Audiences

This page aims to list the different types of organisations and audiences that WMUK activities should seek to appeal to, and the different types of activities that are appropriate to those organisations and audiences. The organisations and audiences are in no particular order.

GLAM

Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums

• Wikipedian in Residence - e.g. British Museum, Derby, ARKive
• Backstage Passes - e.g. British Museum, Derby
• Content partnerships (images, text, metadata), e.g. Mary Rose Trust
• Editathons - e.g. British Library
• Conferences - e.g. GLAM-WIKI
• Digitization

Education

Split up into three different groups: primary, secondary/college, university

Primary

• ???

Secondary/college

• Need lesson plans, sandbox areas, ways to log a class onto Wikipedia. We could commission these through Wikiversity?
• Need links to National Curriculum - not just I.T. but most subjects. Ideal for teaching how to write academically with refs, no copying etc.
• Need to advertise Simple.Wikipedia and using other languages to support foreign students learning subjects that are not EWnglish language.

University

• Campus Ambassadors
• Wikipedia writing assignments
• Student societies
• Wikipedia Workshops
• Editathons

Research/Academia

Including scholarly societies. Some overlap with GLAM.

• Links with journals (rfam etc.)
• Links with ODNB, Athens and other on-line resources
• Wikipedia Workshops
• Sponsorship to attend relevant conferences, e.g. WikiSym Scholarships
• Funding research, a Ph.D, and (in time) a Professorial Chair
• Archiving research pictures, videos, sounds?

Developers

i.e. MediaWiki and other free software

• Hackathons / bugsquashing sessions
• Contract development
• Trying out ideas to see if they can find an audience

Wikimedia community

• Editing competitions
• OTRS workshops
• Wikimeets (in supporting role), e.g. Wikimedia Girl Geek Dinner
• WikiConferences - e.g. WikiConference UK 2011
• Wikipedians who do not want to chat/meet and drink beer with us. Challenges? Gameification?

within the community

Existing Wikimedia sub-communities e.g. Wikiprojects

(What are the Wikiprojects' priorities and can we help fulfill them?)

vs people getting involved with things that aren't their normal on-wiki interests

(how many Hoxne Hoard editors had done anything Late Roman before?)

Project led vs. cross-project working

"editing a wikipedia article" or "releasing images" vs. working across projects (how many editors do? how many will if there is something special going on?)

Can we/should we direct editing? (Derby work was intended to use WMUK resource to aid a small museum but has mostly used non UK resource)

Sponsorship/Competitions/Challenges

• Can we devise competitions and grants and challenges that encourage our audiences to behave more in line with our vision?

Donors

• People who give during the Fundraiser

how can we get them to give more/again, how can we get them involved in other ways

• Potentially - funding bodies

Miscellaneous

• Funding - many organisations are driven by applying for grants to do things - we miss out on some of this because we are not poor. How do we co-sponsor?
• Media - press coverage