Wikimedian in residence
A Wikimedian in Residence (or some variant, such as Wikimedian-in-residence, WiR, or Wikipedian) is a professional role in communications for an organization to share its knowledge within the Wikimedia platform, measure the impact of the same, and promote Wikipedia through training, education, and edit-a-thons. In the same way that organizations such as universities, nonprofit organizations, NGOs, research institutes, libraries, and museums may post information to their websites and social media, these organizations may also promote the integration of their expertise in Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Wikimedia platform.
The Wikimedia community distinguishes branding and marketing from expertise and knowledge. In this context, there is a custom that Wikimedians in Residence do not edit about their institution, but rather share the knowledge of their institution. Wikimedia projects seek to present the best available information from the most authoritative sources, and any organization which is willing to share its information in that context is welcome to appoint a Wikimedian in Residence to facilitate this.
Wikimedian in Residence programs began in the early 2010s with experimental professional positions in university classrooms, nonprofit organizations, and museums. Now the culture and practice of these roles is more developed through organizations including the Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network which provides peer to peer support for organizations and individuals engaged sharing open knowledge in the Wikimedia platform.
About
- Time allocation
- Fulltime for a very short period (e.g. British Museum project, 5 weeks)
- Fulltime for a longer period (e.g. Chateau de Versailles project, 6 months. University of Edinburgh project, 18 months)
- Part time for a long period (e.g. Children's Museum of Indianapolis project, 1 year)
- Part time permanently (e.g. Bundesdenkmalamt - Scanproject, Vienna, minimum 3-4 years)
- Rewards
- Wholly unpaid (e.g. British Museum project, Bundesdenkmalamt)
- Study credit (e.g. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis project, first 3 months)
- Stipend/scholarship (e.g. Chateau de Versailles)
- Paid internship (e.g. Early NARA projects)
- Contract employee (e.g. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis project, year 2)
- Full time employee (e.g. National Archive Full time Wikipedian in Residence, University of Edinburgh Wikimedian in Residence)
- Recruitment method
- Published job offer through official recruitment process (e.g. NARA) [could add Chapter rep. to interview panel if necessary].
- Outsource recruitment to local Wikimedia Chapter (e.g. Versailles project)
- Informal recruitment through existing social media connection (e.g. Indianapolis Museum of Art)
- Identify existing Wikipedia community leader in relevant field (e.g. Israeli Museum)
- Self-initiated contact from a Wikimedian/pedian to the institution (e.g. British Museum, Bundesdenkmalamt)
Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Wikimedia platform is a digitally native platform which has consistently reached a massive audience for a generation. Since 2005 Wikipedia has been the single most consulted source of information on most topics where people are using Internet search to seek knowledge for which Wikipedia has an article. Organizations which have authority in a field for which there is a Wikipedia article can consider engagement with Wikipedia to share that information. Posting content to the Wikimedia platform achieves distribution and dissemination to the world's largest available and most targeted audience, which are the individuals who are specifically seeking general reference information and authoritative sources on very specific topics.
In the usual way that organizations track the number of visitors to their websites, followers in their social media accounts, and the engagements of users who click to react, the Wikimedia platform has its own suite of communication metrics that demonstrate posting content on Wikipedia reaches the audiences seeking the kind of information which organizations in all fields curate to share. The Wikimedia platform reaches 1 billion unique visitors per year, content from the Wikimedia platform circulates even more broadly, and everyone should take for granted that all journalists, students, commentators, investors, officials, and interested persons will check the Wikipedia article and Wikimedia collections when doing introductory research on any topic. Organizations who want their knowledge represented in this context engage or hire Wikimedians in Residence to achieve that.
For organizations
For further information: See the guide for creating Wikimedian in Residence roles
Hiring a Wikimedian in Residence is comparable to hiring a website content developer, a Facebook and Twitter post manager, a YouTube video director, or any of the other more common new media publishing roles that serve the purpose of sharing an organization's knowledge with the public in popular media channels. Various media channels have their own rules and community norms, and for organizations that share general reference information, integrating content into the Wikimedia platform is a high-impact, low-cost strategy to reach the global readership of Wikipedia.
There are no special permissions or editorial appointments available in the Wikimedia platform. Organizations that appoint Wikimedians in Residence do so from the same position as anyone else on the Internet creating a Wikipedia user account. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and a Wikimedian in Residence enters the role equal to anyone else with no special recognition or consideration of their institutional affiliation. While the Wikimedia community is favorable to institutional partnerships because the Wikimedia community respects knowledge organizations, all organizations engaged in sharing information should comply with the community rules, participate in social discourse, make some commitment to the Wikimedia mission and values, and expect that their Wikimedian in Residence will be a liaison between the Wikimedia community and their own host organization.
