Wikipedians in Special Residence (WisR's, Netherlands, November 2013 - March 2015) was a project in which two hired Wikipedians linked the data and expertise of twelve specialised Dutch libraries with Wikimedia sites. Project initiators and leads were Jos Damen (African Studies Centre Leiden, Leiden) and Ingeborg Verheul (Atria, Amsterdam) for WSWB, the Werkgroep Speciale Wetenschappelijke Bibliotheken (Dutch Academic Library Working Group), a collaboration of Dutch libraries, which coordinated this project. The difference with a regular Wikipedian in Residence project was that in the present project twelve libraries have had their own Wikipedian for two months each.[1] (Note: As of 2024, follow-up Wikipedia Workshops on a bimonthly basis are still going strong at Atria and IHLIA in Amsterdam, organised by themselves.) |