Grants:IdeaLab/Innovate Beta
Project idea[edit]
What is the problem you're trying to solve?[edit]
Innovation is currently at a low ebb in the Community/Foundation interfaction. There is some movement towards tactical, responsive tool-building. What I want to see is a vibrant eco-system of related sites tools and apps building out from and supporting the Foundation initiatives
What is your solution?[edit]
Initially a portal, growing out into a network or virtual community layered on top of the MediaWiki community. In person interactions developing into physical locations in various cities linked to existing research innovation and development communities. Long-term research co-funded by WMF with an innovative context.
Goals[edit]
I see Innovation as happening in three overlapping stages.
- Fostering an innovation mindset and culture across the movement – community engagement and outreach, horizon scanning and road mapping, research and development
- Developing an innovation ecosystem around the Wikimedia mission – partnerships in academia and startups, hubs and spokes in global innovation centres
- Implementation – spinout
Get Involved[edit]
About the idea creator[edit]
Some experience on the English-language Wikipedia. Experience of funding and commissioning research and strategic advice to the research community
Participants[edit]
Endorsements[edit]
Expand your idea[edit]
Would a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation help make your idea happen? You can expand this idea into a grant proposal.