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, 1998) 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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