Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/minutes 2020 09 16

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Wed 16 September 2020 16:00 UTC
  • 12 noon – 1pm Eastern Time - New York
  • 6 - 7pm Paris
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Attendees edit

  1. TK
  2. ~Zblace (Croatia)
  3. Elysia:
  4. Pharos
  5. EricaAzzellini
  6. Doreva (dorevabelfiore - Philadelphia WikiSalon)
  7. Jeffrey

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  1. Introduction to Fiona Romeo and monthly calls - IIIF
  2. GLAM video sizzle reel - what might we put in that to orient folks pre-edit-a-thons?
    1. Old one 0- https://vimeo.com/296168439
  3. WP:COI discussion - ##https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Conflict_of_interest#Should_it_be_a_requirement_that_WP:PAID_editors_%22must%22_use_the_WP:AFC_process_to_publish_articles?
    1. User:DGG instigated a unilateral policy change edit:
    2. requiring all WP:PAID editors to label all edits with a COI declaration
    3. Reverted, and an RfC started
    4. seems to have been successfully pushed back upon, but still a 50/50 propostion
    5. Need to keep an eye on this
  4. Events:
    1. Met Fashion online edit a thon September 26, 1230-230pm
    2. Looking for help to bring more diverse skills and views!
    3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MetFashion_2020
  5. Museums and the Web deadline - September 30! DC conf in April
  6. NOTES:
    1. Fiona - IIIF call next week, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team
    2. Elysia - Annual Reviews
    3. Jeffrey - WiR in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
    4. Doreva - Philadelphia WikiSalon topics re: abolition, slavery, adding finding aids to Wikipedia & Wikidata- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon_2020-09-19
    5. Andrew - The Met and SI.edu, fashion editathon
    6. Esther - Columbia University libraries, WBstack
    7. Z - WiR Croatia
    8. Erica - University of Sao Paolo, former WiR, comms manager for Wikimovemento, coding davinci from global south
  7. Fiona and IIIF
    1. This is a nice introduction to what IIIF is http://iiif.harvard.edu/about-iiif/
    2. It made this possible (among many other things) https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-04-17/animal-crossing-new-horizons-getty-art-generator
    3. Andrew: need to connect David Newberry of The Getty,
    4. Dominic Byrd McDevitt is doing nice work with IIIF getting images from service hubs of the Digital Public ##Library of America (https://dp.la) to go into Commons also.
    5. Jeffrey - IIIF as it relates to strategy of knowledge as a service
    6. Fiona - What kind
  8. Video sizzle reels ideas to make an online event feel more populated at the start, while people are still arriving
    1. Z - LGBT videos
    2. Picking winners may be too high a bar
    3. Ways to contribute - inaturalist
    4. Photos of before and after of articles photos
    5. http://listen.hatnote.com
    6. Wiki Loves X photo competitions
    7. Ask affilaites to contribute something - simple photos and videos, things significant from their community
    8. Great for funding opportunity - simple for folks across the community
    9. Produce something for 20th birthday in January next year
  9. NewVillage pump discussion about volunteers for GLAMs being considered conflicted employees:
    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Volunteers_must_declare_that_they_are_paid?
  10. To keep up with discussions happening around wp, I recommend watchlisting Template:Centralized Discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Centralized_discussion
  11. Abre-te Código - open data hackathon
    1. The Coding Da Vinci from the Global South. Brazil, Indonesia and Subsaharan Africa involved.
  12. For the Brazilian edition [1], we've developed videos and publications with cultural institutions on 3 axis: 1. Legislation, 2. Systems and Processes and 3. Technologies.
    1. The idea is to spread the open data word to cultural institutions ;)
  13. I wrote a manual on Wikimedians in Residence for brazilian institutions[2] and Giovanna Fontenelle, my colleague, wrote one about our GLAM Wiki processes [3].
    1. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGLsvgUcvhF9nW8QQOqNNYMUnSEBkRHfO