User wittylama calls for supporters to create a WikipediaJournal. In a nutshell, he has the vision of a “peer-review journal to allow/encourage academics to write Wikipedia articles and receive academic recognition for it”. Questions that arise are: What is an object-orientated academic journal? How to conceptualize the link between Wikpedia and this journal? And last but lost least the question if this is a closure in a so called self-called open space? Continue reading
:::: mini report wikimania 2009
6 SepNext to strategic discussions abut the 5 year plan (see also the Strategy Wiki), the creation of the Indian chapter was announced and the creation of Brasilian and Catalan chapters hot debated. Many times it was pointed to the developing potential of language versions such as the Hindi version. The foundation annouced that it has set its focus on the Asian parts of the world. In all talks Wikimedia repeated to be a MOVEMENT of free knowledge, but in particulcar the strategic discussion about the acknowledgement of a Brasilian chapter showed that the there are different approaches on how formal ideas have to be taken in consideration, e.g. the Brazilian chapter is reluctuant to form a legal entity as this could have difficult consequences for the people involved. While talking to the local Argentinan Wikimedians, I felt that more Argentinan Wikimedians see themselves also as political activists in the free/open culture movement. Continue reading
:::: critical point of view (cpov): conference call
15 JulThe Wikimedia Foundation has recently employed its first research analyst and provides spaces for “Wikipediology”, including projects such as the Wiki Project on vandalism studies. Nonetheless, critical Wikipedia research should also be done outside the self-reflexivity of the Wikimedia Foundation and its community. There is an urgent need for quantitative and qualitative research from an Humanities and Arts perspective that could benefit both the wider user base and the active Wikipedia community itself. Continue reading
:::: thoughts in progress: why to move one step back?
3 MayWhile the normative concept of political public sphere needs territoriality in order to link back communicative space to sovereign entities, the analytical dimension of public space should not be restricted by the geopolitical unit of political entities (e.g. nation states) because political public spaces contain practices of both territorialisation and deterritorialisation. Continue reading
:::: what is the ‘gist’ of wikipedia?
27 Mar
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… the translingual seems invisible on the English ‘About-Page’.
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