Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Interns and volunteers
| Home | About | Contribute | Connect | Bookshelf | List of GLAM Projects | Beginner's Guide | Newsletter |
 This page is used to list internship and volunteer opportunities from cultural institutions seeking experienced Wikipedians. Use the navigation tabs above to learn more about the GLAM-Wiki project. View expired listings in the /Archive.
Two volunteer interns are needed in the Office of Innovation, located in College Park, MD to work approximately 8-12 hours per week. The options offered below are for either technically or community-oriented internships. Virtual interns are welcome to work from any location. Interns are encouraged to work with their educational institutions to obtain course credit for this unpaid internship. Wikipedia Technical Intern[edit]
Tasks the selected candidate will be expected to perform may include, but may not be limited to, the following.
Experience editing Wikipedia is required. Editors must be in good standing within the community. You will update your Wikipedia user page to declare your affiliation with the National Archives and Records Administration, and refrain from promotional edits or violations of Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. Interns are still accountable to the Wikipedia community for their edits.
Only email applications will be considered. Please email documents to the attention of Dannielle Blumenthal at dannielle.blumenthal@nara.gov. Wikipedia Community Intern[edit]
Tasks the selected candidate will be expected to perform may include, but may not be limited to, the following.
Experience editing Wikipedia is required. Editors must be in good standing within the community. You must conform toWikipedia's policies and practices, writing with aneutral tone and bearing in mindnotability and verifiability guidelines. You will update your Wikipedia user page to declare your affiliation with the National Archives and Records Administration, and refrain from promotional edits or violations of Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. Interns are still accountable to the Wikipedia community for their edits.
Only email applications will be considered. Please email documents to the attention of Dannielle Blumenthal at dannielle.blumenthal@nara.gov.
Smithsonian Wikipedian Volunteer Program[edit]The Smithsonian seeks both digital and on-site volunteers to assist in contributing content to Wikipedia related to our collections and areas of expertise. Improving the quality and quantity of reliable information on Wikipedia, as well as usage of Smithsonian resources on the site, helps meet our mission, the "increase and diffusion of knowledge." The Smithsonian Wikipedia Volunteer Program seeks experienced and motivated individuals with Wikipedia editing experience or a willingness to acquire editing skills. Online volunteers participate through the Smithsonian Institution's WikiProject, where organizational priorities will be listed and resources provided for editors. In addition, on-site volunteers work closely with Smithsonian staff on a particular Wikipedia-related task under the auspices of Smithsonian's Behind the Scenes volunteer program. To find out more about how to become a Wikipedia volunteer for the Smithsonian, e-mail: wiki@si.edu.
Wikipedia Affiliate[edit]Position announcement: Wikipedia Affiliate, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media In conjunction with The Wikipedia Library project, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University is seeking applicants for a “Wikipedia Affiliate.” This is an unpaid, year-long, remote research position beginning March 1, 2014 and ending February 28, 2015 that entitles the affiliate to full library privileges at George Mason University, including proxied access to all online materials to which the GMU Libraries subscribe: more than 400 databases, thousands of scholarly journals and mainstream periodicals, and hundreds of ebooks. The position is designed to give research library access to a Wikipedia editor who does not currently have such access or who has only limited access to scholarly resources: the purpose of the position is to help improve Wikipedia’s reliability and accuracy by providing Wikipedia editors with access to the best scholarly information resources while providing a model for other universities to do likewise.
The affiliate will be an experienced Wikipedia editor with at least one year of regular activity contributing to Wikipedia on historical topics in any field, region, or period. The affiliate will also be a thorough researcher who is committed to improving Wikipedia articles by consulting and citing reliable, scholarly sources and who is a lucid writer of text for Wikipedia encyclopedia articles on historical topics. An undergraduate or graduate degree in History, Art History, or a related discipline is desirable but not required.
During the affiliate year, the affiliate will conduct scholarly research using the library resources of George Mason University with the aim of significantly improving the accuracy and reliability at least 25 Wikipedia articles on historical topics, preferably articles within a particular historical scope (for example: modern Russian and Soviet history, U.S. Civil War history, the history of late imperial China). Near the end of the affiliate year, the affiliate will write a brief report listing the Wikipedia articles he or she has contributed to and improved over the course of the year, describing how his or her access to GMU library resources has helped increase the reliability of Wikipedia on this topic and analyzing whether the affiliate program could serve as a model for other universities. The affiliate will also be asked to give a brief talk on the same subject to RRCHNM, either in person or via a remote technology such as Skype.
To apply, please send the following documents to Dr. Amanda French at afrench5@gmu.edu by January 20, 2014:
All applicants will be notified of the outcome of the search by the end of February 2014. The affiliate year will begin March 1, 2014. |