wiki - Jimmy Breeze on Diigo

However, statistics released by the site's analytics team suggest Wikipedia's explosive growth is all but finished. The quickening pace that helped the site reach the 2m article milestone just 17 months after breaking the 1m barrier suddenly evaporated: adding the next million has taken nearly two years. While the encyclopedia is still growing overall, the number of articles being added has reduced from an average of 2,200 a day in July 2007 to around 1,300 today.
Elsewhere, the number of active Wikipedians (those contributing to the site in some way) now comes in at just under 500,000. That is a 61% increase in the past two years; hardly shabby, but nowhere near the increases seen in the past. At the same time, however, the base of highly active editors (who contribute new words to the project and marshall the billions of pieces of information the site contains) has remained more or less static.
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- "For a long time, the understood model for all kinds of large knowledge systems on the web was that they grow exponentially," he says. "The accepted explanation was that the rich get richer – things that receive a lot of attention end up getting a lot more attention."
  Wikipedia fitted that model perfectly in its early days. However, when Chi and his colleagues looked at the recent data, they realised this approach did not fit any more.
- Chi's team discovered that the way the site operated had changed significantly from the early days, when it ran an open-door policy that allowed in anyone with the time and energy to dedicate to the project. Today, they discovered, a stable group of high-level editors has become increasingly responsible for controlling the encyclopedia, while casual contributors and editors are falling away. Wikipedia – often touted as the bastion of open knowledge online – has become, in Chi's words, "a more exclusive place".
- a change by a casual editor is more likely than ever to be overturned, while changes by the elite are rarely questioned. "To power users it feels like Wikipedia operates in the way it always has – but for the newcomers or the occasional users, they feel like the resistance in the community has definitely changed."
- "I used to be one of the top editors …now I contribute things here and there where I see something wrong." The reason, he explains, is that the site feels more insular and exclusive than in the past. "In general, the biggest problem I have with the editors is their attitude," he says. "They say: 'We're not going to explain how we make decisions, we basically talk amongst ourselves.'
- Given the history of the online world – where escalating growth can continue for years – it seems unlikely that this gradual slowdown was inevitable. Instead, it could be the end result of a battle between two competing factions of Wikipedia editors.
  On one side stand the deletionists, whose motto is "Wikipedia is not a junkyard"; on the other, the inclusionists, who argue that "Wikipedia is not paper".
- The two groups had been vying for control from early on in the site's life, but the numbers suggest that the deletionists may have won. The increasing difficulty of making a successful edit; the exclusion of casual users; slower growth – all are hallmarks of the deletionist approach.
- Parc's research doesn't give any answers, but Chi has identified one model that Wikipedia's growth pattern matches. "In my experience, the only thing we've seen these growth patterns [in] before is in population growth studies – where there's some sort of resource constraint that results in this model." The site, he suggests, is becoming like a community where resources have started to run out. "As you run out of food, people start competing for that food, and that results in a slowdown in population growth and means that the stronger, more well-adapted part of the population starts to have more power."

11 Aug 09

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08 Jul 09

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15 Jun 09

Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » The Digital Ethnographer’s Notebook: Diigo vs. Evernote vs. Tiddlywiki

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I will be on a quest for the perfect fieldnotes management system that will be used by my incoming class of 15 students for our ethnographic project exploring anonymity on the web
Diigo, Evernote, and Tiddlywiki
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- Right now, the best solution I can imagine is a combination of Evernote and Diigo. Evernote for managing private notes and working offline. Diigo for sharing and collaborating. If Evernote could somehow be synced with Diigo we would have the perfect solution.

12 Jun 09

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Wikidentities is used in this paper to encapsulate the kinds of identity work which may occur through SNS. We argue that wiki-like behaviour has consequences for reconceptualizing identity as something that is mediated by (rather than at odds with) technology.

