UK Wikimedian of the Year 2015/Nomination
To submit a nomination, please specify who you're nominating along with a brief description on why you think they should win the award. Please no comparisons ("Bill is so much nicer than Mary" would be better phrased "Bill is very nice"). The deadline for nominations is Tuesday 12 July.
Nominations
UK Wikimedian of the Year
Brian Kelly (User:Lisbk)
Brian has been using his professional connections with the librarian, researcher, and web communities to promote Wikipedia in various ways over the past year, actively promoting the kind of cultural change that Wikimedia UK's GLAM, Education, and Expert outreach activities try to bring about. Some examples (not by any means a complete list):
- He attended the first Altmetrics conference to present a poster titled "Wikimedia and Metrics" showing how Wikipedia can be used as a source of data about how well-popularised a piece of research is. I worked with him on some of the text of the poster, but this was his work and his initiative. In getting the bulk of the research community
- He has run multiple talks and workshops about Wikipedia for librarians, including a workshop at the LILAC conference with Nancy Graham and Andrew Gray.
- As part of a continuing interest in "Wikipedia as the front matter for all research" (a theme inspired by Cameron Neylon at Wikimania), he has researched the links from Wikipedia to the repositories of the UK's top research universities, and urged universities to consider Wikipedia links as a way to promote these repositories, but to act ethically, respecting Wikipedia's policies and ethos.
- He entered an essay "Librarians and Wikipedia: an Ideal Match?" to a blog competition run by CILIP. This makes a persuasive case that librarians should actively engage with Wikipedia, and that they are the ideal people to do so, sharing the ideal skills and values. He wrote a guest article on the topic for a CILIP newsletter, which he has subsequently released on the open web.
MartinPoulter (talk) 18:22, 30 June 2015 (BST)
Jane Doe
Because she's great! ~~~~
GLAM of the Year
Awesome GLAM
I like visiting them! ~~~~
Educational Institution of the Year
Special University
I studied there! ~~~~
Honourable Mention
User:Example
For his tireless work as the example user on all Wikimedia projects. ~~~~