{"id":12576,"date":"2015-05-26T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=12576"},"modified":"2015-05-26T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T18:21:08","slug":"43rd-annual-meeting-workshop-may-13-using-wikis-to-collaborate-share-and-advance-conservation-with-rachael-perkins-arenstein-michele-derrick-and-suzy-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/05\/26\/43rd-annual-meeting-workshop-may-13-using-wikis-to-collaborate-share-and-advance-conservation-with-rachael-perkins-arenstein-michele-derrick-and-suzy-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"43rd Annual Meeting- Workshop, May 13, "Using Wikis to Collaborate, Share, and Advance Conservation" with Rachael Perkins Arenstein, Michele Derrick, and Suzy Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, the annual meeting wiki-a-thon turned into a daylong workshop in the hopes that we would have more time to add content to the site. Thanks again to NCPTT for helping to fund the day!\u00a0Although we never seem to have enough time,\u00a0the day was immensely helpful in getting beginners\u00a0comfortable with adding content to the\u00a0site and moving the more experienced users forward to another level with useful tips and problem solving for getting the wiki to do what we want.
\nAfter introductions, Rachael started with a useful overview of the wiki site and general goals. She also gave a brief talk put together by Leon Zaks (from the pestlist) about how to choose your online platform. Basically the wiki is\u00a0a many to many platform- there are many contributors with loosely vetted content meant to reach a large audience.
\nMichelle presented on CAMEO, which is hosted by the MFA Boston. It has recently been moved to a wiki format so that it can\u00a0be more easily updated- hopefully by more than just Michelle. Anyone interested is welcome to contact Michelle. CAMEO is a great resource and the wiki is not meant to duplicate it, but there is\u00a0definitely\u00a0room for increasing the connection between the two and improving the integration of the sites.
\nUnfortunately Nancie Ravenel was not able to make it, but we had Nora Lockshin available to step in and provide lots of great information about wikipedia in general, what are some of the ground rules and expected conduct on the site. If you didn’t know, there is a wikipedia teahouse<\/a>\u00a0made for newcomers- this is a great place to post questions and get answers about coding. Just beware- the AIC wiki does not have all of the extensions and add-ons, so something you can do on Wikipedia isn’t necessarily possible on the AIC Wiki. That being said, if there is anything you want to do and can’t let Rachael know and she can look into getting that functionality on the site.
\nTwo other wiki sites, you should know about Preservapedia<\/a>\u00a0(also sponsored by NCPTT)\u00a0and the SPNHC wiki which is just getting off the ground.
\nOther tidbits you should know that came out of the day:<\/p>\n