Wikimedian in residence

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A Wikimedian in Residence (or some variant, such as Wikimedian-in-residence, WiR, or Wikipedian) is a professional role in communications for an organization to share its knowledge within the Wikimedia platform, measure the impact of the same, and promote Wikipedia through training, education, and edit-a-thons. In the same way that organizations such as universities, nonprofit organizations, NGOs, research institutes, libraries, and museums may post information to their websites and social media, these organizations may also promote the integration of their expertise in Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Wikimedia platform.

The Wikimedia community distinguishes branding and marketing from expertise and knowledge. In this context, there is a custom that Wikimedians in Residence do not edit about their institution, but rather share the knowledge of their institution. Wikimedia projects seek to present the best available information from the most authoritative sources, and any organization which is willing to share its information in that context is welcome to appoint a Wikimedian in Residence to facilitate this.

Wikimedian in Residence programs began in the early 2010s with experimental professional positions in university classrooms, nonprofit organizations, and museums. Now the culture and practice of these roles is more developed through organizations including the Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network which provides peer to peer support for organizations and individuals engaged sharing open knowledge in the Wikimedia platform.

About

Successful formats

Time allocation

Fulltime for a very short period (e.g. British Museum project, 5 weeks)
Fulltime for a longer period (e.g. Chateau de Versailles project, 6 months. University of Edinburgh project, 18 months)
Part time for a long period (e.g. Children's Museum of Indianapolis project, 1 year)
Part time permanently (e.g. Bundesdenkmalamt - Scanproject, Vienna, minimum 3-4 years)

Rewards

Wholly unpaid (e.g. British Museum project, Bundesdenkmalamt)
Study credit (e.g. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis project, first 3 months)
Stipend/scholarship (e.g. Chateau de Versailles)
Paid internship (e.g. Early NARA projects)
Contract employee (e.g. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis project, year 2)
Full time employee (e.g. National Archive Full time Wikipedian in Residence, University of Edinburgh Wikimedian in Residence)

Recruitment method

Published job offer through official recruitment process (e.g. NARA) [could add Chapter rep. to interview panel if necessary].
Outsource recruitment to local Wikimedia Chapter (e.g. Versailles project)
Informal recruitment through existing social media connection (e.g. Indianapolis Museum of Art)
Identify existing Wikipedia community leader in relevant field (e.g. Israeli Museum)
Self-initiated contact from a Wikimedian/pedian to the institution (e.g. British Museum, Bundesdenkmalamt)

Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Wikimedia platform is a digitally native platform which has consistently reached a massive audience for a generation. Since 2005 Wikipedia has been the single most consulted source of information on most topics where people are using Internet search to seek knowledge for which Wikipedia has an article. Organizations which have authority in a field for which there is a Wikipedia article can consider engagement with Wikipedia to share that information. Posting content to the Wikimedia platform achieves distribution and dissemination to the world's largest available and most targeted audience, which are the individuals who are specifically seeking general reference information and authoritative sources on very specific topics.

In the usual way that organizations track the number of visitors to their websites, followers in their social media accounts, and the engagements of users who click to react, the Wikimedia platform has its own suite of communication metrics that demonstrate posting content on Wikipedia reaches the audiences seeking the kind of information which organizations in all fields curate to share. The Wikimedia platform reaches 1 billion unique visitors per year, content from the Wikimedia platform circulates even more broadly, and everyone should take for granted that all journalists, students, commentators, investors, officials, and interested persons will check the Wikipedia article and Wikimedia collections when doing introductory research on any topic. Organizations who want their knowledge represented in this context engage or hire Wikimedians in Residence to achieve that.

For organizations

For further information: See the guide for creating Wikimedian in Residence roles

Hiring a Wikimedian in Residence is comparable to hiring a website content developer, a Facebook and Twitter post manager, a YouTube video director, or any of the other more common new media publishing roles that serve the purpose of sharing an organization's knowledge with the public in popular media channels. Various media channels have their own rules and community norms, and for organizations that share general reference information, integrating content into the Wikimedia platform is a high-impact, low-cost strategy to reach the global readership of Wikipedia.

There are no special permissions or editorial appointments available in the Wikimedia platform. Organizations that appoint Wikimedians in Residence do so from the same position as anyone else on the Internet creating a Wikipedia user account. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and a Wikimedian in Residence enters the role equal to anyone else with no special recognition or consideration of their institutional affiliation. While the Wikimedia community is favorable to institutional partnerships because the Wikimedia community respects knowledge organizations, all organizations engaged in sharing information should comply with the community rules, participate in social discourse, make some commitment to the Wikimedia mission and values, and expect that their Wikimedian in Residence will be a liaison between the Wikimedia community and their own host organization.

For individuals

Wikimedians in Residence enter their appointments with some skill set. Usually that skill set is Wikimedia editing experience including an understanding of community norms in performing test edits, seeking program review, communicating in the open with Wikimedia community stakeholders in a knowledge or media sector, and being conscious of when to request or offer the favor of time and labor collaborations with the Wikimedia community volunteer base. Not all Wikimedians in Residence heavily engage in Wikimedia community culture, though. In Wikidata as the structured data collection of the Wikimedia platform, a Wikimedian in Residence may be a data management professional who processes and manages dataset uploads with more technical engagement and less community conversation than what is the norm in Wikipedia. In Wikimedia Commons, the image and non-text media repository, the Wikimedian in Residence may have a skill set in digital access and might promote the circulation of the images and archival documents of cultural institutions in the Linked Open Web.

