Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/minutes 2019 07

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2nd Wednesday of the month at 12 noon New York time.

Wed July 10 12pm – 1pm Eastern Time - New York

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Agenda and notes

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• etherpad
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• Note - anyone can add to this agenda or the agenda of any future meeting!
  • At start of meeting, we will move items around
  • 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
  • 13ab37
    • Concordia welcomes its first Wikipedian-in-residence
    • Wikipedian-in-residence takes up post at Montreal's Concordia University
    • Brownstein: Concordia's Wikipedian-in-residence has a lot on her plate
  • Giantflightlessbirds
    • The travelling Wikipedia salesperson
• New mailing list introduced at last month's meeting
  • https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wren
  • This is the first meeting announced through that mailing list
  • Did anyone not get the message?
  • From now on, refer anyone who wants notices to that page, which is also on the website
• Election results
  • WREN deliberated as documented at Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/election 2019 05 24
  • results en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-06-30/Op-Ed - #2 choice Shani and #4 choice Natalia elected
• Wikimania 2019, 14-18 August in Stockholm
  • perhaps 20+ members of this group in attendance
  • Meetings / presentations (some repeated from June meeting)
    • wmania:2019:Partnerships/Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network meetup
    • 2019 European GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting
    • wmania:2019:GLAM/Workflows for uploading GLAM collections to Wikidata and Commons
    • wmania:2019:GLAM/Embedding Wikidata into GLAM practice
    • wmania:2019:GLAM/Role of GLAM on Sum of Free Knowledge: Growing Punjabi Wikisource with a GLAM Partnership
    • wmania:2019:Libraries/The Library Catalog as a Gateway to Wikidata Contributions
  • Strategic working group reports
    • Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20
    • each group will deliver a report
    • WREN contributed as documented at Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/strategy 2019 06 07
• Proposal - try a commercial proprietary product which performs speech transcription
  • Otter.ai
  • en:Otter.ai
  • d:Q65172862
  • pros - help us get records of meetings
  • cons - evil, spying, encourages en:Surveillance capitalism and acceptance of the fascist state