With help from my academic department and after asking several people from
my national chapter for help, I've put together for a proposal for a women
and children's sport research centre. It should dovetail with some of WMF's
goals in terms of creating female centric content and trying to get more
women involved in Wikipedia (and related projects). The wider goal is
fundamentally about sharing knowledge and bringing people together in
regards to women and children's sport. It is about making information freely
available and getting as many people as possible to do that. It is about
creating a community, both online and in person, who passionately believe in
the importance of women and children's sport, and providing the community
with tools to share their knowledge in order to help others.
A copy of the proposal can be found at
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/UCNISS/Women_and_children%27s_sport_research….
My department is looking to get space and I've taken the first step
towards asking for requesting grant funding from my national chapter.
This proposal intersects with Wikipedia because it would involve setting up
a wikiProject, and trying to provide contributors to the project with formal
recognition for their contributions in ways that could help them establish
academic credentials. It may also provide a path to publishing for
contributors, by providing a clear path to do that on Wikipedia. We've had
several discussions inside my department with others inside WM-AU about how
to do this in terms of academia and our own goals of doing justice for this
topic. Parts of that discussion can be found on
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:UCNISS/Women_and_children%27s_sport_res…
Anyway, feedback on proposal would be very much appreciated as it pertains
to integration of Wikipedia into this proposal.
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