social media connection (e.g. Indianapolis Museum of Art)
- Identify existing Wikipedia community leader in relevant field (e.g. Israeli Museum)
- Self-initiated contact from a Wikimedian/pedian to the institution (e.g. British Museum, Bundesdenkmalamt)
Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Wikimedia platform is a a digitally native platform which has consistently reached a massive audience for a generation. Since 2005 Wikipedia, has been the single most consulted source of information on most topics where people are using Internet search to seek knowledge for which Wikipedia has an article. Organizations which have authority in a field for which there is a Wikipedia article can consider engagement with Wikipedia to share that information. Posting content to the Wikimedia platform achieves distribution and dissemination to the world's largest available and most targeted audience, which are the individuals who are specifically seeking general reference information and authoritative sources on very specific topics.
In the usual way that organizations track the number of visitors to their websites, followers in their social media accounts, and the engagements of users who click to react, the Wikimedia platform has its own suite of communication metrics that demonstrate posting content on Wikipedia reaches the audiences seeking the kind of information which organizations in all fields curate to share. The Wikimedia platform reaches 1 billion unique visitors per year, content from the Wikimedia platform circulates even more broadly, and everyone should take for granted that all journalists, students, commentators, investors, officials, and interested persons will check the Wikipedia article and Wikimedia collections when doing introductory research on any topic. Organizations who want their knowledge represented in this context engage or hire Wikimedians in Residence to achieve that.
For organizations
For further information: See the guide for creating Wikimedian in Residence roles
Hiring a Wikimedian in Residence is comparable to hiring a website content developer, a Facebook and Twitter post manager, a YouTube video director, or any of the other more common new media publishing roles that serve the purpose of sharing an organization's knowledge with the public in popular media channels. Various media channels have their own rules and community norms, and for organizations that share general reference information, integrating content into the Wikimedia platform is a high-impact, low-cost strategy to reach the global readership of Wikipedia.
There are no special permissions or editorial appointments available in the Wikimedia platform. Organizations that appoint Wikimedians in Residence do so from the same position as anyone else on the Internet creating a Wikipedia user account. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and a Wikimedian in Residence enters the role equal to anyone else with no special recognition or consideration of their institutional affiliation. While the Wikimedia community is favorable to institutional partnerships because the Wikimedia community respects knowledge organizations, all organizations engaged in sharing information should comply with the community rules, participate in social discourse, make some commitment to the Wikimedia mission and values, and expect that their Wikimedian in Residence will be a liaison between the Wikimedia community and their own host organization.
For individuals
Wikimedians in Residence enter their appointments with some skill set. Usually that skill set is Wikimedia editing experience including an understanding of community norms in performing test edits, seeking program review, communicating in the open with Wikimedia community stakeholders in a knowledge or media sector, and being conscious of when to request or offer the favor of time and labor collaborations with the Wikimedia community volunteer base. Not all Wikimedians in Residence heavily engage in Wikimedia community culture, though. In Wikidata as the structured data collection of the Wikimedia platform, a Wikimedian in Residence may be a data management professional who processes and manages dataset uploads with more technical engagement and less community conversation than what is the norm in Wikipedia. In Wikimedia Commons, the image and non-text media repository, the Wikimedian in Residence may have a skill set in digital access and might promote the circulation of the images and archival documents of cultural institutions in the Linked Open Web.
Any individual seeking a Wikimedian in Residence appointment or career path should grow their familiarity with how other wiki professionals have found success, but also note that jobs and funding come from institutions. People seeking a Wikimedian in Residence job ultimately must find an organization ready to hire them, and must explain the value of what they do in the context of that organization's overall digital publishing and communication goals.
Typical activities
Strategic planning in new media
Organizations which hire a Wikimedian in Residence should expect this person to identify and describe trends in new media to the leadership of the organization. It is not necessary that organizations change themselves or their culture to engage in Wikimedia projects, but engagement in Wikimedia does require more conversation and planning than publishing in platforms entirely under the control of the host platform. Some necessary topics of discussion are how sharing content on the open web invites global response to the content, what balance organizations can design for sharing content to reach more people versus restricting access so that fewer people control a complicated discourse, how to manage copyright, and what it means to be in a public media commons.
