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.

Character

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Possible use cases

Content areas that came up in the conversation:

• Outcrop atlas, e.g. for deepwater reservoirs.
• Next generation petroleumgeology.org.
• Glossary of basic concepts.
• Workflows, building on the Methods series.
• Logging tools.
• Biographies.
• Fields and plays databook.