AAPG Wiki:Scope and strategy

These notes are based on a meeting between the wiki team and the executive team on 19 June 2013.

Crowdsourcing is what we do as a scientific organization. — David Curtiss

Purpose

To be profoundly useful to AAPGs members.
To funnel users to AAPG content, both free and paywalled.
To update older content, and keep it evergreen.
To be a new publishing avenue for AAPG members to publicize their work, alongside books, Bulletin, and Search & Discovery.
To be a channel for public outreach.
To be a learning platform.
To develop AAPG's reputation as a thought-leader and authority in petroleum.
To be part of AAPG's experimentation with new media.

Open — The wiki should be publicly readable, publically editable, and openly licensed.
Layered — The wiki should be approachable on any level, from novice to professional.
Rich — The wiki should provide a multi-faceted experience for readers.

We must provide copious smart links, preferably automatically, to other AAPG content.
We must seed with older content, and invite substantial edits and contributions from the membership.
There should be a path from wiki back to publication (once green again).
There should be recognition for contributing members.
Members of the public should be able to edit the wiki and use its content.

Content areas that came up in the conversation. These are not really in scope today, but may be future applications of the wiki.