<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Nick Jenkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nickpj@gmail.com">nickpj@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
These are all good ideas, Brianna. E.g.:<br>
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> * "Editors Challenges": hold regular competitions/contests for<br>
> creating and improving Wikimedia content.<br>
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</div>Yes - people like to know that something they have done was appreciated, and<br>
a society we are way too stingy about telling people that they have done good<br>
stuff.<br>
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> *? "Certificate of Appreciation" scheme...<br>
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Good idea. Currently Wikimedia involvement is not especially CV-compatible, so this<br>
would help a bit with that. If possible, make it free for the PDF version.<br>
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> *? Maybe offer more generic MediaWiki services to companies, groups<br>
> etc? I think there is a certain amount of scope, not heaps, for us to<br>
> promote MediaWiki and wikis as a generally useful tool rather than<br>
> only for Wikimedia.<br>
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</div>I think there is some scope here. There are at least a few MW developers in Australia,<br>
and certainly there are companies that make a living supplying wiki-related services<br>
& software in Australia, so there is some market here, such as developing custom<br>
extensions, adding/improving functionality, etc. It won't be a huge amount of money,<br>
but if we can encourage younger Australian developers and help direct MediaWiki<br>
related work towards them, then that's probably going to be beneficial in the long run<br>
for all concerned.</blockquote></div><br>John, Brianna, and I met with City of Melbourne to discuss working with wikis, and to make some suggestions for their Future Melbourne wiki...I think there is scope for doing this with other organisations and groups and I think it's important for WMA to build connections with other groups.<br>
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