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 as 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."^[1]

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.

Per role expectations, I generally steer clear of COI editing. Any sensitive edits relating to my institution are logged in this subpage.

Areas of work

Article contributions

For past contributions, please see this UTL Wikiproject subpage.

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 have organised Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Black History Edit-A-Thon (2020-2025) 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.

My academic background is a mix of political science, history/historiography, philosophy, and international studies. I have pursued research on open and participatory governance, the politics of time, war and militarism, Korean state formation, epistemology, and critical media and gender studies. My alma mater include the University of Toronto and the University of Chicago.

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.