The Wikimedia community are a subset of people, mostly activist minded, who advocate for universal access to some educational information, some media which encourages good citizenship, and enough knowledge to inform decisions for quality of life. Various works of journalism and research describe this Wikimedia culture, and understanding this culture and its goals are more important to the success of most projects than entering with a particular skill set. Briefly, people in this community and culture can recognize each other, and they can recognize outsiders. In the same way that fans of opera, or a particular sport, or in a niche professional sector can identify who is and who is not like them, there are a few million people in the Open Movement who share a system of values and they have high compatibility with each other and common intuition on matters of ethics. Organizations which hire a Wikimedian in Residence should expect to bring some amount of this culture in their practices, and gain the shared history of the many shared successes and failures of how to effectively do communication in Wikimedia projects in this still new digital age.
The most common strategic planning activity among Wikimedians in Residence is collecting audience engagement metrics from the Wikimedia platform to generate a report of communication impact. This includes measuring how many readers have viewed Wikimedia content which an organization finds relevant to its interest, including audience in its field of expertise and audience to the content it has posted. The most common and easiest to collect reports are from the Programs & Events Dashboard, Traffic reporting tools such as Pageviews Analysis, and specialized reports through the Wikidata Query Service.
Text editing
Since its establishment in 2001, Wikipedia has become a foundation of the human experience. Wikipedia is an everyday presence in all cultures where people use Internet resources. All countries have Wikimedia editors in all languages where people engage with digital tools. Posting text knowledge and citations into relevant Wikipedia articles is still the best way to deliver general reference information to the people who want it. Any Wikimedian in Residence will either have at least minimal experience in editing Wikipedia, or otherwise they should start editing a little and regularly over time because Wikipedia is the center of most people's experience of the Wikimedia platform.
Sharing datasets
Whereas the most common way to edit the Wikimedia platform is one Wikipedia article at a time, Wikidata offers the promise of sharing facts as structured data at scale to the knowledge environment of any topic in every language. Perhaps the best way to describe the possibilities with sharing data is in looking to the field of data science, which seeks to collect data, analyze it, secure data pipelines for quality control and updating, engineer visualizations to make it understandable, and invest in ethics to promote good and minimize the harm from doing massive low cost publishing which gets massive viewership and engagement.
Some Wikimedians in Residence spend much of their time engaged in Wikidata. A beginner in Wikidata can assist an organization in structuring their knowledge to be FAIR data, which enables magnitudes of additional crowdsourced engagement. An person experienced in managing data will almost always be preparing an organization to engage in the next generation of online publishing. An organization's investment in data curation need not be for Wikidata specifically, and instead a Wikidata project can be a practical live attempt among an organization's broader plans to integrate into the Semantic Web. Compared to competing options, Wikidata is a low-cost, low-commitment, high-impact path for growing a culture which can imagine the advent of next generation data-based applications.
Sharing media collections
Museums and libraries traditionally measured engagement by counting humans who physically walked into their brick and mortar buildings. The Wikimedia platform offers options for museums to present their collections online through Wikipedia articles, media galleries in Commons, structured metadata in Wikidata, archives in Wikisource, and the rest.
A common museum activity is selecting some media, such as images, to integrate into Wikipedia. After posting this content the museum tracks the audience engagement with it through the Wikimedia audience measurement tools. The organization then considers the relative value of having people use its online collections versus in-person. A common general conclusion is that all organizations need a balance of investment of online versus in-person engagement, and that Wikipedia provides an excellent value for achieving and demonstrating online usefulness.
Community engagement
There is a culture in the Wikimedia community of presenting online and in-person community events in partnership with organizations. In these events, called "wiki parties" or "edit-a-thons", a group of people meet to engage with the media resources of a host institution. These people, perhaps community members in open invitation, or students from a university, or online participants who want to join but cannot physically come to the organization, take a media source of information from the host organization and then share and cite that source in the Wikimedia platforms.
Wikimedians in Residence have organized thousands of these events globally. People enjoy them. They achieve knowledge sharing and produce metrics as supporting evidence to demonstrate their impact.
History and case studies
In 2006 user:llywrch published "Wikipedian-in-residence, a proposal" articulating in print the concept of an liaison between Wikimedia projects and external organizations with domain expertise. Following that proposal in the early 2010s various Wikimedian in Residence programs flourished in different regions. Early experiments were in the United States, particularly in the Cascadia region based on llywrch's advocacy, where the United States Public Policy Initiative trained and professionalized persons at universities to collaborate with Wikimedia projects. In the college town of Pune in India a parallel experiment with the Indian Wikipedia Education program inspired many students to become highly engaged Wikipedia editors, leading to the convening of several large Wikimedia conferences in India and many of the students from that program to join regional volunteer administration in the Wikimedia India chapter. In Europe the culture leaned more to seeking museum partnerships after the model of a community outreach and events program manager. These regions each set some precedents, but the true story of the early history is the sum of all the experiments which happened globally in the first 10 years. Probably the most stable outcome of the Wikimedian in Residence experiments is the establishment of the Wiki Education Foundation, which correctly identified that universities have the best funding, the best access to highly motivated student editors, and the best knowledge resources to justify creating paid professional appointments to Wikimedians in Residence.