Any individual seeking a Wikimedian in Residence appointment or career path should grow their familiarity with how other wiki professionals have found success, but also note that jobs and funding come from institutions. People seeking a Wikimedian in Residence job ultimately must find an organization ready to hire them, and must explain the value of what they do in the context of that organization's overall digital publishing and communication goals.

Typical activities

Strategic planning in new media

Organizations which hire a Wikimedian in Residence should expect this person to identify and describe trends in new media to the leadership of the organization. It is not necessary that organizations change themselves or their culture to engage in Wikimedia projects, but engagement in Wikimedia does require more conversation and planning than publishing in platforms entirely under the control of the host platform. Some necessary topics of discussion are how sharing content on the open web invites global response to the content, what balance organizations can design for sharing content to reach more people versus restricting access so that fewer people control a complicated discourse, how to manage copyright, and what it means to be in a public media commons.

The Wikimedia community are a subset of people, mostly activist minded, who advocate for universal access to some educational information, some media which encourages good citizenship, and enough knowledge to inform decisions for quality of life. Various works of journalism and research describe this Wikimedia culture, and understanding this culture and its goals are more important to the success of most projects than entering with a particular skill set. Briefly, people in this community and culture can recognize each other, and they can recognize outsiders. In the same way that fans of opera, or a particular sport, or in a niche professional sector can identify who is and who is not like them, there are a few million people in the Open Movement who share a system of values and they have high compatibility with each other and common intuition on matters of ethics. Organizations which hire a Wikimedian in Residence should expect to bring some amount of this culture in their practices, and gain the shared history of the many shared successes and failures of how to effectively do communication in Wikimedia projects in this still new digital age.

The most common strategic planning activity among Wikimedians in Residence is collecting audience engagement metrics from the Wikimedia platform to generate a report of communication impact. This includes measuring how many readers have viewed Wikimedia content which an organization finds relevant to its interest, including audience in its field of expertise and audience to the content it has posted. The most common and easiest to collect reports are from the Programs & Events Dashboard, Traffic reporting tools such as Pageviews Analysis, and specialized reports through the Wikidata Query Service.

Text editing

Since its establishment in 2001, Wikipedia has become a foundation of the human experience. Wikipedia is an everyday presence in all cultures where people use Internet resources. All countries have Wikimedia editors in all languages where people engage with digital tools. Posting text knowledge and citations into relevant Wikipedia articles is still the best way to deliver general reference information to the people who want it. Any Wikimedian in Residence will either have at least minimal experience in editing Wikipedia, or otherwise they should start editing a little and regularly over time because Wikipedia is the center of most people's experience of the Wikimedia platform.

Sharing datasets

Whereas the most common way to edit the Wikimedia platform is one Wikipedia article at a time, Wikidata offers the promise of sharing facts as structured data at scale to the knowledge environment of any topic in every language. Perhaps the best way to describe the possibilities with sharing data is in looking to the field of data science, which seeks to collect data, analyze it, secure data pipelines for quality control and updating, engineer visualizations to make it understandable, and invest in ethics to promote good and minimize the harm from doing massive low cost publishing which gets massive viewership and engagement.

Some Wikimedians in Residence spend much of their time engaged in Wikidata. A beginner in Wikidata can assist an organization in structuring their knowledge to be FAIR data, which enables magnitudes of additional crowdsourced engagement. An person experienced in managing data will almost always be preparing an organization to engage in the next generation of online publishing. An organization's investment in data curation need not be for Wikidata specifically, and instead a Wikidata project can be a practical live attempt among an organization's broader plans to integrate into the Semantic Web. Compared to competing options, Wikidata is a low-cost, low-commitment, high-impact path for growing a culture which can imagine the advent of next generation data-based applications.

Sharing media collections

Museums and libraries traditionally measured engagement by counting humans who physically walked into their brick and mortar buildings. The Wikimedia platform offers options for museums to present their collections online through Wikipedia articles, media galleries in Commons, structured metadata in Wikidata, archives in Wikisource, and the rest.

A common museum activity is selecting some media, such as images, to integrate into Wikipedia. After posting this content the museum tracks the audience engagement with it through the Wikimedia audience measurement tools. The organization then considers the relative value of having people use its online collections versus in-person. A common general conclusion is that all organizations need a balance of investment of online versus in-person engagement, and that Wikipedia provides an excellent value for achieving and demonstrating online usefulness.

Community engagement

There is a culture in the Wikimedia community of presenting online and in-person community events in partnership with organizations. In these events, called "wiki parties" or "edit-a-thons", a group of people meet to engage with the media resources of a host institution. These people, perhaps community members in open invitation, or students from a university, or online participants who want to join but cannot physically come to the organization, take a media source of information from the host organization and then share and cite that source in the Wikimedia platforms.

Wikimedians in Residence have organized thousands of these events globally. People enjoy them. They achieve knowledge sharing and produce metrics as supporting evidence to demonstrate their impact.

