Richard Symonds wrote:
No, but it's the first paid one at a US educational institution I believe... and possibly the first paid one worldwide at a traditional university.
Neither of these is true: Wikimedia Foundation hired a paid Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a research center within the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, back in 2012.
I described that hire in a blog post last month: http://twkozlowski.net/the-pot-and-the-kettle-the-wikimedia-way/.
Tomasz