Also known as Wikimedia Ambassador, Wikipedia Ambassador, Wikimedia Outreach Ambassador, Wikipedia Outreach Ambassador, GLAM Ambassador, WiR, WIR, Wikipedian in Residence
professional role in Wikimedia development
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The relationship between a Wikipedian in residence and the community. The diagram represents the stakeholders and what each stakeholder provides and receives in a typical Wikipedian in residence project.
A Wikipedian in residence or Wikimedian in residence (WiR) is a Wikipedia editor, a Wikipedian (or Wikimedian), who accepts a placement with an institution, typically an art gallery, library, archive, museum, cultural institution, learned society, or institute of higher education (such as a university) to facilitate Wikipedia entries related to that institution's mission, encourage and assist it to release material under open licenses, and to develop the relationship between the host institution and the Wikimedia community. A Wikipedian in residence generally helps to coordinate Wikipedia-related outreach events between the GLAM ("galleries, libraries, archives, and museums") and the general public such as edit-a-thons.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).