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<[log in to unmask]>, frankie
roberto <[log in to unmask]> writes
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>Meanwhile, you can check out the wiki now at
>http://objectwiki.sciencemuseum.org.uk. We're not formally launching
>it for another month or so, but it's live and public now.
>
>I'd like to hope that we're not producing the wiki just for the sake
>of it, but there is definitely an element of trial involved. Our main
>hope is that we can develop further information and personal stories
>about our objects by collaborating with our audiences.
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?
Then there is the question of links. The Four Valve AC Mains Radio Set
is made by Murphy Radio Ltd: an obvious candidate for a link, and if you
pop over to Wikipedia there is the obvious target for such a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_Radio
However, 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.
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?
Interesting stuff ...
Richard Light
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Richard Light
SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
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