PortlandWiki:Barnraising
This page is a brainstorming page for a possible upcoming "barnraising" event in early 2011. The purpose of this event is to draw upon our existing group of wiki enthusiasts to become or return as contributors to PortlandWiki. A possible second purpose is aimed at improving PortlandWiki for presentation to the Meier Memorial Trust for hosting Wiki Wednesday meetings in the future.
considerations for venue
- AboutUs
- may encourage participation from original crew
- may be difficult to ensure accessibility due to doors locking at 5:30?
- would need approval from Ray King
- Backspace
- Meier Memorial Trust?
what to do during initial barnraising meeting
- have fun
- have drinks/snacks
- give brief overview of PortlandWiki and/or its history and/or how it is different now than after launch in Sep 2009
- identify what needs to be done
- secure activity commitments from attendees
- if time, have collaborative editing session
ways to prolong and promote activity after initial commitment
- nagging
- frequent follow-up meetings of an appealing nature
- rewards (mentioned below)
(good) reasons to edit
- enjoyment of discussion and debate
- the fun of creation/improvement
- tangible rewards
- peer-given badges, awards, barnstars
- reward board (monetary, tit-for-tat, badges)
- civic/altruistic/educational (the satisfaction of creating something useful)
- egoistic
- knowing your works are viewed by others, perhaps a large community
- respect of one's peers
- getting one's name out, furthering one's career
- personal education (researching and formulating one's ideas in words)
ways to edit (or, what we need)
These include long-term as well as short-term goals.
- creating new articles and improving existing ones
- goal: 10 impressive articles, worth showing anyone!
- goal: 500 very basic articles (descriptive sentence or two, a url or two, perhaps a few standardized section headers [history, etc] a few categories)
- adding categories to articles
- creating [[wikilinks]] from one article to another
- great freely licensed images, video, audio
- content that is useful or interesting that exists nowhere else
- example: How to contest a parking ticket
- example: Google map of Portland neighborhoods (with borders defined)
- example: Google map of all articles' physical locations automatically created by street data in their articles
- example: Portland history articles
- example: ? (you add here)
- giving awards, compliments to other editors that are doing good work
- organizing exciting/fun events/meetups
- improving technical infrastructure, graphics (interface, awards, illustrations, etc)