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
Hi!
I would like to set up rules for our meetings and the
agenda-finding-process. Where can I find examples for this? Who has
experience with this and could help me?
Kathrin
Hi all,
last week we started to built our best practices documentation team. Thanks
Jan for setting up the skype conference! and thanks Günter and Piotr for
your input!
This week we can welcome a new member to our team. Thanks for joining our
team John!
Hi all,
Welcome to the best practices documentation team's mailinglist. I
subscribed all Wikimedians being involved in the documentation process
so far:
* Kathrin Jansen (Volunteer Project Lead, San Francisco)
* Lennart Guldbrandsson (Gothenburg, Sweden)
* Mathias Schindler (Göttingen, Germany)
* Jan Eissfeldt (Leipzig, Germany)
* Günther Wageneder (Salzburg, Austria)
* Piotr Konieczny (Pittsburg, United States)
and I've added
* Cary Bass (Wikimedia Foundation, Volunteer Coordinator)
* Frank Schulenburg (me)
as well.
Yesterday, I created a team page on the meta wiki. It contains links
to the meeting notes, a team members list and a list of milestones.
Please be bold to edit that page!
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_documentation_team
A big thank you goes to Cary who advertised the project on the English
Wikipedia earlier today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29#Bes…
Thanks
Frank