Academy

Academy

"The School of Athens" painted by Raphael (1483–1520), depicting Plato's Academy. The main image on Commons has multiple annotations, you might see those clicking on the image.

Academy is a portal started by CIS-A2K to document and share the program's learning, knowledge. This portal will contain a series of writings and other materials on different aspects of the program and the Wikimedia movement in general.

Objectives

• Document CIS-A2K's program knowledge and experience, specially in the India programs, and the programs we have conducted and directly supported.
• Prepare documentation, commentaries and learning modules that might be beneficial for the Wikimedia movement.
• Give a space to friendly debate/discussion space to Wikimedians.
• Giving programmatic feedback on the different ongoing Wikimedia projects.

Naming

This particular portal's name is inspired by Platonic Academy, a study centre founded by Plato in c. 387 BC in Athens.

Task list

• Naming convention preparation: how the subpages are named and grouped
• Further explain: the scope of Academy, what is acceptable and what's not?
• Clarify: Scope of involvement
• Creation: Necessary templates

Writings

These entries are to be categorised and sorted.

• Wikimedia Wikimeet and Beyond: Ideas and Opinions
• Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022: Second Iteration of Wikimeet on 18 – 20 February
• Academy/Email communication good practices