User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/ZBW 2013/Potential avenues for collaboration between Wikimedia and ZBW

Some food for thought

 * Why did you choose to set up the ZBW Wiki?
 * Why did you go for Confluence rather than MediaWiki?
 * Wikimedia day, or recognition of Wikimedia work on ZBW-related information as adequate use of ZBW staff time
 * Review of ZBW-related articles and materials by ZBW researchers
 * Routine upload of non-publishable items of encyclopedic value to Wikimedia Commons
 * Provide data (and images/ videos) on villages around field sites, so that the wiki entries related to them can include that information
 * Provide photos and short biographies of ZBW researchers
 * Publish in reusably licensed journals
 * ZBW is quite active here
 * If that is not possible, upload at least some of the non-published items (example)


 * Wiki workshops
 * Edit-a-thons
 * Hackdays
 * Backstage pass
 * Release technical reports, info brochures or press materials under an open license
 * Library training (e.g. work with sources)
 * Open Access Week
 * QRpedia codes in public places
 * Coursework with wiki component (see also Wikimedia Sweden education program)


 * Wikimedian in Residence program
 * How can and does ZBW contribute to Linked Open Data?

Research questions

 * What is the value that Wikipedia and its sister projects - or open projects more generally - bring to society?


 * What would be the costs and benefits of research switching to an open mode?


 * What is it that incites millions of people to donate in Wikimedia funding drives?


 * What is it that incites thousands of people to donate their free labour to Wikimedia projects, or volunteer work more generally?


 * Are there any categoric objections to publicly funded research projects doing their accounting in public?