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Attendees
- Jason Evans
- Ewan McAndrew
- Martin Poulter
- Alice White
- John Cummings
- Navino Evans
- Daria Cybulska
- Stuart Prior
Introductions
Problems with being a WiR
- WP:RUMTRUM - bureaucratic procedures
- Scottish Wikidata problems - Nationality
- Lack of help pages to explain, and lack of videos to help
- Lack of help file to get started, no one file to rule them all, or "Here is the help area". 1-2 min videos etc
- Not enough time, 2 days a week, scheduling meetings, planning in long and short term.
- People thinking I'm a comedian in residence
- Keeping metadata current, maintenance of metadata to keep it current, updating based on new knowledge.
- At an institutional level, organisations do not understand what they want, and it's quite a delicate piece of work to arrive on a shared understanding of a project
- Editathons being reverted by admins.
- Notability debates - a lack of clarity and inconsistency
Best things about being a WiR
- A feel that it's the cutting edge of Wikimedia outreach, engaging experts
- Answering a need for innovation, creating specific solutions
- Being asked "What do you do?" and then pitching what it is
- Working with a diverse group of people
- WiRs are deep projects that connect Wikimedia to the wider world, in a way that doesn't just draw people back to Wikipedia, but uses Wikimedia to help other areas.
- People's excitement about adding content to Wikipedia for the first time
- Boring data coming to life for the first time
- The richness of combined datasets
- All the editathons
Why is it good for the organisation, or why do *they* think it's good
- A single sustainable site for Wellcome content
- Reducing the gender gap
- An official point of contact for Wikimedia
- Dissemination of knowledge requires a relationship with the largest source of knowledge in the world
- The digital literacy of the staff of the organisation
- To be seen as innovative, to be associated with the internet
- Press attention
- Outreach activities with a measurable impact
- PR
- Something concrete that an organisation can do.
- Fits in with a library's mission, a reputational gain, and sharing
- Organisations giving their content more reach
- An excuse to finally do something....