Archive:Media Assets Workgroup

This is a proposal for a workgroup and should not be relied upon in any way. It is conjunctive to the proposal for Fair Use Policy, Media.

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Overview

The Media Assets Workgroup is Citizendium's "Media and Permissions Department". Staffed by both expert editors and author specialists, its mission is

To improve and safeguard Citizendium by serving its editors, authors, readers, media content-providers, and re-users.

While deferring to other content editors in nearly all cases, the Media Assets Workgroup has its own editorial purvey over media within certain narrow limits. The Media Assets Workgroup is governed and organized as other workgroups, but with several "tweaks" to streamline its functioning and to better facilitate its interactions with outside content-providers.

For the purposes of The Media Assets Workgroup, "media" is defined as all visual, audio, video, and template materials on all Citizendium pages.

Activities

Content and permissions assistance

While not in any way replacing the function of other contributors in obtaining their own media content, The Media Assets Workgroup shall function as Citizendium's "go to" place for contributors who seek assistance.

The Media Assets Workgroup can be enlisted to obtain:

• Media for articles
• Media released anew under open content licenses
• Media for use by permission

As well, the workgroup will:

• Seek to negotiate block permission on behalf of Citizendium with media content providers.
• Maintain an "image request system"
• Maintain a "permission request system"

An IMAP account or tagging account, media-assets@citizendium.org or permissions@citizendium.org, would facilitate this best.

Media policy and help pages

Members of the workgroup will, in a non-exclusionary manner (any CZ contributor can still contribute), work together to author media policy and help pages.

• Resource pages of image sources
• Image request page
• Media help pages
• Template help pages

Templates

The workgroup will coordinate the creation and use of media licensing tags within Citizendium. This is to ensure all media is tagged in a standardized fashion.

Group communication

The workgroup shall maintain a mailing list for general announcements.