History and case studies

Summary of first 2 years of WiR activities
(2010-2011)

In 2006 user:llywrch published "Wikipedian-in-residence, a proposal" articulating in print the concept of an liaison between Wikimedia projects and external organizations with domain expertise. Following that proposal in the early 2010s various Wikimedian in Residence programs flourished in different regions. Early experiments were in the United States, particularly in the Cascadia region based on llywrch's advocacy, where the United States Public Policy Initiative trained and professionalized persons at universities to collaborate with Wikimedia projects. In the college town of Pune in India a parallel experiment with the Indian Wikipedia Education program inspired many students to become highly engaged Wikipedia editors, leading to the convening of several large Wikimedia conferences in India and many of the students from that program to join regional volunteer administration in the Wikimedia India chapter. In Europe the culture leaned more to seeking museum partnerships after the model of a community outreach and events program manager. These regions each set some precedents, but the true story of the early history is the sum of all the experiments which happened globally in the first 10 years. Probably the most stable outcome of the Wikimedian in Residence experiments is the establishment of the Wiki Education Foundation, which correctly identified that universities have the best funding, the best access to highly motivated student editors, and the best knowledge resources to justify creating paid professional appointments to Wikimedians in Residence.

As of 2019, probably most of the funding which has gone into Wikimedian in Residence programs has come from encouraging public health and medical education. Probably the most common characteristic of Wikimedian in Residence programs is that they have a relationship to a university, either by the university hosting the position or the university being an essential partner in achieving the goals of the appointment. One of the most popular types of Wikimedian in Residence activity is a wiki editing event in the arts, which have a global history of drawing large crowds of first-time and beginning editors who will edit at an in-person social event and gathering.

Full list of past and present WiRs

Below is a table of current and previous Wikimedians in residence according to their Wikidata entries. Wikimedians without are not included. To see the full table without needing to scroll, or instructions on adding new rows, see this page.

