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New Meta:WikiProject Organized Labour

I have created Meta:WikiProject Organized Labour as a light weight WikiProject on Wikimedia to collaborate and identify some of our multi-lingual and interwiki tasks, for example updates to Wikidata properties (e.g d:Wikidata:Property proposal/workers represented by, requests for images (not black/white photos of construction workers in 1930s) etc and maintenance of list of vital articles Meta:Wiki99/Organized_Labour that should exist across all language editions of Wikipedia.

Applying for grants

Relatedly, I am considering applying for a Rapid Grant (the lowest level; up to $5,000) and would love feedback/input of others involved here. What would be useful/achievable deliverables? Would anyone else be interested in collaborating in-person and or online for such events?

In the short term (6-12 months) I imagine using the money to travel/speak at several labor academic/trade union conferences about the pros of improving labor coverage on Wikipedia. Example conferences I am looking at: Labour Geography -- Groz, Austria, Tech Workers conference San Francisco, Streik Konferenze, Berlin May 2025.

At the conference/in-person workshops I can imagine achieving some low-hanging fruits like asking audience members to donate and label images of recent strike actions/photos of prominent labor leaders. Collecting info/interest from conferences for future online event/outreach/GLAM partnerships would be the longer term goal.

Longer term, I intend to contact my alumni university program, Global Labour University to conduct regular workshops with its students (WikiEducation style) and also grant coursework credit for translation/editing of relevant articles. Volkswagen and unions was a personal example of mine, converting a course essay into a Wikipedia article.

@Bluerasberry started this discussion 2 years ago, and I think timing is right for it. With an eye towards what @Goldsztajn warned about, not to rely on contributions that exclusively arrive when the funding arrives, we need to begin legwork of building reliable GLAM affiliates, an online network of potential collaborators, and clear list of low-hanging fruits/tasks across multiple projects. Nothing is set in stone, but I'd like to get the ball rolling and would love both input, and also interest from anyone who'd like to participate in this.

Registering a Wikimedia user groups

In the immediate, having 3-active volunteers would mean we could become a formal meta:Wikimedia user groups which would mean we could receive Wikimedia merchandise for events, get support/recognition from Affiliates, an annual scholarship to Affiliates only Meta:Wikimedia Summit in Berlin etc.. any volunteers/interest? I generally see us remaining a small group for the foreseeable future and want to avoid creating unnecessary overhead, but this seems like a light-weight enough process.

Solidarity ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 00:00, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

@Namiba @Goldsztajn @Czar @Warofdreams @LaborHistoryFan @JJonahJackalope @Mathieulalie forgive me if I excluded any other recently active editors. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 14:36, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
I share Goldsztajn's concern from the 2021 discussion. In my experience, in-person events (edit-a-thons, panels) rarely have direct impact, since they're mainly a form of education or marketing. If there was a genuine initiative that needed that marketing, it could be worthwhile, but otherwise would the main use be to bring in new, regular editors? I'm not sure that's an achievable goal for the Rapid Grant.
For similar reasons, I personally haven't participated much in the WMF org, preferring to contribute to the encyclopedia directly instead. But if you need a signature to get some WMF merch for events or want to liaise at the Berlin summit (if it ever runs again), I'm happy to sign to get you that support, though I'm not sure what commitment the user group entails beyond that. czar 22:38, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
Indeed it is unclear what the future of Wikipedia User Groups will be (applications were frozen till September) so I don't have a strong opinion of what will happen. Yes I'd appreciate your signature for that union WMF swag!
Beyond encouraging people to edit labor topics... expanding institutional partners to donate their archival materials, support editing (maybe even sponsor Wikimedia Residence?). I initiated conversations with my Alma mater Global Labour University which uniquely hosts students from all around the world, particularly the global south. It's very preliminary, but I would be excited if they opted for college credit for submissions on the different language editions of Wikipedia. WikiEducation has a lot of infrastructure for this already. In terms of conferences, getting people to become meaningful wikipedia contributors takes time, but I think a low-hanging fruit could be to get people to donate photos from prominent events whether strikes or conferences with prominent labor leaders. We have a dearth of those. Whether there are existing articles that can benefit from them or not, depends on specifics of course. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 23:07, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario#Requested move 19 September 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario#Requested move 19 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 03:44, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

A number of labor disputes by country categories are up for deletion

Please feel free to comment Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 September 29. Personally, I think it speaks to the paucity of articles about strikes outside of Europe, Australia, and North America more than anything.--User:Namiba 20:33, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Flag of convenience

Flag of convenience has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:55, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello again :)

Been awhile! Life just got busy. I plan to hopefully get back to editing more regularly now if time allows. I'm going to currently be mostly focusing on some tenant and worker history around the 1920s. I've been stuck in the weeds -in a good way- researching the Draft:1920-1921 Chicago rent strikes) and its been branching off as I find more and more.

Anyone is allowed to help with that btw, they need a ton of work. For the branches they're basically just a base of sources at the moment:

I'm excited to be back and ill try to help with the meta organized labor wikiproject where I can. Cheers! - LoomCreek (talk) 03:23, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject Housing and Tenant Rights is live!

Hi everyone! I've finally formally set up the WikiProject for Housing and Tenant Rights :) If you are interested please feel free to add your name to the page, we already have a couple who have joined. The main focus will be covering tenant strikes, tenants unions, tenants rights, and more. Documenting the history of land ownership and tenant advocacy. Thanks! - LoomCreek (talk) 17:31, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

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