ORCID, a non-profit organisation that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers, has appointed Andy Mabbett as Wikipedian-in Residence. In this pro-bono role, Andy will extend his work as an ORCID Ambassador and act as liaison with the Wikimedia community to integrate ORCID into Wikipedia, Wikidata and sister projects.
Andy will be advising ORCID on the integration of Wikipedia links into ORCID records and the Registry metadata schema, and will be helping to draft FAQs for users and documentation for integrators about the use of ORCID in Wikipedia and sister projects. He will also help advise ORCID holders on how to display their ORCID in their Wikipedia user pages and articles about them, in concordance with Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest and other usage guidelines.
Andy has been a Wikipedia editor since 2003 (his user name is "Pigsonthewing") and he has previously worked as a Wikipedian-in-Residence with museums, galleries, and a wildlife conservation charity.
