Activities/Ideas

Activities Current — Proposals — Ideas

This is a preliminary list of ideas that have been suggested; please add yours too and add your comments on the ideas. If you want to turn an idea into a proposal, please see the proposals page.

1. Public relations
2. Supporting Wikipedia v1.0
3. Running campaigns in universities and schools encouraging students and academics to edit
4. Installing new tool servers in Kennisnet that we would have (some) control over (probably no legal issues with this)
5. Giving sessions at teacher training "top-up" days on the responsible use of Wikipedia (et al.) in the classroom
6. Working with the community to increase coverage of e.g. historical sites
7. Employing developers
8. Hosting an annual UK Wiki-conference, combined with AGM. Details
9. Sourcing and digitising public domain works located in the UK (e.g. documents, books, pictures, ...)
10. Encouraging the release of new and currently copyrighted works under free licenses
11. Stimulate research into the use of wikipedia as an educational and communication tool. Seek academic partners to further this aim and bid for research funds.
12. Donating back to WMF, subject to charitable restrictions
13. Hosting/funding a local mirror ("squid server") of the Wikimedia websites, subject to legal issues regarding libel law
14. Supporting the German Chapter owned, Amsterdam located toolserver, subject to charitable restrictions and considerations of libel law
15. Events along the style of Wikipedia Takes The City?
16. Supporting projects in minority languages native to the United Kingdom, accessing public funds that are available to promote these languages
17. Using our name to get into areas that would otherwise be hard to get into (museam backrooms bits of industrial archology) or doing much the same for major document collections.
18. Using the name to pursuade people doing significant digitalisation projects to release these under a free license
19. Persuade a newspaper to reuse content from Wikinews, possibly regularly?
20. A lot of projects were proposed for Wikipedia UK v1: m:Wikimedia UK v1.0/Possible projects.