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Is anyone working on another Wikipedia Academy, following on the success of the NIH one in July?

Recalling from the Signpost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-07-27/Wikiped...

--- Wedemeyer commented how important it was that the organizers maintain connections with the participants afterwards, to encourage the NIH to make a real commitment to Wikipedia. The organizers also look forward to more such endeavors. Broughton suggested that the "Foundation should try to do lots and lots of these. We could justifiably have an Academy at every major university and college in the world." However, as Wedemeyer emphasized in an interview for this story, it will, more than likely, be the volunteer organizers who make this happen rather than the Foundation. As he wrote, "based on the experience of this Academy, they don't seem ready to run such workshops themselves at present." ---

Have the connections with participants afterwards been maintained? And, I'm curious to know why Wedemeyer felt that the Foundation doesn't "seem ready" to run such workshops.  What is that all about?

Gregory Kohs