Volunteer Action Manual
You can be part of everything that the Wikimedia movement needs and wants to accomplish. This manual is intended as a resource to help you get stuff done.
At this point it's just an outline, and some processes in Wikimedia are broken or undocumented. We'll try to find suitable workarounds, or fix processes where that's possible. To start off, you can help us build this manual into a useful resource. :-)
- N.B. - The links that I added may or may not be sufficient for these purposes. We should aggressively check and/or rewrite each. ~Philippe (WMF) 02:49, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Wikimedia Volunteer Action Manual
- How to make a volunteer action commitment
- How to find/form/join a workgroup/taskforce
- How to make an individual commitment
- How to make a chapter commitment
- How to organize in your country
- How to host a meetup
- How to create local user groups / Wikipods
- How to start a chapter
- What other structures exist than chapters
- How to fundraise
- How to organize an event
- How to develop a cultural partnership
- When and How to get a mailing list
- How to get "official blessing"
- to reach out to the external world
- to enact a governance change
- How to contribute to the software
- How to learn MediaWiki
- How to get SVN commit access
- How to write an extension
- How to get your extension deployed
- How to build community consensus
- How to expand Wikimedia's scope
- Piloting a project with no Wikimedia resources
- Proposing a new project
- Proposing an existing project for adoption
- How to propose closure for a project