As of 2019, probably most of the funding which has gone into Wikimedian in Residence programs has come from encouraging public health and medical education. Probably the most common characteristic of Wikimedian in Residence programs is that they have a relationship to a university, either by the university hosting the position or the university being an essential partner in achieving the goals of the appointment. One of the most popular types of Wikimedian in Residence activity is a wiki editing event in the arts, which have a global history of drawing large crowds of first-time and beginning editors who will edit at an in-person social event and gathering.
Full list of past and present WiRs
Below is a table of current and previous Wikimedians in residence according to their Wikidata entries. Wikimedians without are not included. To see the full table without needing to scroll, or instructions on adding new rows, see this page.
Wikimedian (Q3809586) | Organisation (P108) | Link (P2699) | Location (P937) | Start (P580) | End (P582) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liam Wyatt
![]() | British Museum | BM | London | June 2010 | July 2010 |
Lori Byrd-McDevitt
![]() | The Children's Museum of Indianapolis | TCMI | Indianapolis | August 2010 | ? |
Benoît Evellin
![]() | Palace of Versailles | Château de Versailles | Palace of Versailles | February 2011 | August 2011 |
Àlex Hinojo Sánchez
![]() | Museu Picasso | Museu Picasso | Barcelona | March 2011 | August 2011 |
Àlex Hinojo Sánchez
![]() | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya | MNAC | Barcelona | May 2012 | May 2013 |
Remulazz
![]() | lettera27 | lettera27 | Milan | 30 March 2011 | |
Roger Bamkin
![]() | Derby Museum and Art Gallery | Derby | Derby | April 2011 | September 2011 |
Laura Hale
![]() | Australian Paralympic Committee | The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia | May 2011 | September 2012 | |
Sarah Stierch
![]() | Archives of American Art | AAA | Washington, D.C. | May 2011 | October 2011 |
Sarah Stierch
![]() | Smithsonian Institution Archives | SIA | Washington, D.C. | March 2012 | June 2012 |
Sarah Stierch
![]() | World Digital Library | Outcomes | Washington, D.C. | January 2013 | December 2013 |
Dominic Byrd-McDevitt
![]() | National Archives at College Park | NARA | College Park | May 2011 | October 2012 |
Richard Knipel
![]() | Museum of Modern Art | MoMA | New York City | June 2011 | December 2011 |
Richard Knipel
![]() | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York City | July 2017 | |
Daniel Mietchen
![]() | Open Knowledge Foundation Germany | OA | Berlin | July 2011 | July 2013 |
Andy Mabbett
![]() | Royal Society of Chemistry | RSCWiki | Cambridge Science Park | 22 September 2014 | 18 September 2015 |
Andy Mabbett
![]() | Birmingham Museums Trust | Thinktank | Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum | January 2015 | June 2015 |
Andy Mabbett
![]() | ORCID, Inc. | ORCID | June 2014 | ||
Andy Mabbett
![]() | The New Art Gallery Walsall | New Art Gallery Walsall | The New Art Gallery Walsall | May 2013 | June 2013 |
Andy Mabbett
![]() | ARKive | ARKive | Bristol | July 2011 | October 2011 |
Andy Mabbett
![]() | Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service | SAHS | Staffordshire County Museum | May 2013 | June 2013 |
Andy Mabbett
![]() | Lancashire County Council’s Museum Service | QSMM | Queen Street Mill | March 2013 | September 2014 |
Andy Mabbett
![]() | TED | January 2016 | July 2016 | ||
Andy Mabbett
![]() | Queen Mary University of London | HMBRG | London | April 2017 | August 2017 |
Andy Mabbett
![]() | The Physiological Society | PhySoc | London | April 2017 | October 2017 |
Andy Mabbett
![]() | Coventry University | Coventry University | Disruptive Media Learning Lab | June 2019 | |
Yair Talmor
![]() | Israel Museum | IMJ | Israel | September 2011 | November 2011 |
Daniel Tsvi Framowitz
![]() | National Library of Israel | NLI | Jerusalem | December 2011 | May 2012 |
Francis Awinda
![]() | Africa Centre | Culture | Cape Town | January 2012 | December 2012 |
Rexford Nkansah
![]() | Africa Centre | Culture | Cape Town | January 2014 | December 2014 |
Ole Palnatoke Andersen
