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Thanks for this interesting - and very well written - article. The most successful Wikipedians in Residence I've seen are those who put a strong emphasis on #1, but all the others you raise are clearly important. Nick-D (talk) 10:58, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am not aware of any advice better than this for explaining what makes Wikipedian in Residence experiences go right. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:05, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for this article. Pritzker [1] has had Wikipedian in residence for almost a year now. We've just expanded the program to bring 4 in for the summer 2014. Really liked "chat it up", because one of our biggest issues has been letting Wikipedians know that they can use our content for articles. Also, many of our Wikipedian in residence are new to Wikipedia. So building those social connections are very important.TeriEmbrey (talk) 15:27, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
These days I think GLAM COI matters go further than just the Wikipedian themselves making prominent disclosures, they should also act to educate their organization on COI matters as well, the same as they do with copyright. Gigs (talk) 18:44, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you all for the comments. If you enjoyed this article I hope you will look at the more complete version on my blog! @Gigs:, I very much appreciate your point. I was trying to get at this in point #5, but perhaps I didn't state it very explicitly. You might be interested in a couple other recent blog posts I have written that get into this point in more depth. See [2] and [3] -Pete (talk) 19:06, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Wonderful! At Wikimedia UK we have been looking at how to make the program better, analysing some of the residences that were delivered so far. We are now working on a report that will aim to flag up recommendations for making the program even more effective. One of the things that came up so far is that often when the resident starts it can be unclear to him what the components of the role are. So having a list like this can be helpful to break things down and get understanding of the scope of the job earlier. Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 12:11, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Daria Cybulska (WMUK):, I am so pleased to know this is helpful in those kind of efforts! Please keep me informed if you put it to use. At the same time, this really shouldn't be regarded as an authoritative resource -- it really is, more or less, "five things off the top of my (pretty well informed) head"! Before being incorporated into a formal program, it would be important to have some other experts review it, and put some thought into what five things (or ten, or whatever) are most important to list. This was more intended as a conversation-starter, than as an authoritative list. -Pete (talk) 03:58, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]