Nabarry
Warning! - Page under serious construction! (That's my excuse for its current shabbiness, ha ha.)
I have another profile (even more bare-bones than this one) on Wikipedia. Also, I am currently pursuing the Activism project (described briefly below) on Wikia. You can check out a growing description of it on my profile there...that description should be more up-to-date than this one.
Some helpful tips for myself can be found here.
WikiActivism edit
This is a proposal for a new Wikimedia project. I am new to the project proposal game, and would really welcome any tips or pointers on how to do all this. Also, I'll be renovating this page very frequently over the next few weeks, so if the idea is too poorly articulated for your taste, try back in a couple of days. It could well be that the project is far better thought out in my head than on this page!
The Idea edit
WikiActivism is a project for past and present social movements such as the Civil Rights movement, Animal Rights movement, and the blooming Immigrant Rights movement. The meat and potatoes of the project will be a page for each separate movement. The majority of pages (great in number, though less important than the main page for each movement) will list evidence used by or against each movement, organizations associated with each movement, and other such items. (Most links on each page will probably go to Wikipedia for explanation of various terms and issues.)
How is this different than the existing pages on Wikipedia?
- It will be more in-depth than the Wikipedia articles. This will include:
- Evidence and statistics cited for or against movements
- Organizations associated with movements
- Detailed mapping of the inter-relations between movements
- A deeper consideration of the issues of the movement
- There will be sections devoted to the ongoing activity of each movement (almost like melding Wikipedia with Wikinews for these movements).
- Each movement will have a page or pages describing practical actions that potential movement members or supporters can take to further the movement
Issues, Concerns, Objections and Questions edit
Many of the concepts and ideas on the pages have explanations on Wikipedia, and would be unnecessary (and maybe against copyright) to copy over content from the 'pedia to this project. Is it considered bad form for many of the links on a particular project to actually lead off to other projects? Or is that considered necessary? I notice that Wikibooks has a lot of that, so I guess it's okay.
It is possible that this project will not fall under the WikiMedia Foundation charter, which is to spread information. This project is meant to spread information, but is also meant to have practical information on how to contribute to various movements. Is that okay? Please opine.
Project Links edit
See the proposal on the Talk:Proposals page.
Keeping track of links to the proposal edit
Note to myself: If the location of the proposal moves around (e.g. from the Talk page to the main page), I need to remember where I have put all the links to the proposal.