User talk:EdSaperia/Wikimedia UK's 2014 Strategy

Hi Ed, this is really interesting. There's some cool stuff in there. With regards to the idea of learners as contributors, we spoke about this at the recent education committee meeting. As a group we really want to shift digital literacy and fluency back up our agenda. To this end we are going to be creating a digital literacy strategy and it would be great if you could have some input to this. I'll keep you posted. With regards to the community management side of things, some of this is within Katie's remit - although admittedly she isn't focused on a specific tech community. Could be a good one to discuss with Katie. With regards to the third idea, if this can be done in a way that is structured and doesn't create too much of an administrative burden for volunteers then I am definitely all for it. It's a sensible way of highlighting useful sources and reference material, particularly, as you say, for things like WikiProject Medicine. Thanks for sketching this out, I hope others will join the conversation. Stevie Benton (WMUK) (talk) 14:59, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

As very few people will be watching this page, I suggest you post these three ideas onto our main community notice boards. The first and last are external projects so should go to the Water Cooler. The second is more internal to WMUK and should go to the Engine Room. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:28, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Ed - nice ideas - I hope you can see that our programme is now starting to take shape - will ping you the internal brainstorming link. Jon Davies (WMUK) (talk) 11:33, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

So that people know: our tech manager (to be hired soon) can play a role in bringing people together and the Education Organiser is beginning to work on ideas. We have lots of energy and enthusiasm and concrete plans are taking shape such as the Train the Trainers international special, the volunteers lounge in our basement and the 'Eve of Mania' volunteer's party. We have allocated £10K towards supporting Wikimania and a proportion of staff time, plus hired a Wikimania liaison person (funded by the Foundation) to help glue it all together. Jon Davies (WMUK) (talk) 17:51, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Open access reader

Hi Ed, looks good. Might want to setup individual pages for the ideas(/discussion) possibly transclude these blurbs back to this page. Anyway, the reader is a nice idea, Aaron Halfaker at WMF may have interest in that kind of activity.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions#Public_comment_invited_on_NISO_draft_about_signalling_whether_a_scholarly_reference_is_free_to_read_and_how_it_is_licensed
• Open Access media importer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Open_Access_Media_Importer_Bot (imports media from OA publications - very cool)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness open access indicator - this is important for existing references especially, we can indicate that readers of the encyclopaedia will have access to these refs off-wiki (reduce barriers to access...)
• Need to leave this now but worth just looking through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access for similar ideas. The media importer could also be extended (At the moment it seems to only crawl pubmed)

Btw, crawling, and the dumping of info about OA articles won't be the big problem, but recommendation for which (Wiki) articles they're associated with/proper categorisation will. Projects like CORE http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/search (Note: This is a project from the lab I'm doing my PhD in) might be of interest in that context. Sjgknight (talk) 07:21, 30 January 2014 (UTC)