Hi there!
I'm Elitre, it.wiki user and sysop, former member of Wikimedia Italia
and OTRS volunteer.
I am interested in the public outreach area (I just added myself to the
Public Speakers page), and willing to help with
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_in_setting_up_a_Wikipedia_boo…
.
There are some related tips I wrote in Italian with other members of
WMI: I could translate them. After double checking my English, someone
could try and add this text on Meta if relevant.
Regards,
Elitre
Hi all,
in our conference call we talked about the opportunity to develop a brochure
for universities. I started a first outline:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Educational_materials
Please edit and/or discuss!
John, I think we should integrate your work! What do you think?
Kathrin
Hi!
I would like to invite you to our conference call:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_documentation_team/Meetings/O…
Please, sign up if you want to attend!
This is our agenda:
1) Long-term objectives for the Best practices pages: What level is
realistic?
- Wikibooks: Günter
- Partnerships with universities: Jan and Piotr
2) Present the idea of a brochure for universities
3) How to collect on Best practices in exercises for Wikipedia
newcomers<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_in_exercises_for_Wikipedia_ne…>?
Moderator: Kathrin
Please, let me know if there is anything else you want to discuss!
Kathrin
Hi all!
Several times I came across with different exercises that should help to
become more familiar with Wikipedia and how to edit an article. But I think
they are not very organized or structured. So I set up a page to collect
these exercises and to categorize them. Please, let me know if you think
this makes sense and is helpful or if you know somebody who could contribute
to this!
Kathrin
Günter, thanks for completing the article so far! I hope other people will
add their experiences.
A brief explanation of an existing example is a great idea!
Let me know if you need help with the translation, I heard there is
Wikipedia-translation-team...
Kathrin
Best Practices Team,
FYI - I LOVE all the work that the team has been doing on the best
practices resources. There is so much experience and expertise in the
community that needs to be documented, shared and celebrated!
At two recent events in which I participated, NIH Wikipedia Academy and
GLAM-Wiki, there was strong interest from attending institutions to have
us help them in developing sound policies to encourage their employees
to contribute to Wikimedia projects and find appropriate ways to release
content into the public domain.
I'm not sure its an area that we'll have the capacity to support (and
haven't committed to anything), though I could see there being plenty of
policy experts amongst the diverse Wikimedian pool! We might be able to
develop some templates in coordination with Creative Commons. Or maybe
there are already good resources for institutions moving in that
direction. I've added some links to social media computing policies that
we directed the NIH leads to.
I posted it on m:Public outreach/Resources
I wasn't sure where it should go, so feel free to move it if there is a
better place. Or ignore it if it just doesn't fit our capacity at this time.
Thanks everyone!
Jennifer Riggs
G'day everyone,
I saw this new mailing list and thought to myself - "you know what, I would
like to subscribe to a new mailing list today - this looks like a good one!"
And so I did, and here I am.
What an amazing journey it has been... you wouldn't imagine beautiful things
I have seen in the brief period between discovering the mailing list,
subscribing, and writing this letter. But I must say that the highlight was
the automated email telling me what my password was and how to unsubscribe
if I wanted to. I think I will cherish that email forever :-)
But on to the boring stuff...
I'm guessing that if you're already on this mailing list then you probably
already know me. I'm Liam, the Vice President of Wikimedia Australia,
podcaster on Wikipedia[not very]Weekly, I wrote my thesis about how
Wikipedia and Academia need to learn from each other and I have recently run
the GLAM-WIKI conference in Canberra. Yes, I'm sorry, it was because of that
that we now all have to try to live with the word "glam" being used as a
noun.
My particular "thing" is liaising with the cultural sector (that is -
galleries, libraries, archives and museums) about how we can work together
to build sustainable relationships. That was the essence of the GLAM-WIKI
conference. But, I also do presentations to english teachers, to historians,
to copyright lawyers, etc. You can see some of my outreach-y stuff on my
blog: wittylama.com/blog
So.... hello!
-Liam
--
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
Hi all,
I've assigned tasks to certain volunteers based on our discussions and
meetings.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_documentation_team#Work_plann…
Please feel free to make changes if you don't agree or add new tasks!
I think we achieved a lot in the last few weeks! Thanks for your help and
your support!
Kathrin