Projekte/Wikipedian in Residence VfGH/Josef Pauser: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

:It was very impressive to experience that Thomas Planinger, our Wikipedian in Residence, turned out to be someone who "burns" for Wikipedia in the true sense of the word. In our project I even had to slow him down sometimes to make sure we stuck with achievable goals for our initially brief project period.

:Oddly enough, the project itself sort of emerged from nowhere and without knowing it, it was actually Thomas Planinger himself who initiated it. While I was already familiar with the idea of a "Wikipedian in Residence" from the library and archive sector, at first, translating that idea to a high court was not on my radar at all. As a student of commercial law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, our colleague, Mr. Planinger, had been on a tour of our building in 2014, and being a Wikipedian he immediately investigated whether our Justices had a Wikipedia entry. Since this was not the case for all of them, he made it his business to close that gap, which he announced via Twitter and hashtag #vfgh once the task was completed.  

:At the time, I happened to read that Tweet and take favourable notice. At the beginning of this year, I had a question related to Wikipedia, I remembered that tweet and was able to send the author an e-mail via Wikipedia. During a personal meeting, the idea of having a Wikipedian in Residence at the Federal Constitutional Court developed quite spontaneously and almost instinctively, and was immediately supported by the Administrative Director of the VfGH. And now, close to the end of the second project month, we can already say that this was a great project, that absolutely ... but go ahead and read the next question for this.

'''Many readers of Wikipedia are unaware that there is a community of authors, photographers and coders or Wikimedia associations behind this website who support them in their work. How would you describe the community and the cooperation with this community to these people in a nutshell?'''

:Actually, I had no more than rudimentary knowledge of this myself; now of course, my perception has become a little clearer. The cooperation can only be described as very friendly and appreciative on a personal level and extremely professional on a factual level.