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** Using Google Spreadsheets. Happy to share with anyone who's interested. | ** Using Google Spreadsheets. Happy to share with anyone who's interested. | ||
** started [[Appropedia:Sponsors/FAQ]] | ** started [[Appropedia:Sponsors/FAQ]] | ||
* How to raise our profile? (-> traffic and media) | |||
** Identify controversial and current topics, & link from front page. | |||
*** -> Need a main page team. This might be mainly a community-building issue - need a few admins as members, so there's always someone who can actually update the page. | |||
*** How to identify controversial content? Someone who follows the news and writes content. Talk with Wikinews community. | |||
*** Look for journalism student intern to lead this content, or is that stretching too far? Communications intern? | |||
== On hold... == | == On hold... == | ||
Revision as of 23:41, 19 April 2011
Goals
I'm setting goals to stretch myself, so that I strategize how to reach them. Here are some of them. I chose the dates as something to aim for (no specific meaning - just x weeks or months from when I set the goal).
- Find 3 more tech interns - 11 May 2011
- Make outline of a fundraising campaign - 15 June 2011
- Get some mainstream media coverage for Appropedia - 14 June 2011
- Find funding, including: $20,000 in sponsorship - 19 June 2011
- Find 3 corporate volunteers - 19 Aug 2011
- 1 million page views per month for Appropedia (up from ~0.5 million currently) - 19 Aug 2011
Current projects
- Finding tech interns, setting up the Appropedia:Tech Interns, mid-2011 project.
- Corporate volunteering:
- keywords: corporate responsibility; try with other keywords such as MediaWiki, green...
- Corporate Volunteering - Organisations
- Check resources: http://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/html/s12_content/default.asp?tnid=16&dsb=300
- x http://www.volunteering.com.au/about_us/index.asp -> seem to need ABN, i.e. Australian orgs only. Fee starts at $50.
- started Appropedia:Corporate volunteering
- Looking for funding - going through lists of potential funders for potential matches.
- Using Google Spreadsheets. Happy to share with anyone who's interested.
- started Appropedia:Sponsors/FAQ
- How to raise our profile? (-> traffic and media)
- Identify controversial and current topics, & link from front page.
- -> Need a main page team. This might be mainly a community-building issue - need a few admins as members, so there's always someone who can actually update the page.
- How to identify controversial content? Someone who follows the news and writes content. Talk with Wikinews community.
- Look for journalism student intern to lead this content, or is that stretching too far? Communications intern?
- Identify controversial and current topics, & link from front page.
On hold...
Hoping for help with some of these
- Wikilink bot
- Categorization bot
- Writing articles...
- Turning raw ported content into articles.