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I am a former Wikimedia Foundation trustee, but please assume that any edits or statements I make are as a community member, and not in any official capacity whatsoever.
Hello!
My name is Phoebe Ayers. I am a long-time editor in
English Wikipedia
Commons
Wikidata
WikiVoyage
and
elsewhere
. I am also a long-time participant in Wikimedia Foundation governance, as well as community events (including most of the Wikimanias) and outreach to educators and librarians.
By day, I'm an academic reference librarian in the science and engineering library at
MIT
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. I used to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle before that.
I love many things about Wikimedia and the Wikimedia projects, but the things that are most important to me are our shared values of consensus, accuracy and fact-finding, and boldly editing things that need to change; and our internationalism and multilingualism. I am proud to know amazing Wikimedians from all of the world: our community is extraordinary.
Wikimania 2015
At Wikimania 2013, Board Q&A
at Wikimania 2006.
By
fuzheado
, used with permission
Talk to me:
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| phoebe dot ayers at gmail dot com
Things I do or have done
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Community member and governance
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editor on en:wp since August 2003; also editor of Commons and Wikidata, and a smattering of edits in non-English Wikipedias
2008-2009: writer for the English Wikipedia
Signpost
2009: maintainer of the
List Summary Service
for Foundation-l (since renamed to Wikimedia-l)
2007ish-2015: organizer of events for the San Francisco Bay meetup group and mailing list admin
2016--: Organizer of
Wikimedia New England
group events and various events at MIT (and mailing list admin / unofficial community contact); 2019--, official contact for the group
I have assisted with community-driven and hosted editathons in cultural institutions, libraries, and professional conferences all over the US (and a few globally), on a wide range of topics.
2006-2007: I was a member of the now-defunct
Special Projects Committee
2010-2012 and 2013-2015: I served on the
Board of Trustees
for the Wikimedia Foundation twice: as an elected member and a chapter-selected member
Researcher, educator and GLAM
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I'm interested in and participate in
Wikipedia and wiki research
. I presented a short paper at
Wikimania 2005
; completed a literature review of ongoing research that was presented at ASIST'06; and helped with a hugely successful
research BoF
at Wikimania '06. I was involved with WikiSym (now OpenSym), running the conference in 2010.
I am very interested in library and librarian participation in Wikipedia, and have done many things (including developing workshops, writing white papers, giving trainings and talks, and participating in invited meetings) around this topic.
I've been involved in the
WikiCite
community 2017-2019, including assisting with conference planning and steering committee work to a small degree in 2018-19; I've also modeled various types of works in Wikidata as WikiCite hackathon projects.
Finally, I give general presentations about wikis and Wikipedia to various groups, particularly to librarians but also Wikipedian gatherings. Most commonly, I talk about about librarian and library participation in Wikipedia; an overview of how the projects work; and thoughts on Wikipedia's future and strategy. Most recent keynotes: WikiCite 2018; Wikiday 2019 in NYC. I am happy to share slides, notes, and thoughts on what works for public audiences & what doesn't.
I've helped out with other various outreach activities, including
Wikipedia Library
activities, etc.
Conferences and events
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I've been to all of the Wikimanias but one, as of 2019. I also worked on many of them:
I presented at Wikimanias 2005-2011
I was the program co-coordinator for
Wikimania 2006
(Cambridge, USA)
And helped with scholarships for
Wikimania 2007
, and program for
Wikimania 2009
I was program lead again for
Wikimania 2017
(Montreal)
I'm also (2019) vice-chair of the
Wikimania
committee, which picks the location and gives guidance to the conference; I've been involved with this group in various capacities for many years, including being on the bid selection committee for
Wikimania 2007
and
Wikimania 2008
, and moderating (chairing) the bid jury for
Wikimania 2009
and
Wikimania 2010
Other events:
I was a volunteer with both WikiSym (2007 & 2008) and Recent Changes Camp (2008); and was chair of WikiSym 2010 (co-located with Wikimania 2010)
I helped run
WikiConference North America
in 2016
I have had the privilege of going to Wikimedia events and meetups all over the world.
Author
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With Charles Matthews and Ben Yates, I am the author of the book
How Wikipedia Works,
published by No Starch Press in September 2008. Find out more at
How Wikipedia Works
Ten years later, the book is both out of date, and still disturbingly accurate. It is, of course, released under a free license.
Eastern Phoebe
Some things I care about:
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Community governance
Meetups
free content
good references
A few pages of interest
brainstorming on Foundation strategic goals
List Syndication Service
General page on Wikimania
Events kit
Things that are always welcome: coffee, good ideas, enthusiasm
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