![]() | National Museum of Denmark | Residerende wikipedianer | Copenhagen | April 2012 | May 2012 |
Ole Palnatoke Andersen
![]() | Royal Danish Library | WikiProjekt Diamanten | Copenhagen | October 2012 | December 2012 |
Lane Rasberry
![]() | Consumer Reports | Consumer Reports | Yonkers | April 2012 | April 2018 |
Lane Rasberry
![]() | School of Data Science | University of Virginia | Charlottesville | March 2018 | |
Andrew Gray
![]() | British Library | BL | London | May 2012 | April 2013 |
Maximilian Klein
![]() | OCLC, Inc. | VIAF | California | June 2012 | February 2014 |
Marcus Cyron
![]() | German Archaeological Institute | German Archaeological Institute | Berlin | June 2012 | November 2012 |
Hubertl
![]() | Bundesdenkmalamt | Bundesdenkmalamt Austria | Vienna | July 2012 | |
David Parreño Mont
![]() | Palafrugell | Palafrugell | Palafrugell | July 2012 | August 2012 |
David Parreño Mont
![]() | Library Service of Catalonia | Biblioteques | Catalonia | September 2013 | December 2013 |
Aaron Morris
![]() | Menter Iaith Môn | Wicibrosiect Wici Môn | Anglesey | December 2016 | |
Lennart Guldbrandsson
![]() | Swedish National Heritage Board | Stockholm | June 2012 | November 2012 | |
André Costa
![]() | Swedish National Heritage Board | Stockholm | June 2012 | November 2012 | |
Timothy Sandole
![]() | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs | Assessment of Belfer Center Wikipedian in Residence program | Cambridge | August 2012 | August 2013 |
Ole Palnatoke Andersen
![]() | National Museum of Denmark | Residerende wikipedianer | Copenhagen | April 2012 | May 2012 |
Ole Palnatoke Andersen
![]() | Royal Danish Library | WikiProjekt Diamanten | Copenhagen | October 2012 | December 2012 |
Michael Barera
![]() | Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library | GFPLM | Ann Arbor | January 2013 | April 2013 |
Esther Solé i Martí
![]() | Museu d'Art Jaume Morera | Art Jaume Morera | Lleida | February 2013 | February 2014 |
John Cummings
![]() | Natural History Museum | NHMandSM | London | March 2013 | January 2014 |
John Cummings
![]() | UNESCO | United Nations | Paris | August 2015 | |
Galazan
![]() | Museum of the History of Catalonia | Història de Catalunya | Barcelona | March 2012 | June 2013 |
Whiteghost.ink
![]() | State Library of New South Wales | SLNSW | Sydney | March 2012 | June 2013 |
Tim Moritz Hector
![]() | ZDF | ZDFcheck | Mainz | May 2013 | October 2013 |
Mary Mark Ockerbloom
![]() | Science History Institute | Chemical Heritage Foundation | Philadelphia | May 2013 | June 2020 |
Mariona Aragay
![]() | Museu de la Música de Barcelona | El Museu de la Música incorpora una viquipedista resident per difondre el museu i la música catalana a Internet | Barcelona | May 2013 | December 2013 |
Kevin Rutherford
![]() | Ladd Observatory | Ladd Observatory | Providence | June 2013 | August 2013 |
Evelyn Swan
![]() | American Folk Art Museum | New York City | February 2013 | June 2013 | |
Micha Rieser
![]() | Swiss Federal Archives | Swiss Federal Archives | Bern | July 2013 | December 2013 |
Micha Rieser
![]() | Swiss National Library | Swiss National Library | Bern | January 2014 | October 2014 |
Micha Rieser
![]() | public library of the University of Basel, Collections | Basel University Library | Basel | March 2015 | October 2015 |
Ally Crockford
![]() | National Library of Scotland | NLS | Edinburgh | July 2013 | March 2015 |
Molly McGowan
![]() | Royal Ontario Museum | ROM | Toronto | May 2013 | 2014 |
Hay Kranen
![]() | Koninklijke Bibliotheek | WiR | The Hague | October 2013 | October 2014 |
Dorothy Howard
![]() | Metropolitan New York Library Council | Metropolitan New York Library Council | New York City | August 2013 | March 2015 |
Alexander D. Stinson
![]() | The William Blake Archive | William Blake | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | August 2013 | January 2014 |
Sandra Fauconnier
![]() | Stichting Academisch Erfgoed | Expedities | Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam | 1 January 2014 | 31 December 2014 |
Sandra Fauconnier
![]() | Nederlands Commission for UNESCO | MoW 2017 | Zeeland Archives | May 2017 | September 2017 |
Arie Sonneveld
