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August 12, 2025 - Tuesday - (11am – 12pm Eastern Time - New York)

attendees

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  1. Johanna Janhonen
  2. Richard Nevell
  3. Macholi Chris Benard
  4. Alfred Nadjere
  5. Richard Knipel
  6. Lane Rasberry
  7. Martin Poulter
  8. Abdulqayum Al-Muqaddami
  9. Butch Bustria
  10. Su-Laine Brodsky
  11. Andrew Lih
  12. Bodhisattwa

notes

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  1. Wikimania was last weekend!
    1. What talks were interesting?
    2. Wiki Education
    3. WikiLearn
    4. AI talks
    5. Internet in a Box
    6. games that people made based on Wikipedia and Wikidata
    7. Wikimedia Foundation promoting wiki games as an outreach strategy
    8. talk about tools for Wikimedians in Residence
      1. https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikimania_2025_The_State_of_GLAM_Wiki_Technology
      2. Andrew Lih / user:Fuzheado will interpret and report this
    9. need to update lists of tools used by GLAM professionals
    10. Wikimedia Sweden is organizing an effort to host a content partnership hub https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Content_Partnerships_Hub
  2. visit from Wikimedia Foundation development / Selena Deckelmann's team
    1. Selena can send someone to us in September
    2. we can talk about development priorities or ???
    3. Su-Laine wants suggestions for compiling an agenda
    4. Sandra from the Wikimedia Foundation will be joining
  3. social media for Wikimedians in Residence
    1. Johanna created WREN a new Signal group: https://signal.group/#CjQKIM8QA3iZ-UhxKWZupEdUFHCKzBr3r71XBwLlXr3PREFtEhBZwuxopDrhXLkiltANrntl
    2. Facebook group - Richard / Pharos currently maintaining and wants out
    3. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1625703517453016/
    4. there is a telegram
    5. no discord, no twitter, no bluesky
    6. there are GLAMWiki groups
    7. some of us on Mastodon
      1. RichardNevell (@RichardNevell@mastodon.social) - Mastodon (I mostly talk about castles rather than wiki work)
  4. Wikimedia and court cases
    1. UK court case about whether Wikipedia is in scope of the Online Safety Act
      1. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo
      2. https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/wikimedia_foundation_loses_online_safety/
      3. https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/08/11/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations/
    2. What is the role of Wikimedia UK in this court case?
      1. Richard: the Wikimedia Foundation consults with the wiki community through Wikimedia UK and wiki UK advises them
      2. Wikimedia UK helped to identify a community representative who has standing to be a party in the case
      3. WMF has the resources and position to speak in a legal case, and Wikimedia UK simply is not large enough to lead and organize a court case
      4. there are lots of communities affected including LGBT+ groups, health groups, and others who need privacy for protection and safety
    3. Portugal has court case persecuting editors of a rich person's biography
      1. general criticism from conservative groups
      2. https://theconversation.com/wikipedias-neutrality-has-always-been-complicated-new-rules-will-make-questioning-it-harder-262706
  5. WikiConference North America and United States tension
    1. conference this year in New York City
    2. next year and perhaps future years not in United States
    3. Canada next year
    4. other regional countries fine
  6. Wikispore Art and Canadian project
    1. effort to index art which does not meet Wikipedia's notability criteria
    2. pilot for a Wikimedia project to create profiles of art
    3. beyond Wikidata, not quite a fit for Wikipedia
    4. https://stories.ulethbridge.ca/devon-smither-artist-run-centres-grant/
    5. comparable to Wikimedia Incubator, but instead of language incubation, it is subject matter incubation
    6. call for comments re: WikiSpore
    7. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Sister_Projects_next_steps
    8. requesting support and comments for the idea of an art project
    9. comment: new projects are unproven metrics wise but it would be useful to have this kind of pilot as people request this and we do not have experience and practical information in how such projects can work
    10. question: is this like a wiki approach to Google's Art and Culture project? A: maybe
  7. updates from attendees
    1. Chris: just checking out the meeting!
    2. Butch: In the Philippines the Wikimedia communities are trying to organize a partnership with the national museum. The group has no request right now, but please WREN stand by and if the museum has questions please be available to support the communities, answer questions, and help make the partnership development.
    3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:National_Museum_of_Anthropology_(Manila)
    4. Mary Mark Ockerbloom has a handbook for institutional partnerships
    5. Some case studies from WMUK but do feel free to get in touch https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIR_Impact_Report_2012-17_(single_lowres).pdf
    6. Bodhisattwa: In India the Centre for Internet and Society had supported developing a Wikisource reader app, which is big and important for interest in the region. CIS is not supporting the tool anymore except for hosting on Google play store but some wiki community members are now developing it
      1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cis_india.wsreader
      2. https://cis-india.github.io/wikisource-reader-app/
      3. testing now, to release in a week!
    7. Andrew: a recurring challenge is that the Wikimedia Foundation does not prioritize development of Wikimedia Commons. At Wikimania some people started a Commons Coalition, "Coco", to advocate
      1. https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCoCo
      2. There is no Wikimedia affiliate or user group which is advocating for Commons specifically
      3. run Picture of the Year?
      4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Picture_of_the_Year
    8. Johanna - Wikiportraits https://www.wikiportraits.org/
      1. how is the project working?
      2. Andrew: mostly American people organizing but seeking to pass on infrastructure for anyone in the world to do portraits
      3. does not have to be good photography - anyone can participate
      4. seeks to go to events to collect photos
      5. In September in Washington DC, there is a book festival so seeking to get photographs of authors

Agenda

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  • Rotating schedule for WREN calls
  • Conferences
  • Post-Wikimania report
  • WiR role
  • Tech
  • Wikidata
  • Commons
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