For individuals
Wikimedians in Residence enter their appointments with some skill set. Usually that skill set is Wikimedia editing experience including an understanding of community norms in performing test edits, seeking program review, communicating in the open with Wikimedia community stakeholders in a knowledge or media sector, and being conscious of when to request or offer the favor of time and labor collaborations with the Wikimedia community volunteer base. Not all Wikimedians in Residence heavily engage in Wikimedia community culture, though. In Wikidata as the structured data collection of the Wikimedia platform, a Wikimedian in Residence may be a data management professional who processes and manages dataset uploads with more technical engagement and less community conversation than what is the norm in Wikipedia. In Wikimedia Commons, the image and non-text media repository, the Wikimedian in Residence may have a skill set in digital access and might promote the circulation of the images and archival documents of cultural institutions in the Linked Open Web.
Any individual seeking a Wikimedian in Residence appointment or career path should grow their familiarity with how other wiki professionals have found success, but also note that jobs and funding come from institutions. People seeking a Wikimedian in Residence job ultimately must find an organization ready to hire them, and must explain the value of what they do in the context of that organization's overall digital publishing and communication goals.
Typical activities
Strategic planning in new media
Organizations which hire a Wikimedian in Residence should expect this person to identify and describe trends in new media to the leadership of the organization. It is not necessary that organizations change themselves or their culture to engage in Wikimedia projects, but engagement in Wikimedia does require more conversation and planning than publishing in platforms entirely under the control of the host platform. Some necessary topics of discussion are how sharing content on the open web invites global response to the content, what balance organizations can design for sharing content to reach more people versus restricting access so that fewer people control a complicated discourse, how to manage copyright, and what it means to be in a public media commons.
The Wikimedia community are a subset of people, mostly activist minded, who advocate for universal access to some educational information, some media which encourages good citizenship, and enough knowledge to inform decisions for quality of life. Various works of journalism and research describe this Wikimedia culture, and understanding this culture and its goals are more important to the success of most projects than entering with a particular skill set. Briefly, people in this community and culture can recognize each other, and they can recognize outsiders. In the same way that fans of opera, or a particular sport, or in a niche professional sector can identify who is and who is not like them, there are a few million people in the Open Movement who share a system of values and they have high compatibility with each other and common intuition on matters of ethics. Organizations which hire a Wikimedian in Residence should expect to bring some amount of this culture in their practices, and gain the shared history of the many shared successes and failures of how to effectively do communication in Wikimedia projects in this still new digital age.
The most common strategic planning activity among Wikimedians in Residence is collecting audience engagement metrics from the Wikimedia platform to generate a report of communication impact. This includes measuring how many readers have viewed Wikimedia content which an organization finds relevant to its interest, including audience in its field of expertise and audience to the content it has posted. The most common and easiest to collect reports are from the Programs & Events Dashboard, Traffic reporting tools such as Pageviews Analysis, and specialized reports through the Wikidata Query Service.
Text editing
Since its establishment in 2001, Wikipedia has become a foundation of the human experience. Wikipedia is an everyday presence in all cultures where people use Internet resources. All countries have Wikimedia editors in all languages where people engage with digital tools. Posting text knowledge and citations into relevant Wikipedia articles is still the best way to deliver general reference information to the people who want it. Any Wikimedian in Residence will either have at least minimal experience in editing Wikipedia, or otherwise they should start editing a little and regularly over time because Wikipedia is the center of most people's experience of the Wikimedia platform.
Sharing datasets
Whereas the most common way to edit the Wikimedia platform is one Wikipedia article at a time, Wikidata offers the promise of sharing facts as structured data at scale to the knowledge environment of any topic in every language. Perhaps the best way to describe the possibilities with sharing data is in looking to the field of data science, which seeks to collect data, analyze it, secure data pipelines for quality control and updating, engineer visualizations to make it understandable, and invest in ethics to promote good and minimize the harm from doing massive low cost publishing which gets massive viewership and engagement.
Some Wikimedians in Residence spend much of their time engaged in Wikidata. A beginner in Wikidata can assist an organization in structuring their knowledge to be FAIR data, which enables magnitudes of additional crowdsourced engagement. An person experienced in managing data will almost always be preparing an organization to engage in the next generation of online publishing. An organization's investment in data curation need not be for Wikidata specifically, and instead a Wikidata project can be a practical live attempt among an organization's broader plans to integrate into the Semantic Web. Compared to competing options, Wikidata is a low-cost, low-commitment, high-impact path for growing a culture which can imagine the advent of next generation data-based applications.
Sharing media collections
Museums and libraries traditionally measured engagement by counting humans who physically walked into their brick and mortar buildings. The Wikimedia platform offers options for museums to present their collections online through Wikipedia articles, media galleries in Commons, structured metadata in Wikidata, archives in Wikisource, and the rest.
A common museum activity is selecting some media, such as images, to integrate into Wikipedia. After posting this content the museum tracks the audience engagement with it through the Wikimedia audience measurement tools. The organization then considers the relative value of having people use its online collections versus in-person. A common general conclusion is that all organizations need a balance of investment of online versus in-person engagement, and that Wikipedia provides an excellent value for achieving and demonstrating online usefulness.