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Wikimedian (Q3809586)	Organisation (P108)	Link (P2699)	Location (P937)	Start (P580)	End (P582)
Borysław Kozielski	Wawel Castle
Pranayraj Vangari	Telangana State Language and Culture Department	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj_(Wikimedian_in_Residence)
Mike Dickison
Tochi Precious
Gianluigi Gamba
Ayokanmi Oyeyemi
Liam Wyatt	British Museum	BM	London	May 2010	June 2010
Lori Byrd-McDevitt	The Children's Museum of Indianapolis	TCMI	Indianapolis	July 2010	July 2019
Benoît Evellin	Palace of Versailles	Château de Versailles	Palace of Versailles	February 2011	August 2011
Àlex Hinojo Sánchez	Museu Picasso	Museu Picasso	Barcelona	February 2011	July 2011
Àlex Hinojo Sánchez	Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya	MNAC	Barcelona	April 2012	April 2013
Remulazz	Moleskine Foundation	lettera27	Milan	30 March 2011
Roger Bamkin	Derby Museum and Art Gallery	Derby	Derby	March 2011	August 2011
Dominic Byrd-McDevitt	National Archives at College Park	NARA	College Park	April 2011	September 2012
Laura Hale	Australian Paralympic Committee	The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia		April 2011	August 2012
Sarah Stierch	Archives of American Art	AAA	Washington, D.C.	April 2011	September 2011
Sarah Stierch	Smithsonian Institution Archives	SIA	Washington, D.C.	February 2012	May 2012
Sarah Stierch	World Digital Library	Outcomes	Washington, D.C.	December 2012	November 2013
Richard Knipel	Museum of Modern Art	MoMA	New York City	May 2011	November 2011
Richard Knipel	Metropolitan Museum of Art	Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City	June 2017
Andy Mabbett	Royal Society of Chemistry	RSCWiki	Cambridge Science Park	22 September 2014	18 September 2015
Andy Mabbett	Birmingham Museums Trust	Thinktank	Thinktank	December 2014	May 2015
Andy Mabbett	ORCID, Inc.	ORCID		May 2014
Andy Mabbett	The New Art Gallery Walsall	New Art Gallery Walsall	The New Art Gallery Walsall	April 2013	May 2013
Andy Mabbett	ARKive	ARKive	Bristol	June 2011	September 2011
Andy Mabbett	Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service	SAHS	Staffordshire County Museum	April 2013	May 2013
Andy Mabbett	Lancashire County Council’s Museum Service	QSMM	Queen Street Mill	February 2013	August 2014
Andy Mabbett	TED			January 2016	July 2016
Andy Mabbett	Queen Mary University of London	HMBRG	London	March 2017	July 2017
Andy Mabbett	The Physiological Society	PhySoc	London	March 2017	September 2017
Andy Mabbett	Coventry University	Coventry University	Disruptive Media Learning Lab	May 2019	31 May 2021
Daniel Mietchen	Open Knowledge Foundation Germany	OA	Berlin	June 2011	June 2013
Yair Talmor	Israel Museum	IMJ	Israel	August 2011	October 2011
Daniel Tsvi Framowitz	National Library of Israel	NLI	Jerusalem	November 2011	April 2012
Francis Awinda	Africa Centre	Culture	Cape Town	December 2011	November 2012
Whiteghost.ink	State Library of New South Wales	SLNSW	Sydney	February 2012	May 2013
Lane Rasberry	Consumer Reports	Consumer Reports	Yonkers	March 2012	March 2018
Lane Rasberry	School of Data Science	University of Virginia	Charlottesville	February 2018
Ole Palnatoke Andersen	National Museum of Denmark	Residerende wikipedianer	Copenhagen	March 2012	April 2012
Ole Palnatoke Andersen	Royal Danish Library	WikiProjekt Diamanten	Copenhagen	September 2012	November 2012
Andrew Gray	British Library	BL	London	April 2012	March 2013
André Costa	Swedish National Heritage Board	pdf	Stockholm	May 2012	October 2012
Marcus Cyron	German Archaeological Institute	German Archaeological Institute	Berlin	May 2012	October 2012
Lennart Guldbrandsson	Swedish National Heritage Board	pdf	Stockholm	May 2012	October 2012
Maximilian Klein	OCLC, Inc.	VIAF	California	May 2012	January 2014
Hubertl	Bundesdenkmalamt	Bundesdenkmalamt Austria	Vienna	June 2012
David Parreño Mont	Palafrugell	Palafrugell	Palafrugell	June 2012	July 2012
David Parreño Mont	Library Service of Catalonia	Biblioteques	Catalonia	August 2013	November 2013
Liron Dorfman	Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa	אוניברסיטת חיפה	Haifa	July 2012	January 2013
Timothy Sandole	Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs	Assessment of Belfer Center Wikipedian in Residence program	Cambridge	July 2012	July 2013
Michael Barera	Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library	GFPLM	Ann Arbor	December 2012	March 2013
Esther Solé i Martí	Museu d'Art Jaume Morera	Art Jaume Morera	Lleida	January 2013	January 2014
Evelyn Swan	American Folk Art Museum		New York City	January 2013	May 2013
John Cummings	Natural History Museum, London	NHMandSM	London	February 2013	December 2013
John Cummings	UNESCO	United Nations	Paris	July 2015	December 2021
Mariona Aragay	Museu de la Música de Barcelona	El Museu de la Música incorpora una viquipedista resident per difondre el museu i la música catalana a Internet	Barcelona	April 2013	November 2013
Molly McGowan	Royal Ontario Museum	ROM	Toronto	April 2013	2013
Mary Mark Ockerbloom	Science History Institute		Philadelphia	April 2013	22 June 2020
Mary Mark Ockerbloom	Annual Reviews			4 May 2021	22 December 2023
Tim Moritz Hector	ZDF	ZDFcheck	Mainz	April 2013	September 2013
Kevin Rutherford	Ladd Observatory	Ladd Observatory	Providence	May 2013	July 2013
Micha Rieser	Swiss Federal Archives	Swiss Federal Archives	Bern	June 2013	November 2013
Micha Rieser	Swiss National Library	Swiss National Library	Bern	December 2013	September 2014
Micha Rieser	Basel University Library	Basel University Library	Basel	February 2015	September 2015
Martin Poulter	Bodleian Libraries		Oxford	March 2015	February 2016
Martin Poulter	Jisc	Jisc Ambassador	Bristol	June 2013	March 2014
Martin Poulter	University of Oxford	Oxford	Oxford	September 2016	September 2019
Martin Poulter	Khalili Collections	Khalili	London	January 2020
Ally Crockford	National Library of Scotland	NLS	Edinburgh	June 2013	February 2015
Alexander D. Stinson	The William Blake Archive	William Blake	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	July 2013	December 2013
Dorothy Rose Howard	Metropolitan New York Library Council	Metropolitan New York Library Council	New York City	July 2013	February 2015
Hay Kranen	KB National Library of the Netherlands		The Hague	September 2013	September 2014
Patrick Hadley	York Museums Trust	YMT	York	September 2013	March 2014
Patrick Hadley	Museums Development Yorkshire	YNP	Yorkshire	June 2014	June 2015
Arie Sonneveld	Working Group of Special Academic Libraries	2014	Netherlands	October 2013	February 2015
Hans Muller	Leiden University		Leiden	August 2019
