Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/2022

Overview

The Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network (WREN) is a community of Wikimedians active in GLAM Wiki engagements with cultural and heritage institutions of all types – galleries, libraries, archives, museums, NGOs, or any entity committed to knowledge in the public interest. It consists of, but is not limited to, those working directly as Wikimedians in residence or volunteers in various local communities supporting institutional partnerships or contributions at scale.

Activities

WREN's activities for October 2021–October 2022 included monthly online meetings, mutual support via the WREN mailing list, as well as engagement with the GLAM Wiki community on the Telegram channel "GLAM-Wiki Global." WREN also has regular contact with the Wikimedia Foundation Community Program's "Culture & Heritage" team through the monthly meetings and other avenues. WREN members are also active at conferences such as Wikimedia Summit, Wikimania, and WikidataCon.

WREN was also instrumental in bringing up issues related to Structured Data on Commons, such as:

Addressing WikiCommons Query authentication issues from December 2021 and advocating for the removal of login requirements to access WCQS:
- Commons discussion commons:Commons_talk:SPARQL_query_service/Upcoming_General_Availability_release#Mandatory_authentication_considered_harmful
- Phabricator discussion: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297995
Hosting a discussion of WikiCommons Query Service in January 2022 with Wikimedia Sweden and WMF Search Team - Google Doc notes
- This meeting with WREN and the GLAM Wiki community resulted in a request that the WCQS service should still be considered "beta" as long as authentication is required - https://commons-query.wikimedia.org/

Conferences

WREN supported a group session at Wikimania 2022 discussing the work of Wikimedians in residence for that year: WREN: Reviewing A Year of Wikimedians in Residence Activity - Youtube video

Florence Devouard, United Nations, Wikimedian in Residence
Mike Dickison, Wikipedian at Large, New Zealand
Jamie Flood, National Agricultural Library (NAL), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Wikimedian in Residence
Rachel Helps, Brigham Young University, Wikimedian in Residence
Dr Amanda Lawrence, Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) Centre (Australia), Wikimedian-In-Residence
Andrew Lih, Wikimedian at Large, Smithsonian Institution (US); Wikimedia Strategist, Met Museum (New York)
Jennie Choi, General Manager of Collection Information, Met Museum (New York)
Tochi Precious, Moleskin Foundation, Wikimedian in Residence

Meetups for Wikimedians in Residence

These are the meetups of the Wikimedians in Residence Network. The monthly meetings occur online while in-person gatherings at global Wikimedia events happen in-person. They involve discussions and updates related to current Wikipedian in residence accomplishments, tasks, challenges, trainings, and opportunities.

Supporting organizations

This list is recognition from the Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network that the following organizations host a Wikimedian in Residence who collaborates with others in this network through mutual support, assistance, peer-to-peer project review, and overall demonstration of respect and civility.

The Wikipedia community thanks all organizations who contribute to Wikimedia projects in this way. This is a community-maintained list, and the presence of an organization on this list is no indication of any partnership, perspective, nor endorsement for this or any organization.