Hey Guys,
Just making some points with the Wikimania group, where most of the
discussion is about improving communication. I put in “But inertia seems to
be in the wikimedia culture just now. I’m sure Casey will have the pulse
across remote groups better than I do.” I don’t want to appear as I’m just
criticizing for the sake of it, so let me note a few points.
Casey wants to put Wikizine participation on the agenda, which makes a lot
of sense as we sure need a few channels which are a bit fatter than elists
and IRC. You’ve seen I’ve flagged wikipedia weekly (WW) as well, underneath
the skypecast link, as from my perspective, all we are trying to do here is,
as Eric suggested last year, improve communications, primarily between
remote groups. HYPERLINK
"http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-January/026707.html"
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-January/026707.html
I just suggested skypecast room as it’s a place to help the guys from WW to
have a place where different groups could assemble and while their having
their chat or being interviewed, have it combined with others, and perhaps
edited and WW podcast later. I,e link the input channels and output channel.
Wikizine is about much the same thing in text = One channel, a number of
editors. I’d really like to get a brain dump from Casey (after talking to
Eric) to see which buttons he sees as being the most appropriate to push.
And Sean, Michael, if you have a proposition, please put it our here, with a
header so we can talk it through. There’s so much going on at the moment in
which I would like to involve this group, particularly if you don’t mind
trying a few different comms tools, with some other global groups, most of
which are in academia. NB These guys are training the authors, journalists,
etc of tomorrow. Here’s a taste. HYPERLINK
"http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/"http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/
One of my groups - this domain is owned by the ministers of education in OZ
- HYPERLINK
"http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=19911"http://www.grou
ps.edna.edu.au/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=19911 really like my comment
'If Wikipedia has taught us anything; if the right tool, structured simply,
is offered to a world of learners, they'll find and share it.' After saying
it for a few years, it’s getting some acceptance now here and in a few other
global traps. The message is “All we are doing is trying to find the virtual
classrooms (the combination of comms tools) which could best complement the
WMF’s virtual libraries”.
So when Essjay says, “As a comcom member I've sent press releases to some
media people but I haven't seen them use those PR materials directly, if I
recall correctly. Rather they love to get AP, Reuters or BBC coverage and
then translate those worldwide famous press coverage”, you’ll understand my
comment on the Wikimania list about “vertical walls and narrow channels”.
It’s not so much that broadcast media are not interested. It’s just that
they, like most media people, are locked into “feeding the machine” and this
is the easiest, risk free, way to do it. Don’t take my word. Ask Sue
Gardiner. NB. In commercial media, content is there to separate the ads:-)
I sure feel for Aphaia when he says “in general Japanese media and academics
have criticized themselves "we import everything cultural but seldom
expert". (ExpOrt very little, yes?). The cultural cringe is not limited to
just Japan but the US is just starting its recession so the Asian focus will
change to China this year. And “While I don't think he can be the key figure
in a long term, if you are looking for someone who is noticeable a part of
both global community and part of ja to some extent, I think he may be a
good choice” “I trust Alexsh”. This really is the challenge, finding the
people that people trust, although we need to view things in terms of teams
or groups, which we join and leave as needs be, not “project leaders”, as
it’s the way of the interactive world. This CPG just happens to be the
founding one as it’s the meat in the meta sandwich.
Happy New Year.
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