The National Archives Hires its First ‘Wikipedian in Residence’

The National Archives has hired a graduate student to be the first “Wikipedian in Residence” at the National Archives.

Dominic McDevitt-Parks, a graduate student in history and archives management at Simmons College in Boston, will be interning at the National Archives this summer. He will be working at the facility in College Park, MD, where he will work to foster collaboration between the Wikipedia community and the National Archives.

McDevitt-Parks is one of several “Wikipedian in Residence” at various  institutions.

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