I published a note about Kevin in FayerWayer, a well-known Spanish
technology site:
Regards.
2014-03-19 7:08 GMT-06:00 Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
:
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.
But that doesn't change the impact that the position will have.
Congratulations!
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On 19 March 2014 12:57, Russavia <russavia.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Pine,
This isn't the first paid Wikipedian-in-Residence position you know :)
Russavia
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:00 PM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:
> This was covered by the Associated Press and a number of other news
> organizations. According to these stories UC Berkeley is the first US
> university to hire a WIR. I've seen WIR positions advertised at other
US
universities but this is the first paid position. Congrats to Kevin.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wikipedian-i…
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/03/copyright/kevin-gorman-berkeleys-wikip…
http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25364220/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wi…
I hope we'll see more universities taking this path. (:
Pine
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