privileges. Collaboration is a popular buzzword in museum work and many other fields;

however, this project revealed practical aspects of risk-taking involved in facilitating

outside communities' contributions.

Recommended Considerations for Community Agency

       I learned through this project that museums should approach wiki partnerships

with a clear and pragmatic strategy for inviting participation. The museum needs to

identify what level of compromise they are willing to embrace. Some of the questions

museums need to ask themselves when initiating this type of project are as follows:

What form will the participation take? How will the museum deal with requests for

additional editing privileges? How will the comments be used? Which information will

be given precedence in the final form: the comments or the original museum records?

Native contributors will appreciate transparent project expectations and outcomes,

making the partnership stronger for future projects; therefore, it is important for

museums to try to anticipate collaboration issues and form thoughtful strategies to

address them.

Verifying Native Identity of Wiki Contributors

      The Florida Museum Project wiki strives to include a wide range of community

voices, but this inclusive strategy opens the project to contributions from potentially

erroneous sources. The wiki software offers several levels of privacy for viewing and

participating in the site, and I chose to open the site to be completely "public," removing

all viewing restrictions. This choice opens the wiki to anyone with internet access so that

they can view the pages and sign up for an account to make comments. Since the site

is public, individuals are able to view it, become interested on their own terms, and this

in turn will hopefully lead them to participate. Because of the public settings in my