07 May 09

Beth Simone Noveck for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas

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Although political legitimacy demands accountability to an
electoral process, those living in a democracy readily submit to what
sociologist Michael Schudson calls the "permanent embarrassment" of
expertise. We believe that administrative governance by a professional
elite is the best way to organize decision-making in the public
interest.
The justification for this professional decision-making,
articulated by theorists ranging from Max Weber to Walter Lippmann, is
that while citizens can express personal opinions based on values, they
are incapable of making fact-based decisions on matters of policy.
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- Only institutionalized and
  governmental professionals possess the expertise, resources,
  discipline, and time to make public-policy decisions.
- And citizen
  participation is hard to organize and administer, and even harder to
  scale. It is one thing for 10 bureaucrats to debate a policy and come
  to an informed consensus; try getting the same result with 10,000
  people–or 10 million.
- Now, however, new technology may be changing the relationship
  between democracy and expertise, affording an opportunity to improve
  competence by making good information available for better governance.
- Ordinary people, regardless of
  institutional affiliation or professional status, possess
  information–serious, expert, fact-based, scientific information–to
  enhance decision-making, information not otherwise available to
  isolated bureaucrats.
- Partly as a result of the simple tools now
  available for collaboration and partly as a result of a highly mobile
  labor market of "knowledge workers," people are ready and willing to
  share that information across geographic, disciplinary, and
  institutional boundaries.
- Wikipedia is open enough to allow expertise to emerge,
  but it is also structured enough, with outlines and to-do lists, to set
  the rules for a certain kind of group collaboration–and that
  collaboration is producing high-quality results.
- Or take sites that utilize self-reinforcing "reputation" systems to
  improve quality and reliability.
- Making expertise
  relevant for the complex processes of policy-making also requires
  forming communities that can collaborate, but it goes beyond that. It
  demands "civic networking," tools designed for groups to transform data
  into knowledge useful to decision-makers, as well as the concomitant
  institutional practices designed to make use of that knowledge.
- Political philosophers from Aristotle to Rousseau to Rawls have
  suggested that when groups engage in the public exchange of reason,
  they produce better ideas. In practice, however, more talk usually
  slows decision-making and comes with the attendant problem of
  groupthink. Increasingly, however, we are discovering how to use
  computers to enable deliberation without endless talk and without
  having to be in the same room. And those structures–enforced through
  software–are what transform the subjective, free-wheeling, dynamic
  expertise of amateurs into effective communities of experts.
- For example, the Omidyar Network, the philanthropy launched by eBay
  founder Pierre Omidyar, asks the public to participate in awarding its
  grants.
- Or consider New Assignment,
  which was launched to demonstrate that "open collaboration over the
  Internet among reporters, editors and large groups of users can produce
  high-quality work that serves the public interest, holds up under
  scrutiny, and builds trust." The site set forth the social practices to
  elicit collaborative reporting (instead of collaborative
  gossip-mongering), resulting in the publication of seven original
  essays and 80 interviews, as well as a series of stories about
  collaborative journalism for Wired
  magazine.
- Similarly, the Sense.us program at
  the University of California–Berkeley provides public mechanisms to
  allow people across disciplinary boundaries to collaborate in making,
  and thereby making sense of, census data graphs and charts. And the
  United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is taking this idea
  to the next level: connecting experts directly to actual
  decision-making in the "Peer-to-Patent" project.
- This has
  particular application to policymaking: Non-governmental participants
  have something more to offer than voting once a year–namely, good
  information.
- If we can harness the
  enthusiasm and knowledge of "netizens" to the legal and political
  processes generally reserved for citizens, we can produce government
  decision-making that is both more expert and, at the same time, more
  democratic.
- The Problem with Experts
  
  In his award-winning book On Political Judgment, social
  psychologist Philip Tetlock analyzed the predictions of those
  professionals who advise government about political and economic
  trends. Pitting these professional pundits against minimalist
  performance benchmarks, he found "few signs that expertise translates
  into greater ability to make either ‘well-calibrated’ or
  ‘discriminating’ forecasts." It turns out that professional status has
  much less bearing on the quality of information than we might assume,
  and that professionals–whether in politics or other domains–are
  notoriously unsuccessful at making informed predictions.
- And more
  participation does not mean better participation. How should
  administrators deal with individuals who carp but offer little useful
  information to improve decision-making? Or interest groups that
  electronically submit tens of thousands of identical "postcard
  comments"?
- Scientific peer review provides an alternative mechanism for
  oversight and quality control.

