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Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
Tracey Baker, Joe Hoover, & Rose Sherman
MW2009 Indianapolis, IN
April 16, 2009
Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
What is Placeography?
A website about ANY place anywhere that anyone can edit
A site to share knowledge, images, and MEMORIES of places
Goals– Share the history of places– Foster interest in historic preservation– Collaborate with libraries, local historical
societies, schools, museums and historic preservation groups
www.placeography.org
Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
• Tools• Tenacity• Tactics
The 3Ts of Community Building
Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
Tools Software
– Mediawiki – open source wiki software used in Wikipedia
– Semantic forms
Semantic forms– Forms based entry
Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
User interface– Closely resembles Wikipedia’s
– Recognize Placeography as a wiki Identity
– MHS deliberately subordinated its brand
– Presented as a tool for others rather than an MHS project
Tools
Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
Tenacity Leadership and passion
– Passion about the topic is a good thing– Keep open to learning and discovering
Inviting Participation – Active and Passive invitations
Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
Tenacity Active invitations
– Meet and greet new users on the site– Go to them; Meet them in real life– Start local think global– It is not cheap or easy
Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
Portals for organizations– Entryways for organizations– Partners in Placeography
growth and development– A place to link to tours
and projects
Passive invitations– Site design– Facilitate relationships– Portals/Projects
Tenacity
Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
Projects– Specific work by an
organization or class– Ways to organize information
on the site– May focus on a particular
community or type of building or site
Tenacity Passive invitations
Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
Tactics Internal marketing to
coworkers – Educating individuals – Re-purposing content – Seeking internal partners– Getting leads and
suggestions
Advertise– Printed collateral
– Web advertising
– Press release
Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
Progress since launch:By 12/31/2008 we aimed to have:
As of 3/31/2009 we had far exceeded some of these goals:
150 place entries 1,250 entries for buildings, sites, & structures
20% of entries are for places outside the Twin Cities metro area
3% of entries are for places outside the Twin Cities metro area
100 registered users outside MHS
200+ registered users
5 administrators outside MHS 0 administrators outside MHS
Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
Questions?
placeography.orgplaceography.org