National Archives Hires 'Wikipedian In Residence' <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110608/23554914632/national-archives-hires-wikipedian-residence.shtml> (/Surprises/)
---- by *Mike Masnick* from the /but-wikipedia-sucks,-right?/ dept on Friday, June 10th, 2011 @ 6:34PM
Didn't see this coming. Via Glyn Moody <https://twitter.com/#%21/glynmoody/statuses/78446005942616065>, we learn that the National Archives has hired its first "Wikipedian in Residence" <http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/19467868/> -- though it appears to only be a summer internship position.
/The Archives says [Dominic] McDevitt-Parks has more than seven
years of Wikipedia editing experience. His job will be to foster
collaboration between the Wikipedia community and the National
Archives. That could include using some of Wikipedia's tools for
ongoing digitization projects at the archives. /
It would be interesting to hear the Wikipedia-haters' take on this. It seems to me that this is yet another sign of Wikipedia's place in our current culture. ----