Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/minutes 2020 09 16

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Wed 16 September 2020 16:00 UTC

• 12 noon – 1pm Eastern Time - New York
• 6 - 7pm Paris

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Attendees

1. TK
2. ~Zblace (Croatia)
3. Elysia:
4. Pharos
5. EricaAzzellini
6. Doreva (dorevabelfiore - Philadelphia WikiSalon)
7. Jeffrey

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1. Introduction to Fiona Romeo and monthly calls - IIIF
2. GLAM video sizzle reel - what might we put in that to orient folks pre-edit-a-thons?
   1. Old one 0- https://vimeo.com/296168439
3. WP:COI discussion - ##https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Conflict_of_interest#Should_it_be_a_requirement_that_WP:PAID_editors_%22must%22_use_the_WP:AFC_process_to_publish_articles?
   1. User:DGG instigated a unilateral policy change edit:
   2. requiring all WP:PAID editors to label all edits with a COI declaration
   3. Reverted, and an RfC started
   4. seems to have been successfully pushed back upon, but still a 50/50 propostion
   5. Need to keep an eye on this
4. Events:
   1. Met Fashion online edit a thon September 26, 1230-230pm
   2. Looking for help to bring more diverse skills and views!
   3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MetFashion_2020
5. Museums and the Web deadline - September 30! DC conf in April
6. NOTES:
   1. Fiona - IIIF call next week, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team
   2. Elysia - Annual Reviews
   3. Jeffrey - WiR in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
   4. Doreva - Philadelphia WikiSalon topics re: abolition, slavery, adding finding aids to Wikipedia & Wikidata- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon_2020-09-19
   5. Andrew - The Met and SI.edu, fashion editathon
   6. Esther - Columbia University libraries, WBstack
   7. Z - WiR Croatia
   8. Erica - University of Sao Paolo, former WiR, comms manager for Wikimovemento, coding davinci from global south
7. Fiona and IIIF
   1. This is a nice introduction to what IIIF is http://iiif.harvard.edu/about-iiif/
   2. It made this possible (among many other things) https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-04-17/animal-crossing-new-horizons-getty-art-generator
   3. Andrew: need to connect David Newberry of The Getty,
   4. Dominic Byrd McDevitt is doing nice work with IIIF getting images from service hubs of the Digital Public ##Library of America (https://dp.la) to go into Commons also.
   5. Jeffrey - IIIF as it relates to strategy of knowledge as a service
   6. Fiona - What kind
8. Video sizzle reels ideas to make an online event feel more populated at the start, while people are still arriving
   1. Z - LGBT videos
   2. Picking winners may be too high a bar
   3. Ways to contribute - inaturalist
   4. Photos of before and after of articles photos
   5. http://listen.hatnote.com
   6. Wiki Loves X photo competitions
   7. Ask affilaites to contribute something - simple photos and videos, things significant from their community
   8. Great for funding opportunity - simple for folks across the community
   9. Produce something for 20th birthday in January next year
9. NewVillage pump discussion about volunteers for GLAMs being considered conflicted employees:
   1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Volunteers_must_declare_that_they_are_paid?
10. To keep up with discussions happening around wp, I recommend watchlisting Template:Centralized Discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Centralized_discussion
11. Abre-te Código - open data hackathon
    1. The Coding Da Vinci from the Global South. Brazil, Indonesia and Subsaharan Africa involved.
12. For the Brazilian edition [1], we've developed videos and publications with cultural institutions on 3 axis: 1. Legislation, 2. Systems and Processes and 3. Technologies.
    1. The idea is to spread the open data word to cultural institutions ;)
13. I wrote a manual on Wikimedians in Residence for brazilian institutions[2] and Giovanna Fontenelle, my colleague, wrote one about our GLAM Wiki processes [3].
    1. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGLsvgUcvhF9nW8QQOqNNYMUnSEBkRHfO