User:Utl jung

Hello! I go by Alex Jung in the Anglophone world.

Wikimedian-in-Residence
I am Wikimedian-in-Residence (WiR) for the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL). See our Wikiproject page.

I was formally Wikipedian-in-Residence between Oct 2018-Sep 2019. As of Dec 2019, I carry the title Open Knowledge Specialist with Wikimedian duties (with focus on Wikipedia and Wikidata) as explicit part of my responsibilities.

Conflict of interest statement
As a member of the Wikipedia community participating with an accepted professional affiliation, I observe Wikipedia's policies and guidelines on conflicts of interest, verifiability, neutrality, and notability. The Wikipedian-in-Residence position was initially created at UTL under the institution's mission to "foster the search for knowledge and understanding in the University and the wider community".

All work executed in this role openly and publicly benefits users of Wikimedia projects, above all by growing informed editorship (with focus on underrepresented topics) and by making the University of Toronto's collections readily available to the Wikimedia community.

Areas of work
I am currently focusing on building local community infrastructure (#Community infrastructure).

Article contributions
For past contributions, please see this UTL Wikiproject subpage.

Where existing narratives are accurate to date, my textual edits enrich references. Where chunks of notable information are missing, I may expand coverage through new sections/pages. I may rearrange media or links to facilitate the Wikipedia community's research needs while staying sensitive to the overall focus of the page.

I aim to write clearly and avoid jargon. If you see me writing things that don't seem accessible to the average reader, please let me know.

Community infrastructure
I make it easy for more people to contribute to Wikipedia. To do this, I:


 * Train new editors and new trainers/facilitators
 * Develop and share material to aid learning. See examples in WP:UTL/Editing and WP:UTL/Resources.
 * Facilitate informed contributions to Wikipedia/Wikidata, attentive to policies, guidelines, and manual of style
 * Support and template Wikimedia projects-based coursework


 * Build local, decentralised, and empowering communities. Among others, I organise Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Black History Edit-A-Thon (2020-present) and Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group.

Smol bio
I am a tooler, facilitator, and organiser. I spent some years co-organising Toronto's civic technology community and credit this community with many of my most cherished learnings.

By academic background, I concluded my Masters studies in Political Science at the University of Toronto, having pursued research on open and participatory governance, the politics of time, war and militarism, and historiography of Korean state formation between 1953 and 1973. Previously, I studied Fundamentals: Issues & Texts and International Studies at the University of Chicago. My interdisciplinary undergraduate research drew from epistemology, pragmatism, ethics, anthropology, and critical media and gender studies.

Other Accounts
I use User:DotoriJY for edits unrelated to work in this position, and for edits made as a participant at edit-a-thons.

Contact
Please use my talk page, or direct inquiries to this email