Hans Muller	Naturalis Biodiversity Center		Leiden	April 2015	October 2015
Hans Muller	Working Group of Special Academic Libraries		The Hague	October 2013	March 2015
Sandra Fauconnier	Stichting Academisch Erfgoed	Expedities	Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam	1 January 2014	31 December 2014
Sandra Fauconnier	Netherlands Commission for UNESCO	MoW 2017	Zeeland Archives	April 2017	August 2017
Kevin Gorman	University of California, Berkeley		Berkeley	December 2013	December 2014
Rexford Nkansah	Africa Centre	Culture	Cape Town	December 2013	November 2014
Jey	Open University of Catalonia	UOC	Barcelona	January 2014	July 2014
Rocío Consales	Fundación Salvador Allende	Discursos oficiales de Salvador Allende	Santiago	February 2014	April 2014
Marc Haynes	Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol	Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol	Cardiff	February 2014	August 2014
RGmary	Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico	ICCU	Mestre	March 2014	July 2014
Rob Velella	Houghton Library	Rob at Houghton	Cambridge	March 2014	November 2014
Sydney Poore	Cochrane	WIR	Liverpool	March 2014	March 2016
John Byrne	Cancer Research UK	WikiProject CRUK	London	March 2014	January 2015
Daniele Metilli	Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto	Mart	Rovereto	April 2014	October 2014
Sergei Zhuravel	Business Journal	резидент	Syktyvkar	April 2014	December 2015
Iván Martínez	Museo Soumaya		Mexico City	June 2014	October 2014
Lukasz Chelminski	Józef Piłsudski Institute of America	WikiProject Józef Piłsudski Institute of America	New York City	August 2014	November 2014
Mikhail Melnichenko	Scientific Library of Moscow State University	резидент	Moscow	August 2014
Federico Leva	Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura		Milan	15 September 2014	15 July 2015
Netha Hussain	Calicut Medical College		Kozhikode	September 2014	December 2015
Jovana Milošević	University Library "Svetozar Marković"	Универзитетска библиотека 2014	Belgrade	October 2014	November 2014
Sara Thomas	Scottish Library and Information Council	SLIC	Glasgow	July 2017	March 2018
Sara Thomas	Museums Galleries Scotland	MGS	Edinburgh	December 2014	May 2016
Marek Blahuš	Masaryk University	Masarykova univerzita	Brno	2014
Carolina Latorre Canet	Arxiu Ismael Latorre Mendoza			2014	31 December 2019
Carolina Latorre Canet	Arxiu familiar Ricardo Miralles Tarín			2022	31 December 2023
Carolina Latorre Canet	Arxiu fotogràfic Jordi Ferrer-Beltran			14 April 2024
Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola	Arxiu Ismael Latorre Mendoza			2014	31 July 2017
Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola	Arxiu Fotogràfic Familiar Nàcher			2018
Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola	Arxiu Ismael Latorre Mendoza			2019
Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola	Arxiu familiar Ricardo Miralles Tarín			1 January 2024
Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola	Arxiu fotogràfic Jordi Ferrer-Beltran			14 April 2024
Jason Evans	National Library of Wales	National Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales	Aberystwyth	December 2014	September 2021
Eduardo Testart	National Library of Chile	Wikipedista en residencia	Santiago	December 2014	October 2015
Emily Temple-Wood	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health	NIOSH	Washington, D.C.	December 2014	June 2016
Luca Martinelli	Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico	ICCU	Rome	March 2015	31 December 2019
Luca Martinelli	Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi	ICBSA	Rome	15 September 2017	31 December 2018
Cvetko Nedelkovski	State Archive of the Republic of North Macedonia	Residence at DARM	Skopje	15 June 2015	15 September 2015
Brahim Boughalmi	Association for the protection of the medina of Tunis	MedinaPedia	Tunis	July 2015	November 2016
Rubén Ojeda de la Roza	Museum of Romanticism	Glaming Madrid	Madrid	August 2015	December 2015
Mario Šarevski	Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts	Residence at MANU	Skopje	September 2015
Davide Denti	European Centre for Press and Media Freedom	Bando per Wikipediano in residenza allo European Centre for Press and Media Freedom	Rovereto	September 2015	February 2016
Kelly Doyle	West Virginia University	Welcome	Morgantown	September 2015	June 2018
Loganathan Rathinavel	Tamil Virtual Academy	partnership	Chennai	September 2015	February 2016
Maria Drozdek	National Museum in Warsaw	English	Warsaw	October 2015	September 2016
Maria Drozdek	Muzeum Miasta Łodzi	Kolekcja Muzeum Miasta Łodzi	Łódź	September 2017	November 2017
Marija Gajić	Jevremovac botanic garden	Ботаничка башта Јевремовац 2015	Belgrade	9 November 2015	8 December 2015
Ewan McAndrew	University of Edinburgh	wikimedia	Edinburgh	December 2015
Zana Shtrkovska	Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts	Diary	Skopje	December 2015	November 2016
Rachel Helps	Brigham Young University	Harold B Lee Library	Provo	December 2015
Zeineb Takouti	Diocesan Library of Tunis		Tunis	December 2015	?
Marco Chemello	Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura	BEIC	Milan	December 2015	June 2021
Marco Chemello	Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci"	Museoscienza	Milan	February 2016	April 2016
Sander Turnhout	SoortenNL	Erfgoed Gelderland	Nijmegen	2015	2016
Jane Darnell	TED			December 2015	June 2016
Mrsinna	State Library of Queensland	First World War Wikipedian in Residence	Brisbane	January 2016	March 2016
Simone Massi	Mansutti Foundation	Fondazione Mansutti	Milan	January 2016	March 2016
Simone Massi	Museo Galileo	Museo Galileo	Milan	March 2016	May 2016
Kerry Raymond	State Library of Queensland	First World War Wikipedian in Residence	Brisbane	January 2016	March 2016
Niccolò Caranti	MUSE		Trento	February 2016	March 2016
Stanislas Wiener	Wiener Library	Wiener Library	London	1 March 2016	1 March 2017
Lore Agirrezabal	Children Literature Documentation Center of Donostia	2016	San Sebastián	2 March 2016	31 July 2016
Michal Matúšov	World Esperanto Youth Organization	Esperanto125	Rotterdam	March 2016	December 2016
Mauricio V. Genta	Wikimedia Argentina	Proyecto de digitalización	Buenos Aires	March 2016
Francesc Fort	Valencian Museum of Ethnology	Etnologia	Valencia	March 2016	June 2016
Francesc Fort	Provincial Council of Valencia	Cultura Diputació València	Valencia	August 2016	November 2017
Francesc Fort	Institut Valencià d'Art Modern		Valencia	January 2021
David Alves	NeuroMat	https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/164209/projeto-de-wiki-difusao-em-neuromatematica/	São Paulo	March 2016	February 2017
