Thanks for the kind words all :). In the coming weeks, I'll be setting up some way in which to regularly document my progress - either an on-wiki project page, a Berkeley hosted blog, mailing list updates, or some combination or the three. And Alex, I quite look forward to reading your report (I sent that message to the wrong list initially, heh.)

I'll be working with classes directly more often than with our libraries and museums, but I will be working with both. 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 I hope that my work at Berkeley encourages more people to take the edu program (very, very carefully) in that direction more than they have previously.

Best,

Kevin Gorman

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Alex Stinson <stinsoad@k-state.edu> wrote:

Kevin,

Congrats! Thats awesome, it will be great to have another person working with Universities in a comprehensive way. I am in the midst of finishing up my report with the Blake Archive for last fall, and can forward the recommendations on to you. I believe DH projects and campus museums have a lot of potential as jumping off points for gathering content-specific projects, and we definitely need more conversations in Humanities and Social Science programs like Berkeley's American Culture Program.

Best of luck,

Alex Stinson

On Jan 13, 2014 6:57 PM, "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

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