Hi Anil and friends, Apology for the delayed response -- I've been away on a short international mission. I'm very pleased and excited to see this discussion taking shape :-). It's a very positive sign showing the maturation of our community and that we're on track to achieving our mission!
Since founding WikiEducator --- I've held the firm belief that this is a community project and that our processes and guidelines should be developed collaboratively by the community as and when they're required. It's great to see this level of volunteer effort from a wide range of WikiEducators sharing the load in taking our project forward. I agree that we should avoid reinventing wheels and we have the advantage of adapting and refining guidelines and policies that have evolved in the Wikipedia and other WMF projects. In fact, WikiEducator's policy for Open Community Governance was derived from corresponding bylaws of the WikiMedia Foundation (with proper attribution :-) ) but specifically refined for the needs of a community of Educators -- See: http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Policy_for_Community_Governance At the same time, WikiEducator has the advantage of hindsight and we have the opportunity to refine and improve on guidelines and policies developed by the WMF projects as suited to the unique needs of our community. Let's work together in getting this right. At this stage, we are in the process of developing a proposal for establishing workgroups which will become the community mechanism for WE to develop guidelines and policy proposals. WE plan to table the guidelines for Workgroups at the next Community Council meeting scheduled for September 2009. That said, I don't see any reason to hold back on the development of corresponding guidelines addressing the needs you have identified in this thread. We will need to prioritise the list -- we won't be able to tackle all these policy proposals in one go. I'd recommend starting with developing a proposal for guidelines and support resources relating to WikiEducator Administrators (i.e. Sysops and Bureaucrats). From my desk -- I'd recommend that Copyright policy would be the next priority taking into account the challenges we have with users uploading images which are not properly attributed. If this makes sense --- feel free to start a page in the WikiEducator namespace for a workgroup on WikiEducator Administrators, for example: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Administrators As far as possible -- try and align the development with the emerging, but draft guidelines of the Workgroup on workgroups -- see: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Workgroups The first step of the workgroup for WikiEducator Adminstrators would be to draft a charter for the workgroup. There is a draft charter framework under development here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Workgroups/Team_Charter I be very happy to join a workgroup on establishing guidelines for WikiEducator Adminstrators under your convenorship Anil --- keep up the good work! Perhaps we can get this work completed before the next council meeting and have the guidelines for Administrators approved as the first set of guidelines under the emerging Workgroup policy :-) Cheers Wayne Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
