Very nice, congratulations! Laast year there was an WiR at The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, read about it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SLU/Wikipedian-in-Residence
*Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida> 0729 - 67 29 48 2014/1/14 Kevin Gorman <[email protected]> > Hi all - > > I have talked about this in bits and places elsewhere, but as I finally > have a finalized signed contract in hand, I figured I'd make an actual > announcement about it. Officially effective today, I am the > Wikipedian-in-Residence for the American Culture Program at the University > of California, Berkeley. American Cultures at Berkeley is a program > centered on the study of race, ethnicity, and culture in the United States > - a lot of what I will be doing will be centered around very closely > supervising USEP classes in under-represented areas, but I'll also working > on other related issues, such as trying to arrange media donations, trying > to document best practices, etc - as well as tackling other projects that > have yet to be thought of! > > Wikipedians-in-Residence have previously focused almost entirely on GLAM > institutions, and as far as I know, I'm the first WiR at a University. I'm > hoping that this will end up being a productive collaboration that sets up > the groundwork for future WiR positions at other Universities. I know UCB > will be trying to set up some press later in the month, and I intend to > meticulously document my residency, make my materials available for reuse, > etc. > > Since my duties aren't set in stone yet, I'd also strongly welcome > suggestions for additional projects to take on - since I'm based out of the > AC center, most work I do should be focused on areas that are currently > under-represented on Wikipedia, but that can cover an awful lot of ground. > > Best, > Kevin Gorman > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > >
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