On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:01 PM, James Hare <jamesmhare@gmail.com> wrote:
Crucial question: will they pay?

Stay tuned.  NARA is working on a call for applicants and expect it to be out soon.

The Smithsonian Archives of American Art has also mentioned such possibility for a intern (a.k.a. Wikipedian in Residence) and I'll follow up w/ them ASAP.

Meanwhile, please join and help out witth the relevant wikiprojects:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/SI/Archives_of_American_Art_task_force

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:FedFlix (which is a subset / related to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:National_Archives_and_Records_Administration <-- still a stub)

-Katie
 

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 Rosenthal<swatjester@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/Versailles
>
> and here:
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/02/17/wikipedia-enters-the-sun-kings-court/
>
> :)
>
> Delphine
>
> Jeee, you did well to provide him with links. Sorry I forgot you Dan.
>
> Ant
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