Kasutaja:Oop/Wiki Loves Company

http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wiki_Loves_Company (Google Translate)

Wiki Loves Company is a project proposal which Wikimedia Sweden on a large scale works with its partners, such as the Centre for Business History and their affiliates (that is, different companies) to create fuller, but neutral articles on Wikipedia about companies. In order to do the required training.

Background

Swedish Wikipedia contains about half a million articles. It is difficult to assess quality across categories, but the sampling has been done shows that articles about Swedish companies contain large gaps. They are short, contain few sources, and almost no pictures. For Swedish-language Wikipedia to nearly 300 excellent artikar is just a small number of enterprises and entrepreneurs (currently only 3 pieces: mineral water health spa (but not the modern enterprise) , Ivar Kreuger and Pan American World Airways ). Other studies on the French Wikipedia ) shows that even large corporate items are deprived. Readers are therefore forced to go to other sources than Wikipedia.

This means the company part of Swedish cultural history, with its inventors, researchers, entrepreneurs and business contacts, not getting the attention it deserves.

Meanwhile, those who keep track of recent changes on Wikipedia had many bad experiences with companies and entrepreneurs who are trying to do advertising for businesses and products. To make more companies aware of Wikipedia's rules could reduce problems with companies that want to advertise.

This type of project, targeting enterprise, are unique in the Wikimedia movement.

Project

Proposed timetable

spring of 2012, planning meetings, Wikimedia Sweden / Centre for Business History, etc.
May, Lennart to Estonia to present the concept of the conference
August, the schedule nailed
September-October, gather interested Wikipedians, including jury
October, putting up websites
October to December, contact companies that can register via the website, CFN and other help with marketing
October-November, preparation of training materials, continuous improvement
printing of educational materials
January-February 2013, training (two sessions)
(Probably) March 2013, the contest is carried out
April, the assessment and disclosure of "winners"

Budget

trip to Estonia, in May, 5000 SEK
trip to Stockholm, March, 2000 SEK
trip to Stockholm, June, 2000 SEK
trip to Stockholm, August, 2000 SEK
trip to Stockholm, October, 2000 SEK
trip to Stockholm, November, 2000 SEK
trip to Stockholm, January, 2000 SEK
trip to Stockholm, February, 2000 SEK
trip to Stockholm, April, 2000 SEK
overheads meeting Wikipedians, 1000 SEK
overheads training event 1, 1000 SEK
overheads training event 2, 1000 SEK
printing of educational materials, 5000 SEK
dissemination of training 1000 SEK
price, unknown sum, possibly donated price
Total: 30 000 SEK

Project Facts

Project:
Location: Entire Sweden
What: A competition between Swedish companies to expand the articles with neutral information
Goal: To increase at least 50 articles about Swedish companies and creating educational materials that can be reused
URL
Writing about companies and brands
Wikipedia and businesses , a blog post
List of Sweden's largest companies

About the race

There are countless companies in Sweden. Even if we exclude those who do not meet Wikipedia's relevance criteria , so there are hundreds of companies whose Wikipedia articles could be significantly improved. Before the competition, we need to map out the situation so that we have a picture "before and after."

After the Wikimedia Sweden perfected people who work at businesses and at the Centre for Business History of workshops, we let the companies work with the articles. Wikimedia Sweden are available for support and advice during the contest period, and help with training.

The contest was inspired by the successful project Wiki Loves Monuments , which started in the Netherlands in 2010 and since then has resulted in nearly 200,000 new and freely licensed images to use in Wikipedia and by anyone. See also astronomy event on Swedish Wikipedia , which is also of similar cuts.

After the contest

Thank you letter to all participants' talk pages, encouragement to continue contributing to new users.

Award ceremony at the Centre for Business History?

Workshops

The great challenge of this project is to avoid advertising articles. Therefore, the workshops go through:

how well-written articles look like and what we are proposing that they write
Wikipedia's rules - what you can and can not do in articles about themselves and their company
contacts with Wikipedians
images and materials under free license

Jury

NN, Wikimedia Sweden
NN, Centre for Business History
NN, a representative of another organization?

"Wiki Loves Companies will be carried out in Sweden in H1, 2013, and it could be expanded at the Nordic level." (http://no.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nordisk_chapterm%C3%B8te_2012)