spamicide
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« Reply #165 on: February 01, 2010, 10:08:34 PM » |
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I was an interview and December and I discussed the wiki with the SC. I brought it up because I wanted to know their take on it. One committee member had never heard of it, others kind of shook their heads and smiled... Essentially, they said it's a mixed blessing and that they would prefer that candidates hear from them rather from the wiki about the status of the job. Since I wanted the job badly, and wanted to get off on the right foot once I had gotten the job, I didn't want to jeopardize it by posting on the wiki.
That being said information comes out. Two days after I accepted the job someone via the wiki forum asked about the position and someone else (not me) posted that it was accepted. So it will get out....
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« Reply #166 on: March 28, 2010, 10:26:22 AM » |
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I've been regularly checking the wiki for the searches my department just concluded, and they were riddled with bad information all season long. I corrected what I could, but there were reports that phone interviews were scheduled well before we had a short-list, reports that additional phone interviews were scheduled when we were completely finished interviewing and had selected a candidate, and all kinds of weird information.
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mjugg
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« Reply #167 on: April 01, 2010, 03:25:50 PM » |
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I checked this wiki and updated what I could.
Thanks
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abdultsitsopoulos
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« Reply #168 on: August 23, 2010, 11:46:03 AM » |
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Isn't the wiki one of those big hairy animals in Star Wars? Chewbaka or something like that!
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« Reply #169 on: September 24, 2010, 06:05:32 PM » |
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It looks like the academic job pages are now posting ads and, more importantly, they seem to have hired real people to check job listings across the board (Chronicle, Higher Ed, MLA Job List, e.g.) and post everything on the wiki pages as soon as they come out. This is a really great development, especially in my MLA field -- it means that if you are someone who can't afford a subscription to the JIL, or can't get access to it through your prior grad program, you can still find a very thorough listing of the jobs in your field.
And I'll repeat my caution from last year: it's best to register with the wiki pages rather than posting as an unregistered user (which is not entirely anonymous, since it will record your IP address instead, which is likely to list the campus where you are located, if you're posting while on campus).
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« Reply #170 on: October 03, 2010, 08:37:13 PM » |
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Just out of curiosity, how's the wiki in your field this year? I don't mean how many jobs have been posted, but rather how lively it is. Usually the discussion board attached to the wiki in my field will generate a reasonably lively discussion, but this year it's a ghost town. Is a second straight year of a bleak job list killing off the wiki? Or have the kids these days moved on to another platform?
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camellia89
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« Reply #171 on: October 03, 2010, 11:22:45 PM » |
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i haven't heard it before. It is very useful for me. Thank you so much |
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« Reply #172 on: November 02, 2010, 10:16:28 PM » |
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The Psychology wiki is quite active this year, but the Biology Wiki is very quiet. The Biology wiki changed over to scratchpad a few years ago, and I think it got too regimented.
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« Reply #173 on: December 08, 2010, 11:44:51 AM » |
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No wiki in my field - as Scampster said in another thread - I think I am glad that there isn't.
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"Remember, when tempted to fight fire with fire, that the Fire Department usually uses water."
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shopgal
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« Reply #175 on: January 13, 2011, 01:16:47 PM » |
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Anyone know why the wikis for the sciences are so quiet this year? Even the engineering wiki seems to be unused. Just asking...
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« Reply #176 on: January 13, 2011, 03:57:10 PM » |
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Mine was originally (mistakenly) combined with another - so it seems to be all messed up this year.
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"Remember, when tempted to fight fire with fire, that the Fire Department usually uses water."
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« Reply #177 on: January 13, 2011, 11:09:22 PM » |
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The Wikihost job wikis just got mangled by the Wikihost "upgrade," and the discussion page for my discipline's wiki has disappeared altogether.
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« Reply #178 on: February 15, 2011, 02:06:31 PM » |
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Anyone know why the wikis for the sciences are so quiet this year? Even the engineering wiki seems to be unused. Just asking...
They all seem unusually dead to me this year. I've been watching two disciplines religiously and skimming a third out of curiosity and they're barely updated at all. Depressing. |
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I think this thread is going well. Don't you think this thread is going well?
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« Reply #179 on: February 28, 2011, 12:19:39 AM » |
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Although the job market in my field is in the dumps and the discussion page disappeared, the weird thing this year is how rigorously the wiki gets updated. In some searches, over half the candidates for conference interviews have updated the wiki, even for senior positions. Apparently even experienced scholars no longer regard checking or updating the wiki as something that the kids do these days.
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