Grants/Requests/2020/Diving Deeper into Wikipedia speaker series at University of Alberta
Description
[edit]Our full project plan is detailed in this document.
Our goal is to explore topics that help us contemplate the complexities and challenges of creating a truly collaborative, ethical, representative encyclopedia for our times. We hope that the impact is to prompt participants to think beyond their individual editing work, and to contemplate the "why" of editing Wikipedia. We are also keen to feature three incredible academics / activists whose work deserves much more exposure!
We believe this fits into Wikimedia Canada's strategic goal to encourage the development of open knowledge communities across this land, and we see particular alignment with your communities development and Indigenous peoples on Wikipedia programs. Our goals for this event series align with Wikimedia Canada's stated intent to "diversify the contributors to the Wikimedia projects, with a focus on the gender gap," and in our third event of the series we will be discussing Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin as part of our conversation about Indigenizing Wikipedia.
Our anticipated audience is, due to COVID, anyone in our area or neighbouring timezones. We are keen to engage folks who are interested in examining the why of editing Wikipedia and integrating knowledge about the social and political imperatives of Wikipedia editing into their own work as an editor. We will also welcome folks who haven't used Wikipedia, in the hope that we can inspire new editors to contribute to the site with a social justice lens.
Dissemination plan: This series will be advertised in the many listservs that we have available to us at the University of Alberta and as scholars and librarians in this land. We will be creating a Facebook event and using social media to promote the series. Our three speakers come from academia, the arts / education, and nonprofit, and they are in Vancouver, Whitehorse, and Baltimore. It is our hope that the speakers' advertisement of the series in their networks will also help spread the word.
The talks will be recorded and posted online via the University of Alberta streaming media repository with an open liscense for access after the event.
List of participants
[edit]Organizers of the series:
- Sarah Severson, Digital Initiatives Librarian (sarah.severson@ualberta.ca)
- Erin O’Neil, Wikipedian in Residence (eloneil@ualberta.ca)
Speakers featured:
- September: Hannah McGregor, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University (Talk: public accountability & Wikipedia)
- October: Heather Steinhagen (Talk: Indigenizing Wikipedia)
- November: Kira Wisniewski, executive director, Art + Feminism (Talk: Information activism)
Pre-Approval (before expenses)
[edit]Planned Budget
[edit]As this is an online event using institutional video conferencing account (Google Hangout), we are only looking to spend money on speaker honoraria.
| Item | Amount | Name of the participant that will incur this expense |
|---|---|---|
| Speaker honorarium | $200 | Hannah McGregor |
| Speaker honorarium | $200 | Heather Steinhagen |
| Speaker honorarium | $200 | Sarah Severson on behalf of Kira Wisniewski |
| Total | $600 |
Decision of the Programs Committee
[edit]This section will be filled by the Programs Committee.
This grant request is pre-approved for a total of $600.00 by two Board members:
Approval (after expenses)
[edit]Activity Report
[edit]Date: September 29
Title: Diving Deeper into Wikipedia Public accountability and transparency
Guest: Dr. Hannah McGregor
Talk recording available at https://era-av.library.ualberta.ca/media_objects/w95051798 (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Registrants: 110 registered, 57 in attendence
Feedback:
- "It was a really thought-provoking session"
- "ouf that analogy is just too real. My mind is blown"
- "Loved the tone and approach of the conversation. Brought in a new dimension to how I think about Wikipedia. Thank you!"
Date: October 19
Title: Diving Deeper into Wikipedia Indigenizing Wikipedia
Guest: Heather Steinhagen
Talk recording available at https://era-av.library.ualberta.ca/media_objects/cz30pt78x (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Registrants: 168 registered, 63 in attendance
Feedback:
- "Thank you so much Erin and Heather! This is such important work and it was amazing to hear about it."
- "TYSM! Sparked so many ideas for me around how tech grapples with “legitimizing” knowledge, gatekeeping vs verifying info, implicit bias around authority etc."
- Loving this convo w @HeatherVonArt on Indigenizing Wikipedia @uofalibrary Learning so much Thank you for your work
Date: November 19
Title: Diving Deeper into Wikipedia Information Activism
Guest: Kira Wisniewski
Talk recording available at https://era-av.library.ualberta.ca/media_objects/cr56n211f (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Registrants: 156 registered, 49 in attendance
Feedback:
- "Thank you so much for this great lecture series and for this segment! This was very informative and inspiring."
- "Thank you so much!! Kira I appreciate your insight and knowledge, Erin great questions, and Sarah, your link skillz are on fire!!"
- "I wanted to say a sincere thank you for this conversation series: thought provoking, necessary and inspiring. Your work is awesome and I’ve loved listening to each and every one!"
Final Budget
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14 October 2020
[edit]| Item | Amount | Name of the participant that made this expense |
|---|---|---|
| Speaker honorarium | $200 | Dr. Hannah McGregor (Sept. 29) |
| Total | 200 $ |
Decision of the Programs Committee
[edit]This request is approved for a total of $200 by the signature of one Board member:
- Ha-Loan Phan (talk) 22:34, 14 October 2020 (UTC)...
- --BiblioQC (talk) 23:05, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
- Benjamenta (talk) 03:16, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
27 October 2020
[edit]| Item | Amount | Name of the participant that made this expense |
|---|---|---|
| Speaker honorarium | $200 | Heather Steinhagen (Oct. 19) |
| Total | 200 $ |
Decision of the Programs Committee
[edit]This request is approved for a total of $200 by the signature of one Board member:
24 November 2020
[edit]| Item | Amount | Name of the participant that made this expense |
|---|---|---|
| Speaker honorarium | $200 | Kira Wisniewski (Nov. 19) |
| Total | 200 $ |
Decision of the Programs Committee
[edit]This request is approved for a total of $200 by the signature of one Board member:
Technical Information
[edit]This section will be filled by the Programs Committee.
- Request Number : 2020-002
- Type of activity in the Annual Budget : Developing partnerships with GLAMUs
- Total Approved Amount : $200.00