Talk:2013 Activity Plan/Ideas
I think it would be helpful for people to sign their ideas to help with any follow-up. --Fæ (talk) 16:40, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Comment re: Wikipedia in Schools
I notice that Ed has suggested this as an area of work. It's a sensible suggestion and I'm developing a project at the moment around digital literacy, online research skills and other related topics. I'll add some more details of this to this wiki later on today. --Stevie Benton (talk) 08:47, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
- This being a plan for next year, there has to be a reasonable goal of what can be achieved in a year. Ed writes, "there should be wikipedia editing lessons as part of every school's curriculum for every subject." Yes, this is a desirable goal, but what's an achievable way to progress toward it in the next year? Without that, we don't have an activity. What's happened in the past is that people have signed up to do "education projects" but people's interests are so spread across the sector that not much concrete happens. So we need to pull together on something achievable. I do want there to be a workshop for teachers some time in the next year and I've made a start on writing up some suggested activities, and Leutha and Tom Morton are making improvements. MartinPoulter (talk) 09:22, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Sex-ed improvement project
Andreas' proposal is already covered and budgeted in planned activity under expert outreach. We are working with a range of scientific and scholarly bodies to get improvements to Wikipedia in their area, and we have a budget and support for volunteers who want to meet with partners or to arrange training events or editathons, but nothing so far that specifically addresses sex education. Rather than trying to put sex ed into the activity plan, Andreas, your effort would be better spent finding a contact in a relevant partner body, having a meeting and getting something going. We can't put each individual project into an activity plan, otherwise we'd have a "cancer pages improvement" project, a "Parkinson's pages improvement" project and so on. MartinPoulter (talk) 09:15, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Training events for volunteers
Speaking selfishly, I'd like there to be a workshop for Wikipedians who want to be admins eventually. I hope and expect that some of the participants in the Train the Trainers workshop will take the initiative and put something together. In fact, why wait until 2013? MartinPoulter (talk) 09:25, 6 August 2012 (UTC)