Wiki text and Arum images
Mary Sue Ittner (Sat, 14 Jun 2003 06:53:28 PDT)

Dear All,

Our pbs wiki is a great resource for people who are wanting not only to see
a picture of a geophyte but to learn more about it. When someone goes to
Google and puts in the name of one of the plants pictured on our wiki
pages, within a few weeks after the picture has been put up quite often one
of the choices will be our pbs wiki page that contains that picture. And at
least on one species I checked it was the very first choice!

I want to compliment Paul and Angelo for not only adding the interesting
Arum pictures, but for writing something about them. As Paul models so well
if you are going to write that something is blooming you need to add when
and where. You never know when someone will search for that picture and
blooming "now" will be a mystery later as most people won't look through
all the revised pages to see when the picture was added. It's fine to say
blooming now in my garden to our group in an email, but if you are going to
mention about when a plant is blooming on the page more information is
needed. If you have created a wiki page for yourself (which we hope
everyone will who uses the wiki) with information about where you live and
you have continued to link your photos people can at least discover the
hemisphere and perhaps how cold it gets where you live, when it rains, etc.
That information will be very helpful. Telling about the plant not only
provides a service to those people wanting to know more, but it gives
credibility to our wiki.

When I have time I try to add text to our wiki and so does Mark M., but we
don't always have the time and may not grow the plant in question so will
have limited knowledge about it so when I see that someone has added
interesting text to go with the plant, it makes me very happy!!! :-)

Mary Sue