Submissions:2016/Wikimedia US website design workshop
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- Title
- Theme
- Outreach
- Type of submission
- Workshop
- Author
- Pine
- E-mail address
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- Username
- Pine
- Affiliation
- Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
- Abstract
- Roundtable discussion with US affiliate board members, US affiliate officers, and community members regarding goals and design for a US Wikimedians national website.
- Discussion topics:
- What are the benefits of having a dedicated website? What we want to achieve with the site?
- The kinds of externally focused campaigns and activities that we want the website to support
- Should we have a public calendar on the site using Google Calendar, or another calendaring solution? (There has been discussion for years about having an option of a MediaWiki-based calendar, but this task is stalled.)
- Should we have a blog like WMF does and other affiliates do? If so, who will manage the blog?
- Look at sites of other affiliates such as www.wikimedia.nl, www.wikimedia.uk.org, and www.wikimediadc.org to consider what design elements we might like to borrow
- The kinds of internal communications that we want the website to support, if any
- Note the higher risk of internal conflict
- Insurance and liability issues and expenses. For example, what if there is an alleged copyright violation or libel?
- What kind of terms of use or friendly space policy should we have?
- Which US affiliate should own the domain, or should we create a dedicated organization for this purpose?
- Who should be the webmaster? Should we ask for a WMF grant to contract someone to build the site, or is there enough volunteer capacity with the right skills?
- How do we pay for domain hosting?
- Who should have administrator roles?
- Insurance matters
- Length of presentation
- 60 minutes preferred, but can be 45 or 30 minutes if necessary
- Special schedule requests
- Prefer Saturday or Sunday
- Preferred room size
- 35
- Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?
- Yes
Interested attendees
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- Smallbones alt (talk) 15:26, 1 August 2016 (EDT) could be very interesting
- Montanabw (talk) 20:31, 4 August 2016 (EDT) I like the idea of a national group.
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