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Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/minutes 2019 03

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2nd Wednesday of the month at 12 noon New York time. - This month will be the 3rd Wednesday due to conflicting event.

Wed Mar 20, 2019 12pm – 1pm Eastern Time - New York

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  1. Mary - In March, Philadelphia Musem of Art held a very successful event involving a Spanish translation class and the Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. Also several afternoons at Fisher Art Library are planned in April, someone coming from Black Lives Matter and Latina artists. We have a visiting fellow at the Science History Institute, Alexandre Hocquet, who is involved in French wikipedia and is interested in WIR.
    Will you be attending https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-thirteenth-plenary-meeting-philadelphia-us ?
  2. Richard - Met Museum, doing more with artificial intelligence, planning one for Wiki Loves Pride in June, seeking to organize larger campaign, fashion event in Richard
  3. Esther Jackson - public services librarian at the New York Botanical Garden, several Wiki editathons over past 3 years mostly focused on women in science. A week ago they hosted a Wikimedia Commons editing event
  4. Rachel - coordinator of Wikipedia events. In February for black history month was the Coretta Scott King Award editing series. This is the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. and #:this particular award and event was related to childrens literature.
    Did you make any use fo http://inventaire.io/ ?
    I didn't and this is the first I've heard of it.
    a GUI for editing info for books in WikiData (?)
    A teacher brought her entire class into the editing event. Additionally lots of library employees came. The school has an active elementary education program so the class was enthusiastic about participating.cool
  5. Lane
  6. Daniel Mietchen

Agenda and notes

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Richard says that in cases where someone who is a Wikimedian in Residence gets a critical review on their Wikimedia participation from the wiki community, then a good first step is to begin with private peer to peer conversation. Rachel shared that when she first took her appointment at the library she was adding links to her employer's publications. She felt that she was doing this appropriately, and the Wikimedia community review process approved what she did, but sometimes especially new users do this in a way that the Wikimedia community reviews as linkspam. In the case of this user with a problem,

Rachel shared that she had a a problem with offline conflict related to her editing a Wikipedia biography. She encountered an enthusiastic fan of this person who disapproved of Rachel's editing of the article. The person wrote to Rachel's employer to complain. Rachel contacted English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee who offered support. The norm would have been civil on-wiki discussion. Esther said that she had a memorable on-wiki conflict over the historic social practice of using a particular medicinal herb as a therapy. The conflict was over a lack of contemporary medical evidence, when actually Esther only wished to community the historic social relationship between that plant and society. Esther resolved the issue by walking away.

Mary commented on the frequency that some prominent scientist will have praise and acclaim for some development, but then also that same person has a passion for some kind of pseudoscience.

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