Roadmap 2011
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The months prior to this were not documented. Now we have a plan and a strategy for accomplishing our goals: Roadmap
2011.04
- (DONE) get access to all domain name and hosting accounts at present from neeru and nathan kinkade
- get google analytics account access and setup weekly on monday report
- (DONE) setup a new linode.com account on smallest account
- (DONE) move site to new hosting, already talked with nathan kinkade at CC and he will help
- (DONE) setup launchpad bug and feature tracker for the entire project, expose on site
- decided against this now, since we have mediawiki bug tracking, but have the accounts reserved Jon Phillips 18:17, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
- (DONE) Design an updated theme from the new logo (have 3 already from neeru)
- NOTE: We decided to use default mediawiki vector theme Jon Phillips 18:15, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
- Coordinate with Neeru, and implement
2011.05
End of School Year Push
- (DONE) Get new Fabricatorz administrators setup and introduced on the mailing list (jon)
- (DONE) get bug tracking and feature requests in sync with how WMF and WP do (rejon)
- (DONE) Assess where we are at with the first month of development.
- (DONE) Implement new logo and theme
- (DONE) Connect with stakeholders and get involved and onboard
- (DONE) clear out old emails and update all social media accounts
- (DONE) Need to update MediaWiki on AcaWiki
2011.06
Top 100 Papers in World
- Get the top-cited papers in the world summarized on AcaWiki.
Admin
- tracking bugs admin task
Make it easy for the community to track bug reports (christopher)Create a bugs@acawiki.org email account; sign-up this account to the mailing list(Jon Phillips)Sign up bugs@acawiki.org for a Bugzilla account (christopher)Set up 'whining' to email a bug summary to bugs@acawiki.org once per week (christopher)Set up a filter on bugs@acawiki.org to forward these reports to the mailing list (christopher)Configure mailing list to accept the emailsUnder Recipient Filters add bugs@acawiki.org as an alias name for the list.Add bugzilla-daemon@wikimedia.org to List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted.
- Ask Bugzilla admin if we can CC all AcaWiki bugs to acawiki-general@lists.ibiblio.org by default (Jon Phillips)
chat and mailing list focus, and social networks (christopher)- is there a clear way people can get involved in discussions and onto irc?
add to the left sidebar links to [AcaWiki:Communications]] and to the identica, twitter, facebook, linkedin pages.
make sure analytics report getting sent each week Jon Phillips 05:41, 14 June 2011 (UTC)connect together all facebook, twitter and identica with ping.fm for admins to use Jon Phillips 03:43, 14 June 2011 (UTC)update facebook, twitter, and identica with new logo (Jon Phillips 03:43, 14 June 2011 (UTC) and Christopher)insure social media is listed on this website (Jon Phillips 05:12, 14 June 2011 (UTC))http://identi.ca/acawikihttp://twitter.com/acawikihttp://facebook.com/acawikihttp://www.linkedin.com/company/acawikicreated Jon Phillips 03:43, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Announcements
- community + press Announce updated site and logo, and approach to top papers
Take first pass at press releaseJon Phillips 03:27, 14 June 2011 (UTC)create press release template and press infrastructure on the site Jon Phillips 04:22, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
- spread the news via social networks, via both our networks
- provide analysis and execution of announcement about places whom would be interested in this and acawiki
develop sustainability plan to be implemented following month Jon Phillips 03:43, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Begin campaign to increase users of the site (Jon Phillips 04:36, 14 June 2011 (UTC))- contacting media studies professors to get their students to write summaries for their classes ( I attached a list here)
- reach out to science bloggers who are already writing summaries
- somehow getting high school students to request papers to drive demand (can then individually email high profile scholars
- contacting high profile scholars to contribute summaries (and telling them high school students want access to their papers)
Begin outreach efforts Jon Phillips 04:37, 14 June 2011 (UTC)- Begin canvassing contributors for the project, communicating with directly
- engaging twitter, facebook, status.net
- find out who is using the site, get feedback from, setup community participation
Get AcaWiki featured as Semantic MediaWiki of the monthChristopher Adams 19:38, 29 June 2011 (UTC)Create a page about AcaWiki with links and screenshots[1]
0.7 + 0.8
add language support to the site, and target overseas groups (christopher + rejon)announce language support (rejon)Fix analytics code not displaying properly (rejon)Clean-up main page (christopher)The content is in one big table. Separate these out into templates that are easier to maintain.Add additional links at the bottom of the page à la Wikipedia's Other areas of Wikipedia
Make the summary count dynamic (rejon)http://acawiki.org/Category:Summary reports 733 as of writing
Add better links to social networks more prominently (christopher)
2011.09
assess any other wikimedia harmonizations (Jon Phillips 04:10, 14 June 2011 (UTC))assess how deep SMW is and/or what that means for collaboration with WMF projects
Need a sustainability assessment for the project and/or sustainability plan in place (Jon Phillips 04:10, 14 June 2011 (UTC))add AcaWiki to the SMW RegistryWONTDO UNTIL THEY ASK FOR US Get SMW hosting setup on WikiMedia Foundation servers -- deferred per [2]- Coordinate with Wikimedia Foundation lead over transitioning to their hosting longer term (Jon Phillips 04:10, 14 June 2011 (UTC))
meetings in san francisco with wiki and related openaccess projects (Jon Phillips 04:10, 14 June 2011 (UTC))update all social media accounts (rejon + pete)Keep metrics growing, and on-going development and community directions (ALL)- wikimedia, wikia, plos, CC, university profs
implement sustainability plan (Jon Phillips 04:10, 14 June 2011 (UTC))analyze: targeted ads, sponsorship plans, university sponsorship
Assess and implement more top-down strategies for seeding content (Jon Phillips 04:10, 14 June 2011 (UTC) + Fabricatorz)participate at sharism workshop in doha with qatar university (christopher, jon, nkinkade)participate in the sharism forum and the Creative Commons SummitWONTDO: the acawiki tagline is too long and complicated, need to refine it into like 4-6 words maximum Jon Phillips 17:22, 16 June 2011 (UTC)Get spencer going on adding arts and culture summaries and intro'd as an admin Jon Phillips 06:44, 14 October 2011 (UTC)Update the language interface Jon Phillips 06:44, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
2011.10
Attend WikiSym2011, gather ideas at Acawiki:WikiLit Ideas (greg-g)
2011.11
increase number of papers