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Before Wikimedia UK starts with a project, it ideally needs to be proposed. This is a fairy easy process, and just involves setting down the idea and the resources it will need. Please add new proposals as a section below. You should have a number of subsections as shown by the template.
If you have an idea for an [[initiative]] that you'd like to see supported by Wikimedia UK, then please submit a proposal below. This is a fairy easy process, and just involves describing the idea, the resources (funding/volunteers/...) it will need, and a list of people interested in participating. Once submitted, a proposal is openly discussed here, and when there is sufficient support it is discussed at a [[Meetings|board meeting]].


Prior to 7 April 2009, there is the opportunity for [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/WMF_grants funding from the Wikimedia Foundation].
To proposal a new project, please add a brief descriptive name after "Initiatives/Proposals/" in the box below, then click "Create page". You'll then be presented with a template that guides you through the process. Once you've saved the proposal, please add a link to it in the table below.


A lot of projects were proposed for Wikipedia UK v1: [[:m:Wikimedia UK v1.0/Possible projects]].
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== Template ==
If you have any problems submitting a proposal, please [[contact us]].
=== Outline ===
[Describe the idea]


=== Benefits ===
== Current proposals ==
[Why is this a good thing to do?]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Current status
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Digital_rights_video_archive|Digital rights video archive]] || Proposed 2 March 2010
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Wikipedia Portal]] || Proposed 3 Feb 2011
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Geo-information meeting]] || Proposed 16 Feb 2011
|-
| [[Bristol Wiki Academy 1]] || Being constructed
|}


=== Financial requirements ===
== Inactive proposals ==
[What will the project require for funding? Are there other potential sources for the funding?]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Current status
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Media help sheet|Media help sheet]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Introduction of swahili language|Introduction of swahili language]] || Discussion needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Information pack|Understanding reliability of online information information pack]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Wikipedia CD|Distributing Wikipedia on CDs or Laptops]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Wikimedia clubs|Support Wikimedia clubs]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Article writing competitions|Article writing competitions]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Support UK indigenous minority languages|Support UK indigenous minority languages]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Purchase digitization equipment|Purchase digitization equipment]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Combining with teaching and education|Combining with teaching and education]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Wikimedia UK centre|Wikimedia UK centre]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Wikipedia Goes Shopping|Wikipedia Goes Shopping]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Wikimedia Busking|Wikimedia Busking]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Children's Wikipedia|Children's Wikipedia]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/BioBlitz|BioBlitz participation]] || Discussion/volunteers needed
|}


=== Volunteering ===
== Funded proposals ==
[How many volunteers would be needed? Have you got any so far? Please list usernames of anyone able to help, and encourage people to add theirs]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Current status
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/WP:CONTRIB Student Outreach]] || Approved; funded from opportunities fund
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Content access partnerships|Content access partnerships]] || Funded by the WMF grant
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/London Loves Wikipedia|London Loves Wikipedia]] || Approved; funded by WMF grant; see [[Initiatives/London Loves Wikipedia]]
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Schools project|Schools project]] || Approved; funded by WMF grant; see [[Initiatives/Schools project]]
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Seed grant|Seed grant]] || Funded by WMF grant via other initiatives
|}


=== Discussion ===
[[Category:Initiatives]]
[Add anything extra here. Mainly a space for other people to discuss the proposal, though.]
 
== London Loves Wikipedia ==
 
=== Outline ===
Along the lines of the Wikipedia Loves Art project, in February 2010, bring together eight museums which will have one event one each weekend day in February. The V&A and the London Transport Museum have expressed an interest in being involved.
 
=== Benefits ===
It benefits the projects - especially Wikipedia - as it generates photos that can be used.
 