Alice White	Wellcome Trust	Wellcome	London	April 2016
Carl Fredrik Sjöland	Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carl_Fredrik_(WIR)	Stockholm	May 2016
Thomas Planinger	Constitutional Court of Austria	Wikipedian in Residence am österreichischen Verfassungsgerichtshof	Vienna	June 2016	August 2016
Thomas Planinger	Constitutional Court of Austria	Wikipedian in Residence am österreichischen Verfassungsgerichtshof	Vienna	June 2017	July 2017
TransporterMan	Amon Carter Museum of American Art		Texas	June 2016
Milica Vučetić	University Library "Svetozar Marković"	Универзитетска библиотека 2016	Belgrade	8 July 2016	7 August 2016
Craig Franklin	State Library of Queensland		Brisbane	July 2016	March 2018
Marília Reinato Carrera	NeuroMat	https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/167130/matematica-falada-audiodescricao-de-verbetes-de-probabilidade-e-estatistica-na-wikipedia/	São Paulo	August 2016	July 2017
Miloš Todorović	Museum of Smederevo	Музеј у Смедереву 2016	Smederevo	14 September 2016	13 October 2016
Fabian Tompsett	MayDay Rooms		London	October 2016	September 2017
Cassandra DellaCorte	DePaul University		Chicago	November 2016	?
Aaron Morris	Menter Iaith Môn	Wicibrosiect Wici Môn	Anglesey	November 2016
Jennifer Dawson	Cochrane	WIR		2016
Susan Ross	National Library of Scotland	Gaelic Wikipedian project	Edinburgh	December 2016	November 2017
John P. Sadowski	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health			December 2016
Christian Cariño	Museo Soumaya	Residencia en Museo Soumaya	Mexico City	January 2017	January 2018
Wilson Vicentim	NeuroMat	https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/170506/neuromatematica-na-wikipedia-criacao-e-melhoria-de-conteudo-em-plataformas-web-20/	São Paulo	February 2017	January 2018
Monika Sengul-Jones	OCLC, Inc.	Monikasj	unknown value	February 2017	April 2018
Leire Cano	Children Literature Documentation Center of Donostia	2017	San Sebastián	21 March 2017	31 December 2017
Daniel Almeida Abrahão Dieb	NeuroMat	https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/170992/curso-neuromat-de-jornalismo-cientifico-pratica-e-revisao-de-literatura/	São Paulo	1 April 2017	31 March 2018
Charles Matthews	ContentMine Ltd.			March 2017	August 2017
Charles Matthews	ContentMine Ltd.			May 2018	April 2019
GjorgjiP	State Archive of the Republic of North Macedonia	Diary	Skopje	May 2017	October 2017
Gordi	Miladinovi Brothers City Library	Diary	Skopje	9 June 2017	9 September 2017
Susan Tolich	Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira		Auckland	12 June 2017	14 July 2017
Olaniyan Olushola	Goge Africa	Wikipedian in Residence at Goge Africa	Lagos	June 2017	February 2018
Mounir Touzri	National Archives of Tunisia		Tunis	August 2017	September 2017
Emma Rydberg	Internetmuseum	Internetmuseum	Stockholm	August 2017
Olfa Yakoubi	National Archives of Tunisia	Wikipedian in Residence at National Archives of Tunisia	Tunis	August 2017	September 2017
Dušan Ružić	Museum of Yugoslav History	Музеј Југославије 2017	Belgrade	October 2017	November 2017
Stefan Mitić	National Museum of Leskovac	https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Википедијанац_стажиста/Музеј_у_Лесковцу_2017.	Leskovac	October 2017	November 2017
Aidee Murrieta	Daniel Cosío Villegas Library	Residence in Latin America	Mexico City	6 November 2017	30 November 2018
Florence Devouard	University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland	Culture and Safety in Africa	Marseille	November 2017	December 2017
Florence Devouard	World Intellectual Property Organization			1 February 2022
Ewa Caban	Regional Institute of Culture in Katowice	Regionalny Instytut Kultury w Katowicach	Katowice	December 2017
Ewa Caban	Wawel Castle	Zamek Królewski na Wawelu	Kraków	October 2020
Miku Malinen	National Archives of Finland		Helsinki	January 2018	November 2018
Giovanna Viana Fontenelle de Araújo	NeuroMat	https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/176069/novas-midias-na-construcao-de-projetos-museologicos/	São Paulo	January 2018	January 2019
Daniëlle Jansen	Netherlands Commission for UNESCO		The Hague	January 2018	June 2018
Daniëlle Jansen	Maastricht University		Maastricht	May 2021
Red de Leon	Bantayog ng mga Bayani	Wikipedian in Residence at Bantayog ng mga Bayani	Manila	March 2018	May 2018
Marko Stanojević	Museum of Yugoslav History	https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Википедијанац_стажиста/Музеј_Југославије_2018.	Belgrade	April 2018	June 2018
JarrahTree	Museum of Perth		Perth	April 2018	?
Delphine Dallison	Scottish Library and Information Council	SLIC	Glasgow	April 2018	February 2019
Érica Azzellini	NeuroMat	https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/178343/potenciais-para-o-jornalismo-computacional-na-estruturacao-de-narrativas-de-difusao-cientifica-basea/	São Paulo	May 2018	April 2019
Lukas Weinbeer	International Anti-Corruption Academy	WiR Project	Laxenburg	July 2018	August 2018
Oksana Mudri-Nedić	Museum of Vrbas	Музеј у Врбасу 2018	Vrbas	July 2018	August 2018
Aleksandar Tumarić	Museum of Vojvodina	Музеј Војводине 2018	Novi Sad	July 2018	September 2018
Niall O'Mara	National Health Library and Knowledge Service	http://hselibrary.ie/research-innovation/national-healthcare-wikipedian-in-residence/	Ireland	July 2018	July 2019
Darold Cuba	Columbia University	LumaNatic	New York City	August 2018	?
Milena Milenković	Historical Archive of Pirot	Историјски архив Пирот 2018	Pirot	September 2018	November 2018
Alex Jung	University of Toronto Libraries	University of Toronto Libraries	Toronto	September 2018	November 2020
Jovana Obradović	Historical Archive of Pančevo	Историјски архив у Панчеву 2018	Pančevo	October 2018	?
Grzegorz Gogacz	Warsaw Public Library – Central Library of the Masovian Voivodeship	Mazowiecka Biblioteka Cyfrowa	Warsaw	October 2018
Teodora Lukić	Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments Belgrade	Републички завод за заштиту споменика културе Београд 2018	Belgrade	October 2018	November 2018
Jelena Latov Papić	Theater Museum of Vojvodina	2019	Novi Sad	November 2018	December 2018
Jelena Latov Papić	Serbian National Theatre	https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Википедијанац_стажиста/Српско_народно_позориште,_Нови_Сад,_2019.	Novi Sad	16 May 2019	?
Jeffrey Keefer	Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute		Washington, D.C.	2018
Doug Rocks-Macqueen	Society of Antiquaries of Scotland	SocAntScot	Edinburgh	January 2019	November 2019
Jérémy Bouchez	Fondation Lionel-Groulx	speaking North America	Montreal	February 2019	May 2021
