Wikimedia UK members,
As was mentioned at the AGM and as you may have noticed in the Wikipedia
geonotices we are currently recruiting for a Wikipedia Ambassadors UK
Programme. Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors are members of university
communities, whether student, faculty or community member, who are
passionate about Wikipedia, it's mission of free knowledge and a desire to
help make it better understood in the academic community and on university
campuses. Wikipedia Ambassador may fulfill many outreach roles on campus
from facilitating teaching assignments to running outreach events and
developing student organisations. For more information on the teaching
assignments and the ambassador role, see the attached PDFs or visit the
Wikipedia Ambassador homepage at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ambassadors.
We are currently collecting applications for an upcoming Campus
Ambassador training in June. The training prepares Campus Ambassadors in
communicating Wikipedia and its community to academics and students as well
as refining skills in outreach at universities. If you are interested in
participating the* application is attached. Please fill it out and return
it **with a resume** **in an e-mail titled Ambassador Application **to
stinsoad(a)dukes.jmu.edu by 15 May 2011*. We will screen application as soon
as possible, and may request a brief interview via Skype before accepting.
If you have any questions feel free to ask at *stinsoad(a)dukes.jmu.edu.*
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*The Wikipedia Ambassadors UK team*
I've put a brief summary of last week's board meeting up on the WMUK blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/
We're going to be devoting quite a lot of time in the next few months to
planning our long-term strategy. You're invited to an IRC discussion on this
subject on Tuesday evening, to continue the conversation which began at the
WikiConference on Saturday. More details here:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_IRC_meetings
Finally, just a brief plug for our @wikimediauk account - we do use it quite
a bit so if youre on Twitter please do follow us :-)
Chris
There is a short feature by Harriet Vickers, who was there on 13 April,
now available from http://poddelusion.co.uk/blog/ as episode 81 (i.e. a
week ago, not their Royal wedding special). Sadly for the rest of you,
it's an interview with me, rather than related directly to the talks. 34
minutes or so in, as it says.
Charles