Interestingly, I just had a conversation this week with a (for profit) GLAM consultancy organisation in Greece that wants to do a wiki-town project with the city of Thessaloniki. They've already got the city council and several museums of the city, and some [as yet undefined] level of support from the editing community. What they want now is permission from the WMF to use the logos, and to submit a grant application to run the project.
This is an interesting case because it's an organisation that has experience in running events in a country that does indeed have a lot of cultural heritage at the city level, and they city wants to do it. But, they also want Wikimedia to subsidise their staff time to operate the activity - without which the project would probably not happen. I've not seen any grant application (so I don't know how much they want), nor do I know about the degree of local volunteer community support to *actually* *write and translate the articles... *It'll be interesting to see how it develops (if at all). -Liam wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata On 1 May 2015 at 09:34, Gnangarra <gnanga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Leigh > > I think its a rather complex issue and can see a few red flags there to > start with that would cause a lot of issues, *Paid photographers? Paid > historians? Paid editors?*. For Wikitowns or for that matter any project > really needs to be driven by the volunteer community both from within and > from the associated partners. Someone being paid specifically to project > manage a WikiTown wouldnt be a good perspective. From within an LGA having > someone in a community liason, or GLAM type position who can co-ordinate > some of the activities should be ok, even they need to be careful with COI. > > I personally would discourage any paid activity as we have seen multiple > times this inevitably triggers a lot of damage to the community and > individuals regardless of standing. > > On 1 May 2015 at 14:44, Leigh Blackall <leighblack...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Gnangara, >> >> Is there any possibility or objection to paying someone project manage a >> Wikitown project? Am thinking that some local councils or business >> precincts would put up the funds, and a good project manager would honour >> ask the disclosure of interests and transparency of process inside >> Wikipedia. Paid photographers? Paid historians? Paid editors? >> >> I realise this is a contentious issue, but not sure it's impossible... >> On 01/05/2015 8:06 am, "Gnangarra" <gnanga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> G'Day >>> >>> Yes Australia has two ongoing Wikitown projects >>> >>> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTown/Toodyaypedia >>> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTown/Freopedia >>> - >>> >>> I'm created both projects and are responsible for their on going >>> activity, the projects activity spikes depending on the availability of >>> funding for each set of new plates. I was also fortunate enough to see the >>> talk in Washington in 2012. WikiTowns have a wide appeal and are very >>> popular the issue is that they require significant time to build which gets >>> complicated when you rely on volunteers. >>> >>> I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has, and provide assistance >>> >>> Gnangarra >>> >>> Vice President Wikimedia Australia >>> WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> >> > > > -- > GN. > Vice President Wikimedia Australia > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra > Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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