Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/minutes 2020 07 22

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22 July 2020

Attendees
  1. Richard Knipel
  2. Doreva Belfiore (WikiSalon Philadelphia) - working with Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries to add archival finding aids to Wikipedia articles and Wikidata in multiple fall events.
  3. Elysia Webb: expanding role at Annual Reviews to include image/media incorporation
  4. Dominic Byrd-McDevitt: (Digital Public Library of America) - project to work with state and regional hubs of DPLA to harvest not only metadata, but appropriately labeled objects suitable for re-use (Rightsstatements.org or Creative Commons) from http://dp.la to Wikimedia Commons. Largest bulk uploader of Commons items.
  5. Pete Forsyth - News on Wiki NOW campaign will run Sept-Feb, adding Wikipedia and Wikidata content covering newspapers. Focus in this phase on Washington State, Black-owned, and Caribbean-focused papers. https://enwp.org/WP:WPNEWS Also, noted our two videos on how to run a Wikipedia campaign (for Open Publishing Fest) - two one-hour videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjBfSmg93SM&list=PLnDuxSh4Rp5jKUMagSqrx2kRGSPB33en1
  6. Mary Mark (WikiSalon Philadelphia) - Philadelphia WikiSalon continues. Attendees are interested in other Wikipedia sister projects, such as WikiSpecies. Would love to contact people with more information on those projects. Next WikiSalon 8/8/2020 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon_2020-08-08
  7. Andrew Lih
  8. Z. Blace
  9. Esther - Shared "Use Cases of Institutional Wikibase" document from Columbia, Harvard, NYU, University of Penn--https://github.com/timothy-mendenhall/wikibase-use-cases/blob/master/UseCases-2020.md.
AGENDA
  1. Academic year start / northern hemisphere fall
  2. Wikispore Day (https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Art_Spore) and Celtic Knot
  3. Celtic Knot 2020 Videos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL66MRMNlLyR4BgUL8xQZ29jFkQYbhchkV
  4. Virtual conferences in general
  5. check out learnings from Art Meets Radical Openness festival in Linz Austria (former linux culture festival so all technology and content is open and free)
Fashion
  1. Communication:
    1. Group blog? (on Medium and/or on wiki)
    2. Use the Twitter handle, Richard registered it
    3. Zulip recommended by Z :-) It's an open source Slack alternative (i.e., internal communications)