Grants:IdeaLab/Collaboration Spread Sheet

Idealab

Collaboration Spread Sheet

A form where participants can offer their skills to the community while stating their areas of interests.

idea creator• Shir-El too

community organizer• Mom

advisor• Nina

created on17:32, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Project idea

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

To find collaborators who are interested and willing to help. Very often attempts to do so through tracking previous editors, leaving messages on individual talk pages, or even asking for "help" proves ineffective; many are no longer active, leaving individual help requests on talk pages is time consuming, and help requests often elicit "got to help page..." which is often no help.

What is your solution?

Creation of a form or 'spreadsheet' where participants can offer their skills while stating their interests. Example:

Shir-El too - Skills: writer, copy editor, layout. Interests: History, Archaeology, Films, Espionage, improving Wikipedia! Ideally this form would automatically erase entries older than 3 months, so that all offers of assistance would be current.

Goals

The creation of a tool that will speed up communications between interested parties in the shortest possible time.

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Expand your idea

Would a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation help make your idea happen? You can expand this idea into a grant proposal.

Expand into an Individual Engagement Grant

Expand into a Project and Event Grant

I don't know.