Thinking further, and I hope you're able to consider suggestions from non-members..
1. Start the Wikimedia Australia Journal for Education and Research (WAJER) on Wikiversity. I volunteer to be a peer reviewer. It is a venue for peer reviewing and publishing works developed in or about the Wikimedia projects, and related fields. If, over time it achieves impact factor, and it will by our own metrix, then we will lobby Excellence in Research Australia to recognise it. When that happens, academics have no reason not to engage. 2. Establish a restricted access MediaWiki for culturally vulnerable and sensitive groups in Australia. I'm thinking primarily Indigenous Australians, but also refugees and recent migrants, or minority groups that are at risk of oppression and exploitation. The purpose of the closed wiki is to offer a secure place to start and trial projects, for as long as they need to deciding how and when their works can move to the main projects. In my limited experience working with Indigenous Australians, this would remove a significant obstacle for their engagement. John Vandenberg was proposing something like this last year, and I had at least 2 large groups in the NT wanting such a thing, and now another in Victoria. On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Leigh Blackall <[email protected]>wrote: > And some case study or exemplar for an appropriate and informed > relationship between a university marketing department, and the ethos of > the wiki projects. Ie, remove the barrier that marketing would place on > faculty engagement with the project > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Leigh Blackall > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'm not able to edit WMAu wiki, >> >> Good to see a continuation of Wikimedia in Higher Education. We could >> sure use some more proactive support in our effort to develop educational >> practices around the Wikimedia projects. This includes, librarian awareness >> campaigns, how to edit workshops, WMAu partnering in funding applications, >> a road show of Australian work to date, more active use of Wikiversity as a >> hub for this sort of project. >> >> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Kerry Raymond >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> A little while ago there was a call for ideas for our Annual Plan for >>> 2014, which is an essential part of our FDC funding application (can't ask >>> for money unless we have things we intend to do!). >>> >>> To try to get this conversation going, I have thrown together a list of >>> ideas that have come up. Which of these are worth doing? Which not? What's >>> missing from the list? >>> >>> http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Proposal:2014_Annual_Plan >>> >>> Please discuss via email or via editing the page/talk as you prefer. >>> >>> Kerry >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Leigh Blackall <http://about.me/leighblackall> >> +61(0)404561009 >> >> >> > > > -- > -- > Leigh Blackall <http://about.me/leighblackall> > +61(0)404561009 > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall <http://about.me/leighblackall> +61(0)404561009
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