On Sun, Mar 30, 2008, Richard Light wrote:
> How do you see the stories being included in the site? From the look of
> it, they will appear as part of the page about the relevant object
> ("section 2").
>
> Will this approach "scale"? For example, if the Imp Club
> (http://www.theimpclub.co.uk/) decide to bombard your Hillman Imp page
> with contributions, would you just end up with a single massive page?
> Or are you intending to separate out each contribution in some way?
A good question. For the time being, we'll be keeping it as simple as
possible by incorporating personal stories/memories within the object
pages themselves. If we get loads of contributions on a particular
subject, then yes, we may refactor those across multiple pages a way
that makes most sense.
For now, I'm concentrating on trying to make it as easy as possible
for people to contribute their stories (we'll also be taking
submissions via e-mail).
> ..the linking facility provided with the built-in editor is
> firmly targeted towards internal links. So, you can either break with
> convention and have your links pointing outside your Wiki sub-site, or
> you are faced with the possibility of your site having lots of topics
> which duplicate existing WP pages.
Linking to good Wikipedia pages on subjects (or other sites) is to be
encouraged. The wiki is mainly about objects - which wouldn't normally
meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability - rather than generic
subjects.
You can link to Wikipedia using the syntax [[wikipedia:Morphy
Richards|Morphy Richards]] - we should probably document that in a
more obvious way though.
> Will contributors be able (I'll rephrase that: will they be encouraged)
> to start new topics of discourse, or do you want to lock them into
> adding value to your object descriptions?
Good question! Initially we'll be just encouraging people to
contribute to the object pages already on the site, but we won't
discourage people from creating new pages (preferably about objects,
preferably ones in the museum).
Frankie Roberto
Science Museum
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