On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 6:33 AM Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
> ZB -- Just seeing this excellent idea. Yes, it is a good time to revisit > and envision what might be possible if this were a much broader and more > universal practice, with a wide range of templates. > Glad to hear you think so. Few people in the WREN list also expressed interest so maybe we start in the upcoming meeting? > I would suggest combining it with a global scholarship program for younger > students -- a multilingual internationally known wikimedia scholarship > program, with matching funds and support via regional partners, would > elevate the principles, the focus on improving public knowledge, and the > practice of self-organization and learning-by-participating that makes us > tick. > OK - I did not hear of it, but curious for sure. Best Z. Blace > SJ > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 1:28 AM Željko Blaće <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Before this last 21st day in the 21st year of 21st century >> is globally over, I try to re-initiate re-thinking >> on this 15 years old proposal for a Wikipedian-in-residence >> >> http://original-research.blogspot.com/2006/12/wikipedian-in-residence-proposal.html >> but also articles in (only) 27 language Wikipedias, >> >> Meta, Outreach wiki and elsewhere >> for updating the notion of WIR and roles it performs in Wikimedia, >> an ecosystem of diverse entities, dynamics and relations. >> >> As Wikimedians with wider perspective than a single wiki project, often >> more than a single language and for sure more than single community, gear >> up to discuss and act on 2030 strategy, that includes new initiatives, new >> formations of decentering resources, new content, forms and methods of >> working, with new priorities, conditions, tools, services and what >> not…there is also a value in reflecting and reimagining what is already >> established but often overlooked practice. >> >> Some of the WIR practitioners have been self-reflecting on and off >> publicly https://wikistrategies.net/5-things-wikipedian-in-residence/ >> and engaging with communities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc9YgFm2eso >> there was also network establishment. >> 3 years ago WREN UG (Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network User >> Group) was recognized with the aim to protect the common elements of the >> role and for creating a peer support network of new and experienced WIRs >> for collaboration and to encourage a global professional environment which >> inspires institutions to appoint persons to engage with Wikimedia. >> >> In recent times Wikipedian-in-Residence, is more often >> Wikimedian-in-Residence, in rapid growth of Commons and Wikidata (but also >> in 2021 first one in Wiktionary) and sometimes Wikimedian-at-Large, in more >> generalized practice of strategy or direction setting work. >> Additionally in time of pandemic when doing physical events is >> challenging and many of the (potential) partner organizations are closing >> down or limiting public events to bare essential, short and transient it is >> more important than ever that individuals (rather than cohorts of editathon >> enthusiasts) keep revisiting institutions and work with them in a most >> flexible mode and scale. >> >> Finally to start both re-visioning and maybe even re-positioning WIRs in >> Wikimedia we should think of what this network of ‘free agents’ can bring >> towards 2030, beyond what WMF, affiliates, UGs, HUBs, WikiProjects and >> other organizational forms can. Also think how much more useful this >> initial inspiration of artists, writers and researchers in residence could >> be if these creative and critical roles in the art and cultural sector get >> embraced and encouraged more often and more intentionally. >> >> Z. Blace >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/LLPODGYR7UVIP2KESHKUPJK2QR7MYYMK/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/B2CIMUXQDLD4VS2XJBE7QVL2HTTP3IKN/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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