![]() | Working Group of Special Academic Libraries | 2014 | Netherlands | November 2013 | March 2015 |
Patrick Hadley
![]() | York Museums Trust | YMT | York | October 2013 | April 2014 |
Patrick Hadley
![]() | Museums Development Yorkshire | YNP | Yorkshire | July 2014 | July 2015 |
Kevin Gorman
![]() | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley | January 2014 | January 2015 | |
Iván Martínez
![]() | Museo Soumaya | Mexico City | July 2014 | ? | |
Rocío Consales
![]() | Fundación Salvador Allende | Discursos oficiales de Salvador Allende | Santiago | March 2014 | May 2014 |
Lukasz Chelminski
![]() | Józef Piłsudski Institute of America | WikiProject Józef Piłsudski Institute of America | New York City | September 2014 | December 2014 |
Marc Haynes
![]() | Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol | Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol | Cardiff | March 2014 | September 2014 |
Luca Martinelli
![]() | Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico | ICCU | Rome | April 2015 | 31 December 2019 |
Luca Martinelli
![]() | Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi | ICBSA | Rome | 15 September 2017 | 31 December 2018 |
RGmary
![]() | Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico | ICCU | Mestre | April 2014 | August 2014 |
Sydney Poore
![]() | Cochrane | WIR | Liverpool | April 2014 | April 2016 |
Jennifer Dawson
![]() | Cochrane | WIR | 2017 | ||
Rob Velella
![]() | Houghton Library | Rob at Houghton | Cambridge | April 2014 | December 2014 |
John Byrne
![]() | Cancer Research UK | WikiProject CRUK | London | April 2014 | February 2015 |
Jey
![]() | Open University of Catalonia | UOC | Barcelona | February 2014 | August 2014 |
Daniele Metilli
![]() | Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto | Mart | Rovereto | May 2014 | November 2014 |
Sergei Zhuravel
![]() | Business Journal | резидент | Syktyvkar | May 2014 | January 2016 |
Mikhail Melnichenko
![]() | Scientific Library of Moscow State University | резидент | Moscow | September 2014 | |
Netha Hussain
![]() | Calicut Medical College | Department of Pathology | Kozhikode | October 2014 | January 2016 |
Jovana Milošević
![]() | Belgrade University Library | Универзитетска библиотека 2014 | Belgrade | November 2014 | December 2014 |
Eduardo Testart
![]() | National Library of Chile | Wikipedista en residencia | Santiago | January 2015 | November 2015 |
Jason Evans
![]() | National Library of Wales | National Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales | Aberystwyth | January 2015 | |
Martin Poulter
![]() | Bodleian Libraries | Bodleian | Oxford | April 2015 | March 2016 |
Martin Poulter
![]() | Jisc | Jisc Ambassador | Bristol | July 2013 | April 2014 |
Martin Poulter
![]() | University of Oxford | Oxford | Oxford | October 2016 | October 2019 |
Martin Poulter
![]() | Khalili Collections | Khalili | London | February 2020 | |
Cvetko Nedelkovski
![]() | State Archive of the Republic of North Macedonia | Residence at DARM | Skopje | 15 June 2015 | 15 September 2015 |
Marija Gajić
![]() | Jevremovac botanic garden | Ботаничка башта Јевремовац 2015 | Belgrade | 9 November 2015 | 8 December 2015 |
Rubén Ojeda de la Roza
![]() | Museum of Romanticism | Glaming Madrid | Madrid | September 2015 | January 2016 |
Davide Denti
![]() | European Centre for Press and Media Freedom | Bando per Wikipediano in residenza allo European Centre for Press and Media Freedom | Rovereto | October 2015 | March 2016 |
Mario Šarevski
![]() | Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts | Residence at MANU | Skopje | October 2015 | |
Zana Shtrkovska
![]() | Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts | Diary | Skopje | January 2016 | December 2016 |
Loganathan Rathinavel
![]() | Tamil Virtual Academy | partnership | Chennai | October 2015 | March 2016 |
Kelly Doyle
![]() | West Virginia University | Welcome | Morgantown | October 2015 | July 2018 |
Marco Chemello
![]() | Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura | BEIC | Milan | January 2016 | |
Marco Chemello
![]() | Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci" | Museoscienza | Milan | March 2016 | May 2016 |
Federico Leva
