Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/2025-09-16

September 16, 2025 - Tuesday - 20:00 UTC (4pm – 5pm Eastern Time - New York)

• Join on Google Meet
• Etherpad notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WREN_notes_2025-09-16

Agenda

• Rotating schedule for WREN calls
• Announcements
• Focus: WMF staff engagement with:
  • Sonja Perry, WMF Group Project Manager for Contributors teams
  • Chris Albon, Director of Machine Learning and Data Engineering
  • Marzanne Collins, Director of Program Management
  • Sub-agenda:
    • Specific, non-Commons ideas for technology enhancements from attendees
      • Andrew: NB: Just because there will be no Commons-specific WMF staffers there, doesn't necessarily mean we need to steer clear of Commons
    • Discussion of specific enhancement ideas
    • Strategy presentations from WMF staff
    • Metrics and outcomes
      • Better functioning metrics tools, new and old
      • Describing downstream qualitative impacts, since linked open data and AI use of Wikimedia content hard to put in numbers
      • The GLAM Manifesto of 2023 described the crisis best
    • Andrew: Some outcomes from Wikimanias may be useful here

• Wikimania 2024: GLAM Wiki Preconference and GLAM CSI#Outcomes:

Selected relevant topics

Easiest: Examples (case studies) of impactful reuse (5) Ways to encourage reuse (5) GLAM Wish List (6) Systematic tools assessment system by quality (status) and importance (usefulness) (1) Understand the future of Structured Data on Commons in the movement (2) Easier: Recognize low hanging fruit (tools and projects) (3) Support tool developers when there are major changes (1) Step by step recipes for institutions with entry level tasks, 'cookbook' (3) case studies (3) Harder: Prioritize those tools that are easiest to use (3) Impactful improvements to the platforms to make tooling easier (1) Hardest: An easy to handle surface for Wikidata queries (1) Automated API refresh of GLAM-submitted data on Wikidata (2) More technical support for Wikibase integrations (2)

• Wikimania 2025: The State of GLAM Wiki Technology and Tools: Charting a Sustainable Path Forward (Session, Slides, Etherpad):

Main takeaways from the audience feedback on Etherpad and voting

Biggest blockers to solve by end of 2026 Batch uploading tools review and future strategy (complex set of tools and requirements for OpenRefine, Pattypan, Java) More user friendly tools for working with Structured Data on Commons A thriving Structured Data on Commons SPARQL system, pathways for WCQS to become production ready Provide clear pipeline for private copyright holders to upload to Commons Simplified video instructions and guides Quick wins for 2025 Recommendation list of GLAM tools (simple version of Wikidata:LOD?) Fix Pattypan

• Updates
  • Project short presentation : Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change, Florence Devouard
  • Proposal for Commons Coalition, as a result of Wikimania conversations - WikiCoCo, Andrew Lih
• Conferences
  • Wikimedia DC GLAM Camp, September 19-21, 2025 - en:Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wikimedia DC GLAM Camp 2025
  • GLAM Wiki Conference in Lisbon, October 30-November 1, 2025 - GLAM Wiki 2025
  • Wikimania 2026 for Paris – scholarships are open until October 31, 2026
• Other
  • WiR role
  • Tech
  • Wikidata
  • Commons