Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/minutes 2019 05
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Hilary Thorsen
Richard Knipel
Andrew Lih
Lane Rasberry
Esther Jackson
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Quick items first!
Confirm agenda at the start of the meeting!
New attendee introductions
What do you do as a Wikimedian in Residence?
What organizational support do you want?
Media featuring Wikimedians in Residence
updates
Esther - NYBG considering adding Index to American botanical literature to Wikidata. No timeline or specific plans yet.
Hilary - two meetings of the Wikidata Interest group in the Linked Data for Production group
Hilary Thorsen s' Wikidata Affinity Groupconsidering inviting special guests to future meetings
meeting again in 2 weeks
agenda - present the concept of WikiProjects
Time to vote in Affiliate Selected Board seats election
consider candidates Affiliate-selected Board seats/2019/Nominations
deliberate merits in this meetup!
Voting 8-31 May - Affiliate-selected Board seats/2019/Voting
Lane's recommendations -
Lane is an election facilitator - will not participate in decision-making process
the group should deliberate
in single transferable voting, more information is better - rank as many candidates as the group deliberates
encourage everyone to vote, get out the vote to other organizations holding votes
Richard currently registered as voter - as he is a candidate, he should pass the vote to someone else
Esther volunteers to be designated voter!
Richard asks for the group's vote!
the group needs deliberation
Esther's proposal -
organize a video group meetup
ask for voting decision by email
Esther will email to propose this
WREN participation in Wikimedia Foundation Strategy discussions
goal - advocate for the environment and conditions which encourage Wikimedian in Residence programs
Esther Jackson, Wikimedian in Residence at the New York Botanical Garden, has been coordinating discussion
notes We need to get these notes from doc into an on-wiki position document
Lane: We could put this in our own space--one page broken into subsections and put link to subsection on appropriate talk page
Richard: Esther could put a link on talk pages to a WREN summary document. Do we want to change some of the language in the official strategy?
Esther: We could talk about changes to language at next meeting
2nd meeting on May 3rd
talked about advocacy, revenue streams, partnerships
Esther will be synthesizing to send to Wikimedia Foundation Coordinator
Esther will set up another call to talk further
Event announcements and reports
en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Cannabis/420 Collaboration - April
Lane presents the importance of this event to Wikimedia Cascadia
3rd year of commemoration en:Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride/2019 - June
the Met is hosting an event of general interest to LGBT community in NYC mw:Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 -17 - 19 May, 2019, Prague
Andrew Lih presents the proposal from a WREN collaborator -
a backend developer wants to match queries to visualization services
hot new development - Structured Data on Commons, anticipate queries at the time of collection uploads
idea is from quickstatements to Pattipan
Announcing the WILDCAT idea - Wikidata Import of Linked Data for Cataloging and Templates Wikimania 14-18 August 2019, Stockholm
Andrew is coordinating the GLAM forum
requests proposals
requests participation Wikidata:WikidataCon 2019 - 25 – 26 October 2019 | Berlin, Germany
Wiki LGBT+ + Wikimedia UK
Situation: people in geographic proximity historically have had an easier time becoming organized in Wiki governance. Distributed communities, like LGBT+ necessarily is, have to overcome barriers. Wikimedia LGBT+ is considering supporting a grant application by Wikimedia UK to hire an administrative staff person to assist with global wiki LGBT+ administration.
notes on April meeting at Wikimedia LGBT User Group April 2019
draft of funding request Lane presented the situation - proposed WREN support for grant application and ongoing support for both this case and the model of funded administrative support based in mature Wikimedia chapters to coordinate geographically separated organizations like LGBT+ users
