[Wikimediaau-l] Chapter activity ideas

[Gnangarra]

Maybe could develope a COI package for Australian subjects

So that when an editor find a new contributor with a COI they could drop a
note to WMA and have some information sent snail mail to explain Wikipedia
policies, COI, and draw backs along with an offer of personal contact from a
WMA representative. Making the effect personal would also help in obtaining
images with the contact being able to organise a free licensed picture.

I also like the certificate idea, maybe even an automatic cert sent to a
member when they provide a media file that gets recognised on two or more
projects. like FP on commons and WP on en or VI and FP on commons.

Gn.

2008/7/29 Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> So, thinking about this stuff kept me awake last night. All the little
> cogs in my brain were churning very busily! I hope by writing it down
> I can get some more restful sleep tonight. :)
>
> I hope everyone can see from my list below that there is huge scope
> for members to drive most of the items below.
>
> OK, so... Stuff we can do!
>
> * "Editors Challenges": hold regular competitions/contests for
> creating and improving Wikimedia content. These could be for
> Australia-related content, or just for Australian/member editors. They
> could be focused on a particular project. There could be themed ones
> like "Greatest improvement to an Australian town/suburb article" or
> "Best brand new article developed within 2 weeks". or "Best
> improvement to MediaWiki.org documentation" or whatever. lots of
> possibilities.
>
> * "Australian content portal": we should start a cross-project portal
> that highlights high-quality Australia-related content from all
> projects. (portal.wikimedia.org.au ?) Eventually I'd like to see this
> develop into a "Wikimedia Australia Live Content CD/DVD" or something
> similar. Lots of work in sorting and assessing and actually improving
> content. Esp. hook into Australian curricula too.
>
> * Blog! ( blog.wikimedia.org.au ) Not sure if this needs justifying,
> but it's a great way to communicate to members, potential members, the
> wider Wikimedia community and also the wider Australian community. I
> was thinking one thing that might be nice would be little "interviews"
> with longstanding Australian editors, about their Wiki*edia
> experience, favourite articles, disputes, memories,   that kind of
> thing.
>
> * "How to contribute to Wikimedia CD/DVD": For this I would look for
> specific funding. But it would be cool to create/collect and collate
> introductory "How to contribute" style manuals for each of the
> projects, screencasts, video, who knows... Maybe also
> audience-specific stuff, like for schools, local community history
> groups, businesses/orgs who want to know how they can interact with
> the article on their group.
>
> *? I thought of this last night, maybe encourage "Wikimedia Editors
> Clubs" in schools/universities? like enable local groups that are
> extremely light-weight on the admin side.
>
> *? "Certificate of Appreciation" scheme... so I thought of this last
> night too. Let's see what people think. Lots of people spend a lot of
> time contributing to Wikimedia, and you typically learn/utilise useful
> skills in doing so, but it's not something that sits easily on a CV
> (thinking of high school/uni students here). So, maybe we could
> develop a scheme where on request we perform some semi-automatic
> analysis of a user's contribs, and create a "Certificate of
> Appreciation" that mentions the generic skills typically gained, and
> highlights strengths of that user's contribs (eg attained admin, has
> FAs, dispute resolution). We could then email this nice summary to the
> user and they have some useful phrases to use in their CV about their
> Wikimedia involvement. Or, for an administration fee (discounted for
> members :)), we could print and laminate such a certificate and send
> it to the person, + a listing on the website.
> There are lots of caveats and details to work out (like, a block
> record probably disallows you from using this, and maybe there should
> be a edits/time threshold), but at its base I think it may be useful
> as a "bridge" of formal recognition between the Wikipedia world and
> the "real" world. I just remember when I was a uni student, I spent a
> *lot* of time editing Wikipedia and it kinda sucked that I couldn't
> really put that on my CV. :)
>
> *? Maybe offer more generic MediaWiki services to companies, groups
> etc? I think there is a certain amount of scope, not heaps, for us to
> promote MediaWiki and wikis as a generally useful tool rather than
> only for Wikimedia. I think that way because the first step to
> becoming comfortable contributing to Wikimedia is becoming comfortable
> with wikis as a general tool, and the second step is becoming
> comfortable with MediaWiki specifically.
>
> Organisational/administration stuff that's important:
> * (AGM)
> * Setting up the basic website, making it look less like the MW
> default would be nice...
> * Setting up the members DB and joining procedure, incl. payment handling
> * decide what we want WRT state branches
> * hopefully helping to institute more regular meetups. events
> calendar! (Germany has multiple meetups every month, or maybe even
> every week, which is pretty amazing)
> * start to explore funding/grants options more seriously
>
> feedback and other ideas welcome...
>
> Brianna
>
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