![]() | Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura | BEIC | Milan | September 2014 | ? |
Kerry Raymond
![]() | State Library of Queensland | First World War Wikipedian in Residence | Brisbane | February 2016 | April 2016 |
Mrsinna
![]() | State Library of Queensland | First World War Wikipedian in Residence | Brisbane | February 2016 | April 2016 |
Ewan McAndrew
![]() | University of Edinburgh | University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh | January 2016 | January 2019 |
Simone Massi
![]() | Mansutti Foundation | Fondazione Mansutti | Milan | February 2016 | April 2016 |
Simone Massi
![]() | Museo Galileo | Museo Galileo | Milan | April 2016 | June 2016 |
Stanislas Wiener
![]() | Wiener Library | Wiener Library | London | 1 March 2016 | 1 March 2017 |
Niccolò Caranti
![]() | MUSE | Trento | March 2016 | April 2016 | |
Rachel Helps
![]() | Brigham Young University | Harold B Lee Library | Provo | January 2016 | January 2021 |
Francesc Fort
![]() | Valencian Museum of Ethnology | Etnologia | Valencia | April 2016 | July 2016 |
Francesc Fort
![]() | Provincial Council of Valencia | Cultura Diputació València | Valencia | September 2016 | December 2017 |
Francesc Fort
![]() | Institut Valencià d'Art Modern | Valencia | February 2021 | ||
Alice White
![]() | Wellcome Library | Wellcome | London | May 2016 | |
Carl Fredrik Sjöland
![]() | Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carl_Fredrik_(WIR) | Stockholm | June 2016 | |
Thomas Planinger
![]() | Constitutional Court | Wikipedian in Residence am österreichischen Verfassungsgerichtshof | Vienna | July 2016 | September 2016 |
Thomas Planinger
![]() | Constitutional Court | Wikipedian in Residence am österreichischen Verfassungsgerichtshof | Vienna | July 2017 | August 2017 |
Brahim Boughalmi
![]() | Association for the protection of the medina of Tunis | MedinaPedia | Tunis | August 2015 | December 2016 |
Zeineb Takouti
![]() | Diocesan Library of Tunis | Wikipedian in Residence at Diocesan Library of Tunis | Tunis | January 2016 | ? |
TransporterMan
![]() | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | Texas | July 2016 | ||
Milica Vučetić
![]() | Belgrade University Library | Универзитетска библиотека 2016 | Belgrade | 8 July 2016 | 7 August 2016 |
Craig Franklin
![]() | State Library of Queensland | First World War Wikipedian in Residence | Brisbane | August 2016 | April 2018 |
David Alves
![]() | NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/164209/projeto-de-wiki-difusao-em-neuromatematica/ | São Paulo | April 2016 | March 2017 |
Marília Carrera
![]() | NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/167130/matematica-falada-audiodescricao-de-verbetes-de-probabilidade-e-estatistica-na-wikipedia/ | São Paulo | September 2016 | August 2017 |
Emily Temple-Wood
![]() | National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health | NIOSH | Washington, D.C. | January 2015 | July 2016 |
Érica Azzellini
![]() | NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/178343/potenciais-para-o-jornalismo-computacional-na-estruturacao-de-narrativas-de-difusao-cientifica-basea/ | São Paulo | June 2018 | May 2019 |
Miloš Todorović
![]() | Museum of Smederevo | Музеј у Смедереву 2016 | Smederevo | 14 September 2016 | 13 October 2016 |
Michal Matúšov
![]() | World Esperanto Youth Organization | Esperanto125 | Rotterdam | April 2016 | January 2017 |
Maria Drozdek
![]() | National Museum in Warsaw | English | Warsaw | November 2015 | October 2016 |
Maria Drozdek
![]() | Muzeum Miasta Łodzi | Kolekcja Muzeum Miasta Łodzi | Łódź | October 2017 | December 2017 |
Fabian Tompsett
![]() | MayDay Rooms | MayDay Rooms | London | November 2016 | |
Michelle van Lanschot
![]() | Gelderland heritage | Erfgoed Gelderland | Arnhem | January 2017 | December 2017 |
Sander Turnhout
![]() | SoortenNL | Erfgoed Gelderland | Nijmegen | 2016 | 2017 |
Cassandra DellaCorte
![]() | DePaul University | Chicago | December 2016 | ? | |
Christian Cariño
![]() | Museo Soumaya | Residencia en Museo Soumaya | Mexico City | February 2017 | February 2018 |
Charles Matthews
![]() | ContentMine Ltd. | WikiFactMine | Cambridge | April 2017 | September 2017 |
Richard Knipel
