Still not sure. They weren't going to before, but now we might have leverage to get it as a paid position. It's harder for a partially public funded organization to budget for a hire like this than it is for the archives, for instance.
-Dan
On Mar 14, 2011, at 9:01 PM, James Hare wrote:
Crucial question: will they pay?
2011/3/14 Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com:
Hi all, Thought this might be relevant. We've had discussions about something like this with the Smithsonian, now we have a real roadmap.
-Dan Begin forwarded message:
From: Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org Date: March 14, 2011 6:59:41 PM EDT To: wmfcc-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wmfcc-l] US National Archives to hire "Wikipedian in Residence" for the summer Reply-To: Communications Committee wmfcc-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On 3/14/11 11:48 PM, Delphine Ménard wrote:
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Dan Rosenthalswatjester@gmail.com wrote:
Florence, could you provide me with any more information about that program? We would love it for our discussions with the archives.
You might want to start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-02-21/Versail...
and here:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/02/17/wikipedia-enters-the-sun-kings-cou...
:)
Delphine
Jeee, you did well to provide him with links. Sorry I forgot you Dan.
Ant
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