Community engagement
There is a culture in the Wikimedia community of presenting online and in-person community events in partnership with organizations. In these events, called "wiki parties" or "edit-a-thons", a group of people meet to engage with the media resources of a host institution. These people, perhaps community members in open invitation, or students from a university, or online participants who want to join but cannot physically come to the organization, take a media source of information from the host organization and then share and cite that source in the Wikimedia platforms.
Wikimedians in Residence have organized thousands of these events globally. People enjoy them. They achieve knowledge sharing and produce metrics as supporting evidence to demonstrate their impact.
History and case studies
(2010-2011)
In 2006 user:llywrch published "Wikipedian-in-residence, a proposal" articulating in print the concept of an liaison between Wikimedia projects and external organizations with domain expertise. Following that proposal in the early 2010s various Wikimedian in Residence programs flourished in different regions. Early experiments were in the United States, particularly in the Cascadia region based on llywrch's advocacy, where the United States Public Policy Initiative trained and professionalized persons at universities to collaborate with Wikimedia projects. In the college town of Pune in India a parallel experiment with the Indian Wikipedia Education program inspired many students to become highly engaged Wikipedia editors, leading to the convening of several large Wikimedia conferences in India and many of the students from that program to join regional volunteer administration in the Wikimedia India chapter. In Europe the culture leaned more to seeking museum partnerships after the model of a community outreach and events program manager. These regions each set some precedents, but the true story of the early history is the sum of all the experiments which happened globally in the first 10 years. Probably the most stable outcome of the Wikimedian in Residence experiments is the establishment of the Wiki Education Foundation, which correctly identified that universities have the best funding, the best access to highly motivated student editors, and the best knowledge resources to justify creating paid professional appointments to Wikimedians in Residence.
As of 2019, probably most of the funding which has gone into Wikimedian in Residence programs has come from encouraging public health and medical education. Probably the most common characteristic of Wikimedian in Residence programs is that they have a relationship to a university, either by the university hosting the position or the university being an essential partner in achieving the goals of the appointment. One of the most popular types of Wikimedian in Residence activity is a wiki editing event in the arts, which have a global history of drawing large crowds of first-time and beginning editors who will edit at an in-person social event and gathering.
Full list of past and present WiRs
Below is a table of current and previous Wikimedians in residence according to their Wikidata entries. Wikimedians without are not included. To see the full table without needing to scroll, or instructions on adding new rows, see this page.
This list is generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by a bot.
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| Wikimedian (Q3809586) | Organisation (P108) | Link (P2699) | Location (P937) | Start (P580) | End (P582) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Borysław Kozielski
 | Wawel Castle | ||||
| Pranayraj Vangari
| Telangana State Language and Culture Department | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj_(Wikimedian_in_Residence) | |||
| Mike Dickison
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| Tochi Precious
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| Gianluigi Gamba
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| Ayokanmi Oyeyemi
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| Liam Wyatt
| British Museum | BM | London | ||
| Lori Byrd-McDevitt
| The Children's Museum of Indianapolis | TCMI | Indianapolis | ||
| Benoît Evellin
| Palace of Versailles | Château de Versailles | Palace of Versailles | ||
| Àlex Hinojo Sánchez
| Museu Picasso | Museu Picasso | Barcelona | ||
| Àlex Hinojo Sánchez
| Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya | MNAC | Barcelona | ||
| Remulazz
| Moleskine Foundation | lettera27 | Milan | ||
| Roger Bamkin
| Derby Museum and Art Gallery | Derby | Derby | ||
| Dominic Byrd-McDevitt
| National Archives at College Park | NARA | College Park | ||
| Laura Hale
| Australian Paralympic Committee | The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia | |||
| Sarah Stierch
| Archives of American Art | AAA | Washington, D.C. | ||
