Activities/Ideas
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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.
- have an audio option so you can listen while you eat etc.
- Public relations
- Supporting Wikipedia v1.0
- Running campaigns in universities and schools encouraging students and academics to edit
- Installing new tool servers in Kennisnet that we would have (some) control over (probably no legal issues with this)
- Giving sessions at teacher training "top-up" days on the responsible use of Wikipedia (et al.) in the classroom
- Working with the community to increase coverage of e.g. historical sites
- Employing developers
- Hosting an annual UK Wiki-conference, combined with AGM. Details
- Sourcing and digitising public domain works located in the UK (e.g. documents, books, pictures, ...)
- Encouraging the release of new and currently copyrighted works under free licenses
- 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.
- Donating back to WMF, subject to charitable restrictions
- Hosting/funding a local mirror ("squid server") of the Wikimedia websites, subject to legal issues regarding libel law
- Supporting the German Chapter owned, Amsterdam located toolserver, subject to charitable restrictions and considerations of libel law
- Events along the style of Wikipedia Takes The City?
- Supporting projects in minority languages native to the United Kingdom, accessing public funds that are available to promote these languages
- Using our name to get into areas that would otherwise be hard to get into (museam backrooms bits of industrial archeology) or doing much the same for major document collections.
- Using the name to persuade people doing significant digitalisation projects to release these under a free license
- Persuade a newspaper to reuse content from Wikinews, possibly regularly?
- A lot of projects were proposed for Wikipedia UK v1: m:Wikimedia UK v1.0/Possible projects.
- Organise a Wikipedia Academy in the UK
- Support transcription of the 1911 Copyright act on Wikisource: [1]
- 'A city that isn't London Loves Wikipedia' :-) Birmingham, for instance, has some great museums.