Dragana Popović	University Library "Svetozar Marković"	Википедијанац стажиста	Belgrade	1 March 2019	1 April 2019
Hilary Thorsen	Stanford University	WikiProject Linked Data for Production	Stanford	February 2019
Amber Berson	Concordia University	https://library.concordia.ca/about/wikipedian-in-residence/	Montreal	June 2019	June 2020
Jamie Flood	United States National Agricultural Library			May 2019
Esther Marie Jackson	New York Botanical Garden		The Bronx	June 2019	January 2020
Suzana Mihajlović Jovanović	Historical Archive of Negotin	Историјски архив Неготин 2019	Negotin	June 2019	August 2019
Denny Vrandečić	Google		San Francisco	August 2019	2019
Piotr Powierża	Museum of the History of Polish Jews		Warsaw	November 2019	June 2020
Pierre Tribhou	Archives nationales	https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:GLAM/Archives_nationales_(France)		December 2019	January 2020
Andrew Lih	Smithsonian Institution	goal3	New York City	2019
Charlotte Bonmati-Mullins	Cinémathèque québécoise	propos	Montreal	December 2019	May 2021
Sébastien Gathier	Institut international pour la Francophonie	Wiktionnariste en résidence	Garage Citroën	6 January 2020	31 December 2020
Jan Purkert				9 January 2020
Erin O'Neil	University of Alberta Library	WIR	Edmonton	February 2020	December 2020
Zeljko Blace	Rijeka City Library	https://gkr.hr/	Rijeka	April 2020	May 2021
Z. Blace	Rijeka City Library	Zblace	Rijeka	June 2020	May 2021
Z. Blace	Clubture Network		Zagreb	February 2022	August 2022
Elysia Webb	Annual Reviews	edited	Palo Alto	May 2020	April 2021
Miréia Arruda Figueiredo	NeuroMat	https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/192106/curso-de-jornalismo-cientifico-neuromat-uma-proposta-de-aprendizagem-colaborativa/	São Paulo	1 July 2020	31 August 2021
Wojciech Szczęsny	National Library of Poland	Biblioteka Narodowa	Warsaw	July 2020
Adam Pacholak	Wroclaw Contemporary Museum	Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław	Wrocław	October 2020
Markéta Marková	Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences		Prague	2020
Caroline Stickel	Brigham Young University	Harold B Lee Library	Provo	December 2020	July 2021
Violet B. Fox	University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries			December 2020	May 2021
Lucy Hinnie	British Library	British Library	London	February 2021	28 February 2023
Lucy Hinnie			Exeter	January 2023
Erika Guetti Suca	NeuroMat	https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/195829/arquitetura-e-desenvolvimento-de-software/	Ribeirão Preto	1 April 2021	31 March 2023
Marie-Claude Duschesne	Administration régionale Baie-James			April 2021
Adam Harangozó	Blinken Open Society Archives	osa	Budapest	April 2021	June 2021
Adam Harangozó	National Institute for Health and Care Research	https://wikimedia.org.uk/2021/12/national-institute-for-health-research-launches-wikimedian-in-residence-in-collaboration-with-wikimedia-uk/	London	November 2021
Lucas Prégaldiny	Institut international pour la Francophonie	https://www.wikimedia.fr/entretien-avec-wikilucas-lingua-libriste-en-residence/	Garage Citroën	3 May 2021	3 September 2021
Amanda Lawrence	RMIT University	AmandaSLawrence	Melbourne	2 August 2021
Nicolas Vigneron	Clermont Auvergne Métropole		Rare book library of Clermont Auvergne Métropole	23 August 2021	30 June 2022
Nicolas Vigneron	Museum of Brittany		Museum of Brittany	August 2022	July 2023
Cynthia Hodges	Michigan Technological University			September 2021
Sofie Sigrinn	Södermanland County Council			1 December 2021	31 May 2022
Natalie Green	Cincinnati Art Museum			January 2022
Rute Correia	NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities			1 March 2022	30 June 2023
Wilson Oluoha	Honoris United Universities			May 2022	2022
Mohammed Kamal-Deen Fuseini	Ghana Society for Education Technology	https://g-set.org/		1 July 2022	31 December 2022
Mohammed Kamal-Deen Fuseini	Open Foundation West Africa	https://www.ofwafrica.org/	Ghana	1 March 2023
James Gaunt	Australian Performing Arts Collection	Wikimedian In Residence Wrap Up	Melbourne	June 2022	August 2022
Carolina Espinoza Cartes	Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía		Madrid	August 2022
Tatjana Baleta	University of Exeter	Global Systems Institute	Exeter	September 2022
Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos	Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru da Universidade de São Paulo		Bauru	1 October 2022	30 September 2023
Priscila Carvalho Cruz	Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru da Universidade de São Paulo	https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/bolsas/204952/arquitetura-desenvolvimento-e-monitoramento-de-interface-colaborativa-de-aprendizagem-em-saude-audit/	Bauru	1 October 2022	30 September 2023
Adriano Jorge Soares Arrigo	Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru da Universidade de São Paulo		Bauru	1 October 2022	30 September 2023
Adriano Jorge Soares Arrigo	NeuroMat		São Paulo	6 September 2024	28 February 2025
Michaela Blanc	Pérez Art Museum Miami			December 2022	November 2024
Pierre-Yves Beaudouin	Urfist de Bordeaux		Domaine universitaire de Talence Pessac Gradignan	1 February 2023	29 February 2024
Pierre-Yves Beaudouin	Urfist Méditerranée		Nice	13 May 2024
Hugo Pierre Lopez	Urfist Occitanie		Toulouse III University - Paul-Sabatier	January 2023	July 2024
Juliette Halimi	Urfist de Bretagne et des Pays de la Loire		University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany	13 February 2023	13 February 2024
Julián Cueto	La Plata National University Wikimedians Team			20 March 2023
Salvador Alcántar	World Intellectual Property Organization			March 2023
Vyacheslav Kirillin	Märcani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences		Kazan	18 May 2023
Lucy Moore	National Trust			August 2023	January 2024
Lucy Moore	LEEDS 2023			October 2023	December 2023
Toni Sant	Times of Malta		Malta	September 2023
Maxwell Neely-Cohen	National Book Foundation			December 2023
Johanna Janhonen	Kone Foundation	Marginaalimerkintöjä	Finland	1 January 2024	31 December 2025
Mickaël Schauli	Urfist de Strasbourg	Strasbourg	Q111966886	February 2024
Siobhan Leachman	Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa	12639654	Wellington	4 March 2024	26 May 2024
Delphine Montagne	URFIST Lyon	Lyon		March 2024
Sae Kitamura	Library of Trinity College Dublin			1 June 2024	31 March 2025
Oscar Costero	Equis	Wikimedian in Residence for Latino Culture and Community		July 2024
Simone Vieira da Silva	NeuroMat		São Paulo	1 October 2024	31 March 2025
Tiago Lubiana	Biodiversity Heritage Library			4 November 2024

