Hi Jan - That sounds awesome! Can you point me to a place where I can read more about it than the brief description you linked? It's fine if it's in Swedish, I speak a small amount myself but see a native speaker most days who I can force to translate it for me ;)
Best, Kevin Gorman On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Jan Ainali <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > >
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