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
Hi Kevin,
Congratulations! Whatever your responsibilities, I hope you will continue your study and measurement of and experiments with approaches to counter systemic biases including gender bias and well-funded politically motivated theories which do not comport with the peer reviewed secondary literature. The English Wikipedia reflects such biases in great abundance, and they represent the greatest quality challenge as editing activity continues the slow transition from article creation to updating and maintenance.
Would you please reach out to Leonie Haimson of http://www.classsizematters.org/about-us/ ? She started editing the class size and student-teacher ratio articles on enwiki in the past year. They had previously been stuffed with astroturfed Stanford work from the charter school movement which was not well supported in the peer reviewed secondary literature, and which gave MOOC proponents false hope that technology advances could raise the optimum class size ratio, which is determined by education level relative to the rest of global society.
Please let me know your thoughts, and please enjoy your work!
Best regards, James Salsman
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Kevin Gorman kgorman@gmail.com wrote:
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 Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
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 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
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
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.sewrote:
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 Sverigehttp://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida
0729 - 67 29 48
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
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
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.sewrote:
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 Sverigehttp://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida
0729 - 67 29 48
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
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
2014/1/14 Kevin Gorman kgorman@gmail.com
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 ;)
There is a draft for a blog post on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Evaluation_of_working_.... You can also contact him directly for questions: arild.vagen _at_ wikimedia.se