02 Apr 09

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31 Mar 09

Does McLuhan explain why some people think Wiki's are beautiful and some people think they're ugly? - Joi Ito's Web

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When I think about broadband, iLife, digital photos and things that I "look" at I CARE how the user interface works and how it feels as an experience. On a Wiki all I care about is that it is easy, which is part of user interface, but a different part.

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03 Mar 09

Get more work done with less e-mail - NYTimes.com

Here's a statistical downer: there will be around 40 trillion inbox-clogging spam e-mail messages delivered this year. Experts know this because there were 30 trillion spam messages last year. With this much hay in the stack, it's hard to find those message needles, and that's why some smart companies are looking beyond public e-mail.
That has given rise to the move to provide messaging between groups of employees strictly within the application used for their particular team project. Messages aren't really from one person to another, they're mostly one person to a group. The leading technology enabler? Wikis.

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The Contribution Revolution: Letting Volunteers Build Your Business - HBR.org

The concept of user contribution isn’t new. But the companies I’ve just mentioned—both the internet highfliers and the old-economy behemoths—have actively created something I call a user contribution system. That is, they’ve created methods for aggregating and leveraging people’s contributions or behaviors in ways that are useful to other people.

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ThoughtFarmer Blog » 7 steps to the ultimate idea-sharing system

Bob Buckman, chairman of Buckman Laboratories, wrote his ideas for the ultimate idea-sharing system back in the 80s–before the web existed.

His seven points, as I read in If Only We Knew What We Know, describe the perfect intranet:

1. One transfer step in the transmission of ideas between individuals, to avoid distortion.

2. All employees have access

3. All employees can contribute content

4. Available anywhere, 24/7

5. Search function that indexes every word

6. Users contribute in their native language. Translation provided where appropriate.

7. Content updates automatically.

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Bob Buckman, chairman of Buckman Laboratories, wrote his ideas for the ultimate idea-sharing system back in the 80s–before the web existed.

His seven points, as I read in If Only We Knew What We Know, describe the perfect intranet:

1. One transfer step in the transmission of ideas between individuals, to avoid distortion.

2. All employees have access

3. All employees can contribute content

4. Available anywhere, 24/7

5. Search function that indexes every word

6. Users contribute in their native language. Translation provided where appropriate.

7. Content updates automatically.

Kaltura - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kaltura's technology allows users to interact and collaborate in rich-media, for example, their video platform supports group-video making and peer production of rich-media. The main components of Kaltura's online video platform are based on open-source software, enabling any site to add advanced video and rich-media capabilities, and share content across the Kaltura Network of remixable content based on creative commons licensing.

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Kaltura's technology allows users to interact and collaborate in rich-media, for example, their video platform supports group-video making and peer production of rich-media. The main components of Kaltura's online video platform are based on open-source software, enabling any site to add advanced video and rich-media capabilities, and share content across the Kaltura Network of remixable content based on creative commons licensing.
The concept is built on the collaborative Wiki model but uses media rather than text. Sites can add video capabilities using Kaltura’s hosted services, download the open source community edition, or install self-serve video packages for web-platforms such as MediaWiki, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc. Using Kaltura’s technology, users can create videos by combining existing uploaded media from sharing sites such as MySpace or YouTube with CreativeCommons or public domain sources such as Flickr, ccMixter, Jamendo, and The New York Public Library.^[2] Media that can then be embedded and played elsewhere on the Internet.

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