| Sarah Stierch
| Smithsonian Institution Archives | SIA | Washington, D.C. | ||
| Sarah Stierch
| World Digital Library | Outcomes | Washington, D.C. | ||
| Richard Knipel
| Museum of Modern Art | MoMA | New York City | ||
| Richard Knipel
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York City | ||
| Andy Mabbett
| Royal Society of Chemistry | RSCWiki | Cambridge Science Park | ||
| Andy Mabbett
| Birmingham Museums Trust | Thinktank | Thinktank | ||
| Andy Mabbett
| ORCID, Inc. | ORCID | |||
| Andy Mabbett
| The New Art Gallery Walsall | New Art Gallery Walsall | The New Art Gallery Walsall | ||
| Andy Mabbett
| ARKive | ARKive | Bristol | ||
| Andy Mabbett
| Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service | SAHS | Staffordshire County Museum | ||
| Andy Mabbett
| Lancashire County Council’s Museum Service | QSMM | Queen Street Mill | ||
| Andy Mabbett
| TED | ||||
| Andy Mabbett
| Queen Mary University of London | HMBRG | London | ||
| Andy Mabbett
| The Physiological Society | PhySoc | London | ||
| Andy Mabbett
| Coventry University | Coventry University | Disruptive Media Learning Lab | ||
| Daniel Mietchen
| Open Knowledge Foundation Germany | OA | Berlin | ||
| Yair Talmor
| Israel Museum | IMJ | Israel | ||
| Daniel Tsvi Framowitz
| National Library of Israel | NLI | Jerusalem | ||
| Francis Awinda
| Africa Centre | Culture | Cape Town | ||
| Whiteghost.ink
| State Library of New South Wales | SLNSW | Sydney | ||
| Lane Rasberry
| Consumer Reports | Consumer Reports | Yonkers | ||
| Lane Rasberry
| School of Data Science | University of Virginia | Charlottesville | ||
| Ole Palnatoke Andersen
| National Museum of Denmark | Residerende wikipedianer | Copenhagen | ||
| Ole Palnatoke Andersen
| Royal Danish Library | WikiProjekt Diamanten | Copenhagen | ||
| Andrew Gray
| British Library | BL | London | ||
| André Costa
| Swedish National Heritage Board | Stockholm | |||
| Marcus Cyron
| German Archaeological Institute | German Archaeological Institute | Berlin | ||
| Lennart Guldbrandsson
| Swedish National Heritage Board | Stockholm | |||
| Maximilian Klein
| OCLC, Inc. | VIAF | California | ||
| Hubertl
| Bundesdenkmalamt | Bundesdenkmalamt Austria | Vienna | ||
| David Parreño Mont
| Palafrugell | Palafrugell | Palafrugell | ||
| David Parreño Mont
| Library Service of Catalonia | Biblioteques | Catalonia | ||
| Liron Dorfman
| Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa | אוניברסיטת חיפה | Haifa | ||
| Timothy Sandole
| Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs | Assessment of Belfer Center Wikipedian in Residence program | Cambridge | ||
| Michael Barera
| Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library | GFPLM | Ann Arbor | ||
| Esther Solé i Martí
| Museu d'Art Jaume Morera | Art Jaume Morera | Lleida | ||
| Evelyn Swan
| American Folk Art Museum | New York City | |||
| John Cummings
| Natural History Museum, London | NHMandSM | London | ||
| John Cummings
| UNESCO | United Nations | Paris | ||
| Mariona Aragay
| Museu de la Música de Barcelona | El Museu de la Música incorpora una viquipedista resident per difondre el museu i la música catalana a Internet | Barcelona | ||
| Molly McGowan
| Royal Ontario Museum | ROM | Toronto | ||
| Mary Mark Ockerbloom
| Science History Institute | Philadelphia | |||
| Mary Mark Ockerbloom
| Annual Reviews | ||||
| Tim Moritz Hector
| ZDF | ZDFcheck | Mainz | ||
| Kevin Rutherford
| Ladd Observatory | Ladd Observatory | Providence | ||
| Micha Rieser
| Swiss Federal Archives | Swiss Federal Archives | Bern | ||
| Micha Rieser
| Swiss National Library | Swiss National Library | Bern | ||
| Micha Rieser
| Basel University Library | Basel University Library | Basel | ||
| Martin Poulter
| Bodleian Libraries | Oxford | |||
| Martin Poulter
| Jisc | Jisc Ambassador | Bristol | ||
| Martin Poulter
| University of Oxford | Oxford | Oxford | ||
| Martin Poulter
| Khalili Collections | Khalili | London | ||
| Ally Crockford
| National Library of Scotland | NLS | Edinburgh | ||
| Alexander D. Stinson
| The William Blake Archive | William Blake | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | ||
| Dorothy Rose Howard
| Metropolitan New York Library Council | Metropolitan New York Library Council | New York City | ||
| Hay Kranen
| KB National Library of the Netherlands | The Hague | |||
| Patrick Hadley
| York Museums Trust | YMT | York | ||
| Patrick Hadley
| Museums Development Yorkshire | YNP | Yorkshire | ||
| Arie Sonneveld
| Working Group of Special Academic Libraries | 2014 | Netherlands | ||
| Hans Muller
| Leiden University | Leiden | |||
| Hans Muller
| Naturalis Biodiversity Center | Leiden | |||
| Hans Muller
| Working Group of Special Academic Libraries | The Hague | |||
| Sandra Fauconnier
| Stichting Academisch Erfgoed | Expedities | Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam | ||
| Sandra Fauconnier