Seeking applicants

Organization	Location	Information link	Date posted	Timeframe
NeuroMat, funded by FAPESP	São Paulo (Brasil)	holding an MA (4 positions), holding a BA (2 positions); proficiency in Portuguese is required, English skills required by funding agency; pay range here	November 14, 2024	Applications accepted until February 10, 2025, but positions will be filled as soon as good candidates are identified

Links

Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network, a peer to peer professional organization for Wikimedians in Residence
Wikimedian in residence (Q3809586) on Wikidata
Wikimedians in Residence in French-speaking countries

Information on other wikis

Wikipedians in Residence are covered on a number of wikis, including:

Wikimedia Commons category, which contains photos, information graphics, PDF presentations, and other media resources.
English Wikipedia's encyclopedia article about WiRs; these exist in several other languages as well (see WikiData link below).
English Wikipedia's GLAM-focused page about Wikipedians in Residence
Residencies focusing on medical topics
English Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest policy section on Wikipedians in Residence
This Outreach Wiki's category of pages related to WiRs.
The Wikidata entry for Wikipedians in Residence may contain additional links.
The This Month in GLAM newsletter includes regular updates on many residencies.

Further information

Wikipedia in the Museum: Lessons from Wikipedians in Residence 2012 Virtual Session, American Association of Museums.
Wikipedians in Residence: Two Years of Open Culture, 2012 Open Knowledge Foundation blog, Lori Phillips.
How Does a Wikipedian in Residence survive?, 2012 The GLAM-Wiki Experience blog, Àlex Hinojo.
In-Residence Around the World, 2011 Wikimedia blog, Liam Wyatt.
Wikipedian in Residence article at Wikipedia
Creating a Wikimedian in Residence position practical how-to guide
WREN: Reviewing A Year of Wikimedians in Residence Activity - Video compilation of short talks from several WIR in 2022
WikiProject:United Nations/WIPO A summary of the collective efforts of 3 WIRs at WIPO.