Thanks for the kind words, all.

I'm really hoping that this ends up going well and producing a solid, reproducible model of how the WiR idea can be extended past GLAMs themselves (since I'll primarily be working with nonarchive/library resources, although I'll be dealing wth those as well,) and applied to higher education to a greater extent than it previously has been, especially to reduce the systemic biases our projects face. I've always felt that the US Education Program has been one of the more promising ways we have to reduce some fraction of the biases that ENWP has (obviously it unfortunately can't address geographical biases as well as it can gender and field based biases,) and am hoping that this leads to some cool results. Sorry for the brief (and not entirely coherent!) email - I have a couple stress fractures in one of my feet, and am thus writing on oxycodone.

I'll make sure to keep everyone apprised of my progress, either through updates to the list, an on-wiki project page, a Berkeley-hosted blog, or some combination of the three. (And Alex, I look forward greatly to reading your report :))

Best,

Kevin Gorman

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Kevin Gorman <kgorman@gmail.com> wrote:

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 <jan.ainali@wikimedia.se> 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

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2014/1/14 Kevin Gorman <kgorman@gmail.com>

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

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