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A lot of projects were proposed for Wikimedia UK v1 [[:m:Wikimedia UK v1.0/Possible projects|here]].
A lot of projects were proposed for Wikimedia UK v1 [[:m:Wikimedia UK v1.0/Possible projects|here]].


== Template ==
Please use the template [[Initiatives/Proposals/Template|here]] to start a new proposal.
 
[Please copy this section below and complete the parts marked in [...]
 
=== Outline ===
[Describe the idea]
 
=== Benefits ===
[Why is this a good thing to do?]
 
=== Financial requirements ===
 
[What will the project require for funding? Are there other potential sources for the funding?]
 
=== Volunteering ===
 
[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]
 
=== Discussion ===
 
[Add anything extra here. Mainly a space for other people to discuss the proposal, though.]
 
== Media help sheet ==
 
Prepare a help sheet for journalists who want to incorporate Wikimedia articles or images into their reports.
 
=== Outline ===
 
The media are increasingly using Wikimedia content in their stories - e.g. [http://euobserver.com/9/28232 here]
 
=== Benefits ===
* It makes Wikimedia content available to more people
* It raises the profile of Wikimedia and generates goodwill
 
=== Financial requirements ===
 
None
 
=== Volunteering ===
 
People to draft and research.
 
=== Discussion ===
 
[Add anything extra here. Mainly a space for other people to discuss the proposal, though.]
 
== Introduction of swahili language ==
=== Outline ===
[Describe the idea]
 
=== Benefits ===
 
This would not only benefit the minority children as a second language but also educate  a large number of immigrants on various sensitive issues which culture or media does not openly speak about.internet is increasingly becoming affordable in third world countries,therefore people who have swahili as their mother tongue will greatly benefit from this object as awareness on key issues becomes available at the touch of a button!
 
=== Financial requirements ===
 
books,literature,transport fees and  translation fees
 
=== Volunteering ===
 
well known translators
 
=== Discussion ===
 
remember communication eases intergration and hence
promotes understanding.
 
:'''Comment''': There already is a Swahili Wikipedia - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_Wikipedia - but [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_Wikimedia_projects no other projects in Swahili] [[User:AndrewRT|AndrewRT]] 12:39, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 
:'''Comment''': The UK has more Swahili speakers than any other country that is currently covered by a chapter. [[User:AndrewRT|AndrewRT]] 12:39, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 
:I don't understand - what is being proposed here? --[[User:Tango|Tango]] 21:32, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
 
== London Loves Wikipedia ==
''See [[London Loves Wikipedia]]
=== Outline ===
Two proposals have been received both focusing on the events on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Valentine's_Day St Valentine's Day] 2009.
:a) Restricting the event to a centralised programme around working with museums along the lines of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Art Wikipedia Loves Art], thereby achieving an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension_(semantics) extensive] relation to art
 
:b) Making the event extra lovely by including [http://wikipediaart.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Wiki Art], a project set up on the same day which exhibits an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intension_(semantics) intensive] relation to art.
 
=== 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, [[User:Harrypotter|Editor Potter]] also available.)
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)
:Tate Gallery might be worth contacting - they [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7998191.stm donated 400 files free to itunes] in April 2009. [[User:AndrewRT|AndrewRT]] 21:51, 15 April 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. [[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. – [[User:Kaihsu|Kaihsu]] 22:11, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 
== Content access partnerships ==
=== Outline ===
Working in collaboration with organisations that hold cultural, scholarly etc. archives that could be of benefit to the Wikimedia projects to release the material under free content licenses. This might include 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 ===
 
== Understanding reliability of online information information pack ==
 
=== Outline ===
A popular complaint about Wikipedia is that information is often unreliable. If users follow sources, they can see if it or not.
 
I propose making a website or CD for schools throughout the UK. It could discuss  Wikipedia, how to understand its article's tags and how to follow and verify sources. It could also discuss alternative sources of information. This could also include others websites than Wikimedia projects - making it a more useful general resource.
 
It could have questions, be interactive etc and see users follow the verification of information.
=== Benefits ===
*Help address public's concerns that Wikimedia doesn't care about reliability.
*Help our readers find for themselves the reliability of information. This would mean people would use less unreliable information.
*It might be possible to link it with the National Curriculum, benefiting schools.
 
=== Financial requirements ===
 
The production and design of it of the information could be done in house. It could be linked with Wikiversity.
 
There are 4124 state secondary schools in the UK [http://www.cilt.org.uk/research/statistics/education/secondary.htm]. A list of all 5251's postal addresses (including private schools) costs £150 [http://www.schoolspostoffice.co.uk/acatalog/Terms___Conditions.html]. So sending them each a letter (without factoring franking or envelopes etc) would cost £1575.30. This is a costly option.
 
