AWikipedian in Residence (WiR) is a role in which aWikipedia editor accepts a placement with an institution to facilitate Wikipedia entries related to that institution.

The firstWikipedian in Residence wasLiam Wyatt, anAustralian Wikipedia editor. His period of the residency was five weeks during which Wyatt aimed to develop the relationship between Wikipedia and theBritish Museum. Matthew Cock, who runs the museum’s web site remarked: "I looked at how manyRosetta Stone page views there were at Wikipedia - that's perhaps our iconic object - and five times as many people go to the Wikipedia article as to ours."^[1]

• meta:Wikimedian in residence – a more cross-project view of the same concept
• The Signpost – "First Wikipedian in Residence at Smithsonian Institution"
• The Signpost - "Second museum gets Wikipedian in Residence"
• Category:Wikipedians in Residence
• Artist in residence – article on the conceptual origin of the idea

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