Great job Dominic, I'll use it as a template and as an example for further
Wikipedians in Residence on my area. I do also agree with the one account
principle. I've always only used @kippelboy despite i've collaborated with
several institutions, so people can track my whole history.
Best luck! Looking forward to help in some of your NARA projects (specially
on translations or similar)
2013/10/31 Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl>
"Paid editor". What an excellent example of
why being a paid editor
doesn't necessarily make one the personification of all things evil, as
some argue :>
Keep up the good job, Dominic.
--
Piotr Konieczny,
PhDhttp://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/cita…
On 10/31/2013 6:35 AM, Dominic McDevitt-Parks wrote:
Hi all,
As you may have heard <http://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/?p=5179>, I am
now a full-time, permanent staff member at the US National Archives
employed to work on Wikipedia initiatives. This makes me, even more clearly
so than previous Wikipedians in Residence which are often temporary workers
or interns, a paid editor.
I have rewritten my user
page<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dominic>on
Wikimedia projects where I am active to reflect my job (and position
with my chapter). I am publishing my entire job description on Wikipedia. I
have also written a somewhat lengthy
FAQ<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dominic/FAQ>about my personal history,
motivations, and what I will and will not be
doing as a paid editor. This statement has been approved by NARA, so it
represents their intentions as an agency as well as my personal thoughts. I
would encourage you to read it.
I realize that this is going well beyond the conflict of interest
statement we usually suggest of cultural professionals editing Wikipedia.
I'm essentially doing this for two reasons. First, out of an abundance of
caution, I would like to demonstrate a high level of transparency and
thoughtfulness, since I am a very public example of being a paid editor.
Second, I am hoping that the way I have expressed the rationale for my
participation on Wikimedia projects can be an exemplar, both for
prospective GLAM partners interested in best practices, and for the
Wikipedia community, which is probably sorely in need of positive examples
of non-advocacy paid editing right now.
To that end, I'd be interested to hear everyone's thoughts on this
approach generally or specifically on the statements I've published. I am
still willing any necessary changes if you have a good suggestion.
Dominic
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