=== Financial requirements ===
 
Not much - prizes
Could be sponsored as per Wikipedia Loves Art
 
=== Volunteering ===
 
Organisers (two? - one Board, one non-Board? [[User:AndrewRT]] was original proposer.)
Participants to take photos, process, upload, use (as many as possible)
 
=== Discussion ===
We could try to generalise things a bit more - e.g. go a bit more sciency and get the Science Museum and/or Natural History Museum involved, or have an additional focus on architecture. [[User:Mike Peel|Mike Peel]] 22:43, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 
== Schools project ==
 
[Tango42 / Skenmy to complete]
=== Outline ===
The idea of the Schools project is to get WMUK / Community representatives into schools (primary & secondary) and give a course of instruction to staff and/or pupils on the correct way of using Wikimedia projects in their school work, along with showing staff and/or pupils how to effectively and constructively contribute to the various projects.
 
=== Benefits ===
This will benefit the projects as we may be able to, as an example, get a journalism club in a secondary school writing for Wikinews, or primary school children contributing to the Simple English Wiktionary / Wikipedia. Photo projects could contribute to the Commons, and we could instruct on how to use the Commons to find appropriate pictures for school work. Sources such as Wikipedia and Wikiquote could become well used in school projects, without the stigma associated with Wikipedia usage in schools.
 
=== Financial requirements ===
*Travel costs for travelling to remote sites
*Equipment costs (A laptop will probably be required - Wikimedia UK Branded?)
 
There is, of course, the possibility of inviting people to a conference centre and holding a larger conference, instead of visiting individual schools.
 
:This exists in my locality, for instance, where the school I am employed by has a large conference suite and ICT suite, capable of holding and catering for 75 delegates at a time (one PC each). --[[User:Skenmy|Skenmy]] 19:17, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
=== Volunteering ===
*[[User:Skenmy|Skenmy]]
 
''Do you work in or near a school and think you can help? List your name and your ideas for the project!''
 
=== Discussion ===
 
We need to make sure we fully consider the controls required for working with children including whether this turns the chapter into a "childrens charity". [[User:AndrewRT|AndrewRT]] 19:17, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
:At no time would we be responsible for any children, so I don't think there is much to worry about. Some CRB checks might be a nice touch, but even they wouldn't be essential. --[[User:Tango|Tango]] 22:03, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
::The [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2006/ukpga_20060047_en_1 Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006] (which is not currently in force) will significantly extend the groups of people who need to be checked. When we start doing this the Board will need to look into it with great care. The Act requires all those carrying out a "regulated activity relating to children" to register; Sch4 1(2) would probably catch the WfS volunteers themselves as they would likely do volunteer work in schools more than 2 days in 30 and would have an opportunity for contact with children. All trustees might then be caught by Sch4 4(1)(g) as WMUK may be defined as a "children's charity" - something so broadly defined that it captures every charity which has at least two volunteers who are regulated themselves. So, if we had ten regular projects, one of which was WfS which had two people working on it, it looks like we might be caught. Daft I know - that's the consequence of the idiots we've got in parliament. [[User:AndrewRT|AndrewRT]] 23:09, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 
Some parts of the [[:w:en:Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006|Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006]] seem to have already come into force: [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/uksi_20073545_en_1][http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20081320_en_1][http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/uksi_20090039_en_1].
 
== Seed grant ==
 
=== Outline ===
 
The chapter needs income of £5,000 before it can register with the Charity Commission.
 
=== Benefits ===
 
Registering brings considerable benefits, such as status, perceived trust and cheaper costs. The alternative currently pursued is to register with HMRC, which is subject to significant delays.
 
The money itself can be earmarked by the WMF for particular projects, current or future.
 
=== Financial requirements ===
 
Our total income has to be brought up to £5,000. We have already raised around £300, so we need a further £4,700.
 
Other potential sources of funding are appeals to members and supporters.
 
=== Volunteering ===
 
No volunteers needed.
 
