Grants:IdeaLab/Empowering Book Authors to Contribute
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Project idea edit
What is the problem you're trying to solve? edit
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? edit
Create a special program for Book Writers, in which Book Writers (manuals, scientific, and so on) are encouraged to contribute.
Project goals edit
Increasing the amount of contributions from people that are real specialists and wrote books on a given topic
Get involved edit
Participants edit
Admins that think that Book Authors can be a great source and wish to help them contribute in a proper way
Endorsements edit
Expand your idea edit
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Project plan edit
Activities edit
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 edit
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 edit
Develop an intercultural team of Admins willing to contribute, at least in 5 different world languages
Sustainability edit
Dramatically increase Book Writers contributions
Measures of success edit
- How many new voices are created by book authors that are involved in the project
- How many articles are improved by book authors contributions
- How many book authors per year will enroll in the program
- How many languages we will be able to involve in the program
Project team edit
Users, Admins, Writers
Community notification edit
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