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<[log in to unmask]>, Bryan
Wills <[log in to unmask]> writes
>We have just launched the London Transport Online Museum. Users can view
>every object, gallery and label text on display in our new museum in
>Covent Garden.
>
>Following on from the current discussion thread we have incorporated
>into this new site, the facility for users to leave us memories /
>stories on all objects on display. Rather than a Wiki submission these
>stories are made directly on the website and will be fed back into our
>collection management system. These submissions can be viewed by all
>users as soon as they have passed through moderation process.
That's the sort of thing I was thinking: capturing UGC so that it can be
re-used, ideally in different contexts.
Richard
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>frankie roberto
>Sent: 31 March 2008 11:16
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Science Museum Object Wiki
>
>
>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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