![]() | Museum of Modern Art | MoMA | New York City | June 2011 | December 2011 |
Richard Knipel
![]() | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York City | July 2017 | |
Susan Tolich
![]() | Auckland War Memorial Museum | Resources | Auckland | 12 June 2017 | 14 July 2017 |
Lore Agirrezabal
![]() | Children Literature Documentation Center of Donostia | 2016 | Donostia-San Sebastián | 2 March 2016 | 31 July 2016 |
Leire Cano
![]() | Children Literature Documentation Center of Donostia | 2017 | Donostia-San Sebastián | 21 March 2017 | 31 December 2017 |
GjorgjiP
![]() | State Archive of the Republic of North Macedonia | Diary | Skopje | June 2017 | November 2017 |
Gordi
![]() | City Library "Miladinovi Brothers" | Diary | Skopje | 9 June 2017 | 9 September 2017 |
Sara Thomas
![]() | Scottish Library and Information Council | SLIC | Glasgow | August 2017 | April 2018 |
Sara Thomas
![]() | Museums Galleries Scotland | MGS | Edinburgh | January 2015 | June 2016 |
Marek Blahuš
![]() | Masaryk University | Masarykova univerzita | Brno | 2015 | |
Mounir Touzri
![]() | National Archives of Tunisia | Wikipedian in Residence at National Archives of Tunisia | Tunis | September 2017 | October 2017 |
Olfa Yakoubi
![]() | National Archives of Tunisia | Wikipedian in Residence at National Archives of Tunisia | Tunis | September 2017 | October 2017 |
Wilson Vicentim
![]() | NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/170506/neuromatematica-na-wikipedia-criacao-e-melhoria-de-conteudo-em-plataformas-web-20/ | São Paulo | March 2017 | February 2018 |
Emma Rydberg
![]() | Internetmuseum | Internetmuseum | Stockholm | September 2017 | |
Florence Devouard
![]() | University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland | Culture and Safety in Africa | Marseille | December 2017 | January 2018 |
Dušan Ružić
![]() | Museum of Yugoslav History | Музеј Југославије 2017 | Belgrade | November 2017 | December 2017 |
Stefan Mitić
![]() | National museum of Leskovac | https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Википедијанац_стажиста/Музеј_у_Лесковцу_2017. | Leskovac | November 2017 | December 2017 |
Miku Malinen
![]() | National Archives of Finland | Helsinki | February 2018 | December 2018 | |
Olaniyan Olushola
![]() | Goge Africa | Wikipedian in Residence at Goge Africa | Lagos | July 2017 | March 2018 |
Red de Leon
![]() | Bantayog ng mga Bayani | Wikipedian in Residence at Bantayog ng mga Bayani | Manila | April 2018 | June 2018 |
Delphine Dallison
![]() | Scottish Library and Information Council | SLIC | Glasgow | May 2018 | March 2019 |
Marko Stanojević
![]() | Museum of Yugoslav History | https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Википедијанац_стажиста/Музеј_Југославије_2018. | Belgrade | May 2018 | July 2018 |
JarrahTree
![]() | Museum of Perth | Museum of Perth | Perth | May 2018 | |
Aleksandar Tumarić
![]() | Museum of Vojvodina | Музеј Војводине 2018 | Novi Sad | August 2018 | October 2018 |
Lukas Weinbeer
![]() | International Anti-Corruption Academy | WiR Project | Laxenburg | August 2018 | September 2018 |
Oksana Mudri-Nedić
![]() | Museum of Vrbas | Музеј у Врбасу 2018 | Vrbas | August 2018 | September 2018 |
Darold Cuba
![]() | Columbia University | LumaNatic | New York City | September 2018 | ? |
Monika Sengul-Jones
![]() | OCLC, Inc. | Monikasj | unknown value | March 2017 | May 2018 |
Aidee Murrieta
![]() | Daniel Cosío Villegas Library | Residence in Latin America | Mexico City | 6 November 2017 | 30 November 2018 |
Alex Jung
![]() | University of Toronto Libraries | University of Toronto Libraries | Toronto | October 2018 | December 2020 |
Milena Milenković
![]() | Historical Archive of Pirot | Историјски архив Пирот 2018 | Pirot | October 2018 | December 2018 |
John P. Sadowski
![]() | National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health | NIOSH | Washington, D.C. | January 2017 | |
Teodora Lukić
![]() | Republic Institute for the protection of cultural heritage of Serbia | Републички завод за заштиту споменика културе Београд 2018 | Belgrade | November 2018 | December 2018 |
Jovana Obradović
![]() | Historical Archive of Pančevo | Историјски архив у Панчеву 2018 | Pančevo | November 2018 | ? |
