Talk:Education/Resources/Wikimedia Education database

Tools

Can we add those resources to our Wikimedia projects? At the moment the system to collect resources is through a google form and a google spreadsheet, but we are meant to use open tools in our movement. Either we use open alternatives to google form and google spreadsheet or we use our wikimedia projects (which are actually the reason of our existence). If we prefer google there is a problem (in particular because we claim in our 2030 strategy that we want to be "the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge"). Our movement is based on free software, which is free knowledge and part of the ecosystem of free knowledge. Furthermore tools and formats we use are essential to openness as stated in Open Science, FAIR data, Open government.... The use of google as an infrastructure supports google on behalf of our movement (it basically provides an endorsement from Wikimedia to a specific company), it does not support our vision about free knowledge, it invites people to become new customers of google and it provides information and data to google based on google's terms and conditions. --Iopensa (talk) 17:24, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Very interesting

Thanks for creating the database. It is very interesting to have an overview of the projects. It would be nice also to have some interactive visualizations with locations and chronology. --Iopensa (talk) 17:30, 21 March 2022 (UTC)