Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/minutes 2018 08 09

Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network

2pm EST 9 August, 2018

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Attendees

Lian Wyatt
John Cummings
Richard Knipel
John Sadowski
Lane Rasberry
Rachel Helps

Agenda

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_in_Residence_Exchange_Network

review minutes from Wikimania
usergroup application
recurring monthly meetup call at this time
future office hours as text chat
Request from Wiki Project Med to be thematic group at Wiki_Project_Med/Application
- If anyone has chapter affiliation then this application seeks chapter review and approval
should we be a "guild"?
documentation
Wikidata+infoboxes
WMF relationship
skill-sharing sessions and guest speakers

Discussion

Lane says Wikidata is going to be more and more important and WiRs need training, he's doing documentation on Wikicite including SourceMD, ORCAdata oh, I'd love to learn more about Wikicite. I've done some stuff with Mix'n'Match and am open to helping create more documentation on that

Liam is going to be running a ‘national’ small-glam wikidata training with Europeana and Europeana’s partner ‘national cultural aggregator’ for the netherlands, soon. We hope to be able to turn that into a replicable 1-day workshop for other chapters and their national association aggregators to re-use and translate.

Leah and Jens at WMDE are working to produce a set of Wikidata training module. Lane questioned whether this is possible due to lack of training materials even for the simpler case of Wikipedia. Liam shared that the French and Argentinian chapters have MOOCs which have higher success rate of training success.

Wikimedians in Residence have a broad view of the Wikimedia projects and often see systemic issues, how do they express these systemic issues?

Can Wikimedians in Residence be a source for knowledge for Wikimedia Foundation staff creating documentation?

What should the call become? How can we encourage new people? Show and tell? Surgery for issues? Office hours? Presentations? Talking to people from outside e.g Lydia Pintscher. -I'm interested in hearing what other people are working on, and I'm happy to share what me and my two students have been working on.

Chapters and WMF do a lot of programmatic work which crosses over a lot with the work of Wikimedians in Residence

Alex Stinson is publishing a Wikimedai Foundation research report surveying typical activiteis of Wikimedians in Residence.

If there was an ongoing chat, what would be the best platform? Slack? Google Chat? Maybe we can ask people? Lane points out that its good to have something publicly recorded in some way, at least to provide metrics of how many people took part and number of messages

Could Wikimedia UK provide us a home in some way for Wikimedians in Residence? First step is WMUK having a free non profit professional Slack channel and give us a thread. John C to ask them

Lane asks for chapters and user groups to support https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/Application#Supporting_organizations

Outline which very useful documentation exists and compiling it somewhere, maybe also highlight what's missing (We should put it in the Wikimedia Documentation

Documentation for WiR best practices: let's start working on something on Meta, maybe in a future meeting or on Slack.

Having some kind of office hours for documentation writing, collaborative documentation writing

Wikidata on Wikipedia infoboxes, some bad experiences, not everyone on WIkipedia likes Wikidata, John C created a page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_in_Wikimedia_projects Wikidata infoboxes are a perennial controversy but it seems that all present had an interest in developing the idea for future adoption.

Make your pages look pretty https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Page_design_and_formatting

What should WiR user group do? Should it be like a guild? Should it 'represent' WiRs? What about trademark concerns for calling ourselves "Wikimedians"?

Wikimedia NYC is hiring a person to work on harassment and other community issues. Lane uses the model of rank 1-10 issues, community will deal with 1+2 issues, 9-10 issues are dealt with by WMF, 3-8 are not addressed, perhaps chapters can fill that void.