[GLAM] Feedback on Creating Wikimedian in Residence Roles

[Alex Stinson]

Hi all,

*Tldr: *I published a series of recommendations for creating Wikimedian in
Residence positions, and would like your feedback at:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Creating_a_Wikimedian_in_Residence_position


The long version:

As part of our continued support of the GLAM-Wiki community, we have been
getting an increasing number of requests to the Wikimedia Foundation GLAM
team from Wikimedia organizers, affiliates, and partner institutions about
“how to create or get Wikimedian in Residence positions”. As you are
probably familiar, Wikimedian in Residence positions are very effective at
expanding the impact of partnerships with GLAMs and other institutions, and
are very successful at expanding the ability for institutions to
collaborate with the Wikimedia community.

During the last half a year, I interviewed a dozen folks involved in
creating Wikimedian in Residence positions at affiliates, as independent
organizers in the movement, and at institutions independent of Wikimedia
organizers to collect their best thoughts and advice on how to create these
roles. Additionally, I drew on documentation created by Wikimedia UK in
their evaluation of the WIR program in the UK, the experience of advising
communities creating residencies and as part of WMF grants programs, and
other documentation from places like the Blog and This Month in GLAM.

The result is a recommendation on how to create these roles:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Creating_a_Wikimedian_in_Residence_position

I would like to start sharing with folks inquiring about these roles.
However, before I do, I could use feedback on the page. Please join the
discussion at:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedian_in_Residence/Creating_a_Wikimedian_in_Residence_position

Cheers,

Alex

P.S. This is part of a series of documentation improvements that we have
been making over the last couple years. I highly recommend other
documentation about the various major tactics used in the GLAM-Wiki
community:



- The Model projects portal which includes a survey of common project
models in GLAM-Wiki
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Model_projects.
- The recently updated Commons and Wikidata upload workflows portal
created as part of Structured Data on Commons:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Resources/Data_and_media_partnerships_workflow
- The personas and research evaluating Commons use for GLAM-Wiki
projects:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by_GLAM_institutions
- *The editathon organizer training that is part of the Programs and
Events Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editathons
<https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editathons> *