| Netherlands Commission for UNESCO | MoW 2017 | Zeeland Archives | ||
| Kevin Gorman
| University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley | |||
| Rexford Nkansah
| Africa Centre | Culture | Cape Town | ||
| Jey
| Open University of Catalonia | UOC | Barcelona | ||
| Rocío Consales
| Fundación Salvador Allende | Discursos oficiales de Salvador Allende | Santiago | ||
| Marc Haynes
| Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol | Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol | Cardiff | ||
| RGmary
| Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico | ICCU | Mestre | ||
| Rob Velella
| Houghton Library | Rob at Houghton | Cambridge | ||
| Sydney Poore
| Cochrane | WIR | Liverpool | ||
| John Byrne
| Cancer Research UK | WikiProject CRUK | London | ||
| Daniele Metilli
| Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto | Mart | Rovereto | ||
| Sergei Zhuravel
| Business Journal | резидент | Syktyvkar | ||
| Iván Martínez
| Museo Soumaya | Mexico City | |||
| Lukasz Chelminski
| Józef Piłsudski Institute of America | WikiProject Józef Piłsudski Institute of America | New York City | ||
| Mikhail Melnichenko
| Scientific Library of Moscow State University | резидент | Moscow | ||
| Federico Leva
| Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura | Milan | |||
| Netha Hussain
| Calicut Medical College | Kozhikode | |||
| Jovana Milošević
| University Library "Svetozar Marković" | Универзитетска библиотека 2014 | Belgrade | ||
| Sara Thomas
| Scottish Library and Information Council | SLIC | Glasgow | ||
| Sara Thomas
| Museums Galleries Scotland | MGS | Edinburgh | ||
| Marek Blahuš
| Masaryk University | Masarykova univerzita | Brno | ||
| Carolina Latorre Canet
| Arxiu Ismael Latorre Mendoza | ||||
| Carolina Latorre Canet
| Arxiu familiar Ricardo Miralles Tarín | ||||
| Carolina Latorre Canet
| Arxiu fotogràfic Jordi Ferrer-Beltran | ||||
| Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola
| Arxiu Ismael Latorre Mendoza | ||||
| Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola
| Arxiu Fotogràfic Familiar Nàcher | ||||
| Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola
| Arxiu Ismael Latorre Mendoza | ||||
| Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola
| Arxiu familiar Ricardo Miralles Tarín | ||||
| Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola
| Arxiu fotogràfic Jordi Ferrer-Beltran | ||||
| Jason Evans
| National Library of Wales | National Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales | Aberystwyth | ||
| Eduardo Testart
| National Library of Chile | Wikipedista en residencia | Santiago | ||
| Emily Temple-Wood
| National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health | NIOSH | Washington, D.C. | ||
| Luca Martinelli
| Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico | ICCU | Rome | ||
| Luca Martinelli
| Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi | ICBSA | Rome | ||
| Cvetko Nedelkovski
| State Archive of the Republic of North Macedonia | Residence at DARM | Skopje | ||
| Brahim Boughalmi
| Association for the protection of the medina of Tunis | MedinaPedia | Tunis | ||
| Rubén Ojeda de la Roza
| Museum of Romanticism | Glaming Madrid | Madrid | ||
| Mario Šarevski
| Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts | Residence at MANU | Skopje | ||
| Davide Denti
| European Centre for Press and Media Freedom | Bando per Wikipediano in residenza allo European Centre for Press and Media Freedom | Rovereto | ||
| Kelly Doyle
| West Virginia University | Welcome | Morgantown | ||
| Loganathan Rathinavel
| Tamil Virtual Academy | partnership | Chennai | ||
| Maria Drozdek
| National Museum in Warsaw | English | Warsaw | ||
| Maria Drozdek
| Muzeum Miasta Łodzi | Kolekcja Muzeum Miasta Łodzi | Łódź | ||
| Marija Gajić
| Jevremovac botanic garden | Ботаничка башта Јевремовац 2015 | Belgrade | ||
| Ewan McAndrew
| University of Edinburgh | wikimedia | Edinburgh | ||
| Zana Shtrkovska
| Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts | Diary | Skopje | ||
| Rachel Helps
| Brigham Young University | Harold B Lee Library | Provo | ||
| Zeineb Takouti
| Diocesan Library of Tunis | Tunis | ? | ||
| Marco Chemello
| Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura | BEIC | Milan | ||
| Marco Chemello
| Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci" | Museoscienza | Milan | ||
| Sander Turnhout
| SoortenNL | Erfgoed Gelderland | Nijmegen | ||
| Jane Darnell
| TED | ||||
| Mrsinna
| State Library of Queensland | First World War Wikipedian in Residence | Brisbane | ||
| Simone Massi
| Mansutti Foundation | Fondazione Mansutti | Milan | ||
| Simone Massi
| Museo Galileo | Museo Galileo | Milan | ||
| Kerry Raymond
| State Library of Queensland | First World War Wikipedian in Residence | Brisbane | ||
| Niccolò Caranti
| MUSE | Trento | |||
| Stanislas Wiener
| Wiener Library | Wiener Library | London | ||
| Lore Agirrezabal
