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===Background of the promising practise=== | ===Background of the promising practise=== | ||
''How it all started, in what conditions, how did you come up with the idea, what was your motivation, starting questions.'' | ''How it all started, in what conditions, how did you come up with the idea, what was your motivation, starting questions.'' | ||
Great ideas are usually invented independently in different places simultaneously. ScoutWiki project started with different local initiatives: Scoutopedia in France, PartioWiki in Finland, Scoutpedia in the Netherlands, PfadiWiki in Switzerland and WikiRoca for Spanish speaking countries. The idea was (and still is) to create a free | Great ideas are usually invented independently in different places simultaneously. ScoutWiki project started with different local initiatives: Scoutopedia in France, PartioWiki in Finland, Scoutpedia in the Netherlands, PfadiWiki in Switzerland and WikiRoca for Spanish speaking countries. The idea was (and still is) to create a free knowledge base, on which everyone could contribute, to share our scouting practise and experience on past, present and future. When we realised there were similar projects in different countries, we decided to unify them, to create a unique project: ScoutWiki available at http://www.scoutwiki.org A ScoutWiki is a Wiki about and for those who practise scouting. | ||
===People and methods involved=== | ===People and methods involved=== | ||
Revision as of 17:39, 2 December 2006
The international ScoutWiki community has been asked to produce a report about ScoutWiki and the different related national scouting wikis, to be used in the WOSM. This work has to be achieved quickly, and we ask you to consider it as of first importance. From this report depends how the WOSM will consider ScoutWiki Network.
We are working on an English version, which will be translated in French (English and French are the official WOSM languages), and eventually in other languages. For a start, here is the structure the report will have. Note that it should not be too long, one page would be a good deal. So please try to be concise, and to go to the essential.
Structure
Background of the promising practise
How it all started, in what conditions, how did you come up with the idea, what was your motivation, starting questions. Great ideas are usually invented independently in different places simultaneously. ScoutWiki project started with different local initiatives: Scoutopedia in France, PartioWiki in Finland, Scoutpedia in the Netherlands, PfadiWiki in Switzerland and WikiRoca for Spanish speaking countries. The idea was (and still is) to create a free knowledge base, on which everyone could contribute, to share our scouting practise and experience on past, present and future. When we realised there were similar projects in different countries, we decided to unify them, to create a unique project: ScoutWiki available at http://www.scoutwiki.org A ScoutWiki is a Wiki about and for those who practise scouting.
People and methods involved
Who was involved in the project, how many people, what methods did you use (teams, presentations, weekends, etc...) There is over 1000 user accounts created in all local wikies all together (PartioWiki 500+, WikiRoca 200+, Scoutopedia 100+, Pfadiwiki 100+, Scoutpedia ~100) and some user accounts have maybe made just one little change, but there are hundreds active people who contribute their projects regulary. PartioWiki: The main methods are own IRC-channel, where is ~20 active users online to talk about improving PartioWiki or to help random users seeking help. We have kept two "Weekend of wikifying", when we try to contribute PartioWiki as much as possible. One was same time than JOTA. And we have kept one "Workcamp", with few peoples with their computers. It's more fun to contribute, when you do it together.
The process
Sequence of steps, describing what you did and when
The outcomes
What were the results, what changed There has ever been more than 4000 articles written on the whole ScoutWiki network, in different languages, and it is just the begining ! As we use a wiki system (like on Wikipedia), every one is able to improve each article content, or to create an article.
Difficulties
Problems you had to face, what did not work and why, what others should be careful about and learn from
