Enhance The Zcash Wikipedia Page
Building in Zcash content on the World’s most popular decentralized encyclopedia
Background
The current Zcash wikipedia page is extremely sparse in its presentation of Zcash the protocol, its evolution, its future, and the ecosystems that surround it.
Motivation
This is a straight-forward project that involves technical writing, editing, and peer review. The end objective is to deliver a robust, informative, and accurate Zcash wikipedia page.
Approach
Over the course of 1-3 months, I will be contributing additions and edits to the current Zcash wikipedia page, and I will solicit community peer review along the way. My time will be spent aggregating current and past Zcash content available on other sites and blogs, then abbreviating or copying/ referencing it to the Zcash wikipedia page. Peer review participation will be ad-hoc, voluntary, and not compensated as a part of this proposal.
Execution Risks
The execution risk is limited to my personal availabilty, community participation with feedback at-discretion, and potential unknown risks related to setup & use of a new Wikipedia contributor account.
Downsides
Fundamentally: None Identified.
Economically: This project may cost more than it is worth over time.
Evaluation Plan
The proposal involves 4 quarters, represented as 5 hours each (delivered over 2 week sprint time-frames). Evaluation at the end of each quarter should be conducted, at which point the ZCG can continue or halt the proposal.
I will be generally taking framework for content practices from the wikipedia pages for Dogecoin, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero
Tasks & Schedule
Quarter 1 - Getting Up-To-Par
- Setup/ access Wikipedia contributor account (If anyone here has one, with existing clout please speak up)
- Conduct general evaluation of current site, determine generic framework for improvement
- The first sprint’s focus will be to spend 5-6 hours (as approx $300 value) getting the Zcash page into a state where “we can live with it”
Quarter 2 - Cleaning, Referencing, Elaborating
- This quarter will involve community peer review feedback and action items
- Content reference material will be built into Quarter 1 contributions
- Elaboration of existing content will begin
Quarter 3 - Building out Advanced Sub-Sections
- This quarter will build in subject matter expert level content for topics such as the shielded pool progression, Halo/ Halo 2
- Other sub-sections of focus Wallets, Markets, Ecosystem, Legacy, and Future Initiatives
Quarter 4 - The Long Arc of Progress
- This quarter will focus on creation of a forward-looking narrative for Zcash, and for its Privacy-First focus
- Content related to the Posterity Fund, and Proof of Stake will be built
- Open-ended and community driven content creation will be delivered
- Finalization of all prior content contributed/ work to completion for any previously unanticipated issues
Maintenance
There is no maintenance work in the scope of this proposal
Proposal Cost
$1,200 overall, paid incrementally as $300 at the end of each quarter