Those who worked on Wikistories & its sister projects at some point might
appreciate this effort:
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From: Vasilis Kostakis <kostakis.b(a)gmail.com>
Hello everyone,
With the chance of this call, I'd like to share an idea proposal about the
potential of technology to help theaters.
Starting question: Could a theatrical play be developed as a Wikipedia
entry?
In 2014 we (i.e. the P2P Lab) created a "wikitheater" platform with the aim
to experiment with the write-up of a theatrical play in a similar fashion
with Wikipedia. In a month, a play in Greek was written by 5 people who had
never met. Till now the play has been performed by more than 13 teams
(professional and amateur) in 7 Greek cities. It is available under a CC
license that allows further development, and free use by non-profits, while
the for-profit teams give us a fee to sustain this commons.
It became obvious that it is possible to produce a coherent narrative by
fulfilling the main criteria of the successful commons-based peer
production projects. To cut a long story short: modularity; granularity;
and low-cost of integration. The design of the plot took all these
characteristics into consideration:
A man is committing suicide falling from the 24th floor of his company's
skyscraper. While he is falling, ready to face his death, time distorts. So
he is observing what is happening in each floor and before he dies -yes, he
dies but some have even changed the ending-, he regrets his decision to
commit suicide. Floor = one module (like a lego brick). You (i.e., actor,
director, audience etc) are free to experiment with these lego bricks, take
some of them out or/and add your own and so on.
This project was documented in a paper
<http://www.p2plab.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/New-Media-Society.pdf>
published
by *New Media & Society*. However, since then the case has considerably
advanced. But we cannot keep up with what has been happening in Greece with
this play. Once, we intended to translate the basic structure of the project
in English. We could do that as long as we find people to pass the baton to
them after that.