User: Kerry Raymond

Latest revision as of 23:54, 4 December 2023

Vice-President of the 2013 Committee of Wikimedia Australia

Can be contacted on kerry.raymond@wikimedia.org.au

Often sighted in Brisbane and on email, but rarely sighted on IRC.

In 2023 Wikimedia Australia celebrated Kerry Raymond as a part of International Volunteers Day on the 5th of December: International Volunteer Day: celebrating the contributions of Kerry Raymond.

This acknowledgement recognised:

Her unwavering commitment, passion, and dedication to Wikipedia, and particularly content about Queensland, has played a pivotal role in fostering the growth and success of our community and organisation. Her contributions, whether through content creation, her technical expertise, outreach, or leadership initiatives, have left an indelible mark on Wikipedia and have significantly enriched the collective knowledge of users worldwide.

Over the years Kerry has also partnered with the Australian National University, National Library of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, State Library of Queensland, University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology to help them achieve remarkable outcomes.

Kerry has added an astounding amount of content about Queensland places, with a focus on history and geography, and has made over 250,000 edits and created 1000s of new pages to Wikipedia; she has also added over 100,000 images to Wikimedia Commons and helped geolocate many more. Kerry is not done writing about Queensland yet!

She contributes and stays on Wikipedia because she believes in its vision statement, a quote from its creator Jimmy Wales, that: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing".

Thank you Kerry for all your work. Wikimedia Australia and Wikipedia wouldn’t be what they are without you.

If you want to know more about how you might want to contribute contact us and we can organise a free group or one-on-one session to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia or give a general talk about Wikipedia.

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+Vice-President of the [[Committee|2013 Committee of Wikimedia Australia]]
-http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Retreat_March_2009/SWOT
+Can be contacted on kerry.raymond@wikimedia.org.au
-http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summary
+Often sighted in Brisbane and on email, but rarely sighted on IRC.
-=Strategic Plan=
+In 2023 Wikimedia Australia celebrated [[User:Kerry Raymond|Kerry Raymond]] as a part of International Volunteers Day on the 5th of December: [[International Volunteer Day|International Volunteer Day: celebrating the contributions of Kerry Raymond]].
-The five movement priorities hold specific opportunities and challenges for chapters:
+This acknowledgement recognised:
-==Stabilize infrastructure==
+''Her unwavering commitment, passion, and dedication to Wikipedia, and particularly content about Queensland, has played a pivotal role in fostering the growth and success of our community and organisation. Her contributions, whether through content creation, her technical expertise, outreach, or leadership initiatives, have left an indelible mark on Wikipedia and have significantly enriched the collective knowledge of users worldwide.''
-Chapters provide important capacity for the movement’s work, however most are still young. The chapters will need to improve their capacity
+''Over the years Kerry has also partnered with the Australian National University, National Library of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, State Library of Queensland, University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology to help them achieve remarkable outcomes.''
-to serve their communities at a greater scale of impact.
-* Community-building activities to help reinforce social bonds.
+''Kerry has added an astounding amount of content about Queensland places, with a focus on history and geography, and has made over 250,000 edits and created 1000s of new pages to Wikipedia; she has also added over 100,000 images to Wikimedia Commons and helped geolocate many more. Kerry is not done writing about Queensland yet!''
-==Increase participation==
+''She contributes and stays on Wikipedia because she believes in its vision statement, a quote from its creator Jimmy Wales, that: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing".''
-Chapters will continue to play an active role in
+''Thank you Kerry for all your work. Wikimedia Australia and Wikipedia wouldn’t be what they are without you.''
-organizing and funding in-person community gatherings and in conducting outreach
-programs to bring new, diverse groups to Wikimedia’s projects.
-* Communications to improve the understanding of Wikimedia and engage with
+''If you want to know more about how you might want to contribute contact us and we can organise a free group or one-on-one session to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia or give a general talk about Wikipedia.''
-and respond to media and other stakeholder inquiries.
-* Outreach activities to expand and add diversity to the community of volunteers
-contributing to Wikimedia projects.
-* Community-building activities to help reinforce social bonds.
-==Improve quality==
-Chapters will continue to support the work of editors and pursue
-opportunities to free knowledge in their geographies for use in the projects. They also
-have an important role in creating content partnerships with cultural institutions in
-their geographic area.
-* Communications to improve the understanding of Wikimedia and engage with
-and respond to media and other stakeholder inquiries.
-* Advocacy on behalf of free knowledge.
-* Knowledge-creation projects to add valuable resources to Wikimedia projects.
-* Partnerships development with cultural and knowledge institutions to help make knowledge free, and to help institutions contribute to Wikimedia.
-==Increase reach==
-Chapters provide the local expertise, infrastructure and passion
-that can help to spur project growth. As the movement focuses more energy on
-the Global South, it will be valuable to build chapters in Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa,
-the Middle East & North Africa, and Latin America.
-* Community-building activities to help reinforce social bonds.
-* Knowledge-creation projects to add valuable resources to Wikimedia projects.
-* Partnerships development with cultural and knowledge institutions to help make knowledge free, and to help institutions contribute to Wikimedia.
-==Encourage innovation==
-Chapters should encourage innovation among the
-communities they serve and experiment with new approaches to their work.
-* Fundraising to support the Wikimedia Foundation’s global activities and to fund the activities of the chapter and the local community.