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July 7, 2025 - Monday - (4pm – 5pm Eastern Time - New York)

attendees

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  1. Johanna Janhonen
  2. Richard Knipel
  3. Mary Mark Ockerbloom
  4. Martin Poulter - at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalili_Foundation the only Wikimedian in Residence at a private art gallery, working with UNESCO
  5. Michaela Blanc - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9rez_Art_Museum_Miami doing outreach programs
  6. Siobhan Leachman (Ambrosia10) - Wikimedian in Residence in New Zealand with what was Landcare Research now the Bioeconomy Science Institute, a Crown Research Institute. This institute holds the national collections of plant specimens and entomological specimens. The new crown research institute undertakes research into national species, invasive species and concentrates on furthering biodiversity knowlege to improve the New Zealand agricultural sector.
  7. Oumaros Hamadou
  8. Dr Thneed /Tamsin - Wikimedian in Residence University of Otago. WIR only for a few weeks. Introductory meetings etc. Settling in and figuring out what she can do.
  9. Ceslause Ogbonnaya - Wikimedian in Residence for African Knowledge Initiative https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Knowledge_Initiative does indigenous language preservation affiliated with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union
  10. Su-Laine Brodsky - Energy Tracker Asia Wikimedian in Residence, developing articles on energy and climate, mentoring another WiR at University of Exeter
  11. Lane Rasberry - University of Virginia, currently collaborating with University of the Bahamas to develop general interest datasets about countries
  12. Mike Dickison – Wikipedian at Large in New Zealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/AoWPAL_2025

Agenda

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  1. Rotating schedule for WREN calls
  2. Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/2024 has been submitted by Lane -- Many thanks to Lane for doing this work
  3. Conferences
    1. Siobhan is attending the ASBS Conference in Australia (https://asbs.org.au/conferences/) in November undertaking outreach during the conference as well as running a Wikidata workshop and wikifying the conference
    2. Tamsin and Mike Dickison (Giantflightlessbirds) were official Wikimedians in Residence at the International Congress for History of Science and Technology, which finished last week. Project page here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DrThneed/Wikifying_a_conference/ICHST
    3. GLAM conference Portugal
      1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2025
      2. Mike Dickison, Martin Poulter expecting to attend
    4. Mike complained of strict Wikimedia Foundation travel rule that scholarships have people arrive day before and leave day after. This is less fair to people in New Zealand, as a typical flight from there will be 36 hours and they need more time to adjust.
  4. WiR role
    1. Tech
    2. Consider the Wikimedia Foundation's proposal to put AI summaries into the leads of English Wikipedia
    3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_221#h-Simple_summaries:_editor_survey_and_2-week_mobile_study-20250602182000
    4. Comment from Lane: Better conversation between the Wikimedia Foundation and the user community would prevent misunderstanding. ##The Wiki community wants to preserve the human to human interaction.
    5. Mike Dickison: Chris Albon the director of machine learning at the Wikimedia Foundation shared a proposal to make an AI chat bot to aid new users. https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/04/30/our-new-ai-strategy-puts-wikipedias-humans-first/
    6. comments: When the Wikimedia Foundation presented AI plans at the last Wikimania, the audience asked questions which the Wikimedia Foundation seemed unready to answer.
    7. Su-Laine: The Wikipedia community would probably welcome AI tool assistance for task flows including copyright violation detection, patrolling for sockpuppet misconduct, and doing source verification for citations. How do others feel about these things? (some support)
    8. comment: The pushback is about generative content made by LLMs and replacing the human element.
    9. Tasmin: We need AI in repetitive processes, not in content generation
    10. Richard's proposal for AI: Replace Wikinews with AI summaries of current events pulled from Wikipedia - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews_Pulse
  5. Do we want to invite Selena Denckleman, Wikimedia Foundation Chief Product and Technology Officer, to a GLAM meeting?
    1. Yes, but what would we discuss?
    2. Tool requests
    3. Lane requests better documentation on Wikimedia data dumps for use by computer science / machine learning students
    4. other GLAM Wikimedian in Residence tools?
    5. getting her thoughts on maintaining tools which Wikimedians in Residence use, and not letting them fail suddenly and unexpectedly
    6. Policy positions
    7. WiR opinions on AI policy
    8. Wikidata
    9. Commons
    10. Potential for WREN member-informed guidance packages in different fields
  6. Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/Best practices for contribution or WREN/Policy kit?
    1. Tools, pooling our product recommendations to develop a WREN Tool Suite or WREN/Tool kit?
    2. media
    3. Tamsin has a YouTube channel profiling various tools - https://www.youtube.com/@drthneed6733
  7. GLAM Boot Camp info update -- Mary Mark Ockerbloom -- celebration.women@gmail.com Wikimedia DC will host a three-day GLAM Boot Camp in Washington, DC at the National Gallery of Art from September 18-21, 2025. If you are interested in attending or being a presenter, or know others who might be appropriate, please let me know . Here is a link you can look at and share: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfc95tK372Zp_-_gR9-V_kT0bjB8uT9TMOWfXrQsvY4TcjfGg/viewform?fbzx=8845162637835799641 To be clear: this is not a registration link, this is a preliminary "assessing who's interested" link.
  8. Ceslause presented a Wikipedia campaign to develop cultural content of interest to Nigeria, Senegal, and Egypt. This will include coverage of African film.

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