Appropedia:Content Initiatives/Template

This is an Appropedia Content Initiative - a call to collaborate on creating a comprehensive knowledge resource on an important subject area. We ask for participants to do concrete tasks, whether for minutes or hours, and to invite others to use, contribute to and blog on these pages. You may wish to volunteer for one of the volunteer positions.

Introduction

(Add a line, or two or three, on why the Initiative is needed.)

Provisional steward

(add link to user page)

Blogger(s)

You might do a single post, or commit to blog e.g. once per month or two months, on the project itself or on some of the content. (Can be a very short blog post, so it's not a big commitment.) Add link to user page and/or blog site - can be same as steward and/or volunteers:

Partners

(Organizations, institutions and/or high-profile individuals who can lend energy, resources, publicity and/or credibility to the effort, and help to find volunteers.)

• Potential:
• Confirmed:

Target launch date

(Is there urgency to this date? E.g. upcoming conference? Or does it just depend on )

Talking points

(Make a note whenever a post, tweet, etc, is done on a particular talking point so that we can make sure that each point gets covered over time. Highlighted pages)

Specific action requests

(Examples below.)

1. Tell us about partners and projects we should be aware of by clicking (add link).
2. Site notices asking for input and participation...
3. Tell potential interns about the program
4. Help us define policies related to the program
5. Help design a program portal
6. Apply for a three month stint as the "(InitiativeName) Steward" or one of the other volunteers.

Specific volunteer positions sought

Available resources

Links to key pages

• (placeholder for link to blog post that will announce the initiative. update this at launch time.)

Suggested pages

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• (list suggested pages here)

Content sources

 - content volunteer?

• Identify open licensed or public domain information source, with search engines.
• Coordinate porting efforts with interns and porting volunteers.

• Porting volunteers

1. convert the content, tusing wikEd (for web pages) or the PDF or Word porting tools (see Appropedia: Porting...)
2. weak the formatting, a
3. dd attribution templates

1. add Template:Tlc, and or sharper categories, and/or {{catneeded}}

Actively contact:

• Academics - who might wish to participate through service learning
• Content creators re open licensing

Navigation

• [[Portal:{{{1}}}]]
• Are navigation templates of use, e.g. for particular subtopics? Esp where several pages make a logical unit, e.g. all the components of a particular technology or project.

Publicity

Highlighted pages

Good pages to draw attention to May vary from "rough but informative" in the early stages to "good looking and a comprehensive guide to the subject" as the project advances.

Also check the category/categories:

Outreach

Blogging, other social media

(later task for content volunteer):

• Actively contact via email (be friendly, but brief and to the point):
  • NGOs, who might find the content useful, and tell their network, and even make their own content available.
  • Experts, especially bloggers with expertise on the field, as they are already making their knowledge available at no cost and might agree to an open license.
  • Academics, university departments and campus-based organizations, highlighting our request for service learning partners.
• Ping Chriswaterguy to share highlighted pages, blog posts and news via microblogging, our FB page and
• Other social networks - through your own account and other networks that we haven't used yet.