=== Discussion ===
This would be better done through a series of specific projects or general fundraising than as a proposal to the WMF. [[User:Mike Peel|Mike Peel]] 19:50, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
: If we win the [[:m:Wikimania 2010/Bids/Oxford|Wikimania 2010 Oxford bid]], we might generate enough turnover/income to qualify for registration with the Charity Commission. &ndash; [[User:Kaihsu|Kaihsu]] 22:11, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 
== Content access partnerships ==
=== Outline ===
Discussion and investigation by Wikimedia UK and its members with the aim of working in collaboration with organisations that hold cultural, scholarly etc. archives that could be of benefit to the Wikimedia projects. These might releasing material under free content licenses including archived news stories (wikisource & wikipedia) or images (commons & wikipedia).
 
Benefits for the organisations involve free publicity, hits back to their websites where people could order, for instance full resolution prints of images, and verification of materials by the wiki community (e.g. checking descriptions for images)
 
Similar projects have been successfully completed by Wikimedia Deutschland:
* 250,000 images from the Saxon State Library [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/03/31/over-250k-new-images-join-the-wikimedia-commons/]
* 100,000 images from the German Federal Archive [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv]
 
See also [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2009/Schedule#Content_liberation the session at the Chapters meeting 2009]
 
Leads we could follow up include:
* BBC - see discussions at AGM
* Dow Jones - Steve Virgin is standing for the 2009 Board
* Leicestershire County Council - discussions are taking place re their Photo Digitisation Access Project (see [http://www.leicestershire.gov.uk/298_cs679_photo_digitiation__access_project_worker_cs679-2.pdf])
* etc.
 
=== Benefits ===
It releases large quantities of valuable content to the projects, and can increase the understanding of Wikipedia by large public organizations (and vice versa)
 
=== Financial requirements ===
 
<£200 to cover:
 
* Telephone
* Travel
* Lunches
 
=== Volunteering ===
 
Mainly contacts with possible organisations.
 
Need organiser to coordinate efforts, identify leads and focus efforts. [[User:Mike Peel|Mike Peel]] is happy to lead this.
 
Volunteers needed to sort and use the content when it's released.
 
=== Discussion ===
 
 
 
 
[[Category:Wikimedia UK]]

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If you have an idea for an initiative that you'd like to see supported by Wikimedia UK, then please submit a proposal below. This is a fairy easy process, and just involves describing the idea, the resources (funding/volunteers/...) it will need, and a list of people interested in participating. Once submitted, a proposal is openly discussed here, and when there is sufficient support it is discussed at a board meeting.

To proposal a new project, please add a brief descriptive name after "Initiatives/Proposals/" in the box below, then click "Create page". You'll then be presented with a template that guides you through the process. Once you've saved the proposal, please add a link to it in the table below.


If you have any problems submitting a proposal, please contact us.

Current proposals

Title Current status
Digital rights video archive Proposed 2 March 2010
Initiatives/Proposals/Wikipedia Portal Proposed 3 Feb 2011
Initiatives/Proposals/Geo-information meeting Proposed 16 Feb 2011
Bristol Wiki Academy 1 Being constructed

Inactive proposals

Title Current status
Media help sheet Discussion/volunteers needed
Introduction of swahili language Discussion needed
Understanding reliability of online information information pack Discussion/volunteers needed
Distributing Wikipedia on CDs or Laptops Discussion/volunteers needed
Support Wikimedia clubs Discussion/volunteers needed
Article writing competitions Discussion/volunteers needed
Support UK indigenous minority languages Discussion/volunteers needed
Purchase digitization equipment Discussion/volunteers needed
Combining with teaching and education Discussion/volunteers needed
Wikimedia UK centre Discussion/volunteers needed
Wikipedia Goes Shopping Discussion/volunteers needed
Wikimedia Busking Discussion/volunteers needed
Children's Wikipedia Discussion/volunteers needed
BioBlitz participation Discussion/volunteers needed

Funded proposals

Title Current status
Initiatives/Proposals/WP:CONTRIB Student Outreach Approved; funded from opportunities fund
Content access partnerships Funded by the WMF grant
London Loves Wikipedia Approved; funded by WMF grant; see Initiatives/London Loves Wikipedia
Schools project Approved; funded by WMF grant; see Initiatives/Schools project
Seed grant Funded by WMF grant via other initiatives
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