2023:Program/Libraries/HLMJWQ-Libraries + Wikimedia: past, present and future

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Title: Libraries + Wikimedia: past, present and future

Speakers:

Clifford_Anderson

Clifford B. Anderson is Director of Digital Research at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, NJ. He is also Chief Digital Strategist at the Vanderbilt University Library. He holds a secondary appointment as Professor of Religious Studies in the College of Arts & Science at Vanderbilt University. Among other works, he is co-author of XQuery for Humanists (Texas A&M University Press, 2020) and editor of Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies (De Gruyter, 2022). He is on the steering committee of the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group and also an active member of the Women in Religion User Group.

Nkem Osuigwe PhD, Human Capacity Development & Training (Director), AfLIA

I am a librarian.

Silvia Gutiérrez

Silvia Gutierrez is the Senior Program Officer for Libraries at the Wikimedia Foundation. Her motto: sharing is the new having.

Rajene Hardeman

Pretalx link

Etherpad link

Room: National Library, Imagination Room

Start time: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 10:55:00 +0800

End time: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 11:40:00 +0800

Type: No (pretalx) session type id specified

Track: No (pretalx) track id specified

Submission state: confirmed

Duration: 45 minutes

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Presentation language: en

Abstract & description

Abstract

An interactive workshop to reflect on the past, present, and future of Wikimedia + Libraries. This workshop will draw from Design Thinking strategies to create a dynamic feedback session where participants will both get to know each other better and collaborate on an open document to inform new library-led Wiki-projects

Description

Get to know each other (20 min). For this section, we will use an adapted version of OpenCon’s Story of Self circles: “a moment to leave the CV aside” and share “what brought you to be a librarian who advocates for Wikimedia Projects?” - depending on the number of participants, these can be different circles The “past” (15 min) section will be a birds-eye-view mapping of what has happened in the Libraries + Wikimedia intersection in the past (Education programs, Wikipedians in Residence, Conventions & Conferences, Campaigns, etc.). This PechaKucha-style presentation will be a data-driven storytelling one. The “present” section (15 min) will be another brief presentation in which the Wikimedia Libraries User Group will showcase their work & specific agenda. The authors are willing to transform both of these sections into a video that can be available for both online and in-situ participants, since our main focus will be the first and the following final section: The future (30 to 70 min). In this section, we will use some design-thinking (DT) to understand the WikiLibraries community better and where we might want to go forward. Depending on the number of participants, we will create smaller groups to work around three ideas: what has worked well (i.e. #1Lib1Ref), what has not (e.g. “Measuring impact with the number of references added”), and how we can address these problems using “I statements” (for instance: “I would like to create a peer review team to vote for best quality #1Lib1Ref contributions”). In order to identify, categorize and prioritize problematics, we will use the following DT strategies: Problem Statements or Job Stories, Octopus Clustering, and Group Dot Voting. If we get accepted, we will send out personalized invitations to regional participants: Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia.

Further details

Qn. How does your session relate to the event themes: Diversity, Collaboration Future?

This workshop’s goal is to understand previous collaborations in order to think about a future together. A similar session was held in the Wikimedia + Libraries Convention in 2022 (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Assessment_and_the_Future_of_Libraries_in_Wikipedi) focusing in Wikipedia. We would like to build on that previous experience and diversify it, in two ways: by expanding the reflection on other Wikimedia Projects (Wikidata, Commons, etc.), by profiting from the view point of groups that could not attend the Convention and that Wikimania’s location will promote (the Convention in Maynooth had only one scholarship recipient from Sotheast Asia - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WCI/Wikimedia%2BLibraries_Meetup_2022/Report).

Qn. What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Some experience will be needed

Qn. What is the most appropriate format for this session?

• Onsite in Singapore
• Remote online participation, livestreamed
• Remote from a satellite event
• Hybrid with some participants in Singapore and others dialing in remotely
• Pre-recorded and available on demand