{"id":20527,"date":"2018-10-20T16:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T15:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20527"},"modified":"2018-10-20T17:07:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T16:07:57","slug":"ihbc-cpd-boost-build-your-skills-and-profile-by-contributing-to-conservation-wiki-and-dbw-with-a-handy-guide-on-writing-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20527","title":{"rendered":"IHBC CPD boost: Build your skills, and profile, by contributing to Conservation Wiki (and DBW) \u2013 With a handy guide on writing articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DBW_creating_articles.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20528\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DBW_creating_articles.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"250\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) \u2013 host partner of the IHBC\u2019s Conservation Wiki and supported also by other leading industry organisations including ICE, CIOB, BRE, CIAT and BSRIA\u2019 \u2013 also offers a handy guide on contributing articles, which can help your CPD and public and professional profile.<a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cons_wiki.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20546 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cons_wiki.png\" alt=\"graphic\" width=\"207\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>DBW writes:<\/p>\n<p>Supported by leading industry organisations such as ICE, CIOB, BRE, CIAT, IHBC and BSRIA, Designing Buildings Wiki offers 7,000 cross-discipline articles and is used by more than 20,000 people a day, making it one of the most popular construction industry websites\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Writing articles on Designing Buildings Wiki is good for the industry, and it&#8217;s a great way to promote you and your business.<\/p>\n<p>You can write about any subject related to the construction industry, including research, publications, organisations, theories, products, practices and so on. All we ask is that articles are factual (not adverts) and are encyclopaedic in style (not blog posts) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Quick_style_guide\">click here to find out more about our editorial policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can add your profile to the top of articles you write, so people can find out about you.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Page_about_me\">Learn more about profiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To create an article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Log in or register (click on the link at the top of the screen).<\/li>\n<li>Click the orange \u2018Create an article\u2019 button.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the name of your article.<\/li>\n<li>Type your article from scratch, or paste it from another application.<\/li>\n<li>Click the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/User_signature\">insert signature<\/a>\u2019 button to add your profile to the top of your article.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Create_an_article\">Find out more about how to create an article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><u>Learn more<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Get_started_-_top_tips_and_help\">Detailed help page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YwPIk3NhlDU\">Video tutorial on YouTube<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/User:Designing_Buildings\">Who we are<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Editorial_guidelines\">Editorial guidelines<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Test_article\">Make a few edits to our test article to find out how easy it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Quick_introduction_to_designing_buildings_wiki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) \u2013 host partner of the IHBC\u2019s Conservation Wiki and supported also by other leading industry organisations including ICE, CIOB, BRE, CIAT and BSRIA\u2019 \u2013 also offers a handy guide on contributing articles, which can help your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20548,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20527\/revisions\/20548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}