PortlandWiki talk:Barnraising

PORTLANDWIKI BARN RAISING IDEAS

Kotra: Tangible rewards: "Barn stars" (as seen on TV Wikipedia).

Kotra: "Reward board." People offer rewards for specific tasks.

Michael Andersen: "Ten really useful pages." Michael's Portland Afoot features "really useful" content that he uses to introduce new readers to the publication's value. Suggests we do the same for PortlandWiki, and that such content is a good candidate to organize PortlandWiki's "barn raising" activity around.

Dave: Can PortlandWiki interest a local marketing services provider to include PortlandWiki in her / his marketing services repertoire. For example, Poor Boy Possibilities, LLC is one local marketing services provider who provides social media marketing services to Portland mom & pop businesses. If we (core PortlandWiki admins and larger PortlandWiki community) were to approach someone like that to create "starter pages" for local businesses, what "rules" will we want to have in place? This is potentially a controversial subject, so we'll want input from a core group of PortlandWiki admins at the very least.

PortlandWiki Social Media Person

RULES

• The local business owner must clearly understand that she/he is not required to pay for PortlandWiki page, but voluntarily agrees to pay provider to put up a starter page on her/his behalf, and as a benefit to the PortlandWiki community.
• The assumed motivation for the business owner to pay for someone to start her/his page is because s/he realizes s/he may never get around to it and doesn't want to wait for someone else to take the initiative.
• The business owner must clearly understand that others may come along and contribute to the page. Those contributions may not necessarily meet the business owner's approval, but nonetheless can be legitimate and appropriate contributions.