Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/minutes 2019 01

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Normally we are the 2nd Wednesday, but delayed this month to 4th Wednesday.

Wed Jan 23, 2019 12pm – 1pm Eastern Time - New York

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Attendees

Newly invited - @JenOttawa and Giantflightlessbirds:

Agenda and notes

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- Take notes here during meeting
- Transfer notes from etherpad to this page after meeting
- Anyone can take notes and format them here!
Note - anyone can add to this agenda or the agenda of any future meeting!
- At start of meeting, we will move items around
- Quick items first!
- Confirm agenda at the start of the meeting!
New attendee introductions
- What do you do as a Wikimedian in Residence?
- What organizational support do you want?
en:2018–19 United States federal government shutdown stops Wiki editing!
- John Sadowski, Wikimedian in Residence at the Centers for Disease Control
- Dominic McDevitt-Byrd, Wikimedian in Residence at the National Archive
- see also en:Censorship of Wikipedia
Event reports since last meeting
- Public Domain Day / Wikipedia Day
Job postings
End of this cycle of Wikimedia Foundation grant review!
- Grants_talk:Project#Project_list_from_Wikimedians_in_Residence
- See last month agenda for list of funding requests by and about Wikimedians in Residence!
- Support, comments, and even criticism is very helpful on any of these and always appreciated!
- December 2018 agenda
Job postings
- Organizations want to see job postings
  - started a list on main page
  - need to break out subpages, including one for hiring organizations
- postings
  - PCORI / medical / government in the United States posting - closed last Friday
  - Stanford University / library / Wikidata in the United States - interviews ongoing
  - Secret unannounced international health organization
  - Secret UK based university
  - World Health Organization - not Wikimedian, but Open Access Document specialist
Wikidata training curricula
- invitation - develop a curricula for general use Wikidata training
- Wiki Education Foundation is hosting 1-hour online co-working events biweekly during United States PST office hours
- Anyone can join in video chat
- no commitment, no preparation or follow up required
- Goal is to type documentation, lessons, links etc with other people in the time block