Events/Wikimedian in Residence Summit 2016

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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....

Creating an overview of the process steps of organisations becoming open (and a WiR role in it)

Problems

Setting up WiR

Strange people apply

General -

Disconnect between WiRs & Community

Expectations of existing community

WP:Rumtrum = Bureaucratic processes that are slow and obstructive

Tricky to explain what's important

Institutions not understanding what a WiR is

"Help" pages that don't help

Bad documentation

How to guides are like Wikipedia articles

Lack of video tutorials

Unhelpful replies to questions

Fumbling in the dark: A "do it" over "model it" methodology

Tools to measure re-use are buggy

Not enough tech support

Lots of potential, but projects aren't linked

Templates are tricky

Diffculty of capturing impact, wrong metrics

Ending without a sustainability plan

Wikipedia -

Notability debates

Commons

Lacks features

Mass uploads are very technical

Keeping metadata current? How?

Maze of metadata formats

Wikidata

Wikipedians resistant to Wikidata

Incorrect data

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