Dear Dr. Wayne, Thank you very much for the invaluable guidance. I completely agree with your suggestions. Now let me open the page http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Administrators
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