This site offers to email all secondaries for £150 [http://www.schoolsmailserver.co.uk/pricelist.php]. I am not sure about response rate.
 
Perhaps agencies like Becta could push through a pack if we made one? Or we could ask people like the TES too.
 
=== Volunteering ===
 
A graphic designer would be needed.
 
A few volunteers would probably have to spend about 10 or 20 hours each making content and linking it with the curriculum.
 
In addition, some volunteers would have to spend a while organising the distribution.
 
=== Discussion ===
 
Thanks. [[User:Computerjoe|Computerjoe]] 21:02, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 
:Nice idea. Links in with the [[m:Wikimedia documents initiative]] and the work that Steve Virgin is doing at the moment - see [[Meetings/2009-05-19/IRC#.23wikimedia-uk-board]] 20:54. [[User:AndrewRT|AndrewRT]] 23:10, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 
== Distributing Wikipedia on CDs or Laptops ==
 
=== Outline ===
 
We contact either a PC magazine or a computer or Linux distributor and persuade them to include a CD/DVD including a sample of Wikipedia articles (possibly Wikipedia for Schools or Wikipedia v0.5)
 
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_Wikipedia#DVD_Indonesian_Wikipedia this article] for how the Indonesian chapter did something similar.
 
=== Benefits ===
We make Wikipedia content more widely available and used.
 
=== Financial requirements ===
 
The magazine/computer/Linux distributor would pay for the costs
 
=== Volunteering ===
 
Just contacts to speak to the partner companies.
 
=== Discussion ===
 
Proposed by [[User:AndrewRT|AndrewRT]]
: Nice idea! I guess trademark usage would be needed (e.g. the wikipedia logo), so the WMF would need to be involved. [[User:Mike Peel|Mike Peel]] 22:18, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 
== Support Wikimedia clubs ==
 
 
=== Outline ===
 
Provide guidance and support to Wikimedia clubs in worplaces, universities and schools.
 
=== Benefits ===
It encourages more people to contribute to the resources
 
=== Financial requirements ===
 
None
 
=== Volunteering ===
 
Need volunteers to visit clubs and encourage them
 
=== Discussion ===
 
Proposed by [[User:AndrewRT|AndrewRT]]
 
== Article writing competitions ==
 
=== Outline ===
Incentivise the writing of important articles on Wikipedia by running a competition, with the winners getting some sort of prize. Examples of appropriate collections would be [[:wikipedia:Wikipedia:Vital articles]], [[:meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have]], [[:wikipedia:Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/2]], [[:wikipedia:Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics]], ... Running a competition over the summer, when people generally have more time, would be good.
 
=== Benefits ===
These are the "most important" articles for an encyclopaedia, so Wikipedia should have good articles on them. A competition is a good way to encourage the writing of these articles.
 
=== Financial requirements ===
Prizes would be required, of nominal values. These could either be supplied by the chapter, or by external donors.
 
=== Volunteering ===
Needs organizing and advertising, and some judges to decide who's won. Interested people in doing this:
* [[User:Mike Peel|Mike Peel]]
 
=== Discussion ===


{| class="wikitable"
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! Title !! Summary !! Stage
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| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Media help sheet|Media help sheet]] || Prepare a help sheet for journalists who want to incorporate Wikimedia articles or images into their reports. || Preliminary
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Introduction of swahili language|Introduction of swahili language]] || || Preliminary
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/London Loves Wikipedia|London Loves Wikipedia]] || || Preliminary
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Schools project|Schools project]] || || Preliminary
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Seed grant|Seed grant]] || || Preliminary
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Content access partnerships|Content access partnerships]] || || Preliminary
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Information pack|Understanding reliability of online information information pack]] || || Preliminary
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Wikipedia CD|Distributing Wikipedia on CDs or Laptops]] || || Preliminary
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Wikimedia clubs|Support Wikimedia clubs]] || || Preliminary
|-
| [[Initiatives/Proposals/Article writing competitions|Article writing competitions]] || || Preliminary
|}


[[Category:Wikimedia UK]]
[[Category:Wikimedia UK]]

Revision as of 23:34, 24 June 2009

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.

Prior to 7 April 2009, there was the opportunity for funding from the Wikimedia Foundation.

A lot of projects were proposed for Wikimedia UK v1 here.

Please use the template here to start a new proposal.

Title Summary Stage
Media help sheet Prepare a help sheet for journalists who want to incorporate Wikimedia articles or images into their reports. Preliminary
Introduction of swahili language Preliminary
London Loves Wikipedia Preliminary
Schools project Preliminary
Seed grant Preliminary
Content access partnerships Preliminary
Understanding reliability of online information information pack Preliminary
Distributing Wikipedia on CDs or Laptops Preliminary
Support Wikimedia clubs Preliminary
Article writing competitions Preliminary
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