Appropedia:Content Initiatives/Template

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Template:Appropedia content initiative

Introduction

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

Volunteers needed

Steward: (add link to user page). Initial contacting of influential contributors, to seek help in recruiting volunteers/interns, and solicit #Suggested pages and content. Provisional steward (until steward recruited): (add link to user page)

• Content volunteer: works on #Content sources
• Porting volunteer: works on #Porting suitable content into wiki pages
• (If possible): PR volunteer, to blog, engage bloggers and media, and possibly help the content volunteer with emailing contacts.

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:

Active (already at work):

Target launch date

(Does it depend on an upcoming conference, or the availability of volunteers?)

Specific action requests

(Examples below.)

1. Site notices asking for input and participation...
2. Tell potential volunteers and interns about the program
3. Tell us about partners and projects we should be aware of by clicking (add link).
4. Apply for a three month stint as the "{{{1}}} Content Steward" (or another volunteer?).

Available resources

Suggested pages

Think about what kinds of pages would be useful. List these, and add examples of each. Invite others to add to the list. Template:Add redlinks

• (list suggested pages here)

Content sources

• Identify open licensed or public domain information source, with search engines.
• Identify sources, esp blogs, that would suitable for creating wiki content. (Less news commentary or personal narratives, and more design principles and practices, and/or reporting on technologies, new and in the field.)
  • Ask for suggestions through social media (FB, Twitter) and directly from those in the field. Filter the suggestions (check for yourself).
  • Make contact and ask if they'd be interested in using an open license, so that their good work could have a wider impact through Appropedia. Mention the license, and the attribution they'd receive, but be brief (leave details for later). Better to send 10 two line emails than one longer email.
• 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

1. convert the content, using wikEd (for web pages) or the PDF or Word porting tools (see Appropedia: Porting...)
2. tweak the formatting, add attribution templates
3. add Template:Tlc, and or sharper categories, and/or {{catneeded}}

Navigation

• 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. Volunteers and steward can discuss this

Publicity

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.

Blogger(s)

Can you make a single post, or once per month, on the project or the content? (It 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)

Links to key pages

Links that are helpful in explaining the project and demonstrating its importance. Incl blog posts about the project and relevant tags on the Appropedia blog.

Noteworthy pages

Use these to show our progress. May vary from "rough but informative stubs" in the early stages to "highly informative and well laid out" as the project advances. Eventually move or copy them to Appropedia:Highlighted pages.

Rough but informative stubs:

Good basic pages:

Highlighted pages - highly informative and well laid out:

Also check the category/categories:

Talking points

Highlighted pages, partnerships, blog posts.

(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. )

Relevant events

Can we provide a paper/speaker/poster/leaflets? [[Category:{{{1}}}]]