Wikireporter:Superjurek/brudnopis/The first Wikipedians' Polish Scout Club has started its activity

Sunday, May 3, 2020

The first wikipedians' Scout club in Poland started its recruitment procedure on Monday.

The Wikipedians' Polish Scout Club is the first speciality club in Polish Scouting's History^{[remark 1]}, which activities will be focused on discovering the potential use of Wikimedia's projects as part of needs and Scout organizations activities. Recruitment to Wikipedians' Polish Scout Club has begun on Monday: over first four days 24 members joined (as at 30^th May 2020). The Wikipedians' Polish Scout Club is declared as open to cooperation with every Scout unit. Anyone in spite of age or interests can join the Club.

The basic goals of Wikipedians' Polish Scout Club (declared in its founder's program) include eight Wikimedia Foundation projects, as the following:

Sister project		Declared club's goals
	Wikipedia	Publishing articles about well known Scouts, Scout affiliates and Scout events, that took place in history.
	Wiktionary	Creating dictionary of Polish Scout's sociolect.
	Wikisource	Publishing old Scout books and books about Scouting or foreign language publications translated into Polish by Scouts themselves.
	Wikibooks	Publishing mulitple Scout handbooks (and others, that relate to any of Scout's interests).
	Wikinews	Publishing press news about recent Scout events.
	Wikiquote	Collecting quotes and statements of Scout authorities, which are worthy of commemoration due to some reasons.
	Wikivoyage	Creating convenient and useful tourist guides, made by Rover Scout troupes and other tourism lovers.
	Wikimedia Commons	Publishing Scout's graphics (also 3-dimentional), animations and movies created by Scouts.

Remarks

↑ Nowadays this club is still informal. That is because Scouts' activities distinguish themselves in bottom-up initiatives. Their formalization demand beforehandly to create written working plan, which is formerly validated by commandant of higher level (this procedure can last for weeks). If it was obligatory to avoid any activities of club's recruitment until its validation, such club could collapse. To provide good functioning of Scout's groups, its members should learn it in practise (it is one of features of Polish Scouting's Method).

Sources

Harcerski Klub Wikipedystów (ang. Wikipedians' Polish Scout Club) – Zapraszamy Was do właśnie powstającego Harcerskiego Klubu Wikipedystów! – Facebook, April 28, 2020

[1] Nowadays this club is still informal. That is because Scouts' activities distinguish themselves in bottom-up initiatives. Their formalization demand beforehandly to create written working plan, which is formerly validated by commandant of higher level (this procedure can last for weeks). If it was obligatory to avoid any activities of club's recruitment until its validation, such club could collapse. To provide good functioning of Scout's groups, its members should learn it in practise (it is one of features of Polish Scouting's Method).

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