Giovanna Fontenelle
![]() | NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/176069/novas-midias-na-construcao-de-projetos-museologicos/ | São Paulo | February 2018 | February 2019 |
Jelena Latov Papić
![]() | Theater Museum of Vojvodina | 2019 | Novi Sad | December 2018 | January 2019 |
Jelena Latov Papić
![]() | Serbian National Theatre | https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Википедијанац_стажиста/Српско_народно_позориште,_Нови_Сад,_2019. | Novi Sad | 16 May 2019 | ? |
Niall O'Mara
![]() | National Health Library and Knowledge Service | http://hselibrary.ie/research-innovation/national-healthcare-wikipedian-in-residence/ | Ireland | August 2018 | August 2019 |
Dragana Popović
![]() | Belgrade University Library | Википедијанац стажиста | Belgrade | 1 March 2019 | 1 April 2019 |
Jérémy Bouchez
![]() | Fondation Lionel-Groulx | speaking North America | Montreal | March 2019 | March 2020 |
Mike Dickison
![]() | Wikimedia Foundation | New Zealand | July 2018 | June 2019 | |
Mike Dickison
![]() | Lincoln University | Lincoln | Lincoln | 25 November 2019 | 17 December 2019 |
Aleksandar Tumarić
![]() | Museum of Vojvodina | Музеј Војводине 2018 | Novi Sad | August 2018 | October 2018 |
Suzana Mihajlović Jovanović
![]() | Historical Archive of Negotin | Историјски архив Неготин 2019 | Negotin | July 2019 | September 2019 |
Amber Berson
![]() | Concordia University | https://library.concordia.ca/about/wikipedian-in-residence/ | Montreal | June 2019 | June 2020 |
Doug Rocks-Macqueen
![]() | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland | SocAntScot | Edinburgh | February 2019 | December 2019 |
Esther Marie Jackson
![]() | New York Botanical Garden | The Bronx | July 2019 | February 2020 | |
Jeffrey Keefer
![]() | Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute | Washington, D.C. | 2019 | ||
Andrew Lih
![]() | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Metropolitan Museum of Art | January 2019 | ||
Susan Ross
![]() | National Library of Scotland | Gaelic Wikipedian project | Edinburgh | January 2017 | December 2017 |
Hilary Thorsen
![]() | Stanford University | WikiProject Linked Data for Production | Stanford | March 2019 | |
Sébastien Gathier
![]() | Institut international pour la Francophonie | Wiktionnariste en résidence | Lyon | 6 January 2020 | 31 December 2020 |
Elysia Webb
![]() | Annual Reviews | edited | Palo Alto | June 2020 | |
Z. Blace
![]() | Rijeka City Library | Zblace | Rijeka | June 2020 | May 2021 |
Seeking applicants
Organization |
Location | Information link | Date posted | Timeframe |
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Links
- Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network, a peer to peer professional organization for Wikimedians in Residence
- wikipedista residente (Q3809586) on Wikidata
Information on other wikis
Wikipedians in Residence are covered on a number of wikis, including:
- Wikimedia Commons category, which contains photos, information graphics, PDF presentations, and other media resources.
- English Wikipedia's encyclopedia article about WiRs; these exist in several other languages as well (see WikiData link below).
- English Wikipedia's GLAM-focused page about Wikipedians in Residence
- English Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest policy section on Wikipedians in Residence
- This Outreach Wiki's category of pages related to WiRs.
- The Wikidata entry for Wikipedians in Residence may contain additional links.
- The This Month in GLAM newsletter includes regular updates on many residencies.
Further information
- Wikipedia in the Museum: Lessons from Wikipedians in Residence 2012 Virtual Session, American Association of Museums.
- Wikipedians in Residence: Two Years of Open Culture, 2012 Open Knowledge Foundation blog, Lori Phillips.
- How Does a Wikipedian in Residence survive?, 2012 The GLAM-Wiki Experience blog, Àlex Hinojo.
- In-Residence Around the World, 2011 Wikimedia blog, Liam Wyatt.
- GLAM information Scoop.it, compilation of blogs & press regarding residencies and GLAM initiatives in general
- Wikipedian in Residence article at Wikipedia
- Creating a Wikimedian in Residence position practical how-to guide