[GLAM] Bantayog WIR announcement

[Carlos Nazareno]

We are pleased to announce that Red de Leon (User:Alternativity) has
been hired by the Bantayog ng mga Bayani[1][2] (“Monument to Heroes”),
a Philippine foundation that maintains a museum and library dedicated
to the heroes and victims of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship, as its
first Wikipedian in Residence. As far as we know, this is also the
first ever Residence project in East and Southeast Asia. The project
will last for three months from April to June 2018.

As a Wikipedian in Residence, Red will be working with a small team to
help the digitize portions of Bantayog's library as well as to improve
coverage of topics related to the Marcos regime in Wikipedia and its
sister projects. He will also serve as a liaison between Bantayog and
the Wikimedia community by organizing events and workshops, and plan
to help the Filipino Wikimedia community grow by sharing his skills as
a Wikipedian to Bantayog’s constituency of museum visitors, library
researchers, and supporters.

If you are interested, you can check out the project page[3] on the
Outreach Wiki where more information about the project and its output
will be posted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantayog_ng_mga_Bayani
[2] http://bantayog.org/
[3] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_Bantayog_ng_mga_Bayani