Community contributions

Open the doors, keep the keys

Community photos, stories, and fixes: nothing publishes without your approval.

Pending and approved contribution cards from the moderation queue

Participation with editorial control

The community contributes. Your team decides what publishes.

  • The moderation queue

    Every submission, suggestion, and proposal in one place, waiting on your yes.

    The moderation queue in the admin: submissions, edits, and proposals waiting on a yes
  • Photo and story submissions

    Photos and stories from the people who live with the art, held for your review.

    A visitor's phone mid-submission: a mural photo, a short story, and a submit button

Two gates between a submission and the public

A contribution arrives as a proposal, and your team decides if it becomes a draft. Publishing is a second, deliberate yes. Nothing reaches the guide by accident.

Corrections, discoveries, and routes of their own

Visitors keep the guide current and make it their own.

  • Suggest an edit

    Visitors flag what changed. The fix arrives as a draft.

    A suggest-an-edit form on an artwork's page, flagging a mural as repainted
  • Propose a work

    The works your inventory missed, submitted as drafts.

    A propose-a-work form with a photo, a pinned location, and what the visitor knows about the artist
  • Saves, lists, and shareable routes

    Favorite works, personal lists, and routes to share.

    A visitor's saved list on their phone: favorite works gathered into a route worth sharing

Engagement without the anxiety

Every contribution is approved before it goes live.

  • Moderated by design

    Contributions become drafts and publish only when your team approves.

  • Eyes everywhere

    The community photographs what a small team can't cover alone.

  • A record that stays true

    Corrections arrive as suggestions, so the catalog keeps pace with the street.

  • On their own routes

    Saves and lists turn a browse into a route worth sharing.

Open doors, proven in Calgary

The Calgary guide welcomes photos, stories, and fixes from the public. Calgary Arts Development's own team holds the keys and decides what publishes.

Read the Calgary case study →

You publish, we operate

A moderated community, without new workload.

  • Built for a team of one

    Many programs run on a single coordinator. Approvals happen in the same simple admin your editors already publish through.

  • Operated for years, not a season

    We host, maintain, and improve the guide after launch. Your team keeps the pen, and we carry the rest.

FAQs

Can anything publish without our approval?

No. Every submission, suggestion, and proposal lands in a moderated queue and goes live only when your team says yes.

What can the public actually contribute?

Photos and stories on existing works, suggested edits when something changes, and proposals for works you don't have yet, plus saves and lists for their own routes.

How do we handle spam or off-topic submissions?

Nothing appears publicly until it's approved, so the queue is your filter. Decline anything that doesn't belong and it never touches the guide.

Does moderation need a dedicated team?

No. Contributions become drafts, not obligations. The queue waits at your pace, and your editors approve things in the same simple admin they already publish through.

Ready to bring your community in?