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User:Peteforsyth

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Notice of paid work relating to Wikipedia

I advise clients professionally on how to edit Wikipedia ethically, but I do not make edits on their behalf. All paid work relating to Wikipedia is subject to my professional Statement of Ethics. Here I list major projects:

In 2020-2021 I will be leading the News On Wiki campaign, which is funded by a microgrant from the WikiCred initiative. My primary efforts will be to recruit and coordinate volunteers in creating Wikipedia articles about news publications; I will also do some of this work myself. I am doing similar work for the Wikipedia:Architects Build Wiki initiative also in 2021.

In 2012-2014, I lead Communicate OER. This project aims to build the Wikipedia community and the quality of Wikipedia content. I generally do very little editing in article space in connection with this project. When I do, it is in order to assist and train new Wikipedia contributors (not to advance an editorial objective). Currently I am teaching this online course on editing Wikipedia, as part of CommOER: Wikipedia:School of Open course

In 2011-2012 I had business relationship with the charitable organization Consumer Reports, and I made occasional Wikipedia edits in connection to this work. See WP:Consumer Reports, and the announcement on my blog, for more about this project.

Feel free to contact me, either on my talk page or privately, if you have questions, ideas, or concerns relating to my work.

Some personal connections:


 
Photo: Ellis Christopher, CC BY-SA
• email Pete
• Pete on Twitter
• (+1)-503-383-WIKI (9454) (mobile phone)
• More photos on my Commons profile
The Signpost
The Signpost
Pete is a founding member of
WikiProject Oregon and of the WikiProject Oregon blog.


Hi, I'm Pete.

I've been a Wikipedia contributor since 2006, and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Signpost since 2016. I believe that Wikipedia is changing the way we find information, the way we share information with others, the way we record history, and the way we think about collaborating for the collective good. Decidedly for the better. I help new contributors get involved with Wikipedia, mostly through my free online course Writing Wikipedia Articles -- please sign up for an upcoming session!

My early Wikipedia work focused on the U.S. state of Oregon, and I was able to help establish a strong sense of community and shared purpose among Wikipedia editors in Oregon. I'm especially proud of my work on the Columbia River article, and on the list of Oregon ballot measures. I've also tried to direct my fellow editors' attention outside the Wikipedia site; I helped to end the State of Oregon's claim of copyright over the laws of that state, and established a group blog to explain and expose our work to the broader public. More recently, I have focused on topics like open educational resources and medicine. One of the things I enjoy most about Wikipedia is the ability to move fluidly from one topic to another, and the mixture of my own learning and my ability to teach and guide others.

Writing and media have been a central focus throughout my career. From 1991 to 2004 I worked for a number of newspapers. In 2001 I helped launch the Portland Tribune, a rare startup newspaper in an era when more newspapers were shutting down than starting up. My experience ranges from writing and editing to graphic design, information systems architecture, and advertising sales. In 2009–11 I worked for the Wikimedia Foundation, designing the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, a pilot program to support university instructors' use of Wikipedia as a teaching tool, by assigning Wikipedia writing to their students. This pilot evolved to become the Wikipedia Education Program.

My interests and work have increasingly focused on group collaboration, and on the opportunities for improving education and public deliberation offered by wiki software. I have a consulting business, Wiki Strategies, in which I advise organizations on how to engage with the Wikipedia community in accordance with its policies and culture. (More info in this May 2012 interview in the Wikipedia Signpost.) As a volunteer, I plan and facilitate outreach and leadership development events like edit-a-thons and GLAMcamp DC.

Want to get in touch? email me through this form, or follow @PeteForsyth on Twitter.

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