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Willkommen beim Projekt Wiki Goes Goethe (WikiGoGo)

Willkommen zum Projekt "Wiki Goes Goethe" - Ein Projekt zur Förderung der Zusammenarbeit zwischen lokalen Wikipedianern, die sich Themen deutscher Kultur widmen und den Goethe-Instituten in den jeweiligen Ländern.

Welcome to the Project "Wiki Goes Goethe" - A project which connects Wikipedians interested in German culture and the Goethe Institut in the related countries.

Projekt Portal Deutschland (2022)

Hauptseite Projekt Portal Deutschland

Ursprüngliche Projektbeschreibung aus 2015 (english)

Project idea

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

In nearly 40 Wikipedias there are portals taking care of articles about Germany. Also there are 160 Goethe-Institutes around the world, which have the mission to support people who are interested to learn German, offering specialized libraries and reading rooms and to inform about German culture and art.

I would like to make a connection between these two "natural" partners for free knowledge in this field.

What is your solution?

The solution isn't really a great new invention. It's about bringing established ways we work on Wikipedia to the subject. Edit-a-thons, contests, books- & media grants or even a Wikipedian in residence.

Showing the possiblities of this collaboration is best and practically done by organizing "kick-off"-lighthouse projects in a few countries at which Wikipedians and members of the Goethe-Institutes explore the best possible ways of supporting more editing of good articles about German culture, art and more in the respective Wikipedia project.

Therefor I already had a general talk with members of the head office of the Goethe-Institut in Munich who are in charge of coordinating aspects of support, editorial stuff, libraries and media etc. globally, together with the local chiefs of staff in 94 countries. They are already fascinated by the idea and they feel that supporting Wikipedians should be part of the official mission of the Goethe Institut.

I would like to find co-owners and supporters of the project in local Wikipedias. Therefore I will contact and ping some Wikipedians in the next days who are already somehow connected themselves with writing about Germany in their particular Wikipedia.

I already have a certain idea how to do this in 2015, but I also would like to see what input comes from fellow Wikipedians around the world. So please don't hesitate to give your input, your questions so that this project can become success and fun in many Wikipedias.

What is the concrete proposal to make Kick-Off events

This plan is still raw, but hopefully inspiring to people who like to make "Nägel mit Köpfen" ("to put one's money where one's mouth is").

Volunteers editing Germany-related articles maybe have certain special fields in mind, in which they would like to focus together, e.g. "german filmdirectors of the 20th century" or "contemporary german authors". I'm sure that together with the Goethe Institut a list of possible and exciting focus fields can be found. This list would give an Edit-a-Thon a good frameword of targeted content. It would enable finding good source material and other preparation which makes editing fun and substantial.

Then, let's say 8-10 weeks from April to June, countries/languages in which we managed to connect interested volunteers and Goethe-Institutes would run an editing contest or a similiar thing with a "casual kind of" deadline. For the Kick-Off a weekend event could be organized (e.g. at the Goethe-Institut in the country) where as many as possible people meet, connect each other for real and/or online, using the library and other sources for preparing the edit-a-thon and having a good time together. At the end of the 8-10 weeks there could be a closing weekend event with some cultural supporting programme. On the closing weekend new or improved articles could be presented and talked about and plans for a more casual cooperation in the subject could be discussed. Also then the interested volunteers would have got to know all the staff from the local Goethe Institut - what would make future connecting/supporting much easy.

Overview: List of Goethe Institutes around the world: List in Wikipedia, List at Website of Goethe Institut

Wait, so what is the "Goethe Institut" again?

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Goals

short term goals

• finding 5-6 Wikipedias in which a group of volunteers is interested to do an (exemplary) Kick-Off event
• organizing Wiki Goes Goethe (WikiGoGo) in two quarters of 2015 with each with three Wikipedias, running eight weeks with two weekend-events (beginning/end). Ideally the two quarters would be April-June and mid-September to mid-December.

Therefore

• improving quantity and quality of articles connected with German culture, German art and German biographies.
• establishing a basis for future sustainable cooperation between interested Wikipedians and the Goethe Institut in the related countries.

long term goals

• establishing a supporting permanent partnerships between Goethe Institut and local Wikipedia communities
• inspiring other Cultural Promotion Organizations around the world to do the same (e.g. Instituto Cervantes, British Council)

Therefore

• building connections between (official) cultural organizations and that part of the global volunteers who have fun writing & editing about Germany
• bringing new editors to Wikipedia by connecting language learning people (hence future bi-linguals) with the chance to share free knowledge wbout their country of interest and its culture

Get Involved

Participants

• Project manager coordinating the contacts to Goethe Institut on the global level, supporting the local project manager with everything needed Jensbest (talk) 03:02, 12 February 2015 (UTC)