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.
We will closely monitor how many responses we get and feedback to the
group.
Please have a look, and maybe even leave us a memory?
http://www.ltmcollection.org/museum/index.html
Bryan Wills
Head of Digital Resources
London Transport Museum
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
frankie roberto
Sent: 31 March 2008 11:16
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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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