On 01/08/11 12:56 PM, Mike Cleven wrote:
Another suggestion, which I've pondered here in the Okanagan, though moving Coast-wise soon, is seminars for museums, tourist boards/CoC's etc on proper article format, NPOV, no-SPAM and so on....quite a few times tourism-board specific SPAs have shown up, e.g. User:Tourism Ucluelet and it's frustrating to know that they have useful information (not always correct, as with the Okangan wine region bunch)....have always wanted to see a "this information is welcome on WikiTravel, but not suitable for Wikipedia" for tourism-directory kinds of input, and "peacock" language, likewise the general brochure-y tone of many town/place artices.....
In many countries there is an active relationship between the Chapter and the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector. Co-operation with the tourism industry would also be useful, but we don't want to be seen as telling them what to do. Rather than giving them the Wikipedia-101 lecture, it might be preferable for our volunteers to work hands on with them to help with such things as preparing brochures.
Ray