[rohrpost] [Trebor Scholz] "All our wiki are belong to you"

Fre Mai 5 15:27:51 CEST 2006

Wann und wo und in welchem Zusammenhang ist Online-Zusammenarbeit fruchtbar?

Wäre es vielleicht an der Zeit - jenseits von Euphorie und Technikfetischismus, aber auch 
jenseits von Pauschalurteilen (wie "Tools sind Scheiße!") - dieser Frage noch einmal neu zu diskutieren? 

Hier eine spannende Mail von Trebor Scholz zum Thema Wikis:

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Trebor Scholz <trebor at thing.net>
> Gesendet: 28.04.06 18:55:33
> An: IDC list <idc at bbs.thing.net>
> Betreff: [iDC] "All our wiki are belong to you"

> (Perhaps we can move beyond the survival and remix culture debate. 
> The discussion about malleability of culture and hybridity is one vista
> point of the current new media landscape. 147 million American adults
> responded to a poll by the Pew Internet & American Life Project
> identifying themselves as Internet users. Today, the Internet is a place
> where you can go bowling together. People engage each other on a massive
> scale. Apart from the commons as site of peer production there is also a
> novel distributed aesthetics that emerges. Many netizens upload content.
> This, I¹d argue, is a participatory turn in culture that is noteworthy.)   
> 
> What constitutes the art of engagement with regard to quotidian uses of
> open access environments like wikis and blogs?
> 
>  Wikis are widely used in university settings today. Conference wikis
> allow presenters and attendees to add and edit content before and after
> the event. Wikis allow geographically separated collaborators to collect
> ideas and work together on documents. There also other useful tools such
> as SubEthaEdit for this purpose. 
> 
> Wikis can serve as a personal notebook and are useful for student
> journaling in order to develop a writing proficiency. Such writing
> exposes degrees of understanding of knowledge and can establish the
> habit of regular reflection. Peers and instructors can jointly review
> the writing.
> 
> Wikis are contributions to the Access To Knowledge (A2K) movement: they
> contribute knowledge to the commons. Commitment to scholarly work, John
> Willinsky writes, carries with it a responsibility to circulate that
> work as widely as possible: this is the access principle. ³Wide
> circulation adds value to published work; it is a significant aspect of
> its claim to be knowledge. The right to know and the right to be known
> are inextricably mixed.²  
> 
> Class room reports about the hands-on experiences on the ground,
> however, are missing.  In the course ³Death, Data, & Desire² we used a
> MediaWiki this semester. 
> 
> <http://wiki.critical-netcultures.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>
> 
> It is common wisdom that without a degree of closedness wikis get
> quickly spammed. We kept our course wiki closed during the semester to
> have a safe environment for experimentation and the development of
> ideas. But in the end it was important to open it. The potential of
> wikis goes far beyond single author editing. Do you know of exemplary
> course wikis that are 1) cooperatively assembled and 2) really push the
> properties of the medium? How does the wiki structure work on our
> thoughts? Where are exemplary wikis that put that format to full
> collective use in the described context? 
> 
> The meaningful orchestration of group uses of wikis does not have many
> references yet. The potential is the integration of several successive
> courses in one wiki in which students can build on each other¹s findings
> and connect to one another. They can create reflective linkages among
> their works and texts.  
> 
> When developing and maintaining collaborative student knowledge
> repositories,  structure matters. Wikis are easy to edit collaboratively
> but can create monumental mess when used by a group. A sea of links and
> submenus will suffocate even the last bit of content. We found that the
> creation of templates became an important step in the use of the course
> wiki. Without the uniform use of templates, information would get
> flushed down the sink of the database. Apart from templates, the
> structure of each page turned out to be clearer if most information was
> kept on one page, using MediaWiki automated indexing feature.   
> 
> <http://wiki.critical-netcultures.net/wiki/index.php/Al>
> <http://wiki.critical-netcultures.net/wiki/index.php/
> Socially_Networked_Video>
> 
> Several commercial incarnations of wikis understand this issue well:
> many wiki farms offer a clear templated structure. Clients can set up a
> free wiki that is not password protected in any way, which makes them
> useless for any serious, long-term use. Like with open source software
> you pay for the bottle while the water is free. The convenience of
> prefabricated templates gets people through the door. 
> 
> Weblogs, in comparison, are useful teaching tools but we found that they
> are inferior to wikis in many respects. An advantage of blogs is that
> commenting on each other¹s work is straightforward. It is easy to see
> who comments on whose work. Assignments here included a compulsory
> length of post, number of external links per post, and comments.
> However, content gets swallowed by the blog hinterland and despite tag
> clouds and monthly archives, blog interfaces do not offer comprehensive
> and clear access to the content contained in a blog¹s database.
> 
> Contrary to the famous net phenomenon we say: ³All our wiki are belong
> to you.²
>  
> Trebor
>   
> 
> References:   
> 
> All your base are belong to us
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us>
> 
> A2K Wiki
> <http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>
> 
> PbWiki: the world¹s biggest commercial wiki farm
> <http://pbwiki.com/about/>
> 
> Subethaedit-- collaborative work forum
> <http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/>
> 
> Seed Wiki
> <http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/seed_wiki/seed_wiki.cfm>
> 
> A comparison of wiki platforms
> <http://pascal.vanhecke.info/2005/10/30/free-hosted-wikis-comparison-of-
> wiki-farms/>
> 
> Download page MediaWiki:
> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download>
> 
> OpenMute
> <http://3d.openmute.org/modules/wakka/OmOneGettingStarted>
> 
> Willinsky, J. (2005) The Access Principle. The Case for Open Access to
> Research and Scholarship. Cambridge: MIT. 
> 
> Benkler, Y. (2006) The Wealth of Networks. How Social Production
> Transforms Markets and Freedom. Cambridge: MIT. 
> 
> 
> 
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