| Children Literature Documentation Center of Donostia | 2016 | San Sebastián | ||
| Michal Matúšov
| World Esperanto Youth Organization | Esperanto125 | Rotterdam | ||
| Mauricio V. Genta
| Wikimedia Argentina | Proyecto de digitalización | Buenos Aires | ||
| Francesc Fort
| Valencian Museum of Ethnology | Etnologia | Valencia | ||
| Francesc Fort
| Provincial Council of Valencia | Cultura Diputació València | Valencia | ||
| Francesc Fort
| Institut Valencià d'Art Modern | Valencia | |||
| David Alves
| NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/164209/projeto-de-wiki-difusao-em-neuromatematica/ | São Paulo | ||
| Alice White
| Wellcome Trust | Wellcome | London | ||
| Carl Fredrik Sjöland
| Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carl_Fredrik_(WIR) | Stockholm | ||
| Thomas Planinger
| Constitutional Court of Austria | Wikipedian in Residence am österreichischen Verfassungsgerichtshof | Vienna | ||
| Thomas Planinger
| Constitutional Court of Austria | Wikipedian in Residence am österreichischen Verfassungsgerichtshof | Vienna | ||
| TransporterMan
| Amon Carter Museum of American Art | Texas | |||
| Milica Vučetić
| University Library "Svetozar Marković" | Универзитетска библиотека 2016 | Belgrade | ||
| Craig Franklin
| State Library of Queensland | Brisbane | |||
| Marília Reinato Carrera
| NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/167130/matematica-falada-audiodescricao-de-verbetes-de-probabilidade-e-estatistica-na-wikipedia/ | São Paulo | ||
| Miloš Todorović
| Museum of Smederevo | Музеј у Смедереву 2016 | Smederevo | ||
| Fabian Tompsett
| MayDay Rooms | London | |||
| Cassandra DellaCorte
| DePaul University | Chicago | ? | ||
| Aaron Morris
| Menter Iaith Môn | Wicibrosiect Wici Môn | Anglesey | ||
| Jennifer Dawson
| Cochrane | WIR | |||
| Susan Ross
| National Library of Scotland | Gaelic Wikipedian project | Edinburgh | ||
| John P. Sadowski
| National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health | ||||
| Christian Cariño
| Museo Soumaya | Residencia en Museo Soumaya | Mexico City | ||
| Wilson Vicentim
| NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/170506/neuromatematica-na-wikipedia-criacao-e-melhoria-de-conteudo-em-plataformas-web-20/ | São Paulo | ||
| Monika Sengul-Jones
| OCLC, Inc. | Monikasj | unknown value | ||
| Leire Cano
| Children Literature Documentation Center of Donostia | 2017 | San Sebastián | ||
| Daniel Almeida Abrahão Dieb
| NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/170992/curso-neuromat-de-jornalismo-cientifico-pratica-e-revisao-de-literatura/ | São Paulo | ||
| Charles Matthews
| ContentMine Ltd. | ||||
| Charles Matthews
| ContentMine Ltd. | ||||
| GjorgjiP
| State Archive of the Republic of North Macedonia | Diary | Skopje | ||
| Gordi
| Miladinovi Brothers City Library | Diary | Skopje | ||
| Susan Tolich
| Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira | Auckland | |||
| Olaniyan Olushola
| Goge Africa | Wikipedian in Residence at Goge Africa | Lagos | ||
| Mounir Touzri
| National Archives of Tunisia | Tunis | |||
| Emma Rydberg
| Internetmuseum | Internetmuseum | Stockholm | ||
| Olfa Yakoubi
| National Archives of Tunisia | Wikipedian in Residence at National Archives of Tunisia | Tunis | ||
| Dušan Ružić
| Museum of Yugoslav History | Музеј Југославије 2017 | Belgrade | ||
| Stefan Mitić
| National Museum of Leskovac | https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Википедијанац_стажиста/Музеј_у_Лесковцу_2017. | Leskovac | ||
| Aidee Murrieta
| Daniel Cosío Villegas Library | Residence in Latin America | Mexico City | ||
| Florence Devouard
| University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland | Culture and Safety in Africa | Marseille | ||
| Florence Devouard
| World Intellectual Property Organization | ||||
| Ewa Caban
| Regional Institute of Culture in Katowice | Regionalny Instytut Kultury w Katowicach | Katowice | ||
| Ewa Caban
| Wawel Castle | Zamek Królewski na Wawelu | Kraków | ||
| Miku Malinen
| National Archives of Finland | Helsinki | |||
| Giovanna Viana Fontenelle de Araújo
| NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/176069/novas-midias-na-construcao-de-projetos-museologicos/ | São Paulo | ||
| Daniëlle Jansen
| Netherlands Commission for UNESCO | The Hague | |||
| Daniëlle Jansen
| Maastricht University | Maastricht | |||
| Red de Leon
| Bantayog ng mga Bayani | Wikipedian in Residence at Bantayog ng mga Bayani | Manila | ||
| Marko Stanojević
| Museum of Yugoslav History | https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Википедијанац_стажиста/Музеј_Југославије_2018. | Belgrade | ||
| JarrahTree
| Museum of Perth | Perth | ? | ||
| Delphine Dallison
| Scottish Library and Information Council | SLIC | Glasgow | ||
| Érica Azzellini
| NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/178343/potenciais-para-o-jornalismo-computacional-na-estruturacao-de-narrativas-de-difusao-cientifica-basea/ | São Paulo | ||
