Hoi,
When the Wikimedia Foundation is to be the centre of a movement, then it has
challenges as an enabler. The first most obvious thing to do is make it
visible. This means that we do not only reach out to people but also to
organisations. When GLAM (gallereies, libraries, archives and museums) are
natural partners, such partnerships need to be recognised. We have to take
pride in such partnerships. In a partnership, there is a meeting of equals
and as there are so many GLAM and only so few in the Office, it needs to be
something self organising, something where the interested members of our
community can play a role as well. When an important man like Wayne
Macintosh is made an advisory member of our advisory board, it is his
educational organisation and project that make him this relevant. They use
MediaWiki but they do not take full benefit from what we have to offer in
our MediaWiki, our SVN and our
translatewiki.net. While they provide a "best
of breed" example of educational use of MediaWiki, they could do better from
a "best practices" point of view.
When the WMF is to be this centre, it has to make visible the partnerships
it has, it has to work together with the GLAM and the educational
organisations. It has to make this visible, it has to make us aware that
organisations can be and are part of our movement.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/7/30 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
When I say "world of WP" I mean "world
post-WP" -- the world we live
in, in which certain businesses are failing now that basic reliable
information and data are available freely...
It would be healthy to see compatibly-licensed projects that use
different sets of core principles; not just wikinfo (for instance) but
also POV specialist reference works. There is an audience for that,
and they should also be encouraged to contribute to free knowledge.
And if someone can find a way to keep professional encyclopedists from
dying out as a breed, that would be good. I don't want to see other
reference works go out of business; I do want to see them adopt free
licenses -- data, overviews, and reference-style knowledge should all
be free.
SJ
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Kul Takanao
Wadhwa<kwadhwa(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> - experienced professional reference-work writers (and we should help
them
> find ways to sustain themselves, particularly
in niche markets -- one
way is
by
distributing the underlying work needed to find and organize data).
there is room in the world-of-WP for effective, sustainable POV and
specialist works
SJ - Just curious...where in WP do you think POV and specialist works
could fit?
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