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WMF GLAM report

Introducing Alice Kibombo, a new dataset, and more

Alice Kibombo is our point-of-contact for libraries

Alice Kibombo is taking up a part-time contract as Senior Program Officer for Libraries (within the Culture and Heritage Team) while Silvia Eunice Gutiérrez is on parental leave. As you probably already know, Alice is an extraordinary librarian and Wikimedian based in Uganda. She is a librarian at Goethe-Zentrum Kampala and was the Wikimedian in Residence at the African Library and Information Associations. Alice has personally trained close to 200 librarians but there's so much more you can learn about her in this #WikiCelebrate post on Diff. We’re excited to learn from Alice as she supports the Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025, the global 1Lib1Ref organizing team, and our ongoing relationship with AfLIA. Alice will be working in this position until the end of the calendar year, when Silvia will return from leave.

A new dataset about Wikimedia and libraries

Before taking her parental leave, Silvia shared a new resource for Wikibrarians—the dataset Libraries in Diff posts (2009–August 2023). This dataset is an attempt to gather for the first time, in one place, all Diff entries that tell the vibrant stories of libraries, librarians and library enthusiasts who contribute to open knowledge through Wikimedia projects. It complements the This Month in GLAM dataset that Silvia shared in our December update.

Opportunities to contribute to the global GLAM-Wiki network

  • The GLAM CSI (Contributor Study Initiative) project, accomplished by Andrew Lih and the Smithsonian, is ongoing and your experience is welcome at its survey! We want to understand the pain points and the overall experience of contributing to the GLAM-Wiki ecosystem. This survey should take around 15-20 minutes to complete and all contributors, whether with low, medium, or advanced knowledge of GLAM-Wiki are encouraged to take part. We want to document and understand the experiences of joining and contributing at all levels, from all regions of the world, and from small to large institutions. A description of the survey can be found here.
  • As an outcome of the GLAM Wiki Conference, Wikimedistas de Uruguay is facilitating a community process to redesign the public presence of GLAM Wiki on Meta, in collaboration with the broader GLAM Wiki movement and the Wikimedia Foundation. The initiative was announced on Diff in March and the working group was convened in May. See their special report, where they invite you to share your perspective.
  • Before Wikimania 2024, on Wikimania day zero (August 6), those who are interested in GLAM-Wiki can join a side event. The European GLAM Coordinators are organizing a GLAM Global meetup. The gathering is for people working with both GLAM and Wiki in their professional capacity (i.e. GLAM coordinators, WIRs). Sign up on this page to inform the organizers of potential interested participants.

International Museum Day

On May 18th, it was celebrated the International Museum Day 2024. The Wikimedia projects celebrated it by organizing events and contributing to media, data, and translation challenges.

To access what was accomplished, you can find the Outreach Dashboard event with the overall results, as well as check all the translations of the Museum Definition on this page and the videos and pictures uploaded on this Commons category.

There were events or activities by Wikimedia CH, Wikimedia Serbia, Wikimedia Österreich, Wikimedia Italy, Wikimedia Colombia, Wikimedia Spain, Wikimedia Ireland, Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, and Wikimedia Bangladesh.


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