On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 6:50 AM Željko Blaće <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >
Bumping this up again as WREN meeting is in 8hours from now (4pm UTC, London) Unfortunately WM Meet is sub-optimal again so we gather at https://meet.google.com/asi-hpms-pxv > > >> 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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