What to post
Lloyd
to quote it here in it's entirety because any effort on my part to
edit it would only bungle the eloquence and spirit of it.
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Hey Jillian.
Wikiclay is set up so anyone can create an account (just click the
"Login to edit" button on the right)
There is a video tutorial on the home page (wikiclay.com) that will
walk you through the process.
Once logged in there are some short video tutorials that will show you
how to create your own page, add photos, etc.
The question seems whether or not to list yourself. On Wikipedea it
is frowned upon to use it as a promotional tool. One doesn't create
their own
page. In an academic setting there is too much bias in this action.
Believe me I have been tempted to write my own.
Several of the newest pages have been artist pages created by the
artist themselves. I see this as valuable, but only to a degree.
Wikiclay will become
much more of a useful force if we create pages for the clay centers we
love, the graduate programs we attended, the artists we admire.
Filling the site with our cumulative knowledge and fruits of our own
experience will help others. Imagine you are looking for a listing
of ceramic residencies, where do you go to find such a list? Or
better yet, lets say you have done the research and created a chart of
graduate programs comparing the assets and facilities of each, posting
that on wikiclay could help countless others.
Posting articles about someone else, or something else that you have
written can behoove you as well. Sign the article. Post it on
Facebook as a new article you just wrote on wikiclay for others to
enjoy. Your street cred grows.
You could also use with the secret Santa method of profile writing,
get together with a bunch of friends and each write an article about
someone else in the group.
We have made Wikiclay very easy to use, to add information and create
an account. It is up to us as a community to make it useful.
-Simon