Hello,
Sorry for cross-posting a bit, but this is important stuff and can change the way you work
as a Wiki/pm/edian, bring you lots of happiness and perhaps even eternal life - how should
I know? But let's start where everything starts - with an idea...
It's very easy to come up with ideas for things to do, either as a chapter or as a
Wikipedian (or on any other project, but for brevity's sake, let's just say
Wikipedia, instead of naming all possible combinations). It's coming up with
*original* ideas that's hard. It's really hard. In fact, it's so hard, that
whatever idea you have now, it have probably already been tried before. In some instances
the result was a failure and only rarely, it was a success. We can learn from both, but
what's the fun in that? It's more fun going on to the next idea, thinking that
you're the first one to come up with *that* idea and the first one to try to implement
it, right?
So, if you're not one of those who think like that, and if you're instead
interested in how other ordinary people like you have managed time after time to do
magnificent things and then learn from their own mistakes, you should join such
dignitaries as Mathias Schindler (who got a total of 350 000 images from two German
archives), Frank Schulenburg (who came up with the Wikipedia Academies), John Broughton
and Phoebe Ayers (who literally wrote the books on Wikipedia), and plenty of others!
"Join in what?", you wonder. Well, we have called it "Best practices",
for short. It's not a project, or a group, or anything like that. This is bigger than
that. Our goal is to put together material so that you too can perform miracles in areas
such as getting volunteers, holding workshops, getting archives and museums to donate
pictures, setting up booths at events and giving presentations about our very favorite
wikis. You should join us! You should add what you know about these and other things, and
you should then point others to this collection of articles. Let's stop reinventing
the wheel and instead put wheels on things noone has put wheels on before. That means, for
you who thinks the metaphor is slightly strange, that you should stop reading emails such
as this and go to:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_in_public_outreach
Let's really make it *Best* practices, shall we? See you there!
Best wishes,
Lennart
Lennart Guldbrandsson, ordförande för Wikimedia Sverige
http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida
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