I published a note about Kevin in FayerWayer, a well-known Spanish technology site:
http://www.fayerwayer.com/2014/03/berkeley-y-harvard-contaran-con-wikipedist...
Regards.
2014-03-19 7:08 GMT-06:00 Richard Symonds richard.symonds@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@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@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-in...
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/03/copyright/kevin-gorman-berkeleys-wikipe...
http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25364220/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wik...
I hope we'll see more universities taking this path. (:
Pine
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