| Lukas Weinbeer
| International Anti-Corruption Academy | WiR Project | Laxenburg | ||
| Oksana Mudri-Nedić
| Museum of Vrbas | Музеј у Врбасу 2018 | Vrbas | ||
| Aleksandar Tumarić
| Museum of Vojvodina | Музеј Војводине 2018 | Novi Sad | ||
| Niall O'Mara
| National Health Library and Knowledge Service | http://hselibrary.ie/research-innovation/national-healthcare-wikipedian-in-residence/ | Ireland | ||
| Darold Cuba
| Columbia University | LumaNatic | New York City | ? | |
| Milena Milenković
| Historical Archive of Pirot | Историјски архив Пирот 2018 | Pirot | ||
| Alex Jung
| University of Toronto Libraries | University of Toronto Libraries | Toronto | ||
| Jovana Obradović
| Historical Archive of Pančevo | Историјски архив у Панчеву 2018 | Pančevo | ? | |
| Grzegorz Gogacz
| Warsaw Public Library – Central Library of the Masovian Voivodeship | Mazowiecka Biblioteka Cyfrowa | Warsaw | ||
| Teodora Lukić
| Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments Belgrade | Републички завод за заштиту споменика културе Београд 2018 | Belgrade | ||
| Jelena Latov Papić
| Theater Museum of Vojvodina | 2019 | Novi Sad | ||
| Jelena Latov Papić
| Serbian National Theatre | https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Википедијанац_стажиста/Српско_народно_позориште,_Нови_Сад,_2019. | Novi Sad | ? | |
| Jeffrey Keefer
| Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute | Washington, D.C. | |||
| Doug Rocks-Macqueen
| Society of Antiquaries of Scotland | SocAntScot | Edinburgh | ||
| Jérémy Bouchez
| Fondation Lionel-Groulx | speaking North America | Montreal | ||
| Dragana Popović
| University Library "Svetozar Marković" | Википедијанац стажиста | Belgrade | ||
| Hilary Thorsen
| Stanford University | WikiProject Linked Data for Production | Stanford | ||
| Amber Berson
| Concordia University | https://library.concordia.ca/about/wikipedian-in-residence/ | Montreal | ||
| Jamie Flood
| United States National Agricultural Library | ||||
| Esther Marie Jackson
| New York Botanical Garden | The Bronx | |||
| Suzana Mihajlović Jovanović
| Historical Archive of Negotin | Историјски архив Неготин 2019 | Negotin | ||
| Denny Vrandečić
| San Francisco | ||||
| Piotr Powierża
| Museum of the History of Polish Jews | Warsaw | |||
| Pierre Tribhou
| Archives nationales | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:GLAM/Archives_nationales_(France) | |||
| Andrew Lih
| Smithsonian Institution | goal3 | New York City | ||
| Charlotte Bonmati-Mullins
| Cinémathèque québécoise | propos | Montreal | ||
| Sébastien Gathier
| Institut international pour la Francophonie | Wiktionnariste en résidence | Garage Citroën | ||
| Jan Purkert
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| Erin O'Neil
| University of Alberta Library | WIR | Edmonton | ||
| Zeljko Blace
| Rijeka City Library | https://gkr.hr/ | Rijeka | ||
| Z. Blace
| Rijeka City Library | Zblace | Rijeka | ||
| Z. Blace
| Clubture Network | Zagreb | |||
| Elysia Webb
| Annual Reviews | edited | Palo Alto | ||
| Miréia Arruda Figueiredo
| NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/192106/curso-de-jornalismo-cientifico-neuromat-uma-proposta-de-aprendizagem-colaborativa/ | São Paulo | ||
| Wojciech Szczęsny
| National Library of Poland | Biblioteka Narodowa | Warsaw | ||
| Adam Pacholak
| Wroclaw Contemporary Museum | Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław | Wrocław | ||
| Markéta Marková
| Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences | Prague | |||
| Caroline Stickel
| Brigham Young University | Harold B Lee Library | Provo | ||
| Violet B. Fox
| University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries | ||||
| Lucy Hinnie
| British Library | British Library | London | ||
| Lucy Hinnie
| Exeter | ||||
| Erika Guetti Suca
| NeuroMat | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/195829/arquitetura-e-desenvolvimento-de-software/ | Ribeirão Preto | ||
| Marie-Claude Duschesne
| Administration régionale Baie-James | ||||
| Adam Harangozó
| Blinken Open Society Archives | osa | Budapest | ||
| Adam Harangozó
| National Institute for Health and Care Research | https://wikimedia.org.uk/2021/12/national-institute-for-health-research-launches-wikimedian-in-residence-in-collaboration-with-wikimedia-uk/ | London | ||
| Lucas Prégaldiny
| Institut international pour la Francophonie | https://www.wikimedia.fr/entretien-avec-wikilucas-lingua-libriste-en-residence/ | Garage Citroën | ||
| Amanda Lawrence
| RMIT University | AmandaSLawrence | Melbourne | ||
| Nicolas Vigneron
| Clermont Auvergne Métropole | Rare book library of Clermont Auvergne Métropole | |||
| Nicolas Vigneron
| Museum of Brittany | Museum of Brittany | |||
| Cynthia Hodges
| Michigan Technological University | ||||
| Sofie Sigrinn
| Södermanland County Council | ||||
| Natalie Green
| Cincinnati Art Museum | ||||
| Rute Correia
| NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities | ||||
| Wilson Oluoha
| Honoris United Universities | ||||
| Mohammed Kamal-Deen Fuseini
| Ghana Society for Education Technology | https://g-set.org/ | |||
| Mohammed Kamal-Deen Fuseini
| Open Foundation West Africa | https://www.ofwafrica.org/ | Ghana | ||
| James Gaunt
| Australian Performing Arts Collection | Wikimedian In Residence Wrap Up | Melbourne | ||
| Carolina Espinoza Cartes
| Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía | Madrid | |||
| Tatjana Baleta
| University of Exeter | Global Systems Institute | Exeter | ||
| Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos
| Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru da Universidade de São Paulo | Bauru | |||
| Priscila Carvalho Cruz
| Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru da Universidade de São Paulo | https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/204952/arquitetura-desenvolvimento-e-monitoramento-de-interface-colaborativa-de-aprendizagem-em-saude-audit/ | Bauru | ||
| Adriano Jorge Soares Arrigo
| Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru da Universidade de São Paulo | Bauru | |||
| Adriano Jorge Soares Arrigo
| NeuroMat | São Paulo | |||
| Michaela Blanc
| Pérez Art Museum Miami | ||||
| Pierre-Yves Beaudouin
| Urfist de Bordeaux | Domaine universitaire de Talence Pessac Gradignan | |||
| Pierre-Yves Beaudouin
| Urfist Méditerranée | Nice | |||
| Hugo Pierre Lopez
| Urfist Occitanie | Toulouse III University - Paul-Sabatier | |||
| Juliette Halimi
| Urfist de Bretagne et des Pays de la Loire | University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany | |||
| Julián Cueto
| La Plata National University Wikimedians Team | ||||
| Salvador Alcántar
| World Intellectual Property Organization | ||||
| Vyacheslav Kirillin
| Märcani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences | Kazan | |||
| Lucy Moore
| National Trust | ||||
| Lucy Moore
| LEEDS 2023 | ||||
| Toni Sant
| Times of Malta | Malta | |||
| Maxwell Neely-Cohen
| National Book Foundation | ||||
| Johanna Janhonen
| Kone Foundation | Marginaalimerkintöjä | Finland | ||
| Mickaël Schauli
| Urfist de Strasbourg | Strasbourg | Q111966886 | ||
| Siobhan Leachman
| Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa | 12639654 | Wellington | ||
| Delphine Montagne
| URFIST Lyon | Lyon | |||
| Sae Kitamura
| Library of Trinity College Dublin | ||||
| Oscar Costero
| Equis | Wikimedian in Residence for Latino Culture and Community | |||
| Simone Vieira da Silva
| NeuroMat | São Paulo | |||
| Tiago Lubiana
| Biodiversity Heritage Library |
Seeking applicants
| Organization | Location | Information link | Date posted | Timeframe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NeuroMat, funded by FAPESP | São Paulo (Brasil) | holding an MA (4 positions), holding a BA (2 positions); proficiency in Portuguese is required, English skills required by funding agency; pay range here | November 14, 2024 | Applications accepted until February 10, 2025, but positions will be filled as soon as good candidates are identified |
Links
- Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network, a peer to peer professional organization for Wikimedians in Residence
- Wikimedian in residence (Q3809586) on Wikidata
- Wikimedians in Residence in French-speaking countries
Information on other wikis
Wikipedians in Residence are covered on a number of wikis, including:
- Wikimedia Commons category, which contains photos, information graphics, PDF presentations, and other media resources.
- English Wikipedia's encyclopedia article about WiRs; these exist in several other languages as well (see WikiData link below).
- English Wikipedia's GLAM-focused page about Wikipedians in Residence
- Residencies focusing on medical topics
- English Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest policy section on Wikipedians in Residence
- This Outreach Wiki's category of pages related to WiRs.
- The Wikidata entry for Wikipedians in Residence may contain additional links.
- The This Month in GLAM newsletter includes regular updates on many residencies.
Further information
- Wikipedia in the Museum: Lessons from Wikipedians in Residence 2012 Virtual Session, American Association of Museums.
- Wikipedians in Residence: Two Years of Open Culture, 2012 Open Knowledge Foundation blog, Lori Phillips.
- How Does a Wikipedian in Residence survive?, 2012 The GLAM-Wiki Experience blog, Àlex Hinojo.
- In-Residence Around the World, 2011 Wikimedia blog, Liam Wyatt.
- Wikipedian in Residence article at Wikipedia
- Creating a Wikimedian in Residence position practical how-to guide
- WREN: Reviewing A Year of Wikimedians in Residence Activity - Video compilation of short talks from several WIR in 2022
- WikiProject:United Nations/WIPO A summary of the collective efforts of 3 WIRs at WIPO.