Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
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This document discusses Placeography, a collaborative wiki platform for sharing knowledge about various places. It highlights the goals of promoting historic preservation and collaboration with local organizations, and outlines strategies for community building through tools, leadership, and invitations for participation. The progress metrics as of March 31, 2009, show significant growth in entries and user registrations since its launch.
Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community
- 1. Collaborative History – Creating (and Fostering) a Wiki Community Tracey Baker, Joe Hoover, & Rose Sherman MW2009 Indianapolis, IN April 16, 2009
- 2. 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
- 3. Tools Tenacity Tactics The 3Ts of Community Building
- 4. Tools Software Mediawiki – open source wiki software used in Wikipedia Semantic forms Semantic forms Forms based entry
- 5. 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
- 6. Tenacity Leadership and passion Passion about the topic is a good thing Keep open to learning and discovering Inviting Participation Active and Passive invitations
- 7. 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
- 8. 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
- 9. 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 Badges Way to make relationships with information Creates list Passive invitations
- 10. Tactics Internal marketing to coworkers Educating individuals Re-purposing content Seeking internal partners Getting leads and suggestions Advertise Printed collateral Web advertising Press release
- 11. 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
Editor's Notes
- #2: Not a Work project wiki Many of these concepts can be transferred to other social media as well.