Grants:IdeaLab/Empowering Book Authors to Contribute

statusnot funded
Empowering Book Authors to Contribute
summaryEmpowering Book Authors to Contribute to Wikipedia
targetplease add a target wiki
amount13000USD
granteeCulturalresearch
contact• dtr(_AT_)danieletrevisani.com• dtr(_AT_)danieletrevisani.com
project managerDaniele Trevisani
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created on12:32, Friday, June 3, 2016 (UTC)
round 1 2016


Project idea

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What is the problem you're trying to solve?

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Book Authors are very often the most knowledgeable people on topics they wrote about, and should be important targets for finding good wikipedia authors. Most knowledge in the world nowadays is produced by Book Authors, in any field of knowledge, but they are almost forced not to contribute, being tagged as "spammers" or "self-promoting", when extracting some of their knowledge from a book they wrote, to insert it into a relevant voice. This is a form of castration of the potential of Wikpedia. Being a book writer, I experienced it many many times, become practically unable to contribute on fields in which I am really knowledgeable and sometimes one of the top experts (e.g, Intercultural Negotiation, and others). I think this current situation blocks the advancement of the core mission of wikipedia.

What is your solution?

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Create a special program for Book Writers, in which Book Writers (manuals, scientific, and so on) are encouraged to contribute.

Project goals

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Increasing the amount of contributions from people that are real specialists and wrote books on a given topic

Get involved

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Participants

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Admins that think that Book Authors can be a great source and wish to help them contribute in a proper way

Endorsements

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Expand your idea

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Project plan

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Activities

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Build a team of "Book Writers Scouting", encourage their contribution, train them on how to contribute well, and see what results can be determined.

Budget

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Project manager 2000 Training sessions 4000 Editing 2000 Developing a manual for Book Authors 2000 Preparing and presenting results to Wikimedia top management 3000

Community engagement

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Develop an intercultural team of Admins willing to contribute, at least in 5 different world languages

Sustainability

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Dramatically increase Book Writers contributions

Measures of success

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  1. How many new voices are created by book authors that are involved in the project
  2. How many articles are improved by book authors contributions
  3. How many book authors per year will enroll in the program
  4. How many languages we will be able to involve in the program

Project team

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Users, Admins, Writers

Community notification

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Please paste links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions. Need notification tips?