Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Knowledge Foundation
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The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a nonprofit organization which promotes access to information. Because many of its supporters are also allies to the Wikipedia community and because English Wikipedia is an ideal meeting place for storing working notes of the organization, this wikiproject exists as a community space for helping OKF people understand their relationship with Wikipedia. It is also a workspace for planning the Wikipedia-movement aspects of OKF outreach events and online community meetings.
Agenda
- Participation in the summer 2014 Wikimania conference in London
- there will be an open access track at this Wikimania and hopefully future ones
- see wm2014:Outreach/Open_access for more details
- Development of Wikipedia articles related to the Open Knowledge Foundation
- Open Knowledge Foundation
- CKAN
- Open Database License
- Panton Principles
- there ought to be more
- Development of all Wikipedia articles related to the open movement
- see WP:WikiProject Open for the WikiProject managing this
United States issues
Monthly online meetup
The OKF community in the United States is planning a monthly online meetup. See proposed times at this doodle poll.
OKF supporters in the United States
- Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:47, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
- geraldshields11 Geraldshields11 (talk) 16:44, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Mcnabber091 (talk) 21:58, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 05:39, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Germany issues
From July 2011 to July 2013, the German chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation hosted user:Daniel Mietchen as Wikipedian in Residence to promote open science. His work is continued by the community at WP:WikiProject Open.
Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! Harej (talk) 15:17, 1 October 2014 (UTC)