incorporated into existing position duties. The interactive timeline of all WIRs listed in Wikidata featured on figure 2 is an excellent visual tool to illustrate the diversity of WIR positions worldwide.
Figure 2 Screenshot of an interactive timeline of Wikimedian-in-Residence positions to illustrate the breadth of positions.
Resources
A variety of community guides already exist to help institutions create a WIR position. There is an excellent starting page on the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki titled “Creating a Wikimedian in Residence position” (2020), which outlines everything from the variety of roles a WIR can take on to the steps in getting started. Once a WIR has been established, the “Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network” (2020) ”can provide peer-to-peer support for organizations and individuals engaged in sharing open knowledge in the Wikimedia platform.
Three Case Studies
Given the myriad of WIR examples, those new to the Wikimedia community can find it difficult to understand which one might be the best
