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The red team and the blue team.

Image courtesy of 4MAX

Purpose

The country page is a national node for WikiEducator related activities in a given country. The country page is a place:

• to list and coordinate national WikiEducator initiatives;
• to foster and promote local identity within a global community;
• for local WikiEducators to meet and identify themselves;
• for national sub-teams to convene within a given country;

Guidelines

• There are no prescribed procedures or regulations for organising country or community nodes;
• There is no limit to the number of national, regional or local community WikiEducator teams that may constitute themselves - as a wiki community we encourage diversity and respect the interests of different groups. National teams and sub-teams may congregate around a wide range of shared objectives by sector, level, interest group etc. Ideally, each national sub-team should link to the relevant page for their country;

Achieving Sustainable Growth

• We encourage each country or community to develop their own structures and procedures to promote sustainable growth of the WikiEducator community in their respective country;
  • Put a link to your Active Projects on WE's Master List of Projects page.
  • Develop a Content Page for your country and/or community. For example, see Content and Projects on Community Media
  • Categorise your pages wherever possible. Each country has its own category, as do specific educational topics. There is a list of categories (similar to 'tags'). See the instructions and syntax for creating categories.

Maintaining & Promoting Your Pages

• We recommend that national volunteers identify and assign specific roles for maintaining and promoting your country or community pages, for example:
  • A national convenor for setting up an maintaining your country or community page on a regular basis;
  • National / community WikiEducator Ambassadors;
  • A national / community reporter for keeping national news up to date on your country or communty page;
  • A technical advisor to assist innovative wiki page layouts for your national, regional, local or community page;
  • Other roles as required
  • National cultural allegiance to Global Citizenship. see [Dr. Ramakrishnan's User Page, India]