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:::: Interview mit witty lama (Transkript)

15 Feb

Interview mit Benutzer witty lama, 16/10/2009, Skype

JN: When and actually how did you get involved on the Wikipedia? 00:05:11-8
WL: 2005 at university, a friend introduced it to me. 00:05:27-8
JN: Do you have some kind of formal roles such as admin? 00:05:32-1
WL: No. I have intentionally not stood for adminship and I don’t intend to. I am an executive on the Australian chapter and I do a lot of things that are prominent in the community but I am intentionally not being an adminstrator because I think it’s important that adminstrators … being an adminstrator an Wikipedia does not mean that you are the boss, it is just a function, it’s not a level of respect or anything. A lot of people think that and treat adminstrators as if it was a badge of honour or something to look for in its own right. 00:05:39-2
JN: You said already you are involved in chapters or meta work but on the Wikipedia plattform itself, how would you define your major activities? 00:06:41-5 Continue reading →

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:::: grenzen im kopf (rezension im miniformat)

15 Nov
der artikel von sophia schubert und holger zapf ist schon etwas älter, aber deswegen nicht veraltet, denn er stellt die nach wie vor zentrale frage nach dem gelebten verständnis von transkulturalität in der politischen theorie und der politischen kulturforschung. sehr interessant finde ich die tabelle auf s. 150 – hier v. a. die kategorie ‘diversitätsforschung’, die einen weiten begriff politischer kultur zugrunde legt. leider beziehen sich die autor_innen ausschließlich auf quantitative forschungen und stellen so in ihrer zusammenschau der verschiedenen forschungsannahmen den einfluss von kultur auf gesellschaft eher als einbahnstrasse dar (vgl. die dortige abbildung auf s. 154).  interpretative ansätze der politischen kulturforschung  – etwa von karl rohe oder später dann andreas dörner – bzw. ansätze aus den cultural studies werden nicht diskutiert. schade, bietet das ‘magische’ dreieck von kultur, identität und macht gerade für einen transkulturellen blick auf politische kulturen zahlreiche anknüpfungspunkte.
hingegen finde ich den bezug auf fred dallmayr inspirierend: sollten wir uns nicht bei interpretativer forschung zu politischen kukturen immer fragen, ob wir nicht selbstbeschreibungen eher/leichter entdecken und verstehen können, die der ‘eigenen kultur’ näher sind? und wie können wir dieses dilemma lösen? ideen dürften die ergebnisse dieses forschungsprojekts zur transkulturalität der menschenrechte vielleicht geben.

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:::: interview with jimmy wales

27 Mar

Back in 2009/2010 when I started researching Wikipedia, I chose interviews as entry point. Here you find the interview with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. The interview was conducted on 18/02/2010 on skype chat.  2 years later you find it here – the wikipedia world moved on and yet stayed the same….

JN: What was the driving idea behind founding Wikipedia?

JW: I had been watching the growth of the free software movement, or open source software as many people call it. I realized that programmers were coming together in communities to create really great software – large scale projects like GNU/Linux, perl, apache, php, MySQL –  the software that really runs the web. I realized that this kind of collaboration was being fueled by the free licensing model, which solved certain kinds of incentive dilemmas, and that although it was natural that this type of collaboration would arise first among programmers, it would be possible to do the same thing with many kinds of cultural works other than just software. Continue reading →

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:::: the hidden layer

16 Feb

By drawing on interviews with 16 users of the English, French and German language versions of the Wikipedia, my brief talk at Wikiwars explored the hidden layer of the translingual. In the interviews I included users with different roles as well as user with different translingual experiences. Continue reading →

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:::: wikipedia’s display of the offline space

7 Dec

Mark Graham has mapped about the half a million geotagged Wikipedia articles (regardless which language version) and presents the rather unsurprinsing finding, that there is an uneven construction of the world in the Wikipedia online space. The country most tags refer to is the United States, in contrast almost all countries of Africa are almost invisible on Wikipedia in terms of geotagging. Also, he states a clear Global South/North divide. Against this backdrop, Graham daws a sober-critical conclusion:

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