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
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Jennifer Riggs jriggs@wikimedia.orgwrote:
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.
Tapping Creative Commons for this purpose strikes me as a great idea!
--Mike
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