Hoi, When people want to register for their own reasons as a group, they can make an item for themselves in Wikidata and identify as "member of" their group. We do have process oriented data for Wikipedia in Wikidata so there is a precedent. Thanks, GerardM
On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 at 01:39, Kerry Raymond kerry.raymond@gmail.com wrote:
On en.WP we prohibit shared accounts and accounts that appear to represent an organisation so that's a barrier. But assuming there was some special case to allow a username to represent a community of knowledge, we would still have a practical problem of whether the individual creating such an account or doing the edit was authorised to do so by that community, which would require some kind of real-world validation. But, let's say local chapters or local users could undertake that process using local knowledge of how such communities identify and operate.
The problem it still doesn't solve is that whatever information is added by that account could then be changed by anyone. We would have to have a way to prevent that happening, which would be a technical problem. Also could that information ever be deleted by anyone (even for purely innocent purposes, e.g. splitting a large article might delete the content from one article to re-insert into other article). Or is the positioning of the content within a particular article a decision only that group might be allowed to take?
A possible technical/social solution is to have traditional knowledge of this nature in a sister project, where rules on user names would be entirely different and obviously oral sourced material allowed. The group could then produce named units of information as a single unit (similar to a File on Commons). These units could then be added to en.WP or others (obviously the language the units are written would have be identified, as Commons does with descriptions already) so only English content is added to en.WP and so on. The content would be presented in en.WP in a way (in a "traditional language" box with a link to something explaining that what means) so the reader understands what this info is and is free to trust it or not. The information itself cannot be modified on en.WP only on the sister project (requests on talk pages of the sister project would need to be allowed for anyone to make requests eg report misspelling). En.WP would remain in control of whether the content was included but could not change the content themselves.
It seems to be a sister project similar to the current Commons would be what we need to make this work.
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On 4 Jul 2019, at 6:03 pm, Jan Dittrich jan.dittrich@wikimedia.de wrote:
Maybe not "signed" in the sense of a signature of a Talk page, but each
contribution is attributed automatically to its user as seen in the history. As someone who edits under my real name, I absolutely put my
name
to my contributions.
That is what I assumed, too, since it was coherent with some of the problems described in:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/PG-Slides-Wikimania18.pd...
in this interpretation, Mediawiki (and lots of other software) code-ify knowledge production as done by single people [1]– a person can edit,
but
not a group (which was one of the challenges in the project described in the slides, if I remember correctly)
I would be much interested in more research on what values are "build in" our software (Some Research by Heather Ford and Stuart Geiger goes in
this
direction).
Best, Jan
[1] An interesting read on the concept of "transmitting knowledge" (e.g.
in
articles and via the web) and knowledge as inherently social would be Ingold’s "From the Transmission of Representation to the Education of Attention" (http://lchc.ucsd.edu/MCA/Paper/ingold/ingold1.htm).
Am Do., 4. Juli 2019 um 02:20 Uhr schrieb Kerry Raymond < kerry.raymond@gmail.com>:
Maybe not "signed" in the sense of a signature of a Talk page, but each contribution is attributed automatically to its user as seen in the history. As someone who edits under my real name, I absolutely put my
name
to my contributions.
Or the other possible interpretation of "signed" here may be referring
to
the citations which are usually sources with one or small number of individual authors, as opposed to a community of shared knowledge custodians which is the case with Aboriginal Australians.
Kerry
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On 4 Jul 2019, at 10:28 am, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
I found one error:
"Even the idea that contributions to the wiki should be signed by individuals is at odds with many traditional societies where knowledge expression is mainly collective, not individualised..."
That's already how it works. Only discussion posts and the like are
signed.
I don't know of any language Wikipedia in which contributions to the
actual
encyclopedia articles are signed, and I know several of the largest (German, Spanish, and English) do not have such a practice. (If there
is
a
project where individual contributions are signed, please let me know,
I'd
be interested to see how they make that work. What if it gets edited?)
Aside from that, the article seems to state that such a project is incompatible with both NPOV and copyleft, so I'm not sure that
Wikimedia
hosting it would be the best fit as those are fundamental requirements. (That's not to say it's not worth doing at all, of course.)
Todd
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 5:52 PM Nathalie Casemajor <
ncasemajor@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello,
For those of you who are interested in "small" Wikipedias and
Indigenous
languages, here's a new academic paper co-signed by yours truly.
Published in an open access journal :)
Nathalie Casemajor (Seeris)
*Openness, Inclusion and Self-Affirmation: Indigenous knowledge in
Open
Knowledge Projects <
http://peerproduction.net/editsuite/issues/issue-13-open/peer-reviewed-paper...
This paper is based on an action research project (Greenwood and
Levin,
- conducted in 2016-2017 in partnership with the Atikamekw
Nehirowisiw
Nation and Wikimedia Canada. Built into the educational curriculum of
a
secondary school on the Manawan reserve, the project led to the launch
of a
Wikipedia encyclopaedia in the Atikamekw Nehirowisiw language. We
discuss
the results of the project by examining the challenges and
opportunities
raised in the collaborative process of creating Wikimedia content in
the
Atikamekw Nehirowisiw language. What are the conditions of inclusion
of
Indigenous and traditional knowledge in open projects? What are the cultural and political dimensions of empowerment in this relationship between openness and inclusion? How do the processes of inclusion and negotiation of openness affect Indigenous skills and worlding
processes?
Drawing from media studies, indigenous studies and science and
technology
studies, we adopt an ecological perspective (Star, 2010) to analyse
the
complex relationships and interactions between knowledge practices, ecosystems and infrastructures. The material presented in this paper
is
the
result of the group of participants’ collective reflection digested by
one
Atikamekw Nehirowisiw and two settlers. Each co-writer then brings
his/her
own expertise and speaks from what he or she knows and has been
trained
for.
Casemajor N., Gentelet K., Coocoo C. (2019), « Openness, Inclusion and Self-Affirmation: Indigenous knowledge in Open Knowledge Projects », *Journal of Peer Production*, no13, pp. 1-20.
More info about the Atikamekw Wikipetcia project and the involvement of Wikimedia Canada:
https://ca.wikimedia.org/%E2%80%A6/Atikamekw_knowledge,_culture_and%E2%80%A6 <
https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atikamekw_knowledge,_culture_and_language_in_W...
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