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This is an Appropedia Content Initiative - a call to collaborate on creating a comprehensive knowledge resource on an important subject area. We ask for original contributions, look for open licensed content we can use, convert that content to wiki format, and look for partners in academia and other institutions.
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.
Steward
Provisional steward: (add link to user page)
Initial contacting of influential contributors, to seek help in recruiting volunteers/interns, and solicit #Suggested pages and content.
Specific volunteer positions sought
- Content volunteer: works on #Content sources
- Porting volunteer: works on #Porting suitable content into wiki pages
Blogger(s)
Can you make a single post, or once per month, on the project or the content? (Can be a very short post, so it's not a big commitment.) Add link to user page and/or blog site. (Steward and/or volunteers can also blog):
- Appropedia Blog (contact Chriswaterguy)
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?)
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.)
- Site notices asking for input and participation...
- Tell potential volunteers and interns about the program
- Tell us about partners and projects we should be aware of by clicking (add link).
- Apply for a three month stint as the "{{{1}}} Content Steward" (or another volunteer?).
Available resources
Links to key pages
Lest blog posts, and relevant tag on the Appropedia blog
Suggested pages
- (list suggested pages here)
Content sources
- Identify open licensed or public domain information source, with search engines.
- Coordinate porting efforts with porting volunteer(s) and intern(s).
- Actively contact:
- Academics - who might wish to participate through service learning
- Content creators re open licensing
Porting
- Porting volunteers
- convert the content, using wikEd (for web pages) or the PDF or Word porting tools (see Appropedia: Porting...)
- tweak the formatting, add attribution templates
- add Template:Tlc, and or sharper categories, and/or {